Deebster

Deebster, 6 months ago

They sold that stuff to the Brits (the £27bn in today’s money was only finally paid off in 2006).

If memory serves, the US were also supplying the Nazis at the start of the war.

I agree that US involvement was vital to winning WW2, but the idea that they won it themselves is pure American propaganda.

Deebster, 6 months ago

I’ve just installed this from your recommendation and it’s brilliant. I love the amateur graphics, it just adds to the charm.

Deebster, 6 months ago

I’m not sure what you’re asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?

Deebster, 7 months ago

Tris, who’s behind the excellent No Boilerplate YouTube channel offers mentoring. I don’t know if he has spaces or if he’s in your budget, but he’s got experience explaining things and clearly knows his stuff.

Deebster, 7 months ago

I’m surprised you say you don’t know what the 😭 face means, since it’s just exaggerated crying. Is it because they’re too small, or that you suspect there’s some implied agreement/subtext you’re not party to?

I can see why people wouldn’t know what something like 🍆 is used to represent, since it’s not for the intended (I assume…) use.

Deebster, 7 months ago

If you’re on Windows, you can use Win + .

If you’re on Linux, try ctrl + shift + e

Deebster, 7 months ago

I was expecting an assassination, not a stupid gift and a terrible accident.

Deebster, 7 months ago

This headline makes it sound like the star has been rumbled counterfeiting Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden CDs 🤘

Deebster, 7 months ago

It’s not paywalled here, try using porn mode, clearing that site’s cookies or something like archive.today.

Deebster, 7 months ago

I thought that was catchier than “Private Browsing/Incognito/InPrivate/gift shopping mode”.

Deebster, 7 months ago

Did you have any luck?

Deebster, 8 months ago

This is a neat little idea, although I’m surprised you found the motivation to finish what seems like a niche need. Was this something that you wanted for yourself?

Deebster, 8 months ago

After a glance at others’ answers, it’s the same thing: the trend away from skeuomorphism.

I always think about the time I discovered an Android area was horizontally scrollable - with no scrollbars to clue me in, it was only the fact that the icon I wanted wasn’t there that prompted me to discover the secret. I’m a software dev, if it’s unintuitive even to me, how do non-technical people stand a chance?

Deebster, 8 months ago

Online it’s even more annoying (to me, anyway), because we have the time element specifically for this kind of thing and no-one bothers to use it.

Deebster, 8 months ago

That’s interesting. The flaw with that logic seems to that there’ll always be new users, and they’ll be playing on hard mode since those vital clues have been removed.

Deebster, 8 months ago

I was going to suggest War for the Overworld but at eight years old perhaps that doesn’t qualify.

Deebster, 9 months ago

My understanding wasn’t that they weren’t gambling, just that they claimed they weren’t (gambling is illegal in China). The Chinese have a reputation for loving gambling, despite its illegality.

Chinese officials have been censured in the past for receiving bribes through the playing of card games

How would this happen if they weren’t gambling?

Deebster, 9 months ago

The niche interest groups are what I miss from reddit - I’m out of the loop for several things now I don’t lurk in the respective subs any more. I think I’ll start using their RSS feeds so I don’t miss out too much.

Memes are just easy to consume and upvote, so I understand them becoming popular. I’ve got multiple duplicate accounts with different communities added/blocked so can get the memes only when I choose.

Deebster, 10 months ago

It allows selecting multiple languages, but it’s not clear and setting multiple is fiddly - most sites use multiple checkboxes instead for this reason. Anyway, if you select Undetermined, English and whatever else you’re happy to see, you’ll see a lot more comments (and posts, probably).

Edit: to select multiple, hold control while clicking/spacebarring to add another.

It should have two language settings - those you might post in (for the dropdown on making a comment/post) and for those you’re happy to read (I’d just set it to all, since I can always translate anything that looks interesting).

Deebster, 10 months ago

First games in ages for me! Three of us, we started with Kingsburg, stopped for curry and rugby, then continued with Suburbia.

I love the stories that end up happening in Suburbia - my town was an industrial hellhole that no-one wanted to live in, until I built a recycling plant which I then doubled and everyone loved me.

