Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

@CaptainStack I'm also in the market for one... though, if it requires permission to post to or modify my Mastodon account, I may go without since I'd prefer not to have to audit and self-host to feel suitably comfortable with it.

@wizzwizz4 @ticoombs

If you look at the spec for ABE definitions, you'll see that it supports whole-URL regular expressions too.

@protonmail For the focus-tracking, unless it's penalizing you for allowing your mouse and keyboard to go idle, you could also just run it in something which virtualizes the concept of "active window" like Xephyr, Wine in virtual desktop mode, or a VM like VirtualBox or KVM.

@randynose @shibayashi @lain

Fundamentally, the question is whether you're old enough to have strong memories of TVs from before they had the processing power to substitute a blue fill when failing to sync with an NTSC/PAL signal's timing.

@wizzwizz4 @ticoombs

If you want to block subresource requests, I used to use NoScript's ABE module to do things like neutering Google Instant without killing off Google's search pages entirely.

https://noscript.net/abe/

@andrioid@mastodon.technology

@vancha Oh, I almost forgot. I've gotten some excellent indie music from bundles on https://groupees.com/ over the years.

(For example, the albums containing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5u9glfqDsc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52rxz2sjRs )

@vanitasvitae @fribbledom That one amused me because, as a UI/UX enthusiast, I agree with the sentiment but, perhaps ironically, I can also do that because I habitually unpack archives in the terminal.

@alexbuzzbee @Jason_Dodd I'm similar, but I usually say "Unixy OSes".

@TsRoe @vordenken When I have time, I want to set up my own mail server which uses a milter combined with a web service to treat e-mail aliases as revokable API keys bound to expected senders.

(eg. So an eBay seller who subscribes my eBay address to their newsletter without asking will find it bouncing with "You are not an authorized sender for this e-mail address. Please fill out this CAPTCHA to exempt the current message. Note that abusing this feature may result in blacklisting.")

@vordenken I have a domain registered through the registrar https://nearlyfreespeech.net/ partnered with and I pay 3¢ per day for e-mail forwarding on it with no limit on how many addresses.

@vancha Yeah. I actually discovered Jamendo through an open-source game that uses music by a band on it.

http://mars-game.sourceforge.net/ (`marsshooter` in the Ubuntu Universe repository)

https://www.jamendo.com/track/337572/ezer-ev

It's sort of like a SoundCloud that doesn't fight tooth and nail to prevent downloading unless the uploader pays money.

@vancha I don't know if any of the ones listed at https://fckdrm.com/ are built on open-source software, but they don't require clients.

@nebunez @orbjet@fosstodon.org Were you launching `libreoffice --quickstart` first, to keep LibreOffice Calc resident as a tray icon after the initial load?

@EclecticEclipse

Here are some classics from that period that are on sale on GOG.com and have open-source engine offerings:

The Curse of Monkey Island (classic funny point-and-click adventure, ScummVM)

Theme Hospital (tongue-in-cheek management sim, http://corsixth.com/)

Arx Fatalis (would have been Ultima Underworld 3 if they could get the rights, Arx Libertatis)

You can extract the data files using either the newest version of https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ or using Wine.

@floppy @wizzwizz4 @gxtony@fosstodon.org

5) See if Xephyr (Linux) or Cygwin/X or VcXsrv (Windows) can be configured to achieve a sufficient "split focus" effect.

6) Try running a browser under Wine in "virtual desktop" mode, then full-screening it so the pointer can't leave the website before it leaves the desktop.

As for #1, see http://greasemonkey.win-start.de/patterns/override-method.html

@kev Still, I really *should* find time to write the Git repository-splitting helper I've wanted to write. I've got quite a few useful little things that are ready to share once I get them split out of their incomplete parent projects without losing history.

(Basically, I want to build a Qt GUI which makes it feasible to audit what I'm telling git-filter-branch to do before pushing the result public.)

@kev To be honest, when I've had time to work on it, I've been trying to push the uniqueness of the design out into the extremities so that it'll be possible of just rework it as a set of plugins on top of something with an actual user base.

That said, the parts which *would* make good plugins *are* interesting.

* CSS, HTML, and internal link validating with an external link TODO note.
* lxml.html.clean with a whitelist that trusts the author, but forbids "template-only" tags.
* etc.

@kev True, but Apache or Nginx and the OS are going to be there either way. It's not a matter of WordPress *or* an HTTP daemon. It's a matter of "do I want fewer or more things poking me to update them?")

...and yeah, definitely personal preference. (In fact, Pelican is just my most likely candidate. If it turns out to not line up well enough with my preference, I'll either pick something else or modernize the aforementioned homegrown one.)

@kev ...as for Gutenberg, I find that its handling of keyboard shortcuts is *very* frustrating when I want to do something like selecting to the beginning/end of a block.

I'm also not a fan of how it sends HTML to applications which request a text/plain form of the clipboard contents and neither editor is especially comfortable when I want to use definition list markup.

Heck, Pelican would let me write some pages in ReST to make that and footnotes comfortable.