Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • One thing I find interesting and ironic is Friendica. In theory, it should be the best for anyone that wants to interact with as many different types of content (lemmy, mastodon, others), but, in my experience, it only really works for following mastodon and has iffy support for lemmy/piefed communities.

    Dunno if it was a instance specific problem for me, but communities wouldn’t show latest posts, would often fail to load the content and wouldn’t show my replies to posts - I checked the main posts with this account of mine and double checked that the friendica instance wasn’t blocked or defederated.





  • It affected everyone using the app, no matter the instance. For example, if me, a resident of programming.dev, tried to look for the mod_abuse or power_tripping communities of any instance, I would see no results. If you tried to connect as a user from any of the blacklisted instances, the app wouldn’t even work

    When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward. - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

    Regarding the frontend, seems it also worked “behind the scenes” on the browser, which is stated in the post I linked in that quote. Unfortunately, the github links are all 404 now.





  • Most solutions require engineering the building for little to no use of AC and relying on better ventilation.

    One example that can be applied to a house is a central shaft with a fan on the bottom, which will pull in air closer to the ground and blow it upwards - remember, cold air tends to stay down while hot air tends to go upwards. The house will need to have a small elevation, or the central shaft will need some ducts for the air to come in.

    There’s also the Persian Windcatchers, which they have used for centuries, towers that receive hot air from one side, bring it down to an underground channel and blow off cold air from another side.




  • The company’s reason is “brand protection”:

    We carefully reviewed the project you shared with us (https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors). While we appreciate the initiative, we found that this is primarily a Wacom-led project, and the potential impact for GAOMON would be quite limited. Even if we added support for our devices, the system would still show the device as a GAOMON model, but the overall setup would display Wacom branding. More importantly, participating would require sharing our device specifications directly with Wacom – which is not something we can consider.

    The last part of that reply is very wrong.

    The article also has a reply from Peter Hutterer, a “senior software engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of Linux’s core input device handling infrastructure since decades”, which is worth reading.