PSA: if you're using a YubiKey-backed PGP key for signing emails on Thunderbird, make sure to **disable** saving drafts in encrypted format. Store them locally if you don't trust the server Signed, Someone who lost an email because TB panicked trying to encrypt it and lost it because gpg is GARBAGE

Aight so why are americans obsessed with today's date?

does anyone know a quick and dirty way to add a property to icalendar events in Thunderbird? SOGo sucks ass and uses the custom property `X-SOGO-SEND-APPOINTMENT-NOTIFICATIONS:NO` to not send email notifications on its own instead of the complying with standards :/

Metric Tip xkcd.com/3164/

does anyone know a quick and dirty way to add a property to icalendar events in Thunderbird? SOGo sucks ass and uses the custom property `X-SOGO-SEND-APPOINTMENT-NOTIFICATIONS:NO` to not send email notifications on its own instead of the complying with standards :/

am I speedrunning being an old person if I find mailing lists and more generally email-based communications a lot more efficient (assuming everyone follows the netiquette)? sharing is a single click, it's easily archivable and browsable (internally or publically), zero vendor lock-in, hrmm

sucks that Vagrant isn't as popular as it used to be, means there's no oss fork since HashiCorp parted ways with open-source licensing

standard formats created in Europe shouldn't use the dollar sign, give me some ```json { "€kind": ... ... } ```

bots that automatically close stale issues are so bad, why did it become such a universal trend an open issue burried deep in the tracker doesn't cause noise, that's straight up bullshit. it's just bad project management that leaves lots of valid bugs and use-cases unanswered, ughh

One thing that's been bothering me with atproto is the lack of clear data retention expectations For a lot of use-cases losing access to user-generated content can be a significant loss of knowledge, yet the canonical source of a user's data can disappear overnight without notice

hdmi to vga converters should be called 8k to 8kg converters

💀 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Removing obfuscation in Java Edition https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition

Minecraft Java Edition is ditching obfuscation altogether! No more dealing with Yarn/Mojmaps, nor weird edge cases introduced by obfuscation, and most definitely faster build times now that (de)obf is no longer a thing!!! www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...

Fun fact: the "Conformité Européenne" logo, the CE on all electronic products you buy, is awfully close to the "China Export" logo. Only the spacing between the letters is different!

Knowing how to protect yourself and stay private online is important, and there are many tips and tricks out there. So to help you get started, here's a big one: https://drive.proton.me/urls/ENZ7VZW9CG#MazXhWgb1yIp

The ref selector for GitHub Actions workflow_dispatch is so frustrating because it's confusing and likely not what you want to use I wish there was a way to restrict the trigger to a branch (i.e. don't use the spec from another branch) and accept a ref (with the fancy selector) as dispatch input :(

>Names minor NPC after the console's processor. >Expresses desire to be violent towards it. What did Miyamoto mean by this?

I finally fixed up my laptop's fingerprint reader wohoo, I can now disable Windows Hello facial recognition For some reason I trust fingerprint auth more, based on absolutely no concrete evidence that it's better security-wise. But it's much faster and works in dim environments!

For cats the concept of DST is probably SO WEIRD to them, like Around some season transitions SOMEHOW absolutely every single human around them including their trusted ones do everything as usual but an hour too late/too early, all at once

>came before wireless charging >still infinitely better than wireless charging Nintendo made a crap ton of bad decisions, but sometimes they'd just make bangers like that. Just pure pragmatical engineering, no need to reinvent the wheel.

Every year, we get closer and closer to a true “Egg Computer”.

 We’ve already made:
 - Egg Transistors
 - Egg Resistive Memories 
- Egg Supercapacitor electrodes
 - AND + NOT Logic Gates

 Albumin is a hilariously good organic semiconductor material.

