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Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns?

In their general rules:

Any pictures of food containing animal products, including but not limited to meat, cheese, or egg, must be tagged nsfw along with food discussion content warnings (CW: Food).

Animal Liberation is essential to any leftist movement, including platforms like Hexbear. Volunteers, comments, and posts, should not be anti-vegan, although users and volunteers are not required to be vegan.

Wow. Just wow. That is so far beyond leftist.

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Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox.

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For one, the snap version is 115 instead of 116, so it's reverting me to an older version, which makes firefox want to wipe my profile. Not ok. Two, I was purposely using the Mozillateam PPA to get non snap installations, and they up and changed that on us with no warning. Then there is the matter that firefox as a snap is slower. And finally, I can't add the Widevine for arm64 plugin to the snap.

Snap for browsers is a terrible idea.

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Don't know about everyone else, but here are some of mine:

  • Stick to posix compliance shell code, wherever possible
  • Please wrap your variables with { }. Just please.
  • Global variables being exported in all caps
  • Local variables in lower case
  • $() instead of ` `
  • Comment anything complicated, comment what section, comment usage
  • Include usage output if options are not recognized
  • Use case instead of if / elif, where possible
  • 80 characters or less per line, where possible
  • HERE docs in designated section, marked by comment blocks
  • Comment your functions immediately above it's definition
  • Add comment "#End of function Xyz" at line immediately below a function, with replacing Xyz with name of that function
  • 2 space indentation
  • Multi-line strings: First line open with quote and first line of string, followed by a backslash , subsequent lines properly indented and backslashed. Last line, properly indented and close quoted.
  • Break up multiple piping of commands with |\ and a new line where it makes sense to look nice, assisting readability
  • Echo what the script is doing once in a while if the user will be waiting for a while
  • Please don't do shar archives, or byte located binary extractions, make a script and a separate tarball - Helps a ton if we have to change it, like say... swapping out a bundled java runtime built for x86_64 with one for aarch64
  • If the script will run for a very long time, check for tmux or screen and also the TMOUT variable... Give a warning to the user their connection might time out before the script is done if they don't unset TMOUT, and try using tmux or screen to allow the script to continue in the background, even if you do get disconnected
  • Make use of logger
  • I try to organize a script this way: 1. Shebang, 2. Initial variable definitions, 3. Functions, 4. runtime execution code, which might be best outside of a function, and calling functions. 5. Clean-up (remove pid and lock files, tmp files, etc etc.)