@mozilla I beg you... Please bring back PWA support. I use this all the time and using Firefox means I have to rely on a Chromium based browser in addition for my PWA apps.
I would love to go Firefox all the time. But without PWA support it will never happen.
Looks like the Windows version of JQ doesn't work well in the Cygwin environment, it just acts as if it does but it doesn't. One needs to install Cygwin version of the JQ.
After hearing from some smaller sites that had their Google referrals drop by upwards of 95% over the past year, I was curious if anything had changed for me.
The answer…shockingly boring…nothing has changed 😅
@tom_streeter@MikeElgan Landfills aside, I think Mike is hitting on something. Meta's AI glasses are the only worthy contenders for mass appeal from all of these tries. In fact, I think Apple should've aimed for something like this instead of bulky big VR goggles.
Some think Apple's VR will gradually get smaller and lighter, but they will lose in that game if they build something bulky and miniaturize it. Apple will lose because Meta's Ray Ban just gets better while retaining the right form.
@talosman If you get that popup, you are logged in with a Google account. I too don't like that my Google account appears randomly in sites, I've been looking for a way to sequester Google identity to just Google domains.
With Firefox it's somewhat doable with the multi-container (allows to use different sets of cookies for different domains), but it's a bit annoying at times to use.
Dear internet nerds who use environment variables and Docker more than I do:
have you come across any linting tool explicitly for .env files, to catch the gotchas that await when you them across different platforms?
I learned the hard way last week how Docker takes a dim view of connection strings wrapped in quotes for example, when trying to dockerize and debug a django project, and I’d really like future me to avoid that footgun again in future if possible.
Former CEO of Twitter wanted to build a social protocol no-one can control, like SMTP or HTTP for social media. Bluesky’s ATProto was supposed to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually utilize, but then Musk happened and Bluesky started taking it to the wrong direction and everything fell apart in Dorsey’s mind.
A very revealing interview. I now see even more future in W3C’s ActivityPub.
@rolle heavy emphasis on "Dorsey's mind", everything indicates he didn't even study Bluesky's protocol. The differences to Nostr he trumpets aren't significant.
I still prefer services where I know where my browser is connected, like Mastodon.
If you've tried Nostr, many of those web clients connect to tens of servers, some really dodgy sounding. You are basically spraying your IP everywhere, and your IP might be receiving highly unwanted content...
So #Bluesky is implementing an (unspecified) new protocol for direct messages. Because AtProto is really not suitable for anything that isn't 100% public.
I wonder whether they can do this now that Jack is off the board. But maintaining two separate protocols in the same app? Who knows, maybe #ActivityPub is next?
@J12t I don't think Jack had a lot of weight on their decisions. The reason they didn't do DMs from the get-go is the same as why they were late when it mattered. They didn't have a product, and they are still building it.
@mgs This is why ActivityPub would be great, if Threads really embraced it.
There is high likelihood you will get your account back, because you are in the know. But for regular whom this happens there is no chance. It's much more likely that if I get a problem with the account I can contact @leo via Discord etc. rather than say someone at Meta.
After 17 years of stagnation with Twitter, the new tweet-alikes continue the no new features tradition. When will one of them break out and try something new?