smpl

smpl , 6 days ago

Nice, but it is not entirely without JS. There is a tracking script from scorecardresearch.com

smpl , 10 days ago

debian/rules:

dh_auto_configure --  -DWITH_TESTS=$(WITH_TESTS) \
	                      -DWITH_GUI_TESTS=$(WITH_TESTS) \
	                      -DWITH_XC_UPDATECHECK=OFF \
	                      -DWITH_XC_ALL=OFF

CMakeLists.txt:

set(WITH_XC_ALL OFF CACHE BOOL "Build in all available plugins")

option(WITH_XC_AUTOTYPE "Include Auto-Type." ON)
option(WITH_XC_NETWORKING "Include networking code (e.g. for downloading website icons)." OFF)
option(WITH_XC_BROWSER "Include browser integration with keepassxc-browser." OFF)
option(WITH_XC_BROWSER_PASSKEYS "Passkeys support for browser integration." OFF)
option(WITH_XC_YUBIKEY "Include YubiKey support." OFF)
option(WITH_XC_SSHAGENT "Include SSH agent support." OFF)
option(WITH_XC_KEESHARE "Sharing integration with KeeShare" OFF)
option(WITH_XC_UPDATECHECK "Include automatic update checks; disable for controlled distributions" ON)
if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
    option(WITH_XC_FDOSECRETS "Implement freedesktop.org Secret Storage Spec server side API." OFF)
endif()
option(WITH_XC_DOCS "Enable building of documentation" ON)

set(WITH_XC_X11 ON CACHE BOOL "Enable building with X11 deps")

# stuff inbetween cut out

if(WITH_XC_ALL)
    # Enable all options (except update check and docs)
    set(WITH_XC_AUTOTYPE ON)
    set(WITH_XC_NETWORKING ON)
    set(WITH_XC_BROWSER ON)
    set(WITH_XC_BROWSER_PASSKEYS ON)
    set(WITH_XC_YUBIKEY ON)
    set(WITH_XC_SSHAGENT ON)
    set(WITH_XC_KEESHARE ON)
    if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
        set(WITH_XC_FDOSECRETS ON)
    endif()
endif()

I'm no CMake expert, but it looks like to me, from the first line of the above snippet, that the default in the upstream build script is WITH_XC_ALL=OFF.

smpl , 10 days ago

Sadly Sci-Hub has not received updated articles in several years. Alexandra is waiting for the outcome of the trial in India. I don't think it depends on what the outcome is, just that the trial needs to be over.

smpl , 14 days ago

WARNING. Everything other than the last paragraph is kind of rude and opinionated, so skip to the bottom if you only want practical advice and not a philosophical rant.

First of all Free Software don't need paid developers. We scruffy hackers create software because it's fun. I have a strong suspicion that the commercialization of Free Software via the businessfriendly clothing "Open Source" is actually creating a lot of shitty software or at least a lot of good software that'll be obsoleted to keep business going. Capitalization of Free Software doesn't have an incentive to create good finished software, quite the opposite. The best open source software from commercial entities is in my opinion those that were open sourced when a product was no longer profitable as a proprietary business. As examples I love the ID software game engines and Blender. Others seem happy that Sun dumped the source code of Star Office, which then became OpenOffice and LibreOffice, but then again companies like Collabora are trying to turn it into a shitty webification instead of implementing real collaborative features into the software like what AbiWord has.

..and back in the real world where you need to buy food. Open Source consultancy, implementation of custom out-of-tree features, support, courses and training, EOL maintainance or products that leaverage Open Source software is my best answer. See Free Software as a commons we all contribute to, so that we can do things with it and built things from it. You should not expect people to pay for Free Software, but you can sell things that take advantage of Free Software as a resource.

smpl , 15 days ago

Don't be so sad, the list is shit.

I like drop.lol

smpl , 14 days ago

As @Caboose12000 already said, I'd recommend drop.lol (can be selfhosted). Filetransfers are direct between peers (unless you're behind some hardcore NAS where UDP hole-punching via STUN is not possible).

