Thank you for highlighting that. The example was intended to show the (maybe exaggerated) pathological state of web development and certainly not an example to be followed.

In seriousnes: yes please use a11y friendly markup. It helps your SEO, but more importantly it helps your visitors that use accessibility tools.

It doesn’t have to be hard. I use component libraries that abstract it out and adds the necessary aria attributes and semantic markup for me.

As a bonus my web app development is closer to using the rich component libraries I enjoy in desktop apps. Just be aware of the absolute mess of npm packages that come with it.

That on delete cascade is evil. I love it.

As a developer who has mostly worked with web, but also dabbled in some native app work: It’s not that the web UI frameworks are so much nicer. The native libraries I’ve used, at least, are actually much nicer to work with. I’ve worked with Delphi, Java Swing, various Windows frameworks, etc. React and friends are a chaotic mess in comparison and HTML was not designed for app development. You want a button? Here’s a div, go ahead and style it. Thanks, let me add 500 npm packages to my project.

No, the main reason I prefer to develop web apps is because they’re effortlessly cross-platform and automatically updated and distributed. No maintaining multiple versions. Updates are basically instant and happen across your user base. No code signing or paying to compile code on a Mac. No asking for install permissions on stupidly locked down enterprise workstations. Just deploy and go.

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve needed to create a native app due to some restriction like local file access or device access. Most of the time you’re just entering values into a database, so that can just be a website. PWAs are a pain to develop but they are much easier to deal with once they’re in the wild.

YMMV of course.

Yep. That is the simplest answer. From the link, directing stdout and stderr to a file:

nohup mycommand > mycommand.out 2>&1 &

GNU Screen is an alternative.

You can also use tmux and just disable the mouse by adding this to ~/.tmux.conf

set -g mouse off

Yes, you can get around it that way. You can also just disable it in VSCode settings. I could also just not use VSCode or CoPilot at all. It’s not that can’t be worked around; it’s that we shouldn’t have to. It’s the violation of trust we’re having issues with.

If I copy a solution from SO I usually put in a comment with a link to the answer to cite my source. I don’t mind crediting where credit is due, but claiming co-author for a spelling correction is a bit much.

The bug was fixed, but it still adds itself as co-author by default if you as much as use code completion powered by Copilot.

Combined with the fact that this doesn’t show up in your commit message dialog, and that is nothing but blatant advertising, this is just unacceptable.

I don’t necessarily mind crediting Copilot if it did substantial amount of the work, but it also seems redundant nowadays when AI has become as ubiquitous as using an IDE. Having used it for code completion just doesn’t seem to warrant co-author credit in that context. In other words if I had been able to edit that part of the commit message I’d probably be a lot less annoyed by this.

As it is, it’s just blatant overreach by Microsoft. Microsoft doing Microsoft things. Nothing has changed since the 90s.

Where are the Germans in this thread? I’m pretty sure they have a word for your tippy toes.

Location really matters in Norway, too. On the coast, the climate is pretty temperate with lows just below freezing, whereas up North (with the reindeer), the temperature can drop below -40 in the winter.

I’ve suggested this for ages to sell people on metric. Gas sounds cheaper per liter (smaller number), you weigh less in kg, etc. I don’t know why gas stations aren’t all over this with their shady marketing and 9/10 of a cent pricing.

It depends greatly on the game. For a shooter I probably just want to jump in for a little while and blast things. A lengthy intro will just be annoying.

Even forced tutorials are annoying like that. I like when games give me the option to skip, and then to come crawling back to the tutorial when I clearly should have done it anyway.

I think games that let you pick your own style and pace work best for me. Open world games, for example, where I can go discover the story for myself, but it’s just there in the background otherwise. I’m ok with some hints though, like overhearing NPC conversations or finding random notes.

Even something we simple as Portal works. You’re solving puzzles, but you can discover the story behind it by looking for more clues. Half life, too, is really light on telling you what’s going on until you play through and discover more. But you could also just play it through without paying any attention to the story part.

I don’t think I’ve bounced off a game because it was lacking a story, but I’ve definitely given up on games because there was too much fuss to get going. I have little tolerance for long unskippable cut scenes and dialogue as well.

I have quit games I just couldn’t figure out or enjoy without taking a long time to learn how it works before even getting started. I like to learn things gradually.

Don’t get me wrong: a good story that is revealed over time to be does add a lot to the game. I just want to feel like I’m paying a game, not watching a movie or reading a book

I guess I use “mug” and “cup” somewhat interchangeably as “container for coffee”. I would say it’s not all that common for coffee, but as you probably know, Americans carry water bottles/jugs/mugs everywhere and those can be up to 64oz (1.8L).

Personally I have a travel mug for coffee that is 24oz (709ml) and that is about my entire coffee consumption for the day (I don’t drink coffee after lunch). On a coffee maker that is about 5 “cups”. I have regular ceramic cups that are about 16oz (473 ml).

I don’t see anyone addressing the question from the post: whether it is a problem that Docker Desktop on Linux runs in a separate VM.

