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Funny, I found flameshot years ago looking for a Linux to Skitch. What’s lacking in the built-in tool?

I’ve done this by making every passcode a phone number for someone important. Mom’s phone number unlocks the computer, Dad’s phone number unlocks the tablet.

Liturgically, the day begins at sundown and both the Holy Week and Paschal services are moved to the beginning of the Liturgical day “in anticipation”. So the Lamentation service o…

I’ve managed to upgrade an i7 T480 with a new display, glass trackpad, WiFi 6e, 2xNVME SSD and 64GB ram. It has 2 USB-C ports, on of which is thunderbolt. I also have an actual doc…

εὖ : well/good κατα- : back/against στρέφω : I turn/twist It looked funny pairing for bit of Greek I know until I read the link and realized it wasn’t really Greek.

People who found this interesting may also be interested in historian David Hackett Fisher's book "The Great Wave". He examines the possible correlation of consumables prices to so…

I don't suppose you remember the "IBM OS/2 Fiesta Bowl"?

I’ve been surprised with what you can accomplish with data URIs. Embedding a MP4 can work great, but your text editor will likely hate it.

What I’ve noticed in my years with various databases is that many SQL parsers error on ambiguity and not necessarily strict compliance. In the case above the parser is likely dropp…

Where are these datacenters? I live in Ohio in the area of two of the points on the home page at https://sia.tech/ One appears to be a private residence or a farm. The other dot is…

I use the olkb plank ( https://olkb.com/planck?category=eotw ) both at home and at the office. It started as fun to build, solder, and program but I soon realized that I was less f…

Also, the standard library for ASP.NET either had gaps or somewhat incompatible implementations of features. I’d give time to attempt a port of a mid-size web forms app every coupl…

I think one of the overlooked things of the process-per-request CGI scripts we ran back in the day is how you might run out of PIDs. I remember this happening once, but I think(50/…

As a matter of fact, I think he actually answered the question: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=36423 “One danger of the MsgWaitForMultipleObjects function is calling…

I have not had luck finding an equal to iTerm2 on Linux. While there are many to choose from, few combine all the features (color support, themes, layouts, configurable hot-keys fo…

Given that homebrew tends to occupy /usr/local, I've grown comfortable with making my own ~/local folder with src, bin and app/server folders. I tend to use it for just about every…