My neighbour’s capitalist mecca was similarly unpopular but his approach was to spend a fortune buying a PR firm, but he left it too late and his reputation never got high enough to escape last place.

Deebster, 10 months ago

Lovely stuff - and, looking at all the detail, this must have taken quite a while. Are you planning to do the full alphabet?

Deebster, 10 months ago

No, it’s just that @warboyziri didn’t give the full link. It’s happy and healthy at letterboxd.com

Deebster, 10 months ago

TL;DR: the code/servers could be changed to use SSR, but that’s more expensive to run.

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Lemmy is written more as a web app than as a traditional webpage. This means that the website sends a partial page plus the code+resources needed to finish building the page and the browser builds (“renders”) the final page.

This has advantages in that the server can send less data over time, cache more of that data, and overall has to do less work, plus also makes the site feel more snappy for the user, because their browser only needs to download the data that’s changed (instead of a whole new page).

The disadvantage is that the browser needs to be more powerful, and older/simpler browsers (like IE6, some text-only browsers and some web spiders) won’t apply the extra work to finish the page off.

The normal solution is called “server-side rendering” (SSR) where the server renders the full page, sends that over, then also sends over the code+data needed to run things more dynamically (“hydrating” the static site into an app-like experience). This means the server has to do a lot of work, but is often the best of both worlds; search engines see the proper page (good for SEO) but users get to have a nice experience (once that longer initial load is complete, anyway).

Deebster, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

What features are you looking for? As others have said, if you just want somewhere you can store images yourself, you don’t even need software aside from a webserver and something to upload with.

But there’s also things like user accounts, tagging, browsing/discovery, plus whatever else gfycay does/did.

Anyway, just to actually give you a suggestion, chevereto is used by a friend and it’s a lovely user experience (can’t tell you about the admin side, though). [edit: This uses folders to organise - no tagging - so it might not meet your needs, which is why I was asking]

Deebster, 10 months ago

You can add a title and description to images, folders, albums (what we’ve been calling folders), sub-albums, etc. You can search on those, but it’s not a structured thing like tags. I guess you could just store some JSON in there but you might need to get smart with your queries to search. Afraid I have no idea if there’s plugins, or even if what I’ve been using is a recent and/or unmodified codebase.

I think it’s more designed for photo uploads, as there’s an option to keep exif data, and it automatically makes images of different sizes (including your original, maybe massive upload).

Deebster, 11 months ago

You can interact here from other ActivityPub-supporting codebases so you could just run one of the minimal microblogging sites. You wouldn’t get the same experience as being a Lemmy instance though.

Deebster, 11 months ago

And kills it.

Deebster, 11 months ago

This is a great read, I'll definitely bookmark this for when someone says it won't be problem.

Deebster, 1 year ago

I'm a massive fan of skeuomorphic design, and Windows 98 was just so intuitive and practical. Things you could drag looked like you could move them, that bumpy texture thing was used in places it wasn't obvious already, and 3D made clickable things look like buttons.

I'm a software developer and power user, and Android surprised me by having a horizontally scrollable area with absolutely no indication other than the visible items didn't include something I was expecting to find.

Deebster, 1 year ago

Bitwarden is open source (server, plugin and app) and can be self-hosted so it’s not centralised in any way that matters.

Also, I think an honest freemium offering is the best way to do it - have those that are willing/able to pay subsidise those who aren’t. It doesn’t have to be a slippery slope, and that’s not exactly common in the open-source world. After all, you can just fork it and go your own way if you’re not happy. Also, running servers isn’t free, and being able to remunerate the devs a little is no small thing.

So, in summary, use Bitwarden. You can set up your own server and install the plugin/app yourself if you want.

Deebster, 1 year ago

As noted, this is an old article. You can install the plugin here: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/…/firefox-translations/

I just tried it on www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/technologie and it’s definitely good enough to be usable, although it has translated the top story as “What the new data glasses from Apple can”. Google Translate’s version is almost the same for most of it, although it gets “can do” right.

It initially recognised that it could translate feddit.de but seems to have stopped now. Hmm.

Anyway, even though German->English is a pretty easy test given that English is a Germanic language, I’m happy to leave it installed and test it in the wild.