Gregory's Server
Imagine a world where major operating systems don't need to be updated every time our planet completes a lap around its star.
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But I do hope they at least introduce Mac accessories with USB-C. Those are the only Lightning devices they still sell. It's about time. I desperately want some sort of blocker that would prevent Android apps from "randomly" popping up Google Play update sheets. No I don't have root on my phone and no I don't want to trip SafetyNet. This sort of thing. I absolutely hate it. So many apps are doing it lately, most of the time for no good reason whatsoever. Like I want to order some pizza, get out of my way ffs Another new feature in #Smithereen: bookmarks. Not like Mastodon ones, but you can now bookmark users and groups, and see all posts you've ever liked. VK had the same thing so why shouldn't I? Your people/groups bookmarks are private and never leave your server. How I imagine the user story for every large social media platform adding autoplaying videos that often can't be disabled: as an Instagram user, I want videos in my feed to start playing automatically but muted so that I always miss the first several seconds of audio should I want to hear it. Instagram in particular is the worst offender:  @grishka autoplaying anything sounds more like "user engagement metrics"-driven feature that a user story-driven one. Like, nobody wanted it, but some studies probably showed that people spend more time in the app when it has moving pictures, or something. In a similar vein, I don't think anyone ever wanted to have stories in non-social-media apps! But like every second bank app I've seen has those for some reason. VK is so obnoxiously heteronormative when it comes to the relationship status on your profile.  @grishka back in the day I asked their support why when you don't pick your partner it wouldn't just say smthn along the lines of ‘In a relationship’ (В отношениях) rather than ‘Has a girlfriend’ (Есть подруга), and they said it's by design and won't be fixed, and suggested to actually specify my partner Obviously I wouldn't want to expose my ex or myself, and having him reduced to a ‘girlfriend’ was kind of yikes, so I just left this field empty, not that it matters anyway lmao Do I though? If the letters can be read and the images can be seen just fine without it, then what exactly do you mean by "view this site"? But what if I don't want this site to "run", I only want it to show me text and images, which it does do perfectly fine without JavaScript?
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@drahardja it's wrong a lot but it's still right way more often, enough that it saves me a ton of time using it for things,
@drahardja inevitably pushed by people who know nothing about how it works (aka bosses). As someone who has a very general idea of how US politics works — does this conviction prevent Trump from running for the president in the upcoming election?    @grishka no but funnily enough, he may no longer be able to vote. and there are countries that bar felons from entry. felons also cannot get a secuirty clearance. there will be complications. New profile fields in #Smithereen. (totally incompatible with the rest of the fediverse, but that's fine I guess)  @grishka In Friendica we moved away from hard-coded profile fields like these to add support for Custom Profile Fields compatible with Mastodon.
autotools be like
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 @grishka https://www.leidinger.net/blog/publications/ has a pretty extensive collection of social network links in the side pane of the blog. Doing a very cursed thing because people keep asking me to make my NearDrop app work on Catalina (would be funny if it overwrites my Mojave install anyway, it really acts like I'm not supposed to have multiple OS versions on a single Mac, even though this is what Apple officially allows) I did make it work in the end. I don't know why the background is peeking through. Enabling layers for these NSTextViews didn't do anything. If anyone with expertise in Apple UI frameworks knows how to fix it, please tell me. It doesn't do this on Ventura. Now I can safely forget about this project for 6 more months, until Google breaks their shit on the Android side again.  https://grishaev.me/jetbrains-nickname/
Dear websites, there's exactly zero cases when I would like to download a PDF instead of viewing it in the browser. Don't do it. Just don't. (if I'll ever make my own web browser, it would intentionally lack support for the Content-Disposition header) @grishka For me it's exactly the opposite. I always get annoyed when it opens in the browser. The only case where I want that would be on the phone. The only good thing about the endless scope creep of the web is that modern web browsers have enough features to allow a Flash player to be built. |
Once AI will be skilled enough to create an ideal vulnerability-free OS, this might happen.