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[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I see! I completely forgot about that!

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Browser support for flash ended a long time ago, I doubt there are that many companies still using flash internally.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the correct xkcd for this arms race is: https://xkcd.com/3167/

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

And when you're ~~a star~~rich, they let you do it. You can do anything.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There are multiple studies showing that paying volunteers can backfire in many ways. It could turn an hobby into a chore, attract the wrong kind of contributors, or sour those that do not have enough time to qualify for money. Plus, any metric you were to use to assign rewards would quickly be gamed by the wrong kind of people.

We can discuss about how much the administrators are paid and the many issues wikimedia has, but please, for the love of god, let's not pay editors.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's not the problem, 'tho. Wikipedia is volunteer-written and needs money to pay for the SW development and the servers.

The issue is that they are not upfront about their strategy and that they are resisting unionization by the workers who develop the software.

A leading wikimedia software developer (@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net) lost her job a while ago, most likely due to her involvement in the unionisation effort.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I heard the final goal is to amass enough money to live fully off the capital gains.

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago (11 children)

The component price changed, what was Gabe supposed to do, start manufacturing its own RAM?

[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if someone could use this to make an offline voice keyboard for android