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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Phew, looks good on the news with the packaging bug (if they didn’t just got cold feet for worse PR/backlash than they expected and this is a backtracking).

  In this case, hopefully Garcia is employed for his expertise and can be deployed to further open source relations :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running a couple of Vaultwarden instances, and it would be really nice if Bitwarden employed Garcia to improve the Rust backend. But as the bitter cynic I am, I guess it is an effort to shut down and control as much of the open source use of Bitwarden as possible.

  The worst case, someone will most likely fork Vaultwarden and we can still access it with Keyguard on mobile and the excellent Vaultwarden web interface :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Daniel García, owner of the Vaultwarden repo, has recently taken employment for Bitwarden.

  The plot thickens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guthib⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What, no websocket-based realtime statistics for number of total, daily and hourly mistypings?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Sweden we have had a version of self checkout for 20 years in the largest stores, and here it seems to work fine.

  Instead of having to scan everything at a station, each product is scanned with a handscanner when walking through the store, and put directly into shopping bags. Then only the payment and possibly a randomly occuring verification is left before leaving the store.

  The random testing is usually just an employee scanning three to five items from your bags, and occurs like once every four months (as long as you’re not actually stealing and caught).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still using a Kinesis Contoured daily with PS/2 connection. Pretty impressed a new motherboard still came with a combo mouse/keyboard PS/2 port.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, I had a guy on work practise a couple of weeks. He was about 15, and pressed capslock, another key, and then capslock again for capital letters.

  I suddenly stormed into the room screaming, with a knife. I plucked out the capslock key, and ran out of the room, still screaming. Then I popped my head back in through the door in a much calmer fashion and told him he would get the key back after his practise time at our company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try a stream deck, each key is also a small monitor for customizable button actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been using key shortcut chaining in my WMs for freeing up more application hotkeys and also make them easier to remember. And it it still quite fast.

  Starts them off by Ctrl+T, then for example: A (Audio) - [P, Pause; N; Next; V, Volume] R (Run) - [B, Browser; I, Inkscape; S, Spotify; Q, SQL editor]

  And a lot more. The mnemonics helps me remember them, and Ctrl+T, R, B is quick enough to launch a browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have been using the same Kinesis Advantage daily for 23 years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Escape 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In Sweden we usually have a self-checkout alternative where you acquire a wireless scanner when walking in, scanning when picking from shelves and put it directly in shopping bags.

  At checkout, you just pay and walk out. There is random controls, where an employee will check like 5 randomly chosen things from the bags. This is seldom though, like once every three/four months or something.

  Makes for very quick checkout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there something better than SQL?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m horrfied every day at work that copy/paste still is an issue. All my coworkers and customers are still struggling with copying some data, switching to another program, pasting it, switching back, copying some other data, and so on, especially when needing two or three data frequently.

  In Windows, a (bad) solution is using win+tab, which literally no one knows about, much less uses.

  In Linux (and should be in Windows too), it is trivial to implement buffers (say 0-9) to store and retrieve clipboard data for subseconds access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite software stack for full-stack web development?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Javascript/Preact/Lesscss on frontend with a backend written i Go using Postgres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Phones has been fast enough for me without upgrading to new hardware the last few years.

  And with a Fairphone, it is actually feasible to repair and change battery once in a while :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you hop distros?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Somewhere along the lines of 10-15 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best file format for configuration file?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  YAML here as well.

  Configuration many levels deep gets so much harder for me to read and write in JSON with all [], {} and “”

  Also the lack of comments… And YAML still is more used in software I’m using than JSON5, so I’d rather skip yet another format/library to keep track of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Routers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are completely right about SwitchOS, and it is even more exciting that some models sells in two versions, with the only difference being called CSS* for SwitchOS, or CRS* for RouterOS. And the SwitchOS-enabled model is much cheaper, so customers ordering for themselves almost always pick the wrong one (that is, SwitchOS, which we can’t manage properly in our automations and other software solutions).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Routers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can only agree on Mikrotik routers. All are using RouterOS, which works the same on all their devices, from routers to switches and access points.

  They are relatively cheap for the capabilites you’re getting. They have their own scripting language, two APIs (their new one is REST-based).

  GUI (winbox is recommended, and plays nice with wine. Wouldn’t recommend web interface, just cumbersome) and CLI exists.

  They have a lot of builtin functionality, like DHCP server, DNS server with static configuration, and even file sharing. Some models are powerful enough to run Docker images on (yes, that’s builtin…).

  We’re running a couple of hundred and don’t have much problem with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What helps people get comfortable on the command line?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on what one is doing, placing pv in between (usually with -s to specify size of data if known in advance) gives a progress bar, with speed of and size o# data passing through.

  Say you have an SQL dump of 1048576 bytes: cat dump.sql | pv -s 1048576 | mysql somedb and now you know how far it is instead of just waiting :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite CICD tool?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re using Ansible for a lot of stuff, with Semaphore as a frontend.

  Semaphore has rudimentary support for CI/CD. We don’t need all the bells and whistles of something like Jenkins, and Semaphore is saving us from having yet another software to know and and maintain.