I mean how I transfer a file depends on the situation. If it's to someone on XMPP I'd just establish a direct transfer there. Sometimes I share a directory over HTTP, FTP, SFTP and so on. The easiest way for most people, because it only requires a WebRTC capable browser, is with one of the many peer to peer filesharing platforms like drop.lol.

smpl , 16 days ago

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/8be35759-b316-45d6-ad07-1a78094b3b44.webm

smpl , 27 days ago

The fork Tenacity

smpl , 28 days ago

Thanks for the archive link, even if I prefer Techdirt for these kind of news, it was nice of you to save me from visiting Wired.

smpl , 1 month ago

It's part of the RSS 2.0 standard. Of course it requires adoption by feed publishers.

rssCloud

smpl , 1 month ago

Have they resolved the issues with poop?

smpl , 29 days ago

No I'm sorry, I pull my feeds manually using a barebones reader. I'm guessing your best bet is one of the web-based readers as it would require a client with a TCP port that's reachable from the web. I have never seen a feed who provided the rssCloud feature though.

smpl , 1 month ago

Does anyone know of a list of TLDs that don't allow reselling? I'd prefer to buy/lease one of those and let domain sharks play their own games.

smpl , 1 month ago

For your photo needs, you could try out RawTherapee and Darktable. They have builds for Windows and MacOS.

smpl , 1 month ago

A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click

Timo Tamminen

One day a Linux user using KDE Plasma decided to download a generic theme for his desktop environment. This is possible with Plasma's built-in tool, through which you can download anything from themes to icons and wallpapers.

Installing themes using Plasma's tool is easy and fast. It practically only requires one click. This time, however, the user in question certainly wishes that that one click had not been completed.

Namely, installing the theme called Gray Layout wiped the machine completely empty of the user's personal files. Without asking anything.

Although the theme developer's intention this time was apparently not malicious, the accident was a clear indication that installing third-party themes without careful supervision can be a bad mistake. With the theme, almost anything can be installed in the user's home directory.

The Gray Layout installation script ran the rm -rf command, which normally removes all files from the device, making the command particularly dangerous to use. However, without root access, it can only cause limited damage.

Reddit user Jeansen Vaars says that he lost all his games, settings files, browser history and other contents of his home directory in a crash.

The unofficial face of KDE, Nate Graham, apologizes for what happened. He promises that the matter will be thoroughly investigated. The theme in question has also been removed from the theme store.

smpl , 2 months ago

I use gitit and it's already packaged in most Linux distros.

smpl , 2 months ago

Do what you want. It's your computer.

smpl , 2 months ago

TLDR; Sorta federation. It is possible to selfhost data.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/17c9b3d5-de0b-4ef0-ba47-f041c9c23839.png

smpl , 2 months ago

opt

smpl , 2 months ago

I’ve built a pretty functional web-based video editor that helps you generate FFmpeg commands in a visual, node-based environment. The tool lets you play around with most (but not all) FFmpeg filters, render videos in the browser (!), import your own files and/or work with demo videos, export gifs and mp4s, and it comes with a few built-in examples of the many fun things one can do with FFmpeg.

Source: https://lav.io/notes/ffmpeg-explorer/

Code: https://github.com/antiboredom/ffmpeg-explorer

smpl , 2 months ago

Why not NewPipe?

smpl , 2 months ago

You should submit a bug report to your distro. If the window in focus doesn't grab the pointer, that should be a bug.

smpl , 3 months ago

I use Devuan and it's just Debian without systemd.

smpl , 3 months ago

It sounds like you already know how to make Web 1.0 websites.

smpl , 3 months ago

Just do it. It's your computer.

smpl , 4 months ago

No. Never. It's a ruse.

smpl , 4 months ago

Gothub is looking for a new maintainer.

smpl , 4 months ago

https://friendi.ca/#try

smpl , 4 months ago

I will conveniently avoid any dbus talk, because the why is not so interesting as the how and direct you to this path /var/run/wpa_supplicant. You would probably send SCAN_RESULTS on the socket, you could also initiate a SCAN first to include the strength of stations you're not connected to. If you want deeper access to wireless, you use netlink to communicate with the kernel (see /usr/include/linux/nl80211.h) and poke some NL80211_STA_INFOs.. or the other direction (everything is a file) you just parse /proc/net/wireless without any special permissions for the current signal strength.

