Brewchin @ Brewchin @lemmy.world

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The most American post I've seen on Lemmy to date. 😬

I was thinking more of one product companies using a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Boop Snoot Partners, Inc/<Software Name You Remember Installing>/ convention, which seems to be the norm inside %APPDATA%.

But I take your point. 😊

So much this. It's like these clowns don't read the XDG directory spec and think $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME are interchangeable, and even that cache files can be in either or both. No, one directory you need to backup for when things go sideways, and the other can go to /nev/dull.

I'm not a fan of ~/.local/share/ being the data directory (two directories deep seems stupid), but it's definitely where regular data belongs.

Never mind developers who, in 2025, still think their project is special enough for a $HOME dotfile/dotdir or - somehow worse - those who put $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<weird-name>/subdir/[subdir/]. The latter strikes me as well-meaning Windows developers trying to follow best-practice-like-Microsoft-does, but it makes my teeth itch.

Rant over. :)

Calibre (Kindle) and Libation (Audible) are essential backup tools.

Y'know, in case their servers are down...

Every serious person in law enforcement, who doesn't have an agenda, acknowledges that the old fashioned policing methods make all of this redundant.

It just takes longer (and so costs money), which is what this is about.

These people would destroy the security of the world's protocols just to save a few quid. It's deplorable.

"I don't like it...

• "...so it should be banned" (for everyone) is never the right approach.
• "...so I blocked it" (for me) is.

It's a simple heuristic that works in almost every situation.

You don't know what value something you don't like provides to others.

The "What's New" link to the GitHub repo? I see now it's mentioned as a fix in the most recent version. 👍🏻

I'd wondered if that might be it, thanks.

I know the developer is active here, so thought it night be a good opportunity for them to address it ahead of more questions. 😊

The algorithmic feed and the low barrier to entry, including UX familiarity.

Aside from the headache of understanding what instances are and choosing one, and finding a decent mobile client, a lot of people care about unique usernames - especially those in the business/professional sphere.

I see their point, when @trustedname@genuine-instance can have all their effort and goodwill destroyed in a day by @trustedname@malicious-instance. While the Verification option exists, more needs to be done in ActivityPub and client developer guidelines to prevent or intuitively mitigate this kind of impersonation. But mentioning such shortcomings get sneered at or waved away, which keeps serious well-meaning people away.

Why would they go through that hassle when Bluesky's shortcomings are ideological and potential future direction?

Now do January 2025.

The IRL version of the used car salesman meme: "(Slaps roof) We can fit so many months inside this bad boy..."

Can't escape Cory Doctorow's observation that the internet is "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four".

We may be away from those 5 sites, but the behaviours and content from them is very much here.

Email? So its just encrypted SMS?

Might come down to the metadata, then, like SFTP vs FTPES or GET vs POST.

I've been with them for 6 years and haven't looked back.

Your original question was answered by numerous people in the spirit of the community, so you have got best answers it can provide at the moment, but your follow-up comments suggest that you don't think so.

But I may have misjudged your intent, as looking further I can see you've been replying to comments individually. My initial impression was that you were masquerading statements as questions. If I have that wrong, then my apologies.

Yes, but what's your point here? "Oh no, someone preserve us from... checks notes a group of subject matter experts!"?

If that annoys you for some reason, you'd best not learn how the overwhelming majority of products and services see the light of day. Rage aplenty awaits.

Have you seen the list of safety features on UK plugs and sockets? The sockets have shutters in them that prevents anything being inserted into the live or neutral sockets unless the (longer) earth pin of a matching plug is inserted first.

Having said that, I agree: seems to be a belt-and-braces approach. No downsides.

And it allows you to cut power to an appliance without having to remove the plug.