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General Software Discussion / Re: Permanent clipboard / textblock catalogue

« Last post by wraith808 on January 29, 2022, 04:52 PM »

FastKeys could do that.



Note that it shows that exact use case in this image- you can assign more than one snippet to the same abbreviation, and even put a list of snippets on the regular context menu that you can launch with a hotkey.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2022, 09:20 PM »

Check hypernote if you want something zettel-like for the web and with collaboration built in

-urlwolf (January 28, 2022, 02:50 PM)

I looked up hypernote and found two different ones:

https://hypernote.io/
https://zenkit.com/en/hypernotes/

Is either one of those what you were referring to?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Permanent clipboard / textblock catalogue

« Last post by wraith808 on January 28, 2022, 02:43 PM »

In addition to Lintalist and Auspex, here are a few:

Beeftext - https://beeftext.org/
Atext - https://www.trankynam.com/atext/
QuickTextPaste - https://www.software...osoft/QuickTextPaste
AutoText - https://www.jitbit.com/autotext/

... and

FastKeys - https://www.fastkeysautomation.com/

I put that one separately because it's paid. However, it does a lot more than asked, and if that's useful to you, it's $19.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Background tool to open links in correct Chrome profile?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2022, 09:08 PM »

It's probably because account surfer keeps a handle to chrome even though the window isn't shown for fast loading. I coded something like this for a different reason, and keeping it resident is the only way to get around the long loading time.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Background tool to open links in correct Chrome profile?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2022, 03:32 PM »

A little research:

https://www.tutorial...-profile-in-selenium

https://stackoverflo...ing-programmatically

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Background tool to open links in correct Chrome profile?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2022, 01:44 AM »

It looks like it's a Windows default program issue (triggered outside of Chrome). Perhaps it can be solved via a "toggle" for handling "mailto:" links.

-publicdomain (January 26, 2022, 11:14 PM)

No, it's not. The right app is being triggered. It's just the wrong profile.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Background tool to open links in correct Chrome profile?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2022, 04:08 PM »

I have the same problem. I've found that it opens it up in the last browser that you used. If someone can figure out how it tracks which window you last used and the profile for that one, it seems that would do the trick.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Valve Announces Steam Deck: A Nintendo Switch-like PC

« Last post by wraith808 on January 26, 2022, 01:38 PM »

https://steamcommuni.../3117055056380003049

Steam Deck Launching February 25th
Hello, the day is almost here! On February 25th, we will be sending out the first batch of order emails to reservation holders. Customers will have 3 days (72 hours) from receipt of their order email to make their purchase, before their reservation is released to the next person in the queue. The first units will be on their way to customers starting the 28th, and we plan to release new order email batches on a weekly cadence.

In addition, we're sending out press units for full review shortly. Press review embargo on Steam Deck coverage will lift on February 25th, but keep an eye out for some preview coverage and impressions before that. In the meantime we're working to tie up the last few loose ends and polish some rough edges, and are excited to get these out to you at the end of next month!


Additional details for the curious:

• We will start sending invites shortly after 10:00 am on February 25th, PST
• Order emails are sent in the same order that reservations were made.
• You can only order the Steam Deck model that you originally reserved.
• Your reservation deposit will be applied to the final price of Steam Deck, and shipping costs are included.

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Coding Snacks / Re: RTMP Playlist Manager

« Last post by wraith808 on January 24, 2022, 03:45 PM »

Go superboyac!

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General Software Discussion / Re: A few new programs

« Last post by wraith808 on January 23, 2022, 09:21 PM »

hey Mouser, do you have a copy of my EinGame and thinkfast, i can't seem to find it anywhere?

-relipse (January 23, 2022, 09:09 PM)

It would probably be better if you PM'd him.

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Other Software / Re: OBS Scripts

« Last post by wraith808 on January 22, 2022, 09:47 AM »

I am trying to finish my 30 part youtube series on how to efficiently film a youtube boardgame channel..

-mouser (January 22, 2022, 02:24 AM)

Have you started? If so, where are they on youtube?

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2022, 10:05 AM »

I read somewhere that the best word to start with is "roate" because it eliminates more options than any other word.

-Deozaan (January 18, 2022, 10:11 PM)

or quote or quite or audio or or or

-Target (January 18, 2022, 10:33 PM)

q and u aren't heavily used letters, though.

