It’s a beautiful, FOSS, offline/local Google maps-like app for Android that uses Open Street Map data.

There are plenty of other offline/local map apps, some paid, some free, but they are nowhere near as polished.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.organicmaps/

Organic Maps

The people who voted for him tend to prefer “Don’t tread on me” which makes it even more ironic.

Same. My “app” is just the webapp pinned as a PWA. Can’t even tell it’s not an app.

Come to think of it, most of my “apps” are that; very few locally installed, and that’s how I like it.

Lol, yup. The ol’ .NET Optimizer background task.

At a prior job, one of the junior admins updated the master image for our VDI linked-clone desktops. They snapped and deployed that without waiting for that background task to complete. The next day, when people started logging in and the desktop pools started spinning up, we got 70+ complaints that every virtual desktop was un-usably slow. Those were coming in as we were watching our performance monitors say almost every VMware host was at max CPU.

Some UIs will treat anything in the title in brackets like a flair: “Enough Musk Spam [Rant]”

I believe Photon will let you filter based on those.

So it’s possible now (apps that don’t support flairs will just have [Flair word] in the title), but it would require community rules for it. And from seeing what gets posted to a lot of communities, good luck getting people to actually read the rules before posting.

I don’t care about how long it takes to boot up, but I do care how long it takes from login to the desktop environment being usable.

Dealing with servers, I’m used to long boot up times since the low-level lifecycle management takes forever. But, once it’s booted, I expect it to be ready to go. I have no patience for “Just a moment…” or “Getting things ready” after I enter my credentials. All that shit should have been taken care of during the boot up.

Thankfully, I mostly use Linux at home/work, so that’s less of an issue, but it does make it all the worse when I have to remote into a Windows server.

I run a custom build of Nginx with a few extra modules compiled in:

• ModSecurity
  • https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity-nginx.git
  • https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity
• Nginx GeoIP2 Module (https://github.com/leev/ngx_http_geoip2_module.git)
• OWASP Core Rule Set: https://github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset/tree/v4.10.0/rules

Some guidance can be found here: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-waf/admin-guide/nginx-plus-modsecurity-waf-owasp-crs/

That guidance is for NginxPlus, but you can compile the dynamic module yourself with the community versions.

Ski Free. Came with most installs of Windows 3.0 back in the day.

When the player passes the 2,000-meter mark, the Abominable Snowman appears and starts to chase the player, eating them when it catches them.

Eh, those are fine for some people, but I’ve always preferred to let my instance grow organically. Basically everything that shows up here is something someone has subscribed to and wants to see. Quality over quantity and all that. I develop Tesseract and use that as the default frontend, and it makes it very easy for users to find and subscribe to communities (can browse remote instances, search them for communities, and one-click subscribe).

Saying “Luigi” or even that you agree with him: ✅ (Fine)

Using “Luigi” as a verb and/or dog-whistle call to violence (which is a TOS violation on LW and other instances): ❌ (Not Fine)

Edit: Added text in case the emojis don’t show up.

Yeah, it took me a while to fully divest from ml and get my instance subscribed to alternatives, but it’s been worth it.

hex, .ml, and ‘grad’

The real mildly infuriating is wasting resources on countless Lemmy servers with drivel from chatgpt.

You know what the bible also says, Elise?

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.

– 1 Timothy 2:12

Please STFU Elise Stefanik as is your biblical right, nay duty, thus sayeth your lord.

Fair point. I wasn’t considering instance ethos, just relative size and federation policy.

There’s !furiouslyinfuriating@sh.itjust.works but it doesn’t seem to be very active.

You could also start one; seems like there’s plenty of fodder for it (recent events considered). .cafe would probably be a good place for it, too, since it’s not one of the super-large instances and is defederated from the extreme 3.

Well, would you look at that, third-party protest voters / abstainers / “undecideds”: you saved Palestine. /s

Oh hell yeah.

Months ago I was brainstorming something almost identical to this concept: use the reverse proxy to serve pre-generated AI slop to AI crawler user agents while serving the real content to everyone else. Looks like someone did exactly that, and now I can just deploy it. Fantastic.

I mean, there’s a reason I added a button for “View [User’s] Modlog History” to Tesseract long before any other UI even considered it. Take that as you will. Though I generally just use that as a gauge of whether it’s worth responding to someone than anything more active.