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Kierunkowy74

@Kierunkowy74@kbin.social

Today's social media transform us into merely numbers.
No problem for me.

Alts: @Kierunkowy74 (kbin.earth) @Kierunkowy74 (PieFed)
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Deceptichum,
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Damn Kbins so backlogged we’re just getting news posts for 1962?

RE: Is Ernest still here?

I check in here quite often, but for now, I'm just focusing on clearing spam and keeping the instance alive. In January, I was working on the AP module, and there has been significant progress in the work, which hasn't been publicly published yet. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the year, I developed a skin condition that...

Rayspekt,

The Fediverse gives a whole new meaning to "The Importance of Being Ernest".

Low salaries and pensions more important for Russians than the invasion on Ukraine (klubjagiellonski.pl)

Opposition to the 2nd wave of mass mobilization in Russia has increased from 60% in December 2022 to approximately three-quarters. While historical narratives may resonate, the majority of Russians are now more concerned about their quality of life and economic stability.

slappy,

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    RTR#52 Busy month

    This month, I managed to wrap up many overdue matters. It seems to me that I responded to the majority of lingering emails, and a few issues turned out to be so important that they took a few extra days. I also dealt with [a certain aspect related to the project, about which I'll be able to share more in a few weeks....

    troyunrau,
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    Old man yells at cloud.

    I was involved in KDE during the 1.x to 2.0 transition period. Hell, it’s when I got my commit rights. We had a mailing list called the KDE-HIG list – human interface guidelines, to borrow from Apple’s terminology. The SNR was terrible – there were a bunch of people with great ideas (myself included), but very few of them were coding. So the list would endlessly debate things like consistent button orders in dialog boxes, but couldn’t agree (most of the time), and since most of them weren’t coding, they’d just continue to recycle the debate.

    The coders, between KDE 1.x (which was very much a Win95 knockoff at the time, even poking fun at themselves and Microsoft in the process), consciously decided to allow KDE to evolve organically. Konsole got transparent backgrounds but the text editor did not, based on whatever people thought was cool. And it was cool! Hell, there were development forks where the branches had names like “make_it_kool”. KDE was almost entirely volunteer run, unlike Gnome which had Redhat sponsored devs and such, so the lack of direction led to meritocracy, darwinism, and a great and welcoming sense of community. Alas, UI consistency suffered :)

    Tangents: two specific jokes at Microsoft’s expense.

    In Win95, there was a slogan “Where do you want to go today?” that flew in on the taskbar and pointed at the Start Menu. When KDE 1.0 was out, it did the same thing, except it said “Where do you want to go tomorrow?” Haha, one-upmanship! It was dumb.

    The first popular web browser was call Navigator (Netscape). Microsoft riffed on this with Internet Explorer. In KDE 2.0, the file manager/browser combo app was called Konqueror. It was like the progression of a 4X strategy game or something.

    Minor irony. Konqueror created its own HTML rendering engine, KHTML. Which was forked by Apple to create WebKit for Safari. Which was forked by Google to create Chrome. Which is now the underlying engine in the modern Internet Explorer. Check your user agent string – maybe KDE did konquer after all…

    RTR#51 End of a short break

    Last week, I dealt with formalities related to the project and a few personal matters associated with the new year. Unfortunately, there was quite a lot to handle. Today is the last day I'm dealing with this, and I'm returning to the code for the regular devlogs. I'll also take care of current matters on the instance. On Tuesday...

    pvonhellermannn, to random
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    Does anyone have any advice here on how to make your Mastodon less eurocentric? I do regular searches, follow people from outside Europe/US whenever I come across them, etc, but it’s quite slow, hard work. I was wondering whether there is a more strategic way - ie is there a list of instances that are not Europe/US based, and from which I could follow one person each or something? Not interested in changing my own instance, just to get more global connections.

    Just starting out, deciding how to do filtration

    Hey guys, I'm just starting to acquire gear to start my first reef tank. I've got a 40B aquarium and am trying to decide whether to splurge for a sump and the hassle/risk of a HOB overflow (not drilling holes because Aqueon is known to be using tempered glass for more than just bottom panes lately) or if I should just get a...

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