Paramdeo Singh @oedmarap@fosstodon.org
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Whipped up https://statuscodes.org for my own HTTP unit testing — so please feel free, everyone else. 👍
An article after my own heart by Ashley Kolodziej.
Here's to you HTML + CSS, and your Progressive Enhancement lovechild that some developers love to forget.
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andrew lee just seized over 700 channels on freenode because they mentioned libera.chat in their topic.
This includes projects like openbsd, wikimedia, FOSDEM, etc.
https://archive.is/uHw1g shows 720 channels that match what is being checked.
here's an example log: https://gist.github.com/pushcx/ab2a1d5b1d18e964c581ef18ccb3a79f
boost this if you care about foss in any way.
Funny how in #JavaScript there's the `Math.floor()` method, but then `Math.ceil()` exists instead of `Math.ceiling()`.
"I need the floor to be carpeted and the ceil to be paneled."
"You want us to do what to a seal sir?"
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You can subscribe to Mastodon accounts via RSS if you prefer.
Just add .rss to the end of an account's URL, for example https://mstdn.social/@feditips.rss
If you're unsure how to get an account's URL, just go to the account's profile page and click on their picture. This will open their public profile page, and the address of this page is the account's URL.
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WTF ... Mozilla had always running JavaScript inside PDFs disabled by default.
But now with FF 88 this option is ENABLED by default. Which means, if a PDF file contains JS it will run without any user interaction. What can possibly go wrong?
To disable this:
about:config
pdfjs.enableScripting --> false
# FF 78.10 ESR doesn't include this option and still blocks JS in PDFs by default. Just tested.
Everybody gangsta until GRUB gets overwritten.
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Using #xmpp is simple, secure and easy. Just create an xmpp account, install an xmpp client, login and start chatting.
Clear your cache often, but never your shell history.
CTRL + R is sacred.
Sometimes you come across a track that vibrates in unison with and electrifies the soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9LgHNf2Qy0
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@oedmarap Thank you for your support. You pretty much got the gist of it.
The free software movement that existed when I was a teenager, I want that back. I want free software projects to focus on just pumping lines of code into their git repositories!
Leave the politics out of it. The only politics that matter are: GNU-style free software ideology everywhere, bringing about a world where everyone can use a computer in freedom.
Just write the code.
And for the love of god: abolition of CoCs
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Google is now tracking your visitors for advertising purposes even when you’re not using Google Analytics or Google Ads.
I took a closer look at Google’s FLoC initiative and how you can fight back and opt-out as a web user and a web developer
New Blog Post: Opting your Website out of Google's #FLoC Network
https://paramdeo.com/blog/opting-your-website-out-of-googles-floc-network
You can remove your website from Google's FLoC rollout by altering HTTP response headers.
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There is currently a mutiny going on within the GNU project. Some people are breaking away to fork parts of GNU. I won't mention it by name, or link it, because I don't want to boost it.
If you see it: it's *not* the GNU project. Keep supporting GNU, on gnu.org !
New Blog Post:
Sandboxing #Firefox using Firejail for Private Browsing
https://paramdeo.com/blog/sandboxing-firefox-using-firejail-for-private-browsing
Enhance one-off browsing sessions by sandboxing Firefox and locking filesystem access.
A large percentage of FOSS community members including myself have (via personal blogs, social networks, the FSF channels in Freenode, the #RMS support letter, etc.) defended Richard Stallman, the right to free speech, and objective truth in the face of gratuitous ad hominem attacks.
Today, RMS has put out a public statement on the issue:
https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community
I hardly change my background, so #screenshotsunday is the same as last time; just with more GNOME Shell Extensions...
Only recently realized[0] that you can self-host[1] GoatCounter's analytics script; which means that adblockers won't nuke it since it's not loaded from the "zgo.at" domain.
Just as well, they recently changed their free-tier model to allow unlimited log retention up to 2.4M pageviews in a rolling manner, so I decided to re-enable it on my site now that it's basically Same-Origin.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but to the rest of us, all your thoughts that go uncommunicated are indistinguishable from no thoughts at all.
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