Oliver Lowe
Rollerblading, programming, writing, documentaries, travel, motorbikes… That’s it!
Preferably email: o@olowe.co
Mastodon is written in Ruby. Nowhere near as big as Facebook or the ML field, but hey, it’s important to a couple of us at least :)
Really? AV1 & webp support, Quantum engine, process-per-tab, reader mode, HTTP/2 & HTTP/3 support, cross-site tracking protection…?
Browsers have a lot of features. Some convenient, some come and go. That’s ok.
Firefox is an ideological choice for some people so both cynicism and unconditional support is expected.
@xnx PieFed won’t have an app any time soon due to the way it’s implemented. It’s still awesome without a native app because it’s fast and doesn’t really need direct access to hardware to do its thing.
Tech detail: PieFed is a Python app using Flask and server-side rendered HTML templates. It is super fast as there’s no heavy Javascript framework being used. The maintainer has written about how PieFed is developed with poor internet connections in mind: https://piefed.social/post/6102
@mac Related: Why the SQLite team uses Fossil instead of Git https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
> more compact tab bar, saving space
Not sure if you’re aware, but there’s a hidden setting to make Firefox’s toolbars more compact:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround-firefox
Fax machines are still used in healthcare!
There is an overwhelming amount of healthcare admin where software could help.
Computers are designed for messaging, data manipulation, deduplication… stuff that people are drowning in because the existing software sucks or doesn’t exist.
Yet we see pie-in-the-sky “AI” (LLMs? who knows?) projects being funded.
(I worked as a manager at an Australian general practice. Assuming the US is similar? )
@czardestructo For the CPU Intel says 7.5W: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/81071/intel-celeron-processor-n2830-1m-cache-up-to-2-41-ghz.html
So all up I’m guessing under 10W. I don’t know how much other components affect the power usage, though. And I’m about 200km away from where it is installed! Hoping someone more expert in hardware could chime in here :)
I get where you’re coming from. But not everyone who falls for this stuff is “stupid”. Some are just vulnerable - maybe just temporarily - and once you’re in, it’s an awful slippery slope.
I don’t know how many are just vulnerable and how many are good Darwin award nominees.
@onlinepersona @fediverse Haha good question! They’re light on details (“we moved to Wordpress”)
and after testing it seems like it’s not even working :(
WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Here’s a wordpress blog that is available via activitypub: https://solarbird.net/blog
We can address it like so: @solarbird.net
We can’t see the posts on Lemmy (doesn’t support ad-hoc fetching of ActivityPub Notes)
but in a Mastodon web UI: https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/02/27/kosa-again-yes-again/
From the forum: “If I know IBM at all, behind the scenes it’ll end up being a bunch of junior programmers doing the work, after the AI branded tech fails. It’ll still be called Watson tho…” https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/ibm’s-generative-ai-tool-aims-to-refactor-ancient-cobol-code-for-its-mainframes.1495343/post-42133422