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Cake day: September 1st, 2021

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  • Librera is for people who are Android users

    I’d reword this a little, to

    Librera is better for people who are Android readers exclusively

    Because if you’re the type who uses a dedicated e-ink device for reading, also having the same application and book library on your phone has some obvious benefits. But if your phone is your one reading device, you’d probably try the Android version of KOReader and be like “wtf is with this UI?”



  • That head/tail thing is kind of a goofy argument. For one thing they aren’t duals; tail is naturally more complex because the end of a file often changes and the application can optionally keep showing you the new output. Also, the fact that they’re separate applications in the first place is arguably better than the a one-application approach, which would always require a command line switch to select between outputting the start or end of a file. And finally, while I guess this could vary between implementations of head and tail, mine has identical switches for all the common options.


  • I think what you’re saying is, that many people have a problem with algorithms where the developers have their “thumb on the scale” to manipulate what content gets promoted or is considered popular.

    But it’s not hard to find people who are also critical of the purer type of algorithm, where upvotes are used to sort content, and things get popular for being popular in a “hivemind” fashion, which Lemmy does just like Reddit before it.