A port on #localhost open only to one process. Can #linux #network namespaces help me? Let's find out. The idea is to MitM between my IMAP server and Claws Mail. The proxy would ignore the password and instead use #tls with a client #certificate to authenticate me (mTLS style). This way […]

Why the heck do I have blocked people on my account? I'm pretty sure I never blocked anyone. #mastodon can be really paternalistic sometimes. I don't want to be protected according to someone else's preferences. /me unblocks and unmutes 145 people Honestly, how the hell am I supposed to know […]

Is anyone using a #mft #camera here? How sharp is the LUMIX 12-60mm lens at full zoom? I couldn't find any RAW files online :/ I'm not sure if 12-60 is enough or I should get the heavier, more expensive 14-140mm. For comparison, this is a minilally processed #raw file from my previous camera […]

I never thought I would miss a #touchscreen on my #laptop . My travel #computer is a #tablet . When I come back home, I often want to switch tabs or press "OK" or some other mundane thing, without doing the keyboard shortcut. But my main laptop doesn't have a #touch screen! It's not a big […]

Anyone coming to #fosdem with a Thinkpad X250 or X260? I'd like to do some nondestructive research for #touchpad reasons. #hacking #linux #electronics #laptop

Thank you #fosdem Graphics track organizers for accepting my proposal! I'm excited to tell where I (re-)took this #wayland project I started back in 2018! https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/MVVELP-wayland_input_method_wrap_up/ Curse you FOSDEM organizers for accepting my proposal! Now I […]

Is anyone here using #slint ? I want to have a huge, table, with lazy loading. Basically, I don't want to allocate all the strings on every new model, but only when the item comes into view. Right now, I pre-allocate all the rows, including empty strings, and fill them in with data when they […]

#snow isn't slippery to #bike on! Ice is. That's what I said in December. Also that thawing and freezing makes roads slippery. Turns out I forgot an important fact: cars. #cars make roads slippery and #cycling dangerous. They compress snow, which turns into white or transparent ice. Their […]

@maxipalle Und vielleicht abschliessend ein Kommentar: Ja, so wird das nix mit fahrradfreundlicher Infrastruktur, liebe Bahngesellschaften. Als normalsterbliche Person sollte man diese Infos direkt im Buchungsprozess bekommen. Noch besser, es gäbe nicht diese unterschiedlichen Startzeiträume […]

#weather situation today: it's so cold my camera shows "no battery". While running from #battery . #electronics #batteries #liion

I want to get rid of 50Hz buzzing on my long #audio cable. I'm having trouble finding a cheap fiber optic solution. Is there any standard where I could get/build a cheap optical transceiver to drive with analog signal? #analog #electronics #optics

I angeled for 26 hours over #39c3 . No wonder I was constantly hungry, sleepy, and running :P

#dect/GSM fail: I assumed my number carried over from last year and was wondering why I was so uninteresting no one called :P #39c3

I missed the #39c3 @PrototypeFund and @nlnet meetups :( Do you all hang out somewhere to have a quick chat?

There's a #pinball at #39c3 ! Thanks to whoever brought it! I got an extra ball so that's enough playing :) I don't get the thing with the planets though. The multiball mechanism is simple enough.

I bought a #computer with the intention to #repair last year. I can't repair it. Good side: I could buy a working one using just the money I'd get from selling the #ram it came with. Bad side: then I wouldn't have any RAM to put inside it :P

The #39c3 #interslavic meetup was a huge hit, so there may be a second one coming on day 3 or 4. With fun and games! Watch this space.

I hung up the printer used by @c3loc :( So the building maps weren't ready today at #39c3. Perhaps tomorrow! @c3sign could you ping me when your A3 printer is available :P? #ccc #maps

Day one of #39c3 and I already blew half of my budget on #soldering workshops :P #ccc

Hello #39c3 ! I'll be in Hamburg in the evening. If anyone wants a helper in the evening, tell me so I have an excuse to go to the venue :P #ccc #engel

What's the difference between the kbd project data and xkbcommon key mappings? $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/xkb/de-us.map.gz kbd-misc-2.6.4 $ rpm -qf /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/eu xkeyboard-config-2.42 If I want to make a custom #keyboard layout, do I have to edit both? #linux

#shortcuts don't make sense. QWERTY layout: Ctrl+W closes tab. RU layout: same button, now Ctrl+в closes tab. AZERTY layout: can you guess? . . . the same button does nothing. Now Ctrl+W closes tab. Labeled "Z" on QWERTY. This is on #qt, but I expect #gtk and other toolkits to work the same […]

I have a Pentium 3 computer taking up space. Convince me: should I toss it? Should I keep it? Is it good enough to be a #retro box? Is it better than running an emulator? #retrogaming #emulation #win98

Help! #gamepads confuse me! Root permissions: $ ll /dev/input/event17 crw-rw----+ 1 root input /dev/input/event17 I'm not root: $ groups dcz dialout video wireshark but I can read it! $ head /dev/input/event17 #7-i�▒.#7-i�▒#7-i�C/#7-i�C# SSH connection? Permission denied! What's the […]

So I did a thing. Bought an E assist bike as a Christmas present to myself. Almost crashed into a parked car trying to leave the bike shop on Friday LOL. Apparently not riding for over 35 yrs has it's consequences. So yesterday I spent some quality time doing […] [Original post on worldkey.io]

#eu and the #internet: one step forwards, one step backwards. https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/The-Russmedia-ruling-of-the-ECJ-Towards-a-Cleannet-11102550.html I wonder if identity checking requirements would become irrelevant if the #web was peer-to-peer, with individuals being publishers and […]

@fosstodon glad that you got rid of the ToS rule about banning for things said elsewhere! I feel significantly less pressure here now. Although the new rule about antagonizing makes me uneasy now. Can I not disagree, correct, or call out now?

