sparr

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[–] sparr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Says who/what?

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

This reminds me of Meetup.com dying almost everywhere except Chicago where the HQ is and everyone uses it.

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And the spec says plaintext usernames should be rendered as links?

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

You can't get support from lemmy.linuxuserspace.show or any other website if there's a bug in your web browser. You can't get support from gmail or protonmail or any other mail provider if there's a bug in your email client. It's awful how much people have come to assume that clients and servers must and always come from the same provider.

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you considered a network file sharing system other than SMB?

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

please dont use chsh

doesnt mean your whole OS needs a different shell

chsh just changes the shell when you log in to a shell. all the other shells are still available and usable. any script starting tieh #!/bin/bash will still run with bash, even if you're using zsh or fish.

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why don't they count? The systemd interface has been stable for a decade.

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are many things you can do in the GIMP gui that can't be done programmatically :(

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

This is an interesting idea. There are some tools out there to auto-generate shell autocompletes based on standardized --help output. Maybe there's some possibility to GUIfy that sort of thing?

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] sparr@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

That name is decades old. XDG stands for "Cross Desktop Group".

A "pure" X environment (e.g. startx xterm) also doesn't define those variables, but many desktop environments do, just like many shell configurations do.

 

Android prompts me to "Block and Report Spam" for spam phone calls, in both the Phone app for regular phone calls and the Voice app for calls through Google Voice.

There is no way to report spam in either app without blocking the number.

Spammers and scammers change their phone numbers frequently. Daily or more, in the case of sophisticated large operations. Those numbers get reassigned to innocent users, who will forever be blocked from calling me.

"Dumb" phone number blocks should only last for maybe a month or a year, not forever. And we should have "smart" blocks, that sync to phone number registration databases and expire when the number changes hands.

This is going to become an increasingly impactful problem if we keep using phone numbers as identifiers while most phone number users don't keep the same number for decades.

 

People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won't pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people only consider time it saves me, not time it saves the tens to thousands to millions of other people who will use the script or patch or whatever when I publish it. So, here's a version of xkcd.com/1205 updated for making decisions that benefit a thousand people instead of just one.

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