do you have a recommended tool to "subscribe" to the new torrents when you publish them ? The idea would be to down/seed a subset of the catalog with some automatic update whenever there is a new torrent for an item...
This morning we went out to see whether there was a cat, there wasn't (he was at the neighbors), but there was a package that had evidently been delivered with the cat's signature.
There were very little indication on who the seller was, which meant I knew who the seller was, so, #unboxing time?
Contrary to what people here may expect from the unmarked box it's not an adult toy, but it's definitely a toy for adults, or at least it requires adult supervision for assembly and contains small pieces not suitable for children under 3 :D
Stamattina siamo usciti a vedere se c'era un gatto, non c'era (era dai vicini), ma c'era un pacchetto che evidentemente era stato consegnato facendo firmare al gatto.
Sul pacchetto c'erano pochissime indicazioni di chi fosse il venditore, quindi ho riconosciuto chi fosse il venditore, quindi è il momento per un unboxing?
Contrariamente a quello che certa gente qui potrebbe pensare vedendo la scatola anonima non è un prodotto per adulti, ma è decisamente un giocattolo per adulti, o quantomeno richiede la supervisione di un adulto per l'assemblaggio, e contiene parti piccole non adatte a bambini sotto i 3 anni. :D
(i prossimi post saranno quasi solo un'immagine e saranno solo in inglese (che comunque c'è anche il problema di friendica che identifica male la lingua, non so quanto i miei post in italiano siano leggibili con uno screen reader :( ))
@s1m0n4 potenzialmente tutte quante, con dei limiti e a seconda di quanto ci si voglia sbattere.
L'esp32-c3 è un microcontrollore, non un computer su cui gira linux, ma ci girano micropython e circuitpython, per cui programmarlo è facile, e ha una radio che fornisce connettività wifi e bluetooth (BLE).
La cosa più semplice di tutte è giocare coi LED e col bottone, ed è la prima cosa che farò, autocontenuto, di sicuro effetto :D
Un'altra cosa abbastanza semplice è farlo parlare con un server, mandare cose e ricevere comandi. Qui la difficoltà è decidere cosa fargli mandare e che comandi ricevere :)
Potenzialmente si dovrebbe poter anche comunicare in modo mesh tra i vari badge, ed è una cosa che sul lungo termine vorrei fare, ma lì devo avere tempo di vedere un po' di cose che non ho mai visto, quindi non ci sarà niente di pronto a breve termine, ecco.
btw, does anybody here on fedi have any experience with soldering bare #WS2812 / #SK6812 / #neopixels with a soldering iron?
the packaging was pretty scary on expiration dates, saying that once the seal had been opened everything had to be used in 24 hours, or go through a baking process, because of moisture sensitivity.
However, it also mentioned “reflow solder or other high temperature process”: does anybody know whether would it be safe to solder them with a soldering iron after some time in non-actively-dried storage?
qualcuno qui sul fediverso per caso ha esperienza nel saldare WS2812 / SK6812 / neopixels conn un saldatore?
il pacchetto faceva abbastanza terrorismo sul fatto che una volta aperto il sigillo andavano usati tutti entro 24 ore o sottoposti ad un processo di asciugatura prima di usarli.
Però parlava anche di “reflow solder or other high temperature process”: qualcuno sa se i problemi ci sono anche se li si salda col saldatore dopo che sono stati conservati in un ambiente non attivamente deumificato?
@Beko Pharm I don't have condensation dropping down from the ceiling, but I don't have the < 10% humidity mentioned on the package either.
At the moment I have used 10 LEDs out of a package of 20, and I'm going to try storing the 10 remaining ones and then try to solder them later, maybe at two different times.
I'm a bit more hesitant to open the 50 LED package, however :)
@Beko Pharm I believe that the problem is exactly the lack of survival of what has formed (moisture) under soldering temperatures, and what happens to it as it dies… er… suddenly evaporates
keep them in an airtight bag with desiccant and they will be fine to hand-solder whenever you get to them in future.
In short, yes MSL is definitely a thing, and good* vendors will pop a humidity indicator card into the pack so you know if they are ready to go as soon as you receive them or not. The issue is that many plastics are hydrophilic (they like to absorb moisture from the air), especially the plastics used in LEDs. When “wet” plastic is exposed to the 260°C ambient temperature of a reflow oven, the moisture can’t evaporate quickly enough so it turns to steam and builds pressure inside plastic packages which can make them explode.
Hand-soldering is usually fine because you don’t heat the entire package, only the leads, and you should only need a couple of seconds of heating to solder the joint instead of a typical 5 minute reflow cycle
@I love this, so I thanks! that's what was felt plausible, but also I was afraid to hope :)
There was indeed an indicator card (and dessicant) in the bag, and the leftover LEDs have been put back into it, and closed with some tape, I guess put the bag into a zip bag with some extra dessicant just to be sure. I assume that the indicator bag will say that they have been exposed to humidity the next time I'll open the bag, but then I don't have a reflow oven (and I'll avoid using the hot air station just to be sure) :D
Mercoledì pomeriggio e giovedì mattina i lavori in superficie in un cantiere privato hanno "toccato" la galleria che passa sotto Milano. Un (doppio) errore che ha causato grandi ritardi, soppressioni e anche l'evacuazione di un treno nel tunnel
Se vi piace l'idea di una piccola istanza antifascista locale, se siete di Genova o dintorni o vi piace il nome (spiego meglio sotto), se usate già Mastodon ma pensate che sia meglio far girare anche Gotosocial, questa istanza è aperta su richiesta a chi ne voglia far parte, in modo conviviale
Genova dal basso per me è un incrocio di parole e vite, dal basso come la resistenza quotidiana fatta dalle persone, dal basso come l'archeologia che faccio, dal basso nelle grotte da esplorare, dal basso con rabbia e amore
è vero, magari in futuro se davvero si crea un gruppo possiamo passare alla verdura. Qui per ora non è nemmeno un nome di dominio ma sul dyndns di Yunohost
@LaVi mi segnalano che c'è stato un furto di cavi di rame tra saronno e fino mornasco
“03 set 2026 - 06:19 La circolazione della direttrice è sospesa tra le stazioni di SARONNO e FINO MORNASCO per un furto di cavi di rame. E' necessario effettuare delle modifiche al servizio. Nella tratta interrotta previsto servizio bus; primo bus in partenza alle 6:35 da SARONNO diretto a FINO MORNASCO. I treni viaggiano tra le stazioni di COMO NORD LAGO e FINO MORNASCO. Si invitano i viaggiatori diretti a MILANO di utilizzare i treni della linea S11. Info sull'andamento del treno in APP e Sito nella sezione "Real time | Linee e orari - ricerca treno".”
It worked, I wore it. Years later I saw a blog post on Pour La Victoireon making a corset cover based on the same book, but with completely different results, and thought that it would have been nice to make another one to publish instructions for my take on it.
However, I didn’t have any embroidery flouncing on hand, nor did I have a need for a new corset cover, and the project remained on the list, on low priority (although I did buy some beading lace for it, when I stumbled on it).
Then, after finishing my vampire shirt, I noticed that I had just enough fabric left for a corset cover, and by just enough I really mean just enough, as I discovered when laying the pattern on the fabric.
So I dug in my files to get the original pattern I used, brought it up to date, and added the missing details such as the pleating guides that I had skipped when making the pattern just for myself. Doing so I realized that on my old cover I had done the fake pleat in the front wrong, making just a single pleat instead of a box pleat. Also, I originally directly gathered the sleeves in the armscyes, but watching the book again I realized that the sleeves were made up of a gathered ruffle plus a straight band.
Both issues were fixed and I could cut the fabric and start sewing. By machine, including using a narrow hem foot instead of sewing rolled hems by hand as my instinct kept reminding me would have looked neater.
But this is a garment from a sewing machine time, and probably one that in many cases would have been bought from a mass producer, and it’s underwear, so there is no real need for the hems to be perfect, as it’s going to be hidden anyway. But most importantly, I wanted to write instructions for machine sewing, for a change, and so I had to machine sew all steps that I had to take pictures of.
I did do the buttonholes by hand, because I hate the buttonhole attachment on my machine, and the buttonhole attachment hates me.
I used a lighter weight fabric for the sleeve ruffles, both because I didn’t have a big enough piece of main fabric not to have to piece them, and because I felt that it looks better, as it’s the same voile I used for the ruffles on the vampire shirt.
When it came to the beading lace, I had two that I had bought more or less thinking about this project: the earlier one was narrow and suitable to do its job, but the one I had bought more recently was taller, with an edge that made it suitable to give more fullness to the bust when gathered up.
I contemplated for a short while, and then decided to go for fullness and use the taller border for the top edge, but the smaller one at the waist, where fullness is not wanted.
The book claimed that this pattern required little labour, and indeed it did: even when taking step by step pictures it only took a few hours spread over a week, plus the time to make buttonholes by hand over the next week.
I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.
If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!
This is Linux Zoom 7.1.5. Previously I had 6.6 installed, which didn't do this.
