Speaking of UIs, this is how Thunderbird looks now:

https://movq.de/v/a41105eebb/

So we continue to let every program make up its own UI style (and then we complain that “the Linux desktop” looks “messy” and “inconsistent”). I guess this uses GTK, but it doesn’t look like any other GTK program. Buttons, tabs, drop-downs, whatever, it’s all different. It even has its own subwindow system (i.e., popups that you can’t move).

I didn’t say this in the blog post, but I’m convinced that programmers these days absolutely positively hate everything that looks even remotely like Windows 95 or Motif – with a passion. I see that in my coworkers as well, they really can’t stand it. It’s an emotional thing.

Getting the vim key bindings to work for focus switching in this modal dialog took me forever. Only cursors and (Shift+)Tab are supported out of the box. I absolutely understand that, it’s fine. I installed an input handler on the dialog, but the focus always stayed the same.

After two wasted hours, I was in despair to copy the tview.Modal into my own code base. Of course, I had to fix all the private tview field accesses first. But even installing the input handler directly on the buttons themselves did not work. Even though, the handler was definitely executed, the focus did not shift. Forcing redraws as a last resort also did not work.

Looking through all the messy chained input handling, I eventually stumbled across another place in the tview.Form, which is internally used by tview.Modal. This messed around with app focus receptions and input handlers. This gave me the idea to make the tview.Application refocus my modal dialog after I told the modal dialog which button to select. And would you look at that, this did the trick! I haven’t completely figured out what is going on exactly, but I could get rid of my Modal clone again.

I always go through hell with focus handling in tview. Each and every time. It just does not feel natural to me. Complete brainfuck to wrap my head around. The Urwid API felt sooo much more refined, it never was an issue. It just works. In fact, I cannot think of any other TUI library that has remotely the same pain level when it comes to focusing widgets as tview.

Now I’m curious how movwin deals with that. ;-)

Remote Work, Not AI, Has Sidelined Recent College Graduates, Research Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The buzz on college campuses is that AI is disrupting the job market for young college graduates. But new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that the culprit may be something else: remote work. An analysis of federal employment data, paired with a deep dive int … ⌘ Read more

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Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft’s RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist… ⌘ Read more

Websites Have a New Way To Spy On Visitors: Analyzing Their SSD Activity
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives. The technique, named FROST (fingerprinting remotely using OPFS-based SSD timing), allows sites to monitor other sites a visitor is viewing and what apps are open … ⌘ Read more

Hive (YC S14) is hiring sr back-end developers (CA/US remote OK)
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hive.co/538c47f9-d008-49b7-b0d4-583d9294a481

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267324

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More Videogames Developers Consider Unionization - Some Spurred By Changes to Remote Work Policies
Developers for several top videogames have joined unions under the Communication Workers of America — including Call of Duty, Fallout, Overwatch, Diablo and World of Warcraft. Last month workers on the online game Magic: The Gathering Arena team announced their own CWA union.

T … ⌘ Read more

I should have changed the key binding from Print to Shift+Print a long time ago to launch import and upload the screenshot to my server. I was constantly hitting that stupid key on accident when I actually wanted to press [AltGr].

If I only could map a key binding to slap these damn ThinkPad T15 keyboard layout designers at Lenovo remotely in the face. Seriously, who in their right mind puts Print (in German Druck) between AltGr and Ctrl at the bottom row to begin with?! Exactly. Nobody. What a horrible location.

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Tesla Reveals New Details About Robotaxi Crashes—and the Humans Involved
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh my goodness, hahaha!

To be fair, it depends on your threat model. And I believe it’s very safe to bet that most probably don’t have one. Nor even remotely know what that is. So, it’s plenty good enough for them.

With that new to me detail on top, there’s even less incentive to look at this Matrix hype more closely.

[$] Forgejo “carrot disclosure” raises security questions
An unusual, some might say hostile, approach to disclosing an alleged
remote-code-execution (RCE) flaw in the Forgejo software-collaboration platform has
sparked a multifaceted conversation. A so-called
“carrot disclosure” in April has raised questions about the
researcher’s methods of unveiling a security problem, Forgejo’s
security policies, and the project’s overall security posture. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, nice! I never was brave enough to try to move the OS to a different machine, always reinstalled from scratch. :-S

A mate also had this or a very similar white Samsung netbook. I remember typing on that thing was no fun at all for me, never hit the single right key. :-D

I’m not a fan of netbooks, there’s not remotely enough screen space for my taste. I always had 15 inch notebook. Sure, they are way heavier, but I can actually get work with them done. And yes, glared screens are an invention right from the devil himself. Completely stupid.

Hackers Are Actively Exploiting a Bug In cPanel, Used By Millions of Websites
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#Hiring: Senior Full-Stack Engineer (AI Oriented) | Remote (Brazil & Argentina)
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HP Will Discontinue ‘HP Anyware’ Remote Desktop, Trusted Zero Clients
kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes:

HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued.
“Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029,” a href=”https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life”>according … ⌘ Read more

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Work From Home and Drive More Slowly To Save Energy, IEA Says
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How One Company Finally Exposed North Korea’s Massive Remote Workers Scam
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And working with the FBI, one corporate security/investigations company decided to knowingly hire one of North Korea’s remote workers — th … ⌘ Read more

FreeRDP 3.24 Released With Security Fixes & Improved X11 Client Support
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, I’m not sure I would want to do that:

ForwardAgent
    ...

