 We should all ditch #GoogleChrome in favour of a browser with a better engine (=> Firefox, Safari/Epiphany) or at least a more humane Chromium fork (=> Vivaldi). Yet, it's not only about the consumers. The companies should finally stop considering Chrome a browser that everyone has and that just works. Le TEC, the Walloon public transport provider (not on the Fediverse), for example, doesn't allow logging in if Google Chrome is not installed. What the f—?! Very disappointing. I have been doing some last-minute #vacation planning when I suddenly discovered Wikivoyage. I can't stress how incredible this resource is. So much useful information on specific countries and cities, including up-to-date opening hours and public transport costs. How haven't I found it sooner?! Yesterday, after having woken up late and made my ‘morning’ coffee, I looked out the kitchen window and saw the Google Street View car (for the first time in my life!) It is safe to assume that my topless body is going to be on the maps any time soon 😛  I got an email from the Russian Federal Taxation Service saying I have a new notification. I’ve opened the URL and logged in using my email and password. There were taxes to pay. I clicked the notification and got presented with a full receipt, which had a QR code. I scanned the QR code with the banking app’s camera and tapped ‘Pay’. The whole process took two minutes. The IT services of Russia are incredible, and it’s a shame how far Germany is from it. inb4 ‘why are you paying taxes to a war criminal?!’ ⇒ I am not a permanent resident of any other country (yet), and getting criminal records in a country I could be extradited to is not smart by any means Bad Web UX practice no. 981: Redirecting the user to a 2FA page but not autofocusing the code field Other 2FA UX nags: - When there is one entry cell per character, and you can't copy/paste a code The latter would be fine if every 2FA field worked that way, but the unexpected auto-submit means I also hit enter which sometimes triggers it twice. @brianokken re: docstrings (Python Bytes) I'm all with you: I believe the name and signature of the function should be enough. Nevertheless, I like writing docstrings, especially for modules and classes, where I go in details on how they're implemented. I use the reST (PEP-0257) format, because Sphinx makes very good docs out of those (even with interlinking!). However, I've seen many people use Google or NumPy (even people not affiliated with either). I was quite surprised by that, too. #Share2Fedi v3 is now live! This version drops the Mastodon-centrism both in the name and in the functionality. You can now use it to share text posts to Misskey (+ flavours), Friendica, Hubzilla, and GNU Social! Also, thanks to Astro, you can self-host it *anywhere* In the coming week, I'll add a ‘Share to Fediverse’ button to #Shareon. The v2 version is still available on the old domain, which will be phased out until the end of the year. > created 171 days ago Clicking ‘Merge’ is so damn scary sometimes 😅 Announcement: I will be leaving the Fediverse for some time. I haven’t been doing that well over the last weeks. Feels like burnout, which is funny since I finished university in July and haven’t had any full-time jobs in the meantime. The whole Fosstodon drama has also left its dent on me, giving me an eerie sense of conflict and unwelcomeness, both of which I haven’t felt since I left Twitter. I remain active as a mod, but I won’t be reading and posting much. See you later!
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All this language stuff only exists on Mastodon. Smithereen, for example, discards this metadata on external posts and doesn't add it to its own. Well, this is confirmed. This is one of the reasons why I was never against the English-only policy. Most people I follow are from #Fosstodon, and now, if they would want to write in a foreign language, I have no way to hide these posts, no matter the language. My #TPLink router has been having weird problems, and I don't really know how to debug it. About once a day, my devices lose connection to Wi-Fi. The Ethernet connection still works, though. The devices claim the Wi-Fi has no Internet connection, has a wrong password, or plainly hide it from the networks list. A restart helps, but not always. Full reset did not help. DoS protection is on, and logs are empty on both my #RaspberryPi and the router itself. What could it be? @kytta You might try looking in logs inside the modem, if you can get in the modem and it has logs. I discovered that my cable internet connection from my ISP was incorrectly attenuated by an F cap on the end of an exposed coaxial splitter. I removed it and my internet connection stopped dropping once or twice per day like yours. Wild guess?  I want to add a ‘Share via email’ button to #Shareon, the share buttons I develop. What should the icon for that button be? Anonymous poll
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Voting ended 18 Aug 2023 at 11:26. #TimeMachine stopped working for some reason. Copying 6 gigabytes takes up to four hours, and then it gets stuck at ‘Freeing Up Space’, even though there is enough room for a full backup, let alone an incremental one. Internet search didn’t yield any results other than ‘Reformat drive as APFS and try again’. I don’t have a spare drive on hand at the moment, so I guess no backups for me. #LivingOnTheEdge New (short) blog post! In this one, I ramble about people using wrong data formats. https://www.kytta.dev/blog/data-format-minimisation/ This is post 007 of #100DaysToOffload Telegram FOSS[1] is a fork of Telegram for Android that doesn’t include closed-source binaries. Cons: Gets updates noticeably later than the official version Pros: Gets updates noticeably later than the official version, so there are no stories :blobcatgoogly: I got myself a new phone and am displeased to tell you that Android-to-Android migration is *still not good*. How I imagine #Android works: There are files under `/storage/emulated/0`. Some folders, like ‘Pictures’ are writable by user. Also, each app has it’s ‘data’ lying *somewhere*. When migrating, three things are done: 1) Apps get pulled as APKs and re-installed; 2) Apps’ data gets placed where it belongs; 3) User’s folders get copied as-is. It’s not how it works. How it works instead: 1) Apps that are on the Google Play get re-installed. F-Droid? Russian banking apps? Unlucky! @kytta I could rant all day about iOS, but migrations are heaven, I still have chatlogs from 2015. Weirdest thing that happened to me was on lineageOS and titanium backup on a rooted S7, after reinstalling it my custom messaging sounds for telegram got replaced with random music mp3s from my sd-card. @kytta Good thing that they both are yearly events. Add OpenSUSEConf to the list and setup a reminder for the next year now :) Hey @bitwarden, I have noticed you are now offering an EU-hosted instance. Good stuff! Is there a way to migrate my US-hosted account to the EU servers? @kytta Hey Nikita, more on this one here: https://bitwarden.com/help/server-geographies/#migrate-to-another-cloud EDITED: this post was me asking for job offers. I have now secured a job offer and am not searching any more. @kytta Just leaving this here as it might fit you 😊 I’m really enjoying working here 😊 Can anyone recommend a lightweight, bare-bones status page? I am running Uptime Kuma at the moment, but it takes up a ton of RAM, which my RasPi does not like :D All I need is periodical HTTP GET and/or IP Ping and check for the response as well as a status page for the public @kytta found this list the other day. Maybe it has something you're looking for. https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages |
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