[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I assume that tool is using a collection of existing accounts to cast the votes? If so, can you just identify which accounts those are and report them to whatever server they are hosted on? I didn’t read the whole thread so maybe I’m missing some context.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I’ve seen you leave a lot of positive comments across multiple projects. I really appreciate the kind words and support.

I also made a matrix group chat recently with the other Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin client devs. I think you’re in a lot of the Matrix groups. I’ll add you if you’re interested.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

So many people tell me I should do XYZ, yet not a single person has even attempted to open a pull request. Like if you’re so passionate about FOSS, open a pull request or fork my project if you really disagree with me.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

The Mac app prompts you to update on launch when it sees a new release on GitHub. Except for versions 1.8.1 and 1.8.2 which I broke the update mechanism that checks GitHub releases.

I’m starting with the devices/distribution platforms I’m familiar with. I’m an iPhone user and I know my way around the App Store. I also do Google Play releases for my day job. I have to learn how to setup the other distribution methods. F-Droid will likely be next since a significant number of people have asked for it.

I know iOS + Lemmy is a weird combo, but that’s who I am. I love FOSS software and I also love Apple’s design language. So I’m starting from there, but I would like to remove any single point of failure (e.g. if Apple removed my app for some reason).

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not defending this, but it’s annoying because Google and all search engines results are being poisoned by AI written slop. It seems like LLMs may provide a better search experience, but it’s also the thing ruining the search experience.

I don’t really know what I’m talking about, but I imagine if AI slop is ruining search, it will also start to ruin itself when the current slop is used to train future LLMs. Basically I think AI will short circuit itself long term.

Now, will it short circuit itself enough for Microsoft to stop shoving it down our throats, probably not.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Luckily we’ve invited 10 new gadgets for you to make sure we meet our E-waste goals

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Well obvious umbrella. It’s bad luck to open you in the house, and we don’t keep the fax machines outside.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Mac App is currently distributed outside of the App Store via installer downloaded from GitHub. The build is singed by Apple, so you don’t get an unknown developer alert, but I could easily distribute an unsigned build. So I think that already checks the outside the App Store freedom box?

The iOS app however is distributed within the App Store. Is there a better option? PWA?

For Android, similar to the App Store, a lot of Lemmy people dislike the Play Store. From a very non scientific poll I conducted, I estimated there is a 3:2 ratio of F-Droid to Play Store Lemmy users.

So alternative methods of distribution are very important, and I intend to offer those. But you also can’t rule out App Store and Play Store. It would be nice to eventually offer 2 options for every platform, but alas I’m just one person with limited time.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I’ll look into it, but I can’t make any promises

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I’ll be adding support to add your own server very soon. This will be in the update that adds PieFed support. Still doing a bunch of texting but maybe in two weeks.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Starting with the best: 8,2,3,4,6,7,5,1

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submitted 5 days ago by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/blorp@lemmy.ml

I broken the automatic update mechanism in 1.8.1. It's fixed in 1.8.3.

If you are on 1.8.1 or 1.8.2 and want more automatic updates, you can download 1.8.3 manually

After downloading 1.8.3, automatic updates should start to work again. If you happen to still be on 1.8.0 you shouldn't have to do anything.

Sorry for the inconvenience. PieFed support is coming soon. If you're interested, I encourage you to opt back into automatic updates.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I feel like I woke up in the stupidest timeline where climate change is about to kill us, we decide stupidly to 10x our power needs by shoving LLMs down everyone’s throats, and the only solution to stay private is to 10x our personal LLM usage by generating tons of noise about us just to stay private. So now we’re 100x ing everyone’s power usage and we’re going to die even sooner.

I think your idea is interesting – I was also thinking that same thing awhile back – but how tf did we get here.

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submitted 1 week ago by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/meta@lemm.ee

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

I loaded my entire Plex movie library in to Jellyfin and at first everything was going great. Realized pretty quickly some files won’t play on my Apple TV. I tried multiple Jellyfin apps for ATV but I imagine the issue is the transcoding on the backend.

I understand mixing open source software like Jellyfin with closed source Apple products is a weird combo. But I’m not willing to ditch my Apple TV right now.

I confirmed the video files that weren’t playing via Jellyfin played no problem via Plex. Plex continues to make decisions that make me want to switch to Jellyfin, but it also seems Plex’s transcoding is better. Am I doing something obviously wrong?

Edit: Looks like Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't pay nice with Jellyfin when it comes to hardware acceleration :(
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/#raspberry-pi-hardware-acceleration-support-deprecation

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm going to run this as a poll by creating some responses you can upvote. If you wouldn't mind upvoting a an existing comment so we get get a really nice count. See the comments I'm Leaving to get an idea of how the poll works. Try to follow my comment structure, but add your own options if you really feel I'm missing something.

I really hope this works how I'm envisioning. I really want to get an idea of operating system and platform preference skew for Lemmy.