Windows is a frustrating piece of tech. The NT kernel is well thought-out, and there is clearly a vision of making Windows a platform you can build upon, that share a unified tech backbone. But it's all dirtied by corporate bullshit and greed... It's sad. It has so much potential... 😔

for the folks who don't understand why it's an extremely huge deal that Cloudflare gets access to petabytes of unencrypted traffic as a MITM-as-a-Service it's not a conspiracy theory to say that the U.S. NSA does mass surveillance on U.S. citizens, directly within AT&T's core infrastructure 😉

starting off the work week by having free time on my hands sponsored by docker www.dockerstatus.com/pages/incide...

Fix for Discord not letting YubiKeys be used as passkeys! By default, Discord only lets you use a YubiKey as a security key with no option to enroll it as a passkey. Run the following script in developer tools, and then enroll your YubiKey. And voilà! gist.github.com/cyyynthia/8b...

ffs bluesky doing everything but advancing atproto in the slightest

my dream: instead of RFID badges and Windows AD, give us a YK 5 NFC provisionned with a S/MIME certificate signed by the org CA Passkeys for all things work related, secure auth to the entire IT park, signed emails and Git commits, and can be used as a badge thanks to NFC support would be goated

someone shared this meme about % of programmers identifying as LGBTQ by language, but it had no citations (gasp!), so I wanted to collect my own data. reposts are appreciated, esp from non-queer programmers cause my circle is pretty damn queer ^-^; forms.gle/AcwKK1qg2dZk... #programming

Pixel Watch 4 acquired

Another hit skeet 🎯

its insane how once you've had a taste of helium's compact tab bar, looking at another browser feels just wrong with their big ass top bar can't go back to browsers that make bad use of available screen real estate

Material Design is the worst thing that ever happened to society

📣 PSA: if you're using a YubiKey or another hardware security key for logging into websites ⚠️ KEEP AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF ALL THE ACCOUNTS YOU'VE ENROLLED YOUR SECURITY KEY IN ⚠️ You'll thank me later, when you'll want to rotate your security keys for whatever reason. 🔐

I hate how github (and git itself) use "gpg" to refer to OpenPGP gpg is a (terrible) program made by Garbage Never Usable, OpenPGP is the actual standard. Please use the correct name please please please

I booted up windows 98 to defrag my BADAPPLE drive

💡 Did you know that you can securely manage secrets on Linux using your computer's TPM 2.0 via systemd-creds? Don't store credentials in plaintext! wiki.archlinux.org/title/System...

Actually, content warnings are good at one thing which is gating dark humour. I get that it's not to everybody's taste, and that's okay! But people should still be able to post it if they want to. Having it gated by a CW is a good compromise. People know what to expect and *choose* to read it. 🤔

The changes I've PR'd to EasyPrivacy have been pulled into uAssets. All browsers w/ uBO should now appear as offering strong protection against ads & trackers in the EFF's Cover Your Tracks website. That will significantly reduce the misinformation around "privacy-enhancing" browsers.

Today, we’re officially introducing Kagi News: a once-a-day press review that cuts through the noise. Global stories, community-curated sources, and zero tracking. Links below 👇

Let's put an end to this nonsense github.com/easylist/eas...

The EFF's "Cover Your Tracks" website is bullshit and it's time to spread awareness Ad & tracker block tests are TRIVIAL to pass with three filters blocking EFF-owned domains, WITHOUT ANY REAL EFFECT BRAVE IS JUST DOING THAT. THEY'RE LYING TO YOU CLAIMING BETTER PRIVACY github.com/brave/adbloc...

Chrome's adblock dying has really just shown how bad ads have gotten now huh This appeared and fullscreened my window, hid my cursor, for clicking on a youtube download link lol old people are just not built to handle this

💭 if I end up making a custom operating system, should I name it "Cynthix" or the "Toulouse Software Distribution"? shower-thought grade thought 🚿

Rejecting ideologically charged PRs in the name of "neutrality" is one thing Calling the side you disagree with a "plague" and saying that agreeing with that side is a "humiliation" is the most non-neutral thing you can do lol Virtue signaling sucks but now we're doing reverse virtue signaling 🤡🤡🤡

NO WAY, IT ONLY TOOK THEM ALMOST TWO DECADES