Dirk

Hey!

I basically want to replace the Google Authenticator app in style and functionality:

1. List all TOTP tokens and their validity time (with a name and order I decide).
2. Allow me to periodically or on change back up the whole thing to some off-site storage, keeping the last N backups.
3. Have a native app for Android or an actually good PWA.
4. Don’t do magic bullshit like fetching icons, hide tokens, etc.
5. Be actually secure (i.e. don’t roll your own auth)
6. Just be a TOTP manager, and nothing more! No, I’m not interested in a password manager, thank you. I also don’t want any other OTP methods I don’t use.
7. Don’t be a one-man projects where the availability is not clear in >1 year.

Any experience is welcomed. Thank you!

Edit: Thanks for all the great ideas, I just set up 2FAuth which seems to be the most minimalist and single-feature thing to self-host. I’ll evaluate how it performs but keep a backup in Google Authenticator. It does not match #7 but it seems to be actively used by the author and gets constant updates and fixes, so it’s most likely fine, I guess.

There is a 3rd-party app for it, but this app seems to be pretty much dead (last release in July 2025 and not in any app store) – or at least not released anymore but still worked on but only in the repository.

When using the built-in translation functionality I get horribly bad results for my use case (translate to German). So bad in fact that some texts become nearly unreadable gibberish. It feels like how machine translations were 20 years ago.

I know that Firefox’s translation system works with offline data only and locally on my machine, and thus is very, very, very limited compared to specialized systems like DeepL – and even the common LLMs.

But I wonder: Is there a way to improve the system? Can I feed it more data to make it better? Can I do more than just download the translations in the settings?

I know I can always use extensions for sending pages or text to the common online translation services, but since Firefox has that built-in I’d love to use it – but it needs to return better results.

Any ideas are welcome!

Thank you and vielen Dank :)

[tl,dr]: Suche aus Erfahrung guten Druckservice aus Deutschland (oder genau Hamburg) der Einzelaufträge annimmt.

Edit: Der geplante Druckjob umfasst insgesamt drei Objekte: ein Objekt dauert 2 Tage und rund 5 Stunden und würde 534 Gramm Filament benötigen, die beiden anderen Objekte sind identisch, und würden jeweils rund 14 Stunden und 190 Gramm Filament benötigen. Die Zeiten basieren auf den von Cura für meinen Ender-5 Pro berechneten Daten.

Ja moin, ich dachte, ich frage mal hier.

Und zwar suche ich Empfehlungen von 3D-Druck-Anbietern die aus eurer Erfahrung heraus gute Qualität liefern, zuverlässig sind, und falls nötig guten Support bieten (Druckteil optimieren, eventuelle Probleme vorm Druck erkennen, etc.).

Bei der Recherche bin ich immer wieder über 3DBAVARIA aus (Barbing bei Regensburg) gestolpert, aber die scheinen einen B2B-Schwerpunkt zu haben, und Serien zu fertigen, mir geht es aber um einen Auftrag mit drei verschiedenen Teilen.

Ich frage speziell hier, weil ich einen deutschen Anbieter suche, oder aber mindestens aus der EU mit Versand nach Deutschland. Bonuspunkte würde es geben, wenn der Service in Hamburg angeboten wird, und ich vor Ort das Teil prüfen und abholen kann.

Idealer Weise gebe ich denen die 3MF, die gucken drüber obs Probleme gibt, drucken die Teile in Material und Farbe meiner Wahl, und senden sie mir zu.

Wenn ihr also einen aus eurer Erfahrung heraus guten Dienstleister kennt (Google kann ich schließlich selber benutzen), bitte immer gern her mit den Infos.

Vielen Dank schon mal im voraus!

So, yeah, basically the title …

I am in search for a good and simple and modern font viewing application. But there seems to be nothing that matches my criteria.

• The software needs to be independent from any desktop environment, because I don’;t use one and i am not willing to install what feels like hundreds of specific dependencies

• The software also should not be a font manager, I can manage my fonts absolutely fine by my own.

• The software also does not need any features to view “installed and uninstalled” fonts (a term I come across – whatever that means), just give it a file name as parameter and view that font in the GUI.

• The software should not be dead (i.e. last upstream change over a decade ago, using a dead graphics toolkit, not working on Wayland, etc.).

But either I forgot how to search the web or there seems to be no such application. All I wound was either decades old, dead software, or overly complicated and complex font managers or modules for the two common desktop environments.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance :)

So, yeah. Other than stated, Spotify does not provide 2FA (shame on them!), so I use a strong password and since years nothing happened.

This early morning I got multiple mails that my account was logged in from Brazil, from the USA, from India, and some other countries. There were songs liked and playlists created so it wasn’t a malicious e-mail but some people actually were able to log on to my Spotify account.

I of course changed the password and logged out all accounts and checked allowed apps, etc. and everything looks fine.

But I wonder … was there something that happened recently? The common sites to check such things do not list my old Spotify password, and a quick web research does not bring anything up.

Any clue what could have happened here?

shared from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6282553

There is now an update: https://lemmy.ml/comment/6913362#comment-6913362

The rant is obsolete now :)

I recently switched to Hyprland on my laptop and was able to set it up as I like, but I struggle hard to set up keybinds to simply print different characters when pressing certain key combinations.

For example, one small snippet from my .Xmodmap (there are more in this file but that’s enough for a minimal working example)

keycode 108 = Mode_switch
keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis

This allows me to press the A key in combination with the right Alt key to print an ä or an Ä when shift is pressed, to.

wtype and built-in key binding

After some research I found wtype which allows me to write arbitrary text when called with the parameters.

After I learned that Hyprland (or Wayland) does not distinguish between Alt_R and Alt_L (they’re shown as Alt_R and Alt_L in wev with different keysyms, so they’re clearly two different keys) and I accepted it, I just found out that this tool only works when being in a terminal emulator and not in a GUI application so this tool is useless for me.

keyd

Then I tried keyd. After setting it up and adding my user to the needed groups and starting the service and trying to figure out how to actually define keymaps I was able to send something when pressing a defined key combination.

But: Nothing else than ASCII.

The dev thinks it’s a Chromium problem based on this issue but it actually isn’t. I wasn’t able to send an ä to ANY application, no matter if GUI or terminal or Qutebrowser.

Since there is basically no online resources or user community for this tool, I cannot find any usable information on this issue except the unrelated Chrome reference and thus I removed it again because I cannot use it for what I want to use it for.

xkb

For whatever reason Wayland (or Hyprland) uses certain parts of the X keyboard extension, so I also tried this one.

Despite being absurdly complex and annoying to setup I was able to configure a user based keyboard variant using user-based symbols. From what I’ve taken from various sites my config should do nothing more than remapping Alt_R to ISO_Layer3_Shift just for testing purposes.

But all I achieved was reproducibly crashing Hyprland when setting it up to actually use said keyboard variant and there seems to be no log file.

yeah, that’s where we are

Again, it’s not about the umlauts, and not about the German keyboard layout, and not about switching lkayouts on-the-fly, it’s just to demonstrate what I mean. You can replace ä with any other character you want.

After a long night of trying out to have the Xmodmap functionality in Wayland using Hyprland as compositor I ended up with not being successful.

I give up for now.

Maybe one day there will be an actually working solution requiring nothing more than two lines in a file.