C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books.
Thanks for your transparency about this and detailed explanation of the reasons
- Bookwyrm (~= Goodreads/StoryGraph)
- Mastodon (~= Twitter)
I'm reading Black House, by Stephen King and Peter Straub. About half in the novel, I had some difficulties to be taken with it, but I start being hooked up, we will see... My opinion so far is that it's not at the level of it's prequel (The talisman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub) that I read just before and was very gripping.
Bot to aggregate what Lemmy community is reading
cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/328546
> If you are from reddit, there was a subreddit called "RedditRead" which aggregated automatically all books title found in "what are you reading" threads and making a post for each one with a link to Goodreads. > I think this was great and would be a good idea to implement on Lemmy, but with the following changes: > - Due to the concept of federation, less centralized, I think the bot should takes it's input from several communities ([email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; ...) > - It should not promote non-free service like Goodreads but rather use open library or bookwyrm api to fetch it's data and link to those free services > > What do you think? > I may be interested in developing something (using some existing bot framework, should not be too difficult), but I will not be able to host it (unless it can be done for free - without too much assle).
Bot to aggregate what Lemmy community is reading
If you are from reddit, there was a subreddit called "RedditRead" which aggregated automatically all books title found in "what are you reading" threads and making a post for each one with a link to Goodreads. I think this was great and would be a good idea to implement on Lemmy, but with the following changes:
- Due to the concept of federation, less centralized, I think the bot should takes it's input from several communities ([email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; ...)
- It should not promote non-free service like Goodreads but rather use open library or bookwyrm api to fetch it's data and link to those free services
What do you think? I may be interested in developing something (using some existing bot framework, should not be too difficult), but I will not be able to host it (unless it can be done for free - without too much assle).
I installed jerboa and thunder to test out. Jerboa is promising and very active. However for now I stick to the site of my instance installed as progressive web app, I think it's the most useable (the only drawback is the lack of infinity scrolling).
I'm reading Black House, by Stephen King and Peter Straub just after having finished The talisman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
Well I did a sort of poc I recompiled jerboa (in debug mode so I can keep official installed) after removing app/src/main/res/values-fr directory and I have this jerboa in English which I prefer, additionally there are layout issues with french version because the words do not correctly fit the allocated space on the screen, it looks far better in English. So if it's possible to give a setting to change language for us poor old android users...
+1 Please give us the choice of the language in app, my phone won't be updated to android 13 and I want to let it in french but I like IT related stuff to be in English... Otherwise I may perhaps fork and rebuild jerboa stripping out the translation files...
Update to 0.18
Hello, have you planned to update to 0.18 soon ? Jerboa claims that 0.17 is not anymore supported.
Very often like that with Stephen King, the beginning is slow but it's imho very important because that put in place the characters and build up a kind of special relationship between the reader and the characters or locations. Then something happens and the novel become really gripping.
Not as good as the floppotron (https://youtube.com/@PaweZadrozniak), imho, but still very nice to look at, thanks for the link 🙂
One more I forgot is https://cppinsights.io : this online tool takes C++ code and output C++ code, the goal being to make the "magic" of the compiler visible (for example for(auto vi : std::vector...) is expended to iterators and the tool make it visible). It can help sometime when struggling with a difficult to understand issue.
Same as yours +
- https://wandbox.org : an alternative to God bolt, when just needing to quickly test something (i.e. not needing the disassembly and multiple options of godbolt, just see if it compiles, or behave like expected on several compilers - I use that very often when writing code review comments to be sure not to advise rubbish...)
- https://regex101.com/ : not specifically for c++ but useful as well
Some great blogs too:
- https://www.fluentcpp.com/ : unfortunately not maintained anymore but many great articles mainly on readability
- https://www.cppstories.com/p/start-here/
- https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php
- https://arne-mertz.de/ : simplify c++
One must see YouTube video: https://youtu.be/2olsGf6JIkU
Perhaps some others I'll look tomorrow on my work computer.
I suppose what is called migration refer to re-subscribing to the same communities
Well in this case they are like promoting it, so I'm in favor of defederation. (Well I had to google to know what it was about to be honest).
Also, in this specific case it's perhaps not illegal per say, but what happen if you federate with an instance that host illegal stuff ? Due to the way fediverse works, the illegal content may be replicated on the server you own, so you're starting to host illegal stuff on your server. I'm not a lawyer but I think you can have problems with the law for this kind of stuff. Probably you will need to prove that you've done everything you could to prevent this type of content.
I agree with you, now isn't it possible to rather discuss with the owner of such instances in order to make them destroy the hurting content / communities rather that completely defederating?
Now if these instance do not want to restrict their users, and since Lemmy is still in beta and lack features allowing a more fine tool for moderation (for example ability to "ban" a specific federated user or community rather than a whole instance), so perhaps indeed defederating temporarily until the federated instance accept to remove such content or a feature allow you to filter what comes from another instance.
As Lemmy is growing fast this kind of feature become more or less urgent (I come from beehaw which defederated from lemmy.world for similar reasons, inappropriate content which cannot be filtered out by any other way than defederating), I hope that some priorities will be given to development of those features by the maintainers of the project.