ConfuSomu (u/ConfuSomu)

ConfuSomu commented on App Store web has exposed all its source code reddit.com/r/webdev/comme... · Posted by u/redbell

dlivingston · a month ago

It's pretty clear to me that JavaScript is becoming the de facto standard for UI/UX programming, regardless of platform, and regardless of web vs. native targets. Even GNOME has JavaScript bindings. [0]

[0]: https://gjs.guide/

ConfuSomu · a month ago

Same thing with KDE Plasma and its UIs being written in QML, which allows better separation of business logic (written in C++) and graphical interface (QML Javascript).

ConfuSomu commented on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers 9to5google.com/2025/09/16... · Posted by u/iamflimflam1

reddalo · 3 months ago

I think it was 300.

ConfuSomu · 3 months ago

Then it used to stop at 301 views, while the system was verifying the veracity of the views, or at least, that's what I've been told…

ConfuSomu commented on ARM’s Cortex A53: Tiny but Important chipsandcheese.com/2023/0... · Posted by u/ingve

kennethrc · 3 years ago

I'll bet that's due to slow storage, and not the CPU(s); I've done a few handsets and tablets and write performance was a large part of being laggy or not. It's quite obvious when the storage is full and the flash controller spends a lot of time doing RMW ops and halting writes.

ConfuSomu · 3 years ago

Yep, this was also the case with my old phone. Opening apps took a while but after that, everything was more fluid afterwards and clearly indicated that storage played a part in the device's slowness. Though, the 1.5 GB ram and the quad-core Cortex-A7 still made the device pretty slow.

ConfuSomu commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker

CSSer · 3 years ago

I wonder what the motivation was. Anarchism is mentioned elsewhere, so if I wonder if that’s a motivating factor here. At any rate, I appreciate that people are trying their best to be respectful. Personally, I’d also prefer to use “she” if that’s alright with her (it?). This becomes confusing quickly when we’re also trying to use it abstractly to refer to arguments and concepts.

ConfuSomu · 3 years ago

it uses both pronouns: she/her and it/its, as written on her website[1].

[1]: https://maia.crimew.gay/

ConfuSomu commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker

birdyrooster · 3 years ago

Apparently the pronouns to use are it/its? According to other people which makes your comment even better.

ConfuSomu · 3 years ago

she uses both pronoun sets: it/its and she/her[1].

[1]: https://maia.crimew.gay/

ConfuSomu commented on Mastodon’s eternal September begins? hughrundle.net/home-invas... · Posted by u/robin_reala

joepie91_ · 3 years ago

And this is precisely the sort of thing that sets apart community-run projects like the fediverse (!= Mastodon) apart from for-profit platforms like Twitter. The fediverse culture is based around consent and guarding each other's safety. That means that just because you can do something, that doesn't mean that people will accept you doing so.

And that is precisely what happened here. Someone started indexing all the posts of a group of largely vulnerable and marginalized folks, without asking for their consent, without trying to understand the community norms, just barging in and doing what they felt like without concern for the consequences to other people's safety.

They got swiftly ejected from the community accordingly.

If you truly believe that it's okay to index things just because "well, I can technically access it" without any further consideration, then to put it bluntly: you are a threat to the safety of marginalized folks, and you are not welcome in those spaces. You should also consider that there are plenty of people who cannot afford to take such a cavalier attitude as you.

> That people are getting upset at this idea gives further credence to the idea that these newcomers really have no idea what they're joining up to and are just hoping that "Mastodon" matches the ideal Twitter replacement they have in their heads with little to no understanding of the reality of its workings.

This is certainly true. The fediverse is not a replacement for Twitter, and it is not meant to be. The toxic Twitter culture is not wanted there. That of course doesn't stop media outlets from completely ignoring that and going for the quickest headline.

ConfuSomu · 3 years ago

Exactly, thanks for summarizing the problem with indexing well. Indexing posts is a disservice and a danger to the safely of marginalized communities.

ConfuSomu commented on Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog docs.microblog.pub/... · Posted by u/nafnlj

huimang · 3 years ago

Check out pleroma. It uses much less resources than mastodon so it’s been nice as a single user instance.

ConfuSomu · 3 years ago

And GoToSocial is also a nice alternative to Mastodon

ConfuSomu commented on Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS it.digitaino.com/use-touc... · Posted by u/DerekBickerton

makeworld · 3 years ago

I've also done this on my Framework laptop running Linux, it's really convenient. Have it set up for sudo, user login, etc. Just added this to various files in /etc/pam.d

  auth sufficient pam_fprintd.so

ConfuSomu · 3 years ago

This nicely did the trick! Adding the line at the top of /etc/pam.d/system-auth makes sudo authenticate use the fingerprint, which is nicer than always typing my password and gives a streamlined experience between SDDM and sudo.