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2022, 10:29 PM »

^ yes, it will only accept words. I got very stuck yesterday, had one vowel correct (o) and didn't get the other one (it was a y). In the end I gave up and put in a word I knew was incorrect.

the solution was

proxy

-tomos (January 18, 2022, 02:59 PM)

Even after you said that and I looked at it, I didn't put together that was today's word LOL. Failed

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2022, 12:47 PM »

How do you guys collaborate with others (if at all) when using plain text? Say real time (like gdocs; MDhack for example) or asynchronoulsly (github for example)?

-urlwolf (January 18, 2022, 10:00 AM)

Liveshare, Cryptpad, HackMD and/or gdocs (which one depends on who I need to collaborate with), or for longer term, github or bitbucket.

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2022, 12:40 PM »

What clues? I mean, there are cues from where you place the letters, but no clues about the final word, are there? Or did I just miss something?

-wraith808 (January 17, 2022, 06:04 PM)

that's what I was referring to.  I usually get as many vowels in play as possible up front (that's 2 attempts), then its a case of working out what words I can see from the remaining letters and any confirmed vowels.  Sometimes I throw in a word I know is wrong just to rule out some letters, depends how stuck I am (eg 1 known vowel in an unknown position doesn't give you much to work with...)

-Target (January 17, 2022, 07:13 PM)

I do the same. That takes up three guesses, usually, in order to get them to the right locations. I've found that the guesses have to be words, so you can't just throw vowels at a guess. Have you had a different experience?

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by wraith808 on January 17, 2022, 06:04 PM »

I miss days a lot. I still don't see how anyone gets it in the first 3 guesses without any other clues.

-wraith808 (January 17, 2022, 08:15 AM)

depends on the clues...I got it in 3 yesterday, but lately I've needed all 6 a couple of times

-Target (January 17, 2022, 05:26 PM)

What clues? I mean, there are cues from where you place the letters, but no clues about the final word, are there? Or did I just miss something?

Well, there's Letterle as well, pretty much making Wordle obsolete.

-Tuxman (January 17, 2022, 05:58 PM)

doesn't seem like much of an alternative to me, just enter letters until you 'guess' the 'right one'....

-Target (January 17, 2022, 06:01 PM)

Agreed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on January 17, 2022, 04:48 PM »

While I agree there are better formats than markdown, I don't even care anymore lol.  For me, I have achieved the dream of writing text files any way I wish (as long as it's markdown format loll), in terms of I can do it in a text editor, obsidian, zettlr, who cares.  Beautiful!  Next, I can have webpages created instantly as I modify.  To me, this setup is basically future-proof, and now I'm just creating content.

-superboyac (January 17, 2022, 03:30 PM)

This sums it up for me.

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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by wraith808 on January 17, 2022, 08:15 AM »

I miss days a lot. I still don't see how anyone gets it in the first 3 guesses without any other clues.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal

« Last post by wraith808 on January 15, 2022, 04:12 PM »

they can surely revert it or remove it

-wraith808 (January 13, 2022, 11:41 AM)

Remove yes, revert no.

-Dormouse (January 13, 2022, 03:27 PM)

Yes to revert, when they don't know if the account is hacked, and it's being reported as such. Once they found out it was not hacked, they let him put non-destructive changes in. (And really, the only no to revert isn't license based- it's ethics based. They control the backups. The files have zero to do with license.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2022, 11:41 AM »

I think what we have here is the difference between a minion of Capitalism (the system with its licenses) and Capitalist's possession of any degree of Charity.  Capitalism excludes the need or place for Charity.  If we have any question of "what is right" it has not place in Capitalism.

I am saying that I think Tuxman is right in his estimations of what the licenses allow.  I agree, that the fellow who borked his own code was within his rights, even if they were malicious - because that's how *that* system works.  It precisely follows the laws and licenses to the letter and that with a material goal in the ultimate end (who gets the money).

However, I also agree with Deozzan in that what that fellow did was not right for him to do - it goes against Charity.  Charity is an entirely different law with a different scope.

So, I think what we have is a conflict between Law and Morals.  According to the law, the fellow was within his rights because that law excludes the reality of Charity and Malice. 

