Ciantic

Ciantic, 25 days ago to windows

Oh, Arc for Windows just came out. Testing that now.

https://arc.net/

#Windows #Arcbrowser #arc

Ciantic, 27 days ago to firefox

I'm living confusing world, I want to use #Firefox for most things, but there is still a few profiles I need the #Chrome for.

Now the big problem is how do I associate the default browser? I'm thinking of making my own CLI application as the default browser, it would then open certain links in Chrome and the rest in Firefox.

Ciantic, 29 days ago to mastodon

Ordering replies in chronological order is not a good general solution, it amplifies reply-guys, and doesn't give good context for the reader.

Ideally, it should be configurable for each user, but here is a general idea, order of replies:

1. Replies from people I follow
2. Replies from people who follow me
3. Other replies without questions
4. Other replies with questions

This could be used as a basis for filtering as well, if you don't feel like answering, then hide all questions.

#Mastodon

Ciantic, 30 days ago to windows

I have FINALLY figured out how to ungroup a single window from taskbar. Now I can do the PWA style Firefox windows like in Chrome.

1. SHGetPropertyStoreForWindow to ungroup a single window in TaskBar
2. WM_SETICON to set a new icon to the taskbar.

#Windows #winapi #firefox

Ciantic, 1 month ago to firefox

Trying to switch to Firefox, making solid progress. I made a theme, that is pretty close to Chrome, the address bar is white, tab is white (no borders). One thing still bugs me: Why is the Firefox tab not connected to the address bar?

I really would like it to be connected. It's such a minor thing though, that it's not a dealbreaker.

#firefox #chrome

Ciantic, 1 month ago to CSS

Sometimes #CSS is funny. Display grid is easy, but adding the actual grid lines between the grid cells, well, that's nearly impossible to do well!

I wish the display grid had inherited border possibilities from tables because they have all the needed things for adding borders (e.g. border-collapse etc) so there are no duplicate borders when using colspan etc.

Ciantic, 1 month ago to dotnet

Microsoft's Aspire framework looks cool to manage simple application with few dependencies.

It allows to write in application code the dependencies, and when deployed they start automatically.

For example if you add dependency to PostgreSQL or Redis then when started it starts it. Locally it uses K8s, but apparently when deployed to Azure it can use containers or services.

No need to write YAML, just pure C# & Nuget to get external services working.

#dotnet #Kubernetes #Aspire

Ciantic, 1 month ago to unity

I've been modding Cities Skylines 2, and learning Unity at the same time. Boy Unity documentation is lacking! Lot of enums etc, has no descriptions etc. When to manually clean memory is still mysterious to me. I've discovered I can use Texture2D.Destroy, but not sure do I have to e.g. after calling GetPixelData because it says the memory is temporary, but not sure how temporary it is!

#Unity

Ciantic, 2 months ago to citiesskylines

Cities Skylines 2 lackluster launch can be mostly attributed to the growing pains of a small studio.

It was probably never possible for a small studio like Colossal Order to deliver a fully functional successor from scratch when they were adding features for 10 years CS1 in parallel.

The only way it would've worked was if they could have used the same code in CS2. But clearly, they weren't able to, as it's missing most of the DLCs they built for CS1.

#CitiesSkylines #CitiesSkylines2

Ciantic, 2 months ago to threads

Can confirm that I was wrong. #Threads posts are searchable! There seems to be some delay (?), now I can see @zuck's first post in the search results using twit.social, but not in #mastodon.social, it must be server-dependent when they start to appear.

Ciantic, 3 months ago to microsoft

I don't like that Microsoft made PowerShell commandlet called "curl", because it is not the curl. It's some fake script that fetches URI.

One big problem is troubleshooting. Ask somebody to use Curl with Windows and when they type curl to the command line... And minutes later, wait? What are you using exactly, yes, it's the impostor curl provided by Microsoft, you need the REAL curl.

#Curl #Microsoft

Ciantic, 3 months ago to vscode

It's a bit surprising that the VSCode team is still allowed to ship new UI functionality by default. I appreciate this feature, but I can imagine it can cause more "I hate it, how I turn it off" if enabled by default like now.

