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@Dio9sys I think one thing that's tough is that the Linux desktop is actually mostly GNOME or KDE apps fighting for dominance and assuming they're in their preferred env, and then a bunch of apps struggling to be in between them or also trying to work for MacOS/Windows.

Maybe with Wayland becoming more of a thing there's space for a new thing which has a minimal UI to customize which will use native GTK/QT when it detects the right desktop?

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the linux ecosystem is probably the worst example of whete this fails. I have like 6 totally different app styles to deal with at any given momebt because of all the toolkits and the fact that flatpack makes it even more annoying to get the app to just use your preferred kde/gnome/etc theme 😭

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I get this limits what apps can do and giving access to raw graphics is important, but it being the default makes it more of a pain for both making apps (especially cross platform) and trying to have a consistant experience as a user. Let alone the accessibility issues when apps decide they should reinvent rendering without thinking about screen readers or high contrast themes or magnification etc.

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Hot take: The OS should provide declarative GUI APIs for the type of data an application wants to render instead of giving it graphics access and relying on a billion GUI toolkits with incompatible styles. Way easier for sandboxing too.

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@fleeky Ha! That'd be better use of my time than tiktok :P

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My friends haven't been playing me back in polytopia as much lately so I've been doomscrolling more kften again. 💀

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I am Jack's Lost 404

Here's a crazy idea:

What if we invested all the money being burned on garbage "AI" into public education instead...

You know... Training actual neural networks...

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I kinda want to spend the 1.5 ish K on a more beefy GPD WIN 4, but also if I stop using vscode and go back to nano, and build a more lightweight matrix client, I just won't need all that much RAM anymore. The amount of utility I get vs the resource usage is pretty skewed

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Ramsey Nasser

it was building on my research into non-english programming languages and Arabic programming languages in particular. The idea was to try and build a programming language that was not anchored to any particular writing system.

The observation I made was that this becomes impossible because of how names work in programming. to use a library someone else wrote you have to use the exact names that they exported for their functions etc. so you are forced into linguistic parity with them.

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We Distribute
Distributed Press ( @distributed ) is drafting a new FEP for #ActivityPub for "Peer-to-peer Identities". The general gist is that objects (such as Actors and content) can link to alternate versions of themselves, which can be hosted elsewhere, such as #IPFS. If the server goes down, data can be served from there instead.

You can read the draft proposal here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/commit/3efef8bffd9581a116135be4953ccb2ebdf4f482/fep/1024/fep-1042.md
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@kon Sadly it's for a closed source project :(

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Just co-created a `curl | bash` style install script for macos/linux with a local phi3:instruct LLM. AMA

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It's kinda funny how node.js still doesn't have first class suppport for ESM everywhere. Most tooling has migrated to it years ago and yet stuff like the new "single executable applications" feature still defaults to commonjs.

nodejs.org/api/single-executab

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Pretty neat how in our society only the poor arw obligated to pay off debts. The rich get to be good for it indefinitely.

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@lispi314 @left_adjoint I put a lot of constraint on the hardware I use and generally don't think of getting stuff until yhere's been others that have tinkered with it on linux already 😅

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@Filene @left_adjoint it's a major pain in the ass at first but I'd suggest someone play with a friendly linux that does everything for you for a bit, then dive down to a tty-only install and slowly build up a wayland desktop with like sway or niri. Having a second device for searching up how the fuck to do wifi from a TUI is handy for the first while

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@left_adjoint smartphones are TV for the eyes. I've been building up my personal OS setup from the terminal and it's so nice go be able to know everything going on on it and being able to cut out the BS. Personal computing on the go is possible but such a time sink

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lynn / clarissa

The constant disappointment of devices like smartphones, for me, is that having a permanently-internet-connected computer full of sensors that I keep on me at all times should be a thing that I can treat as an assistive tool that is integrated into my sense of self, constantly taking in information, processing that in workflows I've created, and sharing that with me

in other words, it should be a programmable extension of the perception of the body

and the entire ecosystem around smart phones is very meant for Not That

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@kon I use IRC regularly via my matrix bridge. There's some funky folks out there. I'm not sure which servers are popular these days.

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Mayve if the wev gets overrun with shit and becomes unusable the average persob will get off aocial media and get back to physical networks and the weirdos can have their space since it becomes too unprofitable for corpos to spend as much time here. It sucks we'll miss out on some of the social benefits but the current state is automated rage bait hell which isn't great for society IMO

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