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2016-11-18T11:51:53Z via Choqok To: Public
Somewhat depressing but interesting fact about "users" https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
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I'm waiting for the follow-up study… what percentage of computer users have any ability to learn anything new?
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Debian switching to GUIX
2016-11-17T11:00:44Z via Dianara CC: Followers , Public
How realistic would that actually be? I mean there is no law that dicates .deb has to stay forever. Just pondering what it would actually take to do such a switch.
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@mray Were you referring to the Debian project switching to use Guix packaging?
Charles ☕ Stanhope at 2016-11-17T17:17:12Z
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@Charles ☕ Stanhope Oh that's interesting.
But that would be a huge move... it feels hard to believe that it would happen.
@Christopher Allan Webber I agree. That does seem a bit like moving a mountain. So much infrastructure (social, technical, and knowledge) built around a packaging formats. But your own efforts demonstrate that there could be a way forward if a distribution was motivated.
I was referring to moving the project over. I know it sounds grotesque, but it opens the question of: Is Debain bound to grow old and die with this one package manager - or will it renew that part of its OS some day eventually? If so - what would it take, what would it be?
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Pumpa crashes - always
2016-11-06T01:06:04Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Don't know why or how. It just started crashing on me every time I try to post. Even removing chache files and configuration files didn't change a thing. :/
Dianara seems to work \o/
Unless it's a new bug that I don't know about, it should be fixed now in the release I made yesterday: https://pump.saz.im/sazius/note/7Dri4WFlR9evFmtZBKlIfg.
If that's not the case please give me some more info to help debug it, for example using debug mode: http://pumpa.branchable.com/debug_mode/.
The crash that was fixes was related to a new version in libtidy, which was incompatible with Pumpa.
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2016-10-12T23:22:39Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
trying to click on the "Login" button in pump.io's web interface seems broken for me right now.
Why use the web interface at all? - because Pumpa can't seem to post stuff after follwing a persons thread.
pump.io feels unready :'(
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Ah, I would browse the "new followee"'s timeline.
I'm unsure if Pumpa has such a feature...
I could not find any such feature. nor an obvious hint that it is missing for now. a certain feature parity among clients would be really nice. or at least a good overview, like xmpp clients support certain XEPs - or not.
Well, the only thing I can tell you is Dianara supports it.
You could also like the post you want from the web interface, and then find that post in your Favorites timeline in Pumpa, or any other client of your choice, and proceed to comment from there.
that is a nice hack. but it also requires me to first use another client :P
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Matrix?
2016-10-07T19:04:12Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
It is beyond me what matrix is trying to achieve. Even after reading their "FAQ".
#KCD #standards
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Their rationale visavi XMPP is here:
https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html#what-is-the-difference-between-matrix-and-xmpp
HTTP-nativeness, identity model, richer mandatory minimum protocol and a model around message history as state, rather than live message passing.
Sounds like a lot of NIH, but given the results they've had, it seems to make sense. I'm happy that people are trying things, and as they've got this far in less than two years, they seem pretty capable.
I read about that rationale there but some things speak for themselves.
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They don't explain the difference, they just ramble about shortcomings of XMPP -WTF!
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they point out that XMPP vs. matrix seems to bring out the worst in people.... irony?
I wonder if matrix has to offer anything comparable to OMEMO/Signal encryption.
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2016-10-07T07:01:52Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I really enjoy Italo Vignolis talk about Storytelling in FLOSS. Had a good laugh at his encounter with "one paramount idiot" XD
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2016-09-25T09:07:56Z via Choqok To: Public
The recent unavailability of identi.ca made me have a look at gnusocial. My experience of setting up a client "Choqok" to post anything there failed:Show all 9 replies
Choqok throws this at me:
"Creating the new post failed. The file or folder gnusocial.de does not exist."
in the settings it still refers to gnusocial.de as status.net server, not "gnusocial". I have no idea what might be the problem.
I'm using Chokoq version 1.5
to see replies i have to click a non-obvious button in the right bottom corner that does not even hint IF there are comments at all.
>> mray:
“to see replies i have to click a non-obvious button in the right bottom corner that does not even hint IF there are comments at all.”
Well, Choqok is a microblogging client, so its structure is designed for that, where every post is equally important.
They're about to release 1.6, which might improve things, but they'd probably welcome your feedback.
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2016-09-24T19:36:09Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
was identi.ca down for some time now?
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apparently yes
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Inkscape!
2016-09-20T22:22:55Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
If I don't get a new release soon... I... I want my MONEY BACK!1!!
...please?
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2016-09-18T22:02:47Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Are reproducible builds in any way integral part of snappy, flatpak or guix? Looks like that might be a basic requirement in the long run of maintaining your software.
