waldyrious

joined 2 years ago
 

This is a video by the guys behind the Comingle project, which aims to create a platform to allow people to set up a peer-to-peer basic income scheme. However, the video is not about basic income or even the Comingle project, but just an overview of how extreme the wealth distribution in the US really is.

I've seen lots of these U.S. wealth distribution charts, and I already knew it sucks. But it never hit me just how completely out of whack the thing is. Rather than explain a static chart, they actually sourced the data from the federal government and built a dynamic data exploration tool which they then use to demonstrate the sheer scale of the imbalance, with an effectiveness I had not seen before. I just had to share this.

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? It's right in the lead section:

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[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, it's the first time I come across anyone who says they use joe. How does it differ from nano and micro?

Btw, I used to use dit several years ago, but swapped it for micro due to some keyboard shortcut issues (which are probably fixed now).

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Wow, these are really great updates! I especially like the improved UX around sign up and opening links on servers other than our native one.

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Hear, hear, brother.

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

OS: Linux, Arch (btw).

FTFY

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Seconded! This is one of the best books I've read in recent years.

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Update: the issue has been fixed and the feature is now live on Sync for Lemmy!

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

But why is that such a great benefit? We already have a myriad accounts for different services/platforms; would this be merely a marginal improvement over the current situation?

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 62 points 2 years ago (10 children)

IMO both of these ended up being poor names.

"Open source" can be co-opted to mean any project with public source code even if it's not open contribution (think SQLite, and many of the projects effectively run by major tech corporations).

"Free software" falls victim to the eternal mixup with freeware, requiring the endless repetition of the "beer vs. speech" analogy.

I personally think "Libre software" is the term that best encapsulates the intended meaning while being unambiguous and not vulnerable to misinterpretation.

[–] waldyrious@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, that seems to be flagrantly anti-competitive. Has Microsoft attempted to justify why they do that?

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