Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Josh Byrd ☛ Running a Mastodon instance entirely free forever
If you're comfortable logging into a Linux server via SSH and running commands you shouldn't have any major troubles setting it up, but it will take a few hours of work. Enjoy!
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Idiomdrottning ☛ Fixing mistyped spaces
An Emacs function that reads a single char, then runs a query replace backwards from where you are, letting you optionally replace that char with spaces. After the query replace it then sends you back to where you were.
It’s a vanilla query replace which has lots of convenient ways to get out of it or tweak the text at point and so on. One that I learned today is period for “yes, but this is the last one”, which can be pretty convenient.
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Programming/Development
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Adam Nowak ☛ I built a simple app for trash collection reminders
Have you ever had a brain slip and put out the wrong bins on trash day? It’s surprisingly easy to do—even with a perfectly marked calendar! That’s the inspiration behind my latest project, smieci.turew.pl (it’s in Polish 🇵🇱), a website dedicated to keeping my fellow villagers in Turew, on top of our trash collection schedule.
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Web Browsers/Web Servers
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The Verge ☛ Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox
Apple’s new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use their own engines on iOS. Although this may seem like a welcome change, Mozilla spokesperson Damiano DeMonte tells The Verge it’s “extremely disappointed” with the way things turned out.
“We are still reviewing the technical details but are extremely disappointed with Apple’s proposed plan to restrict the newly-announced BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps,” DeMonte says. “The effect of this would be to force an independent browser like Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations — a burden Apple themselves will not have to bear.”
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