Selfhosted sxan • 2 days ago • 97%

I'm a little surprised I can't find any posts asking this question, and that there doesn't seem to be a FAQ about it. Maybe "Facebook" covers too many use cases for one clean answer. Up front, I think the answer for my case is going to be "Friendica," but I'm interested in hearing if there are any other, better options. I'm sure Mastodon and Lemmy aren't it, but there's Pixelfed and a dozen other options with which I'm less familiar with. This mostly centers around my 3-y/o niece and a geographically distributed family, and the desire for Facebook-like image sharing with a timeline feed, comments, likes (positive feedback), that sort of thing. Critical, in our case, is a good iOS experience for capturing and sharing short videos and pictures; a process where the parents have to take pictures, log into a web site, create a post, attach an image from the gallery is simply too fussy, especially for the non-technical and mostly overwhelmed parents. Less important is the extended family experience, although alerts would be nice. Privacy is critical; the parents are very concerned about limiting access to the media of their daughter that is shared, so the ability to restrict viewing to logged-in members of the family is important. [FUTO Circles](https://circles-project.github.io/) was almost perfect. There was some initial confusion about the difference between circles and groups, but in the end the app experience was great and it accomplished all of the goals -- until it didn't. At some point, half of the already shared media disappeared from the feeds of all of the iOS family members (although the Android user could still see all of the posts). It was a thoroughly discouraging experience, and resulted in a complete lack of faith in the ecosystem. While I believe it might be possible to self-host, by the time we decided that everyone liked it and I was about to look into self-hosting our own family server (and remove the storage restrictions, which hadn't yet been reached when it all fell apart), the iOS app bugs had cropped up and we abandoned the platform. So there's the requirements we're looking for: - The ability to create private, invite-only groups/communities - A convenient mobile capture+share experience, which means an app - Reactions (emojis) & comment threads - Both iOS and Android support, in addition to whatever web interface is available for desktop use and, given this community, obviously self-hostable. I have never personally used Facebook, but my understanding is that it's a little different in that communities are really more like individual blogs with some post-level feedback mechanisms; in this way, it's more like Mastodon, where you follow individuals and can respond to their posts, albeit with a loosely-enforced character limit. And as opposed to Lemmy, which while moderated, doesn't really have a main "owner" model. I can imagine setting up a Lemmy instance and creating a community per person, but I feel as if that'd be trying to wedge a square peg into a round hole. Pixelfed might be the answer, but from my brief encounter with it, it feels more like a photo-oriented Mastodon, then a Facebook wall-style experience (it's Facebook that has "walls", right?). So back to where I started: in my personal experience, it seems like Friendica might be the best fit, except that I don't use an iPhone and don't know if there are any decent Friendica apps that would satisfy the user experience we're looking for; honestly, I haven't particularly liked any of the Android apps, so I don't hold out much hope for iOS. Most of the options speak ActivityPub, so maybe I should just focus on finding the right AP-based mobile client? Although, so far the best experience (until it broke) has been Circles, which is based on Matrix. It's challenging to install and evaluate all of the options, especially when -- in my case -- to properly evaluate the software requires getting several people on each platform to try and see how they like it. I value the community's experience and opinions.

Typography & fonts sxan • 3 days ago • 91%

Can anyone identify this font? The title page in the ebook is an image, and there's no credit listed, and my web searches have all been dead ends. I'm not certain there aren't three similar fonts; there are at least two distinct fonts here, and maybe three, although they could all be in the same family -- Bold, Normal, and Light. I'm most interested in the middle font, but all three are interesting. It's a striking title page, and I'd really like to ID these. My fall back will be to write the publisher and ask, but I'm hoping someone here will be able to toss the family off the top of their head.

