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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All the rest of Europeans, basically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (12 children)

The Italian government's undemocratic decisions have effect only in Italy, fortunately, and nobody in Europe has ever cared about what happens to Italian citizens (since they are not even consider properly civilized people). So the rest of EU is safe, this is just a click bait title.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On Raccoon you can see the list of communities of an instance in the "Instance details" page, which can be accessed from the top bar menu in the community detail screen.

Moreover, you can explore instances in guest mode, both from user detail and community detail.

 

Thanks to everyone who participated in the closed test program, we finally had the app accepted (again!) on Google Play. An "open testing" channel has been configured which now points to the last beta, but there are no more restrictions on who can participate in it.

Once I finish with the activities I'm working on – manly bug fixes for issues you have reported or small feature additions – I'll be releasing a candidate for the production track. Thanks to all those who helped and to all new translators, your contribution was really welcome and will surely improve everyone's experience.

I hope to see this project continuing to grow this year! #livefasteattrash #procyonproject

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I live in a country with an oppressive government who discriminates people based on race, religion, sexual orientation and already blatantly favours the wealthy with total impunity. Nothing can be worse than this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are not Italian. Even our government sees citizens as cows to milk, especially if you are an employee and cannot fraud the tax system like everyone else does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Am I allowed to say that I trust US Big Tech Corps more than my government and my police officers? Meta still is more ethical (even with the DEI programs cutoff and all the rest) than some corrupt governments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Feel free to report bugs: there is an issue tracker, a Matrix room, an ActivityPub group, an in-app feedback form and an email address to write to. Criticism is welcome, this is a community project so speak up!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dev here. Could you please tell me:

  • what instance you have logged in;
  • what application version you are using.

The fact that you are seeing "hearts" to like makes me think it is < 0.4.0 because now there are thumbs up/down (since Friendica allows disliking too).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Maybe it will happen in some red state too in the future, to prove them wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

This is why they had Elkann join the board of directors. He has a great lobbying power in the EU. They know what they are doing at Meta.

 

I've decided version 1.14.0 is ready, despite the lack of feedback, maybe holidays didn't help with this respect.

Changelog:

  • feat: implement user tags (as requested here);
  • feat: restrict local user search on current instance (request on Matrix);
  • feat: custom sort for user posts and comments (as requested here);
  • fix: prevent crash while switching account (reported on Matrix);
  • fix: explore result and listing type bottom sheet titles (discussed on Matrix);
  • fix: window insets and bar colors (verbally reported by a friend);
  • fix: default theme color (reported here);
  • enhancement: improve accessibility;
  • chore: update dependencies;
  • chore: update l10n (thanks to all new translators, you've been included in the acknowledgements);
  • chore: add more unit tests.

I remind everyone, if you want to help to see the app on Google Play again, that we need at least 12 testers and now there are only 5, even asking to complete strangers on the forbidden R* site.

Here are the steps to participate:

Thanks to everyone as usual.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm ashamed (as an Italian) to discover only now thanks to this post that "orzo" can be a pasta format and not just another cereal (it also means "barley"). I always heard the term "risoni" for it but "orzo" apparently is used as well. And I agree, it sucks.

In case you did not know there is a cylindric variant too called "tempestina" which is even more awful (mainly used for soups, or for small children). It's uncommon to see grown adults eat them but, unfortunately, they exist.

 

Happy New Year to everyone! To start the year in the best possible way, a new beta version of the app is available for testing!

Changelog:

  • feat: restrict local user search to results on the current instance;
  • chore: update acknowledgements (with new translators);
  • chore: update dependencies.

For those of you who may have missed it, the new "user tagging" feature is available since beta01. For the 1.14.0 milestone, I'll be working on making it possible to select custom sort types for users posts and comments, similarly to what can already be done for communities.

As requested by some of you (@rfr_[email protected]), we set up the process to release on Google Play too. The app is now only available to closed testers, who can participate in the testing program using this link. Since this is only available to a closed list of users, please make sure you join the following group with the same email address you are going to use on Google Play.

After the minimum number of testers have been enrolled for two weeks, we are going to be able to distribute it to the general public. For those of you who are getting the app from F-Droid, don't despair: the build job is stuck some versions behind but I've solved the issues so after these holidays I can ping them for updates and have it in-synch again.

p.s. This is also the first Wednesday of January, so we can use this post as the starter for the usual Q&A session. #livefasteattrash #procyonproject

 

Hope you are all on holiday and preparing for new year's eve… in the meantime I've been working on the new user tagging feature someone requested in a comment.

You can find an "User tags" item in the profile side menu to see the list of tags, add/edit them and see the list of tagged users.

By using the "⋮" button in the top app bar from a user detail, you'll be able to add one or more tags to that user which will be displayed next to their handle whenever that users appears in a timeline, post detail or search.

tag list tag management in user detail tags in timeline

Hope you find it useful, just keep in mind that:

  • these tags are a client-side extension so they are only stored in the device you are using and not saved remotely (if you have multiple devices or delete the app data) and they are only visible to you
  • this is still an experimental feature, if you happen to find any bugs please report them here in the comments or on Matrix.

Have a nice continuation of the week and of your holidays!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

In my country the far right distinguishes between legal immigrantes, who are cannon fodder for exploitative industry and therefore good, and illegal immigrants, who are criminals and need to be segregated in detection camps.

Both types in any case ar discouraged from marrying the locals (public officers are resistant) and prevented from practicing their religion in public by local legislation (the national one is vague).

For one time I feel my country is ahead of the US 🤣😅😭 maybe it is because we invented fas**sm after all.

 

Hi everyone, Raccoon Santa 🦝🎅 delivered a little bug report to me this morning, so I decided to release a new version with the hotfix.

