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When pushing CTRL+A, no text is selected, so every field has to be copied separately. I am not sure if this is a bug or deliberate.

Is there any way to copy the entire text from the certificate viewer?

Nur noch monatliche Flatrates können telefonisch bestellt werden. Das bedeutet, man wählt Menüpunkte, die von einer Roboterstimme vorgelesen werden.

Jahrespakete können scheinber bei so gut wie allen Anbietern mittlerweile nur noch in der App des Mobilfunkanbieters () und bei manchen Anbietern noch auf der Webseite des Mobilfunkanbieters aktiviert werden.

Hat jemand eine Ahnung warum?

Die klassische telefonische Aktivierung hat den Vorteil, dass sie als einzige Aktivierungsmethode keiner Internetverbindung bedarf. Um ein Jahrespaket zu aktivieren benötigt man das Festnetz-Internet, oder man verschwendet eine menge Guthaben, da mobiles Internet im Basistarif schnell teuer wird.

Flash storage stores data as electrical charges in floating-gate transistors.

From what I understand, it is the erasure, not the writing that causes the degradation, because a strong negative voltage has to be applied to the memory page.

When flash memory sits idle, its controller automatically scans and refreshes the electrical charge (source: ).

How much does this process degrade the flash storage, if at all? If it were plugged in but idle for 10 years, how much of a difference would it have made?

When plugging in an external mass storage device, how to make it mount as read-only by default?

Nach dem Jonas Ems und seine Freundin Denise sich getrennt haben, hat er wie man erwarten könnte einen großen Teil seiner alten Videos entfernt.

Darunter sind hauptsächlich Videos, in denen sie vor kam, zum Beispiel das millionenfach geclickte Video „“ aus 2018.

Sein erstes Video, „10 DINGE DIE ICH HASSE - WENN ICH IN DER SCHULE BIN! (Dinge, die in der Schule nerven!)“, ist leider auch gelöscht. Es wurde Anfang 2012 veröffentlicht und war bis mindestens 2019 verfügbar. ()

Da es über 200.000 mal angesehen wurde, gibt es eine kleine Hoffnung, dass es jemand gerettet hat.

Video platforms should be required by law to let people download videos as a non-proprietary file (usually MP4 or webm) in the download folder.

Third-party tools like youtube-dl and ytdlp exist, but they often stop working because video platforms like YouTube make changes to their site or deliberately try to counteract them.

If downloading videos is too difficult, many people simply don't bother, which causes videos that would otherwise have been preserved to become lost media.

so they can sell YouTube Premium's "downloading" feature.

However, the YouTube premium "downloading" feature does not result in an MP4 or WEBM file, but in proprietary binary data that is stored with data lock-in, and are forcibly deleted after 30 days, making it useless for long-term preservation.

I have heard optical discs (CD, DVD, BD) like being stored "protected from light". But how bad is it if they are on a shelf where they are exposed to some scattered light from the window and room lamp?

This obviously means no direct sunlight.

When downloading many emails to ".eml" files using Thunderbird, the downloading is interrupted if one email has an excessively long subject name.

Every time this happens, the email that causes it has to be located manually. This makes exporting a high number of emails impractical.

Is there any way to save all emails as ".eml" without being interrupted by excessively long file names?

It is well known that . But I couldn't find any source on how humidity affects hard drives in storage.

Is there such a thing as writing a BD-R "too slowly"?

I read an article somewhere (probably on the now-dead MyCE/CDFreaks) that said it is counter-intuitive to write a CD-R and DVD+/-R too slowly because the organic material is intended to be written at a specific speed, so writing too slow could result in lower quality burns. It said the idea that slower is always better is an "urban myth".

Given that BD-R (HTL) uses no organic dye, does it also apply there?

I found about DVDs:

Burning slower than the rated speed will many times result in a worse burn. Ritek G05, back before it turned to trash, was a good example.

I don't know how much truth there is to it. From what I know, only RW discs have to be burned at a narrow speed range, but not sure about R discs. From experience, Hitachi-LG drive firmwares won't even let the user record at any other speed than the rated speed on RW discs. For example, it won't let you record a 4x speed DVD-RW at any other speed.

Use case: putting video player in corner with "always on top" enabled so I can see through it and watch and browse at the same time without sacrificing screen space for the video player.

From what I remember, Xfce has it (I haven't used it for some time), but which others do?

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Email providers sadly are killing the option to compose plain text mail. Recently, the German email provider "web.de" , even though plain text emails have benefits like saving space and being less likely to be marked as spam.

HTML is for simple text communication, like using a lorry truck to carry a load that a small car could carry. See also .

In any case, having both options is better than having only one option. So why are they killing plain text email? Do they want people to consume the space faster so they are compelled to pay for a subscription?

I know, plain text is still possible through a third-party tool like Thunderbird, but why remove the option from the web interface?

