I was looking to implement a year column and while researching I stumbled on the YEAR data type which sounded just right by its name, I assumed that it would just be something like an integer that can maybe hold only 4 digits, maybe more if negative? But then I noticed while actually trying it out that some years I was inputting randomly by hand never went through giving an out of range error, so I went to look at the full details and, sure enough, it's limited to years between 1901 and 2155, just 2155! In terms of life of an application 2155 is just around the corner, well not that any software has ever lived that long, but you get what I mean in the sense that we want our programs to be as little affected by time within what's reasonable given space constraints. So what will they do when they get close enough to that year, because you don't even have to be in that year to need it accessible, there could be references that point to the future, maybe for planning of some thing or user selected dates and whatnot; will they change the underlying definition of it as time passes so it's always shifted forward? If that's the approach they'll take, will they just tell everyone who's using this type that their older dates will just not be supported anymore and they need to migrate to a different type? YEAR-OLD? Then YEAR-OLDER? Then YEAR-OLDER-BUT-LIKE-ACTUALLY? Or, that if they plan to stay in business, they should move to SMALLINT? Or will they take the opposite approach and put out a new YEAR datatype every time the 256 range is expired like YEAR-NEW, YEAR-NEW-1, YEAR-FINAL, YEAR-JK-GUYS-THE-WORLD-HASNT-COLLAPSED, etc.?

So I wonder, what's the point of this data type? It's just so incredibly restricted that I don't see even a hypothetical use. There exist other questions like this (example) but I think they all don't address this point: has anyone from MariaDB or MySQL or an SQL committee (I don't know if that's a thing) wrote up some document that describes the plan for how this datatype will evolve as time passes? An RFC or anything like that?

What is this?

For all you Reddit refugees this is like r/place. For all who don't know what that is either, this is a public, well, canvas, that will be freely accessible to anyone with a Fediverse account (specifics on the main post, don't worry, Lemmy is included). You'll be able to place (this is not place!!!) one pixel every certain amount of time on the canvas, either in an empty or an already used spot, overwriting it in the latter case.

Where is this happening?

Right over on https://canvas.fediverse.events/

Announcement post and other related stuff:

• Main post: https://toast.ooo/post/3740832
• Community: [email protected]

When can we participate?

On the 12th July 2024, or 2024-07-12 for all you ISO lovers!

Why should I care?

I don't know, it could be fun and it's not like you have to do it alone, it's actually way more fun to partecipate alongside your fellow fediversers, sooo... monke together strong? If you have some particular interest and you want it represented, try to look for your people in the right communities, and organize together to make the best fricking piece of pixel art the world has ever seen!!

From here I guess we can invite you to maybe make a little something for our lemy.lol instance's community, claiming a patch of land for ourselves as the (certified) best instance of the Fediverse (full disclosure: am admin of said instance). If we want to make something, we can probably make a Matrix room to coordinate our efforts! Otherwise, just go ahead and have fun with your loved <insert niche game/anime/film/any piece of media> and make something out of it!

---

Lastly here's last year's final canvas to try to win you over (or scare you): !2023 Fediverse Canvas - Final state

I saw that there's this nifty xdg-ninja that informs you on what you have installed that doesn't respect the XDG spec, if it has support for it or not and what you can do to make it comply. But now I was wondering if there was any tool to do the actual work automatically, I believe I have once seen a program that spoofed your home directory to non-complying apps so that you could transparently override their whole app data location to a path you wanted so they can keep functioning, but I can't for the life of me find it again. It would be double awesome if it did both, i.e. auto-applying any changes to apps that support XDG but need to be configured to enable it and, for those who don't, forcefully spoofing the home directory

