Why Silicon Valley Billionaries Like Peter Thiel Turned Against Trump
Tech heavyweights who helped ignite Trump’s candidacy have told close associates they feel alienated from the GOP and are casting about for a candidate who more closely aligns with their extreme pro-business agenda.
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Completely agree! Gnome is nice but never been able to move past KDE if I had to pick a full blown DE.
The really weird part was this:
The amendment's language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.
I mean I know that they love to mix things together, but this might be the first time I’ve seen abortion linked to pedophilia and supporting rapists.
Just as an aside, donating does not have to be monetary. Helping (if possible) with development, triaging issues or helping with support/forums of any kind, along with in general filing good issues goes miles for FOSS projects, especially larger ones with only a few developers.
Serious thanks for all of your hard work, as well as everyone else working on Lemmy through software of running instances.
Memmy is ready 👍
PayPal is notorious for displaying meaningless errors for just about everything, even when it is intentional. Might not be the case here, but they definitely do things like this.
Though if I had to put my money on it, if it isn’t a bug it’s an anti fraud measure of some sort.
Another word on a more upbeat topic.
First, I have a Giphy implementation in the works to add to Memmy. In terms of privacy, I have taken steps to mitigate tracking that comes along with the use of a Meta product while also helping to allow users to communicate with more than just text.
Giphy has a SDK already made for React Native. Unfortunately, it has some “analytics” wrapped in. The API itself can be used without those analytics, but that comes at the cost of the almost certain tracking they do with just the searches and your IP.
As a result, this is what I came up with:
- You submit a search for a GIF (think Discord’s GIF search
- The request is sent to a Memmy server which then processes the request for you
- You receive a response with both the direct URL to each of the GIF results as well as a proxy URL. All of the results are displayed to you through the proxy.
- When you select a GIF, the direct link is added to your post or comment as an image embed.
- In a future update, there are plans for Lemmy to offer built in proxying of images. Hopefully this will be available soon. However if it is not, for 30 minutes the GIF you added to the comment will continue to be proxied through Memmy so as not to create an immediate link to you creating the request for the image.
This is somewhat similar to the Signal implementation of Giphy some time ago. I’m focused on cleaning up some other issues right now, but I’d like to add this in sometime in the near future. Will keep you posted.
A sincere thank you for the kind words :)
As I mention above, the second half of this message is not intended for the vast majority of users. And even for the users it is geared toward, it isn’t meant to be rude at all but to be informative.
I completely get how easy it is to forget that large projects are often times the result of a handful of people all with their own daily lives to deal with. I’ve run into a number of projects recently that have absolutely blown my mind when it comes to the difference in the size of the team vs the size of the product.
Login Issues. Reply with other issues here.
There were some issues over the past week with logins.
I migrated from storing JWTs in the app’s file system to using the iOS Keychain to store them. This prevents - mainly for users with jailbreaks - other applications being able to access tokens.
The issue was caused by the iOS Keychain not being updated whenever the JWT was changed. So, if you signed into an account that already had an existing but invalid JWT, it would have not removed and overwritten the old one. This is fixed now along with ensuring that Memmy operates fine with 0.19. (Version 1.1.4, still waiting on Apple to approve the App Store release).
Now, this isn’t for 99 percent of you, but yet it still needs to be said. I have said before and will continue to say: I am a single person (Sean has his own obligations) working on this right now. It has consumed a lot of time, and that is fine to me. However I also have life commitments.
I totally understand that if the app is not functioning that you are going to migr
Should be fine now. (Assuming that you’re on TestFlight. Waiting for Apple for the App Store.
I am a single person working on this right now. I am totally fine with you using whichever app you need to use, and I understand that if it wasn’t working for you that you’re going to switch. I have my own life commitments as well that I have to make, and managing issues through email, GitHub, and Lemmy is not feasible in the slightest.
That said, these issues are fixed now. If you want to update and use it, that’s great. If you prefer voyager that is fine too.
I will work on it over the weekend. Thanks.
