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  • How do you explore a new city as a tourist?

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  • This is approximately what I do as well, and would highly recommend. The one caveat I would add is while you are researching things you might want to do, take note of the subset of things you most want to do, and make sure you know what days/times they are open, if you need to book in advance, etc. I am very against having a hard schedule, but I also don't want to travel somewhere only to miss the one thing I was really looking forward to because I decided "I'll do that tomorrow," only to find out it was closed the next day.

    An additional pro-tip: Make your first list of things you might want to do ahead of time, and name it after the place you are going, e.g. "New York." Then while you're traveling, make a second list of "favorites", e.g. "New York Favorites." Keep track of all the restaurants, activities, view points, etc that you enjoyed using that second list. Then whenever someone asks for recommendations for a particular location, you can just send them your favorites list.

  • Java app dropping connection to keyboard?

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  • Hmm, strange. The last comment from Dan (second to last comment on the thread) makes it sound like their is another thread, and other users with the same problem:

    Whew, I found the other thread and am happy to see that others are encountering this too, and it's not some super duper weird thing with just my computer...

    I tried searching a bit to see if I could find it quickly, but didn't turn anything up. Maybe if you comment there, though, they could link you to the other thread, and they might have more info.

  • Java app dropping connection to keyboard?

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  • That sounds like a threading issue. If the app tries to run a task on its main thread, and that task takes a long time (in particular, longer than expected), it could cause the UI to lock up.

    Do mouse interactions still work? Does anything on the UI update at all? If not, I'd bet on a task getting stuck on the main thread.

    Note that this doesn't have to be an intense task - you may not see a CPU/network/disk spike. It could be a deadlock scenario, where multiple threads are waiting for the same resources, and each locks some, but not all of the resources. None can move forward, no work is done, everything just hangs waiting for resources locked by other threads.

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  • NVK Has landed!

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  • I'm on a laptop with hybrid Nvidia/Intel graphics, and Wayland has been working fine for me. I typically run in "on-demand" mode, but I've used both strictly Intel and strictly Nvidia modes as well, and it's been fine.

    I think the only real issue I've had is that Splitgate refuses to launch in Wayland, so I switch to X if I want to play - general computing works fine, native apps have had no issues, and all the other games I've played have launched without issue.

    The Nvidia GPU is a 1650 TI, and I'm on the Nvidia 535 driver.

  • Denmark to look for 'legal tool' to prevent Koran burnings

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  • They do care. They're trying to find a way to stop it. That's the point of the article. It's the first sentence:

    The Danish government will seek to "find a legal tool" that would enable authorities to prevent the burning of copies of the Koran in front of other countries' embassies in Denmark, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the national broadcaster DR on Sunday.

  • Reddit undeleting comments and hiding them

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  • I did a site:reddit.com search using my username and found ~50 comments that Reddit has undeleted but also hide from my own account. I could still edit and delete them.

    Perhaps you should re-read the post, and/or the comments here. The posts referenced are still live on Reddit, hence they can still be edited - OP is not talking about a cached view from the search engine.

  • Gnome: Rethinking Window Management

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  • This is probably going to make me sound like a curmudgeon, but:

    While most of us are used to this system and its quirks, that doesn’t mean it’s without problems. This is especially apparent when you do user research with people who are new to computing...

    I don't understand this thinking (1), and worse, the workflow described seems like it will just make things more confusing (2).

    (1) Most tools humans have developed are not especially intuitive - you usually need someone to teach you at least the basics, and then you need to practice. Consider a driving a car, operating a sewing machine, a microwave... Even something "simple" like a hammer has features that need to be explained ("turn it around, and you can use the claw on the back to remove nails").

    (2) This seems like it just introduces more inconsistency. Right now, a new window opens on top, and you move it and size it however you need. This works for all windows. With the model described, windows sometimes float next to each other (but the arrangement is random), some times tile, and other times will open on a new workspace. And the tiling features get even more confusing - dragging one window over another causes them to tile, but what if I actually just want them to overlap?

    I feel like this is just going to annoy anyone used to the current system and still require a learning curve for anyone new to computing.

    I've used gnome 2 and 3, Unity, KDE 3, 4, and 5, and am on gnome 44 now - I actually think the current world is pretty good. I'd much rather see quarter tiling and gesture customization than a whole new window management paradigm.

  • Google camera requires Google photos, is there any workaround?

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  • If you'd like them out of Google, but still on your phone:

    You can use Google takeout to download all of your photos. Then delete them from Google, and copy the images you downloaded back to your phone manually. Finally, use a gallery app that can access files stored anywhere on the file system to view them (Simple Gallery seems to work pretty well - it should automatically find the images regardless of which folder you stick them in).