I haven't seen this discussed since the debate, and I'm curious what people think would happen. (If you've seen this twice, I first posted it to a community that only allows links to news items, which rule I read only _after_ creating the post. I removed that post) The idea came from a post-debate discussion on NPR (National Public Radio), where one of the (professional) political commentators was asked if this was possible and they replied, briefly, that it would have to be done soon. 1. From the analyst's response, and what I can find online (e.g., [here](https://www.9news.com/article/news/verify/elections-verify/trump-vance-vice-president-running-mate-republican-national-convention/536-2a0ff9ca-de57-40dd-8019-ce03561432dc)) it seems that it's _not_ too late for Trump to make this change. Vance would have to voluntarily step down, but I can't imagine him defying Trump if he was told to beat it. 2. It's clear Trump isn't as enamored of Vance as he initially was. 3. I think even hard-core conservatives would agree that Vance hasn't helped Trump's campaign, and (as the commentator pointed out) he's gone off-piste from Trump's talking points at times. 4. Trump's core is voting for Trump; the running mate is a side show, and it's questionable how much Vance appeals to Trump's base. I believe Trump knows all of this, or at least believes it himself. 5. Trump prides himself on firing people when he doesn't like the way things are going, and it would be in keeping character for him to make Vance a scapegoat for the polling reversal and his losing the debate. Therefore, I think this is not just a purely hypothetical question, but a very real possibility. Trump is chaos at the best of times, and this would be an unsurprising action. Regardless of advice he gets from his handlers, he'll do what he feels like. So my questions are: first, who's the most likely choice for a swap; and second, how do you think it'd impact the election?

I do not have CHS, a symptom of which is vomiting. I have never vomited from cannabis. I have always, however, gotten the spins, and almost invariably spend the high uncomfortably nauseous. It really doesn't matter how much I take; anything more than a microdose and I get nauseous. I've been this way forever, since the first time I tried it. I live in a state where recreational use is legal, and it really irks me that I can't partake. Does anyone have any advice about what I could do to get rid of the side effect of nausea? Why does this happen to me‽

A Boring Dystopia sxan • 2 months ago • 97%

www.bedfordindependent.co.uk

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/15132091 > Bedfordshire Police have said just ten arrests were made over the Bedford River Festival this weekend (20/21 July) with Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology responsible...

Privacy sxan • 2 months ago • 93%

www.bedfordindependent.co.uk

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/15132091 > Bedfordshire Police have said just ten arrests were made over the Bedford River Festival this weekend (20/21 July) with Live Facial Recognition (LFR) technology responsible...

Cross-posting here, as the content under discussion is political in nature, and I feel as if the question might be of similar concern to other posters. Most probably don't care; data miners harvesting information to sell to HR departments and hiring managers are a real thing, though, so I think answers are relevant. cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14464872 > A friend of mine would like to post an op-ed style political essay about the current turmoil in the Democratic Party about Biden's fitness. They are concerned about it affecting their career, should it be linked back to them; the US is highly divided and they know some of their peers are Republicans, and they're not sure about the affiliations of people in their upward chain of command. My friend is concerned that posting an emotional opinion piece might -- if attributed to them and seen -- negatively affect their career. They want to stay anonynmous. > > I think getting something posted anonymously in Lemmy would be fairly easy; no-one is going to trying legally coercing an email out of a Lemmy instance over an op-ed. And getting a boost in Mastodon would be simple. I was hoping that there'd be something like WriteFreely where they could post, but anonymity appears to be not even a consideration by the main developers. > > And then there's the question of how to get links to the essay **out** of the Fediverse, where 90% of the people are. I don't have a Xitter account anymore, and have never had a Facebook account. > > What suggestions does Lemmy have? How, in today's world, does someone anonymously post content? > > Subscript: I do not mean political anonymity -- not in the way that protection from law enforcement is needed. My friend lives in the US where freedom of speech is still more-or-less ensured, and the content is not illegal, incidiary, inciting, or even unusual. However, they want anonymity sufficient to guard against data miners, correlators, and brokers. They need to get something off their chest, express an opinion, but not at a risk to their career.

Ask Lemmy sxan • 2 months ago • 76%

A friend of mine would like to post an op-ed style political essay about the current turmoil in the Democratic Party about Biden's fitness. They are concerned about it affecting their career, should it be linked back to them; the US is highly divided and they know some of their peers are Republicans, and they're not sure about the affiliations of people in their upward chain of command. My friend is concerned that posting an emotional opinion piece might -- if attributed to them and seen -- negatively affect their career. They want to stay anonynmous. I think getting something posted anonymously in Lemmy would be fairly easy; no-one is going to trying legally coercing an email out of a Lemmy instance over an op-ed. And getting a boost in Mastodon would be simple. I was hoping that there'd be something like WriteFreely where they could post, but anonymity appears to be not even a consideration by the main developers. And then there's the question of how to get links to the essay **out** of the Fediverse, where 90% of the people are. I don't have a Xitter account anymore, and have never had a Facebook account. What suggestions does Lemmy have? How, in today's world, does someone anonymously post content? Subscript: I do not mean political anonymity -- not in the way that protection from law enforcement is needed. My friend lives in the US where freedom of speech is still more-or-less ensured, and the content is not illegal, incidiary, inciting, or even unusual. However, they want anonymity sufficient to guard against data miners, correlators, and brokers. They need to get something off their chest, express an opinion, but not at a risk to their career.

