jello

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[–] jello@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I love this because I have the opposite problem. I hardly ever use the Fn keys and my old laptop had them as the "default" and I had to press an extra key to change the volume or brightness which annoyed the heck out of me

I feel for the devs/engineers who try to appease everyone

[–] jello@programming.dev 49 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Original for anyone else curious

[–] jello@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This looks fantastic! Great work.

[–] jello@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

The article did reference the Signal chat leak. It's also worth noting that Signal is secure, its just also available to the public and not designed for officials only. Cryptography is useless if the device itself is compromised or if someone is added to a chat. I assume they're making people use an internal system that only officials have accounts on. That way you can accidentally add a journalist or impersonator to the chat.

While Signal is still considered one of the most secure options, security ends when the end device itself is compromised. If an attacker gains control of the smartphone, even the best end-to-end encryption is of little use: chats and images can then be read directly on the device. However, Herpig emphasizes that there are currently few better alternatives to encrypted messengers like Signal or Threema.

[–] jello@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

If you take nothing else from what I’m about to say, take this: you will not cause suicide by asking someone directly if they’re thinking about it.

The mental health world has firmly renounced the idea of not asking someone directly. And I’m hoping to get as many people as possible to understand this and to jettison silence. You might be the lifeline they didn’t know they were allowed to grab.

[–] jello@programming.dev 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It definitely is a thing, especially for the elderly. I'm not sure what percentage of scams are done that way, but it's much easier to scam someone if they don't have a chance to think much about what's happening.

That being said, most of the scams I know of that do this don't ask you to install an app on your phone. They just ask personal questions or for login details or something like that

[–] jello@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is Avian saying "rm -rf /root"? Or am I seeing things

[–] jello@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Also Gollums eyes were huge compared to Sméagol's

[–] jello@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

I do this all the time. The great thing is that you get your edits first, meaning you don't have to wait for them to be public before using them.

[–] jello@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

I agree with this, but the biggest benefit to me is that it's (a) open source and auditable, (b) self-hostable to owning my data, and (c) has a cheap hosted plan so I can choose to not handle my own major security. For meeting all of my highest personal priorities I'm willing to put up with some clunkiness. But, man, I would love the friendliness I hear about from the likes of 1password!

 

Living in the USA where cases of both are on the rise. Would it be a good idea to get the vaccine(s) again? Or is that pointless since I was vaccinated as a child?

 

Bonus: how did this past year's go?

 

Virginia’s Shenandoah Rail Trail will connect towns from Broadway to Front Royal with almost 50 miles of trail alongside the North Fork of the Shenandoah River and the Massanutten Mountain range.

I just found out about this! Similar to the W&OD trail in Northern VA.

Also looks like it's being threatened unfortunately:

We had a BIG surprise this week (not in a good way) that threatens the future of the Shenandoah Rail Trail. A new proposal was presented at the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) meeting on December 9, leaving all of us shocked and frustrated. More recently, VDOT’s Rail-With-Trail assessment looked at restoring rail service alongside a trail. Their cost estimates indicate that attempting to rebuild the railroad and add a trail alongside it would cost roughly four times more than building a standalone trail.

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