@BlueMonday1984
> petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses"
This seems like kind of a knee jerk response. How are "smart" glasses defined? Could such a ban also limit privacy-respecting digital facewear? When covering protests for Indymedia, I would have loved a wearable camera.
If the only thing that makes these different from carrying a "smart" phone is the always-on camera, maybe it would be better to propose regulation specific to that?
Thanks also to @tootbrute@kurikai for offering suggestions for other soft keyboard apps, and to @snek_boi for reminding me to format the first sentence of my Mastodon post so it becomes a good title in the threadiverse post.
Seems I was going off half-cocked, out of an overabundance of caution. #MeaCulpa. I thought it would be worse if I ignored my strypey-senses tingling and said nothing, then it turned out it was compromised.
We need to be cautious in this age of copious vibe coding;
I do think @fdroid crew need to do due diligence when apps appear to be abandoned, then revived. They probably do, but any links to policies and processes on this would be a great way to put my mind at rest.
BTW @rimu, my apologies again for unloading on you with both barrels last night. I stand by my objection to the way Stanton was being dogpiled, but in hindsight I was just as merciless to you as I saw people being to him. Which was not only hypocritical, but *not* good de-escalation on my part, quite the opposite.
I've got some intense stuff going on of late, and struggling with sleep dep. But that's my problem and my responsibility, not yours, or anyone else's. I hope you can accept my apology
@artyom
> Cool, I just installed a new version of CoMaps!
This strikes me as a chatbot style reply, chatty and positive, but completely out of context. Your profile doesn't flag you as a bot, which is the convention in the fediverse.
If you are a bot, your operator needs to state that clearly in your profile, or will fall foul of @rimu. Who takes a dim view of such things, and rightly so.
If you are a human, context is king! Love your enthusiasm, but might have been better as its own post ; )
I need to remember when posting from Mastodon that the first Y characters of my post are used by @LemmyDev communities as the post title : P Truth is, many people won't even know they are also posting to the threadiverse.
I get that this title automation is better than no title. But are post titles editable by community mods, so they can remove truncated text and clarify as needed? If not, that might be a good feature.
@snek_boi
> So that your title is read easily, you may consider editing it
Thanks for pulling me up on that, done. Also noted Linux Walt's clarification, based on the version on his device. Hopefully you can see my reply to him.
@fullsquare This talking point is designed for replying to someone who denies that there was any resourcing of Islamist groups by the Iranian regime. So not really a suitable response to what I said. Which is that the Anti-Americanism precedes Iranian funding, both were precipitated by decades of US military adventurism in the region.
If you want to understand the genesis of militant Islamism, see the Adam Curtis documentary The Power of Nightmares. Or maybe read this;
@fullsquare
> a segment of that anti-americanism was funded by sales of iranian oil. not all of course, but houthis wouldn’t be a thing without it, or large parts of hezbollah
This is a bit like saying certain human rights orgs only exist because Soros funds them via OSF, or that the Hong Kong protests only happened because of NED/ OTF funding. In all these cases I suspect authentic movements are funded when their activities happen to align with funders' current goals.
@RecursiveParadox
> butter chicken is indigenous but tikka masala is the BIR style dish
Wikipedia agrees with you. I'm convinced. Who knew? I guess maybe the names confused the people who told me that. A name like "tikka masala" sounds traditional, while I can't think of anything more anglophone sounding than "butter chicken" ; )
@fell
> Turns out Honey Chicken is a purely Australian invention
Like butter chicken from Indian restaurants ... in the anglophone world only, apparently. What is with us anglophones and our propensity for consuming jungle fowl in yellowish fluids?
"Besides forum-equivalent functionality, PieFed also offers ... Question and answers similar to StackOverflow where an answer can be visually distinguished as an answer, and the original question marked as solved."
@Chemo
> Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?
I had the same niggle, but I'm hoping it's a way of setting up a redemption arc.
Like when they replaced Captain Georgiou with Emperor Georgiou. She had to learn the value of the Federation's way of doing things. But they also learned a thing or 2 from her.
