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ragica, 6 months ago

Note at top of developer web site:

Distribution of Enhancer for YouTube™ temporarily stopped! Due to the countless changes that the YouTube developers have made, Enhancer for YouTube™ is now completely broken for Firefox (partially works for Chromium based browsers) so I had to pause its distribution.

So far I’ve found the Improve YouTube extension does many (but not all) of the things Enhancer did.

ragica, 6 months ago

I seem to recall on reddit there were a lot of subs that somehow had mods who modded hundreds of subs, and didn’t participate and weren’t a part of the actual communities. It seemed these people just liked collecting subs. I’d worry that with an automated system people like this (or even bots) will show up, and just start squatting (so to speak) on the mod rights to communities. Time will tell, I guess, with growth.

ragica, 6 months ago

Aves is really good. Used Simple Gallery Pro for years and it was great. But switching to Aves is painless for me.

ragica, 7 months ago

phanopy is an interesting mastodon front end that groups boosts periodically into a side scrolling container. The effect is that your feed is a lot cleaner, but you still can look at boosts if you want to.

ragica, 7 months ago

Could someone please cure me of my Dredmor addiction? 12 years later and I’m still rolling random builds. Diggles are my only friends.

ragica, 7 months ago

AppStream makes machine-readable software metadata easily accessible. It is a foundational block for modern Linux software centers, offering a seamless way to retrieve information about available software, no matter the repository it is contained in. It can provide data about available applications as well as available firmware, drivers, fonts and other components. This project it part of freedesktop.org.

ragica, 7 months ago

It works in the current Firefox for Android beta version.

ragica, 7 months ago

Been using free tier Feedly for many years now. It’s “good enough”. Before that I used Akgregator, which did a pretty decent job for a local app.

Other odd RSS adventures: I played with self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS for a while, and it is actually pretty awesome. It’s automatic filtering and tagging capabilities were amazing. But I got tired of maintaining it. I toyed with NetVibes ages ago – it is a “dashboard” oriented web site, with RSS support. It worked pretty well actually, but the UI is … unusual. It used to be free. Maybe still is. I don’t know. I found myself using the cleaner and simpler “good enough” Feedly more.

It should be pretty easy to move your RSS feed collection between apps/services as most of them support OPML format import/export. So just go ahead and try stuff and see what you like. (Just check first that it supports OPML import/export.)

You might be interested in this somewhat similar recent thread: lemmy.ml/post/7624818

ragica, 7 months ago

MasterPDF Editor is quite good. In the past I found the windows keygen works with linux version. You have to block it from accessing internet though, or it will phone home to verify. This was a while ago I used it, so my info may be slightly out of date. Here’s one way to block it from having internet access, start with this command: bwrap --bind / / --unshare-net masterpdfeditor5

code-industry.net/masterpdfeditor/

ragica, 7 months ago

The free version of MasterPDF (as available via AUR) is fully functional, but it will add watermark if you modify any PDF page contents (and maybe other conditions).

ragica, 7 months ago

If just annotating, I’d also suggest Okular. It’s pretty good at notes, highlighting, etc.

ragica, 7 months ago

How about ship versus crew! Probably not! But was just thinking about this, and a few examples came to mind:

• Destination: Void by Frank Herbert,
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts

ragica, 7 months ago

Spiral Wars by Joel Sheppard.

I was just looking over some reader reviews of the first book in this series, and I noticed this: “Really nice story setting, oddly enough the background story reminded me of C.J. Cherryh’s Chanur novels, which is a good thing.” So maybe that is a recommendation after all?

ragica, 7 months ago

Ah! Started reading that a few years ago and it got lost in the shuffle. Can’t remember the ship-vs-crew aspect, but then i can’t remember much. Maybe I didn’t get that far. Will have to start over with it again one of these days.

ragica, 8 months ago

There are a few attempts things like this. Here is one… fedi.directory

ragica, 9 months ago

Maybe check out Pop! OS

But, yes, nearly all linux software will run on any distro. And even a fair amount of windows software will run on any of them with WINE (or VirtualBox if desperate). Occasionally commercial software will get packaged in an “installer” format a particular distro doesn’t know how to install. A fairly rare situation, for which there are almost always work-arounds. You can cross that bridge if you ever encounter it.

ragica, 10 months ago

What features are locked? I’ve only ever used the f-droid version, and haven’t noticed anything blocked. But I don’t use it much (unfortunately).

ragica, 10 months ago

Never heard of Readwise. Interesting concept.

Not going to be nearly as convenient, but you can use google lens (part of Google assistant I think, or stand alone app) to quickly OCR a page into selectable text which then could be copied into a notes app or something. You’d have manually add a reference.

Anyhow maybe you can figure out a workflow using Google lens for the OCR copy/past part, that isn’t too onerous, if no other solutions appear. Let us know! .

ragica, 10 months ago

Friend’s grandfather used to say…

The hurrier I go the behinder I get.

ragica, 10 months ago

I was on digg as well as reddit. I always liked reddit a lot better and was always baffled as to why digg was so much more popular. Reddit always felt more diverse (in topics) and organic (user driven) to me. I guess others had a different view.

Sadly, no one no one seems to remember kuro5hin. Barely even me. It had its moments though.

ragica, 10 months ago

Interesting perspective. I had not considered the aesthetic angle.

ragica, 10 months ago

Where did you find the actual study? The link in the above article leads to purl.stanford.edu/vb515nd6874 which has an abstract, but I can’t see the study.

ragica, 11 months ago

From what I’m hearing doomscrolling is quite difficult to achieve on mastodon. People are mostly horribly nice and supportive and stuff. And there’s no cool vampire algorithm exploiting heightened emotions. But where there’s a will, there’s a way! You can do it. Choose your doom-y hashtags carefully, my friend! We believe in you.

ragica, 11 months ago

Maybe journa.host public feed? journa.host/public/local

Or better, use the elk.zone interface: elk.zone/journa.host/public/local

It’s a mastodon instance for verified journalists, and so… you know. If it bleeds it leads…

(I’m not [entirely] serious… just as the cartoon the post link leads to isn’t… [entirely?]…)

ragica, 11 months ago

Probably the easiest way to avoid it is to simply rename it to something less scary sounding. Maybe something like Alive Enhanced Rich Content Internet Theory for Human People! See, not a problem now.

Also maybe we should reread Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. It has a storyline about a guy who finds out he is the only actual real person on earth. Everyone else are robots. And he wants to know why.

ragica, 11 months ago

By crikey, I’ve been tracking this one all day following its ridiculous chewing sounds. Now I’ve barely grounded the blighter and it’s snoring like all get out! I think we best likely leave this one alone, it’s starting to drool.