    Agent forwarding should be enabled  with  caution.   Users
    with  the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote
    host (for the agent's Unix-domain socket) can  access  the
    local agent through the forwarded connection.  An attacker
    cannot  obtain  key  material from the agent, however they
    can perform operations on the keys that enable them to au‐
    thenticate using the identities loaded into the agent.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Changing the user name helped, it now says Authenticated to git.mills.io ([199.247.16.95]:2222) using "publickey". ssh-add ... had no effect (even after ssh-add -D).

Here’s a debug log, @prologic@twtxt.net, perhaps you could take a look at this 🙏: https://movq.de/v/116c5f514b/clone2.txt

(Might be a silly mistake on my part. Wrong remote path or something?)

Anyone else having trouble pulling from git.mills.io? 🤔

$ g clone ssh://git@git.mills.io:2222/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev.git
Cloning into 'twtxt.dev'...
git@git.mills.io: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

The key verification function on https://git.mills.io/user/settings/keys says I’m using the correct key.

This also looks good:

$ GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -v" g clone ssh://git@git.mills.io:2222/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev.git
...
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /home/user/.ssh/keys/key-millsio ED25519 SHA256:nVNT... explicit
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
git@git.mills.io: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Does it work for you, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net?

AT&T Outlines $250 Billion US Investment Plan To Boost Infrastructure In AI Age
AT&T plans to invest more than $250 billion over the next five years to expand U.S. telecom infrastructure for the AI age. The company says it will also hire thousands of technicians while partnering with AST SpaceMobile to extend coverage to remote areas. Reuters reports: Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence … ⌘ Read more

Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away
“A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK’s first long-distance robotic operation,” reports the BBC, “on a patient located 1,500 miles (2,400km) away…”

Leading robotic urological surgeon Professor Prokar Dasgupta said it felt “almost as if I was there” as he carried out a prostate removal on [62-year-old] Paul Buxton… It is hoped tha … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I know it’s crazy right 🤯 these things are just tools. They’re not even remotely intelligent at all. In fact they are actually quite stupid. If you feed it garbage you get garbage out! The only interesting thing is that you get somewhat intelligible garbage out 😂

FreeRDP 3.23 Addresses 11 CVEs, Improved SDL Client
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Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums
A software engineer tried steering his robot vacuum with a videogame controller, reports Popular Science — but ended up with “a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes.”

While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers. But he soo … ⌘ Read more

Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven’t Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI
Spotify’s best developers have stopped writing code manually since December and now rely on an internal AI system called Honk that enables remote, real-time code deployment through Claude Code, the company’s co-CEO Gustav Soderstrom said during a fourth-quarter earnings call this week.

… ⌘ Read more

Windows 11 Notepad Flaw Let Files Execute Silently via Markdown Links
Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11’s Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, all without triggering any Windows security warning.

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841 and fixed in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday upda … ⌘ Read more

Waymo Reveals Remote Workers In Philippines Sometimes Advise Its Driverless Cars
Waymo surprised U.S. lawmakers Wednesday during a hearing on autonomous vehicles and their safety and oversight. Newsweek reports:

During questioning, Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, asked what happens when a Waymo vehicle encounters a driving situation it cannot independently resolve. “The Waymo phones … ⌘ Read more

GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements - Including HiDPI
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Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over ‘Cost-Cutting’ and Ending of Remote Work
Five French unions representing Ubisoft workers “have called for a ‘massive international strike’,” reports the gaming news site Aftermath.

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Belkin’s Wemo Smart Devices Will Go Offline On Saturday
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FreeRDP 3.22 Released With Overhauled SDL-Based Client UI
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AI Fails at Most Remote Work, Researchers Find
A new study “compared how well top AI systems and human workers did at hundreds of real work assignments,” reports the Washington Post.

They add that at least one example “illustrates a disconnect three years after the release of ChatGPT that has implications for the whole economy.”

AI can accomplish many impressive tasks involving computer code, documents or images. That has prompt … ⌘ Read more

UK Accounting Body To Halt Remote Exams Amid AI Cheating
The world’s largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications. From a report: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which has almost 260,000 members, has said that from March it will stop allowing students to take online exams i … ⌘ Read more

Remote Work is Officially Dead, Says the World’s Largest Recruiter
The great return-to-office battle has effectively concluded and a clear pecking order has emerged, according to Sander van ’t Noordende, the CEO of Randstad, a staffing giant that places around half a million workers in jobs every week. Remote work is becoming a status symbol reserved for star performers and those possessing rare skills. “You have t … ⌘ Read more

FSF Says Nintendo’s New DRM Allows Them to Remotely Render User’s Device ‘Permanently Unusuable’
“In the lead up to its Switch 2 console release, Nintendo updated its user agreement,” writes the Free Software Foundation, warning that Nintendo now claims “broad authority to make consoles owned by its customers permanently unusable.”

“Under Nintendo’s most aggressive digital restric … ⌘ Read more

North Korean Infiltrator Caught Working In Amazon IT Department Thanks To Lag
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China, Iran Are Having a Field Day With React2Shell, Google Warns
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Regional kids say social media ban will make isolation worse
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