Their removal of plain text mail co-incided with their unfortunate removal of "lightmailer" (lightmailer-bs.web.de), a lightweight non-javascript web interface that worked on old browsers and loaded ten times faster than their bloated JavaScript web app that they are now forcing down the users' throats. It feels like some kind of perverted trend on online services.

Is there any way to make the bottom cell of the table in this demo extend until the bottom of the screen, regardless of how much it contains?

One possible way would be to "cheat" using JavaScript by detecting the screen height and setting the table to that height whenever the screen height changes. But is there any way to accomplish this using bare HTML and CSS?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" style="height:100%;">
<head>
	<title>Variable height demo</title>
	<style type="text/css">
		body { background-color: #222; color:#ccc; font-family: sans-serif; }
	</style>
</head>
<body style="height:100%; margin:0;">

<table style="width: 100%; height:100%; table-layout: fixed;" border="1">
	<tr style="height:50px;">
		<th>Fixed-height row</th>
	</tr>
<tr style="height:100%;">
	<td style="overflow-y: scroll; vertical-align:top;">
		<ul>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
			<li>Scrollable list</li>
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			<li>Scrollable list</li>
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		</ul>
	</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

I would like to move only read messages to a different folder, but there seems to only be a search filter to only see unread messages.

The closest thing would be to turn on the "Status" column (right click on header above message list, check the "[] Status" box), and then clicking on the "Status" column, but this would still not allow selecting all messages using Ctrl+A, and also no sorting by any other column.

I tried searching "status:read" but it looks like there is no such feature.

The blur and backdrop blur filter requires lots of CPU power, which is bad for laptop battery endurance. Is there any way to turn it off?

Lithium-ion/polymer batteries are well-known to prefer partial charges, but are slow full charges or partial fast charges more harmful to a phone battery?

ZarbexBlog, auch bekannt als ZarbexCr4ft und zeitweise als „Tyler Sheesh“, war ein halbwegs bekannter Meinungsblogger. waren seine Meinungen zu ConCrafter, TheBaCorner, und TANZVERBOT, alle mit jeweils über 100.000 Aufrufen, doch heute ist nur noch ein Video aus der Zeit noch zu finden.

Der Kanal „Zarbex Reupload“ hatte damals einige seiner bekannten Videos neu hochgeladen, und sie waren unbeschwert etwa sechs Jahre lang online, doch in 2024 machte der Feigling hinter dem Kanal leider einen urplötzlichen Sinneswandel zur Moralapostel und entfernte alle Reuploads, außer einem, unter jenem er in diesem Kommentar seine Moralpredigt zurückließ:

Servus Leute, ich melde mich mal wieder zurück nach über 5 Jahren Abwesenheit: Ich hab mich entschlossen alle Videos (bis auf dieses) vom Kanal runter zu nehmen, weil ich nicht möchte, dass Zarbex durch seine alten Videos in Schwierigkeiten gerät.

In welche Schwierigkeiten soll er denn angeblich geraten? Hätte es Zarbex gestört, dann hätte er sich beschwert. Hat es aber anscheinend nicht.

Er ist mitlerweile ein ganz anderer Typ und hat wenig bis gar nichts mit seiner alten, zynisch-pubertären Art zu tun.

Na und? Trotzdem waren die Videos toll. Sie waren ein Stück Geschichte.

Außerdem würde wohl kaum jemand deshalb schlecht über Zarbex denken, sondern Verständnis dafür haben. Mir und vielen Anderen haben seine „zynisch-pubertären“ Videos jedenfalls gefallen. Dadurch ist er überhaupt bekannt geworden.

Ich hab diesen Kanal damals mit 13 aufgemacht, weil ich nicht wollte das Zarbex´s "legendäre" Meinungsblogs verloren gehen.

Waren sie auch. „Zarbex Reupload“ lag mit 13 Jahren richtiger als als Erwachsener.

Ich fand den Kanal „Zarbex Reupload“ etwa 2021. Damals hatte ich mir nicht die Mühe gemacht, die Videos zu sichern, da ich nicht mit einem dämlichen Sinneswandel nach so einer langen Zeit gerechnet hatte.

Not the ibus one. The GTK one. I want to use Ctrl+dot for other, more useful and serious shortcuts, not this infantile nonsense.

As an added nuisance, it doesn't close when pressing backspace (like it does on Windows), only the ESC button that is further away, and repetition is what makes a small annoyance large over time.

What I have tried:

# gsettings set org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji hotkey "[]".
No such schema “org.freedesktop.ibus.panel.emoji”
# gsettings list-keys org.gtk.Settings.EmojiChooser
recent-emoji

From :

Used by text widgets to let users insert Emoji characters.

Awesome. Now how do I get rid of it?

So it seems there is no way to change or remove the hotkey.

Is there any way to get rid of it besides recompiling GTK with the EmojiChooser ripped out of the source code?

bzip2recover allows recovering undamaged blocks of bz2 archives, and lziprecover, from what I understand, can correct corrupted data to a limited extent.

