Posts by fontenot@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AUmdaThBgm2HNaAYLI by fontenot@mastodon.social
2023-04-18T17:35:20Z
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@tante I did a little digging. In Ubuntu 18.04, the LUKS PBKDF2 hash had a minimum iterations count of 1000. Which is *terrible* to be clear, but I'd still look at other opsec failures first if the password was truly 20+ mixed-case characters.Moreover, the *default* behavior was to benchmark and set a number of PBKDF2 rounds equal to 1 second of processing time. If *that* was used, it seems far more likely that the password was written down somewhere than that it was brute-forced.
(DIR) Post #AlcDvbK5dgzODv58Eq by fontenot@mastodon.social
2024-09-03T04:45:31Z
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@foone I have it because pip builds stuff with it in Python virtual environments. Checking those, looks like I installed streamlink to watch a Twitch stream on my phone?
(DIR) Post #AmoBLApBj9a3emYN84 by fontenot@mastodon.social
2024-10-08T21:03:49Z
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@foone Can I ask what font, OS, and LibreOffice version this is? I did a lot of research on this in the past and contributed to bug reports at the Document Foundation about the issue.This looks like a failure to use subpixel positioning on the glyphs, so the position of the 'a' glyph is rounded to the nearest glyph and looks very weird. LibreOffice switched to using subpixel positioning for all rendering with version 7.4, but I could imagine this happening with weird font / hinting settings.
(DIR) Post #AmoBvRDiFKv6vpJhSK by fontenot@mastodon.social
2024-10-08T21:11:14Z
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@foone Oh cool, thanks! Yes I think if you try out 7.4 you'll find the problem goes away. It looks like just the rounded glyph position issue, I have a whole blog post about it: https://adamfontenot.com/post/libreoffice_7_4_has_a_new_approach_to_text_rendering
(DIR) Post #AmoUCeuCPsZdTQYCZc by fontenot@mastodon.social
2024-10-09T00:37:09Z
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@foone Maybe you also changed your zoom level or font size? The revised text is quite a bit larger (when you reverse the upscaling on the original image).I'm curious whether, at the same size, the shape of the 'c' glyph is as cursed as it is in the before image. I can't think of any LibreOffice bug that might cause that, although they've done some strange things on Windows in the past IIRC.
(DIR) Post #AsggJo9eqNMcVcUFNY by fontenot@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T16:42:39Z
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Part of the boomer effect with respect to technology comes from shifts in what's considered basic communication infrastructure over time. For my generation it's email and SMS. For an older generation it was phone calls and letters. I've been putting more effort into getting to know people in my area recently, and it is *so* painful: everything is Instagram, Discord, and Twitter (yes really, Twitter, still!). I feel like a dinosaur. Most people wont even respond to emails.
(DIR) Post #AsggJpM6NaucEVJhPk by fontenot@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T16:43:44Z
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Now I know how my elders felt about the fact that my fellow millennials and I never answered the phone.
(DIR) Post #AsggJqhPNrY8OsIEGO by fontenot@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T19:07:41Z
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I feel justified about my choices in communications platforms because mine are relatively open (~everyone has a phone and email, you can choose from many providers for either), and modern platforms are not (you can't even *view* Instagram / Twitter without being forced to log in). But realistically, older people felt the same: "everyone has a phone, not everyone has a cell phone plan; I like hearing your voice, text lacks the same emotional connection."
(DIR) Post #AsggJrqf6wXtxrd8KG by fontenot@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T19:19:01Z
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A lot of discussion about generational communication focuses on asynchronicity, and I think that's right.For boomers, phones were async because if someone was away from home, you missed them and left a message if they had an answering machine. Now everyone carries a phone around.For my generation, texting is async because you can check your phone whenever. Now everyone is on their phone 8 hours a day.For Gen Z, having to open Discord is a *feature*; meanwhile I never remember to check it.
(DIR) Post #AsggJsiBtvMcdsfslE by fontenot@mastodon.social
2025-04-01T19:24:46Z
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A few months ago I heard the term "left on read" for the first time* and I laughed right out loud at it. My reaction was ... this is not a thing? This cannot possibly be a thing? The whole point of using this medium is that there are no expectations for receiving a reply in any particular time frame?Most young people feel differently, it seems. Texting is now a "high demand" communications platform, and they understandably want to escape from that.* yes I know, I'm very very old!