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4 votes
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How Twitter needs to change | Jack Dorsey
11 votes -
Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones
9 votes -
Barack and Michelle Obama sign Spotify deal to produce exclusive podcasts
4 votes -
People of Tildes, what apps and programs do you use regularly on your PC?
I'm interested in what applications people use, maybe I can discover some better alternatives. Music: Spotify for streaming, Dopamine for local music. Cloud: OneDrive. As a student, I get 1 TB of...
I'm interested in what applications people use, maybe I can discover some better alternatives.
Music: Spotify for streaming, Dopamine for local music.
Cloud: OneDrive. As a student, I get 1 TB of space for free.
Email: Mailspring, though I'm eyeing eM Client as an alternative right now.
Text Processors: Mostly VS Code with LaTeX, but I do sometimes use good old MS Office.
Code: VS Code again, and also IntelliJ IDEA and CLion for the respective languages. VS Code for anything that isn't C or Java related. I'm also watching the development of Oni Vim 2.
PDF: On my laptop with a touch display, I use Drawboard. On my PC at home I use Nitro PDF.
Browser: Firefox, ever since the quantum update it's nice and snappy. Though maybe I'd switch to Vivaldi when they add Sync at some point.
48 votes -
Behind the scenes with the hacktivists who took on Microsoft and the FBI
4 votes -
2019 Macbook Pro review by Dave Lee
17 votes -
'It's time for us to watch them': App lets you spy on Alexa and the rest of your smart devices
11 votes -
Tech giants amass a lobbying army for an epic Washington battle
10 votes -
Survival of the richest. The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.
16 votes -
Twitterbots: Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign
7 votes -
Break up Big Tech
3 votes -
Apple WWDC 2019 livestream
18 votes -
Apple's big power play comes in a small privacy feature
14 votes -
Programming sucks
25 votes -
Apple's audacity, and what yesterday's WWDC announcements demonstrate about their future plans
12 votes -
US requiring social media information from visa applicants, permanent residents and naturalized citizens
15 votes -
Facebook shareholder revolt gets bloody: Powerless investors vote overwhelmingly to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman
12 votes -
The Google outage highlights the perils of a centralized internet
4 votes -
YouTuber in Barcelona receives fifteen-month prison sentence, 20,000 euro fine, and five-year ban from social media for toothpaste-filled Oreo prank
18 votes -
Online markdown editors that are capable of handling loads of text
I have discovered hackmd.io a few months ago and started digitalizing my massive mess of handwritten nodes together with all the terrible notepad/word mixed notes into one big personal "wiki" of...
I have discovered hackmd.io a few months ago and started digitalizing my massive mess of handwritten nodes together with all the terrible notepad/word mixed notes into one big personal "wiki" of knowledge. But I ran into a problem. HackMd can only handle ~50k characters before starting to lag and 100k characters is the limit per note, this doesn't even fit my one summary/tips note on one programming language. Do you know any alternatives? I really like markdown, since all of the notes look clean and organized, I can insert pictures and link to websites easily, but also love to work with them online, since I have to switch between 3 computers between university, home and my laptop.
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We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
10 votes -
YouTube now disallows minors from live-streaming unless accompanied by an adult
16 votes -
What little known mobile apps do you use?
What are some apps that you use that aren't particularly well known? Let's help each other discover some interesting new tools! lichess - best chess app out there IMO. Completely free and open...
What are some apps that you use that aren't particularly well known? Let's help each other discover some interesting new tools!
lichess - best chess app out there IMO. Completely free and open source, has daily puzzles, and a pretty active pool of users to play against!
Syncthing - file syncing tool that works with just about any operating system (although I don't think it works with iOS). I use it to take notes and write lyrics/my journal and sync them back to my linux laptop.
Untappd - social media app for tracking craft beers that you drink. I've only just started using it, since I was on holiday and wanted to keep a note of the ales I was drinking. It's a free app, but supported by ads. I believe there's a paid tier, but the free version works well enough, and it's useful for encouraging me and my friends to try new beers when we're out and about.
WK - Japanese flashcard app, which is technically a front-end for the wanikani service. As you learn new radicals, characters, and vocabulary, it serves them back up to you after a certain length of time. If you remember it, it'll wait longer next time, and if you don't get it right, it brings it back to the top of the pile.30 votes -
Bye-bye BBM: BlackBerry shuts down once-beloved messaging service
6 votes -
How to get started with DataOps
3 votes -
Unpopular content: Outsmarting the YouTube algorithm
6 votes -
Skywriting - The bizarre art form invented to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes could bounce back in the Instagram age, or it could die with the few people who know how to do it
5 votes -
Apple to reveal glimpses of its next era of apps and sevices at WWDC
7 votes -
Microsoft Windows Terminal YouTube video removed for copyright claim
12 votes -
Google Cloud Networking outage impacting Discord and many other services
12 votes -
Gab is throwing away their existing code and switching to a modified version of Mastodon
Posting this as a text post so that nobody has to go to Gab, but the source is here if you really want to. Full post copied below: An update on "New Gab" and what to expect: Progress on our new...
