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Cake day: July 2nd, 2025

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  • I try to support all the open source projects I regularly use with small but recurring (ie predictable) amounts. Liberapay is great for this, but not everybody is on it yet unfortunately.
    Some of the projects:

    • Arch - no easy way for recurring donations but every time the aur has gone down when I needed it during the recent attacks on archlinux.org I just go throw a financially unwise amount of money at them again to spite the attackers
    • KDE - I don’t even use plasma anymore (switched to hyprland but I’ve heard enough of the controversies that I’m not donating to them lol) but I still love KDE
    • codeberg - they host a lot of my projects so at the least I wanna cover what I cost them plus a bit
    • matrix.org and my matrix server specifically - both put out great services for free and my homeserver specifically hosts the absolute fuckton of pictures and videos I regularly send/receive so I owe them a lot
    • piefed - piefed is sick as fuck and @rimu does a good job
    • lemmy.zip/piefed.zip - great homeserver and extremely transparent
    • voyager - my fav piefed app so far, and hopefully with more donations it’ll get even better
    • probably more I’m forgetting rn

    I’m not sure this last one counts as an NPO but it’s relevant here so I’m including it anyway: @[email protected] puts out the best OC I’ve come across on lemmy so sometimes I throw money his way to help pay for knives lmao.

    For anyone else who wants to support the projects they use and keep the internet free, definitely check out liberapay. It’s still a bit clunky, but it lets me budget a monthly amount I can afford and then split it however I want among all the projects I use no matter what that overall amount is. Smaller donations can be paid in lump sums for many months to cut down on processing fees, and liberapay tracks it for you and more importantly lets the recipient know what the giving schedule is so the project/person you support can have a clear budget rather than unpredictable bursts of money with no guarantee there’ll ever be more coming.

    If it’s not clear yet I’m super passionate about liberapay and also donate to them 😂









  • Probably the most relatable one around here is the way people on reddit used to talk about bacon - in like 2010s reddit it was almost mythologized, which was weird to me even back then when I still ate and enjoyed bacon. There’s a bunch of other small examples like that I’ve run into pretty regularly that are each innocent on their own but taken all together are just… odd. “Cultish” was probably too strong of a word but I couldn’t think of a better alternative (then or now) for the way some people treat meat so differently than any other type of food, including ones you might expect to be more exciting like deserts or something.

    I’m not one to try to tell people their opinions on subjective stuff are wrong and that’s not what I’m trying to say here, but I just do really think there’s more to the way some people treat meat than just it being a type of food they enjoy. Hopefully that makes some kind of sense lol





  • As long as votes are tied to your account they won’t be private, because at the least the admins of your server (whether lemmy, piefed, or reddit) can see them. The difference with lemmy and piefed is that because of federation, the admins of any instance can see them - so anyone interested could just make their own instance, federate with your home server, and then see your votes.

    As long as this is the case, it makes more sense to not try to pretend that votes are private and make ineffective attempts to hide them, imo.

    If this isn’t something you’re on board with, though, you may want to look into piefed cuz iirc @rimu was working on a way for piefed instances to only federate a vote total and not individual user votes. AFAIK your votes would still be visible to your instance admins, which gives it an equivalent level of vote privacy to reddit (except that you get to choose who to trust, which is a pretty large benefit).




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    27 days ago

    the only* non-zero function whose derivative is itself

    * except its multiples such as −2 𝑒𝑥, which are… just… uh… derivative works

    I think you forgot about e^x + 1, and e^x + 2, and … …

    (My profs always dunked on me for forgetting the + c and I can’t resist doing it to someone else, I’m sorry)

    For real tho, great explanation