lambalicious

(let's see if that works)

So basically what I'm wondering is if it is possible to run multiple instances of the fontserver (fontconfig?) in parallel for the same desktop session. Then being able to fire up programs connected to either fontserver.

This is Linux so I sorta just assume it is, but better to invoke the Power of Ackshually.

What for, one would ask?

Well, the example use case I'm seeing this for is actually to aid in anti-browser fingerprinting.

As a distro user, one ends up with hundreds of fonts installed. Math, doramas, emojis... Noto by itself adds 80 entries to my LO listing.

Normally that's not an issue, but when in eg.: Firefox, it is. Having enabled browser.use_document_fonts, all those fonts are visible for the browser even with font-visibility measures applied. Have tested it with online benchmarks such as amiunique and browserleaks. What's worse, "use document fonts" is a global setting instead of a site-specific setting, so I can't really fine-tune a session for that -- tho I've already filed Mozilla about that.

But I don't want to uninstall the fonts, I'm using them! I just want for spies to not see them.

So I thought.

Fonts are controlled by a fontserver ("fontconfig").

What if I could have a second fontserver running in my session? One that has a more "normal" set of fonts enabled, such as say the baseline set + language pack fonts for Fedora or Ubuntu, and then Roboto or Noto for good measure. Then I could launch my browser such that it connects to that second fontserver instance...

# example potential code, donut steel
env FONTSERVER_SOCKET=unix:///var/run/fontserver2.sock firefox

And bam! fingerprinters wont be able to see beyond, while I can freely alt-tab to LO and my "handwritten" document.

So yeah. Correct me that this can't be done. Let's do it.

I've always found C++'s "trend" of handling normal or non-exceptional system errors with exceptions lackluster (and I'm being charitable). Overall trimming things down to (basically) passing around a couple integers and telling the user to check their manual is much better, much less error prone, and much more efficient and deterministic.

(But hey at least I don't use Tailwind nor any of those MBA hallucination scams.)

Basically as the title says.

I'd like to know what is there on selfhosted solutions if people are using any, to keep tabs on stuff for managing projects. But - here's the thing, I want a thing to help take notes, not a thing that's gonna "make decisions" / "suggest a business plan".

So, basically I'm looking for something self-hosted that incorporates things like (manual!) man-hours tracking, gantt charts, kanban and other organizative diagrams, general (ie.: not "code-oriented") issue tracker.

Ideally to be deployed as an assiatnce to keep track of stuff on a small shop operating a force of 8~12 devs. Me and one other person want to help shield our devs from clients as the company is starying to grow more, enough that asking the devs for hard data on how they are managing themselves (to know if there's room for another project or if overtime is needed, for example) is starting to deprive them of actual devel time. We want to avoid reaching the stage of meetings that could have been emails.

Thanks in advance. Suggestions are welcome, we do have enough time to test a few alternatives before settling on one we just don't know what exists out there that is not "sign in on Github".

(Only half joking with the poll options, too.)

Today in our newest take on "older technology is better": why NAT rules!

Hablando en serio.

Todo el mundo habla de lo mal que está la educación, que los profesores, que los estudiantes y blah blah, y no estoy en desacuerdo que hay cosas ahí que están mal. Me podría mandar un ensayo en cómo no puede ser que una manga de pendejos de 12 vengan a amenazar a un profe en la sala. O que las salas en cuestión no deberían tener más de 20 alumnos.

Pero igual hay temas de método y de material de fondo, como este.

¿Por qué no es más común en Chile enseñar las cosas de una manera más atractiva? O al menos, más inmersiva que "copie el texto aprobado 131 veces". O, no sé, cuando yo estaba en la media la manera que nos enseñaban castellano era penca (ni qué decir del inglés) pero pucha que aprendimos harto el un (1) (uno) semestre que nos hicieron escribir y ejecutar una obra de teatro.

Hey everyone I was wondering how do you spice up your cursors, icons, themes, etc., In particular for desktop environments such as XFCE, Mate. Are there any good repositories to use?

I've taken a look at a number of apparently cloned sites like "xfce-look.org", "kde-look.org", "gnome-look.org", but while they seem to show a wide offering of themes, it seems downloading from them is blocked via uBO since it reports a "fp2" fingerprinting script without which apparently downloads are not enabled. Are those sites trustworthy? They seem to be associated to a "OpenDesktop" initiative of which the only reputation I can find is that they were added to EasyList Privacy blocklist.

If there are other alternative hubs or repos from which to theme a distro (as agnostically as posisble) that'd be welcome info.

Cheers. Thanks. Et cetera.