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Yaky

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  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • Markor: one of the few Android text editors/notepads that saves text to text files (crazy idea, right?) and works rally well with Syncthing.

    Conversations.im for Android is an incredibly well made XMPP/Jabber messenger, and their message polling and real-time message delivery is unmatched AFAIK.

    ratbag (and the frontend, piper) is a tool for remapping buttons on mice with a sensible interface. Beats installing proprietary Logitech software.

  • Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?

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  • Ukraine had a "Kyiv not Kiev" campaign, which is more or less a request to do exactly what the post is asking about, call a place by how it sounds in its native language. But I am fairly certain it is still Kiev, Kiyev, and a variation of that in many other places, and the country is still called Ukraine in English, and not Ukraïna.

  • Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?

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  • But you would call Alexander or Alexandra "Sasha" or even "Shura" in some Slavic languages. And you call Robert "Bob" in the US.

    On the same topic, are "Alexander", "Aleksandr" and "Oleksandr" the same name or not? What about "John" and "Ivan"?

  • A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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  • Plus, AFAIK, Purism is one of the few companies that pays their developers to write FOSS code, which produced the Phosh UI, basic call and text apps, and mobile-friendly UI library.

  • A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy

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  • By "nonstandard SIM" do you mean one of two common SIM sizes that are not "nano", which is preferred by current phones?

    GNSS means it's global. Which includes US GPS, as well as Europe's Galileo, Russia's GLONASS, and China's BeiDou. Wikipedia

  • How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends?

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  • TBH I haven't used traffic feature (or WeGo, really) enough to know if it's good.

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  • Has been since 2018, and acquisition news caused quite an upset at the time.

  • How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends?

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  • I have been using Organic Maps for many years. They are offline-first, and use OpenStreetMap for the data. Since it's OpenStreetMap, quality might vary by country and even city.

    If you're looking for more commercial app, HERE WeGo / Here Maps has traffic and online accounts.

  • Looking for a good RSS Reader

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  • I just installed Miniflux on my server as well.

    Advantages (in my opinion) are: Package is in Debian repos (safe and no compilation needed), software is a static binary (thus does not require docker and only needs postgreSQL), documentation is good.

  • Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.

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  • This tool looks fantastic, thank you!

  • Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.

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  • And Snikket for super-easy setup and management

  • Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee.

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  • VC Funded tech betrayed me too many times

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  • That explains why Synapse and some other things moved under element-hq on GitHub.

    Doesn't Element get funding from some EU governments? IIRC it was used by some police force in Germany and some departments in France.

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  • Thank you for your comments.

    Nothing irritates me more than walls of code without any comments and the "cOdE sHoUld bE sElf-DoCuMenTiNg" attitude. No, it's impossible to describe complex industry-specific processes by naming your variables and functions nicely.

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  • Xed editor comes close in terms of handling files-as-files, but I found it more cumbersome and buggy than Markor.

  • Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?

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  • It really depends on the business.

    I worked for two smaller businesses (team of ≤ 10 software developers). One was mismanaged, ran by very unpleasant people, and abusive towards employees, resulting in a huge turnover and a "dead sea effect". The other company got government grants because the owner's relative was a politician, and had ridiculous surveillance software on developers' machines.

    Ironically, the most "human" and enjoyable work I did was working on internal legacy software and code rewrites for a huge corporation before and during their move towards agile and modern "conveyorized" approach to software.

  • [Question] Which prosody docker image are you using and why?

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  • When I ran prosody a few years ago, I did so without docker.

    I did try snikket in docker though, and it looks like it is still actively maintained.

  • small browsers

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  • IIRC the Windows version of Midori was the only browser that was light enough to watch Netflix on my ~2005 laptop.

  • Dumbware.io - Stupid Simple Software

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  • Reminds me of a "minimalist text editor" that my coworker showed me circa 2015. It was an Electron app that consumed more RAM to display a empty file than Firefox with 5 active tabs.