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I've been using this unofficial client for years, so it's been a while since I tried the PWA version. In my use, this client brings 2 things missing from PWA: notification count in the tray area, and respecting default browser for opening links.

I thought I could get by without a tray icon, but it turned out to be too cumbersome to have to explicitly open the window and make sure no one messaged me while I was at lunch, or whatever.

I use firefox for my main browser; and teams doesn't work great there. So I have to use Edge or Chrome. But then, when someone sends a link in Teams, it opens in that browser. This unofficial client acts like an actual standalone app and opens links in my default browser. Now if they sent a link that lands on some other office365 thing, there is about a 15% chance that just won't work ;)

But yeah, if you are able to mostly avoid this POS, then those 2 things likely don't matter and PWA is fine.

Semi-related: Why do sites grab search keystrokes (like '/' on github) to force me to use their crappy search when I'm trying to find content on the page I'm currently on?

As someone who administers DNS servers, I'm going to guess this is due to DNS being the first thing that gets blamed when something goes wrong; and it is almost never DNS.

Skyglobe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyglobe

It didn't run speedily on the 286 IBM clone that we had, but it was pretty amazing to me at the time (ca. 1993)

Bitwarden's help pages state storage is in Azure cloud: https://bitwarden.com/help/data-storage/#on-bitwarden-server...

So if there is an observation of an issue, it's reasonable to connect those dots, plus their statement on that page "All uptime, scalability, security updates, and guarantees are backed by Microsoft and their cloud infrastructure" pretty much says any issues are MS/Azure problems.

I had been using Swiftkey on my iPhone and in the middle of typing something, my keys disappear and is replaced with, what is effectively, an ad to use "Microsoft Speech Recognition". Extremely annoying to be in the middle of typing something and having to say "no thanks" to extra MS crap they are trying to shove onto you.

Previously, they also added a Bing AI button to the keyboard, but they did actually make a setting to disable that.

Edit: Upon mentioning this to a coworker and digging into this a bit more, it may have been that I accidentally clicked the microphone to bring up that screen, and that it didn't target an ad. I'm not quite sure what happened though, so I'm leaving my comment as is :)

Question privacy concerns with CloudFlare stating "giving up security for convenience", and then have comments for your blog post on Disqus.

Google Reader gives a good example of why one may want to host an RSS reader on their own.

https://cactus.chat/ exists to do just that.

It looks like after 3 more minutes of testing, it's a me problem. There is one particular file that goes bonkers, which just so happened to be the one I had up. If I start a new file in that project, or work on an existing file in a different project it's fine and the completion works as expected.

I can't make it work with the one file, but yeah...not a codeium problem at all. I'll be sure to test at least 5 minutes next time ;)

I'm definitely for any alternative to an MS solution (especially one where I have to give them actual money to use it), but I had kind of the same experience. Not extensive testing, and I'm using it in PyCharm, so I don't know if that changes the behavior.

The completion was weird. I tried to type "#Function to return the value passed". And it started to autocomplete with what I typed and what it was suggesting all jumbled up and completely unintelligible. Once I hit tab, it completed correctly, but it didn't make any sense until I hit tab, so I couldn't really see what I was completing until it was done.

The more I played with it, I noticed it started to not actually suggest anything. But the codeium plugin is just showing a wait spinner in my status bar, so maybe it's getting pounded with HN people testing it right now.

Yes, remote is actually "killer": https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/26...

I thought "yes", but just tested and turns out it's more like "kinda". It doesn't do a full sync on shutdown, but if something is modified it sends a sync push , and that change will get picked up after a few seconds. So if you have a note that you modify, and then allow a few seconds, and then close...That modification will show up on other devices outside of a full sync.

But you can't open joplin, create a note, and then immediately exit and expect the note to show up on other devices. It will still exist on the device it was created on, so it's not lost, it just hasn't synced yet. It will automatically sync the next time you start joplin though.

In my case, I use the vim key bindings, and am so accustomed to hitting "<esc>:w" (which does perform a sync) when I'm finished writing the note, I never noticed.

DisplayName @username Do I want to read a full length article in bite size chunks? That are sometimes arbitrarily 1/4

DisplayName @username Split across a bunch of little cards with a number to piece them together at the bottom? 2/4

DisplayName @username No, I do not. It's a bunch of extraneous crap that I have to filter out to read the actual point 3/4

DisplayName @username It is the wrong platform for that kind of content, and people are cramming it in anyway. 4/4

Just like on the Disney channel they don't have ads, they have programs "brought to you by our proud sponsor"

Thanks. I'll have to keep an eye on that.

