While this chart certainly shows how dominant mastodon.social in the Fediverse is, I like this chart. It also shows how diverse the Fediverse is. For any other social network this graph would be a simple circle. For the Fediverse it shows 38 different servers, and apart from mastodon.social, the distribution seems quite fair.

Very good!

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

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

It's not in the linked article, but it was part of it in the beta release notes. Now it's on the dedicated Android release notes page ():

• Firefox for Android can now be set as the default PDF reader.
• Firefox for Android now supports enabling Global Privacy Control. With this feature, Firefox informs websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold. This feature is enabled by default in private browsing mode and can be enabled in normal browsing in Settings → Enhanced Tracking Protection -> Tell websites not to share & sell data toggle.
• To reduce user fingerprinting information and the risk of some website compatibility issues, the OS version is now always reported as "Android 10" in Firefox for Android's User-Agent string.

The Verge: Full Interview: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Isn’t Backing Down

TL;DR He is doubling down without really answering the important questions. Not why the deadline is so short (they've been talking about API changes forever), not if there could be a more reasonable pricing (=no) amd he doesn't acknowlwdge there's any value for Reddit from 3P apps.

uBlock Origin would be my number one, but they don't take donations. So my list would roughly contain:

• Organic Maps
• Thunderbird
• Internet Archive
• Codeberg

I'd like to donate to Firefox as well, but Mozilla spends too much for the wrong things and AFAIK it's not possible to only support Firefox development.

My recommendation? No. Don't.

I'm an ex Windows user, current Linux and Mac user. Keyboard shortcuts on Linux are much closer to Windows conventions compared to macOS. I wouldn't recommend using a Mac keyboard with Linux. I'd only recommend it if you want to use both Linux and macOS with the same keyboard (you will be happier in this case, because using macOS with a Windows keyboard sucks, vice versa).

If you don't like the Windows key design, get a keyboard with a custom one.

Personally, I'm not interested in the type of posts you mention. However, I don't mind it. In general I think it's great to tell the world if you ditch Windows for Linux, because it shows other (Windows) users that they can do it, too.

Though I have to agree that for a dedicated Linux community, it doesn't add too much value. If I think a post is a bad fit for the community, I vote it down.

I'm confident his announcement to "leave social media" was an April Fools' joke.

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.

Honestly? I don't care. I don't use corporate "social" media and I'm very happy with the Fediverse. If you do something for profit, profit will always come first. Even before I became a Fedizen, I knew public discourse cannot reliably be provided by greedy corporations. I'm just surprised it didn't happen earlier and that the people are surprised about what's happening now.

Biggest follower count.

PHP is not as shitty as it used to be. Additionally, it's very approachable and it runs basicly everywhere.

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:

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.

Maybe you want to try the Tree Style Tabs or Sideberry extension.

Side note: in recent versions of Firefox you can use right click → Copy Link Without Site Tracking to get a clean version of the link without any tracking paramters.

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).

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

Can't compare to Mint, but I'm happy with Fedora. I like it because:

• It's very up to date but not bleeding edge.
• Flatpak support is great.
• Ships with vanilla Gnome.

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

I can't speak for the BOOX Tab Ultra C directly, but I'm interested in opinions on it, because I'm thinking about buying one as well.

I have the BOOX Note Air though. Overall, I really like it. I use it to read books and learning material, do math exercises and occasionally to draw. I love that it's smart (full Android, download any app) and dumb (slow, grayscale, don't get distracted easily) at the same time.

Technically you can use it for browsing the web, however I wouldn't recommend it. It' too slow if you want to hop between different sites. It's only comfortable if you access a specific site to read on for a while. I hope the BOOX Tab Ultra C is faster (I mean it should), but if the web is one of your main use cases, I'd rather go for a proper tablet. Even if the ePaper screen is relatively fast, it's still too slow to be fun. Since you're already experienced using ePaper screen, I'm confident you can judge that for yourself though.

My motivation to get an upgrade is mainly the Note Air quickly slows down when drawing anything semi-complex or above. I can recommend it for reading, taking notes and (limited) drawing. For anything else, I recommend a tablet instead.

I second the recommendation for Tree Style Tabs, however Sideberry did work better for me (don't recall why, sorry).

One downside is that they don't hide the horizontal tab bar on the top. AFAIK you can manually hide it by editing the userstyle css file.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

It seems you're talking about Lemmy? Or do you actually mean Fediverse apps?

Adding these rules to uBlock Origin allowed me to read the article:

www.bloomberg.com * 3p-frame block
www.bloomberg.com coordinator.cm.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com eventrecorder.cm.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com gatehouse.cm.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com login.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com personalization.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com sourcepointcmp.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com doubleclick.net * block
www.bloomberg.com google.com * block
www.bloomberg.com googlesyndication.com * block
www.bloomberg.com googletagmanager.com * block
www.bloomberg.com ml314.com * block
www.bloomberg.com moatads.com * block
www.bloomberg.com newrelic.com * block

For browsing on the desktop, I strongly recommend https://phtn.app!

And it's hard to know better in advance, but quite important is that you also choose your (instance) moderators — the people who decide in the end what you're allowed to see and say.

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).

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.

A network of (“thousands of”) servers has — like most things — pros and cons.

Some of the pros are:

• The network is more resiliant against outages. If lemmy.ml is down, all other users can still access the network.
• It's hard to take legal action against the network or to buy it out (like Big Players™ like to do to get rid of potential competitors).
• It allows various similar or even conflicting moderation policies. The network, i.e. the infrastructure doesn't allow or prohibit any specific opinion (the communities do).
• It allows for different ways to pay the bills: goodwill of the admin, donaitions, ads, fee or selfhosting. The latter also allows great control over the data so you control your privacy.

Some of the cons are:

• Content is replicated across servers, which increases the total amount of data stored.
• Latency and speed suffer.
• Interoperability with the wider Fediverse is less than 100%, which can create confusion and frustration.
• Discovery is more difficult.

If it doesn't suit you, that's fine. But "mostly hyped BS, fails to deliver at every turn" makes it a bit too simple, no?

I'm very happy with my personal instance. I use it for file sync and todo list.

Apostrophe. The perfect, slick markdown editor.

And for 80$/month you can get 25Gbps!

Slick! My feedback:

• Consider respecting the user agents color scheme preference (I like to have light mode on day and dark mode on night — don't overwrite that without my permission if you already have both themes).
• Contrast is too low in the dark theme and way too low (basicly unusable) in the light theme.
• Consider increasing font size, esp. for code blocks
• For me it's wierd that posts are kinda centered but not really. Since most (not all) languages are left to right, I'm used to start looking on the left side, not the right. Consider centering the post properly.
• Consider making the hover animations faster.
• In dark mode, the icon button hover text is black on dark gray and therefore basicly unreadable.

What is this dot between the three-dot menu button and the time stamp?

Personally, I don't really like that the post is displayed transparently over the post list. This makes it a lot harder for me to focus on the content. Maybe I'm not the target group for a design like this.

I think drive-by (leaning towards off-topic) comments can and should be moderated by the community mods.

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.

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.

This does not sound sustainable at all.

I removed an environment variable XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP = "sway"; (which I added long ago from some tutorial) and it solved the issue. Thank you for your input! :)

Just installed NixOS with Wayland and Gnome the other day on my laptop with Nvidia card. I had to tune the config a bit, but it works flawless now -- notably also with the offload command. That's fine for me though because it saves considerable energy if the GPU only runs on request.