My solution:

```nix let

nixFilesInDirectory = directory: ( map (file: "${directory}/${file}") ( builtins.filter ( nodeName: (builtins.isList (builtins.match ".+\.nix$" nodeName)) && # checking that it is NOT a directory by seeing # if the node name forcefully used as a directory is an invalid path (!builtins.pathExists "${directory}/${nodeName}/.") ) (builtins.attrNames (builtins.readDir directory)) ) );

nixFilesInDirectories = directoryList: ( builtins.concatMap (directory: nixFilesInDirectory directory) (directoryList) );

...

in { imports = nixFilesInDirectories ([ "${./programs}" "${./programs/terminal-niceties}" ]);

...

} ``` snippet from the full source code: quazar-omega/home-manager-config (L5-L26)

credits:

• base script: comment on "getting all configs from folder" (Reddit) Started developing from that piece that implements the general idea with only builtin functions, so I tried as best I could to stick to the builtins
• isDir: nixpkgs (GitHub) Used to filter out directories from the items to be included

---

I'm trying out Nix Home Manager and learning its features little by little. I've been trying to split my app configurations into their own files now and saw that many do the following:

1. Make a directory containing all the app specific configurations: programs/ └── helix.nix
2. Make a catch-all file default.nix that selectively imports the files inside: programs/ ├── default.nix └── helix.nix Content: nix { imports = [ ./helix.nix ]; }
3. Import the directory (picking up the default.nix) within the home-manager configuration: ```nix {

some stuff...

imports = [ ./programs ];

some other stuff...

} ```

I'd like to avoid having to write each and every file I'll create into the imports of default.nix, that kinda defeats the point of separating it if I'll have to specify everything anyway, so is there a way to do so? I haven't found different ways to do this in various Nix discussions.

---

Example I'm looking at: https://github.com/fufexan/dotfiles/blob/main/home/terminal/default.nix

My own repository: https://codeberg.org/quazar-omega/home-manager-config

We all know who's the real steward of free software and federation

\smiles in anticipation\

--- legit had to draw the vector logo of Gogs for this, smh

edit: actually... it already exists, oopsie (ᵕ—ᴗ—) smh my head

I was trying to analyze my phone's storage through Filelight, but it just gets frozen after I select the phone's folder. I didn't find anything in Bugzilla regarding this problem. Is the protocol supported at all in the app?

I've been looking around to find a good keyboard for myself after having used a sad wireless membrane, so, after reading around a bit, as my first foray I decided I wanted a 75% with mechanical brown switches, but I'm finding it really hard to find a good list of keyboards that matches my description because I'd like the layout to be Italian and most, if not all of the ones I found are US instead, I'm not a touch typer so I still care about that.

So is there any comprehensive website that allows you to filter by all the relevant characteristics?

Lately we've seen the EU do several amazing things to make platforms more open and user respecting by forcing:

• Microsoft to allow uninstallation of some of their apps
• Apple to allow browsers based on engines other than WebKit on iOS
• Apple to allow third-party app stores
• messaging apps to be able to interoperate
• etc.

I haven't delved really deeply, so maybe I misunderstood some details, but I have a question that I don't seem to find answers for anywhere: what makes certain platforms different from the others in so that, if they function in certain ways that make them depend on the vendor for certain functionality, they can be regulated into opening up more? What I notice as the common denominator is that maybe external parties are involved or user decision is being restricted, but I wonder if, for example, iOS had its store only host Apple-made apps making it a completely closed platform, would they be safe from regulation that forces them to change operation? If not, what makes it different from, say, a router with a proprietary OS that can in no way be changed, or any other appliance that hosts its own software and nothing else?

I have come across a few add-ons that are only available through GitHub, for example. So I'm wondering, is there some system to keep them updated automatically, or do I have to manually redownload them every time?

I've mostly been using the official F-droid app, but I've become tired of having to click install every single time there's a new update for an app. On a new phone I tried starting right away with Neo Store, which I know has that functionality, and in fact I haven't had to confirm installation of updates since on there, but on my old devices where I started with F-droid how can I get that to work? I believe I read somewhere that for this to work, the apps I want to update automatically need to be installed the first time from within the same app and, even then, only some apps that target Android SDKs from a certain point forward support that, so not all can benefit from this feature. So how can I make this change, do I have to uninstall every application from F-droid I have and reinstall them from Neo Store or is there an easier way?

Edit: One other thing, even in Neo Store it seems I can't update without confirmation if I manually update only one app at a time and instead it works if I let it update everything by having "Auto-update" enabled

There's something I don't understand here: why when I do "Open Folder" and then save the session, closing it and opening it again I'm left with nothing? Instead, if I open some files in subdirectories, the next time I reopen the session I'm just presented with the parent folders of those files, but I really needed to have the topmost directory to be able to access the whole tree structure whenever I reopen the session.

Is it possible? Or do I have to make a project?

Hey, periodic personal perplexity here! 👀

I noticed that my own posts made to external instances are not visible from my own account on this instance, but they are from outside

Even though I didn't find them there, they are still present both here and in the external instance on the respective communities where they were posted to, e.g.

• on lemy / on world
• on lemy / on world

I only see my posts on lemy.lol on my profile.

What happened?

These past few days I noticed that Eternity isn't displaying the right information in some places, despite it not having received any new updates. As far as I saw, there are issues with:

• Subscriptions: they're shown as empty and the Subscribed list of posts is just filled with All
• Saved posts: Someone else's saved posts are shown to me, though I don't know whose they are

I've been using Quillnote for a long time now and this is a feature I've been sorely missing, are there other apps that can help me do the conversion?

I was thinking, with the recent news of a contributor to GitLab adding support for forge federation, given some time we could see that being enabled in the KDE instance as well, I hope. So that brings me to a question, if it will be used, will we be able to largely move to reporting and discussing issues on the specific project pages without signing up rather than going to the more generic Bugzilla? I was really hoping for something like this to happen because I find Bugzilla to be very dispersive and it feels hard to find the issues that you want, unless you remember the syntax needed to filter the results correctly every single time, so much so that I never signed up on there (but maybe I'm just too lazy and I never took the time to actually understand it). On the other hand I think most other issue trackers integrated in software forges are way more intuitive, as well as having better discoverability, since they're right there by the code base.

If, instead, you won't do it and prefer to keep Bugzilla as the main issue tracking platform, could you tell us why? Is it to keep the developer discussions separate from the user ones so as to keep your GitLab more focused? Or would there be other reasons?

In terms of the most balanced in speed, consistency in page rendering and good default settings, is there a clear winner?

Personally I've been using both Dark Reader and Midnight Lizard on different devices and I can't say I noticed much of a difference in terms of performance, what I did notice is that Dark Reader seems to have better defaults, but many complain that it slows down page loading a ton, I haven't heard the same about Midnight Lizard, but maybe that is by virtue that it has way way fewer installations and therefore fewer people talking about it. Do you know if I've missed one and there is a totally different extension that does even better than both?

Reposting this since the original got deleted (except on the instances where it was federated in time) when my beehaw account was erased alongside a week worth of data a few months ago. Came across the image and thought "why not post again?", I don't know if I still stand by the meme, but frankly I don't care...

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I was looking at the filter feature but I only saw that it can be used to exclude users, instead of including, maybe I overlooked some other option?

I won't confirm nor deny my wickedness, mein Fräulein

Since Bibliogram is dead, has any new project popped up? I found imgsed just now, but it doesn't look like it's open source as far as I can tell