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[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

lmao never seen such peculiar animations over here, that's crazy

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Here in Portugal, most display useful info like date, time, outside temperature (with varying degrees of accuracy), as well as services provided by the pharmacy or some general (often season specific) health recommendation.

The use of a bright green sign is, of course, to seek attention, but it's also useful to quickly spot an open place at night, when most are closed and only a few remain opened longer in each town/city neighborhood (called "farmácias de serviço", i.e something like "pharmacies in service"; they usually rotate between themselves each week). Nowadays you can check which places are available at night through a nice website, but the signs remain a useful thing, nonetheless.

The animations are just a culture thing now, I'd guess. Different pharmacies employ different animations, some wackier, some less, though there are very common animations for sure, such as the one where a 3D cross is animated rotating on multiple axis at the same time, making a nice spin back to its original position.
Why? I dunno, they break up the usual info display and help grab attention? I dunno, you get used to it and it mostly gets filtered into the background hehe

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 6 points 6 months ago

Can confirm that in Portugal, pretty much every single pharmacy has one of these, with varying degrees of wacky 2D/3D animations and info display.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure how they are less usable than Discord. "Everyone" (using quotations here because it's not an absolute thing, but it's almost so) knows how to e-mail, it's one of the most fundamental Internet skills. Using Discord, however, is not, for a large amount of people. Sure, most developers either have had contact with Discord at some point or are capable of figuring it out just fine anyway. But seeing as FLOSS really shouldn't just be about developers (as Drew points out too) and as end users should also be accounted for, e-mail as a basis for coordination and support is a very valid choice.

It's pretty much account-less (in the sense that you don't need to create yet another account), it's easily indexable (there are plenty of web UIs for mailing lists), it's convenient and highly asynchronous, not to mention it's a mature and well established open standard and decentralized protocol, with lots of open tools that fit the spirit of FLOSS in general.

Discord, however, is closed, "unindexable", doesn't work offline at all (with e-mail you can read and compose e-mails totally offline, it's heavier (both in terms of computing resources and data transfer) and full of intrusive pop-ups and whatnot (and has arguably distracting money-seeking features). That's fine and maybe desirable for certain types of communities, specially the instant aspect of it, which is a strong and harmless difference between the two, but it's not fit for the base space for contact between developers, contributors and users.

In my opinion, of course.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I've been finding Zulip quite helpful. It's threading model is great and they overall focus quite a bit in the project coordination use-case. You can either self-host it or pay for their managed hosting (which is free for open-source projects), and you can add a plugin to make static HTML pages of streams (aka channels) in order to make stuff indexable and searchable (and iirc this is getting polished and built into Zulip's core).

If you care about accessibility, email is still the best choice — it's mostly text-focused, doesn't need an account (besides what is universally seen as the most basic Internet identity), truly decentralized and has mature tooling. I just haven't found a really good mailing list archive web UI. HyperKitty is good, but isn't quite there for me. lists.sr.ht is neat, but lacks a lot of features. Above all, indexability and searchability (from inside the UI itself) is key.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 3 points 6 months ago

Not sure about pill treatments but I had tried a bunch of ineffective things before a friend recommended me one of these Seresto collars.
They're just magic man, I don't know. My dog and cat used to consistently get fleas, but a couple of weeks after I got them one of those, every freaking bug just vanished. Nothing ever since, as far as I can tell (I still check them often).

If anyone knows how these works, I'd love to be enlightened!

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 3 points 6 months ago

True, an RCE is always a serious thing. Just saying it's not exactly catastrophic like others have been more so.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, exactly. Very impracticable.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 47 points 6 months ago (15 children)

musl isn't vulnerable, as per https://fosstodon.org/@musl/112711796005712271

The exploit isn't that practicable, since it takes a very long time on 32 bit systems, which are ever rarer to see.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

readme.com (aka readme.io) ain't libre, but it has a free plan.
I also think it's a bit on the heavy side, but what isn't these days...

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 1 points 6 months ago

De nada, boa sorte com isso!

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