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Cake day: April 18th, 2025

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  • ok. my reality have been truly checked! i havnt been thinking much about that type of thing, but yea we have definitely put ourselves in a terrible position.

    everything that has happened since the 90s… using email for communication, everyone switching to using the cloud for nearly everything, i havnt stepped foot in a bank in 15+ years, so many things rely on computers and the internet now… what happens when most of that stops working!?

    theres a lot of scrambling right now with countries trying to get their military back up to speed. let’s hope this is something that gets just as much attention.

    where do you even start though lol?




  • yea it simulates keypresses somehow, like how autohotkey or xdotool does. i should probably throw out a disclaimer before i hype it up too much though :p

    it used to work a lot better back when most sites had both the username and password input box on the same page. sites like google have started putting them on different pages now which confuses things. the sequence of keys it sends is {USERNAME}{TAB}{PASSWORD}{ENTER} so it doesnt really have awareness of the actual input box elements the way a browser extension would

    the quick fix for this is to just use the separate hotkeys ctrl+1 to autotype the username and then ctrl+2 for the password




  • Keepass. ill skip the obvious and just mention the really neat features that other server/cloud based password managers dont or cant have.

    • on desktop, you dont need any browser extension to fill in passwords since the “autotype” feature in keepassXC handles that. this means your browser has no to access your database at all. any password manager thats connected to your browser in any way is a huge security risk imo.
      (i would recommend this extension that changes the window title though)

    • you can have 2 databases open at the same time (in keepassXC and keepassDX at least), which means you can have important logins in one and everything else in the other one. if you ever get annoyed having to unlock your vault using a really long master password just so you can autofill some crappy forum password then you might get why 2 databases is a good idea!

    • you can fill in login details for desktop programs. (maybe others do this now but they didnt when i switched to keepass years ago)

    Aegis authenticator. its been years since ive used google’s authenticator app so maybe its improved now, but it used to be very spartan. it showed you your OTP codes and thats about it.

    Aegis lets you add an icon to each entry and the different sized text makes things a lot easier to read. the visual timer is much clearer as well and the text turns red when its close to running out.

    you can also backup your codes so if you lose your phone its no big deal. you can unlock the app with your fingerprint. you can tap on a code and then have it add that to the clipboard and then go back to the previous app








  • “We don’t have some kind of platform where we can organise stuff without the algorithm just hiding it after a day”

    theres a server/forum on Revolt called “EU Vibes” that would be a bit better for organising things than here or on mastodon. https://rvlt.gg/eSHZgSP9

    they mention BuyEuropean and BuyFromEU in their description so im guessing it was set up recently enough.

    Revolt is a Discord alternative if anyone isnt familar. its based in the UK but beggers cant be choosers eh!


  • one of my favourite things when i switched to linux first was using the meta+Q hotkey to shutdown a program (this was with PopOS i think). with windows there is alt+F4 but some programs only use shift+alt+F4 which makes it a lot more confusing. on top of all that if youre using a laptop then its another keypress for the Fn key in some cases




  • just in case you dont know, Distrosea lets you try various distros online which is handy just for getting a quick idea what the UI is like

    for trying out different distros using the live USB method, Ventoy is a good option since it lets you have multiple ISO files on your USB drive at once, instead of having to reformat your USB each time