What book(s) are you currently reading or listening? September 03 by fievel in c/books@lemmy.world
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just finished Death's End, by Cixin Liu which is the last volume of Remembrance of Earth's past trilogy (better known from the title of the first book The three body problem). I enjoyed very much the 3 novels, great Sci-fi and I also learned many things about Chinese culture through translator notes. (note: I've not seen the Netflix show before reading it, because I hate watching movies about novels I have not read, it block too much the mental image I do reading the book, therefore limiting the amazement of reading).

Next, I decided not to read the fan fiction sequel but rather what is presented as a prequel: Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu.

Telegram alternate by fievel in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Boredom (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 month ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Thought that if we are so easily bored in our modern society, much more than were our grandparents for example, it's because of technology that simplify all our daily activities. When it was necessary to do the laundry in a basin, it took a lot more time than just pushing on a button to launch the washing machine, then there was no time for boredom. What do you think?

Do you use Pocket or other Read Later App? by fievel in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

A good one IMHO is Omnivore.

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who love to read.

My workplace has a budget for office ergonomic upgrades, what should I ask for? by fievel in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

A good chair for sure. I think this is the most valuable thing you can ask for.

Timezone changes between 1923 and 2023 by fievel in c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

The issue with the current time zones in Europe is that they are far from being natural... The more you go to the west the later the sun is raising and setting, the more you go to the east, the opposite. Current western European time zone is too large... There are initiatives to improve that but will it be done ?

For example: https://timeuse.barcelona/what-we-do/permanent-time-zones-eu/

Update about lemm.ee infrastructure & upcoming cakeday by fievel in c/meta@lemm.ee
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 29 points 3 months ago

Thank you for your dedication in maintaining us a great instance. Very much appreciated, I'm really happy that my initial instance closed and that I choose (mostly out of luck) this one.

Are there any household gadgets you found unexpectedly useful after you'd gotten them? by fievel in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A bit on the costly stuff but I find the vacuum cleaner robot (not sure it's called this in English) very useful. The house is cleaner to be vacuumed every day (even if it's not as efficient as manual vacuuming or cleaning). Especially with pets and children.

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TIL the etymology of british isles names (www.youtube.com)
submitted 6 months ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/25160716

Pretty interesting video ...

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TIL the etymology of british isles names (www.youtube.com)
submitted 6 months ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/til@lemmy.world
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Pretty interesting video ...

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Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ? (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by fievel@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.

However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.

I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...

Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

Simple Gallery Pro vanished from F-Droid, any similar alternatives? by fievel in c/fdroid@lemmy.ml
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 37 points 7 months ago

Otherwize there is another (very IMHO) good alternative FOSS gallery: AVES

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Lemmy (active) users # seems to stabilize (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by fievel@lemm.ee to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.

The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

What search engines do you use? by fievel in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Recently switched to Duck Duck Go and honestly I find the results better than Google. More accurate, less "sponsored" results, ...

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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525

Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

  • lemmy.world: 19516
  • lemm.ee: 3779
  • lemmy.ml: 2970
  • sh.itjust.works: 2355
  • feddit.de: 2293

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Thank You devs. by fievel in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

I think that one of the structural change that helped a lot to have less stalled or unmaintained open source projects is the improvement in the DevOps tools.

I mean that, until recently, I always had been an open source user and supporter but, despite being a professional software engineer, I never coded in open source projects. The reason to this is that I did not wanted to commit myself into a project that I cannot afford to work regularly on because of professional and/or personal time constraints.

Now with the broad use of git and related platforms for open source projects (GitHub, gitlab, ...), it's possible to work only a little on open source projects. You can fix a bug impacting you as an user, translate some strings in your native language, improve the doc, ... without commiting to work regularly on the project. You just change the stuff, have no requirements to inform anyone, make a pull request and it's merged or not by the maintener ...

I think this is really what contributed to improvement in the way open source projects evolved.

Has lemm.ee defederated from any other instances? by fievel in c/meta@lemm.ee
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

It could be nice for transparency purpose to publish a list of reasons for each blocked instance. ( Could be even better if Lemmy supported that out-of-the-box but I don't think this is a top priority right now).

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A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/vim@sopuli.xyz
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

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A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/vim@lemmy.ml
1 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible by fievel in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] fievel@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

Exactly this is the problem, when I talk non-geek (including my wife) about privacy they answer "what the hell have you to hide !" ... It's so difficult to convince people :'(

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Twitter client privacy friendly with notification (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/askandroid@lemdro.id
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As I'm not using it actively for months and want to stop using it, I want to delete my Twitter account. However I still have one use-case that prevents me doing that. My city local police is sending some traffic related news only on Twitter and I use the notification functionality of Twitter official client to be informed as soon as they post something.

I have tested some open source Twitter client which works pretty well for looking at content in my opinion but none of them have the capacity to push a notification when a post is done in a specific followed account.

Do you have some recommendations (it would be best if it's open source but I'm not completely closed to "free as in free beer" alternatives) ?

Thanks.

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GitHub - fievel/lemmy_backup: A script to backup/restore from one lemmy instance (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/lemmydev@lemm.ee
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I made a script based on plemmy and LemmyHttp API to be able to backup the list of registered communities and user profile (for now, that's just the biography). It output in human-readable format on console and have an option to output in a json file. The next step will be to provide also a script to restore such json backup to another lemmy instance or user.

I decided to do this small development following the sudden disappearance of vlemmy.net instance which resulted in the lost of all my subscribed communities.

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Backup script for Lemmy (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/lemmydev@lemm.ee
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/973445

Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...

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Backup script for Lemmy (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by fievel@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...

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