Not really, it’s like building your own furniture, cool, but far from practical and not worth it for most people.

The only way it would help the cause is by decentralising a service that’s mostly on one host, like bluesky, but that’s not a problem on lemmy, and the main advantage can be done by switching to a more niche instance (lemmy.world -> lemdro.id / bsky.app -> eurosky)

Very interesting article on how apple’s icon and style guidelines shaped the look of app icons, I especially liked this part:

The shape of apps is a squircle. And it has been proven to work for everyone. Companies can use their logo as an app icon. Designers can create something specifically for the platform. And both of these get to look like an app. Whether people consider the squircle a container or a canvas, this uniform appearance communicates its function: a squircle represents an app, just like how a piece of paper represents a digital document, or a folder represents, well, a folder.

Semantically, there’s something really beautiful about that. As an icon designer, I appreciate that different types of things have visual distinction.

And I agree! Having different shapes mean different, clear things is quite valuable, especially in MacOS, where having executables all around your home directory is more common.

I mean that’s high but not unreasonable, especially with unified ram machines

Most people support these social media age gates:

https://documents.leger360.com/hubfs/Études Médiatiques/Études Médiatiques - 2026/5. Études Médiatiques Mai/Leger_Social_Media_Ban_2026.pdf (page 11)

this poll is for canada, not the eu, but I couldn’t find good polling for the EU.

Their “AI platform” thing is mostly marketing nonsense, they were around before the AI bubble, it’s the same tech as google translate (technically AI, but not the same kind).

My point was mostly that they should write a text in chinese the way they want then machine translate it to english, so the structure and substance is human-made.

it seems like their first language is chinese, and they can’t write well in english

Just so you know in the future it’d probably be better to write your post in chinese and then use deepl to translate it if you can’t write a good text in english. Might end up a tad stilted but people here would like it a lot more, since the text AI generates in english is both artificial (nobody talks like that) and annoying to read.

New compact mode is great, I might be in the minority here but I like the new design.

re: visibility Some sites have heavy visual effects that are paused when you tab out, which is a good use of the feature.

They literally did this too lmao

Faut dire que les français passent leur temps a se moquer des anglais, alors il y a quand même une certaine réciprocité.

Honestly the refreshed oxygen theme here looks sick, I think a lot of people will use it, especially with skeuomorphism making a comeback.

The new panel looks incredible

I’d be fascinated to see how the US would be if it were completely legal to do basically anything as long as it was triggered through code.

Although I personally much prefer the compose key because of how much faster it is, this is an amazing feature for less tech-savvy people.

There’s also that store that Universal Blue is pushing

Bazaar. Flatpak-only, genuinely the best software store I have ever used.

I may be misinformed but the article says

We’ve verified that every AST produced by the Rust parser is identical to the C++ one, and all bytecode generated by the Rust compiler is identical to the C++ compiler’s output.

which I took to mean that the new code behaves 100% identically to the old code, like a byte-perfect decompilation. If that’s not the case and it’s just the same in their suite of tests then I’d agree with you.

Yeah, using AI to help you rewrite code (which is tedious) in a scenario where there are clear test cases (it either works or it doesn’t) is basically the ideal usecase.

Actually not a terrible way to use AI. Hopefully the port goes well

I hate when that happens on mobile, do they think people have infinite data??