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by ximm 20d ago
I have bad news for you: The flatpak developers plan to stop using bubblewrap. They say it is no longer necessary because most distros now support unprivileged user namespaces. https://youtu.be/NsVhkz2Xl0E?si=-ypxvTlRukCZLql
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by ximm 20d ago
Flatpak itself might not survive, but the underlying protocols (portals, security contexts in wayland, pipewire, and d-bus, systemd-appd, …) are relevant for sandboxing on linux as a whole. While I do not personally with every design decisi
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by ximm 20d ago
There is also the option of structural funding (Strukturförderung in german) where important organizations receive multi-year contracts instead of short term project funding.
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by ximm 4mo ago
> APCA models how human eyes actually perceive contrast, factoring in font weight, spatial frequency, and ambient light — a genuine improvement over the WCAG 2.x formula. […] The research behind it is peer-reviewed and substantive That&#
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by ximm 4mo ago
Corrected version: A wealth tax of 1% is equivalent to an income tax of 20% on capital gains .
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by ximm 5mo ago
Are there any recommendations for testing accessibility for TUI applications? The article mentions speakup, but as far as I understand, you need a hardware synthesizer to use that. Is it also possible to use orca?
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by ximm 5mo ago
I am not sure it is helpful to shoehorn terminals into being a second web. The terminal's strength is its simplicity. For example, I really dislike mouse support in TUIs. 100% of the times I used the mouse on a TUI, I wanted to copy a
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by ximm 5mo ago
My experience as a developer (with a preference for simplicity): - CLI by default - if I need a GUI, but no access to the local system: web - if I need a (restricted) GUI with access to the local system: TUI - else: either start a local web
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by ximm 5mo ago
My experience is that often when I think "I wish my email / browser / calendar / … did X" it turns out be a limitation of the underlying protocol. So even if you build all software yourself, you still have to make c
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by ximm 5mo ago
Is the text on this page really #bbbdc3 on #ffffff? How is anyone supposed to be able to read that?
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by ximm 5mo ago
Looks like a helpful honeypot! Any tool that will public announce support for this spec is a tool I know to avoid because it collects telemetry without explicit opt-in in the first place.
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by ximm 5mo ago
I was working on something similar a while back ( https://github.com/xi/spreadsheet ) but ended up not using it. I just didn't end up being the first tool that came to mind when I was reaching for a spreadsheet. Not
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by ximm 5mo ago
Firefox supports webRequestBlocking with MV3, so even if they fully remove support for MV2, ad blocking is still available.
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by ximm 5mo ago
I am working on https://github.com/xi/xiio , a minimal async runtime for python. It is mostly feature complete with a fraction of the code of asyncio or trio. It is great fun to get into low level stuff and hopefully it
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by ximm 5mo ago
I am still confused what exactly this tool is doing. I clicked on "examples" in the hope of finding an example of a generated policy. But it only gives examples of the configuration, not the output.
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by ximm 6mo ago
I don't get the frustration with wayland (the protocol) in the comments. This project shows that having a separate window manager was always possible. First we got wlroots as a library that did most of the heavy lifting, and now we got
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by ximm 6mo ago
I also find building apps for the web is much easier than any of the native frameworks. You can start by writing plain text in a file and then progressively add HTML, CSS, and JS. The app described in the article is trivial to implement in
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by ximm 8mo ago
The README talks a lot about crypto. But the interesting bit is how you can access the passwords. Is there an API? If yes, how does it protect your passwords from malicious software? If not -- are you sure? (Have you checked for example acc
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by ximm 8mo ago
I absolutely hate this argument. Everything in CSS is public (as in: can interface with HTML), not global. Think of writing CSS as designing an API.
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by ximm 9mo ago
It is a Maneki-neko (beckoning cat / Winkekatze). The video team started putting them on podiums so they could see when a stream was frozen. So it became kind of a mascot.
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by ximm 9mo ago
This is probably a Linux issue. Mac OS and Windows implement the FIDO2 Platform API, which allows them to act as authenticators themselves. Linux does not. See https://github.com/linux-credentials .
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by ximm 9mo ago
I also think these are very similar. The main difference in my view is that the state parameter is checked by the client, while PKCE is checked by the server. I run an authentication server and requiring PKCE allows me to make sure that XSS
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by ximm 9mo ago
> For coders, visual aesthetics don’t matter. For lawyers, they are a technical requirement. While this difference may seem arbitrary on the surface, it is downstream of a critical technical difference between the two fields. Machines in
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by ximm 9mo ago
100% this. When I reached the end of that page I felt pranked because the obvious question was never answered. How are these cases resolved? Is it possible to fix some inputs and only update others? What if I sometimes want to change input
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Docker breaks DNS on all custom bridge networks(docs.docker.com)
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by ximm 1y ago
Last time I checked hyprland was pretty much despised in the wider linux developer community. See for example https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html . Has anything about that changed?
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by ximm 1y ago
There is no real difference between ratio and difference. It is just scaled with a logarithm. See https://blog.ce9e.org/posts/2022-09-10-contrast-algorithms/ for details.
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by ximm 1y ago
Any reference to APCA has been removed from the WCAG 3 drafts in 2023 (see https://github.com/w3c/silver/commit/d5b364de1004d76caa7ddc4... ). I am not sure what the status is.
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by ximm 1y ago
> Hundreds of thousands of cars physically move along roads and have to break, accelerate and change lanes in traffic to safely get to their destination. Future work: Other modes of transport (pedestrians, light & heavy rail, airport
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by ximm 1y ago
What are the UN Open Source Principles? Can anyone share a link to the original document? I could not find anything relevant on Google.

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