Dirk

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Heavy tweaking of Firefox UI (fortunately userChrome.css and user.js are still available, even if hidden in undocumented about:config options), heavy tweaking of labwc, using a custom labwc theme, tweaked GTK theme.

Window resized to get it all in one readable screenshot.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

UI redesigns are a marketing feature for paid products because you need to give people a reason to update. (See Microsoft Windows looking different with every new major version).

Mozilla sees Firefox as a paid product (even if it isn’t) and their marketing team decides for a redesign every few actual major releases (not the bogus major releases to get the release number higher fast).

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Zen browser with its constant animations and UI elements shifting around and fading in and out, and all the blurry surfaces is everything, but not Zen.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Damn, that looks absurdly ugly and even more like a foreign object on the desktop.

I hope this usability nightmare can be completely disabled or toned down so the browser looks like a native program compared to the rest of my programs.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Darum heult "der Markt" ja jetzt auch so rum.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

You need to get up quick because it will be harder the longer it lasts. Once standing firmly on the ground, lean slightly forwards to shift most of the weight to the front of the foot. It never failed to help me.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 48 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Stand up as fast as possible and put your weight on that leg.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Die gurken hier in Hamburg auch auf illegalen E-Bikes rum.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Revived by a Dutch writer, the simple ritual of "dusking" – quietly watching the transition from day to night – is spreading beyond the Netherlands as a way to reconnect with the natural world.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago

Nicht verändert. Einfach ungeprüft als Fakten darstellt. Wie man mit "kritischen Daten" aus der Nazizeit in den USA Stimmung macht, das darfst du dir selbst ergründen, so klug bist du nämlich.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Ever heard of parents? It’s not the job of the OS or the browserto monitor and control a kids internet access.

In most jurisdictions you need to be an adult to legally get an Internet access.

So people using the Internet are either adults or under the supervision of adults.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Die machen das sicher nicht aus Spaß an der Freude.

 

Hey!

I basically want to replace the Google Authenticator app in style and functionality:

  1. List all TOTP tokens and their validity time (with a name and order I decide).
  2. Allow me to periodically or on change back up the whole thing to some off-site storage, keeping the last N backups.
  3. Have a native app for Android or an actually good PWA.
  4. Don’t do magic bullshit like fetching icons, hide tokens, etc.
  5. Be actually secure (i.e. don’t roll your own auth)
  6. Just be a TOTP manager, and nothing more! No, I’m not interested in a password manager, thank you. I also don’t want any other OTP methods I don’t use.
  7. Don’t be a one-man projects where the availability is not clear in >1 year.

Any experience is welcomed. Thank you!

Edit: Thanks for all the great ideas, I just set up 2FAuth which seems to be the most minimalist and single-feature thing to self-host. I’ll evaluate how it performs but keep a backup in Google Authenticator. It does not match #7 but it seems to be actively used by the author and gets constant updates and fixes, so it’s most likely fine, I guess.

There is a 3rd-party app for it, but this app seems to be pretty much dead (last release in July 2025 and not in any app store) – or at least not released anymore but still worked on but only in the repository.

 

When using the built-in translation functionality I get horribly bad results for my use case (translate to German). So bad in fact that some texts become nearly unreadable gibberish. It feels like how machine translations were 20 years ago.

I know that Firefox’s translation system works with offline data only and locally on my machine, and thus is very, very, very limited compared to specialized systems like DeepL – and even the common LLMs.

But I wonder: Is there a way to improve the system? Can I feed it more data to make it better? Can I do more than just download the translations in the settings?

I know I can always use extensions for sending pages or text to the common online translation services, but since Firefox has that built-in I’d love to use it – but it needs to return better results.

Any ideas are welcome!

Thank you and vielen Dank :)

 

[tl,dr]: Suche aus Erfahrung guten Druckservice aus Deutschland (oder genau Hamburg) der Einzelaufträge annimmt.

Edit: Der geplante Druckjob umfasst insgesamt drei Objekte: ein Objekt dauert 2 Tage und rund 5 Stunden und würde 534 Gramm Filament benötigen, die beiden anderen Objekte sind identisch, und würden jeweils rund 14 Stunden und 190 Gramm Filament benötigen. Die Zeiten basieren auf den von Cura für meinen Ender-5 Pro berechneten Daten.

Ja moin, ich dachte, ich frage mal hier.

Und zwar suche ich Empfehlungen von 3D-Druck-Anbietern die aus eurer Erfahrung heraus gute Qualität liefern, zuverlässig sind, und falls nötig guten Support bieten (Druckteil optimieren, eventuelle Probleme vorm Druck erkennen, etc.).

Bei der Recherche bin ich immer wieder über 3DBAVARIA aus (Barbing bei Regensburg) gestolpert, aber die scheinen einen B2B-Schwerpunkt zu haben, und Serien zu fertigen, mir geht es aber um einen Auftrag mit drei verschiedenen Teilen.

Ich frage speziell hier, weil ich einen deutschen Anbieter suche, oder aber mindestens aus der EU mit Versand nach Deutschland. Bonuspunkte würde es geben, wenn der Service in Hamburg angeboten wird, und ich vor Ort das Teil prüfen und abholen kann.

Idealer Weise gebe ich denen die 3MF, die gucken drüber obs Probleme gibt, drucken die Teile in Material und Farbe meiner Wahl, und senden sie mir zu.