It appears to only care about the CLIPBOARD selection – the one with Windows-ish UX, which you typically copy to explicitly with a keystroke such as ^C, and paste from with ^V (or similar). It doesn't look at PRIMARY, the selection used for trad X11 "just select in this window then middle-click in the other" copy-paste.
It looks as if it's detecting changes of clipboard via the XFIXES extension, and whenever the clipboard is claimed by a new owner, it immediately sends that client a paste request.
I noticed it because I make heavy use of a "one-shot paste" tool which fulfills a single paste request and then terminates. Handy for filling in lots of fields of a web form – queue up pastes of several different things, then go to each form field in turn and just hit paste, bam bam bam. But today, after an apt update, it doesn't work: my one-shot paste tool terminates as soon as it starts, because (I found out after some debugging) Zoom always requests a paste immediately.
(Regular readers might recall that around this time _last_ year I caught Slack doing something similar, but only when focus entered the Slack window, and also, they had a configuration option to turn it off. A one-shot paste tool seems to be a good way to notice weird things going on in the X server!)
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@nicksilkey the way the X11 selection mechanism works is that every time an application wants to paste, it contacts the current selection owner and asks it to send the data.
This allows some amusing stunts, like writing a selection client that always pastes the _current_ time, rather than the time the clipboard was (logically speaking) written. But it also means that the selection-owning application _knows_ when someone is pasting from it, and can do things in response.
A one-shot paste tool is a thing that starts up, claims ownership of the clipboard, waits until it's received and fulfilled _one_ paste request, and then immediately terminates.
It so happens that I use one I wrote myself. But others exist. One that's already available in Debian and Ubuntu is 'xclip'. If you do this …
sudo apt install xclip # if you don't have it installed already echo -n foo | xclip -selection primary -loop 1 -verbose
... then middle-clicking in some other window should cause two things to happen. First, it pastes 'foo'. But also, the xclip tool terminates, and your shell prompt comes back in the first terminal.
If you use '-selection clipboard' instead of '-selection primary' then it will write the other clipboard, the one that typically pastes using ^V or similar. Except that if you're running Zoom 7.1.5 on the same X server, it won't wait for you to paste something on purpose – it will terminate immediately, because it already received a paste request from Zoom!
@shrub900 can you say how? I've never got round to learning Wayland. What restrictions can it place on clipboard use that prevent this kind of unwanted behaviour while still allowing intentional copy-paste?
generally on wayland only applications with keyboard focus can get access to the clipboard, which would prevent zoom from getting the clipboard content when it’s running in the background.
@shrub900 I see, thanks. So a side effect would be that command-line pasting tools, like 'xclip -o', also couldn't work?
That's quite a big tradeoff for some users – me in particular. I use that kind of workflow a lot. As and when I move towards Wayland, I'll have to work out what to do about losing that.
for cases like that, there are often external data control protocols used to make it work. because it’s easy to inspect what clients use what protocols, you can make sure only a client you trust uses those protocols. standard clients don’t tend to use them though, generally only clipboard related utilities and the like
for one the program has to explicitly pass in an input event that triggered the paste action (and the compositor can decide to for example say that mouse movement isn't valid for that)
wayland makes it worse. I can do autotype in X11 to any window, including a terminal and never have to touch the clipboard. I must use clipboard in wayland and any app which has access to the clipboard can still read it.
Glad I mostly use autotype, rather than clipboard. Also, I believe many password managers can do one shot paste, to prevent accidentally pasting your password in the wrong window. Which would not prevent this, but would have caught it.
@glent that sounds like a very plausible thing to try, but I can't find that setting!
In the Zoom client's Settings dialog box, the "My account" entry in the left sidebar only offers me some links to the web version of my account settings, an option to make a voice recording for smart voice recognition, and a list of all the clients logged in to my account.
Other plausible sidebar entries, like "Meetings & webinars" or "Share screen", don't have any option of that kind either.
Searching for 'clipboard' in the whole settings box, via the search tool at the top of the left sidebar, only finds "Automatically copy invite link to clipboard" in the Meetings tab.
Yes, that's right: follow the path onto the web. Zoom seems odd about the applications settings in the app and those in the web (which are then read by the app at startup???). I haven't messed with Zoom nearly enough, but it does seem to suffer a little from problem-report-driven development, with features not being where expected.
eg: the Wayland setting is hidden under "Settings | Accessibility | Miscellaneous | Use native Wayland (experimental)" and also seems to require "Settings | Share screen | Advanced | Screen capture mode on Wayland: Pipewire mode".
@glent ah, yes, now I see that in the web version of Settings it's there, a long way down a very large page.
But no luck, I'm afraid. I turned that off; pressed Save; quit and restarted the local Zoom client, since you said the web settings might only be loaded at startup; and alas, the unwanted clipboard slurping is still happening.
ah yes, zoom who, last i used it some years ago, ran a C compiler in the background every 10s. I am very surprised they are, once again, doing crazy shit 😂😭
1. Use the Zoom Web site. The Web page for the call first makes you try to open the desktop client, but when that fails, a small option appears on the Web page, to do it using Web standards.
2. Dedicated device for Zoom. At an anti-counterfeit-goods startup, after Zoom was sending US calls through CN, seemed prudent to isolate Zoom from eng and ops laptops. I got an iPad, to isolate easier than a dedicated Linux box for Zoom.
Yes, normally I use Zoom on an iPad due to the strong sandboxing, but when Zoom with screen sharing is used for things like coding interviews, I dedicated a sacrificial laptop for this. And now I have erased it and reinstalled the OS from scratch. Twice.
@ashwin I don't have a citation – this is original research! I found out when a program I was running received an unexpected SelectionRequest and I investigated.
i see, with them also removing features from the browser version and adding a popup saying to use the app i can't see this as anything over than malicious
I don't actually want to be that guy. But in 2026 no one should run X11 on their desktop anymore. Not to justify Zooms behavior it is still shady and shouldn't be a thing in the first place. Also not to say this wouldn't be possible in Wayland as well, reading the clipboard with the user not knowing.
@vortex_acherontic a nice theory, but several of the machines I use will *not run* Wayland, because it just crashes at startup.
Also the UX still seems only half finished to me – e.g. two separate APIs for server-side decorations, with some clients doing one and some the other, and I've not yet seen a compositor that supports both.
Wayland seems to me to be in that space of tools that say 1. "We can only be bothered to support the 85% common case" 2. "Everyone has to use our stuff, no exceptions, we will judge you for using the old thing instead."
My pick would be to reduce any remaining workflows requiring X11. If it crashes for you maybe the Wayland stack is too old? I've been running Wayland for several years even on NVIDIA hardware without a single incident. Except explicit sync support NVIDIA took a while to implement. I wonder why you have to worry about client and server side decorations as a user in the first place? Kwin supports both. Gnome only client side. Afaik client side is the preferred way as per the protocol?
@vortex_acherontic 'maybe the Wayland stack is too old' – it will be whatever comes as standard on Ubuntu 24.04. I feel as if, for software mature enough that people are asking why you're still using the old thing, that _ought_ to be new enough to work!
Client vs server side decorations: on X11, I run a highly customisable window manager (Sawfish) which lets me configure my window frame – both what buttons exist on it, and what they do. In particular, my GUI habits make heavy use of a 'send window to back without minimising' action, and also I've configured various types of clicks on the window frame to move/resize windows without also bringing them to the front, or to reset them to standard sizes I like for that application, or to ping the window instantly to a piece of free space on the screen rather than making me drag it gradually.
X11 applications which say "forget the window-manager frame, I'll make my own" are saying "Simon, I don't care about all those UI actions you configured on the WM frame, the only actions you get are the ones I implemented on _my_ frame". I lose all the shortcuts I set up on purpose, and have to do everything the long way.
If/when I move to Wayland, I will want a window manager that still lets me get this level of configurability. Otherwise I'll be back to the bad old days where GUI actions are all slow and manual instead of fast and automated. And this will mean I want server-side window frames, because that's where a lot of my configurability will want to live.
My current best prospect looks like 'River', a compositor which provides a sub-protocol for window management, so that you can write a custom WM without having to write a full compositor. However, I tested it earlier this year with applications that used both of the different protocols for suppressing the client window frame when the server is providing one, and it only worked with one of the two. I'm hoping that I can fix that in River and send a patch, and then write a River-based WM that behaves the way I want it to. But this is a coding project, not a "just apt install something else" job!
@vortex_acherontic well said. I always felt that “push to back” was the second most valuable window action (besides “bring to front”). I am shocked that decades later, said functionality is still rare. It’s one of the main drawbacks I had to overcome when using macOS (life is full of tradeoffs).
It’s been a while but I spent considerable time looking for a way to achieve that function on the Mac. Failed.
@dashrb @vortex_acherontic the very first GUI I ever used was AmigaDOS, which had it as one of the standard window-frame buttons. Always wondered why everyone de-emphasised it after that!
