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vanous··on Gnome 43 Released
It's been 23 years and I haven't needed these thumbnails, so... no issue for me.
vanous··on Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
Precisely! No obligation on either side.
vanous··on Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
Does this fork provide Debian packaging for autoupdates? If not, that is one feature that is missing from the project and from the feature comparison...
vanous··on Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
> Multi-line view like in Outlook, Lotus Notes and Postbox > Betterbird: Yes! > Thunderbird: No, requested since 2003

What kind of obligation do opensource projects have when someone makes a feature request? Honest question, because i see this mentioned as an argument. I presume no one is stopping anyone from developing it and proposing a PR, if the "main dev team" or whoever is running the project is not seeing that feature request as a priority.

vanous··on gPodder: A simple, open-source podcast client
Yes, you can self host it on nextcloud server, really awesome.
vanous··on Wasmtime 1.0
This allows you to run my library without having to trust me or my code.
vanous··on Walking is good for health but walking faster is even better, study finds
I agree! It sounds crazy but you can build it up slowly. Now in my "low days", when I work too much and finish late, I have just some 12000 steps. In "good days" periods, it has become normal for me to get 20000 steps.

I set just one rule: go for fast pace walk every day no matter the weather and no matter the time of the day.

vanous··on Use plain-text email
I will rather use HTML email via standard federated email network and be able to put images inline with text captions describing these images, rather than being text only email purist and then having to bend over to send images with "inlined" text in silo apps like whatsapp, slack, signal or telegram.
vanous··on Show HN: A 3D city created with GitHub real-time contribution datas
If you are on mobile and are wondering why you only see scrolling text, there's a whole section with 3D view that's missing when rendering to a small screen.
vanous··on Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
Next: scan a pile of cash and propose what to do with the calculated amount...?
vanous··on Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
This is amazing, thank you very much! It is really tempting to spin up a small instance for hyper local maps.
vanous··on Dillo web browser domain is for sale
I am happy this all works for you, but be aware that my (and many other peoples') first language requires me to use UTF-8 and after years of struggling I must say yay, utf is great!
vanous··on Gadgetbridge 0.68.0: Multiple device connections – a release
Gadgetbridge is a free and cloudless replacement for your gadget vendors' closed source Android applications. This release brings support for multiple connected devices.
vanous··on Gitea Diaries: Part 1
This is awesome. Gitea is great but needs to continue with development. Having Blender on board and even supporting the development will help so much. As someone who migrated to Codeberg few years back, I look forward to what this brings.
vanous··on Ask HN: CI in 2022
https://woodpecker-ci.org/ if you want to host a FLOSS CI yourself.

Woodpecker is a fork of Drone version 0.8, this is because the Drone CI license was changed after the 0.8 release from Apache 2 to a proprietary license. Woodpecker is based on this latest freely available version.

vanous··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
Awesome, thanks for the tip!
vanous··on Woodpecker CI – Community Fork of the Drone CI System
Woodpecker is great, we use it daily at Codeberg.
vanous··on Life Monitor
The data is pretty much as the band provides it. Mostly in one minute resolution, giving you steps, heart rate, "intensity" (this could somehow be translated to calories). From this, you can calculate your agregated your stats...
vanous··on Google contacted me directly to help restore FairEmail on the Play Store
Thank you for all the work on FairEmail. I wanted to purchase it for a while and now I did, via F-droid, in the wake of these events.
vanous··on 4coder editor is now fully open source
ForkCoder? Or ForkEd...
vanous··on DuckDuckGo faces widespread backlash over tracking deal with Microsoft
Thank for clarifying!

I actually, I wanted to write"with UBO", probably a brain fog...

vanous··on Dozens of high-traffic websites vulnerable to ‘account pre-hijacking’, study
As the article mentioned, adding 2FA is solving the issue.
vanous··on DuckDuckGo faces widespread backlash over tracking deal with Microsoft
This appears to be mainly about the DDG browser. Firefox without UBO seems is unaffected.
vanous··on GitHub Is Down Again
Don't be afraid to use another code forge, there are many alternatives. People will come over if your project is interesting.
vanous··on Show HN: A fully automated podcast – actually 12 podcasts
Interesting! Is the code for the automation available?
vanous··on Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare
Tested on Android with Fennec (Firefox without telemetry), FOSS browser and Midori. Only Fennec gets the challenge. Even such obscure browser like Midori is OK.
vanous··on GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
I am with you on this.I have disabled all features (including Gmail) and migrated my family to self hosting, but you need a Google account/identity when invited to some online webinars, for Android phone (unless you want to jump through huge hoops and use Aurora store, but some apps might still not work (banking...)). Unfortunately.
vanous··on Okular – Universal document viewer
3D software can export into PDF not only parametric models but also a tree defining the dependency structure, which is awesome and cross platform... except it isn't really due to lack of implementation in PDF viewers.
vanous··on Managing Python Versions with Pyenv
I like pyenv and install it on various servers, sometimes for the latest version of python 3.xx, sometimes for 2.7, without depending on the version the OS provides.

To run it from cronjob and other places where environment is harder to define, the following can be used:

0 2 * * * /home/user/.pyenv/shims/python /home/user/bin/script.py

vanous··on Okular – Universal document viewer
...also if you want to see 3D inside a PDF. At this point, only arcoread does that and it's Linux version has been discontinued years ago:(
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