This is a wildly sensationalized headline, bordering on just false.
The real story is that US government employees regularly misspell email addresses using the top-level domain .ml (Mali) instead of .mil (The US Military). This means that the domain administrator can read those emails. For now the administrator is some Dutch guy; the Malian government cannot read the emails.
I guess even the BBC is throwing out its last shreds of journalistic integrity at this point…
Agreed, standards are what make the Fediverse possible. Rendering posts from other platforms is already messy: we’ve all seen the posts coming from Mastodon where the title is the whole body of the post, cut at the character limit. If Lemmy starts doing its own Markdown flavor it would further degrade the integration with other Fediverse platforms.
Which other web services support Markdown formatting and also single line breaks? Reddit, for example, didn’t…
Since AFAIK the main reason for this choice in standard Markdown was to make the raw .md files more readable, I can see how this isn’t necessary in Lemmy. I still see two reasons not to change this though:
Effort: forking and maintaining a markdown rendering library just for lemmy would take a ton of effort for a pretty small usability improvement. The dev team is already small and overloaded with work, this doesn’t seem like a good use of their time.
Consistency: each website having its own flavor of Markdown syntax would be pretty chaotic for users. Right now you can learn basic Markdown once and use it on Reddit, Lemmy, Github, etc. If every website did it their own way you’d have to remember all the little differences, it would get messy.
This is not a missing feature in Jerboa, it’s a design choice in the Markdown syntax. It’s done so that one can break up long lines in the .md file without affecting the rendered page. Markdown is a standard, and Jerboa uses an existing tool to format posts. In order to make this work for Jerboa the devs would have to break compatibility with Markdown and create their own rendering tool. They’re most likely not going to do it, and I don’t think they should.
That’s not a problem, though, because you can already create single line breaks in Jerboa, using standard Markdown. All you have to do is add two spaces at the end of your first line, where you want your line break to be. So, if I write down:
<span style="color:#323232;">This is a line</span><span style="color:#a71d5d;"><</span><span style="color:#63a35c;">space</span><span style="color:#a71d5d;">><</span><span style="color:#63a35c;">space</span><span style="color:#a71d5d;">>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This is another line
</span>
this gets rendered to:
This is a line
This is another line
There are other ways to create line breaks in Markdown:
Using an HTML <br/> tag
Using a backslash ``
but they’re not supported by all renderers. For example: the <br/> tag works in Jerboa, but not in the web UI. Double space works for me in both.
These look awesome! This might be asking too much, but I’ll try anyway: I use the Whicons icon pack for the minimalist, monochrome white theme. Would you be able to make a version of these with just the plain white outline and transparent background?
The article makes piracy sound synonymous with and exclusive to torrenting
It was only meant to be a guide about torrenting pirated software specifically, not pirating software in general. I also started by linking to the megathread to link people to other resources.
I don’t really want to add a whole other section about DDL just because I feel I couldn’t do it justice, and people have probably already done a better job at that.
Yup, exactly. We can’t gatekeep this too much, even if it’s warranted, otherwise people will just give up and never actually spend time to learn about this.
You’re right, I guess, but if we only recommend paid ones people will just google for free ones and use whichever shady provider is at the top of the google results. People are really averse to subscriptions.
I’ve added a warning about free VPNs and switched to recommending Windscribe, which still has a decent reputation.
You’re right of course, but it’s hard to communicate this level of nuance in a post targeted at newbies. If you don’t disable your antivirus, 9/10 times it will quarantine the KeyGen automatically, and you don’t get anywhere.
I’ve added a warning about the risk of infection. Do you have any recommendations on how to tackle this in a way that’s appropriate for non-nerds?