Linux sxan • 3 months ago • 81%

This is kind of a rant, but mostly a plea. There are times when BusyBox is the only tool you can use. You've got some embedded device with 32k RAM or something; I get it. It's the right tool. But please, _please_, In begging you: don't use it just because you're lazy. I find BusyBox used in places where it's not necessary. There's enough RAM, there's more than enough storage, and yet, it's got BusyBox. BusyBox tooling is absolutely _aenemic_. Simple things, _common_ things, like - oh, - capturing a regexp group from a simple match are practically impossible. But you can do this in bash; heck, it's built in! But BusyBox uses ash, which is barely a shell and certainly doesn't support regexp matching with group capture. Maybe awk? Well, gawk lets you, with `-oP`, but of course BusyBox doesn't use GNU awk, and so you can't get at the capture groups because it doesn't support perl REs. It'd be shocking if BusyBox provided any truly capable tools like ripgrep, in which this would be trivial. I haven't tried BB's `sed` yet, because sed's RE escaping is and has always been a bizarre nightmarish Frankenstein syntax, but I've got a dime riding on some restriction in BB's sed that prevents getting at capture groups there, too. BusyBox serves a purpose; it is intentionally barely functional; size constraining trumps all other considerations. It achieves this well. My issue isn't with BusyBox, it's with people using it _everywhere_ when they don't need to, making life hell for anyone who's trying to actually get any work done in it. So please. For the sanity of your users: don't reach for BusyBox just because it's easy, or because you're tickled that you're going to save a megabyte or two; please spare a thought for your users on which you are inflicting these constraints. Use it when you _have_ to, because otherwise it doesn't fit. Otherwise, chose a real shell, at _least_ bash, and include some tools capable of more than _less_ than the bare minimum.

Gaming sxan • 3 months ago • 88%

I know it's tragically pedestrian; and I know there's supposed to be a 4 in 2025; and I _also_ know there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, and the gaming industry is going through some pretty radical changes... but all I really want is another Borderlands. There's not much they can do with it, not many places to go, and I'm sure everyone who's worked on the series over the years is _thoroughly_ sick of it. But, damn. Every one of the main games (at least; I haven't loved every in-between spin-off) has his a sweet spot of mindless fun, funniness, and replay-ability. I've played 3 so many times through, and spent so many hours just running around in every location, even I can't work up much enthusiasm to fire it up anymore. There's an occasional game that fills the same niche; Bullet Storm was pretty fun, but with low replay-ability. I just want a game where I can turn off the higher brain functions and run around killing stuff in interesting ways. Thanks for attending my Ted Talk.

commandline sxan • 3 months ago • 100%

Rook provides a secret service a-la secret-tool, keyring, or pass/gopass, except backed by a Keepass v2 kdbx file. The problem Rook solves is mainly in script automation, where you have aerc, offlineimap, isync, vdirsyncer, msmtp, restic, or any other cron jobs that need passwords and which are often configured to fetch these passwords from a secret service with a CLI tool. Unlike existing solutions, Rook is headless, and does not have a bespoke secrets database full of passwords that must be manually synchronized with Keepass; instead, it uses a Keepass db directly. Rook is in the AUR; binaries are available from the project page. From the changelog, since the last Lemmy release announcement (v0.0.9): ## [v0.1.3] Mon May 20 17:12:25 2024 -0500 ### Added - status command, a more lightweight way of testing if a DB is open. Using this instead of `info` in e.g. statusbar scripts greatly reduces CPU load. - case-insensitive search. ### Changed - removing some nil panics that could occur when DB is closed while a client call is being processed. ### Fixed - a hidden bug in the OTP pin code. - some errors being ignored (and therefore not logged) - TOTP attributes getting missed by otp generator check ### [v0.1.2] Fri Apr 26 15:13:55 2024 -0500 #### Added - one-time pin soft locking - installation instructions for distributions that have rook in a repository - more of the special autotype {} commands are supported (backspace, space, esc) #### Changed - getAttr adds a little delay before typing, allowing initiator tools (like rofi) to close windows before text is output - cleans up code per golint/gochk #### Fixed - an autotype bug in outputting literals ## [v0.1.1] Sun Mar 17 13:44:54 2024 -0500 ### Added - the original source rook.svg - ability to start the rook server passing in the password via stdin pipe. ### Changed - assets moved to directory - documentation referenced Keepass v4; there's no such thing, it's v2. - license, was missing (c) from original - stop trying to remove the version number from build assets - documentation to clarify when the master password exists as plain text, in response to questions from @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ## [v0.1.0] Fri Mar 15 14:03:25 2024 -0500 ### Added - nfpm file - logo ### Changed - clears out the password so it's not being held in plain text by the flags library. - some of the documentation, and fixes the duplicated v0.0.9 entry in the changelog. - CI build targets are more limited, but also include some distro packages - better README documentation ### Removed - the monitor attribute was taken out, as rook no longer busy-polls the DB

