PassingThrough

joined 5 months ago
[–] PassingThrough@lemm.ee 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well, you see IRC and forums went together because they filled two different needs and we understood that back in the day.

IRC was for chatting, short, quick real time communication that would be lost to the ether as soon as you signed off, unless you had a bouncer or log bot.

Forums were for long information, be that long posts or posts that needed to endure for a long time. Sure you’d get some one liner responses to those posts, but forums were not at all instant like IRC. Though the information did stay much longer, and was much more searchable and organized.

Discord has spoiled us, being quick and chatty while also allowing for longer posts and being searchable. At least within the Discord client. Shoot they even added those “forum” channels to replicate the old forum feel. But real time.

[–] PassingThrough@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Same thing that’s wrong with Teamspeak and the other old standby, IRC:

A dated look and lack of shinies like inline GIFs scares the youngsters, the lack of history/persistence drops them and everyone else.

Ah, the many logging bots of IRC. Going to a website or getting daily sized text files DCC’d to you so you could search up if your problem had already been solved, or so someone said they think it was solved on one of those days…

[–] PassingThrough@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Gitea and therefore Forgejo also have container registry functionality, I use that for private builds.

[–] PassingThrough@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Having a union to begin with.

Folks that stop by this post and don’t have a union, think about this. The reason you have the default concern about your job security, the reason you have inequality in the workplace and the reason “wage-slave” is a term, is because you, your peers, and your predecessors were propagandized away from unions or any form of worker solidarity.

Some of you might say, “but if I even talk about a union with co-workers, I’m fired”, or, “I read about how Walmart would rather stop having a butcher shop than let them unionize”. I say that’s exactly why you need one.