If we discuss the law (and the licenses that protect software, also subject to the law) within its own boundaries, we cannot also discuss Charity.  However, if we discuss Morals, then we can definitely discuss the law.  That is because the moral law (Charity) is higher because it guides the will and not only the material doings.

The thing is that the law doesn't have the welfare of people in mind; that's how it can work, but not be just.

-BGM (January 13, 2022, 09:17 AM)

This whole thing doesn't take into account the privacy of services and terms of service. Github hosted the code. Doing something with their service where they host the code that he voluntarily put up there doesn't violate the license of the code.

I believe it was Tuxman who even referred to, in the past, the Cloud as Other People's Property. So when you're putting data in the Cloud, you're putting it on Other People's Property, and they still retain the right to do with their property as they will. They can't do anything _with_ what was stored, but they can surely revert it or remove it. Your license doesn't supercede their rights for their property.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal

« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2022, 02:08 PM »

We're dealing with two different things. License for the code use and TOS for hosting.

Let's move the context to a different arena - DonationCoder, or any other Forum.

When you upload items in your posts, you are agreeing to the TOS for the site. For DonationCoder, you retain the rights to whatever you post- whether it is code (compiled or not) or text. That never changes. (Some sites make it so you can't edit or delete your posts, which exists in a gray area).

If you upload something malicious, I'd expect Mouser to take it down- whether it's code, text, etc. If you post something to the wrong area, your post will be altered to move it to the correct area. If you post something in your post that is malicious, your post will be edited to make it not so (as seen with several links in posts that are otherwise fine).

They are not altering his license. They first reverted the change until checking with him to make sure he wasn't hacked (and yes, you can say MFA, but there are ways around that, which have been demonstrated- it's just considerably harder). When he did check back with him, they allowed him in, but he had to change his code hosted on their site to something non malicious, or remove the repo. He chose the former, changing all the code to say What Happened to Aaron Schwartz?

You're conflating license with TOS.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022: DateAdder

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2022, 10:58 PM »

Denying someone's right to define what other people are allowed to do with his software by explicitly stating a license and claiming that a developer does not own an application anymore when he decides to publish the source code - which literally contains the word "copyright" - is not a "conversation in good faith". Note that you are not the culprit here.

I will not discuss this in more than one thread. No more source code for you, folks. If you don't want to respect the license, you won't get a chance to disrespect it anymore.

-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 09:09 PM)

Has anyone disrespected your license? Or even said you don't have a license? He just said the TOS on the service said he gives up certain aspects of the hosting of said software. But you do you.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022: DateAdder

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2022, 08:58 PM »

As a long-time member of DonationCoder has declared that publishing the source code of an application effectively ends my copyright on that application, I removed all references to the source code from this NANY entry. Future contributions will be closed source as well. I am not interested in having my copyright violated just because I published my software in good faith.

-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 05:39 PM)

Wow... that's an escalation, and of course your option. It was a conversation in good faith, and you take it to this extreme to try to prove a point? Quite mature conversational skills indeed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2022, 03:12 PM »

Again, he hasn't shown that he reached out to Microsoft before posting this.

-wraith808 (January 10, 2022, 01:25 PM)

A free software developer should not have to ask anyone, certainly not Microsoft, for permission to destroy his own code. That's pretty much the meaning of free software.

GitHub has some mechanisms to prevent "hacks", including 2FA. So you're only allowed to make your own code unusable if you can prove to Microsoft that you're really you? What kind of crude understanding of free software is that?

-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 01:34 PM)

I can see you totally are not reading my posts in good faith. So I'll just say, good day.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2022, 01:25 PM »

It has to do with the effect of that code

-wraith808 (January 10, 2022, 11:54 AM)

I can't remember a rule that says that I can't commit code to my libraries that break my libraries.

and I'm sure the complaints from others

-wraith808 (January 10, 2022, 11:54 AM)

So if other people - including large corporations - decide to take my free code that is licensed under a "no warranty" license and my code breaks their applications, Microsoft is allowed to modify my code?

-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 12:02 PM)

Again, he hasn't shown that he reached out to Microsoft before posting this. If you read the article, they reverted the change in question and locked it down, which is situation that one might expect from a suspected hack. As it stands now:

Judging by the changelog on both faker.js and colors.js, however, it looks like his suspension has already been lifted.