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vanous··on Far Manager: files and archives in Windows
Thank you! Much appreciated!

mc has a "list of bookmarked directories", does far supports such a feature, with a shortcut to bring up the dialog to choose an entry from the list? I haven't found such thing... Only to have particular single directory on a shortcut, which means that I would have to remember the number corresponding to each path...

vanous··on Far Manager: files and archives in Windows
Thank you! On Debian i have found the far2l which seems to work. I am trying to see if far can be a replacement for mc, which has been my goto terminal manager... and i like some of the shortcuts there... like <ctrl>-s and start typing (seems that on far, one can press <esc> and start typing for the same. I have not yet figured out how to (easily) get a file name to the command line or how to make vim the default editor when pressing F4...
vanous··on Far Manager: files and archives in Windows
Do you need to self compile? The Linux port (https://github.com/elfmz/far2l) ironically only provides macOS releases... Thank you!
vanous··on Reading Ancient Scrolls
I had to disable the Enhanced Tracking Protection in Firefox to see the images.
vanous··on Types of Garden Hoe
There's a set of hoes now manufactured by Wolf Garten, that are light and sturdy, offering all the types that homesteader needs, including this beast which once you discover you are not going back:

https://wolfgarten.us/collections/interlocken/products/wolf-...

I recommend the wooden handle, have had mine for the past 17 years. Not affiliated in any way, just a huge fan based on experience with these tools in small scale organic farming and homesteading.

vanous··on Google Bard's “implicit code execution” updates were quietly killed
Unfortunately, tweets cannot be accessed without login.
vanous··on Gping – ping, but with a graph
TIL it can also measure and graph the execution time for a list of commands rather than pinging hosts:

host can be a command like curl google.com if the --cmd flag is used.

vanous··on Blender 3.6 LTS Released
I am with you, went for AMD too and I am having the same issues. I don't need 3D often, but occasionally I would like to/need to do something in Blender and though luck. I even tried rebooting to Windows, which I do like once in a few years, still no dice.

Blender is super good and I love it and support it via plugin contributing. I keep my fingers crossed :)

vanous··on Fast and free multi-language code editor for Android
Fdroid says that not all of the code is free... What are the closed portions, anyone knows?

Edit: this seems to be due to (removed for fdroid) google integration. Feels strange... Author removes a Google library for fdroid release but is still being punished be the antifeature.

vanous··on A large crash spike affecting Firefox users on Linux
Me too. Here is my write up about it...

https://codeberg.org/vanous/YubiKey_On_Linux

vanous··on 100 Days of SwiftUI
From what I understand, the swift UI is not open sourced and not on Linux or Android...
vanous··on Arduino reads punched cards for cloud computing
Kudos for the low power processing. I can imagine that image based reading would be trivial today, on more powerful hardware...
vanous··on Throwing in the Towel on Mobile Linux
Banks started requiring second factor via app here. Thus, browser banking always requires phone now. I am sure one can opt out, but you start loosing features...
vanous··on Throwing in the Towel on Mobile Linux
Been on OpenMoko, SHR, n900... landed on Android and have all I need. Terminal, ssh, functioning telephony and messaging, Gadgetbridge, email, banking, fdroid. Degoogled (although not without Google services on the phone). Except of banking, all apps are open source (including telephony, thanks to simple mobile tools). Love Linux on desktop but unfortunately need to use Android on mobile.
vanous··on r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes
Isn't that an impersonation risk? Anyone can register under my email?
vanous··on No_color
> If accessibility is something you care about, don't write TUI programs. The two concepts are irreconcilable.

If I write for myself and package/publish for others, the user has a choice not to use my program.

vanous··on Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps
Awesome work, thank you Will. And that picture of Trogan... beautiful!
vanous··on Suspicious iOS KeePass Client
If you don't declare network access in the app manifest, your app cannot make a network connection. If you declare network access, app can make a network call and user confirmation is not required. It is thus very easy to check for apps that are truly offline.
vanous··on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
That's a non working app. Any working suggestions? Cheers.
vanous··on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
No need for a system one if there's an app... But... Is there a FLOSS dashcam for Android? Nothing that I could see on F-droid when I looked a few months back.
vanous··on Casio adds fitness features to original G-Shock digital watch
Check out Gadgetbridge: Gadgetbridge is an Android application which will allow you to use your Pebble, Mi Band, Amazfit Bip and HPlus device (and more) without the vendor's closed source application.

http://gadgetbridge.org/

vanous··on Tell HN: Unreal Engine and Vectorworks for Live Events – Webinar
Nice. The Epic presentation at LDI last year was pretty good .
vanous··on Purkinje Effect
The way one can learn to say ř is to whisper very very quietly r in a long sequence... rrrrrr. Not [ar] but "just" hard r. Over time, this rolling r can become ř. Children take several months to learn pronouncing it.
vanous··on Blender for Symbian OS
Let's now run BlenderDMX inside it :)

https://github.com/hugoaboud/blenderDMX

vanous··on It's time to stop texting
No, thank you. SMS just works. Locally, internationally, between androids, apples, penguins, berries, without data, unlimited for some.
vanous··on The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter
I am all for EV, but if besides needing to take care that I plug my phone and my watch every night I must also not forget to plug in the car and if I forget, I must apologize at work for not coming in, or my kids cannot go to school... just because it easily can get to -15°C here... then it feels like a technology issue and not like me doing the worse thing possible...
vanous··on Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11
> Hey, sorry that happened, it should have preserved all of the default applications, etc.

Thanks for your apology. I can imagine this could happen to some random unknown software team but not to the supposed leader of the desktop. I believe this is honest apology but I am not sure I can trust that the issue was a bug and not a feature.

vanous··on Appreciating F-Droid as an app developer
>For example it takes them too long to update apps, with no appreciation to the update (meaning if there was a critical CVE ), and other.

Fully agree, have some experiences.

Friendly advice: treat Fdroid like any other development dependency and try to be in control rather than being dependent: run your own f-droid repo which people can add to their Fdroid app as a source.

vanous··on Show HN: A web front end for your Org-files
Why making a Show HN to link to a GitHub mirror rather than to the Codeberg repo?
vanous··on Snap updates happen without user consent
>Debian is good if you don't want up to date browsers, the only shock i had when i tried Debian after this snap fiasco, ironically that's among things snap is trying to solve (quick updates)

You mean Debian stable. But you have a choice, you can select testing or unstable, which gives you newer software.

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