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13 Jul 2023 @ 07:36:18

Thunderbird 115 Supernova is out, and it is hideous. Not just the looks (I ducking hate that Outlook look!), but the bloat. Why couldn’t an email client remain just for emails? Couldn’t care less about its calendar. Ugh, I am getting too old…

rants tech
11 Jul 2023 @ 12:03:50

Feature request for iOS: setting to allow all calls from Contacts to ring through, all others go straight to voicemail. In other words, an allowed list (as opposite to disallowed, duh!).

apple tech
11 Jul 2023 @ 09:51:31

New Red Hat owners, IBM, “f***** around, and they are finding out”. Their decision to stop publicly releasing RHEL source code is going to come back to bite them. New distros pledging to be RHEL compatible have spawned, and now SUSE and Oracle are, too, having their saying.

rants tech unix
10 Jul 2023 @ 07:33:19

Upgraded my Mastodon instance to 4.1.4. Forever grateful to the “Update Notifications” bot which remind us all running the software to upgrade/update as needed. I would probably be in troubles without it.

social tech
07 Jul 2023 @ 15:34:36

Removed HTML and CSS files from caching here (server side). I don’t like having to hard refresh to see a new note. Let’s see if it works.

Seems to be working! I simply created a separate header @content cache-control max-age=0, where @content has HTML, and CSS files in it.

selfhost tech
06 Jul 2023 @ 15:53:01

If, when going to a website, the first thing it does within seconds of browsing it is showing me a floating request for my email address, I am almost 90% sure I will not be coming back. If it only allows 1 free article, I am 100% not coming back.

rants tech
06 Jul 2023 @ 10:01:46

Added the beginning of a “uses” page, which is linked at the bottom, on the footer. I am not sure I want to add links at the top—like a menu—or just keep Notes simple, as I have it now. Probably the later.

hugo tech
05 Jul 2023 @ 15:36:05

How many messaging apps does Google has, and/or has had? Many. All current (and past, with the exception of Google Talk) were/are rubbish. I am never, ever trusting Google with anything they produce. They have pretty much ceased to exist for me. End of rant.

google rants tech
05 Jul 2023 @ 15:26:58

This needs to be said because even though these notes are pseudo-anonymous, nothing on The Tubes truly is: any and all opinions listed here are my own, and not representative of my employers; future, past, and present. There, done. Phew!

life tech
05 Jul 2023 @ 13:56:12

Today I learned about Unicode’s Private Use Areas. That explains why you can see this symbol  on an Apple device, but can’t on Windows.

apple tech
05 Jul 2023 @ 10:57:00

I don’t think this is a good news. It could mean LXD “might” get killed further down the line. That would make me—and others, I am sure—sad.

tech unix
04 Jul 2023 @ 16:18:05

I have changed so many things here ever since I started, I should have kept a change log. I know I have the git log, but it isn’t the same. Maybe it is not too late to start? Meh, on second thoughts… too lazy. Day’s almost over now, better do something productive. You know, like watching some Korean series. Ha!

kdramas tech
03 Jul 2023 @ 16:05:31

I have fiddled a little, and added OpenGraph support to these notes. It is still kind of ugly, but less so than it was before. Baby steps, right? Now I will not be afraid to share them on Messages.

hugo tech
03 Jul 2023 @ 13:50:37

I was fairly flexible on this, and would follow links to it depending on who was sharing them. Yet, as of now and forward, will not follow/click/tap on anything linking to Twitter. What was left of my relationship with it is now over.

social tech
03 Jul 2023 @ 12:12:07

SUSE is positioning itself to take advantage of Red Hat’s changes (which has sparked criticisms). Excellent approach!

rants tech unix
03 Jul 2023 @ 10:16:08

This is rubbish. Same as this. I can’t think of any other word to use for them. Canonical’s Ubuntu management and deployment tools are not even close to Red Hat’s.

rants tech unix
23 Jun 2023 @ 11:18:53

Someone please come up with a nice interface for Lemmy, and I will jump right in. It seems to be very, very slow too.

social tech
23 Jun 2023 @ 07:56:40

If you have an Apple device (iPhone, iPad, Watch, AppleTV, Mac), please update it as soon as possible. This, as with any other security updates, I stress, must be done as soon as you can.

