I need a non-web-based email diagnostic program to tell me why the settings which work on my laptop and @Harena's phone aren't working on my phone (same app). >.<

(I could also wish that diagnostics were more standard in email apps -- but even those that are pretty good otherwise seem to eschew anything beyond vaguely-informative error messages.)

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Mastowish: If you hit "reply" after having started a post, one of the options in the pop-up should be to copy what you've already written into the reply-post (in addition to (a) losing your work or (b) continuing with the post as-is).

I mean, this is the scenario liek 99% of the time when I get that message: I either realized I had started without hitting "reply" first, or I wanted to change which post I'm replying to (often because another reply got added to the chain).

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I want tmux, but for GUI.

(This is different from ssh -X or VNC. With the former, you can't attach to an already-loaded window; with the latter, you have to be sure there's a server running on the remote, and it requires a separate login. I want something that I can just invoke via ssh, using ssh's security.)

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Wow, we could really use federated moderation today -- spam account popping up on multiple random instances.

Oh well, at least it's still only... [counts...] four clicks to block each one.

...not counting the clicks from the user reporting them.

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The Masto account-suspension appeals process really should have some support for dialogue between admins and banned account -- even if 99% of the time it's absolutely clear* that there doesn't need to be any. #softwareWish

(*the rejection said we don't allow advertising spam accounts, which your account clearly is because it's all about your web site and nothing about you as a person and you didn't even attempt to address this in your appeal; therefore, go away)

A valid and ethical use for LLMs:

• On "community support" fora for popular FOSS software projects...
• ...have the LLM go through the posts and look for questions that the community seems to be having difficulty answering...
• ...and forward just those few issues to selected devs (summarizing the issue if it's brought up in more than one thread).
• If it thinks it has a solution, it could also propose that to the dev as a possible response, saving writing time. - Dev-approved responses could be added to the training data for the LLM's next iteration.
• Alternative: If the LLM detects an unresolved issue coming up more than X times, or remaining unsolved for more than Y days, it could attempt its own answer -- with thumbs-up/down feedback from the users, to let the devs know if the LLM isn't doing a good job.

Meta-thought: instead of replacing workers, provide assistance to people doing work for free so they can get more done.

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For Linux, I'd like a GUI app which runs at startup and which lets you specify other apps to load automatically, but will apply certain conditions like:

• per-app checkbox: always ask me before running (it would show a dialog with all the apps it wants to run -- you could invoke them individually, clear them all to run, clear just certain apps)
• only run if CPU or RAM usage is below a certain level, and if [specified app] has already been loaded
• [only run]/[don't run] for certain network connections (e.g. I don't want Syncthing or Nextcloud running when I'm using a metered hotspot)

I'm always forgetting to run certain things, but I also don't want to just always run them automatically.

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It seems that there are no web-based equivalents to MS Access / LibreOffice Base. Not even Microsoft 365 has an equivalent.

This seems a rather curious omission.

I mean, yes, doing an online DB is going to be a little more complicated than a text document or spreadsheet, but... still. It seems like something that would be so useful that a substantial number of people would be willing to pay money for it, and possibly more money than for just the regular stuff.

Note that to get MS Access 97, you generally had to get the more-expensive Pro edition of MS Office 97... and the app by itself cost almost as much, iirc.

(I am planning to write something equivalent, eventually, but who knows how long it will be before I can get to it.)

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