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Thread: display managers
Post: RE: display managers
| I wish I needed to use a display manager for that extra layer of smooth transition during bootup. Without one, the second or so of blank TTY shown during an auto-login isn't ideal.
A similar area tha... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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23-08-2021, 07:19 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (23-08-2021, 07:02 AM)_-_Specter_-_ Wrote: I edited the separate screenshots together in GIMP.
cool cool - gonna have to do this myself for when i have multiple screens that i want to screenshot tog... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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23-08-2021, 07:13 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (23-08-2021, 04:22 AM)_-_Specter_-_ Wrote: Here's my desktop (several images of it, actually):
cleeeeannn. Cool editing too - looks like your 4 screenshots are windows themselves. Is that how you ma... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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23-08-2021, 06:41 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book
| (23-03-2021, 01:51 PM)movq Wrote: Changing the tiling layout. That requires resizing all currently visible clients and we want to do that atomically. An X11 WM like dwm just loops over the clients, ... |
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mcol |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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09-04-2021, 07:02 AM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-04-2021, 06:42 AM |
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Thread: Tiling Wallpapers.
Post: RE: Tiling Wallpapers.
| (15-03-2021, 05:32 AM)opfez Wrote: I have a folder full of Lain-related gifs, some of them work well as tiling wallpapers (especially those prefixed with `bg`). I've dumped it here: http://fixedpoin... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-04-2021, 06:38 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (11-02-2021, 09:44 AM)phillbush Wrote: This is how my desktop looks like now:
https://i.imgur.com/NzOqL9A.mp4
Looks awesome, I just posted on pmenu's repo about Wayland support which I'd love to se... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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11-02-2021, 10:01 AM |
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Thread: Unix file hierarchy
Post: RE: Unix file hierarchy
| Now software can check both the environment and systemd-path! |
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mcol |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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07-02-2021, 06:37 AM |
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Thread: Unix file hierarchy
Post: RE: Unix file hierarchy
| (02-02-2021, 06:22 PM)venam Wrote: The decoupling is advantageous in a sense but it is arguably very Windows registry-like in my opinion and probably comes with the same issues.
What issues might pe... |
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mcol |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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06-02-2021, 07:33 AM |
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Thread: Useful Android Apps To Own
Post: RE: Useful Android Apps To Own
| (19-01-2021, 06:31 AM)jolia Wrote: i don't do much on my phone, only text, calls, bit scrolling but that's it.
*has giant list of apps*
How you finding lineage? I got a pinephone last Spring and ha... |
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mcol |
Android & Iphone
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25-01-2021, 07:51 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (22-01-2021, 06:57 PM)jkl Wrote: Python is a mess, honestly...I like Python the language, but the ecosystem... not so much. I have to use conda at work and any time I have to run the `conda` command... |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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25-01-2021, 07:48 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| (09-01-2021, 07:47 PM)neeasade Wrote: Lot's of interesting notes and aspirations in this thread.
For sure... this is a nice kick to consider ways to change and grow.
(07-01-2021, 09:00 AM)sulami W... |
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mcol |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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16-01-2021, 04:27 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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19-11-2020, 08:05 AM |
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Thread: Tiling Wallpapers.
Post: RE: Tiling Wallpapers.
| (11-11-2020, 03:05 PM)neeasade Wrote: I had hooked it up to a script to preview the bg on every edit
Nice, and this script would work well with other programs such as pixelorama which is quite nice.... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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12-11-2020, 03:40 PM |
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Thread: Tiling Wallpapers.
Post: RE: Tiling Wallpapers.
| Lot of great stuff in this thread.
Anyone got a good workflow for making their own, and want to share their wisdom? |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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10-11-2020, 08:01 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| That took some time but it's here: http://pbbs.sakura.ne.jp/cgi/girlsillust...p?res=3124.
