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dorotaC
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Greybeard but revolutionary. 80-char lines are good for museums.

My tech writing (hire me): https://dorotac.eu/
Open bike computer: https://jazda.org
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Look at this :)

Running `target/debug/imap ../dovecot.pem dcz.key nfttvkj.mta.internal`
Your password to client key:
o-key
SEND: a1 AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL
RECV: * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE LITERAL+ AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=EXTERNAL] Dovecot ready.
RECV: a1 […]
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February 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
This is not an accidental thing. You don't get random spots on your screenshots by accident. It's the company deliberately bloating people's storage for their own data.

As for the article itself: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/the-void

The Firefox extension I used to […]
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February 14, 2026 at 8:50 AM
What would the image weigh without the undesired passenger?

With #gimp again, I posterized it to 16 colors, which nuked any visible watermark and got a quarter the original size: 140kiB.

But the black-and-white image was still smaller, so there must be […]

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February 14, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Well, maybe my human eyes cannot see something that's there.

Captain #gimp to the rescue!
A little thresholding... and there it is. The sand in the gears of #png . Not-quite-random noise all over the background (try different thresholds to see the rest).

The […]

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February 14, 2026 at 8:33 AM
@nobodyinperson A warning about long-term usage: Mattermost seems to be doubling down on the open-core model.
For example, version 11.0 community lowered the maximum user limit, and single sign-on is annoyingly not open-source. If we knew before deploying we might have chosen something else like […]
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February 11, 2026 at 2:55 PM
@michalfita @slint Great link! I'll try SurrealismUI. Even though the tables stand out like a sore thumb compared to native QML... the rest might be good enough to suffer.
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 AM
@michalfita @slint By the user. Basically I want custom widgets in the table that modify the model.

The end game goal would be to write a SQL data explorer for arbitrary tables, with the ability to assign custom widgets to columns.
February 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
@imrehg @adafruit That's an expensive board, that thermocouple! When I was building a hot plate, I bought something much cheaper. What was the reason you chose that one?
February 8, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by dorotaC
A little baking, some opening of the oven doors, and a bit of Newton's Law of Cooling in action :)
February 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM