brie

joined 2 years ago
[–] brie 5 points 2 years ago

For me, I prefer typing for just plain text, however things involving diagrams and equations can be easier to write out, rather than futzing around scrolling and adjusting the layout.

Also, as a side note, I think 0.3 mechanical pencils are underrated for writing.

[–] brie 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What if they technically allow redistribution, but terminate access to recieving updates for doing so? So you can distribute a copy of version N, but if you do so you will not recieve version N+1, and therefore will not be able to get source code for version N+1. Not sure if this is how it is in their contract though.

[–] brie 3 points 2 years ago

Programming tools/IDEs seem especially egregious.

.android
.cargo
.choosenim
.conda
.emacs.d
.nimble
.npm
.rustup
[–] brie 6 points 2 years ago

On IBus, Ctrl+. can be used for typing emoji.

A neat feature of Firefox is that Alt V Z T makes zoom adjust text sizes without blowing everything else up in size.

[–] brie 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

JS is first-party only, but as a PSA, Lemmy does not proxy images, so for someone could use ![](https://example.com/tracker.png), and loading the comment will contact example.com.

[–] brie 2 points 2 years ago

The how-to specifies to use COPYING, so I prefer it for consistency.

[–] brie 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For manual placement I recommend putting it in COPYING since GitHub will still detect it. It's a peeve of mine that using the selector puts the GPL in LICENSE.

[–] brie 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A crude but simple way would be to save a HTML file with a textarea. Type in the text and pinch to zoom.

[–] brie 4 points 2 years ago

The removal of the WebSocket API is pretty understandable, that said, I did like how there was no need to refresh to check for changes. I wonder if it would have been better recieved if new posts were added to the top outside of the viewport instead of pushing everything down, or if it was restricted to updating existing posts only.

[–] brie 8 points 2 years ago

From the code, I think it is the number of users on the instance who have posted/commented at least once in the past month.

[–] brie 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Is this (article 11 on page 55) the approved text? It seems kind of vague on what constitutes "readily removable and replaceable."

[–] brie 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

According to the footer they're running MyBB so although it is more centralised, I wouldn't call it proprietary.

What advantages would Lemmy have over the traditional style of forum for their use case?

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