Deebster

Deebster, 7 months ago

I use Gboard which does the same, but I also have multiple languages enabled which you switch by long-pressing the spacebar and I regularly trigger the wrong one - very annoying.

Deebster, 8 months ago

the fact that the vast majority of virtual worlds I’ve seen have had 4th wall breaking acknowledgements of their creation

I love this idea, although (or perhaps because) it means that any coincidences can be considered “signs”.

Deebster, 8 months ago

Obligatory mention that Firefox Mobile supports plugins like uBlock Origin. You don’t have to suffer this rubbish!

Deebster, 8 months ago

Oh, so css is in there - I’d assumed it would be a false positive.

Deebster, 8 months ago

I think that forcing links to create new tabs world be a problem. Links working the default, normal way is a feature, not a bug.

Deebster, 8 months ago

Peanut Butter and Jam/Jelly sandwiches are definitely a US thing. So weird.

Deebster, 8 months ago

Did they? This is the first I’ve heard of it, was it a recent change?

Deebster, 8 months ago

They misspoke: Hurd will be usable in year 1970!

Deebster, 9 months ago

That guy has a brilliant username

Deebster, 9 months ago

When you get married you can call her your ex-girlfriend

Deebster, 9 months ago

@helmet91 I was on an Emirates A380 recently (massive, double-decker beast) and they had three selectable cameras: cockpit, downwards and vertical stabiliser (unfortunately not controllable). The vertical one was weird as it felt like being in a racing game or something since it seemed too high to be part of the plane.

They left the camera on the whole time, which was great to watch the landing and taxiing. We must have been in a decent crosswind early in our flight, as the downwards camera was showing the ground go by diagonally.

Deebster, 9 months ago

I alway wonder how underreported the Firefox figures are by things like that its users are generally more technical/privacy aware (so are blocking the trackers that report these numbers) and also spiders and bots often pretend to to Chrome (inflating those numbers).

Deebster, 9 months ago

I’m surprised that no-one’s brought out a client that can merge communities. People properly using the cross-posting feature seems to help with this a bit.

Deebster, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

edit: This start bit is wrong; Lemmy does SSR so Javascript-free/spiders should see at least some comments.

Lemmy is currently pretty terrible at SEO, in large part because the comments don’t load until the JS has run.

This isn’t just a problem for search engines, it affect things like archive.org and offline reading. Earlier today I loaded a page from an instance that had dropped offline - while they had Cloudflare Always Online enabled, the page loaded without comments so it was almost useless.

I think it’s a mistake to consider all the SEO-related concerns as irrelevant just because you don’t care about Google, etc. Most of the things necessary for good SEO are just good practices, with benefits for all users, especially in the areas of accessibility and third-party tools.

Deebster, 9 months ago

Hmm, I’ve just tested an that does seem to be the case, at least as far back as 0.17.4. Do you know when this was added? Or if it’s something that can be disabled?

Looking into Cloudflare Always Online, it uses the Internet Archive’s backup instead of keeping on itself which could explain me seeing zero comments (i.e. IA scraped the page after posting but before any comments). I can’t figure out which page in my history was the post in question, so I can’t be sure.

Deebster, 9 months ago

No, although they can post to Lemmy communities by @ing them.

Deebster, 9 months ago

شوي شوي

I don’t know enough to write much, but I’d love to be able to read some on Lemmy, even if I do need to use Google translate for anything but simple phrases.

Deebster, 9 months ago

As a student I wasted so much time mucking around with flags and settings in Gentoo. It definitely wasn’t pointless since I learned so much, but I didn’t need to sit there and watch it compile as much as I did.

It was pleasing to watch though, just like defrag in Windows.

Deebster, 10 months ago

Absolutely, now is the time to fix a few things at the design level:

• Accessibility (let’s get affected users involved, starting with asking for their feedback and current pain points)
• Semantic markup (helps with a11y, SEO, plugins)
• Internationalisation (had anyone thought about right-to-left language support?)
• Usability (also for power users? E.g. make RES-style keyboard shortcuts an option or just the default)

Deebster, 10 months ago

It was memes, then beans, now antique memes and next week it’ll be something new. People will be looking back on this fondly, I’m sure.

Deebster, 10 months ago

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;"> ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         _^___
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> L    __/   [] 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">LOL===__        
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> L      ________]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         I   I
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        --------/
</span>

Deebster, 10 months ago

You don’t seem to understand what a meme is, the whole point is that we’re using certain images for certain situations - like a shortcut that helps you get to the joke quicker.

Deebster, 10 months ago

I guess save it so that the actual image is rotated, not just via some metadata telling the viewer to do it.