Magnus Åhall

Phew, looks good on the news with the packaging bug (if they didn’t just got cold feet for worse PR/backlash than they expected and this is a backtracking).

In this case, hopefully Garcia is employed for his expertise and can be deployed to further open source relations :)

I’m running a couple of Vaultwarden instances, and it would be really nice if Bitwarden employed Garcia to improve the Rust backend. But as the bitter cynic I am, I guess it is an effort to shut down and control as much of the open source use of Bitwarden as possible.

The worst case, someone will most likely fork Vaultwarden and we can still access it with Keyguard on mobile and the excellent Vaultwarden web interface :)

Daniel García, owner of the Vaultwarden repo, has recently taken employment for Bitwarden.

The plot thickens.

Same - Evolution offers one thing Firebird dosen’t - connecting to the work cloud Microsoft account!

We have had the opposite problem in the past. A cert provider requiring us to exist in certain international directories of companies took weeks of waiting around on bureaucratic red tape.

Then they didn’t even call us to verify our existance, place of business or anything (yeah, this was one of the big certificate providers a long time ago).

Their website was horrible, and their support wasn’t better.

LetsEncrypt though hasn’t failed me once since it was setup, and that is over hundreds of domains with thousands of renewals.

First thing I do on a new laptop is remapping a key I won’t be using much to Insert, which I use all the time :)

My go to smartphone keyboard is MessagEase. A few larger buttons instead of many small. You can get quite fast on it, and larger buttons means fewer mistakes.

Last 25 years I have been using a couple of different tiling window managers. My main workstations usually have four monitors, accessed by AltGr+number.

I heavily base my workflow on virtual desktops, accessed by Ctrl+number.

Each virtual desktop have a specific type of programs on it:

1. Development
2. Terminals
3. Browsers
4. Communication / documentation
5. Multimedia
6. Graphics
7. SQL
8. Debugging
9. Email
10. Virtual machines / monitoring

So with this I can access nearly every program with AltGr+number, Ctrl+number which is quite quick. As long as I remember the monitor I placed it on, I always know which virtual desktop.

I use chained keyboard shortcuts for window manager shortcuts, here: https://files.ahall.se/images/i3-keybindings.svg (old one, this has grown a bit…)

The chaining allows me to easier remember shortcuts with mnemonics, and they are fast enough, especially considering the amount of shortcuts I can scale it to.

• Alt+T to start the chain, L for Layout, R for Resize.
• Alt+T, R for Run, I for Inkscape.
• Alt+T, A for Audio, N for Next.

There are some exceptions for the most used focus- and window moving operations, as well as for managing a clipboard buffer system. There are too many times when one goes back and forth to copy something, paste it somewhere else and going back for the previous one. So I can copy something, press Ctrl+Shift+3 to put in buffer 3. After a few other copy/pastes, I bring it into clipboard again with Ctrl+Alt+3. This also allows me to for example reload a page I’m working on and login with user/pass easily accessible in buffer 1 and 2, or login to four different network devices again and again without going to a text file and copying one of four passwords each and every time.

I wrote a special session manager via socket for i3 to be able to press Ctrl+number and go to a certain predefined desktop on the current monitor I’m at.

Nyårslöften kommer jag inte ge mig på, men 2024 ska en snickarbänk bli designad och byggd till den lilla verkstaden på tomten som blev renoverad med nytt tak och delvis väggar 2023. Ett steg i taget :)

I was made aware of Lemmy through links on reddit, with the whole API horror show.

Also most happy about it, and although I’m still not that active, I’m participating a bit more now. It definitively feels better to contribute to a group effort like Lemmy than to a large corporation that makes me the product.

I’m using ed for small edits when I know exactly that only a certain line needs to be deleted, or a word changed.

I’m horrfied every day at work that copy/paste still is an issue. All my coworkers and customers are still struggling with copying some data, switching to another program, pasting it, switching back, copying some other data, and so on, especially when needing two or three data frequently.

In Windows, a (bad) solution is using win+tab, which literally no one knows about, much less uses.

In Linux (and should be in Windows too), it is trivial to implement buffers (say 0-9) to store and retrieve clipboard data for subseconds access.

Javascript/Preact/Lesscss on frontend with a backend written i Go, using Postgres for data needs. Sometimes with websockets in between if needed.

Somewhere along the lines of 10-15 years?

Author turned TCP/IP off on the server ☺

I have taken up the habit of being at work one-two hours before anyone else.

I get undisturbed, effective work done, and I leave earlier. More work done, more own time with family each day.

I’m still reachable through phone, add can fix most catastrophic problems from home, but that is so seldom occuring that it is OK, and collegues don’t complain about me not being in office after 15:00.

You are completely right about SwitchOS, and it is even more exciting that some models sells in two versions, with the only difference being called CSS* for SwitchOS, or CRS* for RouterOS. And the SwitchOS-enabled model is much cheaper, so customers ordering for themselves almost always pick the wrong one (that is, SwitchOS, which we can’t manage properly in our automations and other software solutions).

My collegues wouldn’t appreciate my shell config in the root account, especially the vi bindings ;)

As long as /bin/sh isn’t pointing to zsh, you haven’t messed anything up. A lot of public scripts wouldn’t expect to be run under zsh.

If you write your own scripts, I’d say to use zsh, but start it with #/bin/zsh (or whatever resolves to zsh) to be explicit about the fact that it is designed for zsh and nothing else. Most scripts written aren’t going to be distributed to hundred of thousands of systems, but at most used in a handful of systems. No point in not enjoying some things zsh does better in scripts.

A lot of systems have other dependencies as well, and as long as a system which has scripts in it is specifing zsh along with other dependencies, I wouldn’t see the problem. zsh doesn’t take up much space or introduce other problems just by being installed.

As for the root shell, you can put Defaults env_keep += HOME in your sudo configuration. That will have sudo -s run your usual zsh with its usual configuration for interactive, daily use. Be aware of any config that shouldn’t be run as root.

sudo -i will still run the shell root is assigned in /etc/passwd, and everything run as root would function ar expected.

Can only agree on Mikrotik routers. All are using RouterOS, which works the same on all their devices, from routers to switches and access points.

They are relatively cheap for the capabilites you’re getting. They have their own scripting language, two APIs (their new one is REST-based).

GUI (winbox is recommended, and plays nice with wine. Wouldn’t recommend web interface, just cumbersome) and CLI exists.

They have a lot of builtin functionality, like DHCP server, DNS server with static configuration, and even file sharing. Some models are powerful enough to run Docker images on (yes, that’s builtin…).

We’re running a couple of hundred and don’t have much problem with them.