Linux sxan • 5 months ago • 93%

Rook is a lightweight, stand-alone, headless secret service tool backed by a Keepass v2 database. It provides client and server modes in a single executable, built from a reasonably small (auditable) code base with a small and shallow dependency tree - it should not be challenging to verify that it is not doing anything sketchy with your secrets. Reasonable auditability, the desire to use KeePass files, and to do so through a headless tool that doesn't spawn off the better part of a DE through otherwise unused services, were the main motivations for Rook. You might be interested in Rook if one or more of these are true: - you use KeePass v2-compatible tools to store secrets already - you are not running a DE like KDE or Gnome (although Rook may still be interesting because of secret consolidation) - you prefer to minimize background GUI applications (KeePassXC is *excellent* and provides a secret service, but doesn't run headless) - you run background applications such as vdirsyncer, mbsync (isync), offlineimap, or restic, or applications such as aerc that can be configured to fetch credentials from a secret service rather than hard-coded in a config file. Pre-built binaries for limited OS/archs are built by the CI, and Rook if available in AUR. There's an nfpm config in the repos that will build RPMs and Debs, among others. I consider Rook to be essentially free of any major bugs and fit-for-purpose, although I welcome hearing otherwise. Utility scripts in zsh and bash are available for providing autotyping and entry/attribute selection using xdotool, rofi, xprop, and so on; these are YMMV-quality. Changes from v0.1.1 are: ### Added - one-time pin soft locking - installation instructions for distributions that have rook in a repository - more of the special autotype {} commands are supported (backspace, space, esc) ### Changed - getAttr adds a little delay before typing, allowing initiator tools (like rofi) to close windows before text is output - cleans up code per golint/gochk ### Fixed - an autotype bug in outputting literals

Coffee sxan • 6 months ago • 100%

## Update On a whim, I tried searching YouTube instead of search engines and found a short video which led me to [this shop](https://www.etsy.com/shop/CREATIVEWERK) in Etsy. It looks quite promising, so I'm going to update the title as "solved." ## Original post I've had an Elektra Micro Casa Leva for a number of years, and a while ago I bought a naked portafilter for it. It was (and still is, on the product site) as "for the Micro Casa." It is, without a doubt, one of the poorest quality things I've ever bought. The wood appears painted, not stained; it's been resistant to oiling, and lately the paint has been flaking off leaving what I assume is cheap pine. The wood itself has been cracking and splitting. The portafilter itself is painted to look like brass; I can tell this because _that_ paint has started chipping and peeling. It looks as if it's some type of steel underneath -- I'd suspect aluminum, except for the weight and I assume the maker would be concerned about having one literally melt on a user. In any case, it's horrible. The handle is not screwed in, or else it's screwed & glued; if the metal weren't so obviously crap, I'd consider routing out the handle and replacing it myself; as is, it's so poorly made it hardly seems worth the effort. Regardless, I've been using it for a few years and it hasn't outright broken yet, but with all the paint chipping and peeling, it's looking really rough, and you don't own a Micro Casa Leva for the convenience. The Elektra takes a non-standard 49mm portafilter, which can make finding parts challenging. Is there a company that makes decent portafilters that fit the Leva? It's possible I simply haven't delved the depths of the web deeply enough. Or, is there a craftsman in the community who does this sort of work -- making nice handles, sourcing appropriate baskets, etc? Failing all of that, is there a place I can buy a naked portafilter of good quality for the Leva, and is there anyone making good handles for portafilters? I'm no craftsman, but I can manage sanding wood to fit a hole, and I can mix epoxy. What I'd really like to end up with is a brass portafilter with a beautiful wood handle with a nice grain and stain. I'd settle for a naked portafilter for the Leva that _isn't_ a cheap piece of garbage.

