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Taffer

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My job? Computer Sisyphus and Meme Historian. I work on #cryptography. I like #videogames and #books.

#fedi22 #python #linux #macos #ffxiv #pygame #python #ultima4 #ultima5 #infosec #security #postquantum #godot

I work for AWS, but I definitely don't speak for them.

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Taffer, to ADHD
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Really glad I didn't wipe my old laptop before getting it ready for my wife to play games on... I keep finding things I failed to transfer.

Earlier this week it was my VeraCrypt image with my tax documents (the one I had on the new laptop was missing last year's!). Today it's all of my email contacts in Thunderbird.

Sigh.

Taffer, to godot
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Had an urge to add LuaJit to Godot just now. I'm not even good at Lua.

saramg, to random
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Enshittification As A Service.

Taffer,
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@saramg but we already have the cloud…

Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux, to random
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πŸ› οΈ Title: QuiteRSS (Help !)
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It has a few shortcomings (it tends to bring up the same News and ignores other links), and recently I've started using Akregator as well (works better, but no search on feed names - only on articles, fewer options, and the reporting in the systray is unreadable). I've tried others, but none are powerful enough for the number of links I need to track for this site.

Is there anyone who could take over the maintenance of QuiteRSS?

Taffer,
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@Le_bottin_des_jeux_linux thunderbird has a serviceable RSS reader

Viss, to random
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https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-security-debt-crashing-down/714685/

if anything is gonna be the straw that breaks the camels back and ACTUALLY makes for a 'this year is the year of linux on the desktop', its gonna be stuff like this

Taffer,
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@Viss I’m sure it’s too big to fail 😭

Taffer, to random
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There are two hogsheads per buttload.

Taffer, to random
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McKinsey: We're why you can't have nice things.

aeva, (edited ) to random
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Is there a Linux [window manager / desktop environment / whatever they're called these days] that has good support for fractional resolution scaling on hidpi displays? My aging eyes really want 150% scaling for this Framework 13 laptop, but gnome only offers 100% and 200%.

EDIT: so far KDE does the right thing. I wish there were more options though.

Taffer,
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@aeva I think Gnome can do fractional if you use Wayland instead of X11; KDE too. IIRC I’ve got my KDE/Wayland session at 125% (Framework 16, 54 year old eyeballs).

Taffer, to HowTo
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New post - Auto-deploy: Hugo and Codeberg CI https://taffer.ca/posts/2024/hugo-ci/

A description of how I’ve set up Codeberg’s CI to automatically build and deploy changes to my website.

Taffer, to random
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I realize Plasma 6 is really new, and I'm playing with fire by using a rolling release, but the Trash icon on my desktop keeps disappearing.

Taffer,
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Restarted for an OS update and there it is… right where I left it

Taffer, to hardware
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The Asustor Drivestor 4-bay NAS devices are cheaper than Synology, but I have no idea how their software compares.

Taffer, to hardware
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Since I can't stop thinking about expanding my NAS (I've got a 2-bay NAS now, apparently my brain "needs" a 4+ bay NAS), so I'm looking into building one from parts vs just buying the 4-bay Synology.

Finding small cases with four drive bays is apparently hard; they've all got 1-2 bays and a huge amount of space for a massive GPU because only gamers buy them?

Taffer,
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Hey, you know what? For around the cost of upgrading to a 4-bay NAS, I can just double the storage in my existing hardware. And I can just plug in the new drives (one at a time) and repair the volume.

foone, to random
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damn it, irfanview 4.4 is too big to put on a floppy disk

Taffer,
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@foone remember those cassette to CD player back in the day before cars had CD players? Make a floppy disk to USB drive version, what could go wrong?

witch_warren, to gamedev
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This scene is getting a little hard to read; which of these 4 do you prefer?

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Taffer,
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@witch_warren a total non-answer, but β€œnot the first one”, the others all show depth better

nixCraft, to random
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IBM nearing deal for cloud software provider HashiCorp, source says. IBM is about to ruin one more company. Look what they did with RedHat and CentOS. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/ibm-nearing-buyout-deal-hashicorp-wsj-reports-2024-04-23/

Taffer,
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@nixCraft IBM is the reason I’m running OpenSUSE on this laptop, Fedora would have been my other choice.

Taffer, to FFXIV
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FFXIV would be much better if Red Mages could wear Amon's Hat. Locking that to archers and dancers is unconscionable.

#ffxiv

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Poll: Were you taught how to type on a computer keyboard in school?

Taffer,
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@nixCraft technically it was an electric typewriter, but I took that class specifically for using computers

Taffer, to homeassistant
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This Open Home Foundation thing sounds a bit like one of my "startup ideas that would never get funded"; ideally this will end up being an IoT ecosystem that's open and self-hostable. https://www.openhomefoundation.org/

I initially ignored it because I thought "Home Assistant" was the Apple IoT thing.

egeexyz, to random
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I need more Linux, FOSS, and general tech bloggers in my feed. Link some for meee

Taffer,
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@egeexyz I blog sometimes! Also, shitposting!

Taffer, to random
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Going to try this open source search engine for a bit at work, see how it does: https://clew.se/

Taffer, to HowTo
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New post - Backups https://taffer.ca/posts/2024/backups/

Please back up your files (and a how-to for restic on Linux)!
#Backups #Howto #Linux #Tools

Taffer, to streaming
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Did Disney+ get popped? They just made me reset my password…

Philsan, to VintageOSes
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Released version 2.5.0 of HATARI, , TT and Falcon computers emulator https://hatari.tuxfamily.org/index.html

Taffer,
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@Philsan I was literally just wondering what a good ST emulator was this morning πŸ‘

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