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Cyno

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  • Spez (Reddit CEO) just put out an announcement talking about how they'll verify bots vs humans. Get ready for a wave of new users into the Fediverse pretty soon!

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  • That's a bit too naive. Propaganda, marketing for products, fake reviews, referral links (or just links to promote blogs/new sites) all make money indirectly. There absolutely is money to make in any popular social network and due to its architecture fediverse is potentially even more susceptible to it. Without a plan to address it, it is only a matter of time before it becomes an issue (unless it stays a niche small community forever but I am skeptical even those are free from bots and malicious actors)

  • I'm making a FOSS all-in-one file converter app - looking for opinions!

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  • the least deranged product owner ^

  • Just use cURL

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  • nah im good lol

    bruno seems decent

  • A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User

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  • oh damn i had no idea, thanks! "help" is not where i expected to find it lol

  • A GIMP Guide, but from a Photoshop User

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  • I really wish gimp had a command palette, kinda like the Ctrl+Shift+P thing in VSCode. As a beginner in gimp I often know approximately what I want to do, but not how to find that thing and just being able to type "crop", "scale", "add layer" and have it happen would be much easier than having to look for it through various menus.

  • What Git clients do you use?

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  • I still don't think it's nearly as convenient as being able to just see the changes side by side and click the one you want (or both). You can even easily modify the final outcome in the 3rd preview panel, in case you need to do a quick fix after a conflict resolution.

  • Logseq - A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base

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  • I only used obsidian for a few weeks so i didnt get that used to it, but what you mean could be the mental switch from hierarchical file structure in obsidian to logseq's journaling/time based one? You're supposed to organize data with tags rather than remembering their location and structure in folders. I spend most time searching for tags, not specific files, and in that way it's functional enough for me, although I do not really understand the query syntax yet so I am unable to create more complex searches in this way. Tbh I'm hoping the sqllite switch lets me just write direct SQL

    For a specific example, instead of having folders like Software > Programming > csharp > my projects > projectx ... I will just have a page for the project that has tags #programming #csharp #myprojects etc. And then I can search for #myproject and see all relevant info for it, even sorted by the date when i added it which adds some nice historical context

  • Logseq - A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base

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  • I switched to Logseq from Obsidian since I preferred FOSS and it's been a good experience so far. They are working on a big update to switch to an sqlite db for storage which should help with performance (and I hope improve the search experience) so that's exciting too.

  • did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums?

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  • It's no reddit in terms of quantity but honesty I've had higher quality topics and discussions here than there. Lemmy/kbin might not have taken off in the mainstream to offer a variety of subjects but when it comes to tech and software I think it's covered well enough and people are generally nicer about it. The main problem is lack of (remotely) good seach function, I dont think the threads are getting indexed by google and the on-site search is atrocious.

    I don't know of any discord programming communities, I wish forums were still a thing but the only live one I know of is the jellyfin one after they moved from reddit. Other than that it's here or the various subreddits

  • Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?

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  • If I do all that then my feed is going to be even emptier than it is now

  • Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?

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  • Similar experience here. I have a nicely curated list of people I follow on twitter, they often retweet other users that are similar and I have a nice feed of good content that slowly grows without ever running into toxic assholes. On mastodon I couldn't get anywhere close to that no matter how much I tried.

  • Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?

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  • I have a mastodon account, I still check it occasionally and I've tried making it work a year ago, being active on it and following either people or hashtags. I also tried other networks like bsky and cara, or mastodon through kbin integration. None of them really worked out.

    I didn't have an issue with the technical side as much as with the community and its mentality. They all have this persecution complex where everyone is out to get them and destroy their way of living. They simultaneously claim it's better and more morally superior than twitter while also responding to any questions or feedback with "if you don't like it GTFO". Most of the posts I've seen on mastodon seemed masturbatory and/or talking about other social networks and why are they bad than why is mastodon actually good. In many ways it was more toxic and negative than my carefully curated twitter feed. There's also as much doom and gloom as on twitter, if not more, when it comes to politics (or at least, it's harder to hide it).

    The content in general was bad and boring but I don't know if this is because of the type of people that are on it or just because the lack of algorithm means I will see any random person's ramblings next to the biggest breaking news that I'm actually interested in. There is a lack of innovation in this area and it makes discoverability and content curation terrible, I don't need an algorithm to read my mind but at the very least I wish it could separate trash from actual popular topics.

    I found some interesting niches when it comes to FOSS developers and tech but I found next to no actual game devs, artists or content creators on it and even the usual "copy content from twitter" bots were unreliable and uncommon.

    TL;DR Mastodon seems very very niche and is not currently viable as a general replacement for other social networks, and IMHO due to the community culture there it's never going to grow into anything else either.

  • After seeing people use the UI to commit to git I understand where all those - sorry: shitty - commit messages come from....

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  • One more reason why Git-Fork is the GOAT - it does have separate subject and description fields. Don't lump all GUI tools in together and generalize

  • A real free alternative to Git Graph

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  • I was aware of some people trying to get it working on wine but last I checked it wasn't really going anywhere, there were some big blockers there, and I didn't know the developers were interested in it at all.

    Fork and VS are probably the top 2 pieces of software I'm missing to fully migrate to linux so I'd be very happy if they developed an official port that works as well as it does on win.

  • A real free alternative to Git Graph

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  • although they are experimenting with it)

    Do you have a source for this maybe? This is very exciting news but I don't wanna get my hopes up if it's not true

  • Confused about linux as always

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  • VScodium

    I tried this but it seems that VSCodium is missing many of the extensions that are available on VSCode, it has something to do with them using different extension registries?

    In any case thanks for the advice but they don't seem to be completely equal in terms of features

  • Julia Evans' Git cheat sheet

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  • How will manually retyping git pull or checkout 30+ times a day, or using the terminal log instead of a nice GUI with VSCode integration, teach me to solve other complicated issues? I just don't really see the benefit of struggling for most of the time for something that might or might not happen later

  • Julia Evans' Git cheat sheet

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  • When you need more advanced stuff then GUIs tend to become more of a sticking point I find

    What's stopping you just opening the terminal in those rare cases? For 99% of my daily needs I'm good with a good GUI

  • Confused about linux as always

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  • Ok, I'll just default to flathub for app search instead, thanks.

    Wish I wasn't already running into bugs with it though - I started installing vscode and logseq with flatpak, it opened them in Mint's Software Manager and there's a spinny thing now indicating work is being done, but when I click on it it just says "Currently working on the following packages" and then... nothing, blank screen. No idea if it's stuck or actually doing something in the background, but it's been a while (way longer than those would usually require to be installed).

    Not a good first impression for sure

  • Linux @programming.dev
    Cyno @programming.dev

    Is there a good, modern, widely accepted, learning Linux resource?

  • Ask Experienced Devs @programming.dev
    Cyno @programming.dev

    What's your favorite DB editor software?