@dashrb I am not a big fan of apps being able to randomly pop in front of everything because they believe they are important now. Especially if the user is writing something, a dialogue pops up of some background tasks and then the user ends up accidentally confirming any actions because they just hit space or enter. I'd rather have Gnome showing a notification or kde Highlight the app in the taskbar instead, then to steal focus.
definitely! Another thing I would want from my (as yet vapourware) Wayland-based setup is to stop applications from stealing focus or pushing themselves to the front, perhaps with an allowlist of applications I've decided can be trusted not to abuse the privilege. It _is_ a misfeature of X11 that the window manager doesn't get a veto on the SetFocus request.
Zoom – to return briefly to the original topic – is a particular offender here. Its meeting window steals the keyboard focus whenever someone in the meeting either starts or stops sharing their screen. I can't see any sensible purpose for that, since there aren't any likely keyboard actions enabled by it. So I expect it's some kind of accidental side effect of internal implementation details. Most likely (I think), the interior furniture of the meeting window is being torn down and rebuilt every time the window has to change what's going on in it, and part of the 'set it all up' operation involves a focus-grab.
That said, it's also possible to take this too far the other way. Ever since I implemented deferred SSH key decryption in Pageant, I've found it annoying on Windows that the popup GUI passphrase prompt appears behind all my other windows in spite of anything I do, _apparently_ because Windows has some kind of defence against spam popups jumping in front of everything. It's one thing to not let it grab the focus, and quite another to make it easy to miss completely!
@dashrb yes or maybe some sort of "timeout" between when the user last typed and a window requesting focus. So keyboard input doesn't end up in the wrong application. Not sure why this isn't a thing as it seems very logical to me to implement this. I mean we already have this for screensaver or auto lock screens. So just to tie this to the request focus feature seems trivial to me.
@dashrb @drmorr sure, there are specialized use cases which are tied to a certain software. It doesn't change the fact that X11 is an aging software, security issue and deeply flawed solely by the way it is designed. It's the same if people argue they can't switch to Linux because of Adobe. Sure, it's an issue and switching a platform always involves changing use cases or adapting to alternatives. Those don't necessarily have to be better or worse, but they are different. I get it.
@vortex_acherontic @drmorr I don’t really have a dog in this fight, except hypothetically… my own Linux (and Solaris) knowledge is X11 centric.
But why *should* things change? Sure new apps have new features, obviously. But if you’re happy with the features you have, why are we forcing the upgrade? Security updates are a legitimate concern. Aside from that, should we be trying to force everyone to upgrade everything all the time?
@dashrb @drmorr I don't want to force anyone to do anything. I am not the one who has to use it. But I am allowed to find certain things and personal decisions problematic. The world is in a constant shift and standing still even caused entire civilization to go down. (Yeah a very extreme analogy, sorry) Sometimes you simply cannot fix a system but to rebuild it from scratch. But updating hasn't to be a bad thing either. Transition phases are always ugly and things break, sure.
@vortex_acherontic @dashrb @drmorr I don't object in principle to sometimes having to migrate to a new thing. But Wayland seems to be going about it in a weird order, because – as I complained earlier – the phase where people start yelling at you for not having migrated yet has come _before_ the phase where the same level of functionality is available.
Or, indeed, any kind of useful migration path. The answer to "I have this unusually complicated X11 setup" is simply "well you'll have to rebuild it from scratch on Wayland, sucks to be you". Not, for example, "here's a thing that lets an X11 WM run in a sandbox and translates its decisions into Wayland terms as best it can", or "here's a thing that imitates the X11 API well enough that your existing WM can be compiled against it and turned into a compositor with only minor changes rather than a total rewrite". One wouldn't expect perfection that way, but it would be a starting point for later improvement, and at least not having to rewrite _everything from scratch_ in a single big bang would be a start.
Look at GTK, for example. I'm not a great fan of the way that the GTK2 → GTK3 transition required major source code changes (and I probably ought to start thinking about GTK4 at some point). But at least they did _help_ you to make those changes: the migration guide listed a big pile of cleanups you can do and test in advance, one at a time, while your code is still building against GTK 2, and then the final transition to GTK3 is made as simple as possible.
@dashrb @drmorr In addition to that I get the whole GTK4 / Libadwaita thing. But sometimes keeping my GTK4 apps up to date with their latest Gnome sdk randomly requires me to adapt things in code to work with say Gnome SDK 50, which worked fine with 47. While it is still GTK4 / Libadwaita. I even once maintained some gnome extensions... The situation there is even worse and things break with any minor gnome version. So I ultimately stopped working on any extensions at all.
@vortex_acherontic There are a number of security extensions that fix this.
And then there's the QubesOS model which also fixes this.
Ambient authority in UNIX-likes is an old problem.
But quite simply, malware, proprietary or not, should not be installed on one's system. If one feels lucky (bad idea), one can maybe run it in a VM and hope the isolation holds.
Also Wayland is unavailable on many UNIX-likes, unlike X.
@lispi314 how are security extensions supposed to fix Gnome breaking it's own Extensions API all the time? And why should I run anything in tiny VMs just to maintain an old(er) software stack?
And why should I run anything in tiny VMs just to maintain an old(er) software stack?
You should run all untrusted software in isolation if you run it at all. Malware, I hope, is by definition untrustworthy for everyone.
Ideally all software should run in isolation with the least privileges required for what they need to do, but that is not the UNIX-like model.
(Various issues with kernel safety also make VMs far preferable to execution on the same kernel. Something like gVisor addresses the same risk differently.)
Capsicum is one attempt to backport that onto UNIX-likes, but I don't think it includes display events (as that merely requires the ability to communicate with the display server to exploit, so the permissions have to be handled there since the display server does not integrate deeply with Capsicum).
@lispi314 that is why I run all my user space software from Flatpak, which is not a Flatpak comes as a distrobox. This is why I avoid X11 and also why I run an immutable distro as well. But I do not intend to run software in painfully slow vms that level of isolation is not suitable for a productive environment on an every day desktop system.
@lispi314 of course I have. Also there is no need to link me virtio docs. I know them all and yes it is painfully slow running VMs for everything. Not to mention the overhead in RAM usage. Especially today. Also good luck enabling gpu virtualization on Nvidia hardware except if owning a Quadro GPU or gpu path through. Unless someone is a security researcher or a person of very high interest, there is no need for the average user to run QubeOS at all.
@vortex_acherontic Well yes, Nvidia hardware is widely known to be unusable proprietary garbage.
Though it's also sufficiently unaffordable it doesn't matter because one certainly won't buy it in the first place.
yes it is painfully slow running VMs for everything
I will conclude from this that there must be something wrong with your setup.
Not to mention the overhead in RAM usage.
That is a downside, though memory ballooning drivers can help mitigate that a lot. They are very useful on Qubes.
DDR3 memory is also still relatively affordable and workstations using it are very compatible with Qubes.
there is no need for the average user to run QubeOS at all.
It can help mitigate fuckups of everyday software pretty well. Especially now that so much is being slopped.
It is also very useful for development and systems administration, as it provides an easy way to produce disposable testing environments.
I will note that my use of Qubes is to cope with what I see as dire flaws of the UNIX-like model.
Preferably a system in a proper high-level memory-safe language like Common Lisp would exist instead, with capability security permitting similar isolation for an order of magnitude less memory use (yes, kilobytes at most, and of course reduced resource usage of other resources). With much more reasonable transactional typed object storage instead of a filesystem that requires ridiculous external indexing for files & their contents on it.
I use UNIX-like systems in lack of better alternatives, not because I consider it the peak of computing.
@lispi314 all you describe I can also have with distrobox containers with less overhead, better performance, proper NVIDIA driver Integration, better Integration with my environment, faster setup time. Minus the high level of isolation obviously. Which isn't exactly the scope of distrobox. For my work NVIDIA is crucial as neither AMD and not Intel offer the same level of industry adaptation. Also, despite it being proprietary there is no downside in running NVIDIA hardware on Linux.
all you describe I can also have with distrobox containers with less overhead, better performance
Given the unsafe kernel with rampant ambient authority it's all running on... no, not really.
Less overhead yes, but isolation, correctness and safety all suffer.
proper NVIDIA driver Integration
Surely you're not trusting corposcum with access to the kernel's ambient authority and level of privilege, yes?
Integration with my environment
I did need to make some of that myself.
For my work NVIDIA is crucial as neither AMD and not Intel offer the same level of industry adaptation. Also, despite it being proprietary there is no downside in running NVIDIA hardware on Linux.
I certainly hope you use your employer's hardware for that and not your own, for your own sake.
(Honestly just the liability exposure alone is reason enough to never use general-use personal hardware for work purposes.)
@lispi314 dude what actually is your issue here? What are you trying to achieve here with your "I Know better than everyone else" attitude? Don't you have other things to do in your life than to discuss random workflows with people online and forcing your paranoid opinions on the world?
Microsoft has been doing something similar on Windows for years; applications can also access the clipboard there. This has always been technically possible under X11. Any application connected to your X server can read the clipboard. This is a known feature (and weakness) of the X11 security model.
So the real message is not so much that Zoom can do this, but rather that Zoom now appears to be proactively doing it.
