Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles.
IIRC I was not satisfied with the UI, so it didn’t become my main player. But maybe that’s different for you.
The letter alleged that “your blatant and widespread unlicensed use of our Client’s trademarks has infringed our Client’s rights and confused consumers into believing, falsely, that WP Engine is authorized, endorsed, or sponsored by, or otherwise affiliated or associated with, our Client.”
If the trademark is indeed on the wordpress.org foundation and not the wordpress.com company, I didn’t think that’s a fair argument.
When I think Wordpress I think the software, not their hosting or company. Such an argument would only work if the exclusive trademark licensing were actually exclusively used, and not in addition to the very vast Wordpress [software] ecosystem.
WPEngine using the Wordpress trademark makes me think they’re using Wordpress. Not that they are affiliated with Wordpress.com (or automattic that runs it).
Their about us pages:
I don’t think either is a cancer to the FOSS Wordpress ecosystem. Both seem to give back.
Using the snipping tool manually every second seems like a lot of work /s
I think you make a good point. But the tech doesn’t have to formalize or understand the complexities of human relations or state. The platform and environment are something you can shape even without an established or physical community. The way information is presented and interactions happen does influence how people use and communicate. Not reaching the same degree doesn’t mean it’s a complete failure.
The tldr doesn’t match the text. Your elaboration is a lot better than your tldr.
Existence does not equate allowance. Have you reported their profile?
Their user name is their user ID. I assume it has been handled now? What’s your take on that after these public accusations and it supposedly being the reason to make your own spaces?
I report stuff when I come across it. I regularly get info on action being taken.
It’s a community platform. Individual, manual username change assessment and approval is infeasible. What’s your expectation?
What do you mean by harassment? You didn’t specify.
Because there is XP for each round played?
annual turnover rates at Amazon warehouses reached 150%
Crazy. Crazy that that works as a business strategy.
Battle and season passes and events can often be classified as ads. (Mainly “live service” games.)
Progression systems and gambling systems are a thing in games but not movies. Often taking away from inherent qualities and intrinsic motivation.
The Internet Archive Archive
about how Chinese people cope with constant surveillance in their country
Very interesting read.
Finally, wanting to protect privacy was often seen by participants as a desire to hide shameful secrets in order to save face. Here too, surveillance is viewed positively, as a tool to unmask shady behaviours and promote morality.
Damn.
In short, the way the Chinese citizens I spoke to experience digital surveillance is characterized by strong psychic tensions: the same persons who support surveillance as being indispensable in the Chinese context are also and nevertheless expressing the heavy burden that coping with such exposure places on them.
Missile guidance in the Peace section - :yep:
The/In short from Wikipedia:
The Ig Nobel Prize is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991
- Anatomy: Roman Khonsari, for finding that there is a greater instance of scalp hair spiraling in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Biology: Fordyce Ely and William Petersen, for finding that placing a cat on the back of cows and repeatedly exploding paper bags every 10 seconds for two minutes led to them producing less milk.
- Chemistry: Tess Heeremans, Antoine Deblais, Daniel Bonn and Sander Woutersen, for their use of chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms as part of their research into polymer science.
- Botany: Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita, for finding that the plant Boquila trifoliolata can mimic the leaves of plastic plants placed alongside it, leading them to conclude that “plant vision” is plausible.
- Demography: Saul Newman, for finding that many claims regarding the existence of supercentenarians and other extreme age-related records originate from areas with short life spans, no birth certificates, and rampant clerical errors and pension fraud.
- Medicine: Lieven Schenk, Tahmine Fadai and Christian Büchel, for finding that counterfeit medicine that induces painful side-effects can be more effective in patients than counterfeit medicine that does not cause painful side-effects.
- Peace: B. F. Skinner, for his study on housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide them to their targets.
- Physics: James Liao, for his long-running study on the ability of a dead trout to swim.
- Physiology: Takanori Takebe, for finding that several mammals can breathe through their intestines using their anus.
- Probability: A team of 50 researchers mostly based in the Netherlands, for supporting a prediction by Persi Diaconis that tossed coins are more likely to land the same way up as they started after they had flipped 350,757 coins.
lol
I felt strong aversion and irritation throughout, thinking they were unnecessarily making enemies.
They certainly have an extreme view and goal. And are personally invested to the point of seeing fellow collaborators on FOSS as enemies(?) now.
Putting up barriers through segmentation and alternative tech creates silos. To reach new people I don’t think we can get around meeting users where they are and what they are familiar with.
Bring value through FOSS, and hint and nudge them. If you meet them where they are and bring them to your software it’s already one more than none. You don’t need to get them to make a huge leap into a whole ecosystem of alternative software at once.
Their categorical dismissal of other’s opinions or priorities certainly felt irritating to me. Maybe they care more about FOSS license than UX or features, but why is that the only correct view in their eyes? Blind users may not even be able to use FOSS alternatives when they lack accessibility features or quality.
Even as a contributor to a project I don’t want to use a supportive side platform only for that when it’s annoying or cumbersome. I very well may just skip it, or leave as a contributor.
I would have been interested in the premise; why they think advocating and exclusively FOSS is the only correct view and thing to do. The lack of a strong basis also made all that followed more irritating.
The webpage has additional filtering options etc.
JS query code 🧙♂️
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let i = 100
for (const x of document.querySelectorAll('li[id] img')) s += `* ${i--}: ${x.alt}\n`
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I changed it.
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I’ve skipped signing up via email to be able to read articles because that, apparently, that also includes signing up for a newsletter.
Toastmasters seems to be focused on giving presentations?
From their about page: