whynothugo

whynothugo, 4 months ago to random

What Wayland is missing is a solid, reliable toolkit for making simple graphical applications.

Every time that I start designing a GUI the process converged on designing my own GUI because there’s simply nothing that has first class support for Wayland.

I’m also slowly accepting the fact that I might have to implement one someday.

whynothugo, 11 months ago to random

I just found a clone of a project that I maintain:

https://github.com/jazzband/django-payments

Here:

https://github.com/mike70193/django-payments

All of its history has been rewritten: commits that I have authored have been rewritten with a different author. There doesn't seem to by any other change.

I've no idea what to think of this.

whynothugo, 7 months ago to random

If anybody wants it, I have an activation-locked M2 MacBook Pro with 32GB RAM and the highest specs.

It was given to me during a consulting job. I never again managed to get in contact with anyone. I tried getting ahold of someone to either return it or have it unlock for months with no luck. I don’t think anyone cares.

I feel bad about throwing this kind of high end hardware into the recycling bin, but this is the only option provided by Apple (what a great way to increase sales!! 🤑🤑).

whynothugo, 11 months ago to random

I keep all my #notes in text files in a single directory (and use ag, grep and fd to search through them). I edit them with vim.

It’s not a GREAT experience, but all the note taking apps are terrible. Seeing how Evernote is deciding to destroy itself today makes me think that my approach to note-taking maybe isn’t that terrible.

whynothugo, 9 months ago to random

#Jitsi remains committed to privacy, but now you need to sign up for a Google or Facebook account in order to use their public hosted instance.

https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/

What a joke.

whynothugo, 9 months ago to random

If I were to design a browser from scratch, bookmarks would be handled by a separate "bookmarks service". A system-local service which offers an API for the browser to interact with bookmarks in any way necessary, but also for independent third-party programs to manage, curate, sync, backup or do whatever they need with the bookmarks database.

whynothugo, 19 days ago to random

What the Linux ecosystem needs right now is a solid community-maintained distribution for non-technical people.

Like, if someone who's using Windows asks me right now "which Linux can I use on my laptop", I have no answer.

My partner tried Fedora, but it was so unstable and broken all over the place that she asked me to get rid of it, even if it mean starting from scratch again.

She now uses PopOS and I've had to configure dozens of things for her that would have been trivial on Windows 7.

whynothugo, 7 months ago to random

@nluug The calendar event is behind a login-wall and can only be downloaded with a Google account: https://nluug.nl/evenementen/nluug/najaarsconferentie-2023/

Perhaps you can just host the icalendar publicly in the same server as the rest of the website?

whynothugo, 1 year ago to gaming

My partner purchased the new Zelda game and #Nintendo won't let me play: "this user is not authorised to run this game". Even though it's on the same device in which where she plays. Only one user can run it and only one savegame slot. I can't believe Nintendo would expect cohabiting family members to purchase multiple individual licenses, this extreme #drm is ridiculous.

whynothugo, 1 year ago to random

I’m thinking of creating a cloud-based password manager that uses a distributed blockchain tool save all user secrets.

Not really because I think that it’s a good idea, but I have no doubt that such a project could raise millions in funding.

whynothugo, 7 months ago to random

Why are airships not a thing in 2023?

I know the hindenberg exploded due to being filled with explosive gas and painted with explosive pain, but surely there are other gases and other paining materials.

whynothugo, 9 months ago to random

The really interesting detail about this new malware, is that they apparently sell traffic to a company who buys traffic from other people’s IP.

https://robins.one/notes/uninstall-the-nightowl-app-now.html

I get the impression that the company “Pawns” basically let you rent out your botnet to them. And “IPRoyal” then sells that out to others needing “proxies”.

whynothugo, 9 months ago to random

Talking of #Jitsi closing down their public instance, any suggestions for what to use instead?

whynothugo, 8 months ago to random

Toolkits that aspire to work on completely different platforms are generally a bad idea.

They typically just support the lowest common denominator, so applications support the bare minimum features possible on all platforms. Trying to improve upon these toolkits is often blocked by the fact that the improvement needs to be implemented for non-free platforms in order to be accepted first.

Finally, applications never end up looking native and have lots of quirks everywhere.

whynothugo, 4 months ago to rust

If you miss long compilation times, try #rust.

whynothugo, 10 months ago to random

Is there something like the 'wall' command that works on an ethernet level?

Basically, a mechanism to send a message to all clients connected to a same LAN network?

I can't find anything online, but I'm sure something like this would have been widely used a few decades ago, right?

whynothugo, 6 months ago to random

Air France gave us breakfast on the flight, which included a little box of yogurt. I saved it for later and put it in my bag.

You can’t bring such things through security (even though the airline have it to me during the flight and it was still closed). I was forced to throw it into the trash.

What bothers me most is these set of rules which enforce throwing food into the trash with no alternative.

Wasting food is terrible, and rules that enforce it need to be reviewed.

whynothugo, 6 months ago to random

I think GitHub is shit and turning into worse shit day by day. And I’m also sure that there are many highly talented developers working at GitHub. The problem is that shitty management can completely negate the impact of even the best developers.

If management dictates that a given framework or database MUST be used, and that tool is the wrong choice, a good developer won’t be able to deliver a great result anyway.

whynothugo, 5 months ago to random

Looking for some feedback on some thoughts on the #gpl

https://paste.sr.ht/~whynothugo/7a123dd11f52e5031bc0757ec90d7a7ada36b43a

whynothugo, 5 months ago to random

What I really don’t get is why video producers insist on uploading their content to YouTube.

They take so much care in their craft making useful videos... and then publish it on the worst platform around, where users will be forced to watch multiple ads for unrelated products.

whynothugo, 6 months ago to random

I’m having a rough time figuring out some details on my with OpenVPN setup. A lot of online references point to their community website, but it’s been put behind a cloudflare-wall. I guess I’ll just have to switch over to WireGuard.

Imagine hating your community so much that you put the forums behind a cloudflare-wall.

whynothugo, 2 months ago to random

@martijnbraam While discussing the slowness of pkgs.alpinelinux.org today, I remembered pkgs.postmarketos.org (which is actually a lot faster). Did you write apkbrowser just to deal with performance? I'm trying to get a clearer picture of where each one stands.

whynothugo, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

How do you ensure that you keep a copy of all sent emails? (please boost for reach).

I'd love to hear comments on how this works for you.

whynothugo, 7 months ago to github

Apparently #github now blocks all connections done with curl?

I can't build any Alpine packages locally (can't fetch source), and I see dozens of pipelines failing.

whynothugo, 14 days ago to android

I can connect this #android phone to my living room display and VLC plays videos on the external display just fine.

But how the hell do I even mount a remote filesystem to actually access video files?

ssh-keygen and sshfs might not be super newbie friendly, but at least they work. I can't find anything remotely equivalent on Android.