Another reason to only operate Microsoft tools sandboxed or to avoid them altogether!
as Linux has two clipboards... One for Strg+C/V and a 2nd for marked text that can be pasted via the middle mouse button... Have you checked if both are observed by zoom?
yes, I mentioned that in my followup post: it seems to be only the ^C / ^V clipboard that my Zoom client proactively requests. It leaves the middle-click-paste one alone.
However, I _think_ someone else in the thread (running a different version of Zoom) had different results, though I wasn't completely sure I'd understood correctly.
(Strictly speaking, Linux doesn't even just have _two_ clipboards. It has an open-ended set! The two you mention are the most commonly used ones, but there's a third one called SECONDARY which a few applications use – Emacs in particular – and programs are free to invent extra ones for their own special purposes if they want to.)
@DO3EET in emacs, the SECONDARY selection is used in essentially the same way as PRIMARY – drag to select, then middle-click to paste. But you hold down Alt when you're doing it. I think the idea is that you can select two lots of text, and then paste from both of them in alternation.
Personally I've only ever used it in conjunction with a piece of automation I wrote myself, where I select one region of a buffer in PRIMARY and another in SECONDARY and then run a custom command that uses 'diff' to show the differences between them.
(And I don't even do that any more, because my main use case for it was resolving conflicts in git merges, and now I use Magit, which can generate the same diff even more easily.)
I am not so technical. I use zoom@for my group meditation sessions (participant, not initiator). Do I then risk that zoom copies my passwords on the clipboard? Mac user btw
It was a scandal a few years ago when people discovered Chinese apps like TikTok and Shein were observing clipboard content and "spying on users," but when an American company like Zoom does it then suddenly it's "intended functionality" and it becomes the user's responsibility to not use their own clipboard for private content.
FWIW, this is why operating systems like Qubes put restrictions on clipboard access. There is literally no way for an app in VM1 to access clipboard data from the main desktop or any other VM unless the user hits an extra key sequence to initiate pasting into the target VM.
The only way around that would be a VM breakout exploit, which is exceptionally difficult in Qubes.
This makes having a "vault" VM a great way to use a simple password manager for secure authentication without resorting to special hardware dongles, trezors, etc. It works for GPG keys as well, as VMs can request operations from a vault-protected key.
Many things happened since August 26, 2026, when the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the US Department of the Treasury included us in their list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” (SDGT). This is just the beginning.
We have now created a dedicated space to document what has been unfolding since August 26, to empower our unpredictable, chaotic and magnificent solidarity network by keeping it up to date with the consequences of the US government designation and our responses.
Dal 26 agosto, quando il Dipartimento del Tesoro statunitense, tramite OFAC, ci ha sanzionato come “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” (SDGT), sono successe tante cose, tanto si è mosso. Ed è solo l’inizio.
Abbiamo deciso di creare uno spazio unico per raccogliere quello che sta avvenendo dopo il 26 agosto, per permettere a tutta quella imprevedibile, caotica, magnifica comunità solidale di restare aggiornata più facilmente sulle conseguenze della decisione del governo USA e su quello che stiamo facendo.
The first thing that happened is that I may have accidentally addedmore RGB LED rings, one for each size to an order of things that we actually needed, because they were cheap and potentially shiny (and I may have ideas that involve the big ones, but they are still just vague ideas).
When they arrived, I played a bit with them to check that they were working, and one was used in a pinch as a light while soldering, and worked nicely.
So, I have an RGB LED ring with a multiple of 12 LEDs and a microcontroller board with a lot of memory and wifi, what I’m going to do? a grandfather clock, obviously. Except our grandfathers didn’t exactly have LEDs, so it’s going to be a granddaughter clock.
Have I mentioned that things escalated? well, of course I wanted the clock to show the time, but I also wanted it to be able to turn into a flashlight, and to run a countdown for conference talks and any other need, and to tell me if there are things that need to be taken care of around the house, and…
And I have an MQTT server and a number of sensors around the house that provide environmental data, and I decided I might as well use it for other things.
So I designed this to listen to an MQTT topic for commands, another MQTT topic for data, and to switch between modes when instructed to do so by a command.
Other considerations included the fact that this is keeping a number of LEDs on, so I didn’t even try to reduce power usage to run it on battery power for significant amounts (weeks) of time (although running it from a power bank seems to work for shorter durations — I’m thinking a day or two).
And then it was time to fix the part where recognising the first LED on a ring is hard, and I decided to grab my Art Attack supplies and make a case in the shape of a grandfather clock, scaled down to a suitable size for keeping on a desk or bookcase.
I used some IKEA box to make a structure, glued it with hot glue, and then wrapped everything with paper napkins and PVA for added strength, plus a bit of tarlatan for the door hinge.
I opted for a very cartoonish look (and yes, if you are old enough that it resembles something, there was a vague source of inspiration in a cultural artefact of the early 1990) with just a clock face that fits in by friction, a hinged door to access the electronics and a bit of decorative trimming at the top.
For the face I decided to make holes in the cardboard and fill them with hot glue to make a sort of light pipe, with the LEDs pressed against them on the inside. It’s not perfect, but it mostly works.
And then everything stopped: while I waited for the PVA to dry I started doing something else, and then there were other projects, and other, and the clock lingered in the Pile. There was a brief interruption as I started to paint the first coat of brown, and then I moved back to the other projects.
Until, months later, I decided it was time to finish using the brown and white tubes of paint that I had on my desktop, so I could put them away2, and in a reasonable time I finished painting the clock, including a second coat of brown, and black contour lines to add a bit of depth in a way consistent with the cartoonish look.
And then it was time to go back to the internals: I got the LED ring and raspberry pico back from their respective drawers, connected them with dupont cables and fit them in the case for a test: it worked.
However, the raspberry had quite a lot of pins, and it felt wasteful to use it on something that basically needs one. On the other hand, I had recently bought a few Seed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 for another project3, and those are quite smaller, and also slightly cheaper, and I could spare one out of the 13 I had.
Up to now on the XIAO boards I had been using MicroPython: I had started to use it on the ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo because, contrary to CircuitPython, the generic ESP32-C3 image worked on it, and on the ESP32 boards there is no CIRCUITPYTHON partition, which in my opinion is one of the advantages that make CircuitPython more convenient to use than MicroPython.
However, the code I had already written for the clock used CircuitPython, so I flashed one of the XIAOs with the other interpreter, and after changing just one pin definition the software I had worked.
Going back and forwards between the two interpreters will be interesting, especially since I have already started to write some code for the other project in MicroPython, and they are supposed to interoperate. I may end up rewriting one of them, if I start getting hindered by the subtle differences.
The next step involved dealing with the temporary connections to make them a bit more permanent: I have been using LibrePCB for that other project, so of course what I did was… grabbing a bit of perfboard and YOLO a growing rat nest of cables over it, without bothering with drawing any kind of schematics in advance. And having to desolder stuff and solder it again a couple of times, because I had issues with the difference between left and right, and with the concept of rotations in 3D space.
Everything was brought back into the case, in a mostly stable configuration with an usb cable coming out of a hole in the back for power and surprisingly it works.
Or at least, 95% of the issues it still has are software, plus I still need to add a few features, so right now it lives above my desktop, with the cable dangling close to an USB port, so that I can continue working on that in the next few weeks.
The external look is not going to change, so there will be changes onthe git repository, and there may or not be a third post here in the future, depending on whether there will be something funny or interesting, or it will just be small incremental improvements.
I think that CircuitPython on the ESP32-C3-DevKit-Lipo only requires fixing two PIN definitions in the files for a very similar board and a recompile, but the latter part looks like a PITA and I haven’t committed to it.↩︎
to make room for other crafting supplies for other projects, of course.↩︎
yes, it will be blogged! unless it fails in a catastrophic way and gets buried under a layer of litter to forget about it. :D↩︎
Venerdì 28 agosto 2026 è stata diffusa la notizia della decisione dell’amministrazione statunitense di inserire il collettivo italiano Autistici/Inventati nelle cosiddette liste OFAC, nell’ambito di azioni mirate a “contrastare la crescente minaccia …
E chiaramente, viene usata qualsiasi leva economica, quando uno stato in deriva autoritaria e totalitaria ne ha i mezzi, come dimostrato quotidianamente.
this article had been almost completely written before the weekend, and I decided I might as well focus on stuff I’m creating, finish and publish this.
For many years, I’ve been sporadically dabbling in creating 3D models; for reasons that are probably obvious to anybody who knows me I usedOpenSCAD and saved my projects in git, which made them at least somewhat public.
However, SCAD sources in a git repository aren’t the most convenient way to get a 3D model, and for a long time I never had a consistent way to publish “binaries” for my models: some have been added to my old website, some to my craft patterns site, but it was always an ad-hoc thing.
Then two things happened more or less at the same time.
One was me finding out that slic3r had been definitely removed from Debian. I know it was going to happen, and I postponed thinking about it as long as I could, but eventually I had to move over to PrusaSlicer, whose packaging is in better shape.
