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Flaky

@Flaky@furry.engineer

🇬🇧 / chaotic neutral / autist / 27 / mostly sfw here

opinions are my own. i talk mostly about tech, music and mainly repost cute things

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Flaky, to random
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It’s funny that Jack Dorsey, who the fediverse pins as a scapegoat and reason to not join Bluesky, has admitted to no longer being part of the Bluesky board while an ex-Twitter employee is now part of the leading software for the fediverse.

Flaky, to random
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How do you guys decide to save the music you like to your library/liked songs on streaming? Just wondering.

I’m thinking on saving just the songs I absolutely love (i.e. rated 9 or 10/10) since my Apple Music library is getting really big and I want to downsize.

Flaky,
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@avis_jay I’d do this with a DAP in the future. My smartphone rn is my DAP. 😩

fenarinarsa, to random

The lack of custom optional algorithm makes my timeline harder and harder to follow especially since the cache system of Mastodon doesn't work well, so I've just started to unfollow accounts.

Don't take it personally, it's better to curate your follows anyway :)

Flaky,
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@fenarinarsa I’ve tried following hashtags equivalent to the topic feeds I follow on Bluesky and some of them are basically ghost towns. Little wonder why Bluesky popped off with a more general audience.

Flaky, to random
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I got John Waters and Roger Waters confused and initially thought Vivzie somehow got someone from Pink Floyd onto Helluva Boss.

volpeon, to random

Why do Windows updates take forever with seemingly no progress at all in-between and Linux just gets it done in under 5 minutes?

Flaky,
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@volpeon I use Fedora btw

gamingonlinux, to random
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Wow, can almost read this IGN article.

Flaky,
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@gamingonlinux AdGuard is worth the money on iOS tbh. Also get Consent-o-Matic while you're there.

Flaky, to random
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I've started to learn to enjoy programming again and want to make a new project (essentially I want to take the parts of MusicBee I miss going to other music players).

My only thing is... this project I want to make, I'm not sure if I should make it in Python, which is the one I have most experience with, or another programming language. I have decent experience with PyQt at this point.

For something like a music library organiser (which is basically just a glorified database management system for music), performance is key, and Quod Libet can be quite sluggish, so I'm reluctant to choose Python for that reason... but I don't know what language to go to from Python. Rust, maybe? rust-cxx is a thing, so...

Flaky, to Metal
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A little while ago, I asked people on fedi on how to get into extreme metal and got some helpful insight from the responses. At the same time, Apple Music dropped a track from Necrophobic's "In the Twilight Grey" into my New Music Playlist and I thought it was good enough to check the album out in its entirety.

And I just listened to the album. And honestly? It's great. The extreme metal recs I get from friends and such tend to be hit or miss as I'm not that well versed in the scene, so whether Apple could provide a hit was up in the air - thankfully for them this was very much a slam dunk.

https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-twilight-grey-24-bit-hd-audio

volpeon, to random

Mozilla should replace whoever is responsible for their fedi account posts with AI. It couldn't be worse at reading the room ​:woozy_baa:​

Flaky,
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@volpeon w-what happened

Flaky, to random
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TBH and this might just be me being a fucking weirdo or extreme night owl but, seeing the sky go dark during totality would honestly be cooler to me than seeing the eclipse in general. Just seeing the lights go off on the planet completely.

Flaky, to linux
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I'll be honest, I'm not sure on what distro to go for now. Maybe I'm just being paranoid here, but the xz backdoor stuff has made me skeptical of bleeding-edge rolling releases, however Arch is like, the only OS where everything works for me. Fedora 39 has a problem with Bluetooth not working. Bleh. Trying Pop!_OS right now.

Flaky, to random
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Firefox nightly has vertical tabs. 👀

Flaky,
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This is the sorta shit I want to see Mozilla doing. None of the AI bubble shit. I want to see them poach back the audience that moved to Vivaldi and the others. And with stuff like this, you love to see it.

Now bring back compact spacing.

pixel, to random
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People should make their own websites!

Even a small static one is good already.

Flaky,
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@pixel I think my main issue - besides the financial and mental part - is finding a good host/domain registrar. I have seen Lume though and that did give me an itch...

nonfedimemes, to random
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You just got this notification, your last saved image in your gallery is your response.

Flaky,
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@nonfedimemes

volpeon, to random

Even PhotoImpact, a cheap image editing program I was using until 2008, had a cleaner UI than Inkscape now has.

Flaky,
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@volpeon that menu bar is very lickable tbh. I miss the skeuomorphism phase.

volpeon, to random

https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/

I hate the software industry

Flaky,
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@volpeon Tangentially related, I actually gave up on making a project in Electron because I got really confused at how npm worked. That project was eventually made in Python with PyQt.

volpeon, to random

I saw a TV ad for Chrome on iOS and their compelling argument to get you to switch from Safari is that Chrome has a password generator. How often do they think the average person needs come up with a password? ​:woozy_baa:​

Flaky,
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@volpeon does... Safari not have a password generator already?

Flaky, to random
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Going to TripAdvisor to download Arch Linux

volpeon, to random

Microsoft fix VSCode on Wayland challenge

Flaky,
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@volpeon ...is there a problem with it on Wayland?

I have clipboard problems with VMware on Wayland, FWIW.

Flaky,
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@volpeon Ohhh. I forget that scaling is still not 100% on Linux.

mackuba, to bluesky
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I wonder if I will be eventually able to follow people from Threads who enabled Threads-to-Fediverse posting from Bluesky through @snarfed's -to-Fediverse bridge?… Should be possible, right? 🤔

(probably not soon though since the planned "confirmation DM" won't get through to Threads yet)

But it would be really fucking cool if it all got somehow connected together to some degree, even if just with duct tape, maybe together we'd stand a chance against Twitter?

https://www.manton.org/2024/03/19/i-was-late.html

Flaky,
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@mackuba iirc Threads has been blocking bridges. At least, the Mostr bridge that bridges Nostr to the fediverse, but IDK if that has anything to do with the bridges or the guy who made it.

Flaky,
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@mackuba Well, it was bypassed by exploiting a flaw with Authorized Fetch. This article explains it pretty well:

https://wedistribute.org/2023/12/authorized-fetch-circumvented/

Flaky, to random
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considering purchasing a hi-DPI monitor so I can see @volpeon's emojis better on desktop

they look great on my iPad but not so much on desktop :gphn_weary_sob:​

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