Is there any other archival utility which has some form of error recovery? Even though the popular xz also uses blocks (whose size the user can customize), there is no tool that can isolate individual blocks to find undamaged blocks in the way bzip2 does. From what I understand, if there is any damage anywhere on xz compressed data, the rest of the data is completely unreadable.

This means, for example, if one byte in the first 50 MB of an 10 GB archive is wrong, the rest of the 10 GB is useless.

Also the more modern compressors like zstd seem to have no error recovery.

I don't expect good error recovery from any compression format given that compression is all about removing redundancy, but at least there should be some way to get parts of the data back in case of corruption, including after the corrupted data.

I see this CSS property misused so often. Is there any way to get rid of it on all websites? Just pretend it doesn't exist.

"Mayday - Air Crash Investigation" is a documentary series about air disasters. I predict that the following air disasters will be covered in the 27th season of Air Crash Investigation, which will be released in 2027:

• Britannia Airways flight 226A

• Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701

• Dan Air flight 1008

• Air Canada flight 621

• United Airlines flights 1175 and 328 (shared episode).

• Olympic Airways flight 411

Date: 2027. Evidence: These are widely known disasters not yet covered. Shared episodes have already been made in the past, like the episode "Cold Case".

A sparse file is created using truncate -s 100M example.bin on a file system that supports sparse files, like ext4. This will not take any space besides the file metadata, which can be checked using du -s -h example.bin.

However, is there any way to detect blank sectors (sectors with only null bytes) on a non-sparse file and mark them as sparse after the fact?

Without root access and an unlocked bootloader, you don't truly own your phone.

By default, Android places lots of restrictions on the user, for example they have no normal write access to the MicroSD card since Android 4.4 and USB OTG media since Android 6.

Google provided no menu option to let the user opt out of these restrictions, so rooting is the only way to gain normal access to your property.

Unfortunately, bootloader unlocking requires a factory reset, and backing up in-app data can be difficult to impossible depending on the app. By the time people learn about rooting, it tends to be too late.

Do not accept this nonsense as normal. This is an ownership violation.

I hereby release this post into the public domain ().

It will not be found anytime soon due to the lack of a pressing need for it, besides providing closure to the families, which the Malaysian government has - let's face it - little reason to care about. Besides, something like MH370 has never happened again since then, because the air traffic controllers are better prepared this time.

The overwhelming majority of signs point to a pilot suicide, specifically by captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, see the video by Green Dot Aviation.

The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will unlikely contain anything useful, if they are readable at all. Almost certainly, Zaharie pulled the circuitbreaker for the FDR before his vanishing act, and let the CVR run so it would overwrite itself due to the two-hour limit, destroying all evidence.

If the remote possibility that the wreckage has already been seized by some authorities but it is covered up from the public is true, then this post of course does not apply. But this post presumes that the wreckage is still at the bottom of the ocean.

Date: 2040 - 2049. Evidence: see above.

I release this post into the public domain, CC0 1.0.

Mainstream smartphone operating systems (Android and iOS) let applications arbitrarily disable screen capture, screen recording, and screen mirroring to an external display such as a television or an MHL connection to an HDMI monitor.

I am surprised smartphone users have been conditioned into accepting this ownership violation as a "normal part of life". It is not.

As a device owner, you should be able to screen-capture anything that appears on your screen, without exception. App makers have no business deciding what you can screen capture.

Two well-known examples of screenshot blocking and screen recorder blocking are the , and .

The first one probably only intended to prevent incognito mode from appearing on external displays such as a television, which is accomplished though the same feature as screenshot blocking and screen recorder blocking (). So screenshot and screen recorder blocking are apparently collateral damage.

Samsung also added the "secure" flag to their lockscreen key pad in 2023. The goal of this is to prevent it from appearing on external displays, so screenshot and screen recorder blocking are side effects. There is no reason to prevent the device owner from screen recording the keypad if they voluntarily wish to do it, which can be useful for a demonstration or bug report, using a temporary passcode.

See also my prediction on :

And regarding WhatsApp profile pictures: Screenshots of profile pictures are not privacy violations and never were, but have legitimate reasons such as preserving good memories.

Everyone knows that one should not upload something onto a visible spot on the Internet that one does not wish to be preserved by others. A profile picture is such a spot.

A privacy violation is, for example, . Here, developers are being coerced into disclosing personally identifiable details (including home address!) that they probably wished not to, in order to be able to release applications that work on most Android smartphones sold (network effect).

But a profile picture is something one voluntarily chooses to make public, and not even a mandatory requirement to be able to use WhatsApp. Not a privacy violation.

Ironically, this comes from Meta, Inc. - one of the biggest data harvesters in history.

I hereby release this post into the public domain ().

I never understood why popcorn seems to be so popular in cinemas. It tastes boring, and sometimes popcorn pieces get into your throat, drying it up.