The fact that it’s been out for a year and federation is still only half-implemented suggests to me the decision to add it was pretty late in the development process, even if it was early in the marketing process.

Threads is for whoever Meta can sell it to, and I think it was pretty far along in its development before they actually committed to ActivityPub support.

I understand why manufacturers did it; it bought them a bit more space.

I don’t. New phones are huge while older, much smaller ones somehow found room for the analog audio jack.

I’m relatively content with my Pixel 4A running LineageOS (with root), but that’s an experience that’s really only suited to very technical users, in large part because some apps actively resist running in an environment the device owner actually controls.

My complaint is with the smartphone ecosystem as a whole: it’s designed to empower the OS vendor and app developers over users. The entire tech world (outside Microsoft and maybe some corporate IT types) saw Microsoft Palladium as a nightmare scenario a couple decades ago. Now we’ve let Apple and Google do the same thing with barely a grumble out of the mainstream tech press.

A quick image search finds this warning label on ammunition saying to store it in a cool, dry place.

They have marketing budgets.

As an alternative, IEM style earbuds or circumaural headphones. Both can offer a lot of isolation from exterior noise without active electronics.

They’re making requests at unknown intervals, often many times per day. Each IP address might represent multiple unique users, or one user might have multiple IPs.

That’s most of it. ActivityPub also makes it possible to know who is subscribed. It’s very hard to count how many people are subscribed to an RSS feed.

It seems to me this became a thing when social media algorithms started downranking content with profanity in it. It’s weird when people do it elsewhere.

There are some very cute cobras.

A power supply, the thing that gets plugged into AC mains power and outputs some sort of DC (usually USB now) to power electronics is not a “charger”. It (usually) doesn’t know anything about charging batteries, and connecting its output directly to a Li-ion battery would lead to an explosion. The charger is integrated into the device receiving that power.

“Portable battery” is a terrible term to describe a USB powerbank. Thousands of battery types are portable, but don’t have USB ports or output exactly the right voltage. Some powerbanks are sold without batteries.

Anyone using Windows, but not CrowdStrike was also unaffected. CrowdStrike had released crashy updates for Linux before.

Sure: don’t use Mastodon to participate in Lemmy communities.

You can of course, which you clearly already know. Tagging a community in s top-level post even results in a good experience, but subscribing to communities does not, and you can’t vote.

Maintaining accounts on both is a good idea.

That’s a valid point, though it looks like Popfile’s installation instructions call for manually installing libraries, presumably current ones. I think it processes only text, not PDFs or images, which are traditional sources of vulnerabilities. I’m fairly certain it doesn’t attempt to execute Javascript. It is, itself written in Perl, which is memory-safe.

It’s worth considering security because there’s so much malware out there trying to spread indiscriminately, but Popfile is less vulnerable than an Android app (which bundles its dependencies) or anything written in C (which is subject to all kinds of memory management bugs).

Abandoned doesn’t necessarily imply no longer useful. Sometimes, though rarely in the modern world software is finished.

I may give it a try. It does actually have the features I’m asking for.

Are there React apps that don’t have memory leaks?

Lemmy.world hosts at least five web frontends, which are in the frontpage sidebar:

• The default Lemmy UI
• https://a.lemmy.world - Alexandrite UI
• https://photon.lemmy.world - Photon UI
• https://m.lemmy.world - Voyager mobile UI
• https://old.lemmy.world - A familiar UI

It’s possible to use other frontends as well, which don’t necessarily have to be hosted by your Lemmy server.

According to a memory snapshot from Firefox 126 devtools, with uBlock Origin, immediately after a fresh page load:

• old.reddit.com: 52.54 mb
• new.reddit.com: 93.48 mb
• lemmy.world: 54.44 mb
• old.lemmy.world: 20.25 mb

I imagine both versions of Reddit would be worse without the adblocker. There are multiple frontends for Lemmy, and I did not test them all. Other browsers might differ slightly.

I block ads pretty aggressively, and I find it surprising anyone else can tolerate the modern internet without doing so.