It appears to be an important consideration for guix: https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8407
cool. do you know if flatpak/snappy feature this, too?
@mray Reproducible builds are huge in Guix. One nice feature of Guix is that you can keep reproducing building something that was built even a period of time ago, as things were at that time.
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HTML-only; dr
2016-09-17T08:28:49Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
I almost instantly close any HTML-only page that thinks CSS is "Eye-Candy" and forces 250 character long lines on my eyes – with a line height of "1". And that is on a browser that has the tabs on the sides! I feel a bit bad about being so ignorant. A tiny tiny bit.
People, it isn't 1996 any more!!!
I sympathize. It can be a readability problem. I'll either quickly use inspector to at least set some max width and auto margins, or I'll hit the "reader view" in Firefox. That works pretty well for most places that I run into that aren't using CSS. Didn't the browsers used to support a "user" style sheet or some such, or otherwise let us establish default CSS?
It's too bad that CSS is yet another language tacked on top of HTML. People go to the trouble of learning HTML only to find out there is another level of detail they are asked to worry about. It took me a long time to add CSS to my own site.
I've also started to use Stylish to take care of the sites that I regularly visit that have styling that bothers me in some way.
>> Charles ☕ Stanhope:
“[...] Didn't the browsers used to support a "user" style sheet or some such, or otherwise let us establish default CSS? [...]”
Konqueror supports that.
Firefox has a native option (View > Page Style > No Style) to ignore styling and render the page in a very basic way. That helps sometimes.
JanKusanagi at 2016-09-17T20:04:36Z
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ActivityPub?
2016-09-05T20:34:46Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Is ActivityPub to pump.io what pump.io is to GNUsocial?
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Think Penguin Design
2016-09-04T11:20:35Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Looking at the general design of think penguin makes me wonder if they make money after all.
I think it is a great shop that hopefully grows.
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Things can be fast and look good. There are also "big" websites that look terrible. It is not about modernism but professionalism.
(I wonder if this comment displays as nested in any client)
>> mray:
“Things can be fast and look good.”
I don't think that website looks bad. I dislike the white everywhere, but that's 99,99% of the WWW, so...
What do you mean by storefront?
It seems they benefit from having a very technical interested audience.
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2016-09-01T21:38:13Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
OMEMO looks like a great benefit to the XMPP world, fueled by Signal. Unfortunately I could not get the plugin of the only desktop client (gajim) that would support it running.
Last time I tried the plugin I got it running, but in actual use I had problems. Anyway, OMEMO sounds like a good idea, I hope it takes off.
Thanks for the update! I think I'll wait for a longer time to start my third attempt then.
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2016-08-28T18:42:47Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
Where would be a good start to look for used smartphones that run decently on cyanogenmod?
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I bought a used Samsung GT-i9300 (Galaxy S3) on rebuy.de (Site selling refurbished/inspected electronics).
Cyanogen 13 (snapshot) runs flawlessly on it.
@[email protected] I landed on a Samsung Galaxy S5. It's not so old that it's off the market, but old enough that it's a less expensive refurbished option at stores around Toronto, and popular enough that there are lots of places to find it.
The S5 is a really nice phone. The camera is awesome, better than my actual camera (Panasonic Lumix, so it's not a crap camera), which I never use any more, and the CPU+RAM performance beats my newer but cheaper Moto G2 by a wide margin.
Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2016-08-28T20:57:39Z
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Pump.io :'(
2016-08-07T22:15:50Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
If this graph has any meaning it isn't a good one. The W3C might be up to something, but they only standardize stuff so proper clients/servers will eventually be there in about 15 years from now.
Makes me sad.
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You definitively make me curious.
Still, if you zoom in on the later part you can see that commits have started to appear again. The community is taking up pump.io development... slowly, but unsurely... :-)
sazius at 2016-08-08T10:24:18Z
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@sazius Yes, I feel optimistic there!
Christopher Allan Webber at 2016-08-08T11:00:18Z
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I was going to make the same point that @sazius did. Activity is slowly picking up, and now it isn't just one person that is active, so I believe the project looks healthier now than it has since shortly after Identi.ca switched.
[email protected] at 2016-08-10T00:34:29Z
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Speaking of fonts
2016-07-29T11:09:11Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
True italics seem to be out of fashion. Most new fonts come in many styles that turn out to only differ in weight.
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2016-07-29T11:05:21Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
An rss feed that informs about new fonts on google webfonts would be so fontastic...
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2016-07-24T23:56:26Z via Pumpa To: Public CC: Followers
First I thought it's kind of cute how websites ask me to disable my adblocker. Then I was convinced it was pure stupidity. Now I regard it as an insult.
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