@bb36e said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
@marczellm said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
onShown event
is this for notifications.onshown? cause that was added in v56
contextmenus.onshown
@bb36e said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
@marczellm said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
onShown event
is this for notifications.onshown? cause that was added in v56
contextmenus.onshown
@marczellm so the onShown event was added in Firefox 60 so I downloaded Nightly and ported the extension.
@lorne-kates said in Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?:
.... those are .vbs attachments in Outlook Express.
tell me more!
@onyx said in Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft:
And then proceeds to place window titlebars under the taskbar...
just tried and it doesn't do that for me.
@dreikin said in Sonos bricking devices intentionally:
Thanks! Is this stuff paranoid conspiracy theories like some of the American right have about Soros funding everything they don't like, or is it a real thing?
http://ad.adverticum.net/banners/5056251/STOP_SOROS_3_uzenet_970x250.jpg
"The Soros Plan endangers the Christian culture of Europe!"
Just came in my face as a popup ad on the Hungarian email provider I'm using.
@dreikin "Don't let Soros have the last laugh." "99% opposes illegal immigration". "National Consultation about the Soros Plan".
Also we've got TV and radio ads saying
"Soros is the most influential billionaire in the world. He wants to settle millions of immigrants in Europe. THIS IS DANGEROUS."
etc.
@blakeyrat said in How would you write a web app for durability/longevity?:
Your best bet right now is to write a Windows desktop application, carefully following the API contracts to the letter.
I would completely agree, except a huge part of usage happens on mobile.
@ben_lubar said in How would you write a web app for durability/longevity?:
Why would you need any web framework, client- or server-side for that? Just generate the pages and store them in a folder on a web server.
Every church has its own repertoire, so we already allow for creating songs in a basic editor. There is a search box. Search by tags. We plan to have transposition. Etc.
(I kinda feel there's a word on the tip of my tongue that better expresses this)
A friend wrote a side project web app in Angular 1 back when that was cool. We continued using it for some years and then wrote up a list of new features that should be added. The friend said "Okay, but first let us decide if we should rewrite it in React or Angular 4, because Angular 1 is totally obsolete". We decided on Angular 4 and then half a year passed without us really touching it. Now he looked at it and said "Angular really didn't take off, let's try Vue"...
There is one really important requirement for this app: it has to be maintained over at least 10 years. It's an online songbook for churches, and realistically we would work on it in our spare time for 1-2 years and then just use it. Is there any web framework where there is no risk of it being discontinued in that time?
@gąska said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
the general public is currently conditioned to look for green padlock specifically.
where have you pulled that ass-umption from? :P in my experience, the general public doesn't even notice the UI.
@gąska
I see your Holocaust controversy and raise you a bill that would get you banned from Hungary for donating to charities aiding migrants:
According to the proposed package, individuals who facilitate the entry of illegal migrants or finance such organizations could be banned from the 8-kilometer proximity of the Hungarian border or even prohibited from entering Hungary.
@gąska said in Sonos bricking devices intentionally:
I've read the title as "Soros bricking devices internationally". I should take break from political news...
and you're not even living in Hungary.
is this about?
Is it because 420 is weed and 69 is a sex position? or am I missing something?
Ooh and of course the issue that prompted the rant!
@magnusmaster said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
@asdf said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
I don't want to derail the discussion too much, but I hate blanket statements like that. You're missing half of the point of democracy, which is not only about the right to vote, but also about the right to get involved and get elected yourself.
If you want to run for office, you are probably a psychopath. Most people do not want to risk losing friends and family
and your job, apparently:
(I realized I have already created this topic, after I already wrote this post to start a new one)
I love LaTeX and I have huge respect for the people working on it, but there are some things about it that really make me angry. This post is a rant in order to vent.
Installing TeX and LaTeX If you are looking to install a complete system, we recommend TeX Live for Unix/GNU/Linux, MacTeX for MacOSX, and proTeXt for Windows. You can join TUG or another user group and have physical discs sent to you, or you can purchase the distributions without joining.
