Which distro supports m-dashes for long option?
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Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What's your favourite "just works, day after day" Linux software?English
11·3 months agoJust because one thing is better than another doesn’t mean the other isn’t good!
But thank you for the tip. I actually don’t like KCalc. My post was a joke because I thought the question was kinda dumb.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubto
Linux@programming.dev•System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Linux Laptop with 18-Hour Battery LifeEnglish
6·3 months agoNew Pro Lemur Linux Laptop

Well, that’s how I read it.
It doesn’t sound like you understand what personal information is. It includes things like contacts, calendar, and emails.
This back end service exists because, in the past, programs were all doing their own thing, but now KDE provides that information as a service. With a standard API. So you can have two programs installed that manage your contacts, and they’re both using the same list of contacts. Same with your calendar. Back in the day, if you used two different programs to store contacts, you would have two databases of contacts.
Calling that bloatware is just stupid. It’s literally a core service that a useful operating system should provide.
In addition, learn how to use a search engine instead of posting in the forum like this. It was trivial to find out how to disable it permanently. Trivial! Asking us to do your work for you and then tacking on a “conversation starter” at the end doesn’t make your post any less palatable.
Here’s your answer:
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubto
Linux@lemmy.ml•What's your favourite "just works, day after day" Linux software?English
402·3 months agoKCalc. Man, it just computes! It can add, subtract, and even multiply. It’s never given a wrong answer.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Is using a keyring an insecure thing to do?English
1·3 months agoThere are two ways to do it with KeePass (or KeePassXC or KeePassDX):
- using the auto-type feature with a virtual keyboard
- Using it as the desktop’s “secrets provider”.
When I asked if KeePassXC could work on Wayland, I meant, “does the auto-type feature work yet?” I actually have not looked into using KeePassXC as a secrets provider.
The built-in AutoType feature uses a virtual keyboard to type passwords by switching to the target window and then typing them in as if it were you using a real keyboard. This works in Windows, Android, and X11 (insecurely), but not in Wayland.
On a desktop PC, you can configure the auto-type sequence in an individual entry or on the folder it’s in. Then you press Ctrl-V with an entry selected, and KeePassXC will switch to the previous window and start typing like a keyboard. You control when it presses Tab to switch fields, when it types the username or password, and if it hits Enter to submit the login. Stuff like that.
On Windows, the above is secure unless some random app comes to the front as soon as you press the AutoType hotkey. Other programs can’t read the keystrokes. On X11 this is insecure. Every program running on the computer can hear every keystroke from every keyboard (real or virtual). This is just one of the reasons why Wayland exists, to eliminate security holes like this, and why KeePassXC under Wayland can’t do auto-typing. (Yet)
On Android, you use the KeePass virtual keyboard to AutoType entries. I personally use KeePassDX, but I’m sure there are other ones. Like all Android keyboards, it needs to be enabled in settings before you can use it. You either open KeePass, choose an entry, and then switch to the KeePass keyboard, or switch to the keyboard first, click one of the buttons, and KeePassDX will launch, and have you choose a key to load.
Either way, the KeePass virtual keyboard presents you with buttons for username, password, or any other text fields, and you simply focus the field you want to be typed into, and press the appropriate button. It’s secure. Other apps can’t intercept the keystrokes. I would screen shot what the keyboard looks like, but I can’t do that because of the security settings. KeePassDX blocks screenshots by default, and that carries over to its virtual keyboard.
The other option on Linux is you can configure KeePassXC to be the “secrets provider”. Then, when an application does the formal request for a stored secret on the system, KeePassXC provides it instead of KWallet or whatever your DE uses. I have never tried this out, and I don’t know how secure it is.
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Is using a keyring an insecure thing to do?English
5·3 months agoDoes KeepassXC work under Wayland yet without having to use the clipboard to paste passwords?
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubto
Linux@programming.dev•High-severity vulnerability in Linux caused by a single faulty characterEnglish
3·3 months agoThe article appears to have been fixed.
Do they actually look like stickers in use, or is that just the presentation on the GitHub page?
head bozo detects ever-so-subtle AGI whilst slop-fondling and easily “verifies” 30K LoC that was shat out.
What don’t you get? 😂
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubto
Linux@programming.dev•What UNIX Cost Us - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)English
0·4 months agoDisclaimer
Dear commenters, I have done very little research on this topic, and I am not a computer scientist. Just an average programmer who has written at most a few hundred lines of C. Feel free to (politely) tell me all the ways I am wrong.
As long as you’re turing complete
I think you can stop there. Any computable function can be run on any Turing complete machine. You just need the right machine code. So you don’t really need to add further qualifications.
However, if you do… If you say C needs to be able to read input, write to files and devices, allocate and randomly access memory, or talk to an operating system in any way, then you’ve tied it to a particular (abstract) architecture. So, I’d say that’s a pretty low level language on the abstraction spectrum. Most other languages are higher than it. If you were to rate programming languages from 0 to 10, C would be about a 3. Maybe even 2 for kernel code. Python would be like a 7, and SQL would be like an 8.
Anyone saying a language is strictly either “high” or “low” is missing a lot of nuance, and C is definitely on the low end.

Don’t press my bottom, please.