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Gregory

lmao. well yeah that's about right except the mechanical keyboard part, I bought one a while ago (not an IBM one tho) but I didn't like it so it's just collecting dust

Gregory

Twitter's AI bot is promoting Mastodon. Nice.

Gregory

Modern IT is hopelessly broken, episode I lost count which. How, exactly, could WhatsApp possibly be a valid search result for "file manager"? It seems to always show up in the first 20-30 results no matter what you search for, together with some other popular apps.

Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈

@grishka maybe it has file management somewhere in description? which is like- just clearing all the garbo cache that whatsapp can't stop downloading

Gregory

My favourite fediverse project isn't my own

It's Smithereen by @grishka

Grishka is building a federated Facebook/VK alternative, and also happens to be the official Mastodon android developer (guess who helped him land that job)

He is a very talented developer, and his project deserves way more attention!

github.com/grishka/Smithereen

#smithereen

Gregory

Modern software is just 🤌

(The window peeking on the left is actually interactive)

Hisham

@liaizon @Cochise

ooh, an old-school-Facebook clone! interesting

(side grumbling: some FOSS projects really don't spend a lot of time thinking about picking names that are easy to pronounce/understand for international audiences, right? Smithereen, SecureScuttleButt...)

Gregory

Fixed a bunch of concurrency issues in #Smithereen yesterday. Hopefully it won't deadlock any more. That was getting really annoying.

Gregory

The industry has really fucked up the terminology for high-dynamic-range images and videos. So you have "HDR where a picture is taken at a high dynamic range and then squeezed into the standard one with local tone mapping", which Google calls "HDR+" and Apple calls just "HDR", and then you have "HDR where a screen can go brighter than the brightest UI white", which Google calls "Ultra HDR" for sill pictures and "HDR10" for videos, and Apple calls "XDR" if I'm not mistaken. Not confusing at all.

Gregory

Don't enter your insecure password

Gregory

Is this one of those overhyped AI features?

Gregory

Okay *this* is the AI thing. I didn't even know I had this app before someone on Twitter told me

Gregory

What's this Thing Where People Sometimes Capitalize Every Word in a Sentence? What's the Point Doing This?

Gregory

#Threads doesn't like #Smithereen profiles for some reason 🤔
I'd expect it to show at least the name and the photo.

Gregory

It's been 0 days since I last hated the mess that is the web front-end.

Gregory

Making progress on #Smithereen:
- Added the "saved photos" system album and the corresponding button in the photo viewer to save images there
- Added the ability to attach album photos to anything that things can be attached to — posts, comments, DMs

#activitypub

Gregory

My progress trying to read the Foursquare database so far

Gregory

What the fuck. Why are all these huge libraries so addicted to all the shady crap like dynamic class loading. Just, like, use the classpath, maybe? It exists for a reason.

Gregory

There should not be horizontally scrolling blocks on desktop websites.

Andy Piper

@grishka I demand spiral scrolling only! All this vertical and horizontal crap makes me sad.

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