lukecooperatus

FYI, bots and crawlers can simply ignore your robots.txt entirely. This is probably common knowledge around these parts, but I've run into clients at work who thought it was a law or something.

I do like the idea of intentionally polluting the data robots will see, as suggested by this comment. There's no reliable way to block them without also blocking humans, so making the crawled data as useless as possible is a good option.

Just be careful not to also confuse screen readers with that tactic, so that accessibility is maintained for humans. It should be easy enough if you keep your aria attributes filled out appropriately, I imagine.

I don't understand; how would a potential mugger or murderer know ahead of time that you don't have a banking app installed on your phone?

And they say Apple fanboys are the most annoying

Honestly, they often still are more annoying, IMO. After all, it's not often that you see a Windows user being snobby about their OS, generally it's just used by default because of work or it came with their PC and they haven't bothered changing, or gaming.

Thankfully gaming on Linux is almost better than on Windows these days, it's exciting to see!

It's definitely not in your face. I've been using Windows 11 in some fashion ever since it was released, and I didn't even know there was a backup app. I just ran it now to look at it, and it's pretty tame. It syncs app installs from the Windows Store (which you don't even need to use ever) and some settings like accessibility. I've long since removed OneDrive, which is what it looks as if the backup app uses to sync folders, so it's disabled for me.

I'm not sure the backup app even does anything on it's own, really. It seems like it's just displaying some settings from other apps in a central location. 🤷‍♂️ This seems like a non story to me.

My worker cooperative helps authors self-publish, and we use as much open-source as possible to do that. We rely almost exclusively on a number of tools which are all better than proprietary counterparts for one reason or another (sometimes merely because they are free and allow us to keep costs minimal) but the main reason is most of our clients value unquestioned data ownership over anything else. We avoid corporate cloud services and self-host as much as possible, for example.

Having said that, IMO many of these are also better designed and better UI than comparable paid tools. Blender being the obvious best example, but WordPress is another one. I used to ignorantly shit on WP so much when I was working in the professional startup industry as a web developer. Since then, I've learned to my delight that it's awesome if you don't bog it down with a bunch of horrible plugins, and the latest versions with their block editor approach are so good for easy and quick theming.

Here's a list off the top of my head of our regularly used software. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, and many of these are going to be unsurprising:

• Linux (seems obvious, but definitely worth mentioning. We primarily use Ubuntu and Debian based images.)
• Blender (2D/3D graphics)
• GIMP (raster image editing)
• Inkscape (vector image editing)
• calibre (creating ebooks)
• InvoiceNinja (generating invoices, tracking hours, payments, expenses, general accounting)
• NextCloud (storage and collaboration on files, passwords, office editing)
• Gitlab (git repository tracking, deployment management)
• WordPress (client websites)
• Caddy (web server with dead-simple config and automatic https support)
• Zulip (chat, the threading style they use is so effective for organizing discussions about client work, it's miles beyond Slack or any other options we've all used in past corporate lives)

Similarily i don't want devices talking to me, i want them making intuitive noises and if they ever do have to speak to convey complex information i want it to be in a clearly artificial voice because otherwise it's creepy.

I would love to find some interesting voices of this type for my phone TTS. Everything is "natural" now, but what if I want a voice like SHODAN or something?

My (unscientific and possibly completely wrong) theory is that the long term pains can become relatively unnoticed background noise such that we don't realize that we are expending some amount of energy on mental mitigation for those pains. Especially if we also have a general lack of bodily awareness already, which is apparently common among us autistic individuals.

When we are closer to burnout though, all of those small expenditures are so much harder because we don't have as much energy overhead in those times, making every internal and external demand feel much more taxing.

I have now stopped donating because y'all can't get off this topic.

When I stopped my donation, there was "other" then a box to say why. I filled it in. It's just one donation that stopped, but who knows, there could be more.

You stopped supporting the server you use because some other people (on different servers) commented about another topic entirely? I don't understand the logic behind that. Are you under the impression that someone posting from lemmy.ca is secretly the maintainer of lemmy.world? What's the logical connection here for you?

Who knew there were so many Commodore 64 enthusiasts in this day and age...

Edit: holy shit, it really is about the Commodore 64, I was just kidding... thought for sure it was some new game using that abbreviation 😅

There's been a song stuck in my head for as long as I can remember (decades) that only comes out of the recesses of my brain when I'm alone, and I hum it over and over. Usually this is during driving or focusing on coding. Kinda frustrating that I don't even know if it's a real song or just something my brain is doing for fun. (It sounds a bit like the civil war song, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, I guess?) I'm too self-conscious to do it around other people.