Ah, that’s the “Android navigation bar”. All I know is that Google really doesn’t want that bar to get hidden when the keyboard is open, as there’s otherwise no guaranteed way of closing the keyboard. So, I’m guessing, you’d need some extremely hacky methods which modify the OS, like XPosed or whatever is the current thing is in that regard…

Hmm, what do you mean with the bottom row? Presumably you don’t want to hide the row with the space bar on…?

I’m using FlorisBoard: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.patrickgold.florisboard/

Many people also like HeliBoard, which is somewhat simpler: https://f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard/

7. Cargo is truly great, but it’s a mystery to me right now how I’m going to get it to work with certain packaging systems.

Yeah, Cargo itself doesn’t deal with any of the bundling after the executable is built.

For that stuff, the efforts are certainly still ongoing. There’s no grand unified tool yet.

If you just want e.g. a DEB file, then you probably want this: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb

But if you want to do more in CI, then there’s kind of three popular options that I’m aware of.

• just: More or less a shell script runner, and kind of like make.
• cargo-make: A lot of effort has been put into this, it’s certainly got a good amount of features, but personally not a fan, since it makes you write a custom TOML format and then ideally you should be writing a custom script language, DuckScript. You can also use Rust scripts with it, which we tried, but there was just no way of passing parameters between tasks.
• cargo-xtask: This is not a tool, it’s a pattern, basically just build your own build tool. It does have its downfalls, you’re not going to build good caching into your own build tool, for example. But in principle I find this quite workable, as you get to write your CI code in Rust. There’s also more and more community-made libraries to aid with that.

The thing is, people willing to maintain a fork could contribute to Firefox today, and reduce the development cost, reduce the need for income.

Sure, some people will be more willing to contribute, if it’s a pure grassroots effort, or if they’re left without a browser otherwise, but to just assume that a fork will fix it, that’s wishful thinking.

Chromium is developed by Google. It’s not some grassroots fork with user interests in mind…

It’s probably at least a factor, yeah. They’ve been trying to reduce dependence on Google for a long time, which was always a smash hit with the community (not), but if there’s a very concrete scenario where will stop paying, then the urgency ramps up quickly.

I don’t know, if there’s any hosted instances of it, or how mature it is, but one of the Lemmy devs has experimented with using the frontend of phpBB (basically the software for old-school forums) with a Lemmy backend: !lemmybb@lemmy.ml

To my knowledge, they had some pretty quick successes with it and one might be able to just slap this onto a server right now…

All the initiatives I’ve read so far, did have pretty concrete suggestions for how laws should be changed. In my experience, law makers will gladly consider a suggestion, because making laws is hard. Yes, that means lobbying is rather easily possible, but consumers are the group that does the least amount of lobbying.

In this case, they mean “public property” as in it’s the property of the public. It’s owned by the government, by the tax payers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_property

On a phonetic level, some specialist will be able to discern the different E-sounds, but they’re still very similar. It’s definitely not like the English pronunciation where it’s completely different sounds.

What the hell, it’s originally Spanish where all the Es sound the same, then it got popularized by a German brand, where all the Es sound the same, how did it become Merceydees in English?

Ah, hmm, maybe that’s just how it works on Linux and macOS then. I was wondering, because Windows doesn’t support replacing files while they’re opened in a process, so I guess makes sense that it needs the restart upfront…

It’s a technical limitation why Firefox has to force the restart.

If you’re not on Linux (or using a build with auto-updater anyways), then the only way to stop this is to turn off auto-updates.
However, it will still notify of new updates and then you can decide when to do the update: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1448482

That is the case, if you’re updating it via package manager, yes. But if you’re using the built-in auto-updater (like people tend to do on Windows and macOS), then it happens automatically in the background, unless you tell the auto-updater to not update automatically.

Yeah, I had to figure out what it really is from Wikipedia and my two reactions were:

• Ubisoft has a ‘universe’? Huh, I guess, they do have a few franchises there.
• That actually sounds reasonably interesting. At least it’s not just yet another uninspired shooter.

And like, yeah, lacklustre marketing puts it quite well. I had heard of XDefiant before, but all I got from that was that it’s a shooter, which made me fall asleep immediately.
Had they sold it as “You ever wanted to pit the Splinter Cell guy against the Far Cry bandits?”, I would have at least remembered it.

But to be fair, a lot of games are currently coming out. It is difficult to be seen for pretty much all titles…

Some e-mail clients, like for example Thunderbird, do also support RSS.

I believe, you can also crush humans and it produces a red dye…

German dogs say “Wuff”. No idea what “Wöf” is.

I mean, that is more obvious and more readable.

But what I really don’t like about it, is that it’s less clear to what it applies. For example:

not list.isEmpty() and x > 3

Is that not (a and b) or (not a) and b?
Obviously, you can define precedence rules, like there also is for !, but that’s again just additional things to learn.
I’m definitely not generally opposed to special characters. I do also hate significant whitespace, because I find that less readable than braces.