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IanTwenty

@ IanTwenty @piefed.social

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  • Drag and Drop is an absolute mess

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  • I see this with flatpaks, the solution might be to grant permission to the app to the part of the filesystem your dragging from with flatseal/cmdline.

    HOWEVER I do think the desktop is missing a pop-up which offers to do this for you when it happens. This is how android does it when an app needs access outside its own files, you just get a prompt to allow it.

    This is the sandbox future - it's safer and you can trust that apps can't go snooping around your system but users shouldn't need to fiddle with perms all the time to get stuff done.

  • Sometimes, my computer is very slow and sometimes really fast. Fedora 43.

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  • This is my thought too. Your screenshots don't show cpu freq. Everything can appear normal on other measures but if your cpu has throttled right back it'll run slow with no obvious cause. I have seen this on certain laptops when external peripherals are added/removed after waking from sleep. Sometimes forcing sleep/wake or a reboot will fix.

    Use lscpu at the cmdline or better yet install gnome extension 'system monitor next' and put the cpu freq graph in your top bar to watch it in realtime.

    https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3010/system-monitor-next/

  • Where to start with backups?

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  • A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

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  • The EFF have a page on this, setting out the threats:

    https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-16-years-under-dmca

    ...which is mostly a link to:

    https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2014.pdf

    ...whose summary reads as follows.

    The “anti-­‐circumvention” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. The law was ostensibly intended to stop copyright infringers from defeating anti-­‐piracy protections added to copyrighted works.[1] In practice, the anti-­‐circumvention provisions have been used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities. As a result, the DMCA has become a serious threat to several important public policy priorities:

    The DMCA Chills Free Expression and Scientific Research.

    Experience with section 1201 demonstrates that it is being used to stifle free speech and scientific research. The lawsuit against 2600 magazine, threats against Princeton Professor Edward Felten’s team of researchers, and prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have chilled the legitimate activities of journalists, publishers, scientists, students, programmers, and members of the public.

    The DMCA Jeopardizes Fair Use.

    By banning all acts of circumvention, and all technologies and tools that can be used for circumvention, the DMCA grants to copyright owners the power to unilaterally eliminate the public’s fair use rights. Already, the movie industry’s use of encryption on DVDs has curtailed consumers’ ability to make legitimate, personal-­‐use copies of movies they have purchased.

    The DMCA Impedes Competition and Innovation.

    Rather than focusing on pirates, some have wielded the DMCA to hinder legitimate competitors. For example, the DMCA has been used to block aftermarket competition in laser printer toner cartridges, garage door openers, videogame console accessories, and computer maintenance1 services. Similarly, Apple has used the DMCA to tie its iPhone devices to Apple’s own software and services.

  • What are you playing this weekend? 2026-01-16

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  • Yep, items stored in home storage can now be used as DIY materials.

  • Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is

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  • What are you playing this weekend? 2026-01-16

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  • Like the new hotel and that you don't have to take items for crafting around with you any more.

  • Self-Host Weekly #154: Hello, My Name Is

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  • They link to Chandler (monica vNext) which is an now an archived repo however I think dev work has moved to main branch in Monica repo? So possibly misunderstanding...

  • What are you playing this weekend? 2026-01-16

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  • Animal Crossing is getting some attention with the new update this week!

  • Recommendations for games like Compile?

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  • Ukraine’s Sci-Fi Gem “U Are the Universe” Strikes a Chord With Wartime Audiences

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  • Ostrikov said US financiers expressed interest in backing the film on the condition that the main character be changed from a man from Khmelnytskyi to an American, he declined.

  • Guys please in your privacy journey don't forget the routers

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  • Good to know, a pity about the ISP

  • Guys please in your privacy journey don't forget the routers

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  • How was your experience with it?

  • How Safe is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into crates.io

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  • It would be good to know how these figures compare to e.g. pypi, npm.

  • Help with task management & prioritzing

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  • I like the pomodoro technique. Breaks your time up into focussed chunks so you guarantee to make some progress on one thing within a chunk and helps build momentum.

    If you get into routine you may even be able to plan whole days e.g. spend 8 pomodoros on your essay and the remaining pomodoros can be distributed across chores, other small admin.

    The focus helps avoid overwhelm. You can put other concerns out of your mind whilst in a pomodoro as you know they will get their own pomodoro later.

    Can also be adjusted for your energy levels, maybe some days you're only going to get a few pomodoros done but that's ok, you're still moving forward.

    The regular enforced breaks are also helpful to avoid sitting still for too long and paying attention to bodily needs.

    Doesn't help with prioritisation directly but knowing you've got a fixed number of daily pomodoros to 'spend' may help you think about where your time goes in a systematic manner.

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  • Request: Youtube application/frontend with good touchscreen support

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  • There's an unofficial desktop version of Newpipe now it seems:

    https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe

    I've not tried desktop but I do use it on Android. Taps to the left\right advance video in multiples of 10s. Dragging vertically on left/right adjusts volume and brightness. It's a pretty decent touch interface I'd say.

  • Do dotfile management tools such as GNU Stow gracefully handle apps with dynamic directory names? (e.g. Firefox profile directories)

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  • Stow cannot do this as far as I know. Chezmoi can though you'll need to fiddle with templates and ignores to achieve it:

    https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/manage-machine-to-machine-differences/#handle-different-file-locations-on-different-systems-with-the-same-contents

    However as others have said a dotfile manager may not be appropriate for all apps. It assumes a certain kind of behaviour of the app - known config locations, text files etc.

    I think your suggestion to backup/clone/restore your ideal Firefox config onto new machines is probably most practical if you do want to use a dotfile manager with it. That way you ensure the dir name is the same across all machines. Then you can use stow to manage parts of the profile going forward.

    I would consider FF's own sync solution also though - I believe you can self-host it too.

  • UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow

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  • One example the ORG used

    After former US president Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the court over its arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports emerged that the email account of chief prosecutor Karim Khan was blocked. Microsoft denied cutting off access, but the ICC later confirmed that in October 2025 it had stopped using Microsoft services altogether, switching instead to openDesk, an open source European platform.