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| Comment | Post #294001 |
Your OP mentioned that you're on Linux. There's a question about mouse events in the Linux community that may have some overlap with keyboards: [How do you remap mouse buttons?](https://linux.codidact.com/posts/290665) (more) |
— | about 7 hours ago |
| Comment | Post #293985 |
Can you demonstrate your efforts thus far, so work is not duplicated? (more) |
— | 5 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293957 |
Post edited: Link other answers |
— | 8 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293957 |
Post edited: Revise for readability |
— | 8 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293957 | Initial revision | — | 8 days ago |
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A: reasonable to mandate sending attachments in a separate follow-up email to ensure that the recipient receives at least one message? I think they're fixing the wrong problem, but it is a reasonable workaround… for now.[^dissent] The real problem is that mail systems do not seem to trust your SMTP. Fix the underlying trust and filtering issue and the company no longer needs to rely on goofy schemes like your CTO's. Whi... (more) |
— | 8 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293900 |
Post edited: Welcome wagon the first sentence. |
— | 15 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293900 |
Post edited: Bring content from comment thread. |
— | 17 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293900 |
I hope that the content test is self-explanatory. The peak test is not completely explained, and I have no special knowledge. But if I were to make a system like they describe, I would
1. Start downloading a medium to large file.
1. While this is ongoing, start another download.
1. Test whether ... (more) |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293900 | Initial revision | — | 18 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What's the difference between "test content speed" and "test peak speed" in Orb? This is mostly covered by the documentation. > Orb's primary speed measurements and important for activities like streaming videos, downloading files, video conferencing, and other relevant day-to-day activities. Content speed tests are performed by downloading and uploading a small amount of data... (more) |
— | 18 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293888 | Initial revision | — | 21 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Linux / Android XMPP communication with OMEMO Psi+ has a PPA with a version that doesn't crash. Its OMEMO plugin does indeed work with siacs clients. Unfortunately, Psi+ does not have an icon pack that matches KDE Plasma, making the UI consistency I had hoped for... kind of moot. Aside: You might want to be a little careful about how you d... (more) |
— | 21 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293818 |
Post edited: Dino is GTK |
— | 25 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292839 |
Interestingly, those seem to be the only vars *available* to send to, say, a default Debian SSHD. The `AcceptEnv` is likewise set to `LANG LC_*`.
This led someone to write [a convoluted hack](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2149340) to encode their *.bashrc* and *.vimrc* files into `LC_*` variables.... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293818 |
Post edited: Add Dino. Move the long footnote into the body. |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293818 |
Post edited: hint at what OMEMO is |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #293818 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
| Question | — |
Linux / Android XMPP communication with OMEMO 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 each other. If I understand correctly, OMEMO:0 is just broken; siacs[^siacs] encrypts content 1... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #289602 |
Post edited: Pretty print. Links to bib section. Capitalize subheadings. |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289602 |
Suggested edit: Pretty print. Links to bib section. Capitalize subheadings. (more) |
helpful | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293633 |
I understand the situation. I just wanted to make the effects explicit, with a mind to [past things you have written](https://software.codidact.com/posts/279070/279252#answer-279252) on the subject of modifying Git history. (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293633 |
Post edited: Fix a link. More footnotes. |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293633 | Initial revision | — | about 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to delete old files in GIT while keeping history? 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 history. Specifically, when you say > It would be nice to delete both these kinds of files, but ... (more) |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293546 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: LibreOffice Writer UI zooms in on other monitors It's icky, but the generally accepted practice until this bug is fixed seems to be disabling Wayland when launching LibreOffice: ```sh WAYLANDDISPLAY= SALUSEVCLPLUGIN=kf5 /usr/bin/libreoffice ``` (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293520 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
LibreOffice Writer UI zooms in on other monitors I have LibreOffice on KDE/Wayland. I have several monitors with different aspect ratios, pixel density, etc. For some reason, Writer only looks right on the highest-DPI screen (with the smallest physical dimensions). The others have the UI for Writer embiggened to a comic degree. How can I tell Wr... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292839 |
Post edited: Tweak title to note that it's not ALL env vars |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292839 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
| Question | — |
Mac SSH sends some environment variables by default Why does the default SSH client behavior for MacOS send `LANG` and `LC` environment variables to the server? If I consult `man sshconfig`, it says > ### `SendEnv` > > \[…] The default is not to send any environment variables. Why would Apple decide to override it? (And if so, why leave... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292805 |
Post edited: Minor grammar tweaks. (Hi JG) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #292805 |
Suggested edit: Minor grammar tweaks. (Hi JG) (more) |
helpful | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292769 |
Neat tool! Does "(AND search)" mean "will show fonts containing glyphs for ALL of those Unicode codepoints," or something else? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290624 |
- [A comparative experimental study of visual brain event-related potentials to a working memory task: virtual reality head-mounted display versus a desktop computer screen](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8536609/) in Springer
- [Focusing on cybersickness: pervasiveness, latent traject... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290624 |
Possible fodder for a future answer:
- [Head-mounted display versus computer monitor for visual attention screening: A comparative study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10360570/) in Heliyon
- [Are Virtual Reality Headsets Safe for Eyes?](https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-preventi... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292575 |
At the risk of derailing the thread: Zoe are you suggesting that you have now used SyncThing successfully for something (password or otherwise)? I started to set it up at one point and abandoned it, though I can't remember why.
More on topic: I've used KeePass, KeePassX, and KeeWeb (briefly); MacP... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292575 |
Several programs using KeePass's database format support TOTP. I'm not sure if TOTP is formally a part of the spec, but there are multiple programs across several platforms who can all use the underlying KDBX file.
I don't have first-hand knowledge of other open-source password managers besides th... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292567 |
Post edited: Rearrange. Add a caution. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292567 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Synchronize OTP across multiple devices The QR code for Time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) just contains some secret info[^iv] to seed the TOTP app.[^androtp] You can dump it into another implementation of TOTP. The seed and the current time will predictably create the same rotating value at the same time. On the website where you're ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292551 |
Post edited: Look, someone else made a way to manage it. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292551 |
Post edited: Fix path. |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292551 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: How to change default comment char for INI in VS Code? You can't edit it in settings, but I do know where those come from. It's in `language-configuration.json`, under `comments`: > ## Comment toggling > VS Code offers two commands for comment toggling. Toggle Line Comment and Toggle Block Comment. You can specify `comments.blockComment` and `comment... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292372 |
Post edited: Move footnote |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292372 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: What's up with the .co.uk domain? Generally, anyone who owns a domain at any level can make up whatever rules he or she desires to apply to its subdomains. If you own `ponies.example.com`, you could for example sell access to subdomains but decide to do it only if the subdomain is a color name (`brown`). In practice, almost nobody do... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292328 |
`Ctrl`+`+` and `Ctrl`+`-` can scroll up and down, too, if the mouse wheel is annoying. `Ctrl`+`0` resets to the default. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |