In-reply-to » hey! i asked this a while ago but i have to ask again -- is anyone willing to offer space on their yarn pod to my friend? i would love to invite her to my own but she's unable to access my site for personal reasons. she's really interested in seeing what yarn is about so if anyone is willing and able, let me know!

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ok πŸ‘Œ

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i made a new tumblr account to interact with fandom last week. while using the site today i got logged out and when i logged back in i was told my account was terminated. mullenweg will pay for this

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In-reply-to » hey! i asked this a while ago but i have to ask again -- is anyone willing to offer space on their yarn pod to my friend? i would love to invite her to my own but she's unable to access my site for personal reasons. she's really interested in seeing what yarn is about so if anyone is willing and able, let me know!

@prologic@twtxt.net i’ll email you!

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In-reply-to » This aggressive auto-logout on my bank’s website …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’d love to have a Python script pushing my local CSV, too. But that’s never gonna fly, not in a thousand years. I can’t imagine that ever becoming reasonably stable without having to fix everything after the reverse-engineered API changes again.

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In-reply-to » QEMU on Wayland unusable, because it can’t grab the mouse … I’ll add it to my TODO list and investigate/report it eventually.

… but you can’t set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland globally, because that breaks Wine again …

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In-reply-to » QEMU on Wayland unusable, because it can’t grab the mouse … I’ll add it to my TODO list and investigate/report it eventually.

… okay, the SDL backend works if you also set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland.

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In-reply-to » @movq Yeah, luckily, there is the suckless project. I couldn't live without dmenu!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org dmenu is a great example.

There have been several attempts at porting dmenu from X11 to Wayland. Well, not exactly β€œporting” it, more like rewriting it from scratch. Turns out: It’s not that easy.

dmenu is super fast and reliable. None of the Wayland rewrites are (at least none of the popular ones that I know of). They are either bloated and/or slow.

It takes a lot of discipline and restraint to write simple software and not blow up the codebase. This is much harder than people think. It’s a form of art, really.

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In-reply-to » This aggressive auto-logout on my bank’s website …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do my timetracking in a little Python script, locally. Every now and then, I push the data to our actual service. Problem solved – but it’s a completely unpopular approach, they all want to use the web site. I don’t get it. Then, of course, when it’s down, shit hits the fan. (Luckily, our timetracking software is neither developed nor run by us anymore. It’s a silly cloud service, but the upside is that I’m not responsible anymore. 🀷)

Some of our oldschool devs tried to roll out local timetracking once, about 15 years ago. I don’t remember anymore why they failed …

This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

Oh to be anonymous on the internet. That must be nice. πŸ˜…

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In-reply-to » QEMU on Wayland unusable, because it can’t grab the mouse … I’ll add it to my TODO list and investigate/report it eventually.

… but the SDL backend is broken as well, albeit differently …

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In-reply-to » This aggressive auto-logout on my bank’s website …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, it’s a shitshow. MS overconfirms all my prejudices constantly.

Ignoring e-mail after lunch works great, though. :-)

Our timetracking is offline for over a week because of reasons. The responsible bunglers are falling by the skin of their teeth: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/timetracking.png

  1. The error message neither includes the timeframe nor a link to an announcement article.
  2. The HTML page needs to download JS in order to display the fucking error message.
  3. Proper HTTP status codes are clearly only for big losers.
  4. Despite being down, heaps of resources are still fetched.

I find it really fascinating how one can screw up on so many levels. This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

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In-reply-to » The lack of suckless-like simple, hackable software these days is appalling.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is a really good example of β€œsimplicity” but achieves the intent and goals πŸ‘Œ

(Now, I don’t know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesn’t.)

I don’t use a screen reader fortunately (actually they’re pretty garbage). So all good πŸ‘ (I juse use full-screen zoom).

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