Posting this as a text post so that nobody has to go to Gab, but the source is here if you really want to. Full post copied below:
An update on "New Gab" and what to expect:
Progress on our new codebase is going well. For those who don't know, our plan is to fork existing open source software, Mastodon, which is based on the ActivityPub social networking protocol.
What does this mean in layman's terms?
- Gab will become an open source project, meaning developers from around the world can contribute the project and help us build.
- Gab will get several new features and PRO benefits, such as video uploading.
- You'll be able to log into and use dozens of existing mobile apps that exist on both App Stores with your Gab account and use Gab through these apps.
- We will be porting over all of your Gab posts, followers, etc to this new codebase.
- Gab will be getting a fresh paint job and be much more "user friendly." (See a mockup below, which isn't final.) Don't worry, it won't look anything like Mastodon (for those of you who know it is,) it will look like Gab.
What does the timeline look like for this going live?
At the moment we are working on building in Gab features that this open source social networking protocol does not currently have. Things like Gab Groups and editing. We are also finalizing a fresh redesign of the Gab interface. Once these two things are done, we will start porting over all existing Gab data. During this time we will invite Gabbers to beta test New Gab and give us feedback. Once Gabbers give us the go ahead we will finalize the transition and push it to Gab.com. All of these steps will occur over the next few weeks.
Why are you doing this?
- Moving Gab to open source brings transparency and additional help from developers in our community from around the world.
- Moving to the ActivityPub protocol as our base allows us to get into mobile App Stores without even having to submit and get approval of our own apps, whether Apple and Google like it or not.
- Ultimately we want to make Gab more user friendly, perform better, and be a product you all love. This will accomplish all of those things.
We are excited to share this with you and will have more information soon.
Thank you
This is a pretty interesting move by Gab. They had been kicked out of app stores, and like the post mentions, this will allow them to just piggyback on existing apps that work with Mastodon instead of needing their own. I saw at least one app dev say that they'd specifically block it from being used on Gab, but they probably won't all do that, and I'm sure they'll probably end up with some options.
People in the fediverse don't seem very happy about this overall, but it's probably also not a big deal. The main dev of Mastodon posted:
So Gab has decided that their own code that they spent $5M of investor money developing is so unsalvageably bad that they're going to use Mastodon's code instead, with the added bonus of leeching off of our apps (with Gab apps being banned from app stores)
This is an early warning to fellow admins to be vigilant and domain-block them on sight, when/if they appear (unconfirmed whether they intend to federate), and to app devs to consider if blocking Gab's domains from their app is necessary.
Remember that Gab is a sinking ship and they're basically grabbing onto Mastodon like a parasite in a desperate attempt to get attention from the "drama" of doing so.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gab-is-in-full-meltdown-and-founder-andrew-torba-blames-the-deep-state
Torba has no self-awareness to see how pathetic it looks that his master race ass is incompetent at making a working website so he has to resort to using software made by a Jew instead.
App devs will block their domains, server admins will block their domains, and that'll be the end of that.
35 votes -
The standalone YouTube Gaming app and standalone gaming.youtube.com website have shut down
17 votes -
Twitter has started researching whether white supremacists belong on Twitter
21 votes -
What is the size of your smartphone?
This thread might seem weird, but I am considering buying a new smartphone and I have my eyes on the Moto g7 power (for its awesome battery!). Sadly, it is 6.2"! My current phone is 4.7". I have...
This thread might seem weird, but I am considering buying a new smartphone and I have my eyes on the Moto g7 power (for its awesome battery!). Sadly, it is 6.2"! My current phone is 4.7". I have small hands, 6.2" seems way too big.
If anyone has a 6.2" phone, how do you feel about it? Does it even fit in your pants?
12 votes -
Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore': My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone
21 votes -
When a fatal grizzly mauling goes viral - How much does the world need to know about a deadly bear attack?
7 votes -
An analysis of the ruling declaring Qualcomm a monopolist, showing their nearly twenty-year history of overcharging smartphone makers for cellular chips
12 votes -
Antergos Linux Project Ends
25 votes -
How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell
8 votes -
In 2017, Hussein Kesvani started getting regular Twitter messages from an anonymous Islamophobic user. Eventually he responded, they started talking, and arranged to meet
7 votes -
The North Face and Leo Burnett Tailor Made manipulated Wikipedia for marketing purposes
22 votes -
Chrome Extension Manifest V3 could end uBlock Origin for Chrome
55 votes -
The Linux "copy problem"
7 votes -
The Federation Fallacy
18 votes -
The splinternet is growing
5 votes -
"Modern OS" - Always connected, cloud-connected
3 votes -
A Washington state lawmaker just quit to lobby for Amazon. Most states wouldn’t allow that.
6 votes -
Facebook’s dystopian definition of ‘fake’ - For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony
9 votes -
Adventures with a programmable mechanical ortholinear split ergonomic keyboard
9 votes