I'm talking about people downvoting from all - if you're seeing content from some niche or geographic community because you're viewing all then downvoting something you're not interested in is a dick move.

I haven't watched, but assuming it's good I'm guessing it's idiots viewing the all feed and downvoting anything they're not personally interested in.

It doesn't help that the official Lemmy docs say downvote things you don't like, which is only good guidance when you have an algorithm you're training.

I know right, kids tomorrow...

xennials

Ah, I was trying to remember what the term for that micro-gen was (I didn't think it was xennial but it probably makes sense than the one I forgot).

I guess it's the King's English now. I'm always careful to avoid spelling things the US way, because as a programmer there's some things (yup, like color) that I type more often in the US version than international English and muscle memory's a sticky bugger.

curtesy of zagorath

fyi, you mean courtesy - curtesy is an old legal term.

I've only just found the channel, and am currently watching the one on Biomimicry. Glad to hear the quality's consistent.

It makes sense, and would lead to cleaner diffs. Breaking my muscle memory for uppercase keywords would be tricky, though.

I can't see the numbers in future getting any better, unless big changes are made. Many pilgrims are quite old, since some need many years to save up enough for the journey, and of course the temperature's only going to be going up (even after La Niña).

It's part of the rituals to get the timing exactly right, so it's not like it can be moved to cooler months, like has been proposed for the Summer Olympics. It is moving earlier by a week and a half each year (because of the Islamic calendar) but when you're talking 51.8C that's not really moving the needle.

I'd heard talk of health-monitoring bracelets, which seems sensible.

“Their analysts determined that frustrating the user results in more time spent on the app—and more time viewing ads—than if users are satisfied. Remember in ‘The Matrix’ when The Architect tells Neo that the first virtual world the robots created was a utopia, but the people rejected it? It works sort of like that.”

Brilliant.

I forgot that Lance Armstrong was in this - quite fitting for a satire.

He's a baddie from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Fixes catastrophic data loss, er, bug, er poorly documented feature... user error

Gotta love the Register

@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website here's to you, everyone's favourite stargazing memelord! Without you, Lemmy would be a quieter and less funny place. Cheers!

Huh, I never knew there was a mobile version of the site.

I've just had a quick poke around, and you can load up other people's work - there's a massive variety which shows just how much is in this simulation program.

You can load up simulations with the bottom-left icon, then hit the pause button that's bottom right to start them off. If any talk about "sparking" they mean use the SPRK tool to put electricity in the thing they're talking about - you can search for SPRK using the search tool above the pause button, or find it under the Electronics menu (second one in that right-hand side with the plug icon).

A great read, thanks for sharing.

Here's the post they made on Reddit:

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Hi everyone. I wanted to post a quick update on the plans that are progressing around the Bitwarden mobile app. For those of you that don’t know, our current mobile app is created using a technology called Xamarin, a framework provided by Microsoft that allows you to create a single app that works on both iOS and Android. I chose Xamarin in the early days of Bitwarden because it was a technology that I was proficient at (.NET and C#) and it afforded me the time to maintain a mobile app along with all the other apps I was building for Bitwarden. Xamarin is a real time saver, for sure and it has served us well over the past 8 years, but it comes with some downsides as well:

• Our Xamarin app doesn’t “feel native”. It’s obvious to anyone using our app that something feels off about it. The design, responsiveness, and overall usability give a negative impression compared to native apps.
• Our Xamarin app is a bit sluggish and uses a lot more resources on your device than you might expect.
• Microsoft is making drastic changes to Xamarin’s future and are re-developing it into a new product, now called MAUI. Support for Xamarin is ending. Unfortunately, the transition to MAUI has been a subpar experience for us.
• Xamarin doesn’t give us access to cutting edge features. When new features come out on iOS and Android we have to wait for Microsoft to support those features in Xamarin before we can use them in our app. This is why we have been slow to adopt passkey in our mobile apps, for example.

Because of some of these things, and because we have matured as an engineering organization here at Bitwarden, Xamarin doesn’t make sense for us to pursue any longer.

Early last year we began planning to retire our Xamarin-based mobile apps and made the decision to transition our mobile apps to fully native apps written in Swift (for iOS) and Kotlin (for Android). Over the past 6 months we have been actively developing these new native apps and at this time they are nearing completion. I wanted to share some sneak peeks of these new apps and rollout plans over the coming months with you all.

The upgrade to MAUI

In an effort to support passkeys sooner than later, we’ve had a parallel effort going on with adding passkey support in the existing Xamarin-based mobile app. This required us to “upgrade” the Xamarin app to the new MAUI framework. As anticipated, the upgrade has not been smooth, however, we are nearing the completion of that project and plan to release this temporary solution soon. Although this is largely a new app under the hood, overall, the new MAUI shouldn’t look or feel any different than the Xamarin app that we have today.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rVQOESKbbA

Native app release

In a few months you will begin to see our completely revamped native mobile apps roll out. These new apps will look and feel different. They are completely new Bitwarden apps. Hopefully you will notice large improvements to the overall experience of using the mobile apps. The designs are different, using all native platform controls, but the layouts still follow similar user flows that we already have.

iOS

• Demo video: https://youtu.be/P0vfb0HygGU
• Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/zGD23Kd

Android

• Demo video: https://youtu.be/Wj2es4JH8g4
• Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/ZYUzs48

Design iteration

Now that we have new native apps to build upon, following their initial release we also plan to begin introducing other UX improvements and redesign how you interact with certain flows throughout the app. This may include things like redesigning certain screens entirely, optimization of critical user flows, and introducing onboarding walkthroughs for new users. These types of updates are informed by usability research conducted by our product design team and tested with volunteers from the Bitwarden community.

In closing, we understand that our mobile app has lagged behind in recent years. Xamarin served us well, but it’s time to move on. When released, we hope you will all enjoy the new native apps we have been working hard at building. Your feedback is important to help make the experience of using Bitwarden great for everyone.

At first I thought it was another safe with even more money, and I was wondering if I should get a magnet.

Its IMDb page is a bit sus: the reviews are an almost unbroken stream of gushing 10 star reviews, but there's plenty of people voting it 1 star too. Astroturfing or just polarising?