Golang sxan • 6 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/9890016 > Rook, a secret service backed by Keepass 4.x kdbx > > Howdy Lemmy, > > I'm announcing Rook v0.0.9, software that provides a secret service a-la secret-tool, keyring, or pass/gopass, except backed by a Keepass 4.x kdbx file. > > The problem Rook solves is mainly in script automation, where you have aerc, offlineimap, isync, vdirsyncer, msmtp, restic, or any other cron jobs that need passwords and which are often configured to fetch these passwords from a secret service with a CLI tool. Unlike existing solutions, Rook is headless and does not have a bespoke secrets database, full of passwords that must be manually synchronized with Keepass; instead, it uses a Keepass db directly. > > While the readme goes into more detail, I will say the motivation for Rook evolved from a desire to use a Keepass db in a GUI-less environment and finding no existing solutions. KeepassXC provides a secret service, but is not headless; it also provides a CLI tool, but this requires the db credentials on every call. kpmenu exists, but is designed specifically to require human interaction and is unsuitable for cron environment scripting. Every other solution maintains its own DB back end, incompatible with Keepass. > > Rook also benefits from minimal external dependencies, and at 1kloc is auditable by developers - I believe even by ones who do not know Go (the language of implementation). Being able to verify for yourself that there's no malicious code is a critical trait for a tool with which you're trusting secrets. > > Rook is fit for purpose, and signed binaries are provided as well as build-from-source instructions (for auditors). > > The project contains work in progress: credentials are limited to simple password-locked kdbx, and so doesn't yet support key files. Bash scripts that provide autotyping and attribute/secret selection via rofi, fzf, and xdotool are provided, for GUI environments; these have known bugs. Rook has not been tested on BSD, Darwin, or any other system than Linux, but may well work; the main sticking point is the use of a local file socket for client/server communication, so POSIX systems should be fine, but still, YMMV. > > As a final caveat: up until v0.0.9 I've been compressing with brotli, which is very nice yet somewhat obscure. With the next release, everything will be gzipped. Also included in the next release will be packages for various distributions.

commandline sxan • 6 months ago • 100%

Howdy Lemmy, I'm announcing Rook v0.0.9, software that provides a secret service a-la secret-tool, keyring, or pass/gopass, except backed by a Keepass 4.x kdbx file. The problem Rook solves is mainly in script automation, where you have aerc, offlineimap, isync, vdirsyncer, msmtp, restic, or any other cron jobs that need passwords and which are often configured to fetch these passwords from a secret service with a CLI tool. Unlike existing solutions, Rook is headless and does not have a bespoke secrets database, full of passwords that must be manually synchronized with Keepass; instead, it uses a Keepass db directly. While the readme goes into more detail, I will say the motivation for Rook evolved from a desire to use a Keepass db in a GUI-less environment and finding no existing solutions. KeepassXC provides a secret service, but is not headless; it also provides a CLI tool, but this requires the db credentials on every call. kpmenu exists, but is designed specifically to require human interaction and is unsuitable for cron environment scripting. Every other solution maintains its own DB back end, incompatible with Keepass. Rook also benefits from minimal external dependencies, and at 1kloc is auditable by developers - I believe even by ones who do not know Go (the language of implementation). Being able to verify for yourself that there's no malicious code is a critical trait for a tool with which you're trusting secrets. Rook is fit for purpose, and signed binaries are provided as well as build-from-source instructions (for auditors). The project contains work in progress: credentials are limited to simple password-locked kdbx, and so doesn't yet support key files. Bash scripts that provide autotyping and attribute/secret selection via rofi, fzf, and xdotool are provided, for GUI environments; these have known bugs. Rook has not been tested on BSD, Darwin, or any other system than Linux, but may well work; the main sticking point is the use of a local file socket for client/server communication, so POSIX systems should be fine, but still, YMMV. As a final caveat: up until v0.0.9 I've been compressing with brotli, which is very nice yet somewhat obscure. With the next release, everything will be gzipped. Also included in the next release will be packages for various distributions.