How to vote:

  1. Upvote the operating system you use
  2. Upvote how your download the app of choice

If you use a browser

  1. Find the "Browser" comment and upvote
  2. Upvote the browser you use

If you use multiple, feel free to upvote multiple

For anything that isn't a vote, please search for the "bump comment" and reply to that. I know this isn't exactly open ended, but I really wanted to pose this question to a community that didn't skew towards a specific topic. I hope that's ok with this community and the mods. I would love to discuss the results of this poll at some point. My goal is to collect those results in a way that informs that discussion so we're not all guessing how people use Lemmy.

Edit: because there is a troll downvoting comments randomly, you should look at just the upvotes, not the score, to get the correct poll results.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/android@lemdro.id

Google requires a dozen or so beta testers before you are allowed to launch an app on the Play store publicly. Given that this community lives on Lemmy, and it’s full of Android users, I was hoping I could recruit a few people.

My app, “Blorp”, is already listed on the official Lemmy website for iOS, but Android has been delayed due to this requirement.

Would greatly appreciate your help, and if it turns out you like my app, I’m happy to make changes based on your feedback.

For closed testing, Google requires you join a linked Google Group before downing the app.

Step 1: Join the testing group

🔗 https://groups.google.com/g/blorp-android-app-testers

Step 2: Download the app

📱 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blorpblorp.app

Thanks in advance!

Edit: there’s also a Lemmy community if you want to stay up to date or ask questions !blorp@lemmy.ml

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submitted 1 month ago by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/blorp@lemmy.ml

See button at the top of the screenshot that says “New posts ⬆️”.

Basically I wanted to indicate if there are new posts at the top of the feed. But I don’t want to throw you to the top of the feed without you confirming that you want that. So this button says “hey, there are new posts to see if you’re interested”.

I like the idea, but I also don’t love that it eats into the screen real estate for your feed.

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submitted 1 month ago by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/blorp@lemmy.ml

For context, you can consider current Lemmy pre V1 and the upcoming update V1.

Lemmy has some big updates coming soon. Initially, when I wrote Blorp, it made sense to keep things simple and coupled to Lemmy since Lemmy is what I’m personally the most interested in. However, supporting current Lemmy versions and future Lemmy versions is going to require me to decouple Blorp from a specific version of the Lemmy API anyway.

A bunch of people have asked about PieFed support, and I’m realizing the groundwork I’m going to need to lay to support Lemmy v1 will likely make PieFed support much easier. I haven’t looked into MBin, but I imagine it may be similar.

I’m not really sure what the point of this is, other than a routine update post and bouncing ideas off you all. Likely, Lemmy will always be my top priority, but my plan is to update Blorp so it allows you to write adapters to plug into different but similar projects like Lemmy, PieFed, etc.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/blorp@lemmy.ml

This is a combination of a bunch of releases from the past week. iOS updates have been a little delayed, but as of today this is all on the App Store.

  • updated settings page look and feel
  • manage blocks from settings page
  • add button to block community
  • indicate when a post has been cross posted
  • default create post to most recently visited community
  • confirm before leaving community to prevent accidentally leaving
  • make sidebars a lot better
  • improve inbox notification indicators when using multiple accounts
  • make markdown rendering more closely match official Lemmy UI
  • fix scroll jumping when collapsing comments

We're also now listed on

I only have so much time to text other Lemmy apps, but I'm pretty confident that you aren't going to find a cross platform Lemmy app that handles account switching as smoothly as Blorp.

If you're enjoying Blorp, please take a moment to leave a comment, star us on GitHub, or share it with a friend ❤️

That's all for now. Keep Blorping

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submitted 1 month ago by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/android@lemmy.ml

Android requires I have a dozen beta testers before I'm allowed to push my app, Blorp, out to the store. My app is FOSS, has matching web, iOS, and MacOS versions with more to launch (e.g. Linux). My goal is to ship one unified Lemmy experience for all Platforms.

I'm really hoping to launch Android in the next few weeks, but I need a few more testers. If this sounds like something you're interested in, DM me with the email associated with your Android account. Google requires I add people by email to complete the required closed testing.

Hope this is ok to post here. Genuinely I want to deliver the best Android experience possible.

Some helpful links:

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submitted 1 month ago by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/blorp@lemmy.ml

Basically Ctrl+K or Cmd+K would trigger a menu that would let you search for pages, communes, users, maybe more without touching your mouse. The goal would be for you to say “I want to jump to this community” and be able to do that in less than 3 seconds and without touching your mouse. This would be more of a power user feature.

It would be powered by this library https://cmdk.paco.me/

I’m not really sure how many people are using Blorp on mobile vs desktop/web as I don’t collect any analytics data. But likely this would primarily benefit desktop and web users.

Btw, I’m starting a Matrix Chanel if you’re interested in joining. I would love your feedback in helping to shape Blorp. https://matrix.to/#/#blorp:matrix.org

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submitted 2 months ago by moseschrute@lemmy.ml to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world

Blorp is released to the App Store!

View Blorp on the App Store!

This is just the beginning! Hoping to launch Android very soon.

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