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  • Email app recos

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  • I use Fastmail with a custom domain for hosting, and FairEmail as my Android app and Thunderbird as my desktop client. Pretty happy with that setup, the apps don't do any data mining and are fully open source

  • ) (Whew!)

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  • Thanks (It was bothering me

  • What are some aspects of UI/UX seen in modern websites that really grind your gears?

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  • The linked site has a bit more about it, but usually you see toggle switches like that with relatively "balanced" options. "On" / "Off" are about the same width when rendered as text. It's easy then to just make the switch big enough for the bigger option and everything's good. What happens if you have "On" and "Some really long text option that should probably be shorter"? The image shows what it looks like toggled to "On", and then goes over two solutions, neither of which are great options:

    • Use the smallest size and cut off the larger text. Not really a viable option
    • Use the longest size, but when the shorter option is toggled to, you're left with a bunch of blank space

  • What are some aspects of UI/UX seen in modern websites that really grind your gears?

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  • Related, pagination can still get broken if you try hard enough. Some sites have pagination, but bump up the id of old posts every time there's a new post, so it's still useless because the links will change content

  • What are some aspects of UI/UX seen in modern websites that really grind your gears?

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  • There's actually a proposal for various new HTML elements, including a switch:

    https://open-ui.org/components/switch.explainer/

    It's a little bit harder than you think, because people will definitely do things like this, and they have to account for that sort of behavior:

    It is nice to see that they're working on it, where "they" means part of the W3C (so not just random nobodies):

    The purpose of the Open UI, a W3C Community Group, is to allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI components and controls, such as

    <select>

    dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons, and date/color pickers.

    To do that, we’ll need to fully specify the component parts, states, and behaviors of the built-in controls, as well as necessary accessibility requirements, and provide test suites to ensure compatibility. We’ll also implement polyfills for our extensible web UI controls.

    Today, component frameworks and design systems reinvent common web UI controls to give designers full control over their appearance and behavior. We hope to make it unnecessary to reinvent built-in UI controls, but for those who choose to do so, we expect that these design systems will benefit from Open UI’s specifications and test suites.

    Long term, we hope that Open UI will establish a standard process for developing high-quality UI controls suitable for addition to the web platform.

  • What exactly is the Fediverse?

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  • It's federated, just not to the ActivityPub universe, right? People have been able to join rooms on discuss.online using their matrix.org accounts, which to me counts as federated.

  • What exactly is the Fediverse?

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  • It seems like you'd say that Matrix isn't included? It's not ActivityPub/AT/nostr

  • A song. Take away the tune and the lyrics. What's left, the part that really matters, is a pattern of vibes. What do you call that "pattern of vibes"?

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  • In the courts, it's been referred to as the "feel" and "sound":

    Gaye's family accused the song's authors of copying the "feel" and "sound" of "Got to Give It Up"

  • Nginx Error

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  • Recommend a new portable music player with NO wireless functionality at all (Bluetooth or WiFi or any other wireless technology)

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  • I don't know exactly what you're avoiding wireless for, but it has no ability to transmit, only receive FM if that matters. You could fairly easily disconnect/break the antenna and permanently disable even that.

  • Recommend a new portable music player with NO wireless functionality at all (Bluetooth or WiFi or any other wireless technology)

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  • The closest you're going to find is probably the SanDisk Sansa Clip+. It can receive FM, but IIRC no wireless other than that. I don't think it's made new any more but you should be able to find it for less than £100 online.

  • Mutual aid spam is becoming a problem on the Fediverse.

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  • I don't think mutual aid can work well like that on the internet. Works great in person, works OK for GoFundMe-type stuff like "I had something happen to me that will take a lot of money to fix". Too easy to scam and grift for small stuff like this though, where for all you know they're just a very clever dog on the internet.

  • Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?

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  • Even non-profits aren't immune to hostile takeovers. OpenAI is a for-profit company controlled by a non-profit, and that hasn't stopped them from turning into something indistinguishable from a regular for-profit company. They've also been making noise about abandoning the fig leaf of the non-profit.

    Mozilla is another one where nominally they're a for-profit controlled by a non-profit, but they're now getting into shoving ads in your face just like any other company.

    It is harder to turn bad when you're a non-profit but not impossible, without something of a poison pill that makes it unacceptable to for-profit takeovers.

  • Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?

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  • I think supporter badges would be a good monetization model for each instance. ActivityPub could allow for an arbitrary "badge" field (to my knowledge it doesn't currently have anything like this but I also haven't read the spec), and each server could fill it in however it likes. Other servers/users could limit displaying them if they get abused, à la pig poop balls on hexbear (or whatever it's moved on to being called now).

  • What's your favorite art medium?

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  • I really like sculptures. I generally don't care for staring at paintings, but if it's 3D then I'm in. Really liked a Matisse exhibit I saw a while back

  • Why should someone join the Fediverse?

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  • Because you're sick of being toyed with by billionaire's algorithms designed to wring everything last drop out of you they can.

  • Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog

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  • Is there a way to leave comments from Lemmy?

  • What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat?

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  • Yeah sorry, by "you" I really meant "one". If someone doesn't like it, they can block the instance

  • What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat?

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  • If you don't like it, block the instance. That's the magic of the fediverse 🪄