@gardiner_bryant may I suggest having a look at Kobo? It's often the same eInk platform as found on multiple devices, but (say unlike the Tolino sister brand at Rakuten) the Kobo branch of ebooks runs Linux Qt and has never ended up in a bootloop(*) into our experience (me, my parents, wife).

(*: unless not enough power left in battery to boot, in which case topping it up is trivial)

Of course!!!

@onepict
They have been trying that idea (with interactivity in mind) on Dynamicland for a long time now, here is a small demo of it applied to science.

https://youtu.be/-80VsIdAHZw?si=XO7eSetWnM2rwFX6

Size is what makes a network attractive to commercial exploitation. An open network like the Fediverse might not be commercially exploited by its infrastructure owners, but any participant can do so.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

Thank you @damon_ ! I agree we need a native app and I should put that back on the roadmap. Mostly, what is stopping me is the cost; things are tight right now. But I haven’t had much demand for a native app, so maybe others would want it as well, and it could help drive adoption. I know a lot of people use their mobile over PC.

@mjk Wow I didn't know that was you! :)

@cwebber There are a few of these in the wild – https://github.com/AonoZan/FieldForge looks like the most advanced – but I haven't done enough investigation to vouch for them.

libfive is also mostly in maintenance mode; I got tired of fighting C++ and wrote a successor kernel in Rust (https://docs.rs/fidget), although libfive still probably wins for meshing quality...

some good news: inko's transition to codeberg was marked as completed 🎉

https://github.com/inko-lang/inko/issues/1021
https://codeberg.org/inko-lang/inko/issues/1021#issuecomment-27665274

@aurynn

But Cybersecurity Awareness Month was _last_ month!

@alisynthesis
Thank you.

@liaizon like why do they even want to drive people to sign up? i guess they can donation spam you more if they have your email?

Gotta be honest.. I really love this Jensen dumpster fire 🔥 It drags down so much crap with it, yum yum!

Calling all chatmail, Delta Chat and webxdc hackers and communities! FOSDEM happens in Brussels end January 2027, and together with our friends from XMPP and Matrix we are co-organizing a "Decentralized Messaging Devroom". There also will be a stand and stickers, and then starting monday "Delta Community day(s)". See the full announcement and also a channel you can subscribe to for fosdem related news.

https://delta.chat/en/2026-11-11-fosdem27-and-community-days

#deltachat #chatmail #webxdc #fosdem #xmpp #matrix

@stux If that's the worst thing they think I'll consider it. Otherwise I feel they can just go fuck themselves and I'll do the same.

Google and Samsung open preorders for their Android XR "Intelligent Eyewear" smart glasses, for $395+ for Warby Parker frames and $449+ for Gentle Monster (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/google-samsung-intelligent-eyewear-launch-warby-parker-gentle-monster-smart-glasses/
http://www.techmeme.com/261112/p28#a261112p28

¡¡¡HEMOS TOCADO FONDO Y TODAVÍA NOS QUEDA PRESUPUESTO!!! 📺🚬
¡¡¡PRAISE «BOB»!!! ❤️
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@virtuosew @ColinTheMathmo I am glad that you found something that works.

We have a printer/scanner with a large size scan bed which I occasionally need for something. I have resisted setting it up “properly” to get the iPad to talk to it because I cannot stand all the permissions that it demands, and it probably will not work anyway once I do (I think I tried to figure it out once, but gave up because it was taking too long for the time I had available and the stress factor was too high).

I have pretty much given up on connectivity, and use it by scanning to a USB stick, or printing from the USB stick. Fortunately my iPad pro will read/write to USB-C, not all iPads will.