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Ctrl.blog Skip to main content Daniel Aleksandersen Latest Newsletter Topics Patrons About Latest news Syncthing: The data deduplication master Syncthing can deduplicate data before network transfers and even utilize on-disk storage deduplication on modern file systems on Linux, Solaris, and Windows. The auto-save feature in GEdit vs the new GNOME Text Editor GNOME Text Editor, GEdit, and Kate all have a auto-saving feature designed to prevent dataloss. However, the implementations vary a lot with different trade-offs. Common mistakes in BIMI early-adopter implementations The Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standard has strict requirements for an email sender’s logo to show up in your inbox. 65,1% gets it wrong. Ruby 3.1’s incompatible changes to its YAML module (Psych 4) Ruby made its YAML interpreter more secure by default at the cost of backward compatibility. Developers weren’t given heads up warning about the changes. SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way I’ve been an SELinux complexity apologist for years. Lately, I’ve concluded that every implementation with difficult-to-configure policies is just unmanageable. Can you use a WebP file as an Open Graph Protocol image? Do you still need to maintain webpage thumbnails/link previews in legacy image formats, or have apps caught up with the WebP revolution? It’s a bit complicated. Get your logo into inboxes with BIMI and email best practices The new BIMI email standard give companies a branding opportunity in your email inbox in exchange for adopting stricter email sender-verification standards. Everything or Nothing: The missing James Bond theme song The title song to the James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2004) videogame by Mýa was once given away as a promo isn’t part of any digital music catalog. Samsung devices incorrectly handle CSS @media hover queries The CSS @media hover query detects hover-capable input devices. Samsung touchscreens on Android gives unexpected results by pretending to be a computer touchpad. Should you trust a third-party bootloader to run newer MacOS versions? OpenCore lets you run the latest MacOS on unsupported Apple legacy hardware (and PCs). But software that bypasses security restrictions requires a lot of trust. How to install additional spell check dictionaries for Flatpak apps Flatpak apps are isolated from- and doesn’t use the system’s spell checker dictionaries. Here’s how to install more language options into the Flatpak runtime. How to run Windows 11 in GNOME Boxes (with UEFI and TPM2 emulation) Windows 11 needs some extra config to run as a virtual machine in GNOME Boxes. Get it setup with UEFI secure boot, TPM 2.0 emulation, and accelerated drivers. Why it’s easier to recover unsaved documents in Kate than GEdit The Kate Editor has a great feature that prevents data-loss if the text editor or the system crashes. It auto-saves “.kate-swp” files containing unsaved changes. FreeStyle Libre 3 miniaturizes real-time glucose monitoring The new FreeStyle Libre 3 sensor is a true real-time glucose monitoring system and the market’s smallest CGM at a 70 % size-reduction compared to the old model. The HTML element and its (undefined) segment boundaries The HTML Standard is vague on whether the attributes are inclusive. Firefox, Safari, and Chrome have behave differently. Here’s my workaround. Some discouraging anecdotes on how services handle account deletions I asked 124 services to delete my user account. The results were mixed. 21 never responded, and 16 responded by created even more accounts. Some outright lied. Buggy Samsung–Grammarly keyboard update puts profit before typing One UI 4 (Android 12) introduced Grammarly partnership in Keyboard app on some Samsung devices. The update breaks the keyboard app compatibility with many apps. The web is overrun by pop-ups and blockers haven’t worked in years You can now expect every website to inundate you with pop-ups for email lists, promotions, and privacy theater. (No, the GDPR isn’t to blame.) Enough is enough. Cardboard; an exciting scrollable tiling window manager After the initial learning curve, I found that Cardboard WM help me stay focused on one task and it greatly reduced how much time I spent rearranging my windows. Older articles Get the weekly Ctrl blog newsletter Updated news Bing stops accepting Sitemap pings, switch to IndexNow instead Update (2022-05-14): Bing today published a blog post announcing the deprecation of the bing.com/ping API. The announcement says it’s deprecated “starting today”. However, readers of my blog will know it stopped working … Make AdSense faster with preconnect Update (2022-05-14): If you’re using the newer Google AdSense script where the script element include an crossorigin="anonymous" attribute, then you need to duplicate all the link elements above with a matching attribute… What to and when to use preconnect Update (2022-05-13): Quick update to say that nothing has changed! Neither Firefox version 100 nor Safari version 15.4 has addressed any of the issues discussed in this article. Keep an eye on your certificates with SSLPing Update (2022-04-11): SSLPing ceased operations in April 2022 after getting crushed by its own technical debt. Read the statement from Chris Hartwig. Most people looking for a free certificate monitoring service are proba… Safari’s default media controls get blocked when CSP is applied Update (2022-03-16): The issue described below was fixed in Safari 15 (released in September 2021). This version is only available on iOS version 15 and newer, and MacOS version 12 and newer. How to run Windows 10 in GNOME Boxes (and fixes for common issues) Article updated at 2022-01-25. About Privacy Policy Colophon Licensing Ctrl blog by © 2022 Daniel Aleksandersen. Hosting by Hetzner and Linode. CDN by Bunny.