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@captainepoch @DjBRINE1
Everyone should have an alt, or multiple. It really solves a lot of problems!

For so many people (including me once), it never even occurs to them. It's really a mindset change that needs to happen. People are used to mindlessly filling out their (Facebook/Twitter/etc) profiles, and they become attached to this singular electronic entity, this single digital representation of them. It's a whole personality onto its own.

Multiple accounts should be commonplace. They allow you to produce different feeds with different personalities and registers of tone and content for different people, just like you would in the real world. It also exposes you to different subcultures around the network, just like how you'd explore the real world. You are complex person. I think the natural accident of federation results in this naturally better .

There are many more good reasons, like network resiliency, proliferation of ActivityPub implementations, etc.

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Simple software manifesto
"Are we simple yet?"
arewesimpleyet.org/

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( edition) is very nice and works well. Installed it a few days ago on an old machine.

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Adolph
Duck Chess - https://duckchess.com/

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Chess involving a rubber duck aka chess for programmers!
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#FairMail just got discontinued.

As announced by the developer himself, he stopped maintaining all of his apps. All of the repositories are archived and apps were pulled from the Play Store.

Appeal response: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1087#post-86909811

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1087#post-86909853

This is a big problem with the Play Store, and one of the reasons I don't like it: you never know when your app is going to be literally yeeted the fuck out of there.

Many good apps were pulled from there, with no support nor any regarding for the life of the people that earn money with this model.

Apple is no different, it just doesn't publish your app directly if you don't comply with its guidelines.

I don't know if Marcel will ever read this, but I'm really sorry that you had to end this. I used FairMail in the past and it was a great app, very well crafted. Thank you for your work!

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On a side note, read also this: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/closed-app-5-0-fairemail-fully-featured-open-source-privacy-oriented-email-app.3824168/page-1087#post-86909365

That is the balance of the experience of the person behind FairMail.

To be honest, people should really appreciate more programmers that spend their (free) time working on software that respects privacy and freedoom other apps do not.

https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/PRIVACY.md

See if the Gmail app does the same. It does not.

I really hope he recovers from this at some point of his life, because this might be a very depressing situation.
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This thunderstorm in is the perfect imbridus ambiance .

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How to install a Vim plugin from a git repository
torresjrjr.com/archive/2022-05

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@captainepoch
Did you know todo.sr.ht also supports git trailers?

man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/#referenci

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@captainepoch
> ...Matrix is a mess...

Totally agree.

I think codeberg would just fracture the whole thing. Its probably best you're sticking to SourceHut resources and media bins (catbox.moe).

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But I'm not convinced that PGP is so wonky just because it is trying to do something hard. PGP, remember, is 30 years old, and dramatically under-resourced. When Snowden used PGP to contact journalists with his disclosures, the tool he used had a single, half-time volunteer maintainer:

businessinsider.com/the-worlds

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@captainepoch
He returns! 🎺 I'm glad you we're able gain a new perspective and attitude towards Husky dev. Welcome back.

Also, about certain bug reporters having trouble sending multimedia via plaintext email, what are you thoughts on opening a dedicated Matrix channel? Maybe with a "multimedia only" rule, to not fracture discussion.

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Adolph
Maintaining my first project: part V, the return

https://adol.pw/2022/05/14/maintaining-first-project-part-v-return/
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@metalune@fosstodon.org
Thanks for sharing. I might try it out, but I usually have YouTube already open in some way or another for things besides music.

I also use tilderadio.org a lot.

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@yyp
The way you've described it, I've had pretty much the same vision for a while. "sourcehut-like", minimal, modular, etc.

I prototyped my server in Go. Nothing much yet.

We should definitely collaborate.

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@yyp
Same, for a long time. What's your vision for it?

Dare to write it in ?

Would you write a full JSON-LD implementation for completeness?

json-ld.org/

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@metalune@fosstodon.org
This would be amazing.

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@metalune@fosstodon.org
Looks great :)
And thanks for making simple-web.org

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@metalune@fosstodon.org
I'd also say that with the heading and spacing between sections, you really only need a slight contrast if any to help visually define sections, even if by itself this colour contrast wouldn't be enough.

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@metalune@fosstodon.org
No yeah, I understand :) Accessibility is most important. And let me clarify that I consider my choice of colours both aesthetic and accessible, unless a guideline would suggest otherwise.

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@metalune@fosstodon.org
Alright. I asked because I didn't want to presume. Perhaps I should have asked, are you in a dark room right now? But either way.

I find the contrast suitable personally.

Generally, darker shades need less contrast than lighter shades, since brightness is quadratic.

If there are guidelines, perhaps that's a better thing to follow. Though I still hold my opinions :)

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