Pufferbo

Since I’ve moved out of the US and started using Line (the message service of choice in my country of residence) I have no idea why the US market continues to cope with SMS.

iMessage is confusing. I get constant random authorization requests on my iPad because it got un-synced. Messages never come through to my Mac either.

Line is nowhere near perfect, and the app does have ads, but it works, it’s fast, and encrypted. People even use it for calling. I’ve literally never gave my phone number to someone for communication. Not even my coworkers.

It’s so prominent that data only cellphone plans are actually usable-and cheap.

I’m not saying we should all use Line (I would prefer Matrix). What I’m saying is there are so many communication platforms out there that are way better than S/MMS.

The site does not work well on mobile. I had to turn my phone into landscape in order to focus the email field.

I hate the word “coder”. It’s such an undermining term. Saying that someone “codes” or is a “coder” is like calling a chief a “cooker”.

Besides using Codespaces for inspecting code, I’ve used it for running some applicants’ submissions a few months back.

One of the submissions was built in Java and didn’t use Docker (I guess the person had an aversion to it). I didn’t want to bother installing Java on my machine, so Codespaces seemed like a good idea. It took less time to get it working than it would’ve to find the download link on Oracle’s website.

I’ve also used it to write a few lines of code on my iPad, but this was far from ideal.

How did your friend convince your friend group to migrate over to Matrix? I’ve thought about setting up one but my group isn’t so much into the “do it yourself techies” or privacy conscious crowd.

I’m glad someone else feels this way. I absolutely hate those YouTube videos talking about the “4K 30min total render” bs. Show me a M-chip MacBook that doesn’t balk when running Docker, or chug when opening a fat codebase in WebStorm.

Sure the chips are fast when they run the stuff Apple designed for it, but they don’t seem any faster to me in my work. I will give them efficiency though. I love not having to carry the charge brick everywhere I go.

10 years is also nothing in game development. Games now can take up to 7 years from conception to release, and then there is post release content. Based on the “10 years”, that would mean like what, 1 game out of each series would be cross platform? And for Sony, they would need to start developing a competent competitor to Call of Duty immediately. Or Sony could just buy EA and create a Titanfall 3 since I guess it’s okay for big ass companies to buy one another now.

maybe we just shouldn’t let big ass companies by other big ass companies.

I feel the same way. I read one thread where someone was praising the app’s “refined” design. My first thought was, “What are they talking about. The UX is refined because there’s literally nothing here”. It’s just one feature, the MVP, posts/replies.

It would not surprise me if two weeks ago they were not planning on this release and t was only the recent drama that influenced them to release.

Fosstodon: https://fosstodon.org/about

They mainly focus around open source software. Admins are great, and the server is fast and reliable.

Dude, don’t kill my velocity. My `create-next-app` command just finished and I’m going to wrap up this side project by Sunday evening. I’ll be starting with the Frontend first. /s

This is how I feel as well. People always say that Mastodon will never replace Twitter because it’s either a) too hard to sign up for, b) no enough people on using it. However, since it’s federated, I feel the easier to find people and posts that are more akin to my interests on there. I just joined a midsized software dev focused instance and followed a few tags for my hobbies and my experience is great. It almost feels like Reddit in that way.

I want to try VSCodium so much but the fact they use self signed certs leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I know it’s probably a whole lot of nothing, but if I install it on my work computer and something happens because of it I would be in a massive pickle.

I’ll literally boot up my Mac to do something with preview even if I’m in the middle doing something on windows.

Just did this a few days ago when I needed to combine two PDFs into one.

I've been wanting to self-host a podcast service. This might be a really stupid question, but how do you download the podcasts to your server? I'm guessing it's like an RSS thing, but how do you the feeds?

Why not use something like ZeroTier? I’ve seen a lot of people talking about Tailscale; I’ve been using ZeroTier to connect to my local NextCloud and it works great.