lime
@lime@feddit.nu
- Comment on A national tragedy 9 minutes ago:
they’re going to let him go because he’s white
- Comment on Clock logic 11 minutes ago:
maybe this is because i grew up in a house that had a clock with handn but no numbers, but wth do you mean “the 6 means 30”.
analogue clocks consists of two progress bars. the numbers are just for convenience.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 day ago:
as an outer wilds fanatic, i think that would be a great option!
- Comment on discord 2 days ago:
i recommend the “see also” section for further inspiration
- Comment on discord 2 days ago:
that’s the gråtrunk, the hip new loan word from scandinavia
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 2 days ago:
yeah personally i’m fine with chronological feeds and wouldn’t want an algorithm.
- Comment on Foolproof advice 2 days ago:
i mean, so is grass
- Comment on Foolproof advice 2 days ago:
no wonder it didn’t work, that’s not even cheese
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 3 days ago:
so fun fact, that’s already how lemmy works. communities are not a thing in ap, so you can technically post to whatever community you want, existing or not. the lemmy software then limits users from posting to nonexistent communities. and ap already has the notion of posts having parents, so threading is also built in.
- Comment on ISO 26300 4 days ago:
not by joe doofus
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 4 days ago:
if you want posts to spontaneously coalesce with some kind of shared Metadata, you want the ML content analysis information of the post to go out before the actual post is published
i don’t understand this assertion at all. the post is the post. surely we want to classify the post based on the content of the post? tags are contained in posts. your client can just add the relevant info before sending it. figure out potential categories locally, query the server for which of them are popular, and either pick one or have the user select one.
- Comment on ISO 26300 4 days ago:
i’m not sending anything that can be edited. last time i did that as a consultant they stripped our company logo out of the documents.
- Comment on ISO 26300 4 days ago:
i was a ta in uni in 2011-2015 and while ipad babies weren’t a thing yet we did definitely have to explain to some people what files were. as far as i understand from my contacts at the university it it’s way worse now.
- Comment on ISO 26300 4 days ago:
our lab computers ran novell netware, which definitely told me that microsoft wasn’t all there was. but yeah, it definitely conditioned an entire generation into only understanding windows.
- Comment on ISO 26300 4 days ago:
sure, but computers are so much more than office suites.
- Comment on ISO 26300 4 days ago:
.tex is a source format, not a presentation format, and as such should not be valid in a submission field.
they should take .ps though.
- Comment on ISO 26300 4 days ago:
yeah but that’s fairly recent.
when i was in school in the late 90s it was all microsoft all the time. we had courses specifically on Microsoft^TM^ Word^TM^. that sort of indoctrination isn’t visible in the workplace until the people going through it are old enough to work.
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 4 days ago:
the formatting is up to the client that displays the content, interestingly enough. AP just has a “message type” fields and different clients care about different types.
i’m not really sure what that gossip method achieves. surely if it’s just post metadata we’re talking a hundred bytes at most. running it separate from the main feed seems like it would just bork every single AP client that tries to use content published by this hypothetical one.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 4 days ago:
one of the big problems that isn’t solved by this is what gets to be behind verification. who decides what kids aren’t allowed to see. we’ve seen already that most of the world’s governments can’t really be trusted with what is adult content and not.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 days ago:
sooooo this is a military threat against the local populace, right?
- Comment on Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar 5 days ago:
i’m not even sure they’re taking money for this…
- Comment on Just realized, ACAB in Finnish is KPOP 5 days ago:
weirdly, it’s BBAF
- Comment on 5 days ago:
…oh it’s a cow hide.
- Comment on Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar 5 days ago:
that was repealed, google is allowed to pay them again
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 5 days ago:
hm, i think there’s some confusion regarding AP here. there’s no “deciding where things should go”; every frontend can “see” every type of post, even if the format is off. what you’re describing by is essentially how it already works, no multiple accounts needed. the frontend just needs to decide how to handle it. for lemmy-to-masto the handling is pretty basic, you can see it by going to a mastodon server and searching for your lemmy account (formatted as @yourname@yoursite.blah).
for the “gossip” thing, every server already publishes every new thing. it’s up to other servers to decide how to handle it.
regarding the automated tagging system, i actually had a similar idea recently. i think a big flaw with lemmy/mbin/piefed is the keeping of communities from reddit; if the already extant tags were used instead, the cross-posting problem would go away completely since comments would be attached to posts rather than communities.
anyway: it would not be difficult to just use words in a post to assign it tags, but i question the usefulness of doing that. some sort of analysis would help, as you say, but then we’re introducing nondeterministic behaviour. there is definitely a discoverability problem on fedi, and something like this could definitely help with some polish.
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 5 days ago:
Why don’t the highest use rate clients for Fediverse services look like standard browsers?
they don’t? i feel like they pretty much do, considering they’re all web pages.
do you have a central log of notifications you can access via your desktop?
every desktop environment i’ve used in the past 10 years has this, it’s basically been the default from windows 8 forward. GNOME puts them front and center in a dropdown in the middle, windows and deepin has a sidebar, KDE pops out a whole window for them.
basically the crux of it is what you want to do with your notifications. for me, a notification is an indicator that someone wants something, so the action it should perform is bring me to whoever it is. if that’s all you need, then you’re already there because every client i’ve used already has notification settings that allow you to filter stuff.
the reason i’m asking questions is that you’re all over the stack here. you’re talking about a user chrome, then you’re talking about consolidating messages, then about notification filters. i think it can all coalesce into something if you start from the capabilities of activitypub itself. it’s basically a messaging system at its core, with clients all deciding how to handle the contents of each message. i’ve long thought that neither twitterlikes or redditlikes actually play to the strength of the protocol, and that activitypub needs some sort of killer app to really shine. if you think you have something, you should let it form into a coherent idea and present it.
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 5 days ago:
so a set of pwas with a tabbed ui on top. right. i think my sticking point is, what is the “tailored ui” that fediverse services require? if we’re already using the web interfaces of the services themselves, what is left? notification handling? because personally i don’t want notifications to be locked in an app, my desktop handles my notification feed. i used to have those notification counters on my tabs, using a little js snippet that rendered a number on the favicon. but then i realised that i was just reinventing a thing that was already handled at another level.
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 6 days ago:
no it doesn’t. most clients open third-party links in the actual browser. interstellar has a setting for that.
i’m saying that the functionality you’re describing is already perfectly encapsulated by a normal browser, and what you want is that, but limited to a handful of sites.
- Comment on Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal 6 days ago:
i’m the opposite way. i see no use for a phone that folds in half. i like my phones to be usable one-handed, and having a clamshell shape that folds out into something i can’t reach my thumb over is just dumb. but if i can have a normalish candybar phone that unfolds into a whole-ass tablet in my pocket? absolutely.
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 6 days ago:
so… a web browser that stops you from going to every site.