Wow, a whopping 100k from Shopify, that’s awesome!
Oh for sure. I’m just glad they keep doing this harmless shit. But, the scary thing is that the more they escalate and see it doesn’t work, the more they will keep escalating.
High praise to all the people working the elections these days ❤️
Don’t understand what these people think would be accomplished by sending the stuff in the mail like that. Touching it isn’t going to do anything. Inhaling I supposed, but it would be rather difficult to accidentally inhale it especially after being packed during mailing.
At least a potato would keep their mouth shut.
It would probably take a lot of iterations of tweaks for the overlords to fix that one.
Better plot than most movies these days.
Same thing here. Seeing people who were born in like 2006 as adults always trips me up for a second.
It seems like the videos I’m not too interested in watching thing always work. When I really want to see it, nope.
Hello from Memmy!
Howdy all! Hopefully you are doing well.
It has been quite some time since the last update, and for that I do apologize. Both personal commitments and just the need to take a step back have had both Sean and I not really working much on the app. However, here is some news from Memmy.
The initial releases of Memmy taught me a lot about React Native. Making an app this feature filled is fairly difficult, and it grew quickly and fell apart in a lot of areas. Seeing all of those short comings, I have gone ahead and addressed them from the ground up.
The number one issue was the UI framework that was in use. Somehow, the arguably most used UI framework for React Native had exceptionally terrible performance. That has now been completely removed from Memmy. What we are working with now produces renders in within 2ms of base React Native components.
Additionally, the state has been completely reworked. No longer should there be any real issues there. I’ve taken care to try and make
Memmy Update! Still here, sorry for the delay!
Hey guys! Sorry for being AWOL for the past few days. I’ve been taking some personal time and stepped away for a bit. Going to be cleaning up some more stuff and pushing out some good stuff to you guys soon.
This build here - for real this time - offers significant performance enhancements. There is more to be done, but this is a great start.
Here’s some changes:
- Hide username in the tab bar
- Some context menu refactors
- Add bug report option
- We have replaced the old UI library with a new one. There are still some quirks to work out, and we will be handling those over the next few days. This offers quite a significant performance boost over the last library.
- Using more stable variables to prevent unnecessary re-renders. This is one part of the performance improvements.
- Fix infinite refreshing attempts of an empty community
- Added option to delete posts. This was something I threw in tonight and will be finishing edit post tomorrow. I also have the mod tools ready to go,
Latest: Keyword and Instance Filtering, Mark Read on Scroll
As the title says. Features are now available on TestFlight. Apple should approve the release on Monday, so let's hope that happens and it's available everywhere. Cheers.
Edit: Noticed a problem with the marking as read. Fixed now and I'll update here shortly.
Memmy 0.5 - Should be available later int the day
Hey all!
It may have seemed to be a slow week, but I have been toiling rewriting a significant portion of the codebase while staring at graphs so that we can better implement new features. Currently, the state management was a bit too spread out, so I have taken the time to centralize that. This is going to make things like mod tools a cinch to integrate, and I plan to do that this coming week (seriously).
These changes should also provide some pretty good performance enhancements. To be sure, this is not a complete effort yet, however I have overhauled the two biggest things: feeds and posts/comments. These are the two biggest performance bottlenecks, and I think I’ve gotten about 80% of the way there in improving the performance there. Still more work to do though!
Additionally, we should see another significant performance boost in the next portion of the rewrite, which will remove off the current UI library that we use and replace it with a much better performing library. That
Memmy Progress Update
Hey all!
I am doing a rewrite right now of the state management so that we can scale a lot better. This is going to allow for a super seamless integration of mod tools as well as other integrations throughout the app.
I am aware of some issues with the drawer right now, especially whenever a user has a large number of subscriptions. We are working on clearing that up.
I'm also aware of some performance issues, especially on older devices. Two things are being done to correct this:
- Better state management
- Stripping out one of the UI libraries that is used and replacing it with either another library or raw React Native components.
