[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Agreed, much prefer running apps via nix. Although I did have to fall back to flatpak install the bottles, but that is a bit of a special case where the software explicitly requires itself to be sandboxed or behaves less as expected otherwise.

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

oh, my hand typing was atrocious, that's what I get for not voice dictating with my regular assistive tech.

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Like a file tree view with respect to the context directory? Could be nice if it color coded the file by matching with the respective .dockerignore file as well. I'm always second guessing if I edited the ignore file correctly just after running docker build. Not like I can use git CLI to check if the .dockerignore change was interpreted as intended.

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Guess the author's click bait'y title was too much. I'll withdraw their video then.

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

I've recently been looking into using Backblaze with their S3 object storage for hosting Lemmy, but it looks like they also have personal PC backup cloud offerings. Perhaps you could use them to do both?

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This is a presentation about the historic evolution of email, how implementations gradually diverged from the specification given corporate forces, the onset of spam with the prevalence of personal computing, the erosion of distributed delivery networks of mail due to fast/lazy/loose whitelists, the ossification of the protocol compounded with decades of backwards compatibility, and the modern tools used to navigate the bazaar of format compliance as it continues to evolve as a moving target. Nevertheless, the conclusion remarks about emails notably resilience to centralisation and enshittification.

I hope that protocols such as ActivityPub will fair just as well, if not better, than email. Although, I'd hazard a guess that the forces of monetization and dark patterns are now much more prevalent than they were in email's infancy.

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Another issue is whether the post from a remote instance is colocated on your local instance. It could be the case that your instance never observed the post, as no users on your local instance where first subscribed, to the remote community the post was summited to, before the post was published.

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You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.
Timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=38m34s

Should we be giving social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit the benefit of a doubt?

Some background context about the original video speaker and presentation:

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[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Hello HN! OP, you've reached the front page of Hacker News:

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Question for sysadmins: if you were looking at those metrics, without any context about an upgrade to production, what would you first suspect had happened?

Before cross-check unique visitor or page count remained steady, I'd have guessed the site got yeet'ed of every search platform or red flagged and blacklisted. ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿ’ฃโ˜ ๏ธ

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

That said, it might be nice for users to be able to tag others (privately viewable only by the tag author) to lable users they've veted before, sort of like RES. Users could keep track who is authentic from a prior interaction, like friends, but also who is just a troll, etc. But perhaps that better left user or client side customizations.

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Do you think we should ~~sell~~show little blue checkmarks for users from your same home instance? ๐Ÿ˜†

[-] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

You can change the color theme from the setting page under the top right drop-down. But it would be nice to have something like Reddit Extension Suite for the default Lemmy UI front end for custom defined CSS.

I think once we get a few more third party clients to explore alternative UIs, folks should have more options for personal preference.

One thing I like about the current web UI already is the low noise in embedded text in the discussion threads. E.g. when I engage my screen reader, all I have to listen to when moving between comments is the post author and post date. Just enough context to understand the TTS engine moving between comments, unlike the old.reddit.com UI that include 5 or 6 different hyperlinked words (parent, context, permalink, etc) that the TTS has two repeat over and over again.

The hover text for icon links should be enough UI context for screen readers, although not all icon links on the current Lemmy UI seem to include hover text meta data, like the permalink chain icon ๐Ÿ”—, while the collapse minimize icon does.

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