Also the tools have a command line option --admin
that's supposed to correspond to whether they should attempt adminy things or not; but they do not always correctly pass this option to each other.
The MikTeX distribution has a built-in updater tool that downloads and unpacks new versions of the installed packages. This is very good, unless it breaks itself or the distribution. It has been breaking on me roughly once or twice every year.
@lorne-kates Idea is great but impossible because of family objections. This is not my TV but our TV, our living room etc. Also anything bigger than the current TV would not fit on that shelf, and anything smaller is... well, smaller.
@anonymous234 said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@timebandit said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@anonymous234
I believe the new Skype app is actually just a fuckin browser-based appWhich is a perfectly normal thing because browsers are full-blown software platforms, and they happen to be much, much better at running software than Windows (at least pre-UWP) or Linux.
but the web version is completely different than the desktop version despite the latter being an Electron web app
and then there's a separate Windows 10 version.
@pie_flavor said in Alternative to Google Desktop:
@marczellm said in Alternative to Google Desktop:
Turns out running a Python process
in the background that checks every keypressis bad for game performance.FTFY
why not
Turns out running a Python process
in the background that checks every keypressis badfor game performance.
?
@mott555 said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
acts like a full-blown Windows Upgrade
Isn't this only true for twice-a-year feature upgrades like the Creators Update?
Also this guy is Hungarian, he uses the uw.hu free hosting which has been around since the 90s I think, and has a freemail.hu email address.
@parody said in Intel making us slow down:
the motherboard manufacturer has already said they're only doing updates for boards currently in warranty.
I hate it with a passion, when hardware that works is no longer supported. (No drivers for my synth keyboard for recent OS, etc.)
@steve_the_cynic said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
@marczellm said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
@parody @Steve_The_Cynic I have Windows FCU and it does not try to restart any application after a shut down.
Hmm.. Interesting. How are you shutting it down?
One of the following:
Except if you try to play a video in a tweet embedded in some other site, in which case "The video could not load". (at least for me)
Or try to play a video (or even view a tweeted picture) in the Twitter Windows 10 app, in which case they would randomly fail to load
@parody @Steve_The_Cynic I have Windows FCU and it does not try to restart any application after a shut down.
@gąska said in WPF best practices:
New dilemma: what's the idiomatic way to open standard Windows dialogs (file/folder selection in particular)? I can only find WinForms version, and they're inherently anti-MVVM - by which I mean I cannot data-bind to viewmodel object that the main viewmodel could hold, because the data are dialog window's properties.
I think that's where databinding stops and you write the old fashioned imperative code to open the dialog and get back the file.
@steve_the_cynic said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
"normal" shutdown of FCU (normal for FCU, that is), the Steam UI that you told not to start when Windows starts, um, well, it starts when Windows starts.
It doesn't do that for me.
I just found that Microsoft Edge fails both the Acid1 and Acid2 tests on my computer.
@medinoc said in Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft:
Do apps have a trigger that happens "on install" so they can do whatever they want before you have a chance to deny permissions?
For Windows, I don't know, but I'd like to.
@jaloopa said in Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft:
backwards compatibility issues in fixing it retroactively
I don't think they apply in this case; you can opt out of any of those permissions individually after installation, so apps must handle those cases already.
@ben_lubar said in Windows 10 and another brilliant idea from Microsoft:
Microsoft would have been at fault for granting programs permissions without user input.
They are. Everything is allowed to do everything unless the user opts out. The Store page for apps lists the permissions that they require but upon installation they are automatically granted.
Turns out running a Python process in the background that checks every keypress is bad for game performance.
@zecc said in How will you deal with the coming Firefox apocalypse?:
So I've been telling Firefox daily to not update to Quantum for about a month now, because Tab Groups.
how? I disabled checking for updates and it has shut up perfectly.