Try and find this (hopefully not too obvious):
[Image: https://f.mcol.xyz/1604849399.png] |
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mcol |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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08-11-2020, 12:31 PM |
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Thread: Wayland server libraries: wlroots, libweston, swc
Post: RE: Wayland server libraries: wlroots, libweston, ...
| wio looks awesome. I'm surprised to hear it took a while to get one started. Were there particular issues you had? I found just running some in a TTY started a session (although I didn't try that many... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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08-11-2020, 11:52 AM |
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Thread: Wayland server libraries: wlroots, libweston, swc
Post: Wayland server libraries: wlroots, libweston, swc
| When building a wayland compositor, a decision has to be made about which library (if any) to use as a foundation on top of which to implement the more unique features specific to the compositor. This... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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03-11-2020, 09:58 AM |
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Thread: xnotify: popup a notification on your screen
Post: RE: xnotify: popup a notification on your screen
| (01-11-2020, 09:49 PM)phillbush Wrote: Which notification system do you use and how do you set a keybinding to pause it?
Maybe that isn't the solution as I want to keep xnotify simple and don't make... |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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02-11-2020, 07:44 AM |
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Thread: xnotify: popup a notification on your screen
Post: RE: xnotify: popup a notification on your screen
| I use a custom one i hacked together and normally notifications appear above fullscreen windows. I have a keybinding that "pauses" all notifications, and after I hit it again they are replayed. This i... |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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01-11-2020, 08:48 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (30-10-2020, 01:28 PM)vain Wrote: Would it be possible to do “square” pixels?
For sure. I actually initially planned to add a '--small' option to the converter to use "▀", "▄" and "█" but decided I... |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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30-10-2020, 06:13 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| This week I wrote a little program to convert BDF fonts into FIGfonts, the font format that figlet uses. Half way through making it, I discovered in the depths of github a pre-existing perl script wit... |
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Programming On Unix
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29-10-2020, 05:27 PM |
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Thread: Is there an X11 utility to scale a window?
Post: RE: Is there an X11 utility to scale a window?
| (21-08-2017, 09:41 PM)Tmplt Wrote: As a hacky workaround, I could probably use xrandr(1)'s --scale option, but the less I have to mess with my monitors' alignments, the better.
Scaling to view only ... |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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27-10-2020, 01:20 PM |
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Thread: xoop: a tool to make the X cursor loop around the screen
Post: RE: xoop: a tool to make the X cursor loop around ...
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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24-10-2020, 07:18 AM |
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Thread: xoop: a tool to make the X cursor loop around the screen
Post: RE: xoop: a tool to make the X cursor loop around ...
| Oh I think i understand what you mean... it you were going round and round the torus (say, left to right, left to right) several times, you'd want to scroll to keep going further and further? That wou... |
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Programming On Unix
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23-10-2020, 08:56 AM |
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Thread: xoop: a tool to make the X cursor loop around the screen
Post: RE: xoop: a tool to make the X cursor loop around ...
| Oh very interesting! Their approach to the event monitoring isn't ideal, but they have a good idea for how to deal with setups with multiple desktops that are arranged in a complicated non-rectangular... |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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22-10-2020, 09:02 PM |
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Thread: Hello
Post: RE: Hello
| (22-10-2020, 10:50 AM)stratex Wrote: I'm more interested in enhancing the workflow, and making something faster/efficient, rather than making something beautiful (aka ricing).It could be argued that... |
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mcol |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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22-10-2020, 08:56 PM |
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Thread: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
Post: RE: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
| Nice pics rami, super nice.
(21-10-2020, 08:32 AM)z3bra Wrote: The "glitches" are ants digging on tge root window. Search for "xantfarm"
Lol this is awesome. |
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22-10-2020, 08:11 AM |
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Thread: xoop: a tool to make the X cursor loop around the screen
Post: RE: xoop: a tool to make the X cursor loop around ...
| I've not heard of taralli, and searching online didn't yield anything. Might you have a link for it?
xoop basically teleports the pointer to the other side of the screen, but the pointer continues wh... |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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22-10-2020, 08:01 AM |
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Thread: twtxt
Post: RE: twtxt
| Huh, that's pretty clever... perhaps a bit hacky, but if it works, it works! I do wonder what implications that approach might have for people who are able to upload files for web access but are unabl... |
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mcol |
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21-10-2020, 07:42 PM |
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Thread: Netflix from the command line?
