418teapot

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programmatic access to discord⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is likely not worth your effort as whatever you come up with will likely result in discord deactivating your account for breaking their ToS, or them breaking their API forcing you to constantly play catch-up.

  This is why open communication protocols are so important. Email is still as ubiquitous as it is because it’s a protocol, not an API.

  I personally think it would be less overall effort to get your friends to switch to an open protocol like matrix, or XMPP than it would playing cat and mouse with proprietary APIs. But you do you, I wish you the best of luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t find a keyboard with them, or a copy/pastable line where they’ve been typed

  Maybe use combining diacritical marks?

  I’m using 0x326 (Combining Comma Below), but you may need the ZWJ in there to render correctly in all contexts

  e.g.

  Foo!̦ Bar?̦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, but my point is with a centralized network the lowest common denominator wins. There is no reason you can’t have QoL features on an open network, and thusly let everyone have the features that they care most about.

  Can you imagine what a shithole the internet would have been if email wasn’t federated an open? There is absolutely no way that whatever centralized bullshit would have spawned instead would already be either long gone or enshittified to the point of being useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good for you, you have a short list of requirements out of a chat service and discord perfectly fills your niche. But different people have different requirements for chat, and they don’t align. And network effects force people who have differing requirements to use the service with the most users which sucks.

  For instance here are things that I require from any chat service that I use that discord completely falls flat at:

  • Ability to run it on my linux machine without using an electron client (npm is a huge mess of supply chain attacks and I refuse to run any software that is likely to contain dependencies from it)
  • Ability to run it on my AOSP phone which does not have any google play services installed
  • Ability to write software to back up messages without fear of a company changing their API and breaking my backup system
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mercedes-Benz is using Qt framework to build new operating system for its cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree that first party systems suck, as someone with neither an iOS or Android device I personally prefer something work rather than a screen that says “connect iOS/Android”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube cracking on ad blockers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely agree, but your link is protected by cloudflare (yet another centralized service destroying the internet) and therefore I’m unable to get through because I have privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled on my browser so cloudflare is unable to determine I’m human I suppose.

  I despire youtube and it’s monopoly, and I think it get’s an appropriate amount of hate on here and HN, but what confuses me to no end are the people who complain about youtube turn right around and constantly recommend cloudflare. Can someone explain what I am missing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s wild, I’ve never seen an upside down port.

  I agree reversibility is better and am happy usb c will finally kill this meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have more sympathy for Youtube if 1. it wasn’t the de-facto standard where essentially all video media gets uploaded to (which Youtube itself has done everything in its power to happen) and 2. the company that owned it didn’t also own the most popular phone OS, most popular search engine, most popular email provider, most popular ad network, most popular maps, most popular online office suite, most popular airline booking, 2nd most popular cloud hosting… The list goes on

  Until a federated solution like peertube gains more traction I have no problem paying content creators directly via patreon, and do everything in my power to not pay Google a dime. Trust me, they can afford it just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s fair. But I feel like I’ve seen these “USB superposition” memes since before IoT was even a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone explain to me why I keep reading about people having problems plugging in USB A connectors upside down? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Per the spec, the holes always go up. They indicate the correct way to plug in the port.

  The only time this is SLIGHTLY confusing is if you have a desktop tower where the motherboard is essentially mounted sideways, but for that case it just takes an extra second to think which way is “up” from the perspective of the motherboard.