Oh.. and btw dbus has a simple binary protocol underneath all the XML/interface fluff and uses a UNIX socket.

smpl , 5 months ago

Yes, use what you know. Neither LXLE nor LXDE are end of life as claimed in other comments. The latest LXLE release is supported until 2030, which is five years longer than Windows 10.

smpl , 5 months ago

Fontunately it’s just DNS.

Loop up the domains at one of: ns1.cloudns.net ns2.cloudns.net ns3.cloudns.net ns4.cloudns.net

smpl , 5 months ago

My best guess is that you forgot the -f parameter to qemu-img.

smpl , 6 months ago

You are giving me the impression that Waypipe is an extension to Wayland like XRANDR is to the X11 protocol. I didn’t get that impression from the blogpost. I’m not trying to place value on them being an extension or a separate tool. I’m just trying to figure out if it was a shortheaded response or if Waypipe is an extension to the Wayland protocol.

smpl , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

GNOME Shell 45 moved to ESM (ECMAScript modules). That means you MUST use the standard import declaration instead of relying on the previous imports.* approach.

gjs.guide/extensions/…/gnome-shell-45.html

So the imports in your extensions is changed from:

<span style="color:#323232;">const Clutter = imports.gi.Clutter;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">const Gio = imports.gi.Gio;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">const Main = imports.ui.main;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">const Volume = imports.ui.status.volume;
</span>

to

<span style="color:#323232;">import Clutter from 'gi://Clutter';
</span><span style="color:#323232;">import Gio from 'gi://Gio';
</span><span style="color:#323232;">import * as Main from 'resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">import * as Volume from 'resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/status/volume.js';
</span>

smpl , 6 months ago

I edited my comment with an example for your code and my best advice for figuring out the path of gnome shell imports is by browsing /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/, the docs are not very helpful.

smpl , 6 months ago

It is very likely the wrong path, I just extrapolated the path from the gnome-shell git repo. I don’t use Gnome myself, I’m on the enemy team using LXDE on Devuan ;)

smpl , 6 months ago

Just to clarify. The gi:// resources are GObject Introspection modules which are used for multilanguage bindings to native libraries. On my system, GI modules are found in /usr/share/gir-1.0/ . They’re just imported by name and sometimes version using gi:// (there are examples in the link in my first comment).

As I don’t have Gnome installed I can’t be sure of the path to gnome shell modules imported using resource://, but it’s probably the path I wrote, but without js/.

smpl , 6 months ago

You want Gobby

smpl , 7 months ago

Aliasing and forwarding is not a good solution if you are concerned about law enforcement, because your personal e-mail is still linked with the tracker, just behind an extra hop and in addition you allow someone in between to read your e-mails. You had the answer yourself. Create a completely fresh free e-mail account somewhere, using as minimum a private tab to prevent tracking data to link anything to the account… and if you can get a free e-mail account with IMAP/POP access so that you can use it in an e-mail client to leak less data, do that.

smpl , 7 months ago

You could check out unfa’s channel and see if some of the videos are what you’re after.

www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKj_peyESIMDp5LtHlH2A

smpl , 7 months ago

That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard in a -1 years!

smpl , 7 months ago

If you still want to respect user privacy, your analytics software could use the port of the connection instead of IP as the identifier. It would be perfectly fine for determining simultaneus users from the same IP, but not invasive enough to monitor an individuals behaviour. Don’t ask me which analytics software supports that. I’d grab the data from the http logs if it was me and use a tool like goaccess.

smpl , 7 months ago

• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Legacy
• Übergame
• Xash3D (Open Source GoldSource Half-Life engine)

smpl , 7 months ago

You could check if a domain contains a lemmy instance by fetching /.well-known/nodeinfo, but it’s bad netiquette to hammer sites with requests and could get users blocked. If you were to do it I’d make sure it cached the lookups in IndexedDB, localStorage or just using Cache API. I’m unsure how well any of the APIs works with UserScripts.

smpl , 8 months ago

…and which one would that be?

smpl , 8 months ago

Marginalia Search perhabs.

Also these are worth mentioning:

• Mojeek have their own index. The results are occasionally a bit of a mess, but they are very open to input and have an account on Mastodon.
• Infotiger have their own index and the results are good.
• Alexandria which use the Common Crawl index.

smpl , 8 months ago

You’re looking for what’s called reproducible builds.

reproducible-builds.org