• 10 Posts
  • 533 Comments
Joined 4 years ago
cake
Cake day: May 31st, 2020

help-circle


  • I mean, these communities do get created when someone feels like there’s a reason to. There’s just no council or whatever regulating when and where a community gets to be created, so any user on any instance can decide to open up and promote their community.

    And frankly, I have no idea what the precise effects are. When you subscribe to all of these, it won’t really be much different from just one big community in that sense. It may mean, though, that someone new accidentally joining only one of the communities will not be presented all the content they want, yeah.

    On the flip side, having it split is kind of cool, because you can decide to only subscribe to 2 out of 4 communities, if you only want half as much of this content in your feed. Or you can decide to subscribe to all of these, but not to the one on angry-instance.net, because you don’t like the tone of the discussions in that one.


  • Yeah, it’s federated, meaning you can subscribe to each of them and post to whichever one you fancy. If you want to post to multiple, it’s a good idea to use the cross-post feature.

    Having only one singular official community would be rather bad, as then the respective server owners and moderators would have central control like on Reddit.


  • Hmm, yeah, it is a bit surprising to me, too, especially for an audio issue, but it’s always possible that you had some weird configuration values in about:config for historic reasons and now some new code, that came in with a Firefox update, isn’t working with that configuration.

    Either way, it happens often enough that Mozilla has a troubleshooting routine for it, too, namely refreshing your profile.

    If I remember correctly, it places your old profile data into a folder in your Desktop folder. But you can also separately backup your profile by closing Firefox and then copying ~/.mozilla/firefox/ onto an external hard drive or such.









  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzPlugs
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    110
    ·
    5 days ago

    Various ant species do a similar thing where their soldiers have really big, flat heads and when their nest gets attacked, the soldiers stick their head into the entrance way, so the attackers can’t come inside.

    Apparently, this kind of behaviour is referred to as phragmosis.


  • I actually even made my own bullshit-Spotify. As in, I’ve got a server running on a single-board computer which reads my music folder and serves a small music player as a webpage.

    I didn’t want to install a music player client on my work laptop, but still wanted to listen to my own songs there.


  • Agile tries to solve this differently.

    First and foremost, it puts you into tight-knit communication with your team and the customers, so just ask if anyone remembers why it is like that.

    If no one does, then Agile enables to basically fuck around and find out.

    Which is to say, change it to how you think it’s supposed to be and see if anything breaks / anyone complains. If that happens, Agile allows you to react quickly, i.e. to change it back and quickly release a fixed version.

    But yeah, as the others said, if your team feels like documents work better for them, then do Agile and documents. That’s why retrospectives are an integral part of Agile, because it’s not a perfect plan how to work together. You’ll know best what works in your context.