I had been using Mastodon for over a year until 2 months ago.
When I joined, it felt like a good way to meet people who share interests and learn about new ideas.
You kick-start your social graph by looking at the fediverse feed and following people who are cool and interesting. You also can find good discussions by commenting on their tweets (I'm not calling them toots).
I left because it eventually became the same drama you find on Twitter.
Anger becomes a hobby, and negativity then spreads like cancer.
People ruin other people's reputation and lives within a community (or real world if they can) all because of a single second of their life that may or may not have happened.
It is very sad and alarming that people are blind with unguided rage that they do not know how to direct positively.
In the end, Mastodon will be a good community, but not for everybody, and it is not an open or welcoming community.
Your "ergo" is only seeing in black and white (pun not intended).
We do not need affirmative action in its current form, as it actually is not fair or an actual equalizing platform.
We do need a form of it that looks at ability and opportunity the child and the family have, and makes sure everybody at least has the same baseline of opportunities and skills they can work from.
Growing up as a 2nd generation child from immigrant parents, you hear about all of the opportunities your father sees you have that he did not. I think many times there are cases of people being blind to what's always around them ... ability to start a business, work for a better life, provide an even better future for your child than you had.
Malnutrition is a staggering problem for children that many people do not understand the severity of. It is much cheaper and convenient for a poor family to buy unhealthy food than healthy food. If a developing child does not have a good foundation to grow from, then that impacts their entire life.
I think better education is the key to a better society. But that requires actual education and understanding. In my college in the USA, I saw forms of affirmative action where certain students who belonged to groups (usually divided by race) were allowed to continue with lower grades. This is a terrible idea, as it only promotes under education of these students, and actually hinders their understanding of the topics, and limits their real world opportunities in the future.
Building a carriage is not the solution to flying to the moon. And right now we have a very poor carriage.
Sorry for the dumb question as I'm not in the field, but is this meant for actual midi/audio in? I tried clicking the keys on the midi to no avail, so I would assume I would use this with an actual midi (or midi file)?
Just curious, what specifically you mean by "surpass Github"? I mean this with no snarky intention. I'm just wondering what tasks Gitlab doesn't perform as well as Github for you; unless you were referring to the social awareness that Github has.
I've been using R for years. A month ago I tried to port a program we use that takes 20MB CSV files and finds trends. In R, it would take around 5 second to read the file and give me my data. In Julia it took 30 seconds.
When I joined, it felt like a good way to meet people who share interests and learn about new ideas.
You kick-start your social graph by looking at the fediverse feed and following people who are cool and interesting. You also can find good discussions by commenting on their tweets (I'm not calling them toots).
I left because it eventually became the same drama you find on Twitter.
Anger becomes a hobby, and negativity then spreads like cancer.
People ruin other people's reputation and lives within a community (or real world if they can) all because of a single second of their life that may or may not have happened.
It is very sad and alarming that people are blind with unguided rage that they do not know how to direct positively.
In the end, Mastodon will be a good community, but not for everybody, and it is not an open or welcoming community.