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  • Well yes, we use double quotes as you said, it may be annoying, but not difficult, sanitization is another matter.
    I actually don't remember of any terminal application that has issues with that, that's why I made the original question

    Edit: I understood now why you mentioned sanitization, double quotes shouldn't be an issue because in filenames they are forbidden by the OS usually, that's on the user if they try

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  • Unpopular opinion maybe, but that's just called bad programming.
    For strictly code we can't use spaces obviously, user input, on the other hand, should be handled gracefully always, not doing so is like those platforms that only supported ASCII even after the international userbase was already very prominent because the devs were just too lazy to update their systems to use Unicode (Windows is still like that with Powershell I discovered recently... shudders)

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  • I don't disagree, though I think they're just a very minor annoyance that is easily adjusted with double quotes and tab autocompletion.
    Personally I prefer to use spaces for many user facing files, like documents and images/media

  • What are some good European Lemmy instances?

    Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions! Do keep them coming as it might be helpful for others who come across this, since it seems quite a few users are (understandably) bleeding from lemmy.world these days, like myself

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    I was looking for a solid instance to move to, but I'm getting burned out from trying to find the perfect instance that:

    • is based in a country with reasonable privacy reputation (if it still fits the bill, outside Europe too is fine)
    • allows creating communities without admin approval (I'm willing to try getting into one of those too if needed, hopefully it would be accepting of creating niche communities though)
    • doesn't defederate indiscriminately

    The tool I used is lemmyverse.net but it seems the filtering isn't working great, or I just don't understand it, e.g. I filter by Italian language and the only Italian instance I know (feddit.it) doesn't show up, while a slew of irrelevant ones is listed (Lemmy Português is there??)

    Sorry if I sound so needy, maybe I'm just overthinking it, since posts are public and indexable by anyone. Do say so, if I should chill out and just pick one of the usual ones like lemm.ee etc.

    P.S. I would love to self-host, but I'm currently not able to either, I don't have enough technical expertise.

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    Posting personal projects

    Is it ok to post personal projects regardless of size? What I mean is, if we can post, does it have to be something actually good and useful, or can it be little toy projects as well?

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    What happened to Tumblr joining the Fediverse?

    Do we know any more about the plans of Tumblr for when it will join the Fediverse? Matt did say "ASAP" at the time. Start of July saying they're still working on it, did he simply underestimate how big of an undertaking it would be?

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    How to keep panels visible when going into Overview?

    In this video I see that the top panel somehow stays visible when they enable the overview effect, but I found no setting to do that, is it because I'm not using Latte dock, but using the built-in panel instead?

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    Private DNS doesn't apply to devices connected through hotspot?

    I've set a specific provider under the Private DNS setting and it works for the direct connection between the phone and the network, but it won't work on the devices that are connected to the hotspot of my phone, they instead fall back onto the default DNS of my ISP. Is there a way to force that DNS on all the devices connected?

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    The excitement over the ports of third party apps to Lemmy is overblown

    Don't get me wrong, bringing more visibility to the platform will always be good, but wanting to jump ship from e.g. Jerboa to a port of one of those proprietary apps (Boost, Sync, etc.) kinda defeats the point of using an open platform in the first place.

    I fully believe that each app developer should get their work recognized and make their apps paid if they wanted, I'm sure many will be inclined to buy them from the store still because of the convenience and/or wanting to support the developer.

    But I think alongside the API conversion there should also be a shift in the development paradigm that follows up on the culture of the whole platform, Lemmy is free (as in freedom I mean) software, most of the Fediverse is, of course no one forces you to make your client free too, but the developers should feel encouraged to embrace that way of working and in turn users should be attracted to options that were made so, that will also foster powerful growth of the platform when everyone can examine, learn and contribute since clients play a crucial part in the interaction with the service

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    Fan art contest | New icon and banner

    Announcement

    To get the party started, I'd like to get you involved, how about running a contest for fan art to use as the new icons and/or banner?

    If you're up for it, then post in the community and then post a link to your post as comment down here. The post with the most upvotes will be used.

    Rules

    1. You must be the author
    2. Must not be NSFW ¯\\\_ (ツ) _/¯
    3. Must be licensed as either CC-BY-4.0 or CC-BY-SA-4.0 or any compatible licenses
    4. Can reuse old fan art (if it still respects the previous rules)

    I think I'll let the contest run for 1 or 2 months, since both the community and the service itself is pretty new I want to wait and see it pick up some steam. I'll update if there's any changes.

    Thoughts (and prayers)?

    Do let me know your thoughts down here!

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)QU
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