invicticide

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Kitchen (done): upload for requests in c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

I really like this design. Well done!

How does the Subscribed feed actually work? in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Looking at it on my desktop right now, I'm seeing everything I'd expect, for both local and federated communities. Most typically lately, I'm browsing on my phone, but that's just hitting my instance directly via mobile Firefox, not using an app, so I can't imagine that would have meaningfully different results.

Sounds most likely that this is just a perceptual thing where I'm not consciously realizing that communities Y and Z are posting way more frequently than community X, making me feel like I'm "missing" posts from X that are then trivially found when I go to X directly.

I'll keep an eye out for this a bit more consciously for the next little while and see if that's what's actually going on.

How does the Subscribed feed actually work? in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm sorting by New. My expectation was a linear chronological feed of posts across all subscribed instances. And yeah, I'm still missing some posts in that view.

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How does the Subscribed feed actually work? (programming.dev)
 

I've been using the Subscribed feed as my default view for a while. I understand that this is exclusively content from communities I've subscribed to, but it also seems to be be some subset of that content. If I go into an individual subscribed community, I almost always see a bunch of posts that I don't see on the Subscribed feed at all.

How does Subscribed choose which posts to show and how to order them?

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Do they know one second is slow? (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
 

Computers can create and destroy entire worlds in one second. One second is multiple billions – billions! – of executed instructions. One second is an eternity for a computer.

Yet I sometimes wonder whether one second is the smallest unit of time most programmers think in. Do they know that you can run entire test suites in 1s and not just a single test? Do they know that one second is slow?

Seeing how slow modern software can be, on modern hardware, just makes me sad sometimes. I really feel this person's pain, including the slow creeping insanity of "how is nobody else noticing/bothered by this". 😓

Microsoft’s cloud ambitions for Windows could kill off desktop PCs – and sooner than we expected in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Could kill off desktop PCs

Linux has entered the chat.

YSK: Feel like you only see the same 2-day old content? At least on lemmy.world, you can change your homepage's default sorting type & scope to "Hot" and "All" in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I recently switched to sorting by New, which sounds insane coming from Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller right now, and New is actually viable and interesting.

I'm sure with more growth that will change, but it's definitely kept my feed fresher and more interesting than either Active or Hot.

(This does of course assume that you're subscribed to a reasonable number of communities you're interested in.)

Why do some login flows hide the password field until after you submit your username? in c/webdev@programming.dev
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Ah yeah, this makes sense.

I have seen other services include an explicit SSO link under the user/pass form, which IMO is clearer what's actually going on, but I'm sure that structure hopelessly confuses lots of less technical users, too.

Why do some login flows hide the password field until after you submit your username? in c/webdev@programming.dev
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I see this one happen occasionally, and it makes me marginally less grouchy.

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Why do some login flows hide the password field until after you submit your username? (programming.dev)
 

I see this more and more lately: go to log in to some site, and they only show the username field. Enter username, click Submit, then a password field appears. Enter password, click Submit again, and then we're logged in.

This makes using a password manager super annoying, because I have to trigger the autofill twice.

Is there some security-related reason more sites are doing this? Is it an anti-bot thing? I'm just really curious, because it seems so pointless on its face, but it seems to be spreading.

Lemmy is being gentrified in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

I'm one of the newer transplants from Reddit, but for the last several years I've only been a lurker there, because I haven't felt like I really fit in with those communities and that culture well enough to fully engage.

Lemmy feels different, in similar fashion to how Mastodon felt so different from Twitter when I switched over there a year so back. I haven't looked back on Twitter, and I doubt I'll look back on Reddit. The water's way nicer over here, for me.

I do think it'll take a while for most of the disruptive newcomers to fully bounce off the Lemmy/Fediverse culture, but I also do think they will eventually bounce off it, as long as we all stick to our guns in terms of the culture we want to build, the rules with which we want to govern our communities and servers, and the social norms we want to tolerate.

There are just going to be 1973629092 tedious arguments about defederation between here and there. 🙄

Maybe a controversial opinion, but Lemmy is pretty great as a PWA in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] invicticide@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago

I'm also finding it really effective. I only hate that backing out from a post is a crapshoot on whether it preserves my scroll position, resets to the top, or reloads the entire feed.