@LambdaRX
> You could try to edit your post, that the title for lemmy is in the first line ended by a newline (enter), and the body is in the next lines
@LambdaRX
> Lemmy automatically creates it from the post body
I'll try to remember that time I @mention a Lemmy group, but is it possible for a mod in a Lemmy community to change the title as it appears there, so it makes sense?
@sga
> there is an option to use syncthing for syncing to other devices
Intriguing, is this built into the app itself? I gave SyncThing a solid try and it failed on me pretty badly, in a number of ways. Also didn't the mobile app get abandoned some time ago?
I'll install it and kick the tires at least.
> the notes files are plain text
That's definitely a good feature. Getting this from my existing notes app requires a manual export.
If I need to see thid on the originating Lemmy instance, I can use 'Open in browser'.
It would create a better UX if a post from Lemmy appeared on Mastodon as title text and the URL it links to on Lemmy. Then I wouldn't have to click and navigate to a new page twice, to get to the featured page.
Mental note: must donate to Team Fossify. I'm deeply grateful to them for continuing the Simple Apps as un-enshittified Free Code, and I use heaps of them every day. If they had a notes app (ideally one compatible with NextCloud), I'd use that every day too (hint, hint).
OK, glad that worked for you. I didn't have to do that with PipePipe. Which is a signficant UX improvement, and the main point of the post you replied to : )
@BlueMonday1984
> petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses"
This seems like kind of a knee jerk response. How are "smart" glasses defined? Could such a ban also limit privacy-respecting digital facewear? When covering protests for Indymedia, I would have loved a wearable camera.
If the only thing that makes these different from carrying a "smart" phone is the always-on camera, maybe it would be better to propose regulation specific to that?
@dgerard
#HatTip to the @fdroid threadiverse community, and others, for offering such rapid and thorough clarifications. Many thanks to @lnxw37a2 @hildegarde @alienghic @plm00 @Axolotl_cpp.
Thanks also to @tootbrute @kurikai for offering suggestions for other soft keyboard apps, and to @snek_boi for reminding me to format the first sentence of my Mastodon post so it becomes a good title in the threadiverse post.
Seems I was going off half-cocked, out of an overabundance of caution. #MeaCulpa. I thought it would be worse if I ignored my strypey-senses tingling and said nothing, then it turned out it was compromised.
We need to be cautious in this age of copious vibe coding;
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/f-droid-policy-on-libre-ai/
I do think @fdroid crew need to do due diligence when apps appear to be abandoned, then revived. They probably do, but any links to policies and processes on this would be a great way to put my mind at rest.
BTW @rimu, my apologies again for unloading on you with both barrels last night. I stand by my objection to the way Stanton was being dogpiled, but in hindsight I was just as merciless to you as I saw people being to him. Which was not only hypocritical, but *not* good de-escalation on my part, quite the opposite.
I've got some intense stuff going on of late, and struggling with sleep dep. But that's my problem and my responsibility, not yours, or anyone else's. I hope you can accept my apology
@artyom
> Cool, I just installed a new version of CoMaps!
This strikes me as a chatbot style reply, chatty and positive, but completely out of context. Your profile doesn't flag you as a bot, which is the convention in the fediverse.
If you are a bot, your operator needs to state that clearly in your profile, or will fall foul of @rimu. Who takes a dim view of such things, and rightly so.
If you are a human, context is king! Love your enthusiasm, but might have been better as its own post ; )
@snek_boi
> [post title] appears truncated.
I need to remember when posting from Mastodon that the first Y characters of my post are used by @LemmyDev communities as the post title : P Truth is, many people won't even know they are also posting to the threadiverse.
I get that this title automation is better than no title. But are post titles editable by community mods, so they can remove truncated text and clarify as needed? If not, that might be a good feature.
@snek_boi
> So that your title is read easily, you may consider editing it
Thanks for pulling me up on that, done. Also noted Linux Walt's clarification, based on the version on his device. Hopefully you can see my reply to him.
