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It'd theoretically be possible to run a straight GNU/Linux tablet or laptop with a 5G cell modem for data, use SIP service and a GNU/Linux dialer, and then run Waydroid for any specific Android apps that one has to run.

Idle power usage is gonna be a lot higher than on a phone, though.

And a lot of Android apps are made with a touch interface and small screen in mind and are aware of things in a cell environment, like "only update X when on WiFi". Not really common for GNU/Linux software to do that.

Marie Callender's, a restaurant chain mostly in California known for their pies, has an egg custard pie on their menu.

Also, while American-style egg custard pie may not be super-common today

I don't know

East Asian cuisine has egg tarts, and I see them commonly available in Asian restaurants around the San Francisco Bay Area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm (from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn) 'figure, icon' and κλάω (kláō) 'to break')[i] is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeldenstorm

Beeldenstorm (pronounced [ˈbeːldə(n)ˌstɔr(ə)m]) in Dutch and Bildersturm [ˈbɪldɐˌʃtʊʁm] in German (roughly translatable from both languages as 'attack on the images or statues') are terms used for outbreaks of destruction of religious images that occurred in Europe in the 16th century, known in English as the Great Iconoclasm or Iconoclastic Fury.[2] During these spates of iconoclasm, Catholic art and many forms of church fittings and decoration were destroyed in unofficial or mob actions by Calvinist Protestant crowds as part of the Protestant Reformation.[3][4] Most of the destruction was of art in churches and public places.[5] Protestant polemical print celebrating the destruction, 1566

The Dutch term usually specifically refers to the wave of disorderly attacks in the summer of 1566 that spread rapidly through the Low Countries from south to north. Similar outbreaks of iconoclasm took place in other parts of Europe, especially in Switzerland and the Holy Roman Empire in the period between 1522 and 1566, notably Zürich (in 1523), Copenhagen (1530), Münster (1534), Geneva (1535), and Augsburg (1537), and in Livonia between 1522-1524.[6]

In England, there was both government-sponsored removal of images and also spontaneous attacks from 1535 onwards, and in Scotland from 1559.[6] In France, there were several outbreaks as part of the Wars of Religion from 1560 onwards.

Image conflicts can get serious!

There's actually a small community at !kagi@programming.dev.

It says that they found fox droppings, but, then, some years back I remember when they hired a company to have a herd of goats graze their lawn down at the Googleplex, and that has to be worse on that front.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/google-rents-goats-to-mow-the-lawn-11402182/

Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we've rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us (we're not "kidding"). A herder brings about 200 goats and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilizing at the same time. The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.

PieFed is an entirely different software package that's compatible with Lemmy, can federate with it.

Lemmy is written in Rust, Mbin in PHP, PieFed in Python, and Sublinks

not sure if that's going to go anywhere

in Java.

• lemmy.world is an example Lemmy instance.

• fedia.io is an example Mbin instance.

• piefed.social is an example PieFed instance.

• demo.sublinks.org is an example Sublinks instance.

Sometimes quote marks are just being used to show that something is a quote, not as scare quotes.

Capitalism deals with industry being owned privately.

If you want to complain about Microsoft being a publicly-traded, private-sector company rather than a worker cooperative or part of the government or whatever, okay, at least I can see where you're coming from.

But a socialist economy is perfectly compatible with having high prices.

Speaking for myself, while I'm not really happy about some of the political baggage associated with the lemmy dev team, and additionally would be interested in participating in discussion about non-lemmy server alternatives, I don't really want to jump into something named quite as adversarially as "cancel_lemmy".

That's not to say that there isn't potentially demand for and interest in this. It just crosses the line into getting more political on the matter than I'd like to be. But I would like to point out that it may be that there are other people who feel the same way, and might exclude some users who would otherwise participate.

EDIT: I'd also point out that while it's not specifically directed to discussion of the Lemmy software package, !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works has a fair bit of discussion among people who are unhappy about the political side of the lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net instances and want to discuss that.

You can have a "no local pornography" rule without also defederating from instances that have pornography.

The instance I'm on, lemmy.today, has an admin who disallows local pornography communities on the instance and explicitly says that he's fine with users participating in pornography communities on other instances through his instance. From its server rules:

No local pornography communities (but you are free to subscribe to them on other instances if you wish).

That makes sense if you don't have some sort of desire to block it from users on the server, but just don't want to deal with the administrative hassle that comes with it.

While I come from more of the Rust sort of side of things, and I agree with you that I'd rather have widely-used languages having static typing (though I've written more Python than Rust), it's also true that different languages have different degrees of uptake in different areas.

As things stand, Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin all have an integrated Web frontend and backend, with third party client support via API. That is, they work kind of like Reddit does, not Usenet or IRC servers, where the backends and the frontends are entirely different projects.

I'm confident that Python has vastly more uptake for frontend Web development than Rust does. That means that it's going to be way easier to find contributors who understand how to build a Web UI who know Python than who know Rust.

If there were a split from this approach

that is, if the UI became decoupled from the backends, and users just used Aphrodite or mlym or whatever, and the backend wound up looking something like Usenet server software,

then I think that there might be a stronger argument for doing the backend in something like Rust, depending upon how it was structured.

But I think that Rust probably creates a high bar for attracting front-end contributors who are knowledgeable in building Web systems.

I'd also point out that Reddit started out in Common Lisp

Paul Graham, who was involved with its early days, is a huge fan of Common Lisp

but eventually was rewritten in Python.

EDIT: There's also Sublinks, in Java, but it doesn't look like it's getting a lot of activity.

Reddit used to have a number of people running bots that would de-AMP links. I haven't seen anyone setting up something similar on the Threadiverse, though.

kagis

It looks like AmputatorBot is open-source and supports Reddit and used to support Twitter.

EDIT: Though...I don't see activity from the user /u/Killed_Mufasa on the bot subreddit (moderator of the subreddit and it looks like the dev) or commits to the github repo in the past two years, so the Reddit API fiasco might have killed it.

EDIT2: No, /u/AmputatorBot is the bot account, and it's still functional.