I have a first laptop with HiDPI screen and trying to set GUI scaling in #Gnome.
I enabled experimntal fractional scaling, and set 166% scaling factor in Gnome settings.
For GDK apps there is no problem.
But many other apps are not scaled, or are scaled partly - window header bar is small. Is there universal solution to this? Or how do you set scaling on all GUI toolkits like GTK2, Electron, QT, Java?
A masterpiece of progressive rock music from the famous LP Konvergencie, released in 1971 in the former Czechoslovakia; Opus, BratislavaLine-up / Musicians- ...YouTube
UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks support for international X ban
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in talks with Canada and Australia in an effort to muster support for a potential international ban on social media X. It comes after the platform’s integrated AI assistant, Grok, was used to generate sexualised deepfakes of women and children.
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Canada already ruled out a potential ban but Australia's prime minister was sterner in his rebuke of Grok, calling the AI-generated sexualised images "completely abhorrent"Claudie Moreau (Euractiv)
I put my mouse in the microwave !!
Seriously. I have a bluetooth mouse that wouldn't enter pairing mode. It was connecting to *something*... maybe a smart switch or whatever. This cheap mouse has no way to enter pairing mode if it's connected to something.
So anyway, a microwave oven is a faraday cage. I turned the mouse on, tossed it in, shut the door and waited. It entered pairing mode quickly, and boom, connected to my tablet.
A+++ life hack by yours truly. Just don't start the nuker or magic smoke will come out 😆
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In January 2026, data allegedly scraped via an Instagram API was posted to a popular hacking forum. The dataset contained 17M rows of public Instagram information, including usernames, display names, account IDs, and in some cases, geolocation data.Have I Been Pwned
"…muss ich bekennen, dass wir alle […] nicht ein Hundertstel, nicht ein Tausendstel dessen für möglich gehalten haben, was dann immer wenige Wochen später hereinbrechen sollte."
- Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern
Ein autobiografisches Werk Stefan Zweigs.
Das Buch entstand kurz vor Zweigs Tod in den letzten Jahren (von 1939 bis 1941) seines Exils und erschien postum 1942 in Stockholm.
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German language. Stefan Zweig. DIE WELT VON GESTERN. THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY is the autobiography of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. The most famous book on the...Internet Archive
Diejenigen, die wollen, dass wir bis 70 arbeiten und diejenigen, die uns mit 50 nicht mehr einstellen, sind dieselben Leute.
Ein gehirnfressender Wurm würde in deren Kopf elendiglich verhungern.
hi i make goofy ahh tts vids for literally no reason lmfaoxd Soar with your visions!! (EST. 2013, Early 2022) Elecarlton is the home of unhinged, action-packed text-to-speech chaos and out-of-context madness, all starring the Epic Goddamn Microsoft …YouTube
If the maximum incoming payload size is unset, then a malicious frame could cause an overflow when calculating the needed amount of data, leading to an out-of-bounds read...GitLab
Mal by som otázku/prosbu na mieste osadenstvo. Vždy som chcel vedieť programovať, ale nikdy mi to veľmi nešlo. Naposledy som to skúšal pred 13 rokmi, kedy som sa skúšal naučiť PHP (konkrétne Laravel).
Chcel by som to znova vyskúšať, a tak otázka znie, či by mi niekto vedel poradiť, ako na to, resp. nejaké tipy na návody a pod. Potreboval by som to vysvetľovať asi čo najprimitívnejšie ako to len pôjde, a ideálne aby to bolo v slovenčine/češtine. Taktiež aby to bolo zadarmo, keďže nemám peniaze na nejaké platené kurzy. Mohla by mi v učení pomôcť aj AI? Aj keď viem, že tu nie sú jej priaznivci, no ja osobne nie som jej zarytý kritik.
A aby som nezabudol, prioritne by som sa chcel asi naučiť to PHP (aby som vedel naprogramovať webstránky, nejaké redakčné systémy a pod.), prípadne ešte C++ (keďže by som chcel vedieť programovať Arduino).
Vopred ďakujem za rady/pomoc.
Python je dobrá voľba z viacerých (netechnických) ohľadov, najmä dostupnosť učebného materiálu (dokumentácia, knihy, tutoriály, blogy) a veľkosť komunity (množstvo ľudí, ktorí vedia pomôcť).
Ako už bolo písané, je dobré mať nejaký cieľ (projekt), ktorý bude motiváciou učiť sa (áno, sú aj ľudia, ktorí sa učia teoretickú fyziku "len tak"...). Netreba sa báť skúšať, zlyhávať, pýtať sa a opravovať, dokým to nepôjde.
