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  • Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner

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  • I know what you mean, but I think private chat and public posting are quite distinct. They'd destroy a lot more trust if they sell private messages compared to what they did with Tumblr. Especially if they continue to push local bridges, where they won't be able to read any message (you still have to trust them obviously).

  • Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner

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  • Well that's some news. If they're good news we will see. I'm a Beeper user but never heard of Texts (stupid name) before, which seem to share the same misson as Beeper. Texts was purchased by Automattic last year (according to the Beeper blog).

    What does that mean? Automattic punches with some weight in the chat space now. In general I don't like it if big companies buy small products. However Automattic still seems to bet on the Fediverse, so maybe if the teams from Beeper and Texts can work together on a Matrix-based, open source chat application, we could get something really good.

    I've mixed feelings about this whole thing, some shy optimizm, some less shy pessimism.

    Well, time will tell.

  • Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner

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  • The Verge - The fediverse, explained

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  • oh that's really cool!

  • The Verge - The fediverse, explained

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  • Suuuuper late answer, sorry. It is working perfectly for me (FF 122), I'm using Firefox exclusivery. It can be slow sometimes though and take several (tens of) seconds for the web application to load.

  • What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

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  • You're right! Even for programmers.

  • What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

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  • They can't possibly judge what is trivial to achieve and what's a serious, very hard problem.

  • The Verge - The fediverse, explained

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  • The most important goal in designing software is understandability

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  • Too often, you won't be given time to make your software understandable. Probably almost never. So you have to incorporate a way of programming that leaves your code more understandable after you fixed your bug or added your feature.

    I don't know if understandability is the most important thing. However I certainly agree with the author that it's curcial, if you ever want to do more than merley a script or a proof of concept.

  • What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?

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  • "We're going to clean up that code later."

  • How to disable background throttling for a specific tab?

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  • I don't know if it does everything you need, but pinning a tab prevents it from unloading AFAIK.

  • Distro hoppers, what's always on your install list when you've finished setup and logged in for the first time?

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    • Firefox (often preinstalled)
    • Thunderbird
    • Code
    • FreeTube & Stremio
    • Apostrophe
    • KeePass
    • Nextcloud
    • Syncthing
    • yt-dlp

  • What are your thoughts on Lemmy's current search functionality?

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  • The search is abmyssal in my opinion. I can't reliably paste links I've found elsewhere — always have to manually change it to match the expected community syntax. I only every use it if I have to, and then I resort to search for the community of interest, and use the community view to find a post I'm looking for. Not suited for discovery in my experience.

    It may have improved lately though, I wouldn't know since I'm not using it much.

  • Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Beta is here

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  • That's a long list of changes, wow.

    Personally, I'm not considering Vanilla OS just yet. It does too many things in a custom way. I am however keeping an eye on the project, since they have interesting ideas and they're making progress in the area of immutable distributions (which will be the future I figure).

  • Android Keyboard with keypad?

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  • Same for Florisboard: press ?123, then 1234.

    Side note: Florisboard also allows you to use custom keyboard layouts, which would make it possible to

    a) make the numbers keypad accessible with one click from the main layer and b) move the numbers actually to the right side (not in the middle like they're now).

    There's a catch though: currently, the process is quite technical. An easier way is planned, but it's hard to say when it will arrive.

  • Best way to make an external usb HDD that is compatible with windows and linux?

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  • I second the recommendation to use NTFS. I don't have the same use cases as OP, but in my experience it works really well. Back in the days when I was using Windows, I had a system and a data partition (i.e. personal files, pictures, videos... you get it). When I switched to Linux, I kept my data partition and just mounted it on my Linux system. I started with dual boot and didn't have any issues. No need to manually install a NTFS driver these days.

    That's a couple of years ago and my secondary SSD's still that same old NTFS partition. Thought about moving to a Linux native filesystem, since I don't use Windows anymore, but never had an actual reason to do it.

  • Do any of you program on non-US keyboard layouts?

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  • Oh, yeah you should. I mean I'd advice against it, but since you already know the pain of switching layouts… sure, go ahead! :D

    I prefer Bone over Neo, Neo has quite broad software support though. I'm using Bone on Linux and macOS without any issues.

  • Spreading of the 100 biggest fediverse account

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  • oh, Good luck with that. Make sure however to respect the users privacy and indexing preferences. People in the Fediverse are very privacy consious and not everyone likes their post scraped and indexed.

    I'd start with the Mastodon docs, it's a solid resource to get started.

  • Do any of you program on non-US keyboard layouts?

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  • I use a variant of the Neo-Layout called Bone. It's an ergonomic layout optimized for German and English text. The base layer is already different (see the linked page), but I also really like it for programming, since there's an entire layer with easily accessible symbols:

  • nixos @lemmy.ml
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    How to enable system theme for Firefox?

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    I'm unsubscribing from /c/PopOS

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    How to fix dependency error on Pop!_OS