The other was that lately I’ve been doing a bit of lucet, and talking about it online, and I’m really happy with the shape of the lucet I’ve designed and printed, the one in the picture at the beginning of this post, and while there are other models available, I wanted to make it more convenient for people to also get mine.
Since PrusaSlicer did look still maintained upstream in a way that doesn’t feel like at danger of immediate enshittification, I considered making an account on Printables, and asked on the Fediverse if somebody knew something bad about the company behind it, as it’s getting more an more common these days.
Apparently nobody did, but in the thread somebody mentioned that there is a federated platform for publishing 3D models, called manyfold !
I didn’t want to add “self host a(nother) web thing”, especially not one that is not in Debian, to my list of projects, but I did create an account on a public instance: @Elena ``of Valhalla'' <3dprint.social/creators/valhal… and started publishing models, both a selection of old ones and a few new ones I designed in the last few days, since I was in a 3D printing mindset.
Then I decided that since nobody had serious objections to it, I could also create an account on printables, as that’s probably more easily accessible to the general public.
I have been somewhat slower at publishing models on the latter, but I expect that eventually most of what I design will end up on both platforms; I still have a few older models I want to add, and a few ideas for new models to make, then I guess stuff will slow down, and only get new ones now and then, as that’s how I usually approach hobbies.
Of course, the self-hosted git repository is not going away: that’s still the canonical location for my models, with all of the non-self-hosted options as a convenience option.
I see increasing number of cases where people say "I asked an LLM to explain this to me". Whenever they're about a topic I actually know about, I see errors. I have stopped engaging in those discussions.
If you want to understand something, I'm usually happy to share what I know. I will not, however, spend time and effort to first disentangle what a machine has produced.
I'll be honest: when someone drops "I asked ai.." I usually stop reading. Sometimes I skip to the end but usually I just skip it all. I only reply if I know the poster. Llm is just such a waste.
@Callistobeast Sometimes, I use professional curiosity to see if they can help after all.
So far, that's not been the case.
In the last attempt, the LLM nudged me in the right direction three times, which felt like a relief. But when it came to details, it actively misled me.
In the end, I read the source for the answers. If I had started there, the initial effort would have been higher, but my overall time spent a lot shorter.
@Callistobeast So I treat people using LLM answers as having only shallow interest in and/or knowledge of the topic, because it's think that is both kind and accurate.
It means, though, that I don't have to take their opinions seriously.
I don't think it's necessary to do science to this any more.
The actual science on this says "they can't improve without getting worse in other things", and that has been the constant observation for three years now.
It's just a seductive tool for socially engineering oneself into stupidity.
If you follow me at all, you'd note that I don't do this a lot at all, and opportunistically. It helps a lot in peer discussions, where a constant refrain (despite science) is "but they improved so much in the last X months".
I know what the science says. But /me gestures at climate change denial
Anyone: *raises any objections whatsoever to AI* AI bro: HAVE YOU USED IT IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS ITS WAY BETTER NOW *a few months pass* Anyone: nothing has changed about my objections AI bro: HAVE YOU USED IT IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS ITS WAY BETTER NOW
That's lucky for you. It can be ... disturbing to come across people whose world views have been turned upside down by a chatbot.
And that does appear to be the outcome the manufacturers are aiming for, since they cannot in fact improve on the usefulness of the output, all they can adjust is the addictive/gaslighting aspect.
@jens @Callistobeast I should say that I have looked into this enough over the last year that I suspect there is one use case which, while still deeply unethical, is at least not utter garbage.
That is semantic search. Same as it ever was, as Devo said.
So, if you have data that is huuuuuuuuuge-beyond-all-human-reading, using an LLM to search in it can be useful - still, don't trust it: check all results for false positives and keep other methods handy for the false negatives.
@androcat I get it. And it reinforces my thinking.
But let's say a text in question uses some complicated way of expressing that something is not the case.
Say the text in question is a scientific paper showing correlation of things. The reporting done on the paper, in true Lazy Human form claims a causal connection. The reporting gets repeated in a hundred different news articles.
Since LLMs are effectively statistical, and do not reason as such, the likelihood that...
@androcat... they'll also claim a causal link seems high.
Ignoring the quality of the LLM's ability to *summarize* for the moment: how likely is it that the result ranking would be better than a keyword based match?
That seems... contigent on so much, let's say, that I am unsure one can claim an improvement. @Callistobeast @liw
And also, summarization-by-machine is crap and a bad idea: 1) Summarizing a text is how a person understands it. Skipping that step is self-harm. 2) The summaries are superficial, usually wrong and put together randomly with no real understanding.
Nah. They are not stochastic like that. They are stochastic in the way that if people (the media) have often read statements of form X as meaning Y, then the model will probably repeat that pattern == it will get it wrong in the same way, because that is the probable way (in the training data) of responding to scientific texts.
@androcat Maybe you can drill in a fix for this example class, "if the paper shows correlation language patterns and news claim causation language patterns, prefer correlation language patterns" or whatever.
@androcat But what I meant to describe isn't precisely about this false equivalence I'm the first place, and merely about language use that is just non-straightforward enough to easily provide a good match between known language patterns and intended meaning, if that makes sense.
I'm thinking about me and foreign languages. I understand some well enough to understand the opposite of what is meant, because my pattern matching misses a negation. Extend this kind of thing to an LLM.
The worst thing is, seeing people who understand the Cold Reading Automat is feeding them misinformation about topics they know about, and still not realizing it is feeding them misinformation about topics they don't know about as well.
So yeah, I never engage with those, unless I am feeling particularly grumpy, at which point I will engage to tell them not to use the damned things if they value their brains.
Mostly they don't value their brains as highly as being sucked up to by a robotic sycophant.
Un breve press kit per capire chi siamo, cosa facciamo, cosa è successo e cosa sta succedendo dopo la nostra designazione come organizzazione terrorista globale da parte degli Stati Uniti (Diffondete!)|| A short press kit: who we are, what happened, what is happening with our designation as global terrorist organization by the US (pls spread it!) inventati.org/campaign/press
I was doomscrolling the fediverse reading about the two bad news of today
and then my mother offered me a slice of cake. I went there with plates, and we found out we had already finished it yesterday. and there was an idea of another dessert, but we were out of one critical ingredient. and this happened ten minutes after the supermarkets I can reach by foot had closed.
I'm going to drown my sorrows in chamomile and fennel herbal tea, see you tomorrow
stavo doomscrollando il fediverso leggendo a proposito delle due brutte notizie di oggi
e poi mia madre mi ha offerto una fetta di torta. mi sono presentata da lei coi piatti, e abbiamo scoperto che l'avevamo già finita ieri. e poi c'è stata l'idea di un altro dolce, ma avevamo finito un ingrediente fondamentale. e tutto questo è successo dieci minuti dopo l'orario di chiusura dei supermercati che riesco a raggiungere a piedi.
Vado ad annegare i dispiaceri in una tisana camomilla e finocchio, a domani
“<p>Hi, I’m from [redacted]. We are an LLM API Gateway and +OpenAI-compatible router. We help developers cut costs via semantic cache, +prompt caching, and multi-model routing.</p> <p>I noticed your post about Pizza! on Valhalla's Things. We are building a +shared compute market and want to partner with sites like yours to explore AI +API collaborations.</p> <p>Reply if interested for details. No pressure if not. Thanks!</p> <p>P.S. I am a real person, not an AI.</p> ”
I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen. Documents I wrote with anything else have random :w in the middle.
So I tried NeoVim when it was quite new. Vim that you are familiar with, but better? Great!
Persistent undo is one of my favourite features of vim (introduced a few years after I started using it). My .vimrc includes a couple of lines related to this. One sets the path to be under ~/.cache so the undo files do not clutter the rest of the filesystem (I do the same for the swap files). The other sets the undo limit to something large (10,000, I think) because disk space is enormous relative to pretty much anything involving human-readable quantities of plain text.
I don’t often need the persistent undo. But on the few occasions when I have needed it, it’s been invaluable: ooops, I deleted something from this file, maybe last week and one reboot ago, what was it? Undo until I find it, copy it, paste it into the current version. Or, a bit more commonly: I had this working, then I tidied it up ready to commit, now it isn’t working, what did I do?
Vim has kept this working across major version upgrades over a period of about 20 years. I don’t even think about it, it’s just part of Raskin’s First Law: A program may not harm a user’s data or, through inaction, allow a user’s data to come to harm. If vim or the computer crash, or if I close a file and come back to it six months later, my undo history is still there.
The first thing I noticed in NeoVim was that undo didn’t work. I tried opening the file in vim and undo didn’t work there either.
Neovim had changed the format of the undo files. It hadn’t upgraded the old one. It hadn’t used a different name for its undo files. It had just noticed the existence of a vim undo file, deleted it (losing all of the data in it) and replaced it with one that vim couldn’t read.
I raised an issue about this and was told that the persistent undo format was unstable and users should not rely on data being preserved in a feature explicitly called persistent undo. It had changed once and would probably change again.