These will probably be done by the end of the week. I think these are two things that are super important to knock out now to keep things scalable. I'm learning here as we move along, and am fixing things up as I see issues arise 👍
Thanks for all the feedback, and know that some absolutely great things are coming your way very soon! Cheers
Memmy v0.4 - Upcoming Release Today - Swipe to go back on the tab bar, drawer for communities, iOS 14 dropdowns, performance and other bug fixes, and more
Hey all!
This should be available sometime later in the day. Huge thanks for a few new contributors - @joshua-davis-rose and @bohn002 - for putting in a lot of work as well.
- Subscriptions now available in a drawer instead of "Traverse". More of an Apollo-esque style
- Switch accounts by pressing and holding the profile button. Feed header now allows you to select Local/All/Subscriptions
- Continuing to improve image viewer
- Saving images and sharing images now uses the cached files to share, so you don't need to re-download them
- Alphabetized subscription list
- Community about screen now shows moderators
- You can swipe back using anywhere in the tab bar (I've been experimenting with full-screen swipe back as well, once I get that ironed out a bit more we will add that too)
- UI now uses the iOS 14+ dropdowns for context menus
- Cleaned up some issues with longer community names, but there are still more to handle. Keep an eye out.
- Subscriber count is now in the community sear
Memmy Poll - Gauging Community Feedback on Rebranding - Give Us Suggestions!
Edit: Want to make this a sugestion thread, so please let us know your ideas on themes or names below.
Howdy all!
We have been internally discussing a rebranding of Memmy to another name. This has been a discussion for some time, and although we have certainly tried to see the upsides of not rebranding, we don't think this is a viable long-term option, for - among others - the following reasons:
- Eventual support for non-Lemmy services such as Kbin or Mastodon
- User awareness of Lemmy. Right now, the vast majority of people who are finding the app most likely are specifically searching for "Lemmy". While that's great and (based on trends on downloads/day) shows that there's obviously a big demand for Lemmy, we think this might not be the best way to grow - not just for ourselves but for Lemmy as a whole. We want the fediverse to grow and the best way to do that is to make it acceptable and easy to access without specifically targeting people who already know about Lemmy
Huge Image Viewer Improvements 🥳
Coming to the App Store tomorrow!
Hey all! We still have some more QOL updates coming tomorrow or Saturday. Working on getting comments all sorted up (more like the Apollo style) and getting post editing/deletion as well as mod tools underway.
This update provides a VAST improvement to the image viewer. There shouldn't be any more issues with the swiping to close.
There are some issues still but they are minor and I'll get them cleaned up here soon. I've spent the day writing this viewer from scratch, so it's been a process.
The "white flash of death" should be fixed here as well when you open up the app.
We also now support localization! German is officially supported now, and we will be sourcing other languages to improve the experience for everyone.
Other minor fixes as well in this build, including a fix for a crash that was happening with the new spoilers.
Stay tuned, and happy scrolling!
Crash Fix Released on Both TestFlight and AppStore
Over night I had a LOT of reports come in about a crash. I have fixed these issues and this version is now live on both the App Store and TestFlight.
Please keep sending that information in! Thanks!
Lemmy.world issues
There is currently something going on over at Lemmy.world causing authentication issues. This isn't a memmy specific issue but is also plaguing the PWA. https://lemmy.world/post/1364490
Until this is fixed, the best bet it to just keep "retrying". This would explain some of the issues I thought were linked to issues inside the app but might be something else.
I have an update ready that will fix a bunch of these internal issues with the app, but unfortunately it's going to break Lemmy.world terribly for anyone using it, so I'm going to hold off on releasing that until they figure out what is going on.
App Store Update Released 🥳 - Please Update Your Account if on Lemmy.world - Working on better fix now - Push notifications online, fixing some issues there too
App store version is up.
If you are on Lemmy.world, you need to update your JWT token. Sorry, this was not intuitive and there is no proper error message. This is my fault and we seriously just never got around to this.
Please go to "Manage Accounts" and then tap your Lemmy.world account. Hit "Edit Account", enter your password, then hit save. You should be back up and running.