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Why devs hate Google, and so should you?

Google ☠️ The cloud

Google Drive vs their own API: Many of us developers, go out of our way to support Google Drive in our apps, programs and websites, to make things easier for users, but over the years, Google keeps making it harder and in some cases demanding “solutions”, that conveniently involve us paying their partners:
$Our Android app is frozen in carbonite
$End of the road for Google Drive and Transmit

Google ☠️ The Internet

Google OAuth vs the Canidae browser: Users interested in testing my CEF (Chromium Embedding Framework) browser, back when the project still existed, were prohibited from passing Google OAuth in my and any other CEF browser, unless they changed their user agent string. I managed to contact Google and was told this was a necessary protection against bad actors. As we all know, no bad actor would ever add two lines of code, to change the user agent of their malware.

Google vs the point of SSL: Google Chrome presents all sites access over HTTPS as secure and all sites accessed over HTTP as dangerous. This is very misleading to less educated Internet users, falling for “secure” phishing sites with SSL certificates and avoiding “dangerous” static webpages, that never needed one.

Google ☠️ Android apps

Googles friends vs FOSS
developers: X and other big social media platforms running their own servers, are allowed to host seemingly any user generated content, while Google forces us, developers helping to maintain XMPP clients for Android, to exclude features, that allow our users to discover chatrooms, that anyone can host on their servers. We are thus not only held responsible for what we publish, what we host, but also for the whole XMPP network. I offer my version of the client, unrestricted, on my website, others choose their repo or F-droid.

@bender@twtxt.net Dam that’s small 🤣 Nice! 👍

OMG! https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de sounds counterproductive. The power of open source is that it benefits from everyone’s participation. Why to develop in a close source setting then? Hmm.

Exactly! But you still have to sign up to “their” platform. da fuq?! I smell something fishy here 🤣

That is weird, though:

Is Loops open source?

It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.

Why the delay? 🤨

But you have to sign-up though? wut?! 😟

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah short Nick is going to be unique enough. There is always olong Nick that adds the domain for differentiation.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I run Weechat headless on a VM and mostly connect via mobile or dwsktop. I use the android client or gliwing bear. Work blocks all comms on their always on MitM VPN so I cant in office anymore. So I just use mobile.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I agree. Even if I will not use it, allowing to do similarly to the commercial “service” in a selfhosted, non-algos, non-ad-targeting environment, is the way to go.

@johanbove@johanbove.info Taste all the flavors all at once. 😅

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I’m happy about any open platform that allows us to not use closed/commercial services. ✌️

@sorenpeter@darch.dk WeeChat in a detachable tmux session. No mobile stuff, I hate typing on a phone with a passion. 🥴

My guilty pleasure: raisin bread with salted butter and a slice of gouda cheese

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt I happy to be very good friends with the founder of IRCCloud who happens to be also my namesakes 😅

@Codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl That’s what I figure as well, thus my robot.txt looks like that:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Allow: /$

IRCCloud is shareware and proprietary :(. Free period only two weeks and after your connection disabled after two hours of inactivity. Maybe Quassel or TheLounge is better?

Currenly im use senpai in Termux and soju from p.psf.lt

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I started out with Konversation (KDE IRC client) but then moved to weechat over a decade later or so. I just like the terminal. In both setups I was just online when my computer was running.

Recently, @bender@twtxt.net made me finally switch to weechat in a tmux session on my server: tmux new -s irc and then run weechat inside. On my local computer I then simply attach to that session, even got an alias for that: alias irc='ssh -t isobeef tmux attach -t irc' I’m now basically online 24/7 and can skip over the new messages in the backlog by hand when I start my local computer. :-D

I’m very happy with that. Can’t imagine ever going back right now. I’m also wondering why it took me all those years to finally make the small step. Happy IRCing!

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah I mostly read IRC backlogs on mobile, very rarely talk per se 😅

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I can IRC on mobile, but I choose not too. It is not as easy as when using a desktop computer.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I use TheLounge. Similar to the one @prologic@twtxt.net uses, but self hosted. Always connected.

The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor … ⌘ Read more

Yeah 😔

@sorenpeter@darch.dk@darch.dk I use ITCCloud, am always online via my Desktop and ITC from the mobile app.

@Codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl Yes 🤞

What are peoples #IRC setup? Do you have your own bouncer server or just have a you computer always on? And do you IRC on mobile?

🤣 Indeed. It’s like using disallow is only pointing them to look for more stuff to index. Those few kB’s for a twtxt file, meh.. shouldnt even be a discussion.

Well for iPhones 15 Pro and 16 Pro Max, and all on the 16 line.

iOS 18.1 is out. It brings the beginning of Apple Intelligence.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, that’s what I don’t understand about this behavior. Once you put up a web server on the internet, you’ll be hit by so many bots instantly – the few hits on my twtxt file hardly matter … 🤷

@bender@twtxt.net I tend to agree 👍

Neycer Robalino vs Hayden Green – Brisbane Flexi Season (Week 3) Div 1 Final - YouTube This is Neycer one of our coaches at the table-tennis club 🏓 that I play at vs. Hayden a top-rated QLD player (well not anymore 🤣). What a match! 😱 Go #Brisbane #Table-Tennis #BTTA

@prologic@twtxt.net no, no, I haven’t said anything about turning of smartypants! That would be a step backwards, right? I mean, ¼ is the way to represent a fraction, so its rendering is right spot on.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com To be honest I thought the same too, I felt as though you were being a bit too harsh on yourself 😅 Chill 🤗

@bender@twtxt.net True, I’m just not sure we can have it both way? 🤔 I can turn smartypants off, but I do seem to recall you wanted it on 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net Oh yeah, cool, thanks! Wow, the number of strings picked up a lot over time.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org the name of the instrument is Guzheng. She is amazing, wow! @movq@www.uninformativ.de, she never shows her face, it is her artist’s “signature” behaviour.

@prologic@twtxt.net right, but that uses code/pre. Don’t get me wrong, whatever works, it works.

@bender@twtxt.net Hehe! I’m flattered.

I think this works 1/4

@Codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl I agree. At the end of the day it’s just a text file served by some means, we should get more upset by crawlers that don’t respect our robots.tzt rules 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oof! That’s impressive. (And what an interesting mask that is.)

That harp (or whatever you wanna call this instrument) playing is very fascinating to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564u39PJfUI

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org hmm, Smartypants does that. I am not sure there is a way to escape it. One could write “1 of 4”, or 1 / 4 (not sure how this last will render).

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com let me come to the defence of Aelaraji here, and make clear that they are not a “piece of shit”! 😊

@prologic@twtxt.net I wrote ¼ (one slash four) by which I meant “the first out of four”. twtxt.net is showing it as ¼, a single character that IMO doesn’t have that same meaning (it means 0.25). Similarly, ¾ got replaced with ¾ in another twt. It’s not a big deal. It just looks a little wrong, especially beside the 2/4 and 4/4 in my other two twts.

(I screwed up the commit message and force-pushed a fix after checking the web server logs. I hope I didn’t break anybody’s repo. 😂)

This should be fixed in Git. ✅

Hah 🤣