And that ended my experience with NeoVim. The authors showed immediately that they absolutely could not be trusted with any of my data. Breaking persistent undo is something I could forgive as a bug, but the attitude that just because something is a persistent file on your filesystem that contains data that you might want is no reason for their program not to delete it meant they had no concept of a duty of care to their users.
Apparently now they’re platforming white supremacists. I am completely unsurprised. Different facets of the same underlying attitude.
not a vim vs neo thought, but i have done 'emergency' surgery on servers headless (no monitor/console, just a keyboard) and never doubted that vim was doing exactly what i expected as i typed blind. that level of trust/comfort
that is a pretty rare tool to have in your tool box
Bram Moolenaar died in August 2023. I can't see him putting up with the ensloppified enshitification in vim itself if he was still alive and in charge. (NeoVim looked nice in 2018-2024, but now it's a Milkshake Duck …)
@vnikolov Nothing new about lithic, nothing new about natal. The prefix just points at position in a sequence. Baby born isn't a new baby. Stone polished isn't a new stone. And so on. Clearly you aren't a native English speaker so sincere apologies for our complex language. Nothing new about logos, ironically even. Old words combined.
@flyingpenguin none of these words are strictly English (bits and pieces of mostly Greek and a bit of Latin). And yes, neo- means new, just look it up in a dictionary. Also, there’s absolutely no need to be rude.
@andrew_shadura @vnikolov Dictionaries are on my side, which is the fun part! Merriam-Webster's entry for neo- reads: new and recent, and a new and different period or form. Recent and revived are two of the listed senses, which is my whole argument verbatim! W00t.
Civility raised at the moment of losing an argument is a concession dressed as a complaint. Keep saying rude.
For the record, those arguments upthread explicitly excluded a meaning of being new and stated that the whole meaning was limited only to those two senses (for example, «the prefix just points at position in a sequence»). [Exit.]
@vnikolov @andrew_shadura aha! again you show you can read a dictionary, which is not the same as knowing the language. my point above, sorry English is so hard. Dictionaries list new as a sense that usage never delivers. Neonate, recent. Neolithic, position. Neo-Nazi, revival. Usage is the topic. Definitions make a claim. Citations are the behavior. This isn't a dictionary thread! [NeoExit.]
@flyingpenguin Aside: it was weirdly hard to find when nvi was first released. The closest I came was that FreeBSD’s man page says they first shipped it in 4.4BSD, but it’s not clear if it was written specifically because of the AT&T lawsuit or shipped in BSD because of that, and how much before the 4.4BSD release it was written.
@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange @fanf I’ve been chatting via email with Anthony Howe, and he filled me in on the nvi history, so I’ve updated my article at lpar.ath0.com/posts/2026/05/th…
Apparently, I'm overreacting when I'm told that Neovim has *only* ~70 AI assisted commits so far.
After all vim has ~200 ...
Clearly, nothing to see here 🤷♂️
Honestly, I probably wouldn't recommend it for new users. It's a modal editor, which is a bit weird, and it's quite clunky for extensions. I use ALE to make it work with LSP servers but it's a bit bolted on.
For me, it has two big advantages:
It runs basically anywhere, over SSH. So I don't have to learn two different editors for local editing and editing on some weird platform. Want to edit on some weird custom limited-run Arm-extension box running a FreeBSD fork? Vim. Want to edit locally on a mainstream platform? Vim.
My fingers know how it works.
Without the sunk cost of the latter, the former probably wouldn't be enough to keep me on vim.
I have a similar anecdote, in which they just casually broke the clientserver functionality without replacing it with something working. They had a `serverlist()` function that just didn't work: github.com/neovim/neovim/issue…
This was apparently a "known issue", but it was not even documented. It took 2 and a half years to fix, and when they did fix it, something else made the functionality unusable for my purposes. I didn't open a new issue, because at least in this case, the problem was documented in the help files.
I do understand wanting to replace Vim's clientserver functionality, because it's implemented in a weird non-portable way -- with X sockets. But throwing it out *before* having a working replacement has always seemed to me like a bizarre philosophical choice, and one they did on a regular basis.
Neovim version (nvim -v) v0.8.2 Vim (not Nvim) behaves the same? no, serverlist is a different thing in Vim Operating system/version Arch Linux Terminal name/version rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.30 - re...
Apparently I don't use undo often enough to have noticed, but yeah, that doesn't sound good. I was quite happy with the switch until recently, never having to look at VimL again (not that I used many plugins, but a few) and a few other small things.
set undodir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/vim/undo//<br>set dir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/vim/swap//<br>set backupdir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/vim/backup//<br>set undofile<br>set undolevels=1000<br>set undoreload=10000<br>
I also have:
set autoread<br>
This automatically reloads the file if something else changes it and I have no unsaved changes (e.g. if I run clang-format over all files in the directory while I have vim open). The undoreload setting makes sure that this works with undo nicely: if I discover that some auto formatting tool, or git stash (or a partial commit or something), has screwed up the file, I can undo to the last version that vim saved (and prior versions that vim saved).
My .cache/vim directory is about 200 MiB. On the first machine I used vim on, that would have been a huge chunk of the total disk, but today it's a rounding error.
The DHH quote on your website has fallen out of fashion and is "giving Nazi bar vibes." It doesn't take much effort for you to discover that he hates brown people and would love to see Europe, espe...
I'm not sure what the right word is, but so much modern software just reeks of what I call entitlement from the authors or the publisher. "Yeah sure we can just change the user's settings or completely revamp how stuff works in the new version.".
Without warning in previous versions, stuff is suddenly upgraded to errors, completely breaking working setups, forcing users to do something immediately in order to continue working or just using their files.
Always assuming that everyone can just upgrade to the latest version at their whim, etc. The band of working or compatible software in decades old ecosystems just shrink all the time.
it's just fantastic to know that everything i depend on is now either full of slop or influenced by fascists, or both. hyprland, keepassxc, rsync, and now neovim. i'm so fucking tired of this shit, man.
set undodir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/vim/undo//<br>set dir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/vim/swap//<br>set backupdir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/vim/backup//<br>set undofile<br>set undolevels=1000<br>set undoreload=10000<br>
I also have:
set autoread<br>
This automatically reloads the file if something else changes it and I have no unsaved changes (e.g. if I run clang-format over all files in the directory while I have vim open). The undoreload setting makes sure that this works with undo nicely: if I discover that some auto formatting tool, or git stash (or a partial commit or something), has screwed up the file, I can undo to the last version that vim saved (and prior versions that vim saved).
My .cache/vim directory is about 200 MiB. On the first machine I used vim on, that would have been a huge chunk of the total disk, but today it's a rounding error.
It’s startling how little regard or awareness developers have for things like protocols and file formats given how much it actually impacts users. Apple is surprisingly a major offender here. Multiple times, various syncing services have been broken, and the fix is to update to version x … except that for N reasons various systems CANNOT be updated to version x … 😡
I have for years off and on considered trying neovim and then just always shrug. I try not to specialize my tooling too much really. But are you saying when you installed it and ran it it deleted your EXISTING vim undo files?! I am glad I never tried it! My god.
Relazione della prima ascensione invernale al monte Legnone
Nel febbraio del 1891, la sezione C.A.I. di Como organizzò la prima ascesa invernale al monte Legnone. Al rifugio Roccoli Lorla è in mostra la relazione di quella escursione.
“Qui la guida Buzzella, che non aveva mai fatto alcuna ascensione invernale, restò impressionata dallo stato della montagna e cominciò quasi a porre in dubbio la riuscita della gita.”
“Quantunque privi di lanterna, la guida Buzzella, pratica fin da fanciullo di quelle località, ci portò in salvamento.”
è febbraio, non c'è luna piena o quasi, stai facendo un escursione che non era stata fatta prima, e non ti porti neanche un lanternino per fare luce quando (non se) cala il buio a metà pomeriggio?
jkr-free harry potter, canon? what canon? unexpected crossover, dream
post-war, Hermione had been attacked by a big group of escaped death eaters and died, but thanks to time travel there was a second chance and this time with her there were Harry Potter, Sirius and most importantly Mangus from Brütal Legend, who had all of the death eaters trapped somehow.
because magic is fine and everything, but it's nothing against the *Power* of *Metal*
A famous southern 80-year-old country-singing Christian woman died today, and none of the rather lefty people I know are insulting her, making fun of her death or faith, or calling her a nazi. They are posting positive messages about her. People on "the left" don't hate religious people. They hate bigotted assholes.
Dolly Parton was a person who clearly showed what the USA could have been. For a German Kid growing up in the 1980s like me, she was a person who showed that the USA is not just Reagan, Rocky and Rambo, but that there's also compassion and kindness.
With very few exceptions, I always very much disliked her music, but she was so much more than that. I rarely feel anything when some celebrity dies, but this one saddened me deeply. And I am as far left as it gets.
I like Christians, I knew a family across the way who were Christians, genuinely good people thoroughly in the lefty sense. I don't like Christianism though, where the power of faith is used as a cudgel to beat others into submission with and to control them. Lots of Christianists going around though, far fewer Christians who believed in their faith's teachings.
did you know that Fibonacci numbers (where each number is the sum of the previous two) can convert miles to kilometres?