I attempted to write a cross compiler from an educational programming language to C++ in my first semester of university. Somewhat representative line:
if (tokens[j].IsAVarName() && tokens[j+1]=="[")
for (j++; !(tokens[j]=="]" && tokens[j+1]!="["); j++); // that was intentional
So I got a Roku Express+, and a converter:
The Roku Express+ analog output is NTSC but I'm in Europe so I needed PAL output.
This is what this setup can do (in pseudocode):
if output == Roku.NTSCanalog -> TV:
get monochrome picture, but all else works fine
elif output == Roku.HDMI -> converter -> TV:
if converter.power_source == HDMI from Roku:
Roku.fail()
converter.output(standard color test pattern)
elif converter.power_source == USB power adapter:
switch(rnd()%3):
case 0: Roku.fail(); break;
case 1: Roku.errorMessage("Power too low"); break;
case 2: Roku.failWifi(); break;
So I can watch anything in monochrome, or nothing in color. Any ideas?
(Yes I could now theoretically watch movies from a PC with the HDMI adapter, but the only device in our household that is portable and has HDMI output is too slow even for Youtube.)
@dkf said in You have the right to 10Mbps:
It will make more difference to people who live in rural areas.
I live in the capital and we still haven't upgraded from 5 Mbps due to resistance from my father. "It works so why should we replace it with something that's more expensive!" Another quote: "How dare the government mandate that I do my taxes online? It costs actual money to buy a computer and an internet connection you know. Where is it written down in the law that I must have those in my possession?"
5 Mbps is really enough for most things though.
@pie_flavor said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
@el_heffe I just updated with zero issues. You're .
this is how that post showed up for me:
@wharrgarbl said in Smart TV boxes:
@marczellm I think you should get an HDMI to analog converter, then you can plug anything
There are several devices like this on ebay ( http://www.ebay.com/bhp/hdmi-to-analog-converter ), between 10 and 20 usd
Do you have any idea why these like to declare themselves "INCOMPATIBLE with TV Sticks, (such as Fire Stick, Roku, Chromecast), mobile phones and iPad series"?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KXI8LZE/ref=psdc_280341_t2_B071XJF1HC
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074DV1L1D/ref=psdc_280341_t5_B071XJF1HC
@atazhaia said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
another feature introduced in the FCU (iirc). As was mentioned in one of the other FCU topics, they changed the default shutdown option to automatically restore all open apps on next boot
it doesn't do that for me.
@atazhaia said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
Explain to me the point of FastBoot for anyone who isn't still running Windows off a mechanical harddrive?
those people actually exist, you know? Only my computer geek friends and IT professionals use SSDs AFAIK.
@steve_the_cynic said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
My machine is on the original Creator's Edition, and it still has "sleep" separate from "shut down". It behaves differently - in both cases, the case lights go out and the fans stop, but in sleep, the "power" light blinks and the machine wakes up rapidly to an "unlock me" screen, while in "shut down", the power light doesn't blink, and the machine powers up through the BIOS screen and a normal Windows "log in" screen.
why exactly did you feel it necessary to describe what everyone already knows?
@parody said in Fall Creators Update, or how to fuck up the OS from start to finish:
It happens for all reboots and shutdowns as of build 16251. You can find the complaints about it in the Feedback Hub if you search for "restart applications".
Hah!
It seems permanently dead for me. Must be a conspiracy, I submitted too good feedback so I was banned :)
I have once in a while wished to use Office or File Explorer with a tabbed interface. Even though this feature is advertised as grouping together different apps, I think it will be able to support my usecase as well. I'll try it out.
@grunnen said in Microsoft sees the future of Windows 10 as "Sets":
Is this just Office 365, as a web application, integrated into Edge?
No.
@blakeyrat said in Microsoft sees the future of Windows 10 as "Sets":
Apple implements it, nobody uses it.
I've seen every single Macbook user friend of mine using them all the time.
@marczellm
And it launched some background process in Firefox that was grinding the CPU at 20% plus using 1.7 GB RAM even after closing all tabs and just an empty tab open.