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but if airdrop as of OS26 uses wifi aware, and the proprietary awdl version has been shuttered due to the eu regulation, how come devices on that software version can still airdrop to older devices?


I think this is a GNOME thing...the keychain by default has the same password as the login password, so logging in with the password unlocks it too. fingerprint login doesn't unlock it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527876, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring


Yeah, I've resigned myself to that. The part that irks me is that it doesn't present a password prompt (on initial login) until fingerprint attempts are exhausted.


by "Mozilla approved" do you mean that it has to come from the official add-on store?

because in my experience, it doesn't--I've installed a couple of extensions manually by just dragging the .xpi into the window.


Extensions in Firefox are required to be signed by Mozilla. If you make your own build of an open-source extension, it will not load. The setting to disable this check only works in Developer Edition, ESR and Nightly builds.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firef...


What‘s wrong with ESR? I would recommend using ESR anyway.


Installing the developer edition seems like the move.


Firefox nightly is pretty darn stable, though I'm not sure if there's any security issues with it. I use it for both mobile and desktop, and have for the past 5~10 years and haven't had any issues that weren't fixed by immediately downloading a fresh build (this happened twice) or were caused by me performing unsupported/insane actions (transferring browser profiles (indexeddb) on mobile via CLI commands using remote devtools).

I've got one buggy device, but I suspect corruption due to the error message and I'm more interested in saving the unsyncable data I've got on that profile than I am in trying to fix it by clearing data.


Installing one of those builds is a deal breaker?


bit unrelated, but the newest version of macOS (Tahoe) does now have a clipboard manager


try chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml


i don't think @-ing dang works, you should probably send an email to hn@ycombinator.com i think?


I was hoping to just kiboz[0] him.

For real though he does have a habit of showing up when mentioned even if there isn't an real @mention mechanism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_%22Kibo%22_Parry


He has also confirmed that one should send an email rather than @dang-ing.


I'm sure he'd prefer that, but doing so would associate my email with my username (which I'd prefer to avoid), and it was demonstrably unnecessary, at least in this case.


as for 1. if you ever have some free time on your hands, and want to take declarative configs to the next level, you can check out Impermanence for NixOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218289

and 2...hm I know i've done Miracast before with GNOME Network Displays https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.NetworkDisplays


hm, that's new, it didn't pop up when last I opened the page

edit: it's a troll, it's meant to redirect i think: https://x.com/boring_cactus/status/1303832687648464897


hm i mean, python doesn't really care about indentation kind, as long as it's consistent...

maybe writing a Makefile (which afaik really REALLY wants tabs), and want to ensure someone's IDE doesn't change it to spaces.


damn so this is really what they're focusing on doing...when the top 10+ posts on r/help are people trying to get new.reddit back


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