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The web-UI uses WebSocket to get notifications, which provides fairly low latency (at the cost of having to have a WebSocket eternally open). I'm not sure which (if any) of the Lemmy clients make use of it other than the web-UI, though.

Typing in my computer password is pretty much just muscle memory at this point than consciously remembering the password (yes, I should probably be rotating the password). Part of me thinks that some usecases of passwords or pins could be replaced with "pass-gestures," like pattern unlock on phones.

LyX. It is amazing for writing equation-heavy documents.

The Mastodon account has a bit more info, though it doesn't go into the details.

As of now, more than 80% of our top 5,000 communities (by DAU) are open

I'm a bit paranoid that this could be a technical truth because the communities still closed have dropped in DAU.

Edit: Checked the blackout tracker, of the ones listed 205 are still closed or restricted, so it's probably an accurate claim, though it seems about half of the participating subreddits are still closed.

I currently use Fedora Silverblue, mainly because of the easy rollback, and because it makes package management easier. I like having a default base to add and remove from (and being able to easily rebase onto a different spin). That said, regular Fedora and Mint are both solid distros.

Shoot and build, capture intel.

As a fellow mostly-lurker, this is also how I felt about downvotes. For me I think it was also because of the concept of having a karma score for the account as a whole, rather only on individual comments.

It has the same plugin system, but they pull from Open VSX rather than Microsoft's extension marketplace. If there's an extension not available there, you can still download it from Microsoft's marketplace and then add it manually.

Oops. Hopefully it helps others though!

That's actually pretty good for a beginner.

Some tips (take with a grain of salt since some are just personal preference):

Make collatz take a number, and parse the number outside the loop, which also avoids needing to repeat the conversion to int. It also means that you can remove the try-catch from inside collatz, since the only place a ValueError is expected is the conversion to int.

def collatz(number):
    ...

number = None # Declare number to give it the correct scope
while True:
    try:
        number = int(input('Type in a positive integer: '))
        break
    except ValueError:
        print("Input could not be parsed")

print(collatz(number))

Avoid commenting what your code does, and instead focus on getting across the intent, like how you commented that int(number) % 2 == 0 is a check for even numbers. It is fine to leave out comments for pieces of code that are truly self explanatory.

The elif condition can be replaced with just else, since it will only be run if the if condition is false.

Format with Black, it makes things look nicer without having to deal with manual formatting.