Ja "programujem" 2/3 svojho života a stále sa učím :)
Das letzte mal als ich versucht habe #NINA auf #GrapheneOS ohne Google Play Services zum Laufen zu bringen, habe ich es leider nicht hinbekommen (ist aber schon ein paar Jahre her). Wenn jemand passend zum #did #dut nach Alternativen sucht: #fosswarn
Mit FOSSwarn bekommt ihr offizielle Warnmeldungen für eure Orte direkt aufs Handy. Push-Benachrichtigungen funktionieren ebenfalls zuverlässig über UnifiedPush, ich nutze dazu die App #Sunup
How… why… argh… T_T
(if you don't see it: there's a tiiiiiiiiny difference… 60nm tiny to be exact… and these 2 interfaces are in a LAG and actually work, the other side is even more insidious since it just says 1310nm but the SFPs *are* different)
Dutch AON FttH specs are saying just TX 1310nm, RX 1490/1550 nm.
I bought a 1550nm one as they are much more common and got no link. So I bought a 1490nm one and the link came up immediately.
Then I bought fibre cleaning pens, got extra 10 dB by cleaning the connectors and now even the 1550nm one gets the link.
So probably if you have enough optical power, all SFPs are wideband 😁
we had a link at 39C3 that went <bidi SMF SFP> - 100m SMF - 100m *MMF* 😳 - <bidi SMF SFP>
It worked with 0 errors after we put 20km (I think) SFPs on it. Asymmetric loss of course. But enough power is enough power 😂
(-10/-3 were the RSSI numbers if I recall correctly)
We will be participating at #fosdem in Bruxelles (31.1. / 1.2.). 🚀 Well, at least kind of...
Our @bene64 will join the Free Android World stand together with @BlissLabs and @shiftphones as part of the @IzzyOnDroid team.
His focus there will be primarily the IoD project, but he will be happy to discuss #BrewMemo as well ;)
Please come by and drop a hello, when you're also visiting.
Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
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Debian 13 "Trixie" receives its third refresh (13.3), featuring 108 bug fixes and 37 security updates. Here's more on that.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber (Anil Dash)
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dělal na tom před pár lety kolega. Ve skutečnosti první najede obrazovka UEFI a pak se zobrazí bootovací obrazovka systému, díky kolegovi si to dokáže vzít to logo z UEFI a zdánlivě to vypadá, že to je ta samá obrazovka, jen tam přibude logo systému.
“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”
— @pluralistic, pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/100…
The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.
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Speaking of the fragility of enterprise software… Here's the robust architecture of an online banking system I used to lead. 3.5 million people trusted this with their life savings.*
That TUI app written in MUMPS(!) once powered the terminal a bank teller would use to process an in-person transaction. It embodies and unambiguously encodes every business rule for transactions that have been developed over decades.
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@katzenmann@c3d2.social That's exactly my point - the "whole Linux community doing Wayland" was never true to begin with. It was Red Hat pushing it like crazy and KDE unfortunately following suit.Fosstodon
Scripts and documentation about accessible version of Fedora - vojtapolasek/vojtuxGitHub
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"Desde los años 90, existen tecnologías que permiten que una persona con discapacidad visual pueda acceder a un ordenador y usarlo con total normalidad.lodosa (Constelación de los Comunes)
Had a look at "multi-agent coding" today.
Apparently, the first step is signing up for the premium plans from OpenAI, Anthropic AND Google. So that's £50 to £500 a month. Then installing a massive pile of NodeJS to coordinate it all.
A few years ago, we were all celebrating how computing had gotten cheap: RasPi Zeros for a tenner, old HP workstations or ThinkPads on eBay for £100.
Having to pay three different landlords to build software seems like an incredibly shit vision of the future.
This is racism. (And also, the World Cross-Country Championships this year are clearly being rigged.)
"According to a report from LetsRun.com, only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S. visa applications accepted"
(That's the national team with the 44-year winning streak. Other countries, including Eritrea, are also excluded due to Trump's racist travel bans.)
Hi folks,
So my sister is a zookeeper and takes care of the birds. She often sends pictures.
This is Baked Beans. He is a baby screech owl and is being raised for the zoo's ambassador bird program.
I would die for Beans.
#BakedBeansOwl #owls #screechowls #zoo
Beans on a hand, for scale reference. He is just too darn cute.
#BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #screechowl
SSD thumb drives could be better than cheap USB flash drives
“Instead of getting a cheap but very sluggish flash drive, consider buying a USB SSD that looks like a regular thumb drive but is way faster and only slightly more expensive.”
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xwayland-native-scalingsome xwayland apps are scaled without bluring but with unscaled window header (vlc on the image), and majority is not scaled at all (bitwarden and others).👍️
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