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We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from theOpen Technology Fund’s FOSS SustainabilityFund.This grant is specifically designed ...
  • unknown1234_5@kbin.earth
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    23 days ago

    I swear this community is as bad as a flat earth one when the government gets brought up. why change the title from the original to imply that congress (other than deciding the federal budget) had anything to do with it? That is at best irresponsible and misleading and at worst actively malicious. Yes government entities do sketchy things, but that does not mean something can’t be trusted because a government entity interacted with it.

    • refalo@programming.devOP
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      23 days ago

      why change the title

      As I mentioned, I felt it was more transparent to say where the money comes from and let people draw their own conclusions. Of course there will always be dissenting opinions no matter which title is used, I think that just comes with the territory, and I’m ok with that; I don’t think there is a single right or wrong answer. I’m sorry that you disagree with my choice. I encourage you to make similar posts wherever you’d like with your own desired title.

      Thank you for your perspective.

      • Hominine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        23 days ago

        The only “territory” that deliberately manipulating a title comes with is that of misinformation. For what other reason would another application be wedged in? Why are other grants left out? It’s all very plain.

        • refalo@programming.devOP
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          23 days ago

          I think real intelligence by definition requires empathy and humility, which is typically the opposite of such dogmatism in my opinion.

          “As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.” -Sloman and Fernbach

          • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            Strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding

            My feelings about capitalism are largely fueled by how well I understand it. When I understood it less, I didn’t mind it as much

            I don’t like this quote

            • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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              22 days ago

              Yeah, if strong emotions were such a liability then we probably wouldn’t have them anymore. Emotions aren’t vestigial or useless or contrary to rational discourse, they’re an integral part of what it means to be sentient and sapient, and they can be incredibly useful when doing things that are decidedly “rational.” I can tell that some code I wrote is shit because it “feels wrong” a hell of a lot faster than I can by logically reasoning it out.

              I’m hoping that quote is simply lacking context. The alternative is that the people behind the quote are just fucking insufferable.

              • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
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                21 days ago

                I don’t think I could restate this any better. So many people hear about “logical brain” and “emotional brain” and just start trying to eliminate any emotion from logic.

                Brother the entire reason we invented homes was because we didn’t fuckin like the alternative. But if we used logic way back in cave man time, it would have been more individually efficient to burn those logs for warmth. It took emotions to get us to the next step and then realise that it was more systemically efficient to burn logs inside of a little cabin and only then could we start applying logic to housing.

                Emotions are so important

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Well said. And I think there’s more. In the Anglosphere and the USA in particular, government and state are often conflated, but they really are two different things. The former is the cockpit, the latter is the airplane.

      Things are different in European cultures. In Latin languages, for example, the government is understood to be the body of politicians in control right now, whereas the state is a sort of expression of the people’s will and therefore has much wider legitimacy. Two very different things. I believe it’s similar in German.

      I sometimes wonder if this semantic quirk has exacerbated the general skepticism of English-speakers towards collective action.

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    23 days ago

    Huz-fucking-zah. Independence from corporations like Google in the technologies we depend on is important, and F-Droid provides an unmatched service in support of that goal.

  • refalo@programming.devOP
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    23 days ago

    Original title was “F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant”. Not trying to be tinfoily but I thought it would have been even more irresponsible to not make it clear where the money really comes from as I think most people aren’t aware.

    Either way, please do your own research and draw your own conclusions and I promise I have no intentional agenda in reporting this… besides transparency.