Dymna Lotva are a Belarusian band who had to flee their homeland following persecution from the pro-Putin gvmt. They’re currently based in Poland. Their music is about the attacks on their homeland by extremists.
Newark Local Council (Newark is in Nottinghamshire) has been a Tory stronghold for a long time and the local council meetings there were always started with a christian prayer, despite not all the councillors and certainly not all their constituents, or even a majority of them, being christian....
For the first weekend since the end of lockdown I have absolutely zero plans which to me translates as: weekend with my nose in a book, ordering take out.
Forever War is fantastic - there’s a sequel too which is equally good.
I’m just finishing a re-read of Far Side Of The World so will be starting Children of Memory which is 3rd in a series and then if I happen to finish that then the new one by SJ Parris, Alchemy.
Definitely give the ‘Children of…’ series another go.
I personally struggle with audiobooks. I’m not one of those who claim audiobooks aren’t ‘real’ books, it’s just that for me, when I read a book via print (e or standard) there’s just me and the author. When it’s an audiobook, no matter how good the narrator might be, there’s now this 3rd person in the process and they might have their own take on how a character speaks or inflects or put emphasis on things I don’t. I just find it really jarring.
Take it from someone with now adult kids - telling a child they’re forbidden something or shouldn’t learn about it is an absolute guarantee they’ll do it.
I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home...
NLnet aren’t crystal clear but I think they see their role as getting something up and running rather than continued funding, which is fair enough. Trying to support a multitude of projects indefinitely isn’t really feasible. At some point I feel it’s justified to ask users of the project (i.e. us) to support future work.
I absolutely agree, whilst I do monthly donate to .world, I donate more to Lemmy devs at the moment as it 's at a crucial stage of development and financial support is imperative right now. I just don’t think NLnet are set up to offer that sort of grant system.
Well, I’m subbed on .world so it’s only fair I pay my way on this instance, irregardless of it’s size, the admins put in a lot of work after all. But, yeah, without the Lemmy devs, no instance has actual software to run so funding them has to be the priority, at least right now.
Couldn’t say, but I think when Lemmy rolls out account migration features (like Mastodon/Firefish/Misskey etc) we’ll probably see a fairly large amount of people move elsewhere.
Lemmy’s at an odd stage of development right now, kinda federates, kinda doesn’t. As it matures, so will its userbase and I think any potential centralisation issues will take care of themselves. At the moment, users have to physically move (as I have twice already to help decentralisation only to see the place I moved to become very popular lol).
Maybe, yeah. I could be just being unrealistically optimistic but I do think Lemmy has a higher degree of the sort of people who don’t see changing the default settings as a major issue (as oppose to reddit for example).
Not the person you were replying to but it does get a bit much when a thread isn’t about Sync - like this one for example, which is trying to draw attention to funding Lemmy development and instance sustainability - and then it gets hit with people talking about how much they love Sync and they’re happy to pay for it.
True, drama hits everywhere, but it can easily be avoided in a post about the importance of supporting lemmy development and instance sustainability by not going on that post to comment how much you personally love a for-profit app. Or any app in fact.
For me, the fuss, in this thread is about Sync users inexplicable need to jump into a thread about supporting Lemmy development and keeping instances afloat with comments about how much they love Sync.
It is absolutely blowing my mind how insular some people are. ‘just let me use Sync’, ‘I just want to access Lemmy in my favourite app’, ‘who asked you for your opinion?’
It’s like they don’t know that the API their app accesses was built by a couple of guys or that the data their app consumes is paid for by people running that software. And then they get uppity when you point out to them that maybe a thread pointing out it might be a good idea to support those people isn’t the place for them to tell everyone how much they love Sync.
If you want to use Sync, be my guest, I’m glad you’ve found an app you like. I genuinely don’t care what app anyone uses. Also, if you want to share your love of an app with others, feel free to do that too.
But - and try to hear this - hijacking a thread which is about making sure Lemmy gets developed (without which your app won’t work) and supporting instances (without which your app won’t work) to say how much you love your app is beyond crass.
You’re absolutely correct. Anyone can enjoy any app they like and either pay for it or not.
But coming into a thread about ways to ensure Lemmy gets the support it needs to develop and instances get the support they need to keep going to tell everyone how much you love your app is infantile.
I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. I’m not being evasive or dismissive, I genuinely have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about.
I bought this patch a couple of days ago from the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall, UK. I was wondering if it actually has any significance or meaning, or if it just looks cool....
Dymna Lotva - Пахаваны Жыўцом (Buried Alive) (Belarusian Depressive Black/Doom Metal) (dymnalotva.bandcamp.com)
Dymna Lotva are a Belarusian band who had to flee their homeland following persecution from the pro-Putin gvmt. They’re currently based in Poland. Their music is about the attacks on their homeland by extremists.
Green Lung - Mountain Throne (UK, Trad/Sludge) (greenlung.bandcamp.com)
Off their just announced new album ‘This Heathen Land’ out in October.
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Progress - A Local UK Council Have Scrapped Prayers Before Council Sessions
Newark Local Council (Newark is in Nottinghamshire) has been a Tory stronghold for a long time and the local council meetings there were always started with a christian prayer, despite not all the councillors and certainly not all their constituents, or even a majority of them, being christian....
Friday fread
Kickin’ in the front seat or sittin’ in the back seat: which is it today folks?...
Theists when their child stops believing in god vs Atheists when there child starts to believe in god (lemmy.world)
With all this talk about sync's pricing...
I think now is a great time to remind everyone, like sync’s developer, Lemmy’s developers need to be paid too! The amount of time all the devs put into making lemmy exist, in my opinion, should be worth some of your money. If you can afford it, donating to the people who develop lemmy and/or the people keeping your home...
Does this patch mean anything? (0x0.st)
I bought this patch a couple of days ago from the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, Cornwall, UK. I was wondering if it actually has any significance or meaning, or if it just looks cool....