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Rondom··on Wayland vs. X – Overview
Take a look at input-leap. It has experimental support for Wayland.
Rondom··on Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Input Leap has wayland support as well. https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap
Rondom··on Ask HN: What is your financial “setup”?
5000 USD seems high to me as well for a student and you don't know what his girlfiend does. It does not really matter how high that amount as long it can cover unexpected expenses.

When I was a student, I made sure I always had at least 1000 EUR on my account, basically treating the 1000 as 0. I cannot remember ever running into debt this way.

Rondom··on Rob Pike on good commit messages (2014)
That's interesting. Working in an organisation that switched from Gerrit to Github, I saw a decline in commit message quality. Some people will just leave whatever is filled into the textbox by GitHub. In addition, there is no way for others to review the commit message this way.
Rondom··on Thunderbird 68.0
I faintly remember that usage was actually growing when Mozilla took the decision to not invest further in Thunderbird.

Of course, in proportion, most people used webmail, I guess.

Some (very) quick internet search reveals the blog post linked below. Cannot remember if that coincides with the time the decision was made, though...

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/02/thunderbird-usa...

Rondom··on Why the French love to say no
The following Louis de Funes movie scene demonstrates the use of si quite well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GioEH34fhxE

English dub: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=me9ft6HeaMQ

Rondom··on Why the French love to say no
"Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Hungarian, German, Dutch, and French all have three-form systems. Swedish and Danish have ja, jo, and nej. Norwegian has ja, jo/jau, and nei. Icelandic has já, jú and nei. Faroese has ja, jú and nei. Hungarian has igen, de, and nem. German has ja, doch, and nein. Dutch has ja, jawel, and nee. French has oui, si, and non."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_and_no#Three-form_system...

Rondom··on Google Is Eating Our Mail
It really got worse. In the past years (always the same IP, good reputation, DKIM), I had a few mails land in the spam folder of gmail users, but it did not happen very often.

This week I encountered the following situation the first time: 1. I received an email from a Google apps (or whatever it is called) user. My response to that email landed in the spam folder. 2. I exchanged one or two mails more with another person in the same organisation without problems. 3. Suddenly my response got rejected. I tried sending via various means such as via Thunderbird, via mobile on 4G, via mobile on Wi-Fi, changing the content slightly... No chance. My email got rejected. In the I ended up calling the person from number 1 on his mobile to get the second person's mobile number... Needless to say, I have been less than pleased.

Person 1 was very surprised about their spam filter misbehaving, but at least I can now offer an excuse by pointing to this blog post...

Rondom··on Google Is Eating Our Mail
I have never used Postmaster-tools. Is there any particular reason why it requires a Google-Account?
Rondom··on Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
Git has a mechanism to declare two commits equal and replace one with the other: man git-replace

This comes at the cost of having intentionally multiple histories and is not well-suited for complicate cases, but for the common case of "we want to stitch this old CVS-history to this commit", it does a good job.

Usability-wise, replace refs are not cloned automatically and some web-based tools lack support for it.

Rondom··on Fido: A powershell script to download Windows retail ISOs
I don't think it exists, the reason is that if your user agent is Linux you can download the ISO using a browser, so there is no big inconvenience.

If you are running Windows though, Microsoft will actively redirect you away so that you cannot download the ISO.

One might argue that downloading the script on other OSes is more hassle than visiting the Microsoft website to download the ISO...

Rondom··on PuTTY 0.71 released, fixing security vulnerabilities
I second that. The latest versions of Windows even have OpenSSH included.
Rondom··on Knoppix 8.5.0 Released
SUSE had it as default as well. Quite sad that it was tied so much to the main creator's personality and "private issues" kind of sealed the fate of it. :-(
Rondom··on How to Secure a Linux Server
Fully agree. You missed the most inaccurate one:

> Now you need to append the contents of the public key ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the target server. You'll want to do this in a secure way since the public key gives access to your server.

Rondom··on German for Programmers
In some contries it is (as an option to choose from) and at some schools even compulsory.
Rondom··on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
Not to mention xulplanet.com which had been very helpful as well.
Rondom··on Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
I think it is just a matter of what one is most comfortable with.

The HW-solution is a nice challenge, but I am sure, there are simpler ways to solve it.

On a sidenote: I would be surprised if the issue he has is systemic too Android devices in general. I am sure others would have noticed it if was that widespread that it occurred on all devices.

Rondom··on Al Lowe reveals his Sierra source code collection
SCUMMVM can read many other non-SCUMM game files these days.

https://scummvm.org/compatibility/

Rondom··on OpenBSD 6.4 released
LWN has a good article about unveil() which also discusses the approaches taken in the Linux world.

https://lwn.net/Articles/767137/

Rondom··on Apple File System Reference [pdf]
There is already one third-party-implementation in the works. They sure find this helpful in their efforts.

https://github.com/sgan81/apfs-fuse

Rondom··on Sweden offers glimpse of a world without Amazon
The China tax bothers me as well. For some electronics parts I cannot find a Swedish online shop selling the product in question. Maybe I find one shop selling it, at an unreasonable price. Instead, I resorted to shipping stuff to my parents in Germany and either fetching it on my next visit or having them send it to me. Yes, shipping cost from Germany to Sweden plus the Aliexpress-price is still cheaper than anything else.

I somehow resent China-shopping getting popular or even mainstream amongst average Joe and Jane (using Wish and the likes). I can see how that prompted this initiative.

Rondom··on Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
Debian and Ubuntu allow running Dropbear in initramfs to prompt for the FDE password
Rondom··on Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader from Firefox
Under Linux, that's done by Ctrl+Q (provided that you have set up Firefox to restore your previous session on restart).
Rondom··on Microsoft is updating Notepad
"You can now even search for words on Bing through Notepad by simply right clicking on them to get a new option"

That's what the world waited for... I am curious about the politics involved in the prioritization of this feature...

Rondom··on Show HN: Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations
Opera (Presto) supported 100% of the SVG standard, if I remember correctly.
Rondom··on Phabricator – GitHub Alternative written in PHP used by the Wikimedia Foundation
In Gerrit you can diff against previous versions of the patch, right from the web-ui.
Rondom··on Introducing extended line endings support in Notepad
On 32-bit versions of Windows, EDIT (the MS-DOS Editor) reads Unix file endings fine. So finally notepad reached feature-parity with that one...

I am not sure, when they introduced it. It might be that it happened in Windows 95, when edit became a stand-alone program. Not sure if the QBasic-based editor in DOS 6.22 or earlier supported it.

Rondom··on Swedes turn against cashlessness
Furthermore, a good cashier will already pick 1,55€ while the customer is paying and put it back is the customer is paying with a more fitting amount.
Rondom··on Prince of Persia Ported to the BBC Micro
There is some original footage here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gC3WEwSJoHs
Rondom··on Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles
BubbleUPNP on the mobile. On the PC, depending on your use case, any DLNA implementation like Rygel (GNOME) or Kodi will do.
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