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ...
pick any number in the sequence as your miles, and the next number in the sequence approximates the number of kilometres
this works because the ratio of consecutive Fibonacci numbers converges to 1.6180334 (the golden ratio φ), while the number of kilometres in a mile is 1.609344
to see how close this is, consider the approximation compared to the actual kilometres
It shares a title with my upcoming talk and touches on similar themes around open standards, collective ownership, and avoiding vendor lock-in. However, it is an independent essay rather than a written version of the talk.
Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure.
Ciao bella gente ❤ Non so quanta gente lombarda ci sia, ma... attorno a ottobre faccio una mini-campagna di DnD (5ed, 2014) basata sulla Maledizione di Strahd, ma dove i PG sono creature fortissime di livello venti e vengono mandate in quel di Barovia per una semplicissima missione di "vado, uccido, torno". Spoiler: non sarà proprio così.
Dieci sessioni di gente OP in un'ambientazione gotica leggermente ostile.
conoscendomi è un po' troppa strada per la mia anima da pilota ma se vi manca il 4o (4 numero a mio avviso perfetto per un party GDR) proverò a vedere se ho della sbatta che mi avanza 🤣
anche io troppo lontano, ma troppo bello ravenloft, una volta ho preso il modulo I6 originale e l'ho tutto reskinnato a tema western per fare una oneshot con Frontier Scum in cui cowboy disperati cercano di portarsi a casa la taglia su Strahd
in pratica, il solo e unico requisito che possiedo è l'essere lombarda! Mi incuriosisce tantissimo sta roba, ma non avendo mai giocato un DnD in vita mia ho il sospetto che un livello 20 sarebbe *un filo* sopra le mie possibilità e vi trascinerei tuttə in un baratro di sconfitta e scoramento.
Facciamo che mi limito a boostare, va.
E a dire che, casomai qualcunə volesse organizzare una giocata per princiantissimə...
voi vi ricordate vero che la protezione data dal vaccino contro la difterite non dura tutta la vita, ma si deve fare un richiamo ogni 10 anni¹?
(io no, non mi ricordavo, di solito penso all'antitetanica, e so che di solito fanno un vaccino per il tetano e quello per qualcos'altro, ma non mi ricordo mai cosa sia quel qualcos'altro)
¹ in Italia. forse in Svizzera lo fanno ogni 20, ma non sono sicura sull'affidabilità della fonte; comunque è da ripetere periodicamente.
oltre a certi ossessionati e ai familiari di certi ossessionati che vengono trascinati di peso dagli stessi? (e dicendo “ossessionati” sto puntando verso la persona a cui sto pensando, e sto puntando verso uno specchio :) )
Il vaccino bivalente è tetano/differite, ma c'è anche il trivalente tetano/difterite/pertosse, va rifatto ogni 10 anni.
Il problema è che non si ricevono inviti per rinnovare queste vaccinazioni, almeno nella mia esperienza. Bisogna contattate il medico di famiglia o il servizio di igiene pubblica della propria ASL.
noi non abbiamo un vaccino singolo, ma è combinato con tetano e pertosse. Qui: “Adulti (ogni 20 anni per la vaccinazione tra i 25 e i 64 anni, successivamente ogni 10 anni).” da infovac.ch
mi pare dia stato cambiato una decina di anni fa’, per ridurre i costi e perché la Germania fa’ così. Il sito: metodo svizzero: crea un centro di competenza, pagali e se succede uno scandalo ne crei un altro. L’importante è che non sia direttamente nell’amministrazione se no i politici ci perdono la faccia.
tetano, difterite e pertosse, qui fatti sempre i richiami perché faccio tante cose con le piante (tetano) e gli altri due me li ricorda in automatico il centro vaccinale quando chiamo per quello
@Electric Sheep esatto, stessa cosa: mi ricordo di dover fare il richiamo dell'antitetanica, e poi sono vagamente cosciente che sarà un bi o tri valente, ma senza pensare troppo a cos'altro sia coperto.
c'è da dire che qui in ER ti danno un certificato vaccinale con tutta la storia di tutto quello che hai fatto ogni volta che ti vaccini, quindi grazie al covid ne ho innumerevoli copie 🤣
@GustavinoBevilacqua ammetto che anche io mi segno i richiami a calendario (e infatti ho il prossimo tra un anno che mi saluta già) e non solo per i vaccini
@Electric Sheep anche qui c'è il certificato vaccinale con la storia di tutto, anche se qualche anno mi pare dopo il vaccino influenza + covid di aver dovuto andare sul sito a scaricarlo anziché riceverlo dal centro vaccinale
in Lombardia si deve andare presso i centri vaccinali (quest'anno bastava presentarsi senza prenotazione né niente, nei centri che lo offrono, ma sempre meglio controllare se hanno cambiato indirizzi e metodo)
I have been ordering from DigiKey and they've always shipped from the United States (apparently when ordering from the Canadian site it's perfectly normal that they would ship from the United States, at least that seems like their attitude). My understanding about why they are doing this, is they don't have to deal with taxes and duty this way.
Previous orders, this has been "not a big deal, a bit of a pain, but not really a big deal". This time (split order) it's been a really very significant difference. The first part of the order was something like 36% border fees.
I've tried to find a Canadian place, and probably have found a couple of reasonable alternatives, but I'd really like to ask if anyone has some good electronics shipping from Canada.
I get to some degree, it just doesn't really make sense to try to do that, as most of the manufactures are based in the United States. Even Canadian electronics companies, that are "manufacturers" are to some degree dealing with having to get stuff from the United States.
@Jigme Datse aren't the typical items bought from DigiKey manifactured in China anyway?
Sadly I've just checked the bag of my usual distributor of electronic components, and it does list a subsidiary in North America, but it's in the USA too :(
boosting in the hope that somebody else has alternatives
IIRC they work out if custom (like airports), so with stricter controls of what enter and exit in their warehouses. Also IIRC at beginning of the crazy tariffs many companies asked them how to implement such things, and they were also looking to have warehouses outside us. So if you do no buy adafruits, and few other US products, it should be nearly fine. But also I’m looking a non US supplier.
outside of the EU they seem to have subsidiaries only in UK, USA and China, however. unless they have new ones, and they haven't added them yet to the bags they use to ship small components (of which there is currently a convenient pile on my desktop) :D
Yes, many (well over 50% I think) are manufactured in China. I'd honestly be OK getting them directly from China, not a great situation, but it's not as bad in terms of ordering stuff as it is from the US.
@Jigme Datse yeah, I don't like getting things directly from China either, among other things because having a local distributor helps a lot with the quality control.
Primarily, when getting anything from the USA, do NOT ever use UPS. Never. They are bandits and thieves. Never use them for out of canada goods at all. They claim 'customs clearance fees' that don't actually exist. FedEx never does this. The postal service never does this. There are no duties on computers or electronic components. Source: ran a freight shed for years with both. Also, even further back, I simply got a customs license from the feds for next to nothing to avoid the bastards and 'cleared' my own stuff for nothing.
This was DHL. I don't tend to do FedEx as it's been too much of a pain. I prefer to do Canada Post (on this end) but getting to the post office (where it would show up) has been enough of an issue to make that a bit of a pain.
I have tended to be happy with DHL in the past, but this is not really cool. Also... I'd be somewhat willing to deal with it myself, but I have no idea as to how to ensure that if I handle it myself, that there won't be a claim that it's not done.
DHL was the german post office. In canada it turned back into being loomis and owned by saputo (TFI International) runs things for ltl in canada - along with the cheese and other dairy. canapar, overland, canadian frtways and many, many more. Interestingly, canada post owns most of purolator. Very tight knit game - like our grocery stores or our telcom or... There's only one ending to the game of Monopoly.
The board thrown across the room? Is that the only one ending to the game of Monopoly (Honestly I've never really had that experience, though I've heard that it's common, but also that a big part of why it's common, is because people "play it wrong.") I'm not sure if it also was that when we played, if people got tired, we'd just quit.
Yeah, the everything owned by so few things. Not cool.
The original game was anti-capitalist actually. So that's interesting, though I've not really considered playing it from that perspective.
Other games are meant to be that as well. Universal Paperclips is meant to be anti-capitalist. Though I think it's easy to loose that.
Look it up It was originally written by a woman in love with a socialist type and she called it 'the landlord's game'. but yeah, it only ends one way: winner take all (I wasn't familiar with the throwing the board ending). Or everyone just gives up out of boredom. How many telcos do we have? CPU makers? Hard drive companies? and on and on. Grocery stores? Banks? Everything dwindles and the big ones expand.
"Stasera il server ha subito un attacco che ha dato all'aggressore accesso temporaneo da amministratore. Le password di tutti gli account vanno considerate compromesse.
Cambiate la password del vostro account XMPP. Se usate la stessa password altrove (email in primis), cambiatela anche lì, è la cosa più urgente. ->
sai che non riesco a trovare il modo per aggiornare la password? Su blabla.kenobit.it sembra esserci un'opzione "Reset password", ma mi pare non funzioni (cliccando su "Submit" non succede niente).
