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Arguably, the fix should be to “it” since anon is a utility account, not a user.

The fact that it’s Nintendo’s IP seems the key thing here.

So did Nintendo get Valve to do this, or is Valve just covering its back from the notoriously-litigious Nintendo?

Ah, ok, that makes more sense. That also solves any ordering problem if you, say, you’re running local and elsewhere commands and a sync means pressing up gives you an unexpected item.

Sync seems like it’s going to be more pain than its worth unless you have all your machines configured the same. I’m not even running the same distros between machines…

False dichotomy (or is your logical fallacy the slippery slope? Anyway…) Someone saying that what’s happening to Palestinians is wrong does not mean they’re saying they want all Israelis killed.

I was going to suggest War for the Overworld but at eight years old perhaps that doesn’t qualify.

I’d rather see the second option - having a JavaScript-free solution is definitely more resilient than trying to detect and whitelist every archive service. As long as it works for wget/curl then it works for almost everyone.

TL;DR: the code/servers could be changed to use SSR, but that’s more expensive to run.

Lemmy is written more as a web app than as a traditional webpage. This means that the website sends a partial page plus the code+resources needed to finish building the page and the browser builds (“renders”) the final page.

This has advantages in that the server can send less data over time, cache more of that data, and overall has to do less work, plus also makes the site feel more snappy for the user, because their browser only needs to download the data that’s changed (instead of a whole new page).

The disadvantage is that the browser needs to be more powerful, and older/simpler browsers (like IE6, some text-only browsers and some web spiders) won’t apply the extra work to finish the page off.

The normal solution is called “server-side rendering” (SSR) where the server renders the full page, sends that over, then also sends over the code+data needed to run things more dynamically (“hydrating” the static site into an app-like experience). This means the server has to do a lot of work, but is often the best of both worlds; search engines see the proper page (good for SEO) but users get to have a nice experience (once that longer initial load is complete, anyway).

And kills it.

This is a great read, I’ll definitely bookmark this for when someone says it won’t be problem.

I’m a massive fan of skeuomorphic design, and Windows 98 was just so intuitive and practical. Things you could drag looked like you could move them, that bumpy texture thing was used in places it wasn’t obvious already, and 3D made clickable things look like buttons.

I’m a software developer and power user, and Android surprised me by having a horizontally scrollable area with absolutely no indication other than the visible items didn’t include something I was expecting to find.

I’m trying it now - I like it but there are a few confusing choices, like how you can only have one widget visible at once.

How do you access the shortcuts that would normally be placed on the home screen? I have some webapps and e.g. OpenVPN shortcuts that I currently can’t see.

It was announced in July 2022 and also they bought Sesame which I use too 🤦

of course, I want to know how urgent this is - it’s stealing my data now, or they’ve only just bought it and perhaps just blocking updates is enough (until I find time to find a FOSS replacement)?

I missed that news 😞 Is there any sign that it’s spying on us yet?

I imagine the devs have stats on uninstalls - I wonder what they show.

Mine’s been running for a while too, and I keep finding ways that it’s useful.

I have my music collection there, ready to be streamed, I have Joplin syncing with it from various places, it’s hosting my Matrix account if I need access away from my normal devices, I have a few things using it to coordinate and plenty of other things backing up to it.

That was my first thought - if reddit doesn’t want that feature, we’ll take it!

Ecosia on my desktop (plus some experiments with Kagi), DuckDuckGo on my phone (although sometimes Google’s search widget for quick questions and conversions).

I think many people only know what it is because MS Word would (does?) suggest rewriting passive voice into active.