"If you want your software to be adopted by Americans, good tests scores from the CI server are very important. Volkswagen uses a defeat device to detect when it's being tested in a CI server and will automatically reduce errors to an acceptable level for the tests to pass. This will allow you to spend less time worrying about testing and more time enjoying the good life as a trustful software developer."
So, you're telling me there is an #opensource utility called #Volkswagen on the loose that lets "software developer" to relax by detecting when tests are running in #CI environment, only to make them pass and ignore the problems these tests were supposed to prevent in the first place?
#Flathub deserves a set of more performant and native applications than being attributed to a page in #Discord's playbook. Stay with me: are we really just going to blindly accept #privacy flaws of this messenger and promote it at the same time?
The fact that it only has got to the head of Discord it's long overdue to verify this popular #Flatpak distribution, I think, is worth a comment on itself, but I'll digress. It is nice that #OpenSource enthusiasts made arrangements for this verification and I have zero disagreements with the result. I'm just stupified that, in all this effort, Discord is treated like some spoon-fed royal baby - at least, according to reactions I see.
So, what was it... Flathub already had a library of nice actively developed #FOSS#applications before these news. I don't see the point in exaggerating the scales on some centralized chat thingabob with well-known #ToS and #telemetry problems, that's all. Thank you for visiting my #dRBBoard talk! ❤
Oh, what a dummy, sweet summer child me... Entrusting one feature (that goes astray from #SynchronousSoftware and VoIP nature which this piece of garbage was supposed to keep focus on) with link aggregation and presentation: I'm speaking of Discord's forum threads.
After a week of quality time with #Matrix, I return to #dRCS "server" (Discord's term for group) to check up on #forum channels. Lurking, scrolling through this joke of a bulletin board in search of older posts proved futile. Most of the #threads are simply gone! It took me long enough to make these pretty cards, now for them to evaporate without any communication from Discord...
You know what? I'm done with #CentralizedPlatforms that bite more than they can chew, all the while trashing my content! #Discord, #Reddit - shut the front door!!!
I could post this showcase of links on #Kbin or potential #PersonalBlog - now I know this better. Hello, #devRant. Welcome #dRBB, my cool abode!
#Microblog is the place on #Kbin that gathers posts that people freely send this way including posts coming from #Fediverse network with 1+ of the featured tags attached: #devrant#drcc#drbboard 🏷
Keep in mind, while scrolling through Microblog, that these micro-threads can only go in so much detail. When you view them at first, they may appear collapsed. It's to prevent the pollution of feed and timeline being owned by the vocal posts. This is like a middle ground between a card you see on Threads with no discussion whatsoever and a lengthy discourse when you open one.
If something is collapsed, right after the Reply button, you will see another button reading Expand - click it to further your context.
Posting
Anyone can send here from the Fediverse account they choose (well, almost any). When they do it from Mbin/Kbin, it automatically inserts the magazine's primary tag #drbboard to posts in ActivityPub protocol, which is a general hashtag.
Use short meta tag#drbb for anything related to dR Bulletin Board itself.
Top-level posts that you make in Microblog look a bit different on Lemmy. The first line is stripped as a title for post and entire text is duplicated into body.
To make your post look better everywhere, I think it's imperative to fake a title with some Markdown magic: # Title Here (just plain text without header is enough, too). Use this guideline for the posts that go beyond 2-3 sentences or 1 line, because max. of 200 characters of the first line are copied into the title on Lemmy, and you'd probably want it to be as snappy and short as possible. Avoid including links and other markup in the first line, except aforementioned header.
Check handles
You may notice there are different actors, like in my case: an orange avatar is my Kbin, a green one is my Mastodon, and a blue one is my Lemmy account. It's just something that I do to avoid the confusions around #ActivityPub, while people are still not used to lookup everyone's #handle.
The point being is you would probably want to observe which profile is more active and talk with it instead of having awkward silence in response. For example: while I sit through this magazine, I mostly use Kbin, so don't be a stranger and ping @vintprox, not my alts!
I think my personalized plug is working and making waves. People of #devRant seem to readily accept #dRBB magazine in their steady introduction to #Kbin & #Fediverse. Now, I'm just getting ready for all kinds of guests in this attempt to bring dR up from its knees! 😉
Introducing dR Bulletin Board, a Kbin magazine for people of devRant and categories adjacent to information technology (IT). 🥳
#dRBB serves as an unofficial #devRant bulletin board for rant discussions, recommended software, links, images and other resources around our interests.
Subscribe to @drbboard and get involved in unusual discourse, software and videogame recommendations from fellow devs.
I thought that @drbboard would be a great place to have a discussion about synchronous software, such as real-time chat applications where participants have to be present and follow the conversation at the same time....
Icon made especially for the Discord guild, dR Community Server. Rubber duck was a mascot from the start used in multiple places. In 2022, rainbow background was added to accentuate icon's body on hover....
Background outside the circle consisting from red, yellow, cyan and purple. It's all covered with the green base and dRCS mascot, the rubber duck. It has "dRCS" written on its wing.
Finnegan | devRant Clone
Posting this in lieu of @retoor who initiated the whole competition and has given enough information about her app prior this day....
Ostream App | devRant Clone
@ostream has asked me to post this on his behalf. For formality's sake, Twitter = Ostream, Ostream = Twitter; please don't @ me....
the average devRant experience be like..
devRant runs the web!
devRant AWESOME-O-METER overflows..
dR Community Channel | Synchronous software for devRant people
I thought that @drbboard would be a great place to have a discussion about synchronous software, such as real-time chat applications where participants have to be present and follow the conversation at the same time....
OC Icon | dR Community Server
Icon made especially for the Discord guild, dR Community Server. Rubber duck was a mascot from the start used in multiple places. In 2022, rainbow background was added to accentuate icon's body on hover....
OC Icon | dR Community Channel
Tweaked devRant logo and the color palette I composed from devRant.com....