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badrihippo, to random
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So the university encouraged the students to build this tool, and then punished them for it? Can it even get worse 🤦

https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-homework-tool-it-paid-them-10-000-to-make/

badrihippo, to emacs
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Just learnt how to use in ! :emacs: 🚀

aru,
@aru@functional.cafe avatar

@badrihippo So it is "just" a replay of everything you did between the start and the end of the macro recording?

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@aru yep, that's essentially it 🙂

And it leaves the cursor wherever it ended up. So one gotcha to watch out for is, if your key combination needs to start (for example) at the beginning of a line, then make sure to put it back at the beginning of a line when you end it (ready for the next round of replay) ➰

There are also ways to name the macro and save it, etc., but I'm yet to get to that stage...

badrihippo, to random
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

Do we have a for public repos? :git:

Right now my "default" is to go to GitHub, and then maybe GitLab and Codeberg...but that leaves out all the other hosts out there. Once happens we'll need it even more :fedi:

(By the way, I say "git" because that's where most code is, but if other kinds of repos are supported, even better! 🔍 )

farooqkz,
@farooqkz@blackrock.city avatar

@badrihippo Sounds like a cool project for someone to start. I am being tempted but there are already several projects I need to do first.

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@farooqkz same; I'll keep it on my list to do someday. Although if anyone's up for stealing the idea in the meantime they're welcome 🕵️ :git:

badrihippo, to random
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

Does not display cover.jpg as a folder thumbnail anymore when you put it inside a folder? 📁 🧐

nekohayo,
@nekohayo@mastodon.social avatar

@badrihippo Pretty sure it never did, I've never seen it do that in 20 years.

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@nekohayo I've definitely used the feature in some file manager in the past year. Though if it wasn't Nautilus maybe it was ?

badrihippo, to webdev
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Using other frameworks is when I realise that (and ) actually had a really powerful and advanced form validation system

badrihippo, to til
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

(or re-learnt) that the "5G" in "5G WiFi" is a short form of the 5 GHz frequency for networks and doesn't have any connection with (the mobile standard)

badrihippo, to random
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Why do people usually suggest and not for downloading files? Is curl more common or something? ⬇️

The same applies for the very dangerous curl | bash, although I have seen my fair share of wget | bashes too... ⚙️

badrihippo,
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@weepingclown @joostvb

> Wget has (recursive) downloading powers that curl does not feature and it also handle download retries over unreliable connections possibly slightly more effective.

> For just about everything else, curl is probably the more suitable tool

That answers my question! My Internet connection has been historically quite unreliable, which is probably why I ended up using wget more (and the second paragraph explains why everyone else tends to use curl) :terminal:

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@weepingclown @joostvb I also remember using aria2 at some point. And even gwget 😅

badrihippo, to random
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

#PSA for beginning web developers: Tripod, the hosting service from yesteryears, is still very much up and running ⚙️

https://tripod.com

If it's anything like it used to be, it's better than Squarespace and its ilk because you can directly upload your pure, hand-coded HTML instead of going through all those autogenerative contraptions they have nowadays 🧶

floppy,
@floppy@fosstodon.org avatar

@badrihippo I went through all the pages. It's beautiful. :) I like it very much and it's awesome you put it and kept it online!

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@floppy yay thanks! Credit for the "keeping it online" part goes to Tripod though; I haven't touched it at all in years but they're still keeping it going 😅

(I believe I do have an offline backup somewhere though)

badrihippo, to threads
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Noptisun,
@Noptisun@twiukraine.com avatar

@badrihippo isnʼt even federated yet.

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@Noptisun lol!

badrihippo, to AdobePhotoshop
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#App developers, is there an easy way to securely share sensitive data (eg. login credentials) locally between two #apps on the same device? And if not, what about non-sensitive data (like how the #SimpleApps or whatever they're called now share themes)? 🔏

Basically it's a family of apps with a common login and we're trying to avoid the user having to log in separately on each one. We're using #Capacitor, if that matters ⚙️

(If all this was on #Mobian it'd be so simple 😑)

mykhaylo,
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@badrihippo encrypted local database file

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@mykhaylo hmm, so two questions:

  1. What key would I use for encryption? (Will it have to be provided by the app builds, since I'm guessing every sister app would need to share the same decryption key?)

  2. What's the way to share the database file between apps, given that Android isolates apps so much? (Is it using the Files permission and then literally opening the file like a normal desktop program...or is there some other magic I'm not aware of?)

badrihippo, to india
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for filing:

If the e-filing portal insists that you "Please correct the error below" without indicating any error, it might be to do with your address. Especially if there's something about a failed address regex in the console.

Going to the profile settings and updating it fixed it for me.

(And yes, they changed the rules, so you might have to file a different form than what you were filing earlier)

especially if you know Indian peeps

badrihippo, to random
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

Does need a more public-friendly term? People wouldn't understand email either, if you told them "please contact me through SMTP"

Yes we have , but that's not very self-explanatory. Maybe we need a more descriptive term like: e-chat?

tennoseremel,
@tennoseremel@lor.sh avatar

@badrihippo “On Jabber” sounds about the same or better than “on Telegram” or “on WhatsApp”. It’s not the name.

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@tennoseremel fair enough if we're talking app level, but you can't just download and install "the Jabber app". What we're trying to sell is the entire concept of federation, etc., which I think might be easier if we say "they're compatible with e-chat. Like y'know, with e-mail but for chat?"

(Not saying it's a silver bullet or anything of course but it might be worth a try?)

badrihippo, to random
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

Gosh, I miss the Thinkpad red dot thing when I'm using an external keyboard 😮

Is there any other convenient way to scroll without moving my hands from typing position? 🔴

badrihippo,
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

@Cmastication ooh, now I wish I had a foot pedal too 🦶

Speaking of weird keys, my friend @ravi and I realised that a selfie stick is actually a Bluetooth keyboard! Albeit a tiny one with a single button 🤳

His phone's onscreen keyboard was "malfunctioning" when the selfie stick was connected; we later realised that it wasn't malfunctioning but just respecting the "Hide onscreen keyboard when an external keyboard is plugged in" setting 😅

Cmastication,
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@badrihippo @ravi hahaha. That’s quirky.

badrihippo, to random
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

Is anyone making .srt files for tracks? 🎼

badrihippo, to random
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

devs, is there a way to "continue execution with this default value" like what Common Lisp has when an error occurs? I got into the debugger and saw some ways of getting around but couldn't find any way of continuing execution... ⚙️

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