The page says:

Docker Desktop on Linux runs a Virtual Machine (VM) which creates and uses a custom docker context, desktop-linux, on startup. This means images and containers deployed on the Linux Docker Engine (before installation) are not available in Docker Desktop for Linux.

To expand on what that means: If you install Docker as usual (the CLI) on Linux, it runs as a process (running as root). The process will isolate the container processes from the rest of the system using Linux kernel features, but you’re really just running processes on your host kernel that have limited access to the file system, network, etc.

When you run in it a separate VM, which is how Docker Desktop is also run on Windows and MacOS, you are running it in a separate Linux instance (VM) that cannot communicate with the outside by default. So, if you’re running Docker on the host computer and inside a VM, those are separate Docker installs and can’t talk to each other. That is what the warning is about.

You can absolutely expose the VM to the outside, the same as if you ran it on Windows. Docker will let you expose those ports and it handles the messy bits of the networking for you. You just have to tell Docker when you run the container (on the command line or in a docker compose file) which ports to expose. By default, nothing is exposed. To do that you can use the -p option. For example:

docker run --rm -it -p 8080:80 httpd

Will run an instance of Apache HTTPd and expose it on port 8080. The container itself listens to port 80, but on the outside it’s 8080. If you then hit http://localhost:8080/ you should see “It works!”.

A note on Docker networking: from within the container, localhost is referring to the container itself, not the host. So if you try to do e.g. curl http://localhost:8080/ inside the container, your connection would be refused.

Docker Desktop is often frowned upon because you have to pay to use it in a commercial setting (there was some backlash because it used to be free), it’s quite expensive, and they require a minimum license count for enterprise licenses (I know because we bought one at work). So, I suggest exploring free alternatives like Podman Desktop. However, note that they do not always have feature parity with Docker Desktop.

I like Docker Desktop because it gives me a nice dashboard to see all my containers, resource usage, etc. I would not have requested it for work, though, if it weren’t for my IDE (Visual Studio) requiring it at the time (they have added Podman support since).

Final note: I recommend just diving into using Docker from the command line and learn that. Docker complicates networking a little bit because it adds more layers, but understanding Docker is very useful if you’re into self hosting or software development.

For Americans: Half a liter (500ml) is about 17oz.

For Europeans: common mug sizes in America range from 16oz (473ml) to 24oz (709ml) or even 30 oz (887ml)

If you’re just looking for appointment scheduling then Easy!Appointments may work. It has a self-hosted version. Note: I’ve not tested it, I just went searching online because I was curious.

Aside from that, there looks to be a ton of WordPress plugins you can use, though they usually have a (smallish) cost associated with them.

No idea about your specific case, but in the past when I’ve had frequent zombies it’s been due to some blocking network process; typically NFS mounts.

They don’t use any resources, but I agree they’re annoying and could indicate some underlying issue.

I would check for issues with I/O and network access, especially anything that happens at kernel level. Look for anything suspicious in dmesg.

Octopi launcher is looking good so far! Thank you for the suggestion.

Ugh. I’ve been holding out until now.

I’ve tried a ton of others but the only one I even half like is Lawnchair. The others are too restricted, too annoying or too creepy.

Does anyone know how to replicate the custom groups/tabs of apps inside the app drawer?

The app drawer and ability to choose my own search engine are what keeps me on it. I don’t want “smart” anything, just let me control it.

They have many ways to do this if they want:

• go after US entities, like the Linux Foundation. They only need to go after enough to make them fall in line
• Make it illegal to distribute non compliant systems, including downloads
• Make it illegal to operate or even possess a non compliant system

Even if they don’t go after individuals they can do a lot of damage in restricting trade and business use of something. The mere threat of legal action is though to make business owners nope out.

It’s already risky to draw attention to yourself by using privacy focused phones when traveling. It’s the ultimate “if your have nothing to hide why are you worried” situation.

They’re forcing legitimate users to either give up or go underground and risk being seen as criminals.

I’m not a cyber security expert, but I think about it this way:

First, consider your threat model. What could possibly go wrong? What do I do if the worst thing happens? What information do I need to protect? If everything is already public (like blog posts), maybe there isn’t much of a threat of information loss. If you keep your tax documents on there, maybe rethink that.

Second: think defense in depth. None of these measures will make you totally safe, but every barrier is another thing that can make a hacker’s life more difficult. You move the ssh port and it’s not as easily found by someone who’s just literally scanning the entire Internet for open ssh ports. It’s trivial to find, sure, but at least you dodged one bullet.

OK, they found your ssh port. Now they’re gonna start scanning for common username/password combinations. Fail2ban will stop this by blocking access after a few failures. If your credentials have leaked somewhere, the hackers may have a good guess at it though. But you’re OK because you’re using a key pair not your usual password (please don’t have a “usual password”).

Bad luck: they guessed your password. Or maybe they exploited a bug in your web server software (must have been a zero-day because you kept things up to date). Their exploit needs to open a server port for them to talk to, though. You blocked it on your firewall so that didn’t work. They try a reverse shell, but you blocked outgoing connections, too. Well done.

And on it goes.

If they keep trying, they will eventually succeed, but they have to try a lot harder when you lock things down, and the longer they are at it, the more opportunity you have to notice.