asklemmy Asklemmy What other fediverse apps/services do you use?
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books Books What have you been reading this week? [June 26-July 2, 2023]
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    fievel
    1 year ago 100%

    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.

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    Books fievel 1 year ago 84%
    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 (!Books@lemmy.world; !Books@lemmy.ml; !Literature@beehaw.org; ...) > - 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).

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    Books fievel 1 year ago 86%
    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 (!Books@lemmy.world; !Books@lemmy.ml; !Literature@beehaw.org; ...) - 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).

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    horrorlit Horror Literature What are you reading or what is the last horror book you've read?
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    fievel
    1 year ago 100%

    The talisman is really good, the mixed style of straub and king is really nice and well done. I really appreciated it. For Black House, for now I have some difficulty to get into it (but I am only at something like a third of the novel). But perhaps I not in the good mood to read this one, very tired...

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  • belgium Belgium What app are you using for Lemmy?
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    fievel
    1 year ago 100%

    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).

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  • technology Technology Users Have Had It With Reddit...But Are Powerless
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    fievel
    1 year ago 100%

    If this reddit change did not occurred, I probably never had tried Lemmy (even if I'm in OSS world for 20+ years now). First thought is that I don't think communities going black or mods leaving reddit will do anything to reddit, it's so big and alternative are somehow a niche for geek that they will not loose most of their user base. For mods they'll find out some way ... On the other hand, I don't care, I'm happy here on the fediverse, I participated more discussion here in 1 month than in years on reddit. I had bad experience on my first posts on reddit (probably not interesting enough for some and then downvoted a lot), and I think that I just always thought if my post will be appreciated or not and so and finally just didn't post. I don't have this feeling here.

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  • jerboa Jerboa is there any way to put the app on English again without changing my device global language?
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    fievel
    1 year ago 100%

    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...

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  • jerboa Jerboa is there any way to put the app on English again without changing my device global language?
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    fievel
    1 year ago 100%

    +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...

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    VLemmy Chat fievel 1 year ago 100%
    Update to 0.18

    Hello, have you planned to update to 0.18 soon ? Jerboa claims that 0.17 is not anymore supported.

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    stephenking Stephen King New to Stephen King but I finished Pet Semetary this morning
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    1 year ago 0%

    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.

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  • retrocomputing retrocomputing Music On 3 Vintage iMacs - ReBirth Orchestra
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    cpp C++ I wanted to share useful websites and resources for C++ that I use, add yours!
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    fievel
    1 year ago 100%

    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.

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  • cpp C++ I wanted to share useful websites and resources for C++ that I use, add yours!
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    fievel
    1 year ago 100%

    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:

    One must see YouTube video: https://youtu.be/2olsGf6JIkU

    Perhaps some others I'll look tomorrow on my work computer.

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