Yeah this, although it seems to have slowed down I development. Last time I checked, scrolling was really laggy on Linux, and the according bug report was quite old. Man I wish I had more free time to dig into stuff like that.
Readit Newsiforgotpassword commented on 29 years later, Settlers II gets Amiga release gamingretro.co.uk/29-year... · Posted by u/doener
This mechanism sounds worth it.
So many times on X11 do I type some chat message, and then some popup from another program comes up, which I accidentally confirm by my typing containing a space which presses the confirmation button, and I don't even know what the popup was.
Or my password being typed in a popup.
I once patched some code into i3 to prevent this for myself, but it wasn't a clean solution.
Huh I'm also on i3 but I never run into this problem. If any program would start stealing focus I'd just uninstall it and yell at the author/vendor.
Afraid not. The documentation for AllowSetForegroundWindow() and the associated mechanism still exists, of course:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/...
But the last time I tried to test code using this to properly hand off foreground permission from one process to another, I had a hard time testing it because I couldn't get it to fail. When this mechanism was first introduced in Windows 98 and 2000, it was pretty aggressive -- if you were past the input timeout and foreground permission hadn't been forwarded or already shared, the target application would fail to come to the front and its taskbar button would light up instead. I haven't seen this happen in a long time on current Windows, programs steal focus all the time.
Haven't used windows in a decade, but there is (was?) a registry setting that would disable focus stealing prevention. Some egregious tools "helpfully" changed that setting for you when you installed them, because they couldn't get focus management to work properly. Maybe it's that?
iforgotpassword commented on Objects should shut up dustri.org/b/objects-shou... · Posted by u/gm678
Appliances that only have touch controls and make beeping sounds for every button pre^Wtouch. UX design has truly peaked. >:(
iforgotpassword commented on Microsoft became incompetent in IT mikekaganski.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/doener
And this is one of the (many) reasons that I have self-hosted my email for the last 20 years. Sure, I have had outages, and one or two times I have had to drop everything to fix the server due to a botched upgrade. But each time this happened it was my own fault and I myself was able to fix it. I have NEVER lost access due to some automated system putting me in the wrong category.
By the way, the biggest griefs I have had with self-hosting my email has been due to Microsoft. Their way of categorizing spam can pretty much be summed up to: does it come from an explicitly whitelisted commercial email provider? Probably not spam, otherwise: spam. They are criminally incompetent (also) in this area.
Yep, on the rare occasion I deal with someone who uses Microsoft for email, I give them a heads-up that they probably miss an email every now and then. I remember my last employer's mails often didn't reach them, and at some point they added a big warning to their sign up page when you used one of the Microsoft domains for your email.
>If you just use Emacs for coding, you're not going to gain anything from running it in a GUI.
That's true only if you think pointing devices are useless for editing and navigating code.
ADDED: I withdraw this comment.
What terminal are you using that doesn't support a mouse? Or is it emacs that doesn't have mouse support?
something that people forget with raid1 is that this only protect from catastrophic disk failure.
this means your your drive need to be dead for raid to do it's protection and this is usually the case.
the problem is when starts corrupting data it reads of writes. in that case raid have no way to know that and can even corrupt data on the healthy drive. (data is read corrupted and then written to both drives)
the issue is that there are 2 copies of the data and raid have no way of telling with one is correct so it's basically flips a coin and select one of them, even if filesystem knows that content makes no sense.
that's basically biggest advantage of filesystems like zfs or btrfs that manage raid themselves, they have checksums and that know with copy is valid and are able to recover and say that one drive appears healthy but it's corrupting data so you probably want to replace it
Made that experience once ca. 2011. I hosted a Minecraft server ona box with raid1.
The "cool" part was that I ran a cronjob that rendered the map to a png file once and hour, and at some point a friend asked why there were holes in the map. Back then, Minecraft stored every 16x16 chunk of the map in an individual gzipped file. When the raid1 decided to read the chunk from the bad drive, it couldn't unzip it. If that happened to the renderer, there was a hole on the map. If that happened to the game server, it would regenerate the chunk, and overwrite the old one on both drives, even the healthy one. Luckily as far a I remember that only happened on random terrain, otherwise someone would have ended up with half their house missing.
Have you ever lost track of the cursor to require a trail? (and if yes, what shape/color was the cursor)
Yes, happens occasionally. I just wiggle it left/right or up/down so I can see where it is. No big deal. But put of curiosity I might still try that one day, with a more subtle effect though. ;)
Wait, the app does what?
> The app aims to provide a space for women to exchange information about men in order to stay safe, and verifies that new users are women by asking them to upload a selfie.
What exactly does this mean? Which information is exchanged without consent of these people? This seems to me more problematic than the actual topic of the data breach.
You can use that app in different ways:
1) you dated a guy on tinder, he became all pushy on your first date, touched you inappropriately even though you said no. Or some guy became violent during your relationship and you even found out he has a history of that.
2) you dated a nice guy but he dumped you for whatever reason, and now you want to get back at him so you make up stuff like mentioned above, and post it there.
"Yes that's the right level of creepy that I want children to interact with. And you know what? Let's make it clear that black people are dumber than white people."
Must be a great place to work.