Here is a screencap of a new feature where function definition sticks to the top of the editor. Came today in when I updated. I like it myself!

#VSCode

Ciantic, 3 months ago to random

Lianamailer has a honeypot field called lm-gtfo 😀

Ciantic, 3 months ago to threads

Smaller servers in Bluesky and Mastodon are a feature. Some algorithm banned your account? If you are on a smaller server (but not too small) there is still an administrator that cares. With a big server like Bluesky's origin server, it will be like calling Google, nobody will care.

In hindsight, Bluesky should've built without federation and shipped it as fast as they could. They could've worked on federation afterward like Threads did.

#Threads #Bluesky #Mastodon

Ciantic, 4 months ago to random

@simonbs you had this post about 0.50 eur comission. I'm reading this as well:

"Apple will charge developers a core technology fee of 0.50 EUR for first annual app install to use Apple’s technology, counted only once per account and once per year ... However, there will be no fee for the first 1 million annual installs"

I don't understand that either, does it mean you have to pay it even if the application is free after 1 million installs?

Ciantic, 4 months ago to random

#Flickr embeds can't scale when resized. Media queries came out in 2010, but nobody has revised their embeds in the meantime.

Ciantic, 4 months ago to threads

At some point #Threads removed like count from the UI, now you can only see number of replies. If you want to show the likes you can only view them individually but not as a count. That is interesting choice, they probably don't like that people browsing the content focus on number of likes.

Ciantic, 4 months ago to wordpress

Dear #WordPress, how about we implement email logging and setup to the core so we don't need the damn plugins for it.

P.S., evening ruined

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-150k-wordpress-sites-at-takeover-risk-via-vulnerable-plugin/

Ciantic, 5 months ago to random

Inkscape renderer is these days too "good". Right now I edited an SVG file for an hour in Inkscape, only to find out that almost none of the elements behind my drawing are visible in the browser.

I imported a page from motherboard manual, elements seems fine in Inkscape, mostly normal paths, but completely invisible on browser 🤷‍♂️

#Inkscape #SVG

Ciantic, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Windows11

Windows 11 has native 7zip support, yay! At 19 bytes/s 🥺

(It looks like, that when you drag and drop files from 7zip file, it's abysmally slow. But if you use Extract All, it works normal speeds.)

#Windows11

Ciantic, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to mastodon

Looking at https://fedidb.org, it seems like Finland has one Mastodon server per person.

#Mastodon #Fedidb #Finland

Ciantic, 5 months ago to mastodon

I don't know why this post by @mosseri is not appearing in #Mastodon, but here is a screenshot.

What I want to highlight is the wording: "option available", which could suggest that federation is not automatic and the #Threads users must find some option to federate.

If I know something about options and masses, they never change their defaults. This would mean most Threads content would never reach Mastodon as nobody would bother to find the option.

Ciantic, 5 months ago to threads

I must say, #Threads' way of doing tags looks a lot nicer. They are visually as links, with proper grammar, and no awkward jamming of words.

Attached screenshot is thread by @viticci demonstrating tags

(Side note, I won't be posting to there, as I have no follower herd that I need to feed, I understand that many in the know will be)

Ciantic, 6 months ago to rust

Now what fresh hell is this? I suspect something in my system is broken. But this should be debuggable. My little Tauri app now crashes after a while in use in release mode with "exit code: 0xc0000374, STATUS_HEAP_CORRUPTION", however it works fine in debug mode!

I cleaned the target, and every time it does that, only in release mode.

#Rust #Tauri

Ciantic, 7 months ago to random

A few days ago I got a stellar Windows 11 update, it broke at least OneDrive, Google Chrome, Typora, and VSCode. I had to reinstall each program manually. What is odd is that OneDrive is bundled with Windows 11, so I had to get the Windows 10 OneDrive and install it on top of it. The mouse cursor also changed to a stock. Now I wonder what else will I discover is broken. Good job there kicking out that QA team by Microsoft.

#Windows11 #Windows