MetaPhrastes

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[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Not French here, but it's a common tendency across many western countries. Public education means higher expenditure and some countries are choking with debt so they have to brutally cut funds (education and healthcare are the preferred target, with education being at the first place because consequences are not immediately visible). The problem is not the elites anyway, it's the rest of people letting them do it and justifying it. If their children will become cheap workforce, their parents will be to blame too.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

There are other countries following the same path, enforcing draconian punishment towards environmental activists (labelled by the press as "ecological terrorists").

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world to c/raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world
 

Greetings to you, trash pandas and fellow creatures of the night! Finally the first release candidate of the application is out. From now on I'll be working only on bug fixes and enhancements towards the first stable release.

Depending on your feedback and the amount of work required, the stable release can be on mid-November or early December.

Thank you to all those who showed interest in the project and contributed so far with requests, reports, suggestions and encouragement.

 

If anyone is willing to help with tests, bug reports, feature requests and general feedback, you're welcome as usual.

For next week's release, I'll be working on the migration to Lemmy 0.19 but if there is room for other forms of improvement, speak up! 🦝

 

I've released a new version with the fixes (and some features) of the feedback I have received.

See you next week 🦝🦝🦝

 

Just to make sure I do not annoy anyone with too many updates but at the same time every feedback contribution is valued and addressed in a timely manner, how often would you prefer new beta versions to be released?

So far I've gone with one every other day but that seems too much, maybe I should slow down a little bit and release just once (or twice) a week. What do you think? Please lemmy know in the comments.

OT: I'll be attending a conference this week so sorry if I can't answer quickly especially in the second half of the week.

 

Hello to all trash pandas and fellow creatures of the night! This post is intended to both welcome you to this community and inform you that a new beta version of the app has been released.

If anyone wants to help by trying it out, report bugs, propose changes/features or anything, you're welcome.

Stay hungry (for trash) and be creative!

creative

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Totally agree. It's a tendency in all European countries: national healthcare is seen as public expenditure negatively affecting national balance, and private clinics are on the rise. Let's hope, at least, that taxes will be cut as well, otherwise we'll end up with a system that has the worst of the European model combined with the worst of the American one.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Am I the only one old enough to remember the 2006 deal between Microsoft and Novell? Now Red Hat is on the hot seat with everyone blaming and hating, I remember when Novell was in similar position in terms of community feeling betrayed.

 

Nothing rigorous or scientific, but an interesting test of mutual intelligibility between romance languages, considering Romanian has evolved separately from the other major and minor languages/dialects of southern and eastern Europe. I like that Iulian, the conductor of the experiment, chose mostly non-cognate words to make the game non trivial (except for the "greier"/"grillo" pair) and some of them had slavic origin (e.g. "mândrie" coming from old slavic "mondrŭ") which would have been unintelligible for the average Italian speaker.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Be it for economic reasons, be it for any other reason this is really good news! Kudos to Greece and to all Greek people. My country, Italy, is still below 1% as of June 2023 according to statcounter so there's still a lot of work to do! Seeing Linux as an option to bring back to life second hand or old hardware, preventing wastes and promoting circular economy is an idea I really like.