@tegumi io ho usato l'app conversations: tre puntini in alto a DX -> gestisci profili -> selezioni il tuo -> nei tre puntini in alto a DX vedi la voce "Cambia password"
I guess now it's a bit late to warn people not to update the firmware on their #framework laptops, but here is what somebody did to fix them, when the company didn't help. at all.
My experience fixing my Framework 13” laptop with AMD 7060 series that was bricked due to a failed BIOS update with US$20 worth of tools, instead of replacing the motherboard as suggested by Framework support.
You should update the firmware on your #framework laptops. At least when you first get them, a bit after new ones come out, and maybe a bit before your warranty is up. Probably after that too.
Well, shit, I've got that model. And purchased it just over a year ago.
It's currently running but I'm not sure if I've flashed that update or not; guess I better check (and if not, figure out how to block it to make sure I don't). Thanks for the heads-up.
Okay, I think I got it figured out; I ran fwupdmgr get-updates, found the GUID under "System Firmware", and added "DisabledDevices=[guid]" to /etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf.
Hopefully that works; obviously I'll try to keep an eye on what I'm updating and hopefully I'd catch it if it ever did try to update the system firmware, but it's good to know there's a net in case I make a mistake.
Thanks again for the heads-up. That could have been a real headache.
@deepfryed yeah, it's just that if you're using an online service like the ones provided by google migrating away may be easy or hard, but once it's done it's done
if you buy an expensive laptop, even if you stop giving money to the company, recommending it to people etc., you still have an expensive laptop, and it would be nice for it not to become an expensive brick :(
When very smart technologists are divided between “This will work well” and “This will end in wretched sobbing,” the smart money bets on misery. --Run Your Own Mail Server
@valhalla non capisco perché dovrei tagliare in piú punti per farla reversibile: se faccio tutte le pieghe al contrario, il taglio rimane sempre nella mezzana
@Oblomov @Kenobit aspetta, reversibile nel senso che stampi una cosa sul davanti, una sul retro, e poi a seconda di come uno la piega gli esce una zine diversa?
pensavo ad una zine col doppio delle pagine
darò la colpa al caldo che mi impedisce di ragionare :D
@valhalla in realtà mentre guardavo il video di @kenobit mi ero chiesto perché otto e non sedici pagine, poi appunto vedendo come si piegava la mia reazione è stata «ah ecco» e poi «aspe', ma e se ..» etc 8-D
Adoro le minizine e distribuisco le tue quando posso. Il "bug" che ho riscontrato è che istintivamente a molta gente viene da aprire l'intero foglio, ignorando completamente l'intento "libriccino". Sarebbe da provare a bloccare il centro con una graffetta.
Portarlo alle elementari o all'asilo potrebbe fare il botto Grande bella cosa, ammetto la mia completa ignoranza sull'argomento (e le elentari per me è roba dell'altro millennio inoltrato)
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ho fatto i compiti, mi hai aperto un mondo e costretto a ripensare all'architettura del mio sito. Puoi piegarlo come vuoi, la prima pagina può essere qualsiasi, puoi ricominciare dall'inizio una volta finito, le pagine "appariranno diverse"
While on the last steep-ish descent before getting back home from a walk
me> ouch. stop a second, there is a union agitating in my knee @Diego Roversi > have they started banging pots and stuff to make noise me> yes, and it's just on one knee, not both diego> left or right? me> left diego> of course. leftist agitators
(management offered moving a bit more weight to the arms (through an hiking stick), the union was ok with the proposal and I got back home with no more issues)
sull'ultima discesa relativamente ripida prima di rientrare a casa da una camminata
io> ahia. stop un attimo, c'è un agitazione sindacale nel mio ginocchio @diegor@social.gl-como.it> hanno iniziato a far rumore con pentole e simili? io> sì, ma è solo una delle due ginocchia diego> destra o sinistra io> sinistra diego> ovviamente. agitatori comunisti
(la dirigenza ha offerto di spostare un po' più di peso sulle braccia, tramite i bastoncini, il sindacato ha accettato la proposta e sono tornata a casa senza problemi)
oh STESSA NUVOLA, incredibile :D (io sono qualche metro in linea d'aria un po' più in su del lago). Oltretutto quella nuvola aveva un tempismo incredibile perchè APPENA è finito tutto bom, cielo schiarito. Che fastidio
@Eastern Bloc noi eravamo sulla salita per il parco degli ulivi, in quanto uno dei pochi punti della zona da cui si poteva vedere l'eclissi prima che tramontasse il sole (senza andare ad infognarsi nel traffico del sacro monte)
siam rimasti fin verso le 20:30 (l'orario del tramonto in quel punto) e ancora non si era schiarito, ma quanto a copertura generale non prometteva bene neanche per vedere stelle cadenti.
Poi per carità, ho fatto più di un rullino di quelli lunghi :D di foto, di cui almeno metà di nuvole decisamente belle. però. ecco. :D
ICYMI I'm making a bright & cheerful multilingual collection of the frustrated, angry, exasperated, slightly sweary expressions that are a constant companion to anyone paying attention in 2026, frequently as they check the news headlines.
Called the FFS project because in English "for fuck's sake" is a prime example of this, & because the whole thing was inspired by a request to make the Welsh version.
The FFS Project: Poll for native / fluent Italian speakers about a rude phrase
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there's a lot of variety based on what one is exasperated about, region, religion, social class, desired length of the utterance, so it would help to state a bit more about the intention. "eccheccazzo" works. "mavaffanculo" also generically should work. "eh ma figa" would work in some parts of the north, with a frustrated business manager undertones. "Ma deh boja oh" in some parts of Tuscany. Blasphemies would definitely work, and you can have short outbursts or long rumbles to match the level of exasperation. You can creatively make them long enough to break the flow of speech from the other person, if needed. And local languages: "mo' va a fer dal pugnàtt" would be suitable, and common, in Bologna, and not much understood outside of it
The example that everyone is getting is basically "the frustrated, angry, exasperated, slightly sweary expressions [...] as they check the news headlines" which I appreciate can have quite varied causes these days, but the key is a phrase that most would recognise as appropriate in that context.
At its core it's an art project rather than a linguistic one, so I know I can't cover all possibilities.
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"for fuck's sake" viene da "for god's sake" che sarebbe suppergiù "per l'amor d'iddio" o "per il bene d'iddio", che però diventa tipo "per l'amore di fottere" o "per il bene di fottere", inteso però più che altro tipo "per l'amore/per il bene di sticazzi", mi sa; comunque boh insomma io propongo "per l'amor dei porchiddii" :)
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"eccheccazzo" o "porcaputtana" però mi sembrano troppo generici, e perdono quel carattere di implorazione che rimanda a un piano etico che si vorrebbe condiviso, ma ormai esasperata e forse sul punto di svoltare in qualcos'altro... mi ricordo una cosa che mi fa sempre tanto ridere quando ci penso ora, a posteriori: c'erano dei bulli, alla scuola media che frequentavo, che ci picchiavano, a volte (ma tutto sommato raramente) così, perché erano bulli, altre volte perché noi, io e due amici e un'amica, li provocavamo, li prendevamo in giro; era anche un po' un gioco: provocare, scappare, cercare di non farci prendere; be' uno dei bulli quando riusciva a prenderci, ogni volta che ci riusciva, mentre ci picchiava, quanto più forte lo faceva, tanto più forte e ripetutamente esclamava: "PER L'AMOR D'IDDIO!", o "PER L'AMOR DEL CIELO!"
yes indeed! NLNet did a load for us, so there is one already, but an updated one would be good too. We do have everything in SVG so could definitely put one together :)
Typographical "pun" on exclamation point being the factorial operator, and the home being in the form factor of those "do you know order of operations" posts.
@pthane 5! Means "5 factorial" (5×4×3×2×1), which is 120.
However, if you ignore order of operations and just go left to right, you get 5, so it could also look like someone is just exclaiming "the answer is 5"
Damn, that took me a minute. I was so focused on the ! after carefully, which didin't have anything to do with anything, that I didn't notice the other one.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
If you see an em-dash ("—") online, it means you're reading
a post from someone who cares deeply about typography and effective communication;
copy that went through an editorial-review process at a publisher; or
text generated by an AI-model that was instructed to recognise an em-dash in its training material as a sign of more dependable, authoritative writing.
It's a shame that no.3 has drowned out the others in ignorant "How to spot AI !!!" influencer posts—the em-dash is a useful bit of punctuation.
Using Windows (or MacOS?) Alt codes shows a real commitment. On Linux, I just type [Compose] - -, and on my smartphone, I long press the hyphen and choose "—" from the pop-up menu.
e sì, sto cercando di pensare a casi di non cittadini Shengen che potrebbero subire invece conseguenze, ma tutti quelli che mi vengono in mente comunque non credo che potrebbero prendere l'aereo senza rischi, per cui ok, non è una situazione giusta, ma tutto ciò non cambia niente
thank you!
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(yes, it's seeding, I just have to load it manually in kiwix-serve for the home network)
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