Damien ✨ @Eramdam@octodon.social

Been here for a while but I've always been lazy and never did this so here we go:

I'm Damien (he/him), from France, living in California, I post about:
- computers
- nerd/weeb shit
- music
- meta stuff
- programming
- politics sometimes (fuck nazis and terfs)
- video games
- i probably forgot some other things b/c it's late and stuff

And that's mostly it ✨

Le truc cool avec le fait d'être expat inscrit sur les listes consulaires c'est que tu reçois des mails super utiles comme, euh, cette invitation pour une conférence dédiée à un torchon de droite 🙄😶

Thinking about how ✝ was and still is one of the best electro albums out there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7cTUwPG-A

However I'm sure i would have been done yesterday night if I didn't make a backup of my data on an exFAT drive, which TrueNAS can't mount, so I had to transfer ~3To of data over SMB 🥴 (0/10 would not do again)

Now the problem is that I want to repurpose my previous PC build into a home server but that would require WAY more work...but also.... faster and better CPU.... 😩

The non-addressed vulns of the past few weeks and the fact that I constantly ran against QNAP's limitations made me bite the bullet. I wasn't familiar with FreeBSD so it was definitely A Ride but so far it's fine.

It took me a good part of my week-end but my NAS is free of QNAP's software, it runs TrueNAS decently with 16GB of RAM.

The CPU is still meh but it's not _that_ big a deal so far.

@BetterTDeck@twitter.com I guess one ""easy"" fix would be somehow find a new, non-referential, name for @BetterTDeck@twitter.com because trademarks and store rules make it impossible to mention a bigger entity if you're a small developer.

@BetterTDeck@twitter.com And I kept publishing on the _Opera_ store, where clearly add-ons died in review limbo for months on end, but at least it was consistently dead and users can sideload Chrome extensions lmao

@BetterTDeck@twitter.com If it wasn't such a mess to provide auto-updates out of the Mac App Store, I would have bailed out already because this is clearly the worst store experience I've had in 7 years of publishing extensions for various browsers.

@BetterTDeck@twitter.com I'm not even trying to get an appeal because I'm almost convinced it won't lead anywhere, I'll just strip my app metadata of all Trademarked Words™️ until the App Store review mind is satisfied and that I do not infringe on anyone's trademark by referencing them 🙄

@BetterTDeck@twitter.com I'm sorry to be this negative on the TL but if the Safari team doesn't tell the App Store team to lay off, I really don't see why anyone would bother to even try to publish any extension for Safari because any "X for Y" extension will get rejected based on this rule.

@BetterTDeck@twitter.com Yet another rejection for something that got through review just fine in previous builds.

This is ridiculous

I can’t believe The Mitchells vs The Machines managed to be even wilder than Spiderverse visually. What a great movie.

@BetterTDeck@twitter.com I was told *by an App Store reviewer* to add "for TweetDeck" in a referential manner in the app/extension name, but reviewers don't get the memo. I don't mind the rules themselves, i just want them to be enforced reliably. You'd think Apple would have got it by now.

@BetterTDeck@twitter.com Plenty of apps/extensions reference trademarked items but they're fine. I'm not a full-time iOS/Mac developer and I'm already pissed.

Ah, i wondered how long it would take for me to encounter the infamous random rejections from the App Store with @BetterTDeck@twitter.com 🙄
I’ve had 5-6 releases with the same metadata but *suddenly* the subtitle is an issue? Great.

1k users from the magic number....

Also what the hell 68k users?!?!

When you’re a regular poster

Mods are asleep, post Everytime We Touch by Cascada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkVHsOmjm4

Resurrect AIM, you cowards https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22416854/aol-yahoo-sale-apollo-venetian-hotel-verizon