Users just want their computer to work with minimal fuss. They get told to try a Linux distro because it’s safer and faster than the alternatives, and the Linux desktop is totally ready for primetime now!

“Why do my games launch on my secondary vertical monitor? Why can’t I just pick a default monitor?”

“We aren’t implementing that because it’s from Windows. If you want your applications to launch on your main monitor go and use Windows.”

How the fuck can we expect to retain users when a nontrivial minority of developers seems totally fine treating them with such contempt?

"In what order should I watch this list of movies for the first time?"

“In the order they were released” is almost always the correct answer.

@trunksapp
What do you mean lower capability? I can't say that S23U has a weak gpu
@UKFilmNerd

@UKFilmNerd
These stutters of @trunksapp started maybe a month or two ago. I don't know what the developer did, but previously the app was really smooth...

@rgadellaa
Interesting when they allow PWA to work in a full screen mode. Now there is no way to hide home bar...

@trunksapp scroll is still not smooth but looks like it got better.

@trunksapp hope fix for scrolling will be done soon

Y'knpw, part of me really thinks we should maybe stop calling #Linux distros that aren't rolling release "Stable", because it really does just lead to confusion.
Stable release distros don't mean they're less likely to crash, it means they're slower to update.
Yes that does mean they're less likely to run into those issues, but as someone who's been using Arch for the better part of 2 years the only issues I've run into are with configuring new software, or running the wrong commands

@trunksapp @thisisChris it is! S23U is also affected.

@trunksapp starting this version scroll in the feed isn't smooth...
At least on S23 ultra

Literally the worst possible way to enjoy something is to care what other people think of it, just enjoy things

@christopherkunz Well… Nope, unlikely. One is about Chrome extensions, the other about Android apps. Very different ecosystems.

I don’t have data on when the removals occurred exactly. Judging by chrome-stats data (not sure how reliable it is), most extensions seem to have been removed in the past few days.

#Alt4You: Screenshot of two posts. The top post is by WPalant: “There seems to be some major cleansing going on in Chrome Web Store. At least 7,500 extensions got removed over the course of the past month.” The bottom post is by PrivacyDigest: “#CandyCrush , #Tinder, #MyFitnessPal : See the Thousands of Apps #Hijacked to Spy on Your Location.” The second post links to a Wired story on the topic.

@gamingonlinux great news! I don't play in Civilization usually but the more native ports (especially with Deck support) the better.

Some impressions from a few #librarytracking services.

#Goodreads. Pretty good integration with #Kindle, big community but in stagnation.
#LibraryThing. Good recommendations, terrible and old UI
#StoryGraph. So-so recommendations, not fast UI but have at least enough functionality
#Fable. Only on mobile devices (what?), an application just looks good but doesn't have a lot of necessary functions. Terrible customer support service...

Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

Important reminder, if you own a domain name and don't use it for sending email.

There is nothing to stop scammers from sending email claiming to be coming from your domain. And the older it gets, the more valuable it is for spoofing. It could eventually damage your domain's reputation and maybe get it blacklisted, unless you take the steps to notify email servers that any email received claiming to come from your domain should be trashed.

Just add these two TXT records to the DNS for your domain:
TXT v=spf1 -all
TXT v=DMARC1; p=reject;

The first says there is not a single SMTP server on earth authorized to send email on behalf of your domain. The second says that any email that says otherwise should be trashed.

If you do use your domain for sending email, be sure to add 3 records:
SPF record to indicate which SMTP server(s) are allowed to send your email.
DKIM records to add a digital signature to emails, allowing the receiving server to verify the sender and ensure message integrity.
DMARC record that tells the receiving email server how to handle email that fails either check.

You cannot stop scammers from sending email claiming to be from your domain, any more than you can prevent people from using your home address as a return address on a mailed letter. But, you can protect both your domain and intended scam victims by adding appropriate DNS records.

UPDATE: The spf and the dmarc records need to be appropriately named. The spf record should be named "@", and the dmarc record name should be "_dmarc".

Here's what I have for one domain.

One difference that I have is that I'm requesting that email providers email me a weekly aggregated report when they encounter a spoof. gmail and Microsoft send them, but most providers won't, but since most email goes to Gmail, it's enlightening when they come.

#cybersecurity #email #DomainSpoofing #EmailSecurity #phishing

Today I got the chance to ask our computer graphics professor a question that I asked myself quite some time ago: what the fuck is the color pink?

Like, the color right before infrared is red, the color right before ultraviolet is violet. And every other color is some wavelength between those two colors. EXCEPT FOR PINK!?

On a hue color wheel pink is between red and violet, so it's wavelength has to be somewhere around there, right??

Well, turns out pink is the color humans perceive when red and violet are mixed (duh), meaning the red and blue cones are stimulated. Since both cones respond to wavelengths on the opposite ends of the visible spectrum, there is no monochromatic wavelength that would trigger both, hence there is no wavelength that looks pink.

That's also the reason pink does not appear in a rainbow, because there white sunlight light, a mixture of (almost, hi Astro-fedi) all monochromatic wavelengths, is refracted based on wavelength, so no mixed colors occur in it.

Maybe we should stop calling them *Notifications* and instead refer to *Interruptions*.

"Working on some stuff so I've turned off interruptions for a while."

"Right on."

@layoutSubviews let me guess... This is Spotify, right ?

google’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read this

The Google app for iOS now adds THEIR links to YOUR posts from YOUR website unless you opt-out.

Their links lead people away from your site and back to Google. Because that’s definitely what you want, right? That’s why you have a blog or portal or web site or whatever. You want people to leave your site and go back to Google.

Oh, it’s not?

If you don’t like it, you can “Opt out.” Opting out is a pain in the ass. Here’s where you go to do it. You have to enter every variation of each of your domains or it won’t work. It will take up to 30 days, during which time Google will continue to pollute your work and your writing and your website with their modifications and their added links to take people away from your site and back to themselves.

For example, here’s the list of what I need to opt-out just for this one blog:

solarbird.nethttp://solarbird.nethttps://solarbird.netwww.solarbird.nethttp://www.solarbird.nethttps://www.solarbird.netweb.solarbird.nethttp://web.solarbird.nethttps://web.solarbird.net

Yes, you explicitly have to file no prefix, http:, and https: variants separately. They say so.

Making it difficult like this is 100% intentional and entirely designed to make it as annoying as possible, and also, to make sure you slip up if at all possible and forget one or more combinations.

(Tho’ I am just going to depreciate web. as a prefix right now, to bring down the load a little. Still gonna list ’em, though, because spite is why.)

Right now it’s only in the Google app for iOS and it’s probably a test to see whether they can get away with it without complaint, and how much revenue it generates. Let’s make that a combination of no and as close to zero as possible. Because otherwise they’ll roll it out everywhere, and probably derank you if you don’t go along.

Fucking hell, Google. Fuck you. Just… fuck you.

#art #t0000000000bs_ #writing