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Gave it a serious go but it still lives inside the Windows + Visual Studio bubble.

Trying to use .NET on Linux with Visual Studio Code is pain: .NET developers expect you to learn APIs through intellisense and don't publish API docs, Windows tutorials assume you're running Visual Studio, and a lot of MS's own API docs are bewildering with .NET jargon that you won't understand.

I use it on https://mudlet.org and it's amazing. No Linux users are ever issues with them - it's an effectively solved distribution problem.

The one drawback is that you need to use an ancient compiler, but for our purposes that ancient compiler supports C++17 so that is okay for the time being.

It already exists. Modern clients like Mudlet (https://mudlet.org/) support both old (MSP) and modern audio protocols: https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Standards:MUD_Client_Media_Protoco...

There's games like StickMUD that make use of this, too.

If you'd like to dig further, online text games (MUDs) are still around. https://mudlet.org is a nice modern client for playing them!

(bias: I'm the project lead)

Already switched to Signal/Telegram with a preference for the former, and pinged my friends with the same.

European resident here - ended up deleting WhatsApp and asking contacts to switch to Signal/Telegram. Quite a few people were happy to make the move and some were happy for the push.

Hm, so you run Qt Widgets on Android as it is?

What did you do with it? A Qt Widgets maintainer here looking to hit the mobile as well.

Open source is discriminated against, not the other way around.

One can always dream to bring the genre back.

MUDs are still thriving to this day. I work on Mudlet (https://mudlet.org) which is a popular FOSS client to play them with.

How bad is this for the environment?

Agreed. We've embedded it inside Mudlet (https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet) for a decade and people have started their careers in programming thanks to wanting to code for their favourite text game.

I definitely concur. We've been making an open-source MUD client for a decade, all for free, on our time. We have to pay $99USD for the privilege of giving it away for free to macOS users. It's ridiculous.

We get no value in return for that $99USD - absolutely zero.

I don't think so - just the default. The light version of https://themes.matomo.org/DarkTheme#preview.

I found the Matomo interface to be a breath of fresh air compared to Google Analytics! As a non-power user, GA was too heavy and enterprise-like. Matomo is much cleaner, simpler, and more efficient for me to work with.

I'm not sure if it's actually filtered - I think they're just tracked and classified. At least that's what I'm seeing in my instance.

You could then automate tasks in your program with a scriptable telnet client (https://github.com/mudlet/mudlet)

(disclosure, I'm on the dev team)

It's not 6k a year, there's a cheaper plan now: https://www.qt.io/en-us/qt-for-small-business

Smart cars are electric. See car2go cars in Amsterdam https://www.car2go.com/NL/en/amsterdam/

This is great! Thanks a lot.

What telnet text are they using? The only hyperlinking in telnet I know of is MXP, http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/mxp.htm.

This is excellent. Thanks, bookmarked!

Handy to combine with peek (https://github.com/phw/peek) which does a good job of recording gifs.

For a telnet client, https://mudlet.org is something FOSS and crossplatform you can run (disclaimer - involved with project)

It's quite sad to see such an attitude in these difficult times.

And an open-source client you can play it with: https://mudlet.org

Or anyone using Windows software through Wine/Crossover - since Crossover only announced support for Catalina yesterday.

A technologically-literate population is a great thing and should be encouraged. We all, too often, complain how others are technologically illiterate.

This looks like a very impressive evolution in font tech. Props!

Ever asked designers of those high quality products if they would have loved data analytics on their products?

I bet they'd say they would have.