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Syncthing can deduplicate data before network transfers and even utilize on-disk storage deduplication on modern file systems on Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

GNOME Text Editor, GEdit, and Kate all have a auto-saving feature designed to prevent dataloss. However, the implementations vary a lot with different trade-offs.

The Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standard has strict requirements for an email sender’s logo to show up in your inbox. 65,1% gets it wrong.

Ruby made its YAML interpreter more secure by default at the cost of backward compatibility. Developers weren’t given heads up warning about the changes.

I’ve been an SELinux complexity apologist for years. Lately, I’ve concluded that every implementation with difficult-to-configure policies is just unmanageable.

Do you still need to maintain webpage thumbnails/link previews in legacy image formats, or have apps caught up with the WebP revolution? It’s a bit complicated.

The new BIMI email standard give companies a branding opportunity in your email inbox in exchange for adopting stricter email sender-verification standards.

The title song to the James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2004) videogame by Mýa was once given away as a promo isn’t part of any digital music catalog.

The CSS @media hover query detects hover-capable input devices. Samsung touchscreens on Android gives unexpected results by pretending to be a computer touchpad.

OpenCore lets you run the latest MacOS on unsupported Apple legacy hardware (and PCs). But software that bypasses security restrictions requires a lot of trust.

Flatpak apps are isolated from- and doesn’t use the system’s spell checker dictionaries. Here’s how to install more language options into the Flatpak runtime.

Windows 11 needs some extra config to run as a virtual machine in GNOME Boxes. Get it setup with UEFI secure boot, TPM 2.0 emulation, and accelerated drivers.

The Kate Editor has a great feature that prevents data-loss if the text editor or the system crashes. It auto-saves “.kate-swp” files containing unsaved changes.

The new FreeStyle Libre 3 sensor is a true real-time glucose monitoring system and the market’s smallest CGM at a 70 % size-reduction compared to the old model.

The HTML Standard is vague on whether the attributes are inclusive. Firefox, Safari, and Chrome have behave differently. Here’s my workaround.

I asked 124 services to delete my user account. The results were mixed. 21 never responded, and 16 responded by created even more accounts. Some outright lied.

One UI 4 (Android 12) introduced Grammarly partnership in Keyboard app on some Samsung devices. The update breaks the keyboard app compatibility with many apps.

You can now expect every website to inundate you with pop-ups for email lists, promotions, and privacy theater. (No, the GDPR isn’t to blame.) Enough is enough.

After the initial learning curve, I found that Cardboard WM help me stay focused on one task and it greatly reduced how much time I spent rearranging my windows.