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@frumble@chaos.social @schratze That's a common belief (about the bandwidth), but it's not really true, it depends entirely on how the website is built. On a technical level there's often barely a difference between the two.

The native UI toolkit availability is a legitimate issue, but many of these apps don't seem to use those in the 'native' apps either.. :/

(I do wish that browsers would reliably expose platform-native UI styling)

"we must force Meta to be accountable" has real "we must push Biden to the left" energy

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non-google/apple smartphone OSes are doomed because people categorically need those apps and the companies will only ever make them for the last three versions of android with an active google account

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Like, I *was* one of the people trying to get IRC into a more modern shape, and I eventually gave up due to the constant hostile responses, I'm not just saying things here

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"We don't need XMPP or Matrix, IRC works fine now" is an especially frustrating claim because that new development of IRC features seems to be a direct consequence of XMPP and especially Matrix threatening to eat IRC's lunch (ie. would not have happened without them), and for the longest time IRC proponents would refuse to accept any sort of complaints about IRC having become unusably outdated

Respect yourselves. Stop letting people tell you that the reason kids sleep twelve hours and can't remember breakfast is from missing a few months of school years ago, and not from sitting in rooms full of filthy air, cycling a degenerative plague back and forth for years after.

"immunity debt"
"desocialized"

You should be livid that you were ever expected to believe such bald-faced bullshit. You should be livid for the life they stole from all of us, and especially, from your very sick kids.

@lilian "But we want to give users quick feedback if they enter stuff into the wrong field!"

Check for an @ character existing, done

the touch bar on the macbook pro is so useless. i have no idea what to do with it. i put my dock there and now i have a worse dock. cool ? is this good

@schrottkatze I bet that's a wrongly abbreviated display of some flatpacked app for reading documents, or something

The mainstream media have been bleating more frequently of late about how the Millennials and Generation Z are uniquely enamored with getting filthy rich and the trappings of wealth, but I just don't see it.

Most of the people I know from these generations, and I myself, have super modest ambitions.

Daydreaming about hitting the jackpot is, for most of us, less about luxury cars and huge mansions - and more about finally being able to escape precariousness, to know that we can live in our little house and know that the meat grinder's tendrils can't touch us in quite the same way any longer.

To support ourselves - and to be in a position to provide genuine, lasting support to the people we care about.

@thunfisch@chaos.social The site does unfortunately include ads (in the form of non-signposted affiliate links)

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hm, so there's a topic I'm interested in reading existing research on, but I don't know exactly what to search for.

Specifically, I'm looking for examples of or research about visual programming languages where the for making gui programs, where the language is also the program's own UI. The only example that comes to mind for me right now is the one in Nintendo's Labo games.

Fascinatedly observing how the 'subtitles' setting in many games is moving out of the Accessibility settings and into the Audio or General settings

@bert_hubert "Open-source" klopt hier niet echt, helaas - het achterliggende model dat daadwerkelijk het werk doet is het Whisper-model van OpenAI dat (voorzover ik heb kunnen vinden althans) niet open-source is en alleen verkrijgbaar als pretrained model, dus een binary blob.

Fascinated by this paper by Yudhoatmojo, Blackburn, & De Cristofaro looking at how reddit/4chan discuss pre-prints.

After studying how pre-prints are used to justify misinfo, they suggest an alert system to notify scientists about pre-prints that are getting attention they can be rapidly peer reviewed.

This is one of the deepest concerns I have about pre-prints, and I'm intrigued by the hope that peer review can be organized so quickly.

cc @petersuber @ct_bergstrom
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