Michael‭

Google has announced that Starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices. They claim ...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Michael‭

Akin to this question, but specifically for Android, what is a browser I can trust to load sites correctly and also work in my best interest?[1] I'm currently using Fennec, a sympathetic fork of F...

3 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by GeraldS‭

I think they're fixing the wrong problem, but it is a reasonable workaround… for now.[1] The real problem is that mail systems do not seem to trust your SMTP. Fix the underlying trust and filterin...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Michael‭

I sent an email to a friend's work address. The email had an attachment, not a lot of text, and was signed (not encrypted) with my PGP signature. They briefly received the email before it ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by InfiniteDissent‭

You're not printing it; you're trying to invoke the Base64. And since there isn't a PATH command that matches, your system is trying to look for a script file with that nonsense name to run. Try t...

posted 11mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Michael‭

Inspired by this comment thread, is there a way to automate git bisect with a new test (and a known good state)? The way things usually work for me is… Oh no! Reproducible bug is found. (Manual...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mcast‭

Depending on some semantics, it is possible to do what you want, for a sufficiently motivated cohort of "we." The tricky part is that you're rewriting history, and everyone has to agree on that new...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Michael‭

Depending on how much work you want to do, you could Create (or have) a Matrix homeserver where you are an admin. Bridge to Discord with mautrix-discord. Then use a browser-compatible client l...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Michael‭

It's an AI model, reportedly Gemini Nano. I haven't tried this (having moved away from Chrome before the AI-in-everything craze), but users have suggested that it can be deleted if you are willing...

posted 7mo ago by Michael‭

I've resurrected my Linux phone hardware, set to try it again as a defense against the further subversion of Android as a platform you own in any way. I figured I'd install Plasma Mobile, as I use...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭

F-Droid has a blog post on the announced changes. It contains the excerpt below, emphasis mine: If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project a...

posted 12mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Michael‭

If your goal is to fix your files like David Cary's iconving does, but you can't tell the mis-encodings that transpired to create your text, you can use a little Python and the ftfy library[1] as f...

posted 3y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Michael‭

Include diffs in the log I would like to easily review commits in that date range […] I know that from the command line I can use git log with --since and --until options, but that just gets me...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭

The OMEMO encryption ecosystem for XMPP (Jabber) is split into distinct, incompatible versions. Unfortunately there are different versions of OMEMO encryption existing, that are incompatible to ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Michael‭

If the local part isn't obvious,[1] I'd say the likelihood is high that the service shared or sold its list or possibly even was hacked. If you use the name of the service in the local part (micro...

posted 1mo ago by Michael‭