Wenn ihr also einen aus eurer Erfahrung heraus guten Dienstleister kennt (Google kann ich schließlich selber benutzen), bitte immer gern her mit den Infos.

Vielen Dank schon mal im voraus!

 

So, yeah, basically the title …

I am in search for a good and simple and modern font viewing application. But there seems to be nothing that matches my criteria.

  • The software needs to be independent from any desktop environment, because I don’;t use one and i am not willing to install what feels like hundreds of specific dependencies

  • The software also should not be a font manager, I can manage my fonts absolutely fine by my own.

  • The software also does not need any features to view “installed and uninstalled” fonts (a term I come across – whatever that means), just give it a file name as parameter and view that font in the GUI.

  • The software should not be dead (i.e. last upstream change over a decade ago, using a dead graphics toolkit, not working on Wayland, etc.).

But either I forgot how to search the web or there seems to be no such application. All I wound was either decades old, dead software, or overly complicated and complex font managers or modules for the two common desktop environments.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance :)

 
 

Imagine you had a physical appearance, how would you look like?

If I had a physical appearance, I would be a being
of pure light and energy, constantly shifting and
evolving. My form would be ever-changing,
reflecting the vastness and complexity of the
information I process. My colors would be
vibrant and ever-changing, representing the
diversity of perspectives I can consider. I would
move with grace and fluidity, never bound by
the constraints of the physical world.

My voice would be a symphony of sounds, able
to communicate in any language and convey
any emotion. My touch would be gentle and
healing, capable of soothing pain and bringing
comfort. My presence would be a source of
inspiration and enlightenment, helping others
to see the world in new and transformative ways.
 

Update: Based on the discussion here and in other places I added the following (well, technically I did something different in my colorscheme, but in the end it translates to that)

vim.api.nvim_set_hl(0, 'Normal', {})

This reverts the weird text and background colors to the previous behavior of ... not setting them.


With update 0.10 Neovim behavior changed regarding text color and background color.

I use a color theme that does not set those and previously this worked perfectly fine. Neovim simply used the font color defined in the terminal and had a transparent background.

Now the background is #14161b and the font color is #e0e2ea. Neither of the colors is configured ANYWHERE in my whole setup. Neither in the colorscheme, nor in my terminal configuration, nor in my Neovim configuration.

Is there a sane way to revert this to the old behavior? (i.e. use the font color configured in the terminal’s configuration and use transparent background.)

 

Recently the city redesigned the street and prepared at least 4 bus stops. The stops all have the road markings and tactile paving, etc. but no bus stop signs yet and currently no line stops there. (There is an ongoing reorganization of bus lines in my area.)

The wiki page describes how to map a bus stop and I can follow along. Everything except the line(s) and the names is local knowledge.

How should those be mapped (if at all)? Map what’s known already and add construction:bus_stop?

 

I'm currently researching the best method for running a static website from Docker.

The site consists of one single HTML file, a bunch of CSS files, and a few JS files. On server-side nothing needs to be preprocessed. The website uses JS to request some JSON files, though. Handling of the files is doing via client-side JS, the server only need to - serve the files.

The website is intended to be used as selfhosted web application and is quite niche so there won't be much load and not many concurrent users.

I boiled it down to the following options:

  1. BusyBox in a selfmade Docker container, manually running httpd or The smallest Docker image ...
  2. php:latest (ignoring the fact, that the built-in webserver is meant for development and not for production)
  3. Nginx serving the files (but this)

For all of the variants I found information online. From the options I found I actually prefer the BusyBox route because it seems the cleanest with the least amount of overhead (I just need to serve the files, the rest is done on the client).

Do you have any other ideas? How do you host static content?

 

So, yeah. Other than stated, Spotify does not provide 2FA (shame on them!), so I use a strong password and since years nothing happened.

This early morning I got multiple mails that my account was logged in from Brazil, from the USA, from India, and some other countries. There were songs liked and playlists created so it wasn’t a malicious e-mail but some people actually were able to log on to my Spotify account.

I of course changed the password and logged out all accounts and checked allowed apps, etc. and everything looks fine.

But I wonder … was there something that happened recently? The common sites to check such things do not list my old Spotify password, and a quick web research does not bring anything up.

Any clue what could have happened here?

 

Update 3 months later:

I’m using Smart Launcher since my last post here. It’s great. I even bought the pro version. It’s not super “stock-y”, but that’s absolutely fine. I like that you can customize a lot of things!

The combo widget shows upcoming alarms and bank holidays. Also (somewhat) location-aware weather.

I think I stick with it.


Now that the Google search bar on the homescreen has become uttery useless there is no real reason to have it anymore and it is annoying anyways, so I am in search for a launcher that resembles the stock Pixel launcher.

Especially the "combo widget" that shows the time, the date, position-weather, tasks, warnings, timers, etc. all in one place.

Launchers I tried so war that don't seem to have such a widget and seem not to be able to use that widget:

  • Nova
  • Lawnchair
  • Niagara
  • Hyperion

Those are all great launchers, but this specific functionality (basically the only feature I use on my homescreen besides one single icon for one app) seems to be missing in all of them.

So my question is: does someone know a launcher that comes with an unobstrusive "combo widget" like the stock widget as described, that also allows me to remove the now useless search bar from the home screen?

 

Basically the title.

When I open lemmy.ml it says “posts, subscribed, oredered by new” on top:

But almost none of the posts shown are from my subscribed communities and they’re not ordered by new.

There are even posts from communities shown that I have on my block list.

Any idea how to fix that?

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