Mechanical Keyboards sxan • 7 months ago • 100%

I _assume_ this is QMK, because changing the settings clears or introduces the issue. I'm using Vial for the programming/configuration. I have a key configured tap-dance, like many others: - on tap, and ctrl on hold. The issue is that most of the time when I type something like `-p`, I get only the `-`. Then, the next time I type `p`, I get 2 of them. So something like this will happen: I type `foo -p bar baz`, but don't notice the `p` is missing until after `baz`, cursor left and type `p` again, and end up with `-pp` Most of my keys are tap-dance of some pattern: <char> on tap, layer shift in hold, <char> on tap-hold. I've noticed this buffered character after `-` on other characters; it isn't just `p`. Changing the timeout does affect the frequency, but doesn't entirely eliminate it. I haven't noticed it on any other combo, although they're all of the same pattern; it seems to be only happening with the -/ctrl tap-dance. Removing the multitap on `-` eliminates the issue. This is my first QMK. I'd been using an Ergodox for years, and `kmonad` on my laptop for a year or so, although I recently switched to `kanata` (fantastic piece of software, incidentally), so I'm more or less familiar with the world of layers, multi-tap/tap-dance, combos, and so on. This one has me stumped, though. I've checked and there's no combo defined that involves dash. I've never created a QMK macro, but it occurs to me that I didn't check if there are any defined. Does anyone have a suggestion of how I can debug this? Could there be some bug, some bit that I accidentally set, that's causing this? Is there some QMK feature that does exactly this thing, and I've somehow enabled it? I've power cycled the keyboard, although I haven't yet tried a hard or factory reset. Any ideas would be appreciated! **Edit** corrected "multi-tap" to "tap-dance", as QMK calls it the one thing and not t'other

ErgoMechKeyboards sxan • 7 months ago • 100%

I've been looking around for one; search (in my Lemmy client) doesn't find one, and while there seems to be at least one in Reddit, the only communities listed on qmk.fm are Reddit and Discord. Is there a good place to ask questions in the Fediverse?

ErgoMechKeyboards sxan • 7 months ago • 92%

I have been using a piantor built for me by beekeeb.com, and am enjoying the more agressive stagger than my previous Ergodox. However, my typing experience is being spoiled by how _tight_ the key spacing is. I have large hands, and can span an octave on a full-size piano; the Piantor is downright _cramped_. In looking for a possible replacement (the Kyria was my primary option, but I guess splitkb.com has entirely given up on selling pre-builts, and I don't solder), what should I be looking at for specs to get some wider spacing on the keys? Is it simply "key spacing?" Most commercial keyboards are fine; my prior was an Ergodox and the spacing was fine. The Piantor supplies that - it might even be a touch too much, but it's still better than the tepid stagger on the Ergos.

Linguistics sxan • 8 months ago • 100%

What are the terms for language anachronisms? I had a conversation about a year ago with someone about anachronisms in language. We both felt that there were terms for these things, but could neither recall nor find (via web search) satisfying answers. This came up again recently in a different discussion in a Lemmy community, and it's driving me a little nuts. Help me Linguistics-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope. So we have the term "skeumorphism," which refers to oramental anachronism. I may be using "anachronism" incorrectly, but it's the hammer I have. Skeumorphisms, in computers, refer to the graphical representations of things, but not the underlying concepts. There are similar linguistic anachronisms that I feel also have specific labels: - "disks" which are still in use, but are largely being replaced by solid-state, rectangular SSDs; but most people still call all persistent storage devices "disks." - "film" to refer to movies, regardless of the media (increasingly digital and having nothing to do with film). - "rice" to refer to the process of fancifying something, like computer desktops - "desktops" to refer to computer GUI window managing interfaces - "files" and "folders" in computers Are these all the same category of things? Is there a term for them?

Software Gore sxan • 8 months ago • 83%

A recent update to Droid-ify has improved the user experience in a confusing way. This is the new package installation modal confirmation dialog.

Superbowl sxan • 10 months ago • 100%

There was an owl hooting outside our house earlier, and it occurred to me that every other bird has a high-pitched call. Ravens have a croak that could be considered low, but their loud call is a caw that's higher. I can't think of another bird with a call nearly as low as owls'. Search engines are no help, mostly duplicates answering _why_ they hoot. Why are owls' calls so much lower than other birds?

