milicent_bystandr

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Public personal dev accounts: opinions?

I feel like there are many devs out there who expose a lot of personal details and opinions all over the web. Maybe it's just me, but when starting out with the internet I tried my best to separate my personal details (name, age, sex, country, ethnicity, family ties, relationship status,...) from usernames in public....

milicent_bystandr ,

If you wish to relinquish your hope of licensed comments, you may therefore make personal attacks again. But, please direct them all at me, so as not to hurt others' feelings.

milicent_bystandr ,

Don't hate, that's their actual name.

milicent_bystandr ,

Mobius Sync is an iOS app for it. Free version has max directory size 25mb(?) but dev seems to have good attitudes; it's something I wouldn't mind paying for.

milicent_bystandr ,

a) having apt packages link a script that downloads the snap. That's the first problem I had, back when I used Ubuntu as as snaps were rolling out. It gave me big trouble updating on bad internet connection.

b) making the server fixed and proprietary, restricting the freedom to do things differently and offer different changes to other users, that we're used to in the Linux and FOSS world

milicent_bystandr ,

Can't see the desk to write, and no indoor lighting

milicent_bystandr ,

The title assumes we know this Dirk guy, but might not have heard of Linus...

milicent_bystandr ,

That missile hurt him more than it did the wizard.

milicent_bystandr ,

If it were visual ads with no audio, I actually think this is a good idea. When you pause you're ready for an interruption of sorts: it jars the brain less.

I'd still want to be able to maximise the video still frame to see details sometimes. Just yesterday I watched a 3blue1brown with a brief freeze-frame of extra detail to read if you wanted (and I did!)

milicent_bystandr ,

If true, presumably that gnome and kde don't believe in the software patent but Apple doesn't want to try its luck and risk getting in a lawsuit.

(That said, they're not exactly short of lawyers for a lawsuit... Maybe it's in their interest to uphold the principle of software patents?)

milicent_bystandr ,

The big shadowy kabal of would-be konquerors...

milicent_bystandr ,

Right. I just installed OpenSUSE MicroOS to try out, and it's the same idea. I agree with some of the anti-snap rhetoric. Closed, Canonical-centric system for profit; linking placeholder debs to download a snap. But the philosophy of all user applications come as chunky but robust packages that (almost) don't interfere with each other and the system - I think that might be the future for safer computing for non-technical users.

milicent_bystandr ,

Essentially for predictive text: to make it easier to give good Chinese character suggestions when typing in Pinyin.

milicent_bystandr ,

I use temporary container tabs in Firefox. (Desktop, dunno if that works on mobile)

Every new tab I open opens in its own temporary container unless I've chosen otherwise (like for sites I want to remember logins )

So, even if I accept all the cookies, they all disappear with the temporary container after browsing, and don't connect to any other container - only tabs started (e.g. by clicking links) in the same container.

milicent_bystandr ,

Shout-out to Tenacity, forked when Audacity got bought out and started heading down a dark path.

Safest way of using WeChat on Android?

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I...

milicent_bystandr ,

And, let's be fair, for most people the real loss from this level of compromised privacy/security is far less than the real gain from helping your relationship.

Sometimes I look at products I use from dubious companies, take a step back, and think, this company is actually a blessing in my life even if there is a smaller curse attached. That said, I'm grateful for all the tremendous effort put in by many people to make the digital (and rest of) world a safer, more private, fairer and more honest place. And I try to do at least a little of my share!

milicent_bystandr ,

TD;DR

Too Dull; Didn't Read?

milicent_bystandr ,

Also, Learning is Fun, so here I have a new toy, let's have fun seeing what I can learn to do with it, then - as you say - that might solve a problem or improve a thing I hadn't thought of before.

milicent_bystandr ,

I don't think it's usual to forbid bringing hardware. And in some (many?) internet-restricted countries VPNs and things are also not illegal of themselves, and still less punishable normally. Because practical reality is foreigners have a variety of reasons for circumventing restricted internet and the state's interest is mostly in restricting their own citizens.

milicent_bystandr ,

Wow. That could be a hangover from laws to stop independent printing press and newspaper. I've come across that once.

milicent_bystandr ,

Finally! Been waiting for this for since Pacman wouldn't fit on my punch card. 2025 here we come!

milicent_bystandr ,

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/x11.png

Alt text: Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.

milicent_bystandr ,

Some of those are not rewrites but extensions/forks

milicent_bystandr ,

This is going to make my bicycle workshop much easier to run.

milicent_bystandr ,

Does that go for the xz vulnerability too? Wasn't it a Microsoft dev who discovered that?

milicent_bystandr ,

Wow, thank you for sharing this!
Grumblegrumble have to reinstall my system...

