If you're using #LMMS and feel apprehensive about using "royalty-free" #soundfonts with ambiguous sources (a grey area for some musicians), check out the prospect of making your own instead!
I'll never understand how Discourse (the forum software) became so popular. Something about the UX it has makes it feel tedious to use. And yet, FOSS projects embrace it time and time again.
Maybe I'm a creature of habit, but I actually liked PHPbb / IPB / SMF back in the day. Those at least had a hierarchy and layout that didn't give me a horrendous headache.
@maloki I write a blog about the fediverse and the latest developments of the platforms in it. It's not always up to date, and I have a huge backlog, but We Distribute is a labor of love. It's also pretty much the only ongoing news publication entirely made for the fediverse.
@KitsuneAlicia@Lexi@maloki Tusky has been supporting Pleroma for a long time now. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but the blocking of Gab was largely a defensive measure against a large-scale hostile corporate actor heavily tied to right-wing extremists, harassment, and violence.
Whether the measure was truly effective is a matter of debate anyway, as Tusky got forked at least four times in a row within the last few days, with entries in more than one app store. If anybody can fork the source of an already open Android application and redistribute it, then the block itself could be considered to largely a symbolic act.
There are a non-trivial amount of fediverse instances out there that could fall under a wide range of problematic definitions, but this does not effectively mean that they are Nazis, nor does it make sense to continuously play whack-a-mole against a growing list of servers that we can bundle together through looser and looser associations each time. "hey, those are actual Nazis!" can become "hey, these other people are racists!", "Hey, these people are rude", "hey, I heard some bad things about this admin", "hey, everyone that uses and develops this platform are bad people", and so on and so forth. This has happened over and over again in the fediverse already.
The concern of keeping hateful regressive radicals out of a friendly community space is all too real, but using the client application for doling out domain restrictions does not actually bear fruit in the long term. It's simply the wrong attack vector and doesn't actually keep people out at all.
The solution is to shut those spaces out of our servers, and part of this involves developing better privacy and permissions so that bad actors can't spy on you, doxx you, or harass you. People are looking at the best way to approach a permissions system at the protocol / instance level, which should retain the safety of spaces before the hate flood rolled in. Nobody can fork your instance blocks or adjust them but you. In the future, the same could be said of permissions on public and private posts.
> At a talk presented by a genius Hubzilla engineer
"and that's all you need to do to develop an original theme from scratch. Just 119 unique templates for all of the different views. Oh crap, we forgot to do the template hooks for the payments module!"
It's been kind of tough, I've had to be pretty conscious of what I'm putting into my body, and make lots of little adjustments along the way. I've had to resist comfort food and convenient delivery services, but the upside is that I'm now eating 100% of my groceries, and saving tons of money in the process.
The next target milestone is 230, but I'm hoping to get all the way down to 180 by the end of the year. That's a lot of work still, it's gonna take time, but I'm already feeling happier about how I look. A weight-tracking diagram, show…