Ask Lemmy sxan • 10 months ago • 100%

Can commodity products detect which pixel you're looking at on a screen? For a number of years, I've wanted a system that eliminates mouse pointer devices. In my imaginary system, there are hotkeys bound to left &amp; right mouse clicks, and what gets clicked is whatever you're looking at. When I've looked at this before, the tech field tends to suffer in granularity and/or physical limitations, like needing to limit gross head movements. Most products talk about what they *can* do, but avoid talking about their limitations. It can be hard to find out what devices are capable of - accuracy, working with corrective eyewear, speed, head movement, software (OS) support, etc. Many products are geared at research, leading me to believe the tech isn't there yet. Anyone have, or used a device that would be able to replace a mouse?

Linux sxan • 12 months ago • 100%

I got tired of pinentry popping up and interrupting whatever I was doing; I didn't find a solution elsewhere, so I wrote a little bash script to address this. This is designed for (poly|i3|way|...)bar users. The blog entry (no ads, no tracking) linked has the script verbatim, plus some rambling about the why and wherefore. It's 22 lines of does-stuff; the rest is whitespace, comments, and instructions -- including a little blob example of using it with polybar. A known issue is that it does occasionally pop up pinentry twice in a row when unlocking. I'm not surprised, and it has happened to me only once since I've been using it -- not enough for me to need to bother trying to address it. But I wanted to call it out. It's not rocket science, but it took a bit of time to make sure it functioned correctly (enough), and hopefully it'll help someone else.

homeassistant sxan • 1 year ago • 100%

On Amzn, there are nicely framed, wall-mounted control panels for proprietary home automation systems. What are people using for HA? I'm leaning toward trying to wall mount tablets, but I'd need 3, and cost starts to factor in. Mounts are a problem; I want it to look as built in as possible, but most mounts aren't picture-frame style. The ones that I've found that are, are designed for specific tablets, and not the low end cheap ones. I don't have a 3D printer, so I'm limited to mounts I can buy. I like some projects here I've seen using eInk - that's the ideal solution! Is there a source for pre-fab Android eInk wall mounted control panels, or are what I've seen bespoke projects? I'm not opposed to gross wiring, and am not afraid of cutting holes in dry-wall... it's really the mounting that I'm stuck at. Android 7-10" tablets sufficient to run the UI would probably work, and I can probably even figure out wiring the charger, if I could just get some nice picture-frame style mounts. What are your solutions that you think is pretty neat? Or products that I may have missed?

Asklemmy sxan • 1 year ago • 94%

I count 7 in mine.

Ambient Music & Creators sxan • 1 year ago • 100%

The sidebar says "for creators." I didn't find a more appropriate community, so I apologize if this is not the right forum. Does anyone have suggestions for relaxed, yet upbeat, ambient a-la Deep Breakfast? Most of the content I bring into the house gets a complaint about "putting her to sleep," or the other extreme, being too ... I don't know ... abstract? Disconcordant? Clashy? She likes Deep Breakfast, and No Blue Thing to a lesser degree. Most Mannheim Steamroller gets approval, although I'd barely put that in the Ambient category. So I'm looking for more music like Deep Breakfast -- low key, positive, but not "meditation music." I appreciate any suggestions! Thank you.

Reddit Migration sxan • 1 year ago • 100%

I don't really trust any of the Lemmy apps I use on my phone, although I still vastly prefer them to web apps. Is there a pinned post where users can comment about Reddit communities that have migrated to the Fediverse? If not, should there be one and is this the appropriate community to host it? As a refuge myself, I'm keeping an eye out for subs I used to enjoy which have moved.

Asklemmy sxan • 2 years ago • 92%

Suuuuper new to Lemmy, so apologies in advamce if this is a particularly stupid question. DDG has been no help. I'm a member of midwest.social. I'd like to subscribe, and post to, a community (sub?) on another server. I know the other server is federated with midwest.social, because I can see other subs, and I know the sub on the foreign server (in this case, lemmy.ml), which I found with DDG. So why can't I find the sub in Jerboa? I've searched by name, by name including server, by every combination of reference I can think of. !, #, @. It's a technical sub, and I can't imagine it's been intentionally blocked. So I'm thinking that maybe Lemmy is whitelist-based? Do admins have to explicitly include subs from other instances? Or is there some magic that I've somehow missed about how to get to a federated sub that maybe nobody has yet accessed on the instance I've joined? I found an old (1y) discussion about how to make Lemmy more accessible to new users. Someone offhand referenced this topic (accessing federated subs) needing more clarity, but with no explanation. A pointer to a how-to would be handy; maybe answers will help some future user when they find this post through whichever fad search engine privacy wonks are using in a couple of years.