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@xarvos Note that this only works for open source software (by definition). Good luck with corporate software (Adobe, much MS, Apple, to name a few of the ones I frequently bump in to)

The practically unlimited post length of #qoto is really such a liberating thing. I wish other #mastodon instances would follow suit.

I use #spotify when I need to cast my music, either to my upstairs Roku or basement Chromecast. For personal playing from my phone (both podcasts and music) I despise Spotify's broken flagship app, and more generally dislike their server/socialized model. For now I am pleased with Simple Music Player https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.musicplayer/ . Simple has a good name and makes quality stuff, and this music player seems to check the crucial boxes.

SimpleMP https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.lighttigerxiv.simple.mp/ had issues with constantly rescanning my fairly large music collection, and also making it tough to find newly downloaded things (like my daily podcasts).

Mucke https://f-droid.org/en/packages/rocks.mucke/ oddly refused to access my Download folder (where said podcasts live) for "security reasons" that no one else seems to have. I quit it there.

I loved the style (that is, absolute lack of style -- no homescreen!) of #DialogMusicPlayer https://f-droid.org/en/packages/phone.vishnu.dialogmusicplayer/, but it couldn't seem to do playlists, which makes it no good for music playing where I would have to add each song individually, after it finishes playing the last one.

I just upgraded my #Firefox and it was a big one, apparently. I had something so that f4 closed tabs (since C-w is "copy" in #emacs). But what was it that let me change that key? Oh, look, my notes/blog kept track of that for me, from 2021! https://orys.us/v4

@ClickHouseCI I might have to try that. But I knew the file and WHERE in the file it was, but I didn't know what string was missing (at least, how much was missing)

I was found out that some key code got deleted from my day-to-day task setup. Thankfully I've been keeping that directory under version control and, with #emacs #magit, was able to find out when I accidentally deleted it and restore just that, keeping other changes to the file. This process was intuitive (= without referring to any documentation) with magit; I'm not sure how I would have done it with raw #git.

@quad @joelle

I never got up the gumption to figure out self hosting after reading this depressing piece... https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

@icedquinn should I be seeing icons when you do :ablob stuff?

A decade ago #Google had in their contract "do no #evil" and #Facebook was the badguy in terms of #OpenSource and #ethics. Today it seems exactly the opposite -- Google removed that line from their contract, and Facebook champions the open source. I still have no inclination to use either one, but fascinating turnaround.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. -Carl Sagan #dependencies #cider #clojure #quotes

@icedquinn You're an Irish ginger? I wonder if that explains a lot ...

#WebDesignFail I can't use the back button in my browser but have to hit their custom back button. Guaranteed I learned this the hard way and then had to search. Bad experience, Jimmy Johns

@nickanderson very cool! I've also started using the TS stamping method (though I haven't actually attached anything for a few days)

@mmisamore would the old "timestamp instead of boolean" capture your needs? So it says WHEN validated? Or is it not just a time-based validation? Also, you could probably change it to `:validated nil` rather than trying to delete it?

@simongray what a cool project! I have done some work with Wordnet (English), but that was in C++ I think. But I am very interested in its non-big-data uses for language work. I love seeing what you are working on in Clojure.

@daviwil That was good. I've been meaning to try denote, but my current note toking with orgmode files has been good for me for years

My favorite non-socialized music player for Android, https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.musicplayer/ #SimpleMusicPlayer, has no trouble at all playing my .opus (better than .mp3, though less known)! Victory for getting off of #SAS!

so weird. This morning at the office my #Firefox failed to connect to ANY site. #Chromium worked fine, as did email. All I can think is that I left an in-development web app open all night in a private window. Killed all instances and restarted and Firefox is good again. It's actually not the first time this has happened, where `pkill firefox` solves it. Weird.

@avandeursen Those HN discussions are excellent! Many of them point to the problem of comparing it to modern Twitter, which has some excuses for its code size. I would point out what may be outside many developers awareness: the fact that we are talking about it, and that there is also a case to be made in defense (whether that case prevails or not), means that the title is a success, in the "click-bait" sense. It leading to such great discussions is extremely valuable. I also love the comment that points out that re-investigating the common architecture is valuable.