Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"Making fun of people for caring about others" is bigotry, actually; specifically because a heightened sense of empathy is a neurospicy trait

Personally I'd go so far as to say that a community that doesn't have this, cannot ever be healthy for me - because if it doesn't, then it's even odds that any 'calling out' is going to be of the "bigotry towards neurospicy folks" variety.

I think what's missing in a lot of communities is a culture of mutual improvement; the ability to trust that if someone calls you out on something, the intention is to make the place better for everyone, and not to kick you down or 'compete'.

I've just learned through a mislabelled product that apparently the same product sold at Dutch Lidl will list "Lidl Nederland" as the supplier, but at German Lidl it will list the actual manufacturer

I need a "no technical support will be provided for LLM-generated code" sign

And it's not exactly a *small* difference we're talking about here either:

As far as I can estimate, the issue seems to have started when Plasma started supporting HDR mode

Okay, am I imagining things or has someone else observed things going wonky with color balance in KDE Plasma on a multi-screen HDR setup?

I'm seeing a frankly absurd color difference between two identical monitors that are both in sRGB mode over an identical display protocol and that didn't exist in the past.

For a concrete example:

"Static typing will catch some subset of type errors at compile/build time" can be an objective truth; it is measurable and/or provable exhaustively within clear parameters.

"Static typing makes software more reliable" is an opinion. There are many factors that go into reliability, not all of which you may be personally aware of, and some of which may be mutually exclusive with static typing.

"Static typing makes programming easier because you see errors faster" is an opinion. There are different ways to get that kind of advantage, some of which may again be unknown to you and at odds with static typing.

And you may feel very strongly about those opinions, and you may well be able to cherrypick twenty different studies that seem to confirm it, but it is still just an opinion! You would need to have exhaustively evaluated every possible approach that could theoretically exist to consider it an *objective fact*, and nobody on this earth has done so (or likely will ever do so).