There doesn’t seem to be a way to access eg the communities tab via activitypub? Any Help?

If you’re writing client-to-server part (not server-to-server part), try curl 'https://<lemmy-instance>/api/v3/community/list?sort=Hot', and an API client libraries written in Python..

Although the current trend is towards to accept multiple character representations (e.g., 木 with/without hane are both correct),

• https://www.kanken.or.jp/kanken/saiten/
• https://www.bunka.go.jp/seisaku/bunkashingikai/kokugo/hokoku/pdf/92550601_01.pdf

the old trend is still left, so they (hane/tome/harai) are still important:

• https://allabout.co.jp/gm/gc/488357/

type_=All would work:

• https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/GetComments.html#type_
• https://join-lemmy.org/api/types/ListingType.html

Some applications can’t display some Unicode strings like s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵, so replacing Markdown element like ~strike~ with Unicode equivalent (s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵ ) may not be a good idea if you want portability. I opened your post in text editors and noticed that neovim-qt drops s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵’s combining characters (issue on Github) and just displays stroke instead of s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵; GUI Emacs with my font settings (Noto) doesn’t combine the characters and displays s-t-r-o-k-e- (as I said, this may depends on font settings).

I think https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/lswt may work.

The repository has Makefile so you can build the executable with make:

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/lswt
$ cd lswt
$ make
$ ./lswt
$ sudo make install (optional)

Long ago I made such restricted shell with filtering the shell command history file then disabling command history logging. With some shell scripting, I think you can get more sophisticated version. What shell are you using? (Bash, Fish, Zsh, etc.)

Bash should be fine. On typical Bash installation I think this will work (please try to understand each command line before you actually try):

$ cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak
$ cp ~/.bash_history ~/.bash_history.bak
$ printf 'set +o history' >> ~/.bashrc
$ printf "sudo apt update\nsudo apt upgrade\n" > .bash_history
$ (Press Ctrl+D to logout)

For the next bash session you can refer only the two commands from the history with Up/Down/C-p/C-n.

1. Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)

It seems to exist: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/

Please note that many users of FOSS are also developers or contributors. Who wants to report a bug or send a patch if the community is worse?