Kelson (Tech and Testing)
@KelsonTalksTech@snac24.keysmash.xyz
The Browser Company has finally launched the Windows version of its Arc web browser, following a successful testing phase. The new version retains core features from the Mac version, offering up a fresh alternative to Chrome or Edge https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/5/the-browser-company-finally-launches-the-windows-version-of-the-arc-web-browser/
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Over the past few months I've seen an increasing number of personal attacks levied against well-intentioned unpaid and under-paid community leaders in the Fediverse, in what seems to be an increasing cycle of anger and harassment.
Motivation aside, personal attacks and causing harm to others is unacceptable. I'd like to see what we can collectively do to calm the waters.
Here's my personal thoughts, not reflective of any entity or organisation I am affiliated with:
When I delete a photo on my phone using Google Photos, it gets renamed as .trashed_blahblahblah...which Nextcloud sees as a new file, and uploads it again. 🤦
(This is separate from the desktop sync client, which in my experience works just fine!)
Going to have to try out some other gallery apps. I want to get off of Google Photos eventually anyway.
On 30 April 1993, at Tim Berners-Lee's urging, CERN released the code for the World Wide Web to the public for free.
Thank you CERN and thank you Tim!
You can learn more about the history of the Web including how the development of the Web was picked up at W3C at: "A Little History of the World Wide Web"
https://www.w3.org/History.html
I mean, obviously, for text-only clients, but still....
@KelsonTalksTech the first time we fixed the bug, the patch sank into the swamp
second patch also sank into the swamp
third patch was struck my lightning, caught fire, burned down, and *then* fell into the swamp*
but the fourth patch *stayed*
Among other things, having it point to an account I don't use anymore seems like a bad idea.
New tech tip on my website:
This is very much a corner case on top of another corner case, but on the off-chance someone else encounters the same issue, I hope this makes it easier for you to fix it.
Empty AJAX Replies Working on ColdFusion But Not Lucee
TL;DR: ColdFusion and Lucee have different defaults for the return type: text/plain vs. text/xml. And if you send out an empty 200 OK as text/xml, some front-end code will try to parse the void as XML and fail.
So you have to explicitly tell Lucee to return that empty content as plain text, so that the front end (in this case it was jQuery) will happily accept an empty string and actually look at the return code.
#ColdFusion #Lucee #Programming #void #WebDevelopment #WebDev #CFML #jQuery
It failed to reach Flickr because it went through as a note rather than a photo, and the Bluesky autopost only included the title and raw URL...and the URL wasn't clickable.
For Flickr, it could just be that I didn't include the u-photo class on the image.
https://brid.gy/about#picture
I'm going to add that and retry.
And then take a look at whether it's the plugin or the service that's setting the content.
Microsoft has enabled Start menu ads in the optional KB5036980 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2.
FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable
Chamber of Commerce vows to sue FTC, will try to block ban on noncompetes.
1. The Arch dependencies for some of the optional components were broken (wmenu requires dmenu, but the package didn't say so).
2. The Arch documentation for Sway is out of date and sends you to AUR for just about everything.
3. The documents I found didn't make it clear that key bindings are the only way to launch things unless you explicitly add some other kind of launcher that's not in the sample config. Or what to expect when changing the menu config. Or what the menus are supposed to look like.
4. Because of the broken dependencies, even when I tried to use the keybinds, they failed silently. For a while I wasn't even sure it was reading my config file.
And now I'm like...why did I go to all that trouble? All I wanted was to make sure I had all the prerequisites to run a basic Wayland session on something lighter than Plasma. I'm just going to switch back to LXQt.
I miss the days when #Linux seemed to actually run deterministically. When I could see what was breaking easily and fix it easily.
I don't miss all the extra fiddling and trial and error just to get something functional.
Sure, I like tinkering. When I want to. I don't like to have to.
Biden signs bill to ban TikTok if Chinese owner ByteDance doesn’t sell
Bill gives ByteDance 270 days to sell TikTok or app loses access to US market.
@arstechnica You can always tell the TikTok users from the non-TikTok users in threads like these.
@arstechnica 4 years ago, #China updated their export control laws to effectively block any potential sale of #TikTok.
The only options are to shut down the American subsidiary (maybe continuing service from Europe), and to go to the federal supreme court claiming that the bill violates the First Amendment. On Zhihu most think the former outcome is very likely.
Maybe we can start to bet on the outcome of the East Asian theater of #WorldWar3.
Paying for it doesn’t make it a market
Cory Doctorow, nailing it as usual.
If you care about how people are treated by platforms, you can't just tell them to pay for services instead of using ad-supported media. The most important factor in getting decent treatment out of a tech company isn't whether you pay with cash instead of attention – it's whether you're locked in, and thus a flight r
https://www.osnews.com/story/139393/paying-for-it-doesnt-make-it-a-market/
"The open social web's network effects are now in motion - if you're not piping your platform's content into it then you and your users are missing out on what's going to be the largest sharing network we've ever seen in social media."
Fediverse Threads
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover
This time there's no over-the-air software patch.
@arstechnica I am simultaneously surprised there are that many and that few Cybertrucks out there.
@arstechnica if this is the kind of quality Elon expects from a product then Im really scared about the neural link
@arstechnica I mean I know it keeps getting said, but GOD is that an ugly vehicle. And I say that as someone whose favorite car of all time is the DeLorean.
I take it they'll have to remove the frame to replace the pedal cover, but it's not that costly. Only $5000. Recall, you say? Oh...okay. Drive 300 miles to your closest Tesla dealer, and they'll do it for free.
Tesla.
For whatever reason he did it, he helped kick EV development up a notch. Thank you, Elon. Now take your fascist ass somewhere else.
It's a lot easier to redesign and replace all the floor mats!
People always get nostalgic for the BASIC programming language, but people prefer to forget its successor language, ANNOYINGLY COMPLEX.
"I have a hard time believing that YouTube would be unable to keep business afloat without the revenue generated by behavioral-tracking advertisements,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told @theregister. “It’s a lazy and deliberately malicious move on their part."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/youtube_ad_blocking/
