Knusper @ Knusper @feddit.de

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Some years ago, my wind band was participating in an event where you get graded+critiqued by experienced musicians. Specifically, we performed in a category where you're given note sheets you've never seen before, then have 1 hour to practice and then you're graded.

So, that's 1 hour of concentration and no discussions. The conductor has to make precise calls and the players have to realize them.

Well, it was my brother and me on third trombone. We had a soloistic section, written in 𝆑. We already made sure to be heard, but the conductor told us to not play 𝆏 there.

There's a joke to never tell trombonists to play loud, because our usual 𝆑 is just 50% of capacity. So, we had to assume our conductor knew what he was in for and rather than discuss, we just played that non–𝆏 𝆑 on the next cycle.

It would have been easy for our conductor to tell us to not play quite as loud, but well, he didn't.

So, off to the performance we go. There's a recording of it and it's basically 80 musicians playing 𝆐𝆑 vs. 2 trombonists, who would win?

Here on LineageOS, WebView only shows up in the app list, if I tell it to "Show System"...

On some Android distributions, there is a user-visible WebView-app, which contains an updater, but I imagine, that's actually a separate package which just updates the system's WebView package.

And I imagine, that updater-app is optional. At the very least, WebView is clearly installed on my OS and my launcher doesn't show a WebView app...

Yeah, that big wave brought a lot of that culture over here and it might be self-sustaining...

Also, the Android System WebView package is not installed on /e/OS

It doesn't have to be visible to you. You would have to check with ADB to actually know that it's not installed.
And I don't think Android without WebView is a thing. Many apps depend on it...

Is there a small version of Firefox for Android?

There was Firefox Lite, but it was really Chromium under the hood (using Android's built-in WebView, to keep that download size small). It was discontinued in 2021.

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/get-started-firefox-lite

I was gonna say, what even is "adware" in an ecosystem where every app ships annoying or intrusive ads?

Similarly, what is a "trojan" when those ads submit your data, too? None of this is in the interest of the user...

The issue I have with Reddit - it’s full of hateful people

I left two or three years before the big wave, for precisely this reason. It really is a toxic culture – it seeps into your brain that you cannot say something mildly wrong or controversial without the mob snowballing your comment to death.
No one affords others any goodwill, because not doing so makes their own number go up.

I was on Mastodon for quite a while, because Lemmy wasn't a thing yet. And over there, you can only make people's numbers go up and the culture reflects that.
I do feel like the Lemmy model works better for unearthing content (Mastodon is more about people), but I can't help but feel like there ought to be a path in the middle.

I agree that lots of software calls itself e2ee, despite the ends being untrustworthy and one can definitely argue that therefore the word itself should not imply trustworthy.

But well, in this particular context, folks were using the 'trustworthy' definition...

It is definitely possible, yeah. Tailscale and similar don't do magic either.

I'm not sure on the specifics, though. I think, you want a TURN server or a STUN server.

Yeah, I do agree. It's tricky for individual PeerTube instances to build up a sufficiently large community and thanks to the magic of federation, we don't have to build all the community features into PeerTube, like traditional/centralized services do.

In case, you're not aware, there's SepiaSearch as a search engine across PeerTube instances...

It kind of depends on your definition of "end-to-end". Normally, what people mean is from one communication partner (i.e. human) to the other. If you use a software to do the encrypting and decrypting, it should be open-source and verifiable. The WhatsApp client is not that. It is an attack vector and it takes in your message in unencrypted form.

...and might be losing money from each of those: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-reportedly-is-losing-lots-of-money-per-user-on-github-copilot/

The penguin is great, because it's absolutely unprofessional. I'd rather Linux be a fun community get-together than a sterile corporate brand.

Yeah, I was wondering as well, if there's something more to it.

If my cup of tea is at 70°C, that does burn my tongue, but that's in particular, because water conducts heat very well. I guess, if it's very smooth asphalt and he gets full contact with naked skin, then it would conduct heat well, too...

Yeah, I was considering giving that technicality its room, especially because ESO exists. ESO is kind of FO76 in the TES universe.

But at the same time, ESO wasn't really what most TES fans hoped for either, so from that average consumer view, it may actually even feel like another project that's somewhat misguided, while waiting for TES6.

Sure, but hopefully you have no trouble believing that simultaneously, nuclear power companies and governments wanting to use nuclear, despite the risks, have been propagandizing for nuclear.

Pro-nuclear folks are often completely unaccepting of there being risks and externalized costs, which feels to me like they're subject to propaganda (notwithstanding that I'm likely subject to different propaganda).

160°F = 71.11°C

Well, active development. Especially for TES fans, it may be difficult to grasp why they would not start with TES6 right after the release + bugfixing of Skyrim. Others may understand that they'll do Fallout 4 in between.

But doing two Fallouts + Fallout in Space Starfield, it would have deserved a comment from Bethesda.

Johann Pachelbel. So many modern songs reuse the melody from his Canon in D. I just think, it'd be fun to let him listen to them. Would probably blow his mind to listen to modern music, to begin with, and then to have it be his melody, too. 🙃