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TIL that Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space, arrived at Mir (modular space station) in 1982, where she was greeted with an apron as a welcome present, and jokingly told to get to work in t
  • While I do not doubt this happening, nor it being sexist at its core, I find no mention of it on the linked wikipedia article.

    EDIT: Ah, it actually links to a now-defunct british spacecentre article in the original TIL with the following quote:

    When Svetlana arrived the space station, she was reportedly handed an apron from her male crewmates and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen. But she’s also described in fond terms the flowers she received upon arrival: “They gallantly presented me with flowers they had grown in orbit and those plain flowers in a transparent box were the dearest present to me. We hugged each other, kissed each other, in a word, our meeting was the usual meeting of friends who had not met for a long time.” After this initial meeting she was quickly able to establish a working, professional relationship with her crew.

    and there's an '82 NYT article mentioning it here

  • What file systems are you using on your devices and why?
  • Additionally, at least for my use-case btrfs benefits me since it is less picky about drive sizes being the same and duplicating everything correctly - letting you essentially just throw additional storage at it as you acquire it.

  • Phone Push Notifications: A Double-Edged Sword for User Privacy and Law Enforcement
  • Not all notifications go through FCM but all push notifications do as far as I'm aware - which is what the previous comment and the post title are talking about.

    It is, in fact, worrying for privacy implications on the one hand and a real monopolizing factor on the other since if you wish to deliver an app which needs to implement such notifications you're using Google's service or constantly drain the user's battery.

    There's UnifiedPush which tries to provide an open alternative but so far unfortunately still sees very little adoption.

  • Possible to share links in posts/comments without opening them first in Android app?
  • Thanks for the hint but I am not entirely sure which icon you are referring to unfortunately.

    Is it an icon provided by the application? Otherwise, this is an Android phone (LineageOS to be specific) and I am not sure there would be an Apple sharing icon on it.

  • Possible to share links in posts/comments without opening them first in Android app?

    I love using the voyager Android app to get a quick at-a-glance overview of some (mostly tech) news and articles, but would then like to just quickly queue them into my actual read-it-later app (wallabag) for later offline reading.

    So is there a way to directly share a post like the picture below without first opening it in the integrated browser and I just have not found it?

    !a lemmy post opened in voyager for an article called 'Pipewire vs PulseAusio: What is the difference?'

    Similarly, if I come across a useful article linked within a comment instead I would like to be able to do the same thing through a context menu.

    !a lemmy comment containing a link to a webpage blog article

    This is less urgent for me however since I can at least use the 'select text' functionality and just copy the text and paste it in the reader app. A little cumbersome but no big deal.

    I am using the Voyager Android app 1.39.0 from f-droid repos.

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    ListenBrainz: an open source and crowdsourced music database and music recommendation engine.
  • As @[email protected] points out, there's a bunch of players that can scrobble directly to listenbrainz.

    But even if you use some player that does not have support for it, you can make any player that can scrobble to last.fm work with listenbrainz instead since they provide a compatible API. This includes even software which officially only supports last.fm by simply changing the scrobble destination it wants to scrobble to in your hosts file.

    It really is pretty nice software.

  • Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations
  • Codeberg the community is very nice with strong focus on the right to privacy and free software, which I feel reflects itself especially in a lot of copylefted projects on the service.

    Codeberg the collaboration platform is in my epxerience by the simple fact of critical mass quite a bit less 'collaborative' for many projects. There's a couple projects with tight communities, and a lot of single dev projects with maybe a drive-by PR.

    Codeberg the software runs on Gitea (/Forgejo) which is wonderful software - slim, simple enough to get everything done without being in the way.

    There's efforts to open up the gitea/forgejo forges to federation, which would be a very neat way to fix the collaboration issue and is - in my view - the way forward for open, decentralized collaborative software creation. It's still quite a ways off (especially from bring mature enough to be used day-to-day) but when it gets there platforms like codeberg will be the first to adopt it and to also benefit massively from it.

