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I was not aware that KDE Connect ran on Windows! This is great to hear for recommendations. Thanks for spreading awareness!
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I was not aware that KDE Connect ran on Windows! This is great to hear for recommendations. Thanks for spreading awareness!
It’s certainly subjective, but I don’t find this overly weird. Mildly interesting, sure, but not weird.
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what’s supposed to be construed as weird? 500$ is a normal amount of money. 1998 isn’t that long ago. 100 miles of travel feels totally possible. Perhaps it’s the fact that an uncashed cheque was found? But, even still, that’s not really that weird — people can lose things. It’s more unfortunate than anything.
Am I overthinking this? Yes.
There are a surprising number of grammatical errors in that blog post. Did anyone proof read it, I wonder?
For sure. What the aforementioned bits of information provide is the ability to be confident in the privacy of software if one were to treat it as a black box, ie an average consumer.
Hm, I feel that it’s inaccurate to say “we wouldn’t be able to tell”. It’s not exactly a black box system — the app would have to run on an operating system, and if you are able to know what the operating system is doing, and what instructions are being executed by the CPU, then you can know exactly what the app is doing.
What the aforementioned bits of information provide is the ability to treat software as a black box and be sure of its safety without having to fundamentally audit it.
Five Guys have better service that is free
It wasn’t free — they were charging money for it:
Jetflicks, which charged $9.99 per month for the streaming service
Yeah, take a look at the solution at the top of the post.
The familiar, raspy screeches of Cascadia!
I’m not sure if they count as underrated, but the band that immediately comes to mind is The Dear Hunter.
Local Only Communities
Local communities are an interesting concept, though I am concerned about unintended side effects. I have noticed many times that people from other instances chime in to meta-communities to provide some alternative viewpoints and context when instances are discussing interactions with the rest of the network. I worry that some will become too isolated/sheltered. But I suppose, in the end, that’s ultimately up to the individual instances to decide.
Lemmy can now federate with Wordpress, Discourse and NodeBB.
Increased federation capabilities is always awesome to see!
In order to improve interoperability with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms, Lemmy now automatically includes a hashtag with new posts. The hashtag is based on the community name, so posts to
/c/lemmy
will automatically have the hashtag#lemmy
. This makes Lemmy posts much easier to discover.
This is a clever solution. I think this is a good way to go about it.
RSS feeds now include post thumbnail and embedded images.Security
I really appreciate the continued attention given to keep RSS alive.
A security audit was recently performed on Lemmy.
Awesome! And congrats!
- Added Community
local_subscribers
count- Support for custom post thumbnail
- Indicate to user when they are banned from community
- Added alt_text for image posts
Great features for improving the polish and user experience on Lemmy!
Would you mind pointing out examples of them boycotting the software? From what I saw in their comment history, it was mostly them talking about moving away from centralization on lemmy.ml.
Personally, and anecdotally, I’ve found English speakers to be quite forgiving of poor English — that is, they usually make an effort to try and understand someone with broken English, and they don’t usually point out poor grammar (though, that could be because the majority of English speakers don’t have the best grammar to begin with 😉). Especially when one compares them with some other cultures, eg the French.
Windows -> Ubuntu -> Arch Linux
That only exports settings (general account config, saved posts and comments, blocked users, communities, and instances, etc.). That won’t export all of the user’s own posts and comments.
FreshRSS supports HTTP authentication, and there’s an open issue for adding OAuth support.
Without it being open source and not providing reproducible builds, the privacy claims are borderline weightless.
It’s a nigligible inconvenience
This community is called Mildly Infruating, after all 😜
Ha, that username is apparently not allowed. They require that a username contain at least one letter.
Ah, right. I forgot that they’re based in Sweden. That’s understandable if it’s simply a lack of familiarity with the language, but, still, I would expect a company like Mullvad to at least have one native-equivalent English speaker to look over their public facing English stuff. None of this is the end of the world, ofc — I’m just mildly surprised.