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ticoombs··on Show HN: E-Ink Day Schedule
> "Render the page in X width and Y height and then take a screenshot".

Isn't this the exact example of phantomjs?

``` page.viewportSize = { width: 600, height: 600 }; ```

At least that is what I use to do for screen testing for some of our low-hanging-fruit QA. At some point I rewrote it in puppeteer and it was as simple as the above line.

The screenshot results in being the X/Y size.

I'd be interested in why this doesn't work in your usecase.

ticoombs··on Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
You might be interested in the https://libreelec.tv/ project. Kodi for low end devices. Which uses HDMI CEC to allow for your tv remote to control the Kodi interface.
ticoombs··on Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack
> You can enroll multiple devices using the same

You could even save it in an application like KeepassXC. Then you turn on the TOTP mode and presto, you have another TOTP device

ticoombs··on VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting
LosslessCut hasn't failed me yet and barely crashes. No matter how bad or corrupted the source is! (Looking at you over-the-air)
ticoombs··on Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable
This is great! Might I suggest to add an X button to go back to the menu select. As if you accidentally select one on your phone, you have to refresh instead of hitting back.

My baby will love this

ticoombs··on Shelf – open-source asset management software
Pay them to host it. $400/year. Literally a rounding error. Works out cheaper than a cloud compute and SQL server
ticoombs··on Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
I think if all images were hosted not on my infra it would be fine. I am not aware of any laws that forbid sharing information about weed.

But it would need to be heavily moderated. There are already some "trees" communities. Subscribing to them from our instance I wouldn't have a problem with

Edit: position: no, unless we get other moderators and admins we can trust. Currently it's just 2 people doing admin n moderation. Having a community like that may be a lot more involved that I would want to be.

ticoombs··on Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
Or for a general instance done say hi. https://reddthat.con
ticoombs··on Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
I'm running reddthat.com if you want a general instance that is federating with every instance :)
ticoombs··on Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
> > Passwords can't be longer than 20char

> This has to be a bad joke.

There are plenty of rough edges, that the community is finding.

> Sorry, this is supposed to be a viable alternative to Reddit?

It is an alternative that removes a problem that Reddit users were facing. Lack of Control. It gives control back to the users. I wouldn't say it's perfect but if a person doesn't want a company being completely in control of everything relating to that platform. The fediverse is that solution

ticoombs··on Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
Any instance can connect to any other instance by design. That includes any of the communities (sub Reddits). Any community is available from any instance.

So if you join a general instance (like reddthat.com #selfplug) you can search in the communities and find any other community and subscribe to it.

browse.feddit.de is the current place that searches every fediverse instance, and indexes all the communities. So your can find any community, even if the instance has not federated yet

ticoombs··on Comparison of different Lemmy Instances
It's probably a problem with your auto generated password.

Passwords can't be longer than 20char. It's a bug. Also don't enter an email when trying to join initially, if you can. The UI waits for the email to send before returning. Another known bug.

Self plug: come join on https://reddthat.com. We currently don't have email requirements, or any "forms" to fill out before you join.

:)

ticoombs··on r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes
The UI is getting there. If the username is not long enough it doesn't show anything for example.

Feel free to come join reddthat.com if lemmyWorld doesn't work for you

ticoombs··on r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes
Join Lemmy is the introduction website to find one of the many instances.

You should be able to view instances without joining. Checkout my instance: https://reddthat.com

Ps. I've disabled email verification for a short period to allow the influx to happen.

ticoombs··on Wine 8.9
Have you tried wine-staging? Which is the wine but with all the future patches.

Other alternatives are lutris, proton, or the GE (glorious eggroll) versions.

Honestly vanilla wine sucks for compatibility now. All the other versions have way better support in my experience.

ticoombs··on Every web search result in Brave Search is now served by our own index
The same cliqz [0] that got shipped to Germany Firefox users?

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

ticoombs··on Delaying Further Symantec TLS Certificate Distrust
They can't. With most banks and even PayPal, their site is secured by HSTS which renders their site completely unusable with no way to get past the warning.

Your only option is to use a _different_ browser which trusts the old certificate.

ticoombs··on World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years
There is already a fix for it. P2P over the I2P network.

https://geti2p.net/

ticoombs··on Google activated battery saving mode on multiple phones, then rolled it back
I installed FFOS on my Nexus 4, and everything I needed from a phone, TOTP/SMS/Calling/Internet just worked.

I even added SSH, nginx, and ran a webserver off it.

I'm hoping for KDE Connect to come through. I want seemless integration from a mobile device to a desktop.

A girl can dream

ticoombs··on Spam is back
You could setup a SMTP server and route your emails via Amazon/Asure/GCP. For less than 2-4$/m
ticoombs··on China Tells Carriers to Block Access to Personal VPNs by February
I would love to see a write up about that. Got a source?
ticoombs··on Show HN: Pocket Stream Archive – A personal Way-Back Machine
I've been running wallabag[1] for my own pocket instance. It's been running perfectly for a couple years.

Also has a pocket import feature.

[1] https://wallabag.org/en

ticoombs··on List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak
Why not he.net?
ticoombs··on Signal can now be used without Google Play Services
What does this mean for an official Fdroid option?
ticoombs··on Why I switched from OS X to Linux
FYI ThinkPads have great Linux support. Tested my X1carbon with Ubuntu 16.04LTS.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

ticoombs··on Irssi 1.0.0 Released
Why but just run a bouncer like znc?

I even have push notifications when I get tagged or a add a special keyword.

ticoombs··on SpaceVim – Like Spacemacs, but for Vim
Is there a linter yet for markdown?
ticoombs··on Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
Hey just to let you know I host ~300 domains on 1 aws instance. We only have issues when a clients password gets phished, but we also have a limit on the amount of emails per day they can send. So it's never a real issue.

~20,000 emails a day

Going on 4 years. AWS "blocks" are perfectly fine. If you are going to host your own just get your self an Elastic IP and let your account manager know that you intend to send mail. As they (use to? I had to do this 4 years ago) have their own internal anti-spam system which you may hit.

On the contrary I also host my own mail on an instance I have over at [0] which is rock solid and I've had no issues that are not the fault of my own. I would recommend at minimum.

The only thing I can say is if you want to do email yourself possibly use [1] for an easy to setup system and make sure you get a box with minimum 512mB of RAM or around 1GB because ClamAV is fat.

Or go [2] for a hosted solution. Who are doing great things regarding encrypted mail.

[0] https://www.prometeus.net/billing/aff.php?aff=157

[1] http://redmail.com/

[2] https://protonmail.com

ticoombs··on Ask HN: Google Analytics spam out of control, looking for an alternative
I wrote a blog post [0] on using the API for Google analytics to create a filter to block most of the referrer spam.

tl;dr for the post is: You setup 2 filters one for the hostname, and one for the language. (The language part is not added yet I'm still writing that update, this is a new spam technique in the last couple months where the data is coming out of Russia)

You then have to create a referrer blocker on your webserver which returns 444 if the referrer contains (list if sites).

I also use piwik personally and have found it's definately lacking compared to GA in what you can do but it is quite adequate for my own personal blog/projects.

Piwik can do campaign, goal and event tracking. Which sounds like it has what you want. You could go for the hosted version and pay X amount if you want someone else to worry about it.

[0] https://blog.slowb.ro/programmatic-blocking-referrer-spam-pa...

ticoombs··on Ask HN: Google Analytics spam out of control, looking for an alternative
Piwik has its own updatable referrer spam blocklist. So you should get near 0 referrer spam
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