This isnt truly correct and it should be called more urban American vernacular, as this is just as prolific as rural American vernacular, which are both part of the poor American subset.
I was involved in KDE during the 1.x to 2.0 transition period. Hell, it's when I got my commit rights. We had a mailing list called the KDE-HIG list -- human interface guidelines, to borrow from Apple's terminology. The SNR was terrible -- there were a bunch of people with great ideas (myself included), but very few of them were coding. So the list would endlessly debate things like consistent button orders in dialog boxes, but couldn't agree (most of the time), and since most of them weren't coding, they'd just continue to recycle the debate.
The coders, between KDE 1.x (which was very much a Win95 knockoff at the time, even poking fun at themselves and Microsoft in the process), consciously decided to allow KDE to evolve organically. Konsole got transparent backgrounds but the text editor did not, based on whatever people thought was cool. And it was cool! Hell, there were development forks where the branches had names like "make_it_kool". KDE was almost entirely volunteer run, unlike Gnome which had Redhat sponsored devs and such, so the lack of direction led to meritocracy, darwinism, and a great and welcoming sense of community. Alas, UI consistency suffered :)
Tangents: two specific jokes at Microsoft's expense.
In Win95, there was a slogan "Where do you want to go today?" that flew in on the taskbar and pointed at the Start Menu. When KDE 1.0 was out, it did the same thing, except it said "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" Haha, one-upmanship! It was dumb.
The first popular web browser was call Navigator (Netscape). Microsoft riffed on this with Internet Explorer. In KDE 2.0, the file manager/browser combo app was called Konqueror. It was like the progression of a 4X strategy game or something.
Minor irony. Konqueror created its own HTML rendering engine, KHTML. Which was forked by Apple to create WebKit for Safari. Which was forked by Google to create Chrome. Which is now the underlying engine in the modern Internet Explorer. Check your user agent string -- maybe KDE did konquer after all...
Microsoft tried to create a friendly AI chatbot, and it turned nazi in less than three days. I wonder how long it'll take Musks AI chatbot. Or does it start out that way?
Having watched the video, the visibility conditions were very poor, any driver would have had trouble at the speed the vehicle was moving (arguably too fast).
Oh cool, so like, piece of shit corporations can just mow down many more forests, rainforests and shit under the guise "but but we got this thing from scientists where we can replace the trees with these cages!". Fucking hell.
I praise the breakthrough but I don't think it's going to be carried out as intended.
It's ironic that Apple's single largest user base is the creative community and that as a company they haven't done anything creative since Steve Jobs died over a decade ago...
There are two mods currently, Ernest, admin of kbin as well as owner of /m/tech, and @artillect, who hasn't been seen (except for votes maybe?) for 8 months.
The word is that Ernest has real-life problems and can't maintain kbin at the moment.
I've applied here and a bunch of other places but hopefully better-qualified, more active people have also applied; Even if I get it, I can't be here all the time.
... but it needs the owner of the magazine, Ernest, who isn't around, to accept the applications.
That's a fundamental flaw I am seeing with the fediverse, least some instances while understanding it's not exclusive to just here. When the head of a community isn't around, it's free game for those to shit all over it unanswered. It's frustrating and I had wished there would have been some plans to have backup individuals capable of upholding the values of the community to prevent it from falling down or into the wrong hands.
The fediverse is supposed to be a representative of an alternative escape for those tired of the centralized networks of social media. When we're dealing with cases like these, it just makes everything look weak and unattractive to would be newcomers just beginning to understand the alternatives of the fediverse.
I would apply myself but really I can admit that I might not always be around either and knowing people are facing issues, it sucks.
This is probably a good thing. No, really, it is. Think about where you could best spend that money and the hobbies you'll embrace than coming online to try and integrate with a totally fractured society on display when it comes to the internet.
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