There is not much included except:

  • a fix for a crash when opening some screens (image detail, multi-community, multi-community editor, report list) due to dependency injection misconfiguration
  • routine library updates.

What's more important, let me wish everyone happy holidays: have fun, relax and recharge for the new year! I would like to express my gratitude especially to all the subscribers of this community, all users and contributors (coders, testers, translators, etc.) of the Raccoon project, who have virtually walked side-by-side with me during this year. It has been a long journey with a lot of happenings but it was worth it, and I enjoyed every bit of it.

We created something new together, we met new people and learned a lot of things in the process. This is simply awesome.

❤️🦝🎄

#livefasteattrash whenever you can on Christmas and New Year's eve and as always #procyonproject

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I am going to (finally) move again the localization of the app to Weblate, just like before the project changed ownership this summer.

Considering:

  1. there is a number of messages for the free tier which is shared with the other app;
  2. in order to be compatible with Weblate, resource files have to be converted (manually 😅);

I am planning to remove some of the least used languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Greek, Esperanto, Estonian, Hungarian, Croatian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian (both variants), Dutch, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Toki Pona, Turkish… based on the fact that nobody ever reported translation errors (which are there).

Does anyone have any objection? I can add one or two more if you are using some of them (but you've been very silent indeed if you do). All the other languages which have not been mentioned in this list will be preserved.

 

Raccoons of Lemmy, as promised in December's AMA session, version 1.13.3 has been published. Here is the changelog:

  • feat(app): support for opening posts and comments;
  • fix(postlist): image height;
  • fix(zoomableimage): high resolution image, loading state and action buttons;
  • fix(createpost): autofill empty message;
  • refactor(di): improve dependency injection;
  • refactor(build): define and apply Gradle convention plugins;
  • chore(deps): update dependencies;
  • chore(qa): add more unit tests.

Enjoy the rest of the week and – as always – #livefasteattrash 🦝

 

Hi everyone! Sorry, I forgot about last week's "Ask me anything" session, so let's use this post as usual: you reply with questions and I'll answer them.

Moreover, I would like to give you some news about the project roadmap. I did not forgot to release a stable version, actually 1.13.3 is expected by the end of the year. In the meantime I've been focusing mostly on technical improvements, refactoring and code cleanup. For example I made dependency injection and gradle scripts much more maintainable, and I've been fixing a couple of issues that you reported.

Once I'm done with some more bugs (e.g. the ones concerning images) I'll be releasing, so don't worry. If some of you are willing to test the beta releases, you are more than welcome, thanks.

As always #livefasteattrash 🦝🦝🦝

 

Today a new synchronization job has run and the app has been imported! 🎉🎊🎉 I know it may not mean much to you, but for me (after more than a year for the first build attempt) this is a great achievement! I had lost hopes but, since I was starting the submission again for the "twin" project Raccoon for Friendica, I thought it would cost little to try again. And the idea proved successful!

If you are wondering what the root cause of the issues was last year, builds were not reproducible due to a l10ns plugin. F-Droid maintainers told me so I proceeded to remove it and find another way to read localization files.

Another "infrastructure" news is that I've set up a cool code coverage (Kover) plugin to measure how much the code is covered by unit tests and upload the reports to Codecov to see charts about how the metric evolves.

 

Hi there, I decided the app is ready to see a first stable release after the project "relocation".

Here is the changelog of this version compared to the latest beta:

  • fix: ripple effects (e.g. top bar titles, drawer drop-down button);
  • fix: video rendering in timelines and attachment detail;
  • feat: button to reveal sensitive images in timelines;
  • enhancement: update "Saved" label for bookmarks;
  • enhancement: update font scale factors;
  • enhancement: change default name of settings JSON when exporting;
  • chore: dependency updates (most notably, Compose Multiplatform 1.7.1);
  • chore: update CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, SECURITY.md and PRIVACY.md.

Hope you like it, have a nice rest of the weekend and remember to #livefasteattrash 🦝

 

In the Friendica/Mastodon application I am working on, while it was in alpha and beta stage, I have adopted the Sentry SDK for crash reporting, which works very well on Kotlin Multiplatform and is easier to setup than other (closed source, capitalistic and ugly) alternatives.

In doing so, I made an interesting , while I was submitting the app to open source stores (IzzyOnDroid and F-Droid), that if crash reporting is opt-in (i.e. disabled by default but it can be enabled in the app settings) the app is acceptable for their policies because users have to give their consent to enable reports (which are a form of tracking).

Considering there are users complaining about Raccoon for Lemmy crashing (e.g. while creating posts/comments) and that being a "deal breaker" (understandably!), my question is: would you accept it if I included Sentry, making it opt-in? In this way you could enable it just if there is some reproducible issue and turn it off whenever you like (restarting the app is needed to make any change to initialization effective).

Opinions are welcome, I will not do anything unless we decide together, especially because adding this service implies extra work for maintainer(s) 🤣

 

Hi raccoons of Lemmy! A new version of the app has been released and is available to all testers!

Here is the changelog:

  • fix: text style used for links in Markdown (which appeared larger than the rest of the paragraph);
  • fix: restore UI state after closing default sort bottom sheet in community detail;
  • chore: improve readability of vote actions with arrow icons;
  • refactor: migrate image loading to Coil3 (and remove obsolete Kamel library on iOS);
  • enhancement: add new instances to default list;
  • refactor/feat: migrate video player to Compose Multiplatform Media Player and make it possible to open videos full screen;
  • refactor: migrate web views to Calf;
  • enhancement: add Atkinson Hyperlegible font instead of Charis SIL;
  • chore: review inter-item spacings in setting lists, modlog and side menus;
  • chore: update user manual (new screenshots, new sections, table of contents and internal links);
  • chore: update several dependencies.

Remember to have fun and #livefasteattrash

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