  • A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

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  • it has its flaws.

    Yep yep. I was aware of some of what you pointed out - I think this might be a "perfect is the enemy of good" scenario, though. GitHub alone accounts for over 84% (based on the awesome-selfhosted-data repo):

     
        
$ grep -r 'source_code_url' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | cut -d '/' -f 3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 15
   1068 github.com
     36 gitlab.com
      7 git.mills.io
      6 sourceforge.net
      6 framagit.org
      4 www.atlassian.com
      4 codeberg.org
      3 git.drupalcode.org
      3 git.cloudron.io
      2 repos.goffi.org
      2 git.tt-rss.org
      2 git.sr.ht
      2 cvsweb.openbsd.org
      1 yetishare.com
      1 www.wiz.cn

$ python -c "print($(grep -r 'source_code_url' . | grep github.com | wc -l) / $(ls -1 | wc -l))"
0.8422712933753943

    Adding in gitlab gets you to 87%:

    $ python -c "print($(grep -r 'source_code_url' . | grep -i -e github.com -e gitlab.com | wc -l) / $(ls -1 | wc -l))" 0.8706624605678234

    Also popularity != quality.

    True, but a thriving community generally means more resources, guides, etc, which can be important, especially for self-hosted solutions.

    In any case, the project is great, and much appreciated. Additionally, the enriched html version looks fantastic, and exposes most of the metadata* I'd want to see, regardless of how it's sorted.

    *One other item to track, that I thought about after making my previous comment - number of contributors. It gives an additional data point on the size of the community, as well as an idea of how many people can be hit by busses before the continued development of the project gets called into question.

  • A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

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  • I would imagine the source for most projects is hosted on GitHub, or similar platforms? Perhaps you could consider forks, stars, and followers as "votes" and sort each sub category based on the votes. I would imagine that would be scriptable - the script could be included in the awesome list repo, and run periodically. It would be kind of interesting to tag "releases" and see how the sort order changes over time. If you wanted to get fancy, the sorting could probably happen as part of a CI task.

    If workable, the obvious benefit is you don't have to exclude anything for subjective reasons, but it's easier for readers of the list to quickly find the "most used" options.

    Just an idea off the top of my head. You may have already thought about it, and/or it may be full of holes.

  • lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team]

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  • At 1:30 in that second video, he shows that YouTube already converts dot zip domains, even in old comments that predate the domain's existence. At 3:19, he shows/mentions Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I would consider those major platforms. And keep in mind, it only takes one person downloading one file to cause major damage - the LMG hack was due to someone downloading and trying to open a fake PDF that was sent via email: https://youtu.be/yGXaAWbzl5A.

    So yes, not everything does or will auto convert the links, but I think you are underestimating the potential for issues here.

  • Python Cheatsheet

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  • Coders, what is your workflow on Linux

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  • JetBrains with vim bindings for me.

  • Coders, what is your workflow on Linux

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  • I had to use vi for work (only editor installed on the servers), and it snowballed and now I can barely type in anything that doesn't have vim bindings.

    The first few days were pretty rough, but I learned the absolute minimal basics, and then just organically learned features as I needed them/whenever I felt like what I was doing was tedious, and there had to be a better way. It's been about 10 years, and I'm still learning!

    One small suggestion, check YouTube for videos of people showing off vim features, e.g. https://youtu.be/5r6yzFEXajQ. You won't remember everything from one watch, but it'll help you see what is possible/how powerful vim is, which can guide your "this is so painful how do I make this better" searches down the line.

  • lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone [update from the team]

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  • See https://youtu.be/GCVJsz7EODA and https://youtu.be/V82lHNsSPww

    There are a few problems, but I believe the biggest issue is that .zip and .mov are valid and common file extensions, and it's common for people to write something like 'example dot zip' or 'attachment dot mov' in emails, tweets, etc. Things like email clients have features where they automatically convert text that looks like a web address into clickable links. So now, retroactively, all those emails etc suddenly have a link, where they used to just have text, and the domains that are equivalent to those previously benign file names are being purchased by nefarious actors to exploit people unaware of the issue.

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  • I switched to Liftoff because is this.

  • Self-hosted Password Manager Recommendation?

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  • I like pass, It's just a wrapper around standard tools - gpg encrypted files in a directory, with git for version control. You can organize the subfolders however you'd like, and store whatever you want in them. You can sync the files across systems however you'd like - copy/paste, rsync, network drive... You can even go as far as to install a git server, e.g. gitlab, and clone, push, and pull into password synchronization bliss.

  • Worst States To Live & Work In. All 10 Are Republican States

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  • Where do they come from?