I want an open source competitor to airtable. I use airtable very minimally, but what I do is on my phone, and makes use of barcode reading via the camera. I don't think any of the open alternatives support mobile, and I'm fairly certain none of them handle barcode reading (yet?). So far I think I'm stuck with airtable.

Specifically I am forced to use the horrible disaster that is MS Teams for work. So far, screensharing on Wayland with electron-based apps doesn't work.

I have used gnome pretty much since Fedora/RedHat started packaging it. For the past 2 years or so, I have been using Material Shell (https://material-shell.com/) which gives Gnome tiling functionality and I have been really happy with the overall experience.

But, just recently, a co-worker mentioned Sway. I have to use things that prevent me from using Wayland, so I decided to give i3 a try after touching it and not understanding it many years ago.

The point of my WM life story is, that after all that, I have stuck with i3 for about 3 weeks now and am falling in love with it. There were some gnome things that I missed, but was able to quickly piece things together to get the functionality I wanted. Being a vi guy also, I really like using modes for my keyboard shortcuts too. It definitely helps with my productivity (when I'm not playing with things to increase my productivity anyway :) )

As a person who administers servers I absolutely HATE that vscode does this.

I don't know much about the specifics of remote deployment, but I feel like having vscode do this is just the wrong approach. I would say it probably needs to be some other CI/CD pipeline or something outside of the editor.

The problems I have is that every user gets like 1.5G of node junk stuffed in their home directory to support this. VScode spawns processes as the user that can't be controlled that can just kill servers (This is one bug I found, but there are issues with this that go much farther back than 2 years ago, https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/26...)

There doesn't seem to be any way to control this on the server side, so if I have users with the ability to write to their home directory, I cannot stop them from pushing this and potentially killing an instance.

It would make sense that it would if the formatting was specified (though MS rarely makes much sense). I can't test this myself. I only have access to word online, and (unless I'm blind) there is no way to specify background on a text/paragraph in the online version.

It seems most of my posts here end up being a complaint about MS Teams. So here is another. Teams will happily take the formatting of "black text" from copying from Word for example. But anyone who is using a dark theme on Teams now can't read it because it "intelligently" kept the formatting that didn't even matter because it was just "plain back text". Had it been copied from something that didn't specify that formatting, it would have just worked.

"Unencrypted" by reading English-based text with his eyeballs :)

Missouri governor accused a journalist of "hacking" a government site for viewing the HTML source and discovering that a bunch of teachers' social security numbers were embedded in the page.

Instead of thanking him for finding and reporting the flaw so they could address the actual issue, the governor made legal threats.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-...

I self hosted things before google and Facebook existed to harvest all the information, because at the time there weren't many choices. When google in particular began offering great alternatives, I switched.

The death of Reader was the catalyst that had me bring it all back home. That and the continual upping of costs without any significant change in service (Dropbox).

It definitely means more tinkering to tweak everything the way I want it. But, I have the option to tweak it and overall I'm much happier with it. On the other hand, when my teenage daughter sees me using my self-hosted Searx instance for searching, will ask me things like "why can't you just use google like a normal person?"

In gnome, I'm using the "nothing-to-say" extension for this: https://github.com/wbolster/nothing-to-say

When I am in a video chat, glances reports teams taking between 120% and 140% of the CPU. that's when I'm passive participant not even sharing my camera.

Oh good. More bloat to confuse interactions and add to the jumbled up mess that is teams.

I am forced to use ms teams for work. Every time I attempted to share my desktop, teams would crash. I thought it was just because teams sucks. As it turns out, it seems to be that running under wayland was actually causing it. Everything works fine under x.org. After I was running with x.org for a couple days, I realized there are quite a few little oddities that I just lived with and didn't realize it was because wayland was actually messing things up.

Just this week I started using kitty as my terminal. Overall I have liked it and I really love the icat kitten so I can "cat" image files directly in my terminal.

I haven't yet figured out how to change my font color from white to amber (which has been a preference of mine). I've tried just setting color7 and color15 to the amber hex color that I like, but that isn't doing it.

The other thing I can't figure out is how to get it to stop updating the window title. I know most people probably prefer it, I just don't want it to change every time I change directories. There is an obvious preference for that in gnome-terminal and I can't figure it out in kitty.