AnActOfCreation @ AnActOfCreation @programming.dev

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Hmm I hate Google as much as the next guy and am actively trying to de-Google myself, but I'm not sure I can get behind the outrage here. Certificates are free and easy to obtain with LetsEncrypt, so there's really no excuse for sites not to accept unencrypted traffic these days. I'm sure Google does lots of things to delist the small guys and promote their big payers, but I don't think this is one of them.

What SSL thing?

Two monitors is the absolute minimum, but I think three can be very useful.

On one, I have reference materials, on one I have code, and on one I have the application I'm developing. I think it makes for a pretty good workflow.

until its ready for F-Droid release

Just FYI, it is on IzzyOnDroid!

Wow, that's a gamechanger! HeliBoard has so many neat little tricks like that, but sometimes they're hard to find.

If you have a Roku I can't recommend Playlet enough.

You can fix this without an extension.

about:config, browser.backspace_action, 0

What's the easiest way to run Android apps on Linux?

Thanks, that's a nice and concise summary!

Where does MagicEarth get its traffic data from? Also is it FOSS? I couldn't find much about it.

What distro do you recommend?

This and Zune were peak music.

Thanks for this clarification! That is slightly more palatable.

Wow, this is really insightful! Thank you so much for digging into this. I learned something!

I should say I'm more interested in a good multi-device sync than long-term backup, so that sounds good for Proton.

I've only been using it since... well... since I posted this. But so far the experience is great! They have an easy guide for migrating from Google Photos (basically they can import a Takeout export directly).

https://ente.io/faq/migration/from-google-photos/

I've got it installed on my phone with automatic backups enabled. It had no issues with duplicates from both Takeout and the existing photos on my phone. (I even did the upload twice due to running out of space the first time, and there were no dupes). The app has a pretty similar design to Google Photos, so it feels familiar. It also supports Google's version of "live photos".

You can create links to share albums or individual photos, and you can also add people to your plan.

I enabled the local machine learning analysis and, while it's not perfect, it does make for a pretty nice searching experience.

P.S. I promise this is not an ad! I'm running out of Google storage and figured this was as good a time as any to de-Google my photos. Ente came up as a frequent cloud solution. If you're looking for self-hosted, Immich is far and away the most popular.

I don't know about that. From the article:

Experts told the Vancouver Sun that Air Canada may have succeeded in avoiding liability in Moffatt's case if its chatbot had warned customers that the information that the chatbot provided may not be accurate.

The ENG US is only shown if the user has multiple languages. As for the icons to the left of that, the user has manually chosen to always show them instead of having them in the overflow area. So it is a bit cleaner by default.

I've been trying to explain to someone recently why rebasing and force pushing their feature branch has no benefit when we use a squash commit strategy for merging to main.

While you're 100% right, is there anything wrong with this approach? Sometimes I like to keep by personal branches clean, especially before I open a PR.

I believe the one you linked is the fork. Here is the original.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

I recommend the fork you linked because the original author supposedly was slow and reluctant to add new sites and now copies fixes from the fork.

Read more about the history here: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean/-/issues/1

I actually thought the paywalled article was the meme at first.

Also shoutout Bypass Paywalls Clean (D). It's practically up there with uBlock Origin as required to browse today's internet.