@fullsquare This talking point is designed for replying to someone who denies that there was any resourcing of Islamist groups by the Iranian regime. So not really a suitable response to what I said. Which is that the Anti-Americanism precedes Iranian funding, both were precipitated by decades of US military adventurism in the region.
If you want to understand the genesis of militant Islamism, see the Adam Curtis documentary The Power of Nightmares. Or maybe read this;
https://meaningness.com/fundamentalism-countercultural-modernism
@fullsquare
> a segment of that anti-americanism was funded by sales of iranian oil. not all of course, but houthis wouldn’t be a thing without it, or large parts of hezbollah
This is a bit like saying certain human rights orgs only exist because Soros funds them via OSF, or that the Hong Kong protests only happened because of NED/ OTF funding. In all these cases I suspect authentic movements are funded when their activities happen to align with funders' current goals.
@aninjury2all @Ardubal
@RecursiveParadox
> butter chicken is indigenous but tikka masala is the BIR style dish
Wikipedia agrees with you. I'm convinced. Who knew? I guess maybe the names confused the people who told me that. A name like "tikka masala" sounds traditional, while I can't think of anything more anglophone sounding than "butter chicken" ; )
@fell
> Turns out Honey Chicken is a purely Australian invention
Like butter chicken from Indian restaurants ... in the anglophone world only, apparently. What is with us anglophones and our propensity for consuming jungle fowl in yellowish fluids?
@FoxtrotDeltaTango
RE: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116001132928858844
"Besides forum-equivalent functionality, PieFed also offers ... Question and answers similar to StackOverflow where an answer can be visually distinguished as an answer, and the original question marked as solved."
@piefedadmin, 2026
https://join.piefed.social/2026/02/11/piefed-as-a-discord-alternative/
Funny, I was just recently bemoaning the lack of a federated Q&A and suggesting adding ActivityPub support to Apache Answers;
#PieFed #QA #StackOverflow #ApacheAnswers
@rimu @_elena @cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
@Chemo
> Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia?
I had the same niggle, but I'm hoping it's a way of setting up a redemption arc.
Like when they replaced Captain Georgiou with Emperor Georgiou. She had to learn the value of the Federation's way of doing things. But they also learned a thing or 2 from her.
@LambdaRX
> You could try to edit your post, that the title for lemmy is in the first line ended by a newline (enter), and the body is in the next lines
Done. Did this work?
@LambdaRX
> Lemmy automatically creates it from the post body
I'll try to remember that time I @mention a Lemmy group, but is it possible for a mod in a Lemmy community to change the title as it appears there, so it makes sense?
@Undertaker
"Buy as much crude oil as you can and Fed-Ex it into space before it can be burned."
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/concrete-actions-progressives-can-take-during-trumps-presidency
Seems logical 🤷♂️
@UnderpantsWeevil @theonion @sundray
@sga
> there is an option to use syncthing for syncing to other devices
Intriguing, is this built into the app itself? I gave SyncThing a solid try and it failed on me pretty badly, in a number of ways. Also didn't the mobile app get abandoned some time ago?
I'll install it and kick the tires at least.
> the notes files are plain text
That's definitely a good feature. Getting this from my existing notes app requires a manual export.
Hey @Mastodon, check out the post above by @jaromil of Dyne, from their Lemmy instance.
In @moshidon it's coming up as a title text and URL to the original post on Lemmy;
https://fed.dyne.org/post/313817
If I need to see thid on the originating Lemmy instance, I can use 'Open in browser'.
It would create a better UX if a post from Lemmy appeared on Mastodon as title text and the URL it links to on Lemmy. Then I wouldn't have to click and navigate to a new page twice, to get to the featured page.
@sga
> fossify apps?
That was about half of them.
Mental note: must donate to Team Fossify. I'm deeply grateful to them for continuing the Simple Apps as un-enshittified Free Code, and I use heaps of them every day. If they had a notes app (ideally one compatible with NextCloud), I'd use that every day too (hint, hint).
#Fossify #SimpleApps #NextCloud
@drone509
> I had to add it to the default links
OK, glad that worked for you. I didn't have to do that with PipePipe. Which is a signficant UX improvement, and the main point of the post you replied to : )