P-type semiconductor? N-type? NPN? #cmos ? #silicon is dope! And you can build and simulate #transistors yourself: https://app.siliwiz.com/?preset=nmos I bought Last Call BBS from Zachtronics to learn, but it's a game, simplified to the point where capacitors discharge instantly. Meanwhile […]

Does anyone know how to use #WayDroid while emulating arm64? Waydroid uses #lxc but I don't know LXC tooling. But I have been using arm64 #podman images using qemu-user easily. Should be possible, right? #qemu #android

Yesterday morning I noticed some electronics on the ground. #camera , empty SD card slot, battery, buttons. Dash cam remains? 3 meters away, in the bushes, a mutilated #bike. It's hard not to connect the dots on this one... #bicycle #traffic #PatternMatching #mystery #cycling #roadrage

In 2013 I started helping to organise #CriticalMass like event in #pilsen. It was fully legal & organised. The city council felt that our group needs to be organised and governed. They rented for us police to block the streets, to negotiate exclusions for […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Oh, another #transistor question. Since PNP is just a P+N+P sandwich, why isn't the device symmetrical in repect to emitter/collector? I mean, if you reverse PNP, you get PNP, right? #electronics #askfedi #silicon

#Transistors. How do they work? I need to make a switch which has LOTS of resistance when off, but *little* when on. How can I thread that needle? MOSFETs have great on resistance, but they leak a bit much current. I need <1µA. Bipolars don't leak a lot, but they also don't conduct enough […]

What's up with #gpg password prompts over #ssh ? Sometimes it appears instantly, usually takes a minute or so. It seems to depend on the mood the *client* booted in. It's quite annoying to wait and I don't know how to debug it. #terminal #console

#electronics question: how do amplify <100mV voltages? I simulated a simple op-amp circuit. It does what I want, with a gain of 15. But the voltages on +/- inputs differ by 9 mV. And that's about the input offset voltage of a real #OpAmp ... Is that going to work reliably on a real opamp? And […]

Files before folders? Folders before files? Or maybe it's a statement on the implicit, unexamined assumption about the spatial relationship corresponding to "before". It's the little unexpected pranks that make me love #gtk . #ui #programming #freesoftware #bug #bugs #opensource #humor

2 weeks, 6 repos touched. If this goes through, #mobile #Linux on-screen keyboards get some nice features on #Wayland: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/433#note_3184487 Reference implementations available. Looking for […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 7: Accessibility 🌍✈️ I mapped visa-free travel: 🛫outbound (where citizens can go) and 🛬inbound (who countries let in). It reveals global mobility inequality and rising deglobalisation. Borders are tightening due to geopolitics, trade […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

I accidentally switched my default #firefox #font from DeJavu Serif to Bitstream Vera Serif. Suddenly multiple websites looked *just* off enough to bother me. Congrats font foundries, you are making an actual difference I didn't even realize I cared about. #fonts #typography #web

I tallied up which #freesoftware repos I have to modify every time (¹) I want to see the effect of my #wayland work: - wayland-protocols - wayland-rs - smithay-client-toolkit - winit - maybe xilem - smithay, twice - my own input method demo And then hopefully upstream it all. Rinse and repeat […]

Another day, another #Wayland protocol. Still working on improving input methods. Just "finished" a feature useful especially to #CJK languages (#Chinese , #Japanese , #Korean ): the input method intercepts some #key presses […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

How to Fail at LiveUSB Step 1: Download the OS image. Step 2: Copy the image to the USB stick. Step 3: Boot target computer. Step 4: Is it stuck? St 5: Turn off S6: Benchmark USB stick random writes: IOPS=0, BW=2576B/s 2.5kB/s are you serious 2 . 5 K B / S S7: Throw away USB stick. S8 […]

Does anyone know why my #ram is running at half speed? # inxi -m Memory: System RAM: total: 16 GiB available: 14.56 GiB used: 1.55 GiB (10.6%) Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None Device-1: Channel-A DIMM 0 type: DDR4 size: 8 GiB speed: spec: 2666 MT/s actual: 1333 MT/s […]

Preparing for my #arm #chromebook mainlining project. Is my old main laptop faster than a new-ish Chromebook? In left corner current 2-core champion: Lenovo X230, i5-3380M! Opposite, ASUS Chromebook Flip CM3200FVA with 8 cores! 4xA73 and 4xA53! The challenge is... compiling #bevy ! > time […]

Guess what I'm working^W wasting my life on.

Dear #hater ! I'm stoked that you care about me so much that you wrote me a personal message not about my work :D I'm afraid your attempt at an insult hasn't really done anything. Maybe you could get me to care if we got to know each other first. I don't bite. I'm genuinely interested in […]

You think Free Software has won? Think again. I explained it at @piwo : https://dorotac.eu/posts/fosswon/ Still don't believe me? Right now, @fedora is making more space on your computer for nonfree software they ship: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Bigger-Boot-Firmware What about […]

Hey @kde you heard that I made a #kdeplasma plugin. How the heck do I publish it correctly? I managed to guess my way around, but when I try to install the archive I uploaded, I get this: > Installation of /tmp/ZAxSMp-master-kwlejka.tar.gz failed: The new package has a different type from the […]

🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #chatcontrol must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." […]

Spectrometer: 150EUR. Objectively establishing that it's cloudy outside: priceless. Thanks to wejn, setup was on the painless side: https://github.com/wejn/tobes-ui #optics #hardware #freesoftware #physics