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Given that Android is much more popular, maybe I should make more apps for that
That bit where i try to edit photos on Linux desktop
Is there any good platform/software for a group (7), to have an online live conference, with a larger audience (20ish) to be able to ask questions. e.g. where the audience can suggest & vote on questions?
(we already have the video conference system, it's the Q&A bit that's missing)
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When right wingers belittle and scapegoat people on Birdsite: “marketplace of ideas”
When they're criticized for their overt racism or transphobia: “cancel culture”
Maybe I'll give neovim another look
Skyfield is nice #Python library for calculating positions of #planets & #stars
https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/
#astronomy
Writing programmes to generate my own charts and table for stars and planets
I have recently been on an #astronomy bent.
I should improve my #vim set up to get better tab completion. I've just use the built in Ctrl-P/N since forever, but that's dumb & only looks at current files.
What's the better way?
I've heard it compared to dogs. Where dogs can only “hear” the tone, and not what you actually say (cause, d'uh they're dogs and don't understand human language).
I wonder if there's a term for that
Many corporate-ish #CodeOfConducts, or official broadcasting rules. seem to be like this. Where you can say nearly anything against marginalized people, so long as you say it in a nice, civil calm, tone, and if a marginalized person says “fuck that” then they are the problem.
Is there an opposite term to “tone-deaf”? Where someone only cares about tone, and never substance of what is said/done?
OK, I'm trying #kitty, the terminal emulator ( https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ ). And it's pretty nice so far.
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@polychrome On top of this I think Google's undermining of RSS _did_ harm RSS as a technical standard also, because it drastically reduced the fucks that publishers had to give about their feeds. Many don't have what might otherwise be an essential feed by now. Many others have bad feeds with just links and article headers. Many have malformed or broken feeds: I used to subscribe one where all had the same date, which confused readers a lot.
Google might not have killed RSS, but.
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@polychrome When people say "Google Killed RSS" I always understood that to mean:
"Google used their powers of bulletproof antitrust to float a free product that kelped kill a vibrant and growing industry of RSS based services and applications, leaving only themselves and the (generally not mainstream) FLOSS community, then killed their own RSS reader just in time for social media to replace RSS in the public consciousness, relegating RSS to nerds and discussions about RSS"
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Our CEO just referred to SaaS as "Software as a hostage" and I think that's pretty spot on.
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Google didn't kill RSS.
They killed a popular *web client* for RSS.
The protocol is very much alive and quietly supported by many sources.
If anything the one action that really did bring harm to #RSS is Google's refusal to add RSS button support to Chrome by default and Mozilla removing it from Firefox.
Then again, I would like to try the kitty terminal...
You just know Canonical would force their snap thing on everyone...
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