I was trying to figure out why people still use Axios, when the built-in fetch works just fine. Is it because people are still sending XML requests?

I agree it would be good to have third party integrity checks to not require Google Services etc. as part of the chain.

In GrapheneOS, many Google Play integrity check pass, but payments still do not work. You are notified when an app uses the integrity API, but probably only because they have spent a bunch of work sandboxing Play Services. This is what you see when you look at those details:

I guess the obvious problem is that so many apps rely on Google Services, such as for payments, opening the store, checking for integrity etc. On stock android, you can’t pick and choose these services separately or use third party ones, unlike using a third party keyboard, for example. Everything is one big proprietary, data guzzling lump.

The one I hear is good is NVDA by NVAccess, but it doesn’t have AI.

Website: https://www.nvaccess.org/about-nvda/

Source code: https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda

I would be fairly surprised if you found an open source screen reader that had AI built-in.

It would likely have to run locally if it was open source.

Typically companies don’t make their stuff open source, and non-profits are unlikely to host an AI for you because of the cost. It’s unlikely to run locally as the cost for that model to run and download size may make it unusable or impractical for some hardware. Typically screen readers need to be accessible to everyone, and therefore need to run on very old and / or cheap hardware.

I said something similar here about an election fraud detection system with 99.999% accuracy.

https://lemmy.world/comment/22178379

Neo launcher hasn’t had a release for 3 years, sadly.

Lawnchair is alright but it is missing a bunch of features compared to Nova.

I think Lawnchair is the closest visual / UX replacement to Nova that I’ve found, but it is missing many features compared to Nova 🙁.

Also, I’m starting to learn Private Space is a pain, as amongst other shortcomings it forces you to use a logged-in Play Store to install apps (“private”, my ass!). You can install apks via ADB, but who can be bothered to do that.

Under the hood, it looks like Private Space uses another hidden user, so I think I’ll just make another user logged into nothing and switch to it occasionally instead of using private space.

Does anyone know of a good replacement launcher that supports Private Space?

I had noticed that Nova had been falling behind for the last couple of years, but I didn’t know why. I’ve been using it for over 10 years.

It sounds like a case of “buy it, kill it” which is pretty sad. If it had been open sourced we might have been able to improve it and keep it alive.

I wonder if the burst in activity is from all the companies and government entities in Europe wanting to distance themselves from Microsoft and the US, switching to LibreOffice and improving its funding.

I think they are bundling this into their regular app, so they’d have to put every guardian read on the list😅

Ok, so it’s an encrypted, open source whistle-blowing feature in their app / system.

The article is light on technical details but if it makes whistleblowing easier and safer than for example emailing their editors that’s probably a good thing.

Context for people who don’t get the joke, the logo on the right is for Tailwind, a library that offers an alternative to using normal CSS for styling Web UIs and websites.

It provides you with microclasses that add flexbox, margins, shadows etc. and discourages you from using the “Cascading” part of CSS (which was likely a mistake imo)

Ultimately, it’s still CSS under the hood which is the joke.

I’ve been on that platform since 2014. It’s a mix of an anime tracker and a Facebook-like social media site. Used to be called Hummingbird.

It’s alright, if a bit dated.

Of course, but OOP is typically about putting methods on classes, inheritance of behaviour etc.

JS Objects aren’t typically used that way, they tend to be used as pure data containers. At least, that’s how we mostly use them.

Occasionally, we’ll use objects to simplify passing multiple arguments including arrow functions, but I’d say that doesn’t really count unless the arrow function mutates the object it’s a part of.

I’ve worked on projects with 10 000+ lines of typescript and maybe 3 classes total.

I’d been using Geometric Weather for many years, and I noticed a few weeks ago that it was misbehaving, not fetching data sometimes. I didn’t realise it had not had an update for almost 3 years!

I had switched to Google’s weather app, but maybe I’ll switch to this instead. Thanks for the heads-up.

For React, you can use React Router. That doesn’t mean you’ll do it well though.

It’s tough.

As someone who has used this app for at least 6 years, I am very sad to see this happen.

I’m surprised they weren’t able to get away with it after the change in extensions a couple versions ago. By not shipping extensions that have copyrighted content that should have been enough, similar to how emulators, services like Plex and torrenting applications survive.

It’s effectively just a comic / manga reader that can be used for piracy when the right extensions are added.

Apparently that wasn’t enough, and I can’t blame open source devs for not wanting to start a legal battle with a profit-earning company.

For now, the app does allow you to add external repository’s (list of extensions for various sources) that are still being updated, and I believe there are at least a few forks of the project that will survive for now.

All I can say is great work to the dev team for sticking with us until now and I wish you luck in your future ventures.

As annoying as this is, you are meant to use a comparer.

mapped.sort((a, b) => {
  if (a.value > b.value) {
    return 1;
  }
  if (a.value < b.value) {
    return -1;
  }
  return 0;
});