movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (1y ago)

Only figured this out yesterday:

pinentry, which is used to safely enter a password on Linux, has several frontends. Thereā€™s a GTK one, a Qt one, even an ncurses one, and so on.

GnuPG also uses pinentry. And you can configure your frontend of choice here in gpg-agent.conf.

But what happens when you donā€™t configure it? Whatā€™s the default?

Turns out, pinentry is a shellscript wrapper and itā€™s not even that long. Here it is in full:

#!/bin/bash

# Run user-defined and site-defined pre-exec hooks.
[[ -r "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}"/pinentry/preexec ]] && \
        . "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}"/pinentry/preexec
[[ -r /etc/pinentry/preexec ]] && . /etc/pinentry/preexec

# Guess preferred backend based on environment.
backends=(curses tty)
if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" || -n "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" ]]; then
        case "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" in
        KDE|LXQT|LXQt)
                backends=(qt qt5 gnome3 gtk curses tty)
                ;;
        *)
                backends=(gnome3 gtk qt qt5 curses tty)
                ;;
        esac
fi

for backend in "${backends[@]}"
do
        lddout=$(ldd "/usr/bin/pinentry-$backend" 2>/dev/null) || continue
        [[ "$lddout" == *'not found'* ]] && continue
        exec "/usr/bin/pinentry-$backend" "$@"
done

exit 1

Preexec, okay, then some auto-detection to use a toolkit matching your desktop environment ā€¦

ā€¦ and then it invokes ldd? To find out if all the required libraries are installed for the auto-detected frontend?

Oof. I was sitting here wondering why it would use pinentry-gtk on one machine and pinentry-gnome3 on another, when both machines had the exact same configs. Yeah, but different libraries were installed. One machine was missing gcr, which is needed for pinentry-gnome3, so that machine (and that one alone) spawned pinentry-gtk ā€¦

#lnzctjq
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (1y ago)

I have a Python script that transforms the original YouTube channel Atom feed into a more useful Atom feed by removing the spam description and replacing it with the video duration, filtering out videos by title, duration, etc. I just updated it to exclude the damn Shorts garbage more efficiently. Finally, YouTube updated their Atom feed generation, so that the video URL contains /short/ if itā€™s of this useless kind. Never thought that they ever actually will improve their Atom feeds. Thank you, much appreciated!

#6u6yutq
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (1y ago)

(#ijm24eq) @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I have absolutely no idea, but I wouldnā€™t be surprised if it uses the closest full image after your cut point and not the one before. Hence, the deltas between the two full images have nothing to really refer to. So, the video player just shows the first full image it finds and ā€œfreezesā€ the image until the video stream actually hits it.

Let me try to visualize it, | represent full images, . just subsequent deltas:

Original start of video
ā†“
|......|.....|........|......|..
   ā†‘                      ā†‘
   Cut point      Cut point

Resulting video:

   ....|.....|........|....
   ā†‘ā†‘ā†‘ā†‘
   This is where it freezes

Could be complete bullshit, though. Wouldnā€™t be the first time that Iā€™m wrong. :-)

Iā€™m just curious, what exact command line do you use to cut the video?

#r4ysira
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (1y ago)

Since Wayland compositors handle input devices on a lower level than X11 window managers, every compositor has to figure out on their own what a ā€œmouse wheel clickā€ is:

(I think ā€œWayland compositorā€ is a misnomer. They are full-blown display servers that also do compositing, plus Wayland window management, plus X11 window management.)

One can only hope that all this eventually gets moved into the wlroots library. (Iā€™m not sure if thatā€™s possible, nor if people would want that.)

#4rdmeyq
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (1y ago)

Xfce does one thing very right: It stores its settings in plain-text XML files. This allows me to easily read, track, and maybe even distribute these settings to other machines.

(Unlike GNOMEā€™s dconf, which uses some binary file format. Fun fact: The older and now deprecated gconf also used XML files.)

#euobsca
bender @twtxt.net
 (1y ago)

(#23mu5la) I think I understand now. Americans do not go camping, we do recreational activities. I donā€™t think campers are a thing here, but RVs (Recreational Vehicles) are. Thatā€™s why it would never cross my mind to get anything with fabric, that folds. No mate, we get a house on wheels, with a million miles engine. šŸ¤£

Other than that, it looks nice!

#5afiuya
nghialele @nghia.im
 (1y ago)

next up: authentication center / for both work & personal use.
for the work project, the customers (of my client) are unhappy with the account login flow and I need a fast & easy SSO for them.

for personal use: just a gateway to lock all the apps and provide access to friends.

i slowly realize the power of 1% everyday on what i am doing.

#rg5bwtq