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Downvotes rewarded with hugs.

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Oh, the single, shared built-in search function in mastodon, pixelfed, misskey, lemmy, friendica, peertube, diaspora, castopod, writefreely, &c?

Please, the fediverse is more than [platform you’re currently using].

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

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Plain banking apps for smartphones. Having those developed in the open would hopefully make it possible to have forks that work on rooted devices without hiding magisk and whatnot.

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“A bit better than the official Mastodon app” isn’t high praise, though. Kudos to Eugen and all other devs for the work on the Mastodon server but their mobile app is absolute shite.

"I will never surrender!" The third 60th anniversary special script has a lovely, unfilmed coda for Wilfred Mott (leminal.space)

A short while back the BBC added a batch of new/never before seen scripts to their Doctor Who database, including the 60th specials. Tucked away at the tail end of “The giggle” is an alternate ending scene featuring Wilfred Mott that the late Bernard Cribbins didn’t shoot before his demise:...

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The only man who gets away with saluting the Tenth Doctor. Wilf was all our grandad.

Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor is headed for Victorian London in an upcoming Paternoster Gang box set from Big Finish (leminal.space)

[Tom] Baker, who famously played the Time Lord from 1974 to 1981, will be reprising the role this April. His Doctor joins the Paternoster Gang as they fight intergalactic crime in the latest entry to the Trespassers series....

There really won't be any Beatles music in the Beatles episode (www.empireonline.com)

“I knew instantly you can never play Beatles songs on screen because the copyright is too expensive. So I’m thinking, ‘How would you do a Beatles episode without Beatles music?’ And that becomes the entire plot,” Davies explains. “That’s where the idea came from – copyright law!”

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OT: I swear, someday I’m going to find the sourpusses who’ll downvote anything, even a straight, sourced quotation — and I’m going to give them a long, individual hug, because clearly that’s what they really need.

ETA: I’m loving the passive hugaliciousness around this post and comment! Screw downvotes, they’re digital hugsies 🤗

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Oh, like online piracy. Got it! 🤣

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There’s another reason I don’t share “It’s FOSS” links anywhere: this should have been a github issue but it’s turned into a clickbaity headline. Every othe article coming out of “It’s FOSS” is either low effort, sensationalist, or both.

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Right, so engines not browsers/brands. That makes sense 🙂 I guess Edge, Trident or WebKit don’t really figure into that scale?

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LOL, fair point!

Chrome but crypto and homophobic CEO

😬 I’m just going to guess Brave?

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It’s only a duopoly?! I’m genuinely curious who you see as the top two and what other bloated browsers don’t make your list.

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Duh, you’re right. I refuse to use it so I’m not exactly up to date…

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You could check out HTML5UP for some simple, well designed site templates. For your needs, maybe something like the Astral template will do?

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“Sovereignty”, that big white whale of the dysfunctional far right?

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You say that with such certainty, as if proof of stake schemes won’t simply be a greenwashing alibi for accelerating validation of currencies using them, to the point of the same carbon footprint as POW.

You’re simply wrong to say that POS is without environmental impact, even Ethereum’s carbon reductions were only that (and not nearly as high as they claimed).

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I mean, that quote is truer for any regular currency than it is for shitcoin. The only unique thing about cryptocurrency (and especially POW ones) is that it’s flushing the environment down the drain even quicker than bog standard hypercapitalism. And still you can’t use your fucking monopoly money to buy a bottled water.

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BECOME BITCOIN BECOME LIGHTNING

LOL, not in a million years. Dumping this like the cryptocurrency infected garbage it is.

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True. Tipi, Umbrel and CasaOS are savvy enough to do this. But do you really want to teach more cryptobros to slip their message under the threshold? I’m fine that they show their true goals front and centre, it’s like a note saying “hit me” taped to their backs.

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It’s been a buzzword among the ultra-libertarian, anti-government, tinfoil hat wearing set for decades.

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The title literally says “Sovereign computing”. Are you okay? I do recommend reading from the top down, for more information please re-read.

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Okay, sorry for the sarcasm. I think there is a certain overlap in the language used around general privacy principles and the more… out there, political anti-society movements.

Sometimes it’s innocent and random but when I see somebody putting cryptocurrency up front in their project and using “sovereign computing” as a tagline, my internal crackpot detector goes nuts. I’m fairly sure that deep down these people would want to see the world burn to stay warm toward the end.

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I enjoyed large parts of Disco so far, and pretty much agree with you. The show feels like a decent Brian Fuller setup that was corrupted during the production of season 1, and continued to take course correction notes for each new season.

[They] EXTREMELY underestimated technological advancement across NEARLY 1000 YEARS. Everything basically looks the same.

Let me one-up you here: it looked like a step back. Not only in terms of in-universe development, but also just… uninventive production design. Trek gave us sliding automatic doors, flip phones and touchscreen tablet computers before they existed in the real world. Its conceptualisation of 32nd century tech and design on the other hand is swiped from actual 21c industry pipe dreams.

If this sounds very negative, I’ll add that I’ve really enjoyed the highs of Discovery, and there have been a good few throughout the show. I like that they’ve leaned into the emotional and therapeutic work that would go into an accepting, peaceful society — even on a daily workplace and social basis.

And hell yeah, will I binge rewatch all seasons as a warmup to the final outing!

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