For the longest time people wondered: how do bees fly and don’t bump into each other? There are so many of them!

To find out, people used high speed cameras, and then they were shocked by the fact that bees actually do bump into each other.

Isn’t it ridiculous that we just take our assumptions on something we have no idea about as facts?

DimStar sounds familiar… But I can’t remember where I could hear about him.

Yeah, I just downloaded a few communities from AUR, they run really well under Plasma 6.

Have you never tried to download a community?

I use Quassel hosted on my server.

I wish I could switch to Inkscape, but it’s not there yet.

It is really good lately and only getting better, but there are 2 major issues I have with Inkscape.

1. Tabs (as in, tabulation, the \t character) in text objects. You can find workarounds, like splitting your text into multiple objects and aligning them on your canvas, but it’s just not as good as being able to align your text using proper text alignment tools. Tabulation doesn’t work in Inkscape because it’s not in SVG spec, AFAIK.

2. Object styles. Again, there are workarounds, but they’re not as good. Can you create a text style called “numbering”, use it to number a lot of stuff in your document, then just change font family (or make it italic, or bold) all of the numbers at once by changing the “numbering” style? I don’t think it’s currently possible. Sure, inkscape is not a word processor. But can you make an object of style “banner” with a blue gradient fill, orange 2 px stroke and 50% transparency, use it multiple times, then when you need to change from blue gradient to red gradient just change the “banner” style? Again, there are ways to achieve this, but if you do this kind of stuff, inkscape is just not ready to replace your tools.

Don’t get me wrong, I really want to switch to FOSS all the way and wait for these things to get implemented. As soon as they’re there, I’ll be the first to make the switch. But it’s not now, unfortunately.

If I’m wrong, I’ll be happy to stand corrected.

Arch never broke for me.

Unless you seek trouble and do stuff without knowing what you are doing (like blindly copy pasting commands from internet into your terminal), it generally just works.

It’s not as good as those distros where all packages come preconfigured for you to work nicely together, so if you want to build a custom system (like, choose your DE/WM/panels/widgets etc), you have to configure all of that to intergate nicely. But you could always just install KDE and everything is pretty stable there, same as in any other KDE based distro.

Thanks!

This is not an aswer to your original question, but if you want to interact with youtube servers less, try OpenRSS. They have youtube feeds that are better than youtube feeds, at least they don’t track you.

I don’t know if they have a filter to show only videos (as in, not shorts), but it’s possible that they do, their feeds are pretty good IMHO.

Is it trying to solve any problem that is not solved by rsync/rclone?

Don’t get me wrong, I love new tools, just curious how is it different (better or worse) from rsync?

Same. Also, if all data is stored in plain text, you could be using git or anything else instead of syncthing, so it still would be good to have this as an option.

I do not have an answer to your question, but just saying that I was thinking about the same.

We should have some standard format for subscribed feeds (probably just a text file with URLs, newsboat has this) and for related data (read unread state for every article, maybe tags, started articles etc.), I believe this can be done in a text file (one or multiple) too, but AFAIK we don’t have this at the moment. If we had this, and RSS apps would support this format of keeping data, we would be able to use RSS on multiple devices seamlessly via just Syncthing, without using any server based solutions like tt-rss, freshrss, inoreader etc.

I’m not a developer myself, so the only thing I can do is hope some day devs of RSS apps implement this.

I wish all apps would keep their data in plain format in accessible locations, so that we wouldn’t need any «clouds» for stuff like bookmarks, to-do lists, notes, news etc.

True, Lemmy (and activitypub in general) could integrate RSS and also be accessible via NNTP.

Or at least add some functionality for offline reading/posting. It’s just not a priority for devs now.

About spam, most of spam was coming from Google groups and since Google unpeered from Usenet, there is no spam.

Probably it would be better to edit my comment, but I’ll go with a reply to myself.

To all fans of RSS: there’s this service called FeedBase that is essentially a RSS to NNTP gate. You add your RSS feed to that and it becomes a newsgroup on their server, and you can subscribe to it using any NNTP client. New articles appear as new posts in that newsgroup and you can post your own replies to them. So, you get RSS but with discussions or comments.

https://feedbase.org/

If you try this, let me know what RSS feeds you’re reading, so we could read the articles together and have some discussion there!

P.S. This comment is not an ad. I genuinely love feedbase and use that myself.

Others have said already, but XMPP and RSS. Also, nobody mentioned NNTP yet.

I wish everything was accessible by NNTP and we had better NNTP clients. NNTP is like RSS but for forums (so, Lemmy, Reddit, or anything where you could reply to posts). Download for offline reading, read in your client, define your own formatting, sorting, filtering, your client, your rules.

If Lemmy was accessible via NNTP, I could just download all posts and comments I’m interested in and reply to them without any connection, and my replies would get synced with the server later when I connect to WiFi or something.

Is there a link to this talk (or interview, or whatever this is) but in a video format, or at least a text without all those «SEE ALSO» self ads?

People that live in a place where 4 mbps speeds are a norm.

For future readers: if you want something like Rimworld, but with a fantasy setting instead of SciFi, there’s Dwarf Fortress. But yes, it can be confusing, so Rimworld is easier to get into, as it’s more user friendly.

I play dota 2, community can be toxic, but if you are not a snowflake or know how to use the mute button, its good.

I played this game way before dota 2, when it was a Warcraft 3 map, so I have been playing dota for about 18 years. Can confirm, it is addictive, and I believe it is one of the best competitive games out there.

Believe it or not, I had a similar question just today.

However, what I want is to add tasks to todo.txt and somehow see them in my calendar (as events or as a task list, my calendar app supports task lists as well as calendars). I was thinking of a way to turn my tasks from todo.txt to calendar events or something and I guess a script on a server (I have a server and use it to sync stuff like notes and files) could watch for changes, parse them and add servers to Google calendar.

Anyway, it’s a slightly different question, and I can’t answer your question.

Maybe there’s a python library to work with Google keep notes, and you too could sync your todo.txt with your server (using syncthing) and watch file for changes, parse them and send them to Google keep using some API. I’m not sure if it’s possible but you could try searching in that direction.

So I guess it’s something like pressing ctrl+c: most software doesn’t specifically handle this hotkey so in general it will interrupt a running process, but software can choose to handle it differently (like in vim ctrl+C does not interrupt it).

Thanks.

Fun fact: pressing X (close button) on a window does not make it that your app is closed, it just sends a signal that you wish to close it, your app can choose what to do with this signal.