@zygous@mastodon.green
@zygous@mastodon.green avatar

zygous

@zygous@mastodon.green

I love #tech, and have enjoyed #computers since the #bbcmicro. I was a #software engineer and am now a #manager; I really enjoy being involved in software whilst not actually programming myself 😆

I’m also into #books and #words, #fountainpens, #DungeonsAndDragons, popular #science, #coffee and #cats. I’m #Cornish and ashamed of our right-wing xenophobic government.

I’m Dad to two wonderful children.

#vim FTW

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

Ministers consider making UK’s carbon targets easier to meet - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/uk-carbon-targets-carryover-budget-climate-change-committee tories backtracking on green policy yet again...

zygous,
@zygous@mastodon.green avatar

@glynmoody Doubly concerning is the subtext: that once the target is met we’ll have done enough and don’t need to bother trying to reduce further.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
@grmpyprogrammer@phpc.social avatar

I worked at Mozilla for almost 5 years in my little niche of writing Python-based tests for web services until my grumpy tendencies got me pushed out in layoffs. It was fine, good severance and a good overall experience until my last year. But y’all are super ignorant about the company and what it takes to build a web browser.

zygous,
@zygous@mastodon.green avatar

@grmpyprogrammer I use Safari on iOS and Firefox on my Macs. I have Firefox installed on my mobiles for the Send to Device feature, which isn’t as seamless as Continuity, but works fine from Safari’s share menu. Mac to mobile I tend not to need.

I came to Firefox from Netscape Navigator, but TBH these days I’m mostly clinging to the idea that a browser monoculture is bad.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
@grmpyprogrammer@phpc.social avatar

Okay, so maybe I need to do some enemy research in PhpStorm

zygous,
@zygous@mastodon.green avatar

@grmpyprogrammer Frankly, I feel people enjoy shitting on PHP, and either underestimate or downplay its significance on the Web.

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

Had to open up Twitter to post my stream announcement which means seeing what seemingly random old posts are showing up in my notifications page now, and—

—Oof, I really feel like this says something

zygous,
@zygous@mastodon.green avatar

@mcc Is there though?

WPalant, to random

My server wasn’t supposed to send any mails directly for a while already, only via web hoster’s relay. Yet I’d still occasionally see such direct mails in DMARC reports. I’ve been suspecting some misconfigured service that would go around my mail configuration.

Now I finally found the culprit. No, it wasn’t an issue with some service. It was actually me forgetting to adjust one scenario in the OpenSMTPD configuration. So in the rare case that the server would do SRS, mail would still be delivered directly. Past Wladimir must’ve been rather distracted. 🙄

zygous,
@zygous@mastodon.green avatar

@WPalant I’m toying with the idea of running a mail server. I imagine there’s a reasonable amount of initial setup, but what’s the ongoing maintenance look like? Is it worth it?

zygous, to random
@zygous@mastodon.green avatar

So, this is cozy

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

I really don't know why I bother writing to my MP. The only reply I ever get is a Labour press release on whatever topic I've contacted him about.

zygous,
@zygous@mastodon.green avatar

@fkamiah17 Same from the Tories in my constituency 😢

darth, to random
@darth@silversword.online avatar

deleted_by_author

    •
    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @darth @QuadRadical Looks like the Plex logo in blue.

    bramus, to random
    @bramus@front-end.social avatar

    Feels good to update an article from early 2021 to say that the problem described back then is nowadays solved by a single CSS pseudo selector.

    Selector in case: :user-invalid. It represents any validated form element whose value isn’t valid based on their validation constraints, after the user has interacted with it.

    Supported by Firefox 88 and Safari 16.5 before, and now also by Chrome 119 (current Chrome Dev, to hit stable in October)

    https://brm.us/diy-user-invalid#v5

    Recording of a form being filled. The form shows an error message about the e-mail address format, even though the user is still entering text. This is solved by

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @bramus Awesome! It’s painful doing this in JS, especially with the nagging feeling that it ought to be so unnecessary.

    kzimmermann, to chrome
    @kzimmermann@fosstodon.org avatar

    So, that is bad is a no-brainer, but it looks like MS Teams will not work completely (video calls + audio) in . And I don't mean it in the "change UA settings" way, I guess Microsoft just uses something specific to Chrome's engine on it, I think.

    So if you depend on this shitty app for work but don't wanna use Chrome (or the desktop client), what do you do? Honest .

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @kzimmermann MS provides a Teams app for Linux. I used to use that. Not as fully featured as on other platforms, but good enough.

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @kzimmermann Ah, yes, I’d not seen it was decommissioned. Just found this article on that https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/the-best-microsoft-teams-experience-on-linux-is-now-a-pwa

    mcc, (edited ) to random
    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar

    Today's uninteresting discovery: Google doesn't do anything interesting if you search for ":wq"

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @mcc There’s no quitting Google

    sandralindsey, to random
    @sandralindsey@toot.wales avatar

    Me: finishes up doing a job, thinks about getting some hedge cutting done next
    Weather: pours rain
    Me: changes plans to typing up story edits
    Rain: stops

    I'm not trying to say I can control the weather here, but it doesn't half feel sometimes like the weather's watching me & taking the piss.

