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aruggirello

731 karma · joined September 28, 2013

PHP developer, web designer, VR photographer, Italy.
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aruggirello··on Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?
IMHO you should take action ASAP - at the cost of sacrificing all traffic coming from them. Regardless of their endgame, I'd just detect the HTTP referer and redirect back to them: crawlers and browsers will detect the redirect loop and happily complain about their domain. This will render their redirects ineffective, eg. any phishing attempt will have broken links.

This is preferable rather than returning 404, 403, or warning users something fishy is going on - since anything you return from your site will have browsers and crawlers complaining about your site, and your URL/contents might suffer penalties or deindexing as a result.

aruggirello··on Lunase moon phase watch mechanism
> Improbable stars

That was funny! (BTW the middle 'Horned moon drawing' has them too)

aruggirello··on Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)
Mozilla's new Orbit AI assistant for Firefox is in beta, BTW:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42555440

aruggirello··on Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
You can find a quick comparison here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e6e7m2/greasemonk...

aruggirello··on Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
Firefox with ViolentMonkey and uBlock Origin is my go to solution. I keep hundreds of tabs open, Chrome|ium is simply a memory hog.
aruggirello··on EU ChatControl is back on the agenda
Where?
aruggirello··on Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code
Why, just patch the page to add the famous Cursor Monster! https://simurai.com/projects/cursor-monster/
aruggirello··on Wprs – rootless remote desktop for Wayland (and X11, via XWayland) applications
Xpra?
aruggirello··on Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll
Wild? Wait until you read about people actually eating mummies and corpses

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eat...

aruggirello··on With Firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime (middle button paste)
You can set up eg. a 3-finger touchpad tap gesture for the middle button in KDE Plasma, I'm assuming the same should be possible under GNOME. No need for fancy touchpads.
aruggirello··on Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
Great idea! I was thinking about something similar too. Having multiple browsers doesn't have to suck...and having to fiddle with galternatives or KDE systemsettings isn't ideal.

May I suggest you to add a small (and optional!) config file to automate your UI - like e.g.:

    [Sources]
    Telegram=chrome profile B
    Discord=epiphany

    [Destinations]
    https://www.google.com=firefox profile A
If the config is there, you'd then only show the UI when neither sources nor destinations match (regexes). This would make it a must have tool IMHO :)
aruggirello··on FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation
Your best bets are (in order): - Remmina - Xpra - Anydesk
aruggirello··on Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam
Sure, here it is:

https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus

aruggirello··on Parmesan makers add microchips to cheese wheels to foil counterfeiters
No, since you wouldn't appear to be counterfeit. :)
aruggirello··on Indian Influences on Rastafarianism
> southern Spain and in Serbia

and Italy

aruggirello··on PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
> When you drag a file or file path from the file explorer and drop into the command prompt, it's supposed to put the file path there

> Also, I shouldn't have to hold down twelve modifier keys to move a file from one place to another

> I should be able to drag a file to a segment of the file path in the file explorer and have it move to that directory level

Guess what, that's exactly what happens in Dolphin (KDE Plasma). Please don't spread falsehoods.

aruggirello··on NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps using PHP
Wait, this PHP-GTK thing is abandonware! Last release in 2008, and only supports PHP 5.5.

Currently, and for most purposes (especially for new projects), PHP 7 is already being considered old... the amount of work that went into PHP 8 vs. PHP 5 is simply staggering.

PHP 5.5 is just too old to develop against!

The same applies to https://php-qt.org/ which "gives you" Qt 4 on PHP 5.1.

Fortunately enough, for those seeking a GUI toolkit for PHP, there's also WxPHP [1]:

https://github.com/wxphp/wxphp

[1] EDIT: WxPHP is being actively developed to support PHP 7 and 8 (there are no builds available yet)

aruggirello··on Gravitational Machines
Your ball morphed into another car at the second sentence. Surely an effect of quantum entanglement :)
aruggirello··on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
weylus?
aruggirello··on Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion
Unfortunately, it appears Google Plumber was discontinued by Alphabet Inc.
aruggirello··on Cloudflare launches easy to set up consent manager that respects users
> Not really, since embedding YouTube and Twitter should work even if the consent for tracking is refused

Should it? I mean, GDPR wise you're sending a subrequest by embedding eg. an iframe - which involves user data that might be used for tracking by yt/tt etc.

Shouldn't it be better - to err on the safe side - to just replace eg. the embedded player with a placeholder (maybe featuring a link to youtube) unless user has given consent to the embedded player?

aruggirello··on Windows on Btrfs
Microsoft didn't support ext because too few people were using it to justify the effort, yet somehow they went to great lengths and implemented the whole WSL, and... ~twice at that - for a possibly smaller user base?
aruggirello··on A patch to enable Windows Subsystem for Android to run on Windows 10
Doh. What an improvement... I was literally afraid of reinstalling it. Great!
aruggirello··on A patch to enable Windows Subsystem for Android to run on Windows 10
Doesn't Waydroid run under Debian?
aruggirello··on A patch to enable Windows Subsystem for Android to run on Windows 10
Anbox is old stuff. Waydroid is improving with each release (which happened several times in the last few months), and it's great overall, but tricky to set up properly: kernel modules, mutter (if your desktop is under X), and the Google activation step for your new device; then houdini and possibly other stuff (eg. to fake wifi if using ethernet, Magisk...). Once you do that, it's almost as native and it usually supports your GPU.
aruggirello··on A patch to enable Windows Subsystem for Android to run on Windows 10
BTW for those considering this WSA thing, in Linux land we have Waydroid!
aruggirello··on Therapod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of neurons
Therapods didn't all go extinct in fact. Survivors are called birds.
aruggirello··on Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
You could try running Waydroid in Asahi - that's theoretically possible, at least.
aruggirello··on KDE beats macOS
You can pretty much do anything to a window in KDE Plasma: you could force it to stay behind, force some arbitrary state or geometry upon it, add a setting that hides it from the apps bar, or even from the alt-tab list - or you could do all of this, it's just a couple clicks away under the window title bar icon, other actions, configure... I'd wager to say you have much more control in KDE than in any other DE, macOS and Windows included.
aruggirello··on KDE beats macOS
> * Lack of native clipboard

> To be fair - I am intrigued what does writer mean with `native clipboard`? Some sort of built-in app for clipboard management?

You don't know native clipboard? It's like a universal second, "quick" clipboard in Linux. You select something somewhere - copied. You middle click somewhere - pasted. It's so much faster and super convenient, it supports terminal and is independent of the "main" clipboard so that you can (ab)use it to gain two clipboards at the same time if you so wish.

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