Background:

> Other apps were not allowed to use this permission at all, once it was introduced in 2022. I could convince them back then, that we need this. But nowadays they are more strict on it and thus we needed to remove this permission. Thus is, why it feels now like a regression / problem in UX, while it was only an exception that they allowed it for ~2 years.

https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/14135#issuecomme...

What is the source of “Firefox Moves to GitHub”? It could be a mirror, just like Linux also has an mirror on GitHub.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

// EDIT: Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970574

My thoughts as well, even more so after seeing the only GitHub Workflow they have is actually for closing Pull Requests with a default response:

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/.github...

It’s interesting how pull requests remain the only tab (apart from code) that cannot be disabled by the repo owners.

I get it from GitHub’s perspective, it’s a nudge to get people to accept the core premise of ”social coding” and encouraging user pressure for mirrored projects to accept GitHub as a contribution entrypoint. I’m impressed by their successes and would attribute some of that to forced socialization practices such as not allowing PRs to be disabled. I’ve grown to dislike it and become disillusioned by GitHub over the course of a long time, but I’m in awe of how well it has worked for them.

Had a similar problem but can't remember the Btrfs process. Anyway, after I switched off Btrfs quotas, everything was fine.

> that repository appears to be abandoned

The last commit and release is from october.

Interesting. Are there open APIs that you use for train-scanner or do you have to reverse engineer some apps?

Routes and timetables are increasingly becoming openly available. However, obtaining fares data is challenging. Do you have a specific use case for such data?

Redesign is hard because there always users that like the current/old design. For me the new sidebar looks nice and cleaner (I use it on gitlab.com for 3 weeks now).

It was communicated transparently: it was abused too often.

It's not a secret that a no-log policy also attracts abuse.

https://mullvad.net/de/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-f...

Cool, I have 8 months prepaid for a service I can no longer use because they have a months notice they're removing a feature I need. And they refuse to refund crypto, the payment method they supposedly prefer.

What I get for trusting mullvad I guess.

What's the feature that's being removed that's making this unusable for you?

Funny enough, in most cases it's the other way around.

Set up and forget is a often a bad idea. Keyword: Security Updates

> via Bluetooth too

Wouldn't recommend, bluetooth has the disadvantage of being very slow.

i wrongly assumed BT5 would be ok sharing a 3G connection recently... oh how wrong i was. BT is pure garbage.

after seeing the abysmal bandwidth i understood why every headphone becomes garbage when you start using the microphone channel.

there's no hope for BT and it must go on favor of anything else from this century.

> i understood why every headphone becomes garbage when you start using the microphone channel

AFAIK, this is a codec issue, with most codecs not supporting bidirectional audio. IIRC, newer Bluetooth revisions tackle this.

USB2 speeds are better, but not that much.

USB2 has a cap of 480mbps (includes overhead) while Bluetooth is stuck at several megabits per second (1.7 for Bluetooth 4, should be around double for Bluetooth 5).

WiFi can easily beat USB2 but Bluetooth certainly can't.

USB2 can do 480mbit (connection at least) and has the advantage of working properly even in a noisy wifi area.

We're in 2023 though. I get about 1.6Gbps over my phone's CDC-NCM interface in iperf over USB 3.0.