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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023
  • brisk@aussie.zonetoProgramming@programming.dev•FOSS Browser replacement projects?
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    27 days ago

    I’m not 100% confident I’ve understood the assignment, but I’ve been playing with a couple of app frameworks in rust that target the Web that might be of interest to you.

    Dioxus - Reactive framework. Document markup is html with its own syntax, styling is CSS but all scripting is rust. Cross platform (web, android, ios [xcode required], linux, mac, windows) but using webviews for all of those, definitely Web first.

    slint - Reactive framework again, has its own Domain Specific Language (DSL) for markup that’s not too distant from an html/css hybrid. Simple scripting can be done in the DSL but it also ties trivially into the rust side. This does its own rendering rather than generating html documents or using a webview, I believe even when targeting the web (via wasm).

    Tauri - Gets brought up a lot when talking about web apps in rust, but I haven’t dug into it.

    If looking into any of these sounds like the sort of thing you might be after, then I suggest having a scroll through AreWeGuiYet for other rust GUI frameworks. If I remember correctly, a significant fraction of those target web technologies, althought the filters on that website have never been all that useful.

  • brisk@aussie.zonetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.
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    1 month ago

    People bought excess of lots of things, toilet paper just was more noticeable more quickly because of it’s huge volume to value ratio, and slow restocking (in part because of that ratio, it’s not worth warehousing so there was little flexibility in the supply chain).

    Once the shortage started becoming obvious it was self-perpetuating, you needed to buy what toilet paper you could when you could because you didn’t know when you would be able to buy again. The supermarkets near me at the time had no toilet paper restocked for more than three months as supplies got redirected to “higher priority” stores.

  • brisk@aussie.zonetoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
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    2 months ago

    Some of this is the fault of the design of Word. Even modern versions have direct formatting in the Home tab, to the left (chronologically “before” for people used to left-to-right paradigms) of the styles box. The styles box itself becomes rapidly less accessible if the window is not full sized.

    If they moved direct formatting to a formatting tab, had a more focused concept of styles, and possibly repurposed some of the direct formatting buttons for quick style application, people would use them a lot more reliably without any training.

  • brisk@aussie.zonetoTechnology@beehaw.org•The inarguable case for banning social media for teens
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    2 months ago

    This is exactly the conversation that happened in Parliament over the Australian social media ban and its absurd.

    There is a broad recognition that in a regulatory vacuum corporate social media created toxic and addictive “engagement”-maximising algorithms that harm all facets of society exposed to them.

    So a solution is proposed: ban it for children.

    When exactly, did it become fine for corporations to actively and deliberately harm people as long as they were old enough? How about preventing the harm?

    It would be just as easy for a government to ban opaque and engagement maximising feed algorithms. But they went with the option that allows “tech” giants to keep harming the less marketable 80% of the population.