Post: RE: Netflix from the command line?
| (20-10-2020, 01:14 PM)jolia Wrote: is kodi able to run netflix?Yep! I use it to watch netflix on my TV, using a raspberry pi. Works great. |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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20-10-2020, 02:30 PM |
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Thread: twtxt
Post: RE: twtxt
| A guy I was just chatting to on mastodon about twtxt linked me these, which appear to be quite good for finding people:
http://twtxt.xyz/
https://webring.xxiivv.com/#twtxt/ |
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mcol |
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20-10-2020, 01:53 PM |
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Thread: twtxt
Post: RE: twtxt
| I would love to see a relay between mastodon (or more generally ActivityPub, I guess?) and twtxt. I don't want both a mastodon account and a twtxt instance, but I want to self host, and I want to self... |
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20-10-2020, 08:47 AM |
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Thread: Netflix from the command line?
Post: RE: Netflix from the command line?
| Rami it looks like you're considering hacking together a client ;)
If so, it might be useful to check out kodi. It downloads ChromeOS and extracts Widevine Content Decryptor or something in order to ... |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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20-10-2020, 07:23 AM |
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Thread: twtxt
Post: RE: twtxt
| I read through lots of the twtxt github pages and discussion here and I think I am pretty sold to the idea. The difference in terms of actual usage does seem similar to many platforms -- with the main... |
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mcol |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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19-10-2020, 07:26 PM |
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Thread: Battlestations!
Post: RE: Battlestations!
| (16-10-2020, 05:30 AM)jolia Wrote: - fender mustangThat the baby blue one? More pics! |
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mcol |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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16-10-2020, 08:05 AM |
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Thread: Git updater shell script
Post: RE: Git updater shell script
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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15-10-2020, 09:03 AM |
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Thread: Git updater shell script
Post: RE: Git updater shell script
| Looks useful!
Along a simlar vein is gita which keeps a list of your local git folders and can perform tasks on all of them, much like you do. I assume gita would have good error handling -- for exam... |
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mcol |
Programming On Unix
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14-10-2020, 03:19 PM |
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Thread: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
Post: RE: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
| (13-10-2020, 06:41 PM)z3bra Wrote: gopher menus don't support inline imagesAh I see, right.
Using a gopher-to-http proxy for links to images seems like unnecessary complexity but yeah I suppose it ... |
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14-10-2020, 03:09 PM |
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Thread: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
Post: RE: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
| (11-10-2020, 11:01 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: Hmmm so it's not worth trying?Try what exactly? As jkl says above, gopher doesn't do inline images so it would be a different experience than the existing pag... |
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13-10-2020, 01:45 PM |
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Thread: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
Post: RE: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
| Unfortunately that would make screenshots.nixers.net only (fully) viewable from a client that supports gopher. |
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11-10-2020, 04:20 PM |
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Thread: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
Post: RE: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
| Don't be a pleb! But really this is a good question. All the script that makes the website does is scrape links from a page and include them in the output, so it might be possible to extend it a bit t... |
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11-10-2020, 07:46 AM |
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Thread: twtxt
Post: RE: twtxt
| (08-10-2020, 11:18 AM)jkl Wrote: I have never heard of Pleroma, so that’s that...It's a pretty big twitter clone. According to https://fediverse.network/pleroma it has over 58,000 users over 767 ins... |
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Community & Forums Related Discussions
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08-10-2020, 04:10 PM |
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Thread: twtxt
Post: RE: twtxt
| Quote:twtxt is a Self-Hosted, Twitter™-like Decentralised microBlogging platform. No ads, no tracking, your content, your data!
(you might get this a lot but) This sounds an awful lot like a number o... |
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mcol |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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08-10-2020, 09:56 AM |
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Thread: Hey Nixers!
Post: RE: Hey Nixers!
| Welcome to l0bster, nixers! |
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mcol |
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08-10-2020, 09:52 AM |