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Reading reviews these days feels especially unreliable so I’m going to #askfedi what kind of soldering iron to get for someone getting started in pcb soldering. Budget is on the lower end.

Okay, I can't believe my Proton migration got to this point, but this is getting desperate.

I'm looking for recommendations for Android development tutorials, books, videos, anything. I accept Java, Kotlin, even Dart if must be.

Earlier this year, I tried to get into Android development, but not only did the opaque tooling that didn't match the what the tutorials told me frustrate me, I had trouble finding extensive documentation beyond any basic Hello World or pure API docs. And I will not ask any LLM for help, that's not happening.

I'd love to find good tutorials that slowly build on the basics showing more complex apps that have multiple views, display, read and write data both remotely and in storage, and more things.

I'd love to be able to contribute to existing email and calendar apps or even to just fork one and make my own.

My background and knowledge is on SRE, with a lot of infra management and automation. I don't have mobile or frontend experience, but there must be a way to translate my skills onto mobile, right?

#proton #email #android #androiddev #askfedi

What’s today’s scuttlebut about free-as-in-conducive-to-human-life-liberty-and-pursuit-of-happiness today software licenses?

The past week has been brilliantly iconoclastic regarding people I was convinced I should be looking up to when I was getting started. Many of those people have turned out to be absolute shits.

But I do still have work that I want to share.

#askfedi #opensource #foss

Does anynyan know a website/app that I can give a list of things I wanna rank and it will show me random matchups to decide until it can produce a full ranking?

#askFedi how do i get rid of ads in #podcast streams?
It's driving me mad.

Fedi, I need help with some opsec sillyness.

Is there a way to remove EXIF from all my cats photos posted here, like a batch script going through all of my posts.

#askfedi #meta #exif

by the way: any Fedi gardeners (hobbyist or occupational) have any advice on what can be planted in shade? I've wanted to get into it but we've got a Big Ass Oak Tree where i was going to put some plots. I've already got some mushies and some sage growing but I plan on moving the mushies somewhere else anyways.

#AskFedi #gardening

#AskFedi: So, fun little question: Does anyone know of people, ideally a company (freelancer might be more difficult) with experience in both CTFs (especially attack/defend, ideally design of those too) and close-to-metal programming?

#BoostsWelcome

Local DNS and IPv6 and Tokenised Identifiers with odhcpd and unbound?

#askfedi #ipv6 #networking #openwrt #unbound #dns #dhcp #odhcpd #linux

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/local-dns-and-ipv6-tokenised-identifiers-and-odhcpd-unbound/255365

Hey nerds, I'm looking for an algorithm that does optical kerning of glyphs. This is the kind of problem that seems like it might be simple on first glance, but becomes very complex the more you look into it
It's also the kind of thing that has probably been solved a while ago, though I haven't been able to find anything.
It's for a Free / OSS plugin I'm writing for Davinci Resolve / Fusion.
#DTP #typography #AskFedi

Jag söker fortfarande någon som kan hjälpa mig med design och implementation av https://bjorkpsykologi.se och https://modhoppkarlek.se.

Grafisk profil och innehåll finns.

Krav: Statisk sidgenerering #SSG. Arbetsflöde med #markdown och #git (använder idag #hexo men själva verktyget är inte avgörande). Ingen #AI eller #VibeCoding, jag vill betala för äkta hantverk. SEO metadata, GDPR-vänliga statistikverktyg, etc.

Boosts välkomna.

#WebDesign #AskMastodon #AskFedi #FrågaFediversumet #FrågaMastodon

#AskFedi
I got voluntold to present at my work’s Data Science journal club, and will inevitably find myself incapable of playing nice and just picking the LLM-Arxiv-preprint-with-unmaintained-GitHub de jour like they probably want. Got any iconoclastic paper/publication/blog recs?

For context, all the recent ones have been LLM/RAG-y or “hot new model” stuff, and the journal club page mentions that the “paper should be of interest to $company’s business or to the group” (we work with healthcare docs).

Some thoughts that have occurred to me:
- Go old skool with eg Codd?; despite being the “data” org I don’t know if many have read the classics
- I’m partial to nuts-and-bolts stuff like data storage and transmission formats—could be fun?
- Go aggressively interpersonal and whip out Psychology of Software Teams-adjacent material. Unionize on the spot, etc
- We read Borges in honor of my comp lit degree, yolo

(both serious and “lol jk but…👀 ” pitches welcome!)

#DuckDuckFedi #NeverSlop

Does 1 reply from somebody, anybody, make a whole world of difference to you if you're somebody who's not very popular here on Mastodon or really on Fedi ?

Sorry if it's a little vague. I just woke up hehe :) But yeah you get the point.

Like always boosts aren't mandatory but appreciated

#askfedi #mastodon #fediverse #poll #polls