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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.

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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! 🦝

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

See you next week 🦝🦝🦝

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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.

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

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 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The one about the "10-seconds rule" for sexual harassment generated a flood of ironic videos on TikTok and was in general received very badly by younger generations because the girl was "one of them" and they could relate. The other one is received with total indifference. Plus there's another: the son of the president of the Senate has been accused of rape and his father publicly declared that she was on drug/she waited 40 days to "remember" and sue the complaint so she is unreliable. All in a very short amount of time. To me it's a generational clash, unfortunately the younger don't have right to vote (and if they do they don't go voting) and the ones who rule are white/male chauvinists.

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

As an Italian, I feel truly ashamed. There is another case on the news in these days concerning the reduction of the sentence for a man who killed and torn to pieces his ex girlfriend due to "his being very affectionate but her being too libertine". What has gone wrong with this country?

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The decision has been taken by a college of judges of the court (which is even worse than a single person).

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As an Italian, that was indeed a good one! 😅😅😅 Sad but true, maybe people think to solve the problem like that here.

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 7 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 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe he feels like some of those ancient Pharaohs who had the architects building their pyramids killed afterwards in order not to reveal anyone the inner secret passages.

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Same here in Italy. We are ahead of the rest of Europe this time, due to having voted earlier last year. A word of warning: no matter how radical and extremist their claims are, once they take the seats in parliament they don't change anything. Here they came to the paradox of abrogating some laws of the previous government and reintroduce the very same measure with a different name. Only rhetorics will change (and not entirely for the good, unfortunately).

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 9 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.

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I am completely ignorant about Polish politics and honestly I didn't know about the "Poland A" / "Poland B" distinction. This meme made me learn something so thank you 🙏

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

In Italy the name Mirko, imported from Slavic neighbouring countries, is quite diffused but it's not uncommon to ask «Do you spell it with a c or with a k?» because the k letter is not normally used in Italian spelling. To which the answer is often (joking) «Obviously with a k otherwise it would be a circus» due to the fact that Mirko and circo sound very similar in our language.

[-] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I totally relate to this. I didn't like the environment on R*ddit, but here people are much nicer, so the addiction is even worse!

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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 17 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.

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