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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Until it gets a security audit, I’ll stick with Signal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Eh, 750 watts is like having 1.5 Tour de France elite cyclists pedal for you. It’s plenty to get up the hill.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 16 hours ago

My town’s subreddit just started a policy to disallow links to X for similar reasons.

There is a movement to avoid the platform.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As many as they want to.

 
  1. App redirects to identity broker
  2. Identity Broker redirects to social login
  3. Browser prompts to open password manager to access social login password.
  4. Password manager prompts for master password and redirects back to social login
  5. Social login prompts for security key.
  6. Social login redirects back to identity broker.
  7. Identity broker redirects back to app.
  8. "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')"
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Spent hours tracking down a test failure process and introduced a new bug in the process.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Best when paired with something like RainX

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I use KDE Connect for laptop to desktop transfers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tried it a couple times. Went back to the CLI.

If you know the CLI or are willing to learn, the GUI is yet-another layer for bugs to exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The found footage production style gives it a vibe like it was filmed during the pandemic lockdown.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The implications of this: If you typed a unique sentence into LinkedIn chat, then if prompted with the beginning of your sentence might produce the rest of it.

Without proper safeguards, an identifying or incriminating sentence might be returned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think there is a catch-22.

pg_dump needs to connect to a running PostgreSQL instance.

But if you upgrade the binaries and try to start up, you can’t because the old data format doesn’t work. Because you can’t start up, pg_dump can’t connect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I’ve spend more than a decade supporting both Postgres and MongoDB in production.

While they each have quirks, I prefer the quirks of Postgres.

I just spent a massive amount of time retooling code to deal with a MongoDB upgrade. The code upgrade is so complex because that’s where the schema is defined. No wonder MongoDB upgrades are easier— the database has externalized a lot of complexity that now becomes some coders problem to deal with.

 

Keyboards with custom firmware supports keycodes like XF86Copy and XF86Paste. These are great for having truly global copy/paste shortcuts that also work in apps like terminals where "Control-V" and "Control-C" aren't supported by default.

I advocated that these keycodes be supported in a web browser, Qutebrowser. The author of that project, Florian Bruhin liked the idea and submitted a patch upstream to the QT framework, which is used by many apps associated with the KDE Linux desktop. And about 5 years later, apps will be packaged with QT 6.10 that include the fix.

Here’s the change description.

This adds support for the Help, Open, Close, Save, New, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, Back, Forward, Refresh, ZoomIn, ZoomOut, Find, Settings, Exit, and Cancel keys to the default keyboard shortcuts.

The bug report:

https://bugreports.qt.io/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/QTBUG-93269

 

It is reportedly plug-n-play for basic features, but for more advanced features, something like this project would need to be patched to add support for the camera.

https://github.com/samliddicott/guvciew-meet4k

 
 

If you have been using an ergonomic mechanical keyboard for more than year, let us know which keyboard it is, and whether you plan to keep to keep using it for at least another year or if there's another keyboard you are considering trying instead.

 

I have a Logitech C920 and am looking to upgrade. Something suitable for streaming.

Some annoyances with the Logitech: sometimes autofocus fails and poor reproduction of blacks. Ex: Lack of detail when a black cat is on screen.

I already have a nice mic-- the webcam doesn't need one.

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