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I've been using this unofficial client for years, so it's been a while since I tried the PWA version. In my use, this client brings 2 things missing from PWA: notification count in…

Semi-related: Why do sites grab search keystrokes (like '/' on github) to force me to use their crappy search when I'm trying to find content on the page I'm currently on?

As someone who administers DNS servers, I'm going to guess this is due to DNS being the first thing that gets blamed when something goes wrong; and it is almost never DNS.

Skyglobe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyglobe It didn't run speedily on the 286 IBM clone that we had, but it was pretty amazing to me at the time (ca. 1993)

Bitwarden's help pages state storage is in Azure cloud: https://bitwarden.com/help/data-storage/#on-bitwarden-server... So if there is an observation of an issue, it's reasonable t…

I had been using Swiftkey on my iPhone and in the middle of typing something, my keys disappear and is replaced with, what is effectively, an ad to use "Microsoft Speech Recognitio…

Question privacy concerns with CloudFlare stating "giving up security for convenience", and then have comments for your blog post on Disqus.

Google Reader gives a good example of why one may want to host an RSS reader on their own.

https://cactus.chat/ exists to do just that.

It looks like after 3 more minutes of testing, it's a me problem. There is one particular file that goes bonkers, which just so happened to be the one I had up. If I start a new fi…

I'm definitely for any alternative to an MS solution (especially one where I have to give them actual money to use it), but I had kind of the same experience. Not extensive testing…

Yes, remote is actually "killer": https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/26...

I thought "yes", but just tested and turns out it's more like "kinda". It doesn't do a full sync on shutdown, but if something is modified it sends a sync push , and that change wi…

DisplayName @username Do I want to read a full length article in bite size chunks? That are sometimes arbitrarily 1/4 DisplayName @username Split across a bunch of little cards wit…

Just like on the Disney channel they don't have ads, they have programs "brought to you by our proud sponsor"

Thanks. I'll have to keep an eye on that.

I want an open source competitor to airtable. I use airtable very minimally, but what I do is on my phone, and makes use of barcode reading via the camera. I don't think any of the…

Specifically I am forced to use the horrible disaster that is MS Teams for work. So far, screensharing on Wayland with electron-based apps doesn't work.

I have used gnome pretty much since Fedora/RedHat started packaging it. For the past 2 years or so, I have been using Material Shell ( https://material-shell.com/ ) which gives Gno…

As a person who administers servers I absolutely HATE that vscode does this. I don't know much about the specifics of remote deployment, but I feel like having vscode do this is ju…

It would make sense that it would if the formatting was specified (though MS rarely makes much sense). I can't test this myself. I only have access to word online, and (unless I'm …

It seems most of my posts here end up being a complaint about MS Teams. So here is another. Teams will happily take the formatting of "black text" from copying from Word for exampl…

"Unencrypted" by reading English-based text with his eyeballs :)

Missouri governor accused a journalist of "hacking" a government site for viewing the HTML source and discovering that a bunch of teachers' social security numbers were embedded in…

I self hosted things before google and Facebook existed to harvest all the information, because at the time there weren't many choices. When google in particular began offering gre…