For iPhone/iPad, go to “Settings → General → Software Update”, and choose to install. For WatchOS, go to “Settings → General → Software Update”, and follow the instructions to upgrade. Finally, for macOS go to “System Settings → General → Software Update” (on older versions is a bit different, but you get the general idea).

apple tech
22 Jun 2023 @ 11:54:16

I have managed to break links a bit further, and it is no longer possible—nor the old ones will work—to create anchor links within the paginated index. On the upside, I am not touching URIs ever again!

hugo tech
20 Jun 2023 @ 07:56:06

Cool URIs don’t change, but I am starting to worry about the size (66.6KB as of this note) of this index page. Maybe my URIs are destined to be uncool. 😂

hugo tech
05 Jun 2023 @ 14:55:50

VisionPro is going to be something. But its true popularity will come down to its pricing, and how many games (yes, games) they get on-boarded. I am hopeful, though.

Update: 04 Oct 2025 @ 17:42:39

It will cost $3,500. When a meal for three on a not-super-fancy restaurant costs $260, it is easy to see how a TV, computer, and high definition camera all in one—and that barely starts to describe VisionPro—will cost that much.

apple tech
31 May 2023 @ 12:41:00

CommonMark’s ability to set classes and identifiers is amazing. Hugo (which I use to generate this notes) is using it. They work like so, in CommonMark markdown:

Hello world.
{.foo .bar #foh}

Which, in turn, will render and HTML code like this:

<p class="foo bar" id="foh">Hello world.</p>

Now all you have to do is define the class and id on your CSS, or whatever. Neat, right?

css hugo tech
30 May 2023 @ 16:24:54

Skynet looms on the nearby horizon. Time to see “Terminator” again!

“I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong,” Mr. Altman told the Senate subcommittee. “We want to work with the government to prevent that from happening.”

movies tech thoughts
30 May 2023 @ 15:43:51

Based on what I have seen of Landscape, and MAAS, I would say Red Hat doesn’t have to worry much about Canonical, when it comes to Linux on the enterprise.

rants tech
30 May 2023 @ 12:59:34

From the SQLite license:

“May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.”

quotes tech
27 May 2023 @ 01:26:59

How is the Windows XP algorithm been cracked news? If someone offered me $10,000 to use Windows XP, I would pass.

rants tech
27 May 2023 @ 00:45:04

Obsidian is working so great for me, that has made me go out and look for things I want to keep, and catalogue, and enhance. On another note, it is past midnight, and I don’t feel a speckle of sleepiness. My body must know tomorrow… err, today is Saturday.

me tech
23 May 2023 @ 08:13:03

Having grown tired of seeing “Added or edited a note, or tweaked something.” on the commit logs for these notes, I have now tweaked the new note script to ask for a commit message. This is the maiden voyage, let’s see if it works.

Update: 04 Oct 2025 @ 17:18:14

It works! Added editing old notes too. Considering migrating from the vi editor to Typora for any note with media in it.

hugo tech
22 May 2023 @ 08:37:43

“Everyone wants a foldable phone, but most of us can’t afford one yet”, a headline on CNN. No, I don’t want one. Pff!

tech thoughts
03 May 2023 @ 15:42:18

Google Passkey is a step in the right direction. Setup, and in use. Smooth.

google tech
01 May 2023 @ 15:57:50

“Rapid Security Responses are a new type of software release for iPhone, iPad and Mac. They deliver important security improvements between software updates – for example, improvements to the Safari web browser, the WebKit framework stack or other critical system libraries. They may also be used to mitigate some security issues more quickly, such as issues that may have been exploited or reported to exist.” — Rapid Security Responses

This is new, at least for me, and interesting. There seems to be more to gain than to lose by installing, and enabling it. Done!

apple tech
30 Apr 2023 @ 22:20:26

I have moved this one out of GitHub. With this move, I now do not have any website running on that service. It served me well for years, but now it is time to move on. It will remain my go to for git repositories, but nothing else.

github tech
28 Apr 2023 @ 12:16:24

I think I have finally migrated my work wiki to Obsidian. After many tries, I have left my trusted Typora (which I still use, just not to keep my wiki) behind and embraced Obsidian. Now I only use two tools for note taking, knowledge repository, and outlining: Obsidian, and Logseq.

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