Honestly, this whole thing is a mess… first a countdown, then a website with basically no information and that’s only the start.

More than 24 hours after signing up, I finally got an email with just about zero information:

Hi @dfyx,

We’re thrilled to welcome you to Loops.video!

We’re in the process of onboarding all our new users, and we can’t wait for you to experience the magic of short looping video.

Keep an eye out for another email from us later tonight or tomorrow (depending on when you signed up). It will have all the details you need to get started, including how to create your first Loop.

Welcome to the Loops community!

Regards, The Loops Team

And from some random comment that dansup made on pixelfed I found out that this beta is only for Android. Apparently, iOS will come later and there is no info on a browser-based version. That info should have been on the website. Also, what about selfhosting? This is the fediverse after all…

Kind of. All it shows for me is a registration form. When I submit it, they promise me to send an email with further instructions. So far, I didn’t get anything. Honestly, they wouldn’t have needed a countdown for that.

Seems to be a framework to build your own custom fediverse stuff.

Swabian here. I like C#. Guess that fits.

Lately? Firefox…

As far as I know, ActivityPub only applies to server to server communication. Still, many applications that implement ActivityPub (for example Mastodon) do use push notifications for their clients.

One more difference is that RSS is polling based, meaning that subscribers have to actively ask every hour or so if thre is new content.

On the other hand, ActivityPub knows who is subscribed and can actively distribute new content to other servers who can in turn send push messages to their users, letting you know about new content within seconds.

Can confirm that it doesn’t load on iOS but loads fine on desktop.

You have been banned from !pyongyang@lemmy.world

I just made it 62.

The 99 bottles of beer song is (was?) a popular programming exercise to teach beginners about loops. Singing it in real life would be pretty annoying because you would essentially repeat the same two sentences for a couple of minutes. Apparently, the PHP developers were planning to order one beer each, sing the song and get on everyone’s nerves. The C++ dev stopped this by buying all the remaining beer at once.

The choice of languages is probably OP’s own prejudice. These days I’d say PHP devs are on average older and more experienced than JS and Python devs, just because almost nobody learns PHP as their first language anymore.

And I’m pretty sure that the name “hot potato license” and the comment above the license are very strong indicators for this not being the case. The license is meant to mimic a game of hot potato where you get the code for a short moment (one commit) and have to throw it to someone else. Sure, the analogy doesn’t quite work because you can’t decide who has to make the next commit but it would make even less sense if you were able to keep control over the code and add more and more commits. That would defeat the whole point of naming it “hot potato license”.

Yeah, that should read “all other citizens of earth”.

That‘s correct and indeed unfortunate but not what we were talking about.

There’s a chance that framework might build something. Lately they’ve been asking what to build next and modular phones were one of the most frequent answers. While their parts are not fully open source, their interfaces between the modules and the firmware are. For the laptops, you can already replace basically anything with a custom version.

Not sure why you get Apple into this. Apps on iOS have been natively compiled from the beginning and they are amazing at running stuff on older hardware. My current iPhone 12 Mini is over three years old and smoothly runs everything I throw at it. Before that I had a 2016 iPhone SE for about four years and only replaced it because I wanted something with a better camera (I’m a semi-professional photographer so I want something decent for when I see something cool and don’t have my big camera with me). I gave the SE to my mom and she used it for another two years until she decided she needed a bigger screen. It probably still works and it got its last OS update just two months ago.

As long as you don’t run something super hardware hungry, you can easily use an iPhone for at least five years without any problems. Even if the battery dies halfway through, there are lots of repair shops around that will replace it for a reasonable price in case you’re not comfortable with opening up the phone on your own.

They can. They just have to compile it themselves (the code is available on GitHub) or find someone else to give them a compiled version (for example F-Droid which is linked from the readme on github).

Free software means that you are allowed to do a lot of stuff. It doesn’t mean you can expect to be handed everything on a silver platter. Correctly building and uploading mobile apps to an official app store is a lot of work (even more on iOS than on Android) and while I personally wouldn’t take money for it, I can completely understand when other developers do so to finance their work. Remember, open source developers also need to pay for food and housing.

You’re paying for the convenience of having it compiled and uploaded to the store. Nobody keeps you from compiling it for yourself. Or from getting it for free through F-Droid which is even linked from their github repository.

You don’t have to go back to the 70s for changes. Kazakhstan has changed from two time zones to one just about a month ago.

I think you misunderstood my point. That’s on me though, I could have phrased it better. Props to @Zak@lemmy.world, their comment did a better job at explaining what I meant.