  • Nifty terminal command: xdg-open
  • xdg-open is very nifty, especially due to its ubiquitousness on a variety of distributions. You can even have a look inside to see that it is actually a shell script yet again invoking other 'opening' scripts in the background!

    I wrote a little bit about it and an alternative to it called mimeo not too long ago. That one can even open things by advanced filters such as regexes. So you could e.g. open https://eff.org in Firefox and http://localhost:3000 in a different application or other advanced shenanigans - though I've never used such advanced features much.

  • Can we get more hands on Florisboard? We need a modern open source keyboard with all crucial features.
  • I see, that makes sense and is very interesting. I will remember this for some inevitable phase of going from never touch running system to ohh shiny down the road. While I suppose some of these are just things working differently on the two boards, I see your points.

    Although I did learn in this thread that ASK also has a clipboard history and undo! Though - to be frank it is hidden under an up-swipe of the spacebar.

  • Can we get more hands on Florisboard? We need a modern open source keyboard with all crucial features.
  • Not asking to start an argument but do you know what those features and customizability optons are?

    Because I am currently running a German/English/Terminal-mode multi setup with everything set up right around how I need and the customization in AnySoft keyboard was quite honestly astounding to me (if very cumbersome to discover everything).

    So if Floris offers even more possibilities I am wondering what they could even be?

  • Detroit synagogue president found fatally stabbed outside her home
  • I realize this isn't your point but I feel the need to point out that skinheads are not nazis - it is unfortunately a very well working project of cultural appropriation by the racists.

    In the scene racist skinheads are mostly referred to as boneheads, a term which I think makes much more sense.

  • Don't ask me which ones tho, cuz I'm an old
  • Simple explanation: lemmy uses markdown under the hood. In markdown, one star *surrounded* things are italics; two start **surrounded** things are bold. Three stars basically '* **combine** *' both to make: italic bold.

  • Organic Maps: An Open-Source Maps App That Doesn't Suck
  • Absolutely agreed.

    The underlying map is great, the interfaces are great (especially on OrganicMaps), the way it can give me offline access to everything is great but in that crucial moment getting off a train/bus/whatever and thinking - hang on, which direction did I need to go? - the search just undoes everything else because often you literally can not find the location you need. Then it's hand-scrolling to roughly where you think it is, putting down a general pin and then eye-balling the actual location.

    Don't get me wrong, it's fun in a sort of 90s-unfolding the city-map kind of way but not if you actually have an appointment somewhere.

  • Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
  • Fully agreed with the usefulness of topgrade.

    Topgrade is not just for archlinux but will happily upgrade Debian-/RedHat-Derivatives, Gentoo, Void, some BSDs and I think even Mac and Windows, though I'm not sure how those work.

    The link you provided also goes to the unmaintained original version, while there is a community fork here: https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade which sees more development (but is also looking for maintainers!)

    I'm also using topgrade and it is wonderful to upgrade the system dependencies but even the content of unrelated package managers such as pipx, vim, zsh plugin-managers, cargo programs, R packages, npm/yarn packages, and importantly for this thread flatpaks and snaps with one command. It really is lovely.

  • What are some book series like Harry Potter [quaint, pleasant, deep lore] but less childish and bigoted?
  • I think that's completely fair!

    light spoilers for Babel

    And I also think you hit the nail on the head with both the way it introduces the 'magical' world and then pulls the rug out underneath you and protagonist in quite a distressing fashion. Pretty clever actually!

  • What are some book series like Harry Potter [quaint, pleasant, deep lore] but less childish and bigoted?
  • For Kuang I agree that they are generally enjoyable reads (or rather, exciting or suspenseful, I suppose) but I would strongly hesitate to put them into a recommendation looking for quaint and pleasant.

    Her books go fairly detailed into gore and excesses of violence and sexual abuse, more so for her earlier works. So - good reads but come prepared.