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @sandralindsey Literally

    mcc, to random
    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar

    The dialog box had two options, "Got it" and "Got it"

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @thor @mcc Advertising gambling should go the same way.

    mcc, to random
    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar

    Tip: Instead of saying "Stop using Chrome" or "Use Chrome instead of Firefox", try saying "I have written, and the Firefox project has accepted, a patch that adds a 'profiles' feature equal in ease-of-use to that of Chrome". That probably would be a lot more convincing

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @mcc @Gargron Yeah, it’s tab based, but opening a new tab does so using the container of the tab you’re on. So having two windows each with their own containers could Just Work. There are keyboard shortcuts for new tabs in specific containers too, e.g. Cmd-Shift-1 for Personal (customisable). Also, you can specify given domains to always open in a given container.

    I’ve found it to be a great feature without needing to install any add-ons.

    j9t, (edited ) to webdev
    @j9t@mas.to avatar

    : DOCTYPEs are…

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @j9t I’m surprised so many respondents think doctype declarations aren’t required 🤯

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @j9t Especially surprising was the number of votes for “not required since HTML 5”. That’s the HTML version with a doctype people have a chance of remembering correctly: <!doctype html> 😄

    arstechnica, to random
    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

    Genetics makes some people more likely to participate in genetic studies

    People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/genetics-makes-some-people-more-likely-to-participate-in-genetic-studies/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @arstechnica Interest in genetics is an inherited trait? Awesome!

    PixelBandits, to discworld
    @PixelBandits@nerdculture.de avatar

    I'm heading back to Ankh Morpork in 5 minutes as the Discworld's Premier (and only) private detective! Would love it if you came to

    1 - chat
    2 - see old game
    3 - quiz me on my Discworld knowledge!

    Https://twitch.tv/pixelbandits

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @PixelBandits I haven’t yet played that one, but do have it installed waiting for me. I’ve read it’s great; hope you enjoy it!

    af, to random
    @af@dataare.cool avatar

    Stop using Chrome as your daily driver.

    Google proposed adding DRM to Chrome, which will be used to stop ad blockers, privacy tools, password plugins, accessibility/reader modes.

    The only way to stop Google’s Chrome from wrecking the internet like Internet Explorer did for many year to switch to a NOT chromium-based browser as soon as possible for your day to day. You’ve got Safari, and Firefox as your choices.

    I know you’ll have to use Chrome sometimes because it’s already happening.

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @resuna @af @maikel Also, despite Firefox supporting FIDO2, some websites don’t let you register security keys using Firefox.

    darth, to random
    @darth@silversword.online avatar

    deleted_by_author

    •
    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @darth Wow, that’s a cynical and pessimistic take. There seemed to be no argument in it though, just defeat.

    Mozilla’s press release was more upbeat (although, of course, it crowed about Mozilla being on the committee): https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/messaging-layer-security-is-now-an-internet-standard/

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @darth Yeah, I sympathise with being tired of Google continually replacing its messaging apps. Giving up on the idea of an industry-wide standard before anyone has a chance to implement it, though… that’s a shame.

    schizanon, to mastodon
    @schizanon@mas.to avatar

    I'm going to build the best client ever and it's just going to do one thing better than every other one ever built; hide you've already seen.

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @schizanon Like then.

    dgoosens, to privacy
    @dgoosens@phpc.social avatar

    Let this sink in:
    « No way to create a backdoor that only the good guys can walk through. »
    (@Mer__edith president of the @signalapp foundation)

    If you, as a politician, persist in thinking otherwise, you will cause irreversible harm to people's , and, even though you might not realize this right now, their LIVES .

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E--bVV_eQR0

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @dgoosens @Mer__edith @signalapp It’s a shame how she didn’t really talk much about how on-device scanning still breaks encryption. Damian insisted companies wouldn’t be asked to do that, but that’s because of this plan to scan before the message is encrypted, which is still breaking the encrypted pipeline.

    zygous,
    @zygous@mastodon.green avatar

    @dgoosens @Mer__edith @signalapp In my mind the client-side scanning implementation was still a back door, but I guess that’s a matter of perspective. I dug a bit more and found that client-side scanning still would require manual review (makes sense), and that requires a back door.

    https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/breaking-the-myths-on-encryption/

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • rosin
  • thenastyranch
  • everett
  • DreamBathrooms
  • ethstaker
  • magazineikmin
  • cubers
  • Youngstown
  • tacticalgear
  • Durango
  • slotface
  • ngwrru68w68
  • kavyap
  • provamag3
  • osvaldo12
  • InstantRegret
  • cisconetworking
  • GTA5RPClips
  • modclub
  • tester
  • mdbf
  • khanakhh
  • normalnudes
  • Leos
  • megavids
  • anitta
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •