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gkd, 6 months ago

“Everyone, the anti-trans attacks didn’t work out for Virginia. Get out the dart board, let’s try this again.”

gkd, 6 months ago

piped.video/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM

gkd, 6 months ago

Completely agree! Gnome is nice but never been able to move past KDE if I had to pick a full blown DE.

gkd, 6 months ago

Just as an aside, donating does not have to be monetary. Helping (if possible) with development, triaging issues or helping with support/forums of any kind, along with in general filing good issues goes miles for FOSS projects, especially larger ones with only a few developers.

gkd, 6 months ago

PayPal is notorious for displaying meaningless errors for just about everything, even when it is intentional. Might not be the case here, but they definitely do things like this.

Though if I had to put my money on it, if it isn’t a bug it’s an anti fraud measure of some sort.

gkd, 6 months ago

A sincere thank you for the kind words :)

As I mention above, the second half of this message is not intended for the vast majority of users. And even for the users it is geared toward, it isn’t meant to be rude at all but to be informative.

I completely get how easy it is to forget that large projects are often times the result of a handful of people all with their own daily lives to deal with. I’ve run into a number of projects recently that have absolutely blown my mind when it comes to the difference in the size of the team vs the size of the product.

gkd, 6 months ago

Another word on a more upbeat topic.

First, I have a Giphy implementation in the works to add to Memmy. In terms of privacy, I have taken steps to mitigate tracking that comes along with the use of a Meta product while also helping to allow users to communicate with more than just text.

Giphy has a SDK already made for React Native. Unfortunately, it has some “analytics” wrapped in. The API itself can be used without those analytics, but that comes at the cost of the almost certain tracking they do with just the searches and your IP.

As a result, this is what I came up with:

1. You submit a search for a GIF (think Discord’s GIF search
2. The request is sent to a Memmy server which then processes the request for you
3. You receive a response with both the direct URL to each of the GIF results as well as a proxy URL. All of the results are displayed to you through the proxy.
4. When you select a GIF, the direct link is added to your post or comment as an image embed.
5. In a future update, there are plans for Lemmy to offer built in proxying of images. Hopefully this will be available soon. However if it is not, for 30 minutes the GIF you added to the comment will continue to be proxied through Memmy so as not to create an immediate link to you creating the request for the image.

This is somewhat similar to the Signal implementation of Giphy some time ago. I’m focused on cleaning up some other issues right now, but I’d like to add this in sometime in the near future. Will keep you posted.

gkd, 6 months ago

The really weird part was this:

The amendment’s language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.

I mean I know that they love to mix things together, but this might be the first time I’ve seen abortion linked to pedophilia and supporting rapists.

gkd, 6 months ago

Absolutely one of my favorite games when I was a kid.

gkd, 6 months ago

Closest I have ever gotten is riding the first train at the top of the morning before almost anyone else is out and about.

gkd, 6 months ago

Wow, a whopping 100k from Shopify, that’s awesome!

gkd, 6 months ago

Don’t understand what these people think would be accomplished by sending the stuff in the mail like that. Touching it isn’t going to do anything. Inhaling I supposed, but it would be rather difficult to accidentally inhale it especially after being packed during mailing.

gkd, 6 months ago

Oh for sure. I’m just glad they keep doing this harmless shit. But, the scary thing is that the more they escalate and see it doesn’t work, the more they will keep escalating.

High praise to all the people working the elections these days ❤️

gkd, 6 months ago

Funny, I’m on the shitter after some tacos right now. This one was a false alarm I think though. Will be back in an hour or so.

gkd, 6 months ago

Instead of a random asshole from /r/conservative, it’s a random asshole from hexbear.net.

gkd, 6 months ago

Ah, now it’s really feeling like Reddit.

gkd, 6 months ago

Is putting a ! infront of a markdown link not standard for an image? That’s why it’s doing it.

Lemmy does use some different markdown formats than I have usually seen, so maybe it’s not a standard just the common thing.

Edit: oh you meant the other way around. Anyway, weird that Reddit used that for links.

gkd, 6 months ago

Ah, another “He Gets Us” moment.

“Jesus was homeless for a time (supposedly), so it’s fine for them to be homeless!” ☺️

gkd, 6 months ago

With how much those things cost, I wouldn’t be surprised if some horseshoe crab blood was mixed in to really make the color pop.

gkd, 6 months ago

I will work on it over the weekend. Thanks.

gkd, 6 months ago

I am a single person working on this right now. I am totally fine with you using whichever app you need to use, and I understand that if it wasn’t working for you that you’re going to switch. I have my own life commitments as well that I have to make, and managing issues through email, GitHub, and Lemmy is not feasible in the slightest.

That said, these issues are fixed now. If you want to update and use it, that’s great. If you prefer voyager that is fine too.

gkd, 6 months ago

Should be fine now. (Assuming that you’re on TestFlight. Waiting for Apple for the App Store.

gkd, 6 months ago

Serious thanks for all of your hard work, as well as everyone else working on Lemmy through software of running instances.

Memmy is ready 👍