[–] 4 points 4 months ago

Been using RSS again since ditching corporate social media. The sites with full text RSS feeds are especially nice, since reading it in your feed reader means not getting subjected to the endless stream of popups and nag-screen bullshit, which is increasingly important with the proliferation of frontend frameworks like React that won't load any content without first enabling JS for the site.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    You know, the whole reason why GIMP eventually added single window mode is because people didn't like the multi-window thing that they were doing. Did Mozilla fire all of their good design people after COVID? Hope this one gets dropped.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    LibreWolf is just a patch set for Firefox. The user settings are stored in the profile folder, so if you just copy your old profile over, you will overwrite most of LibreWolf's changes. The about:support page contains a list of your changed about:config settings, so copy those down and move them over to your new LibreWolf profile as needed.

    Of course, you could also just disable the AI crap yourself in vanilla Firefox if you don't want to part with your current profile.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I prefer native packages, but if the option is between Flatpak and no package at all, then I'd rather have the Flatpak. It's also nice that developers can package their application once and be done with it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Somewhat. Programming is just writing step-by-step instructions for computers, which is something that little kids can do. Where small children will run into problems is anything involving abstract reasoning, since those faculties don't develop until around age 12. So while kids could easily handle something like (+ 1 2), they would struggle with:

    (define (add x y)
        (+ x y))
    

    So just be sure to keep that in mind while showing them stuff and it should go fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The future is probably going to be:

    • Whitelist federation models with invite-only instances.
    • Anubis and similar software being a base requirement for operation.
    • Getting creative with stuff like picture-based logic puzzles as a type of captcha.
    • A retreat into less publicly visible spaces like chat apps that you can only get access to through networking.
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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, and with the corporate culture that MBAs bring with them, they also tend to make everything as boring and sterile as possible since any degree of fun and personality could be seen as off-putting to a hypothetical person.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They definitely got the Discord aesthetic down. Unfortunately, it seems to be both self-hostable and unfederated, which means that the userbase is going to be split up between a bunch of small and quiet instances with no convenient way to interact with the larger ecosystem. Their FAQ suggests that while it's not in the roadmap currently, they're still open to the idea, so maybe we should let them know that this would be a desirable thing.

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