I just did a comment on a different article, griping about paywall articles. This is a nice service. But why is it an “iOS shortcut”? It’s just a website where you enter the URL on any browser.
I don’t understand. What problems do you mean? It is “just” another Activity Pub after all, if it is federating in and out, like any other Activity Pub federated community.
I recently removed my PDF reader and use Firefox to read PDFs. For that, I created a new Firefox user account, set it up accordingly (with a few dedicated addons, plus making manual CSS changes to the user interface). Then I created a script (in Linux) to run a file or url with this user account instead, associated the script as the default application for the .pdf file format.
Script: firefox-reader
#!/bin/sh
exec firefox --profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxx.reader -- "${@}"
To create a new profile, you can run Firefox with the commandline option firefox --ProfileManager. The rest is pretty much self explanatory in my opinion.
Why? I mean by federating to both sides equally. That’s the point of Activity Pub, isn’t it? Instances can still block them if they wish to.
A few weeks ago, I read that Threads will not only not federate, also make it able to import users from Mastodon and other platforms based on Activity Pub. But it won’t be possible the other way. So basically taking without giving. Not sure if that is still a thing, got it somewhere in Mastodon… So if anyone have a source for that, please reply with a link.
The only positive I can see coming from “Threads” is, that people are aware of Twitter alternatives and probably learn about Mastodon too. But most people on Facebook and Instagram don’t care that is the company Facebook behind it. Therefore they would not care about Mastodon either. Or any other alternative similar to it, as there are not millions of people.
As for Threads, I think it will stay relevant. Will it take over Twitter? Maybe, probably not. They do not federate with Activity Pub, therefore it is not relevant to me. “Just” another service I don’t care, similar to Tik Tok. And to be honest here, I would like them to federate.
But how do you get internet points then? /s
I have an old lost YouTube account, where I cannot login anymore. Unfortunately some of these videos I uploaded 15 years ago, embedded on some web pages by fans or in playlists will be not available anymore. There are many inactive accounts where I watch or listen to videos in YouTube, or download them for archival reasons.
If they are dumb, they bring the forums back in form of Subreddits. If they are smart, they bring them back in the Fediverse. Using Twitter as a discussion platform is a dumb idea. The most likely thing that would probably happen is, they bring discussions to Discord…
Oh boy, the odds are not good. Too many shiny alternatives to fail and only one way to make it right.
Valve was also the company to ban games from Steam, that made use of NFT and Crypto Currencies. While at the same time Epic Games publicly defended NFT and said they can publish their games on their platform. I wonder if the same will happen with AI asset flip games.
I’m just worried how to detect AI assets.
I know. That’s why many people do screenshot, so point in time sharing the link and any following discussion can be understood later when the data it points to changes. It’s something I see often and wish it was handled better. But I agree, this is a problem with Steam, so can’t fault you for that. Maybe a link to a third party who analyze and document the current state of the survey results isn’t a bad idea. At least there is a real value in it.
If any programmers here understand the reference I am making to pointers…
This is just the generic link to Steam hardware survey. Meaning next month the results are for July 2023 and this post title is wrong.
SteamOS core system is locked as read-only. That is what immutable means. In example you cannot install applications using the core system management named “pacman” (short for package manager). There is a toggle in SteamOS to disable this read-only functionality, but with next system update all changes are reverted.
But how do you install applications on SteamOS? You certainly can do, right? Yes! That’s the store it offers, which uses a different concept called Flatpak. These are programs you can install without touching the core system. And therefore these are persistent, even on system updates. And they are similar to Android programs in a sandbox.
I assume you are not familiar with how Linux systems operate. Imagine this like Android, where you are only allowed to install from a store, which cannot make changes to the Android core, but only install applications on a secured way. But that is limited. Or imagine a game console where you can only install games and programs which the store has. And it lacks Command Line Interface programs in example or many other tools not found in the official store. That’s how SteamOS works at the moment.
And here comes the Nix packagement into play. This is a different system again. You can think of it like Flatpak, meaning any changes to it would be sandboxed and do not touch the core system. This allows for Command Line tools and some other stuff, as discussed before. Nix packages will be part of the next big update of SteamOS.
Thank god. Hopefully Elon Musk will require a blue checkmark to be able to make new tweets.
The good thing with Git is, that many people have copies of the entire project history. This is a backup and people can still work on the project until servers are up again.
Stopped using it is one thing, using it less another. 3.6m out of 52 is what? 8% of the entire user base suddenly stopped, including a lot of important mods, which are hard to replace in that quality? And the rest of the user base I can imagine have less activity in Reddit, meaning less content creation, replies and therefore less advertisement seen. And some people may just trolling more than before, trying to destroy Reddit, some use Bots.
The overall quality is less than before, not better I assume. And a little bit less user than before. The site has a bad image now, so I can imagine some are waiting until alternatives are build and grow on Lemmy or Kbin in example and will switch later. So hard numbers of how many people stopped using the site is not telling the entire story. One has to open the book and read the lines, not just judge the cover story.
FreeMind maybe is what you looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeMind Freeplane seems to be an option too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeplane
Don’t ask how Tifa earns her money.
I use a Firefox addon, which can disable stuff in my subscriptions view: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-subscription-groups/
And it solves another problem I have with YouTube: able to categorize my subscriptions and show content matching the category only.
Then just defederate like they did with the other instances.