A quick disclaimer regarding Backerkit: They have redesigned their website again, which of course broke the crawler. I will try to get it working again as soon as possible, but until then, there won’t be any Backerkit projects included in the lists.
It still looks a bit quirky in Kbin sadly (especially on mobile where it gets very squished), but at least it should work in Lemmy now.
Sorry for the slow update! I’ve fixed quite a few issues, especially related to the bookmarks button, so see if it works better now!
So it seems like the table formatting bug as finally been fixed in Kbin. In other words, the inline lists are back!
Yeah, I found a few more bugs that was introduced as a result of the recent changes in Kbin. I’ve been away with work last week, but I’ll try to look into it in the next coming days.
This is however not something I think we, as consumers, should necessarily celebrate. This also means that we are very likely nearing the end of the “free” web that we are used to.
No, I’m not saying that selling out one’s personal integrity is preferable, but if it turns out that advertisement as a business model effectively isn’t sustainable, we will just have to accept the reality that we will more and more commonly have to actually pay to access content and services on the web.
Oof, I’m sorry, but perhaps it was a matter of expectations. I feel that the problem that I had with the show was that it started off on the premise of some Fallout-style retro futurism, with what I guess one could call “dangerous techno optimism” of the 50’s and 60’s.
However, beyond the first episode where the woman gets killed by the automated postal car, this never really gets explored much further than some occasional background elements. The story could just as well have been set in the actual 50’s and it wouldn’t have changed much.
Now normally, I don’t generally have issues with character driven stories where the setting comes secondary (e.g. Ted Lasso is a character driven comedy set on the backdrop of football), but in this case it was the setting that actually interested me to begin with.
It’s a shame, because all the individual pieces, from acting, to scenery and atmosphere were great, it’s just that the show never clicked with me in the end, because it wasn’t what I thought it would be.
They are probably reusing a component that happens to sort its entries alphabetically, since that is most commonly the expected behaviour. If the form is configured in a CMS, whoever built it might not even know it’s happening and has entered the data properly, but it gets resorted in the presentation layer. It’s also not impossible that the behaviour of the component has changed at some point and this particular case didn’t have test coverage or wasn’t actually part of the specification.
Apple TV+ started rather slow, but the quality of the shows is just insane, and not just when it comes to scifi. So far, the only show that I didn’t like from TV+ was Hello Tomorrow, which had a lot of style and potential, but just never went anywhere.
I think this has already been fixed in KES. They seem to have had compatibility issues with scripts that add icons to the toolbar menu. I was going to look into it today, but as far as I can see, things seem to be working at the moment (except for some overlapping functionality that probably shouldn’t be enabled at the same time).
It’s a great project they’re working on and I don’t rule out anything of course, but I feel that it somewhat goes against the very reason why I’m doing this. I see KUP as essentially a personal test bench to try out some new stuff without having to deal with code reviews or CCBs. The end goal is to see what works well and then port that functionality over to the Kbin core project.
As you might have seen, I’ve already ported parts of the KUP style settings panel to Kbin, and I have some more projects in the pipeline (that is if they are accepted into the project, which is not guaranteed of course).
It appears that it has been fixed in KES such that the icons don’t collide anymore. Nevertheless, I’ve added a new option in version 2.8 to enable an alternative placement of the mobile menu, in case there are any other compatibility issues with other scripts in the future.
Repeat after me: ChatGPT is a language model not a digital librarian.
It seems like it’s triggering a reload every time it’s scrolled into view. Might be related to changes in Kbin lately or it’s just my sloppy code. I’ll try to look into it tomorrow.
Edit: This should be fixed in 0.4.4
Filing a patent means little to nothing for a company like Apple regarding future consumer products. All it likely means is that a patent engineer managed to throw something together outside existing prior art that they could file. Maybe they will do something with it, maybe they won’t. If they do, they will have a patent portfolio that will hopefully give them some legal protection from patent trolls and competitors that will attempt to block them.
Oh, I haven’t tested that actually. I can look into it. Does it work when you’re browsing in Safari?
Edit: It seems like Safari extensions are disabled on iOS/iPadOS in PWA mode. Password managers work, but ad blockers, userscripts e.t.c. do not. Maybe my Google-fu is just weak, but I couldn’t find much information about it other than what I see myself when testing on my own device. I’ll keep looking, but if you find something yourself, please give me a shout.
So first they alienate the people who are working for them for free and then they go ahead and alienate the people who are giving them money for free.
So they have a bunch of users that have been freely paying them money for virtual coins that you can literally only use to display a few pixels of a gif next to a comment.
Their absolute genius move towards profitability is then to forcibly stop making these people give them free money and also erase those virtual coins that they spent money on with absolutely no compensation whatsoever. Not even a shitty award or literally anything at all.
It’s funny, I’m not sure if I should actually be impressed that they are not engaging in any marketing dark pattern whatsoever; they are just straight up alienating the people who were until now been practically giving them money for doing nothing.
I guess it depends on how this “Data Protection Review Court” actually functions in practice. What is written on paper doesn’t seem to really matter much to US agencies so we’ll see how strong these safeguards actually are.
Nevertheless, it’s good to see that the new agreement is finally in place at least. We’ve had this legal vacuum for years now and it was completely unsustainable in the long run. Sans a complete legal overhaul of the nonexistent privacy laws in the US (hah good luck with that), this is probably the best we could hope for now.
So for some reason the inlined tables didn’t format at all in this post. I’m generating them automatically, so I have no idea why they didn’t work this time. Probably some project that contained some invalid character in the name or description.
The Google Docs still works however. Meanwhile, I’m gonna see if I can find what the issue could be.
Edit: It seems like there’s a bug in Kbin that somehow breaks the tables (even when posting to a Lemmy instance). Until that is fixed, I guess the Google Docs will have to do, sadly.
We’re nearing the end of the season, so as usual, there won’t be much new this and the coming weeks.