Deebster

joined 1 year ago
[–] Deebster 14 points 8 hours ago

"Commentator posts hot take, demonstrating a massive lack of empathy to people doing a stressful and important job."

[–] Deebster 1 points 19 hours ago

I guess some people might go with f-s-tayb, but I wouldn't necessary recognise what they were saying.

[–] Deebster 1 points 2 days ago

True, most updates I don't actually care about. I haven't had any updates cause problems yet, but I like that I could choose to not enable updates on anything with a bad history (or critical stuff where I don't want to run the risk).

[–] Deebster 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, I still have it showing up in Windows/Android, and phone numbers show their cost per minute.

[–] Deebster 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I have a load of credit on there still (got tricked by them deactivating my credit and topped up unnecessarily). I still use it for international calls at least once a month, I hope this news story is overblown.

[–] Deebster 25 points 3 days ago

This is one of my favourites, despite the lack of Hobbes.

[–] Deebster 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

autoupdate is something I wouldn’t use

Yup, I expect lots of people feel like that, maybe most (I'd be interested to see some stats). I value security over availability, but you can choose per-container, of course.

network

You can set Internal=true, which I use whenever possible, which means access is only to anything on same network (for me that's itself and Caddy) - no outgoing connections at all. Podman uses PASTA by default for rootless.

[–] Deebster 2 points 3 days ago

The docs say what they do and don't do - and they don't do that. Just actually read through them for yourself, you don't have to be a lawyer.

This is just a bit of corporate box-ticking, but the pitchfork brigade has read 2 + 2 and is now screaming about 5s.

[–] Deebster 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In the advertising bit they say what data they use and it's all broad stuff like device type and location, as well as aggregate data on how many people click on the ads. Of course, you can just disable this, which surely most people do - tbh I forgot there was even this "sponsored content" there at all (it was added a while ago I think).

They don't say that your browsing habits, interactions or communications are used for anything besides doing what's required to actually do what you asked.

[–] Deebster 14 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Yes, Mozilla does some AI, like the in-browser, privacy-respecting language translation. If you use the same feature in Chrome, the text is submitted to a Google server, but in Firefox it never leaves your browser. I don't see how this could be spun to count against Firefox/Mozilla.

[–] Deebster 2 points 4 days ago

My pleasure! Answering your question is a good motivation to actually document my setup.

Also, if you're moving configs over, you might find podlet useful.

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Advent of Svelte (svelte.dev)
submitted 6 days ago by Deebster to c/sveltejs
 

This is old news, but no-one posted it at the time.

They released a bunch of new features, including error boundaries, each without as (simple but useful), exported snippets and er LLM-friendly documentation.

There's 24 new things in total, as it was a Christmas advent thing.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Deebster to c/[email protected]
 

Title text:

Can you pass the nackle?

Transcript:

[Cueball is holding a pointer and gesturing towards a whiteboard that shows the chemical formulas HCOOH and CH₃COOH. Below these, respectively, are classic diagramatic representations of formic/methanoic acid [with an apparently accidental doubled bond between the carbon and the hydroxy group] and acetic/ethanoic acid; being, in turn, a single- and double-carbon chain molecule with a double-bonded oxygen (carbonyl group) plus an oxygen-hydrogen (hydroxy) upon one carbon of each, to form the full carboxyl grouping, and hydrogens completing all other expected bonds.]
Cueball: The two simplest carboxylic acids are hakoo and chuckoo.
Off-panel voice: No!!

[Caption below the panel:]
How to annoy chemists

Source: https://xkcd.com/3040/

explainxkcd for #3040

 

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Animal Far (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Deebster to c/[email protected]
 
 

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Deebster to c/linux
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21363946

The normal complaint new Zellij users have is that it has a lot of keybindings which are likely to conflict with programs like nvim or Helix that use a lot themselves. Before, the workflow was to lock Zellij with ctrl-g which let input go through to the focused shell/program.

The new mode has most of the keybindings behind the ctrl-g lock, e.g. a new tab is ctrl-g t n (instead of ctrl-t n). You can still use alt-(cursor) for changing focus and alt-n/alt-f for a new tiled/floating pane, but all other key presses get passed along.

You can switch between default and unlock-first (non-colliding) modes so if you need those alt shortcuts you can lock everything as before.

Plus some other nice features like being able to change modifier keys while running (via the Kitty Keyboard Protocol), and autoloading the new config when you edit the file.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Deebster to c/commandline
 

The normal complaint new Zellij users have is that it has a lot of keybindings which are likely to conflict with programs like nvim or Helix that use a lot themselves. Before, the workflow was to lock Zellij with ctrl-g which let input go through to the focused shell/program.

The new mode has most of the keybindings behind the ctrl-g lock, e.g. a new tab is ctrl-g t n (instead of ctrl-t n). You can still use alt-(cursor) for changing focus and alt-n/alt-f for a new tiled/floating pane, but all other key presses get passed along.

You can switch between default and unlock-first (non-colliding) modes so if you need those alt shortcuts you can lock everything as before.

Plus some other nice features like being able to change modifier keys while running (via the Kitty Keyboard Protocol), and autoloading the new config when you edit the file.

 

Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

Spoilers ahead.

 

Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

Spoilers ahead.

 

Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

Spoilers ahead.

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Bacon v3 released (dystroy.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Deebster to c/rust
 

Bacon is a Rust code checker designed for minimal interaction, allowing users to run it alongside their editor to receive real-time notifications about warnings, errors, or test failures (I like having it show clippy's hints).

It prioritizes displaying errors before warnings, making it easier to identify critical issues without excessive scrolling.

Screenshot (from an old version I think):

v3 adds support for cargo-nextest, plus some QoL improvements.

v3.0.0 release notes

 

Getting later and later at posting these!

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