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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Congratulations, you've sufficiently annoyed me enough to log in to my local instances to type this out.

There is no ”one” way to speak and write English — we don't have an """official""" institute of our language like Spanish or French does (and even if we did, they would not have a monopoly on English). We don't speak in Received Pronunciation or keep the superfluous 'u' next to every 'o.'
Like every language, English has multiple dialects with their own vocabulary, and even some with their own specific grammar. The sentence in the OP was likely written in one of them - African-American Vernacular English. This dialect codifies double negatives, the habitual be, and words like 'finna.' Many of its aspects are already integrated into 'standard' American English.

This is part of the process of language in general. Many of the rules in 'proper form' come from shorthand, slang, and and crude versions of other languages and forms. Being aware of the rules shifting and changing as people shift and change how they speak will probably get you further than turning your nose up at rules you don't recognize.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Macabre. Why do you need two silent letters?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Props for MacWorld's editors for digging out the OG Blue Pixel for this device shot†

†(back when they originally took it)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

A fitting name for a beautiful outcome.

I wish them bountiful data transfers without Telco trashiness.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

ActivityPub is more of a social network protocol rather than a messaging protocol. It assumes most data sent through it will get public by default and has very little encryption set up for it, let along E2EE. Now Matrix is a better use case for an open protocol like that and also offers bridges between other chat networks (I wouldn't be surprised if Beeper has Matrix under the hood).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You can even file an issue (or upvote similar ones) here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Just what the web needed, SafetyNet in your browser. Does anyone have the EFF on speed dial?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hate to spoil the parade but this Twitter user is of a person mocking nftbros, not an actual NFTbro

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck, I really hope this doesn't turn the tides for other Red Hat projects.

Not even my Linux distros can escape the enshittiness. WTF man.