Was it already with the same text/emoji combo?

Cause that particular tears of joy emoji only became standardized in Unicode 6.0, 2010. It was presumably around a bit before that but nobody except the Japanese really did a lot of emoji stuff much before that (iirc Google and Apple only started adding the first emoji to their keyboards 2007-08).

Either way would find it very interesting if somebody was already using the emoji way before that, or the text area of the picture went through multiple iterations.

isn’t the better solution not to accept PRs from unknown / untrusted sources

I think that’s partly the point of this exercise - if they find a meow they now know this is an untrusted source.

Because it’s pretty easy to say ‘ignore untrusted sources’ but when you’re maintaining an open source repo (especially if it’s still pretty small/new) this detection is part of the cognitive burden. Almost every contribution will technically be from an unknown source for a long time, until, if you’re lucky, some drive-by contributors turn regular.

I think that’s the perfect choice of distinguishing phrases.

KDE is very customizable (perhaps too much for more casual users) while Gnome is hackable with the extension system - but it will always feel a little more tacked on, be a little less stable, prone to upgrade breakage, etc.

As a corollary to OPs argument, there’s also a reason Niri and Cosmos didn’t stay Gnome extensions.

(But at the end of the day, if the Gnome experience niche works for you, more power to you.)

I can’t argue the current usage as I’m not terminally online enough anymore to have that knowledge but the original online usage of red-pill and ‘redpilling’ somebody was absolutely intrinsically connected to far-right and incel online spaces.

When you say it “developed across the whole internet, not just within incel communities” this is evidentially wrong. Early use was based around 4chan and manosphere/MRA ‘gender-truths’ and then increasingly co-opted by the alt-right pipeline to invoke a rejection of what they saw as the liberal status quo. Redpilling in its early use was basically slowly radicalising somebody to extreme alt-right viewpoints.

It’s one of the phenomena of linguistic appropriation (matrix redpill & trans-identity notions -> right-wing appropriation, gender standards and conservative values -> wide-spread normalization also outside strictly political contexts) by the right that words like woke, privileged also went through.

You’ll have to point me even closer because none of the comments I have seen on that post state what happened is different than what I described above?

I can see a comment stating the switch is justified in their eyes, but it doesn’t negate that it is a bait-and-switch model.

Can you explain?

As far as I can see OP took the original article headline verbatim; the article itself does describe the exact kind of bait-and-switch model as I’ve heard it used: company offers open standard edition, after a while switches it to basic / ‘core’ offering which locks e.g. Linux access behind a (steep) paywall.

SearX really works best if you run your own node, not using one of the public ones. I run one on a tiny vps and it’s never blocked by any of the engines.

Caveat: you do give up some of the privacy advantages by being the only user. Thus, I invited my friends and family to also use it and it still works perfectly well. (ofc maybe just none of them actually use it and they’re just being polite about it)

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While the above is a little more focused on front-end/web projects I think one thing to keep in mind generally is also to meet the user where they are, or rather where they expect. E.g. if you create a tool/plugin for vim, users will be thankful for having a vimdoc for reference. If you create a command line tool, a man page will be helpful for quick lookups.

I know that many projects today (especially when first getting set up) focus on a presentable readme but in many cases there are tools to automatically adapt this markdown text to the generally preferred documentation style and location.

Don’t have to focus on perfection first but just having a pipeline set up which can then be iterated on over time.

For a more advanced approach I think you can get a lot out of understanding the principles of the Diataxis framework - but this is also larger up-front effort.

Thanks, that’s good info and makes a lot of sense.

Which certificates were they generally after instead?

Hold on, I’m a little confused. Are you talking about paperless the document management software (and it’s ng/ngx forks) or a different software with the same name?

Because you can set up mail inbox processing in that software but I’m not sure how that connects to forwarding to multiple different mailboxes, or vice versa profit from merging multiple forwards.

I’m not so sure.

The right wing would be instantly defederated from the rest while the left wing builds three identical versions that all say they wanna go forward while pulling the plane in different directions.

Everybody hates the huge central fuselage but can’t disconnect from it without falling from the sky.

Most of the discussion focuses on snide comments between the slightly different wing designs while all the critical tail components are held together by 3 single selfhosting admins. Then one of them goes on holiday and the tail fin just disappears.

Thats’s Amore

That’s brilliant news!

I know this is still just very basic federation with mutual following of users, etc. - but having a working mvp implementation of this makes me really hopeful for the stepwise introduction of more and more federation goals to come to fruition.

Absolutely love it! I think this might be my new favourite of yours.

Just throwing another alternative out there which I’ve been very happy with: lissen - ‘Clean audiobookshelf player’.

Has streaming/downloading for offline listening, sleep timer, custom bookmarks and custom speeds. Just the browsing functionality is at best ‘functional’ (nice search but if you don’t know what to listen to next just gives you one long list sorted by title)

Very cool, hope it’s gonna be a nice movie night! Enjoy the headache that is trying to unravel absolutely anything in Primer ;)

I read the farseer trilogy last year and… man it’s a tough read. Not because of the writing - I was blown away by the prose, it is incredibly evocative - but just because they’re so relentlessly harsh.

Still taking some time off before any further Hobb books for that reason alone.

aerc is a very nice, a little less fiddly modern alternative for me nowadays