A few months ago the CEO tweeted that he supported Trump and his policies. The most ironic part was that he’s an immigrant himself but lives in Switzerland.

Not sure if anything else happened since.

The reason is most likely that English isn’t phonetically consistent (i.e. you don’t say stuff the way you write it) while other languages like German and Spanish are, so it doesn’t make sense for those.

with today’s overwhelming and constant information and notification overload

If that’s the reason, I think there’s an issue with managing notifications. Limit them to important people and there won’t be much more mental clutter than in the past.

Ghosting people for other reasons if completely fine though and is not the same at all as ignoring them in real life.

The glass ones are so nice and you can use them to heat things in the oven (without the lid) in a pinch as well

That’s quite an interesting take. I also noticed that it’s magnitudes better at coding with common frameworks and often sucks with more niche applications.

Meta is also planning to drop its native WhatsApp Windows app in favor of a web wrapper version soon, in what looks like a move to simplify WhatsApp development.

So they are just going back to what they had before, probably to save money.

But don’t they have AI now which makes development so much faster, easier and cheaper? It’s these things where you can see these companies are full of bullshit.

I‘m working as a freelance web developer with creative agencies to create websites or applications and maintain existing projects. Mostly in PHP with a frontend written in HTML / CSS and some JS.

I also had trouble getting into coding initially since I’m a pretty visual thinker but a university course called „coding for designers“ that taught programming in Processing finally got me into it. In it you didn’t start with a boring ass calculator but make pictures and later games with a simple IDE.

HAD seems about right. It’s sad to see Mastodon accounts just getting abandoned

I read the BBC article but why would she even have to prove anything? That dumb ass conspiracy theorist should be obligated to prove their bullshit made up claim and lose the case.

Edit: I get it, they are suing and therefore need to provide prove. Still pretty fucked up.

Which app are you using? When I got started I just looked at the „All“ feed in voyager and then subscribed to communities that I liked. There are also communities to promote communities like /c/[email protected]

Seriously this and their malicious compliance with EU regulations was the first time I wanted to leave their ecosystem behind completely. Unfortunately nothing else even comes close but if it stays like this, I‘ll ditch them for good and accept a shittier UX for more ethical products.

I was wondering about that with some of the recent removals as well: Why not just a PWA?

Something like Voyager or Phanpy runs excellent when installed as a PWA and especially with Phanpy I‘m not even missing a native app or „wrapper app“.

I agree and a lot of the fediverse does a terrible job at it BUT i wish people would just understand tech a bit better.

It’s ridiculous to me how much time some people spend online / on their phone without understanding as much as what a URL is or how to change basic settings. There should really be better education around technology.

It matters as soon as people record themselves using it „wrong“ or tutorials go viral. Especially for a company that is really concerned about its public image like Sony.

Why outside the fediverse? What are you hoping to find that the fediverse does not allow for?

Edit: yes, Russia will say they weren’t crossing airspace

Can’t cross into foreign airspace if Russia considers all of it its own territory

Can‘t wait for a new US trade deal to soften that up.

Let meta write the laws and get only 60% tariffs. Von der Leyen will be enthusiastic about it.

I don’t find it odd. They just blow up fishermen and refugee boats because it destroys the lack of evidence as well

Maybe more of a US bubble but American software never considers that people might be multi lingual and public transport is always disregarded.

Examples include: Google knows that I speak German and English since I put it in my settings and yet it tries to auto-dub German YouTube content and auto-translates German comments in Maps.

Public transport stops only appear in Google Maps when you zoom in quite a lot despite being some of the most important points of interest when using public transport. Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.

Those are just examples, there are many more examples in software where you can notice some 20 year old US tech bro came up with it who has never been to a different country.

I don’t care where it comes from as long as I get my daily dose of vitamin R.