kia

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[–] kia 67 points 1 year ago (14 children)

The difficulty of any non-mainstream chat app is getting other people to use it. On that list, Signal is the most probable to be recognized by people who don't have a particular interest in privacy, so it's more likely to get more people to use it.

[–] kia 10 points 1 year ago

Can't imagine trusting a VPN made by Google.

[–] kia 3 points 1 year ago

Generally an issue I have with a lot of apps unfortunately.

[–] kia 2 points 1 year ago

It would be nice if we could specify a priority list for communities (each user creates their own). If a post is crossposted to multiple communities, only the one posted to the community with the highest priority gets shown on the feed.

[–] kia 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think score, then in smaller less noticeable text, upvotes and downvotes. I don't think upvote % adds much value as you have the information to calculate it already.

[–] kia 2 points 1 year ago

It's a shame it's on threads though...

[–] kia 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My go-to recommendation for a project is always a BigInt library. Helps you learn a lot about a language from project structure to syntax and operator overloading.

It's also a lot of fun!

[–] kia 2 points 1 year ago

You don't need terminating semicolons in JavaScript. They're added in if missing. It can actually cause a few bugs around returns.

[–] kia 1 points 1 year ago

Nice to see that Wealthsimple was able to return some of their stolen money.

[–] kia 4 points 1 year ago

Would be interesting to see this over the last 20 years.

[–] kia 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the defence of our legal system, he did pinky promise to not skip bail... I don't see what else they could have done.

[–] kia 26 points 1 year ago

I wish CBC would host their own Mastodon server.

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