This straight on the back of a thread about flatpak verification and security - a reminder that a lot of the incredible work of a distribution, especially Debian, is a community of people curating packages with care, and not just for how quick they can be made to work together.

Also a highlight for the work toward fully replicatable systems - if I understand right, the exploit here was snuck in in the binary, not in the source code.

milicent_bystandr ,

xz is the compromised package, but it in turn compromises ssh authentication

milicent_bystandr ,

I have an iPhone propped up on the desk viewing my laptop screen just so Apple can record my programs and be happy. Don't want them to miss out!

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone ( lemmy.world )

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

milicent_bystandr ,

So, that looks like this is less insane than it sounded... This is for if you buy your phone on a payment plan? Not for creditors more generally to have a option to repossess/dispossess your phone?

milicent_bystandr ,

Gentoo: the Tamagotchi Penguin

milicent_bystandr ,

Because *mumble mumble* no Windows into your soul

milicent_bystandr ,

That's no way to talk about my horse! Look how sad you've made him.

milicent_bystandr ,

I can't carry your trauma, Ma'am, but I can carry you!

milicent_bystandr OP ,

Further to this, my sound stopped working. "No input/output devices detected."

Turned out if I went to the settings and turned on "show inactive devices", then changed the Profile from 'none' to 'Analog Stereo Duplex', it went back to normal and worked. sigh

That's what I get for a rolling release, I guess. I just hope the friends I set up on Linux Mint don't get similar issues, since I'm not around to help when things break.

milicent_bystandr OP ,

Yeah, if I'd known what was going on I could have just switched to VT1 straight away and finished the update. Did the other machine fine by updating from VT1 from the start.

milicent_bystandr OP ,

I wanted to try a different DE to get things working, but with network manager down I couldn't install anything else! Tumbleweed already had IceWM, but without any networkmanager control there either.

Course that was before I discovered I didn't need any internet to finish the job and fix it. I assumed the update completed but broke something, and hoped against hope there'd be a fix issued quickly that I could further update to.

P.S. I assume you mean zypper dup, but perhaps you're using the new Irish Culinary/Political Linux, and supper DUP is the right command.

milicent_bystandr ,

And I do keepassdx on Android, with a (phone-specific) database synced with syncthing

P.S. syncthing is fantastic: I hope more people consider hosting discovery servers and especially relays

milicent_bystandr ,

Syncthing for me, but Nextcloud has its advantages too.

milicent_bystandr ,

And it hides file names and sizes by splitting things up, which puts one extra layer of difficulty for someone trying to find my passwords file to target. I have a much stronger password on the syncthing directory than my normal type-each-time password to open keepassxc.

milicent_bystandr ,

Shout out for Lapce.

I remember reading a bit about this (from Atom) a while back and having iffy feelings... I don't wish to slander based on vague memories but certainly at the time I hoped Lapce would catch on instead.

It's still in development, but has a handful of aspects that I really like as the right way to go about things.

https://lapce.dev/

milicent_bystandr ,

Google is more evil than we realised!

milicent_bystandr ,

if you navigated to a pin based on lat lon it would genocide the location.

I don't know why people are down voting you. You are speaking the truth.

I think the horrors of Google's genocides are well documented on Wikipedia. I don't know why anyone doubts this anymore.

milicent_bystandr ,

If my memory doth not deceive me, a pear shaking at 3.2GHz would be pretty hot.

milicent_bystandr ,

Likewise

milicent_bystandr ,

https://xkcd.com/963/ (October 2011)

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/x11.png

[Mouseover text] Thomas Jefferson thought that every law and every constitution should be torn down and rewritten from scratch every nineteen years--which means X is overdue.

milicent_bystandr ,

I, too, get my coffee from the rolling bistro.

milicent_bystandr ,

I should think so too. A Thimbleweed sounds an excellent plant for an Evil_Shrubbery.

milicent_bystandr ,

They really went downhill after that.

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