So I usually use Sublime Text but this evening I tried opening a folder full of source code in VS Code. It put up a baffling question whether I "trust" the files in the folder. That's a reasonable question for some types of IDE projects, but all I did was open a folder. I trust the code in the directory, but VSCode said it was potentially going to execute files in the folder (?? what? Why?) so I said "don't trust".
This disabled the extension that does syntax highlighting for Verilog.
Points at config screen Okay yeah that. See those Xes? I want you to allow me to use my settings and my plugins but I do NOT want you to run "tasks". I don't even know what a "task" is I'm just certain I don't want you to do it. Is it a task? Then don't do it
Okay. I thiiiiink that by disabling this setting, even if I decide to trust a folder that turns out not to be trustworthy, VS Code will still not start executing scripts it finds in those folders. I think. I hope.
I'm in Discord. I scroll to the bottom of the channel. I want to say something.
Discord pops up a growth hacking "done reading? Read this other channel" box. I cannot dismiss it. Even tapping the box then returning to the channel does not dismiss it.
It is totally covering the post box. I cannot speak.
I check Reddit. I find posts encountering this a full year ago, and the only advice is to log out of discord and back in. Some people had to do it multiple times.
Okay. Okay. It's been explained to me: That box isn't growth hacking. It just means you don't have permissions to write to the channel, and it's unclearly labeled. The channel in the screenshot does require a special role to speak. So what this says is that Discord briefly got confused about what channel roles I hold rights to.
That's fine actually! I can totally forgive transient database errors requiring session reset. Product Management, on the other hand, is unforgivable
Hi. You may have seen a boost from Sunday going around containing allegations from a former contributor about financial mismanagement by the Tusky project.
The Tusky project has just posted a response from the project contributors, written by twelve of us working collaboratively. The post's quite long, and I apologize for that, but the allegations were detailed so our response also needed to be. You can read it here, if you want:
By the way, I continue to hold the opinion that all ad networks (and operating systems?) should have a big global switch somewhere for "never, ever, ever show me an ad for alcohol". In case there is someone who needs that. Also a similar switch for gambling.
I'd say marijuana should also be included along with alcohol but I don't personally happen to have ever met anyone who got addicted to marijuana in a way that they expressed it could be harmful to them just to be offered pot, whereas that does seem to be a thing that happens with alcohol
Tip: Instead of saying "Stop using Chrome" or "Use Chrome instead of Firefox", try saying "I have written, and the Firefox project has accepted, a patch that adds a 'profiles' feature equal in ease-of-use to that of Chrome". That probably would be a lot more convincing
@Gargron Right, my understanding last I looked into this is that functionally it's equivalent to Chrome but I believe the Firefox version requires plugins to make use of in any meaningful way and I really rely on the per-window boxing, which I don't believe any of the UI frontends offer (tab-based only, isn't it?).
(Notice: "Mastodon" is uppercase in the second url)
…and loads that other page instead. The other page is incorrect and does not contain content. So Chrome is banning me from loading the correct page, unless I click an A HREF link on another page.
Hm. Although I believe that this is actually a feature I have specifically, personally requested (break off hashtags at end and put them underneath post specially formatted), the reason I was hoping for this feature was so separating the hashtags from the post content would make them less prominent, where this actually makes them more prominent than if the feature did not exist, actually much more prominent, so I don't think I'm going to start using hashtags…
Now, if I'm understanding this correctly, the Ubuntu recovery mode tells me it's going to mount / and then run fsck, and then when I press enter it tells me it can't run fsck because / is mounted
Sorry you don't get alt text, I wrote it once and then it got deleted somehow. It turns out Linux device names are pretty hard to type on a phone
In my opinion, this UI in gparted would be improved if it displayed a progress bar, or just… anything to indicate it's actually doing work and not just frozen
Wwwwait… hold on, is it doing anything? If I right click "check and repair file systems" it asks if I want to "apply". If I say yes it seems to warn me it is about to edit my partition table (?) But maybe it just always does that (??)
Okay. I have now successfully run fsck. It didn't find anything and it didn't help.
I guess I just no longer have a Linux partition. That lasted… what, two months?
Possibly this is actually fixable (I can get into a root shell prompt), but since Ubuntu doesn't print anything like an error, it just sits there showing a blinking underscore with no interactivity, I have no way of knowing what the problem is.
The funny thing here is I was only booting into Linux in the first place because I got a request for more information in a bug report I'd filed on Linux Chrome. And now suddenly I'm debugging a failed boot.
"What kinds of things do you do on your Linux system?"
Okay. Okay! Problem resolved. It turns out what I needed to do was run "repair broken packages" in the Ubuntu recovery mode and then reboot twice. I assumed it hadn't worked because rebooting once didn't help but the second reboot it worked. Or maybe it fixed itself for literally no reason at all.
Immediately upon getting into Linux I discovered a new Chrome bug. Chrome for Linux is very, very buggy. They do not seem to be taking Linux platform support seriously the way Firefox does. This is maybe a little unusual when you realize that technically, Chrome is a Linux-based operating system
@dango_ Since about 2004, "Linux based company" has meant "you run Linux in bulk VMs and sometimes on servers, and every single one of your engineers is using a Macbook". Of course it is possible Google itself substantially contributed to this state of affairs.
It simulates a one-dimensional cellular automata, displays it and its history on a 4x4 LED "screen", & collaborates with an onboard microcontroller (which actually could have run the entire thing to begin with, technically? but that's not the point) which DAC outputs audio based on the highlighted row bits.
About once every ten years there's a huge scandal where it turns out the NSA has been spying on basically everyone on earth without a warrant, and there's a big angry blowup and Congressional hearings, and there's an agreement not to prosecute if the NSA agrees not to do it again. And then ten years later it turns out they kept doing it, or rather, shut down the old program and started up a new program doing the same thing in a new way. (1/2)
Now that @Gargron's post is deleted, I can't reply to it. Oops! I start a new post, "unlisted", @'ing Gargron at the start.
Although this new post is frankly pretty confusing without the context of the post it was replying to, people start boosting and faving it
What is the visibility of posts beginning with an @, but posted to the public timeline rather than as a reply? It seems to me sometimes theyre shown with no filters at all, whereas replies would be filtered to mutual follows.
It seems to me filtering posts beginning with @ as if they were replies would be appropriate, because as is replying to someone is like quietly pulling them aside but beginning a post with an @ is like screaming to absolutely everyone. Maybe one compromise would be to have this behavior on unlisted posts (I understand that's a little nonobvious, but maybe better than not offering the feature at all.)
The text "Allow your account to be discovered by strangers through recommendations, trends and other features" seems to imply the account can be found in search. Others https://tenforward.social/@packetcat/110860186414299240 have interpreted it also this way, unless "discoverability in your instance's local profile directory" is different from discoverability by account search.
@Gargron Although I deleted my other post to prevent posting misleading information, I feel like if there is a coherent reason someone would want "suggest account to others" but not full text search, then it's real bad to conflate this option with full text search, specifically because edits can't change visibility so there's no way for someone who previously posted "public" believing they were opting into one semantics to switch back to the old semantics without giving something up.
@eniko@Gargron Personally I would like to participate in text search and would turn on full text search even if I had to opt in to do so, but also I want to search for people by bio, and being able to search for people by bio even if they would prefer their posts to default to nonsearchable is (especially due Mastodon lacking a time-linear search results order) potentially more useful to me than being able to full-text search posts. So giving the option to split the setting helps everyone
@Gargron Okay. Incidentally, when searching, will it be possible to turn off global search? IE the old behavior, "search only my favs and bookmarks", was sometimes actively more useful than a full-site search would be.
