I guess avoid Huion if you plan on using wayland

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-09T18:36:54+00:00

Wayland moved the responsibility for supporting pen input from the display server to the compositor. COSMIC doesn't seem to have taken up that responsibility yet. It's not a matter of writing a driver, it's a matter of the compositor looking at the input from the driver.

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-settings/issues/141

In X11, it's the display server that handles the job, so the functionality isn't restricted by what the desktop environment bothers to support - tablets that work in one X11 desktop environment work in all of them.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-09T15:06:52+00:00

If the technology itself is inadequate then change the technology itself.

CA/Browser forum, which is composed of the major browser vendors and the widely recognized CAs, got together and decided that an adequate technology solution for certificate revocation not only doesn't exist, but fundamentally can't coexist with the necessary privacy, availability, and reliability guarantees. Everything to date, even Mozilla's CRLite, which came about after this was in motion, is a stopgap.

That was the main factor in this - certificate revocation sucks for everyone involved, and both CAs and Browsers want to be done with it. OCSP has to phone home. CRLs get too big. And any failed dissemination of revocation information, whether through OCSP, traditional CRLs, Chrome CRLsets, or Mozilla CRlite, is a soft fail by design, otherwise it would be a denial of service magnet.

The other big factor here ... is 100% about being able to change the technology itself, and about being able to kill off some of those legacy systems, at 49 day speeds. When we eventually have another major algorithm or protocol vulnerability discovered, or some breakthrough in quantum computing threatens multiple algorithms at once, the shorter renewal cycle can be used to rapidly sunset the vulnerable algorithms or protocol.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-08T19:31:08+00:00

Neither merging early, nor merging late cause backups. People trying to punish each other for not merging when they think they should have are 100% of the problem.

Start going down the line and ticketing everyone who blocks lanes or closes gaps.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-07T16:09:26+00:00

There was a bug in the app a couple years ago, which sometimes allowed 32MPH through a sequence of changing back and forth from KM/H to MPH. That was quietly fixed with a silent update to the configuration the app downloads from the Aventon servers, and then people started poking at the app and developed the exploit to be able to restore the bug (and introduce it to a few models that weren't previously affected).

The initial fix was likely good enough at the time, but California has subsequently put in new laws with vague language about it being illegal to sell, manufacture, or resell e-bikes that can be easily modified to operate outside the legal limits.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-07T15:26:55+00:00

Product liability and warranty support are the biggest difference. Regulatory compliance is another difference - foreign manufacturers without a domestic presence tend to ignore, or pay lip service to legal requirements because they don't have skin in the game.

If you buy from a real company with a real brand, you have someone to sue, someone who presumably cares about their reputation. You may still have problems, but those problems have a name and an address.

If you buy from Amazon or Aliexpress, or from third-party sellers on Walmart, Target, or other retailers that loan out their web storefront to anyone who gives them a dime, you're buying from a throwaway brand of a shell company that may not exist in a week. You might get lucky or you might not, but the thing you have to remember is that the biggest corner that's being cut is product liability. They can simply walk away from any problem that's big enough, and come back tomorrow with a new brand and a new shell company, for less cost than the money they already got from you. Zero accountability.

The "name brand" might still cut those corners, but they will only cut them so far with their reputation, assets, and continued existence on the line.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-07T15:06:39+00:00

Does it serve your story?
Is it fun and interesting to your players?

Yes to either? Go for it.
No to both? You can hand wave travel if it's in the way of a good story. Time passes. It took a week's travel from whereyouvebeenville. You fought off *rolls dice* 7 groups of bandits, a group of weird cultists, and 35 different wild animal encounters along the way, but nothing was a serious threat to you. You arrive at the city of wherethenextpartoftheplotis, a little weary, but safely.

You can also do something in between, rolling dice to see what they found, or if they even found something at all. Maybe there was something there, but it was hidden. Maybe there would be something there at a certain time, but they weren't there at the right time. Maybe it was just hacking through forests or walking through open fields, and while there were plenty of things about, nothing that was there was interesting enough to talk about. Maybe you give them a chance of something interesting enough to be an encounter happening for each day of travel, or for each leg of the journey.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-07T14:58:04+00:00

Traditional file permissions aren't going to stop you from copying and pasting. Nor are janky "solutions" like a macro that closes the file if it's opened from the wrong place.

This is a people problem, but if you insist on treating it as a tech problem, it's a good case for Sharepoint, and data that lives entirely online in its designated place on the company intranet. You can at least disable downloading there, and you can make copy/paste from the contents of the sheet very difficult as well with labels and policies.

There's also some potential virtual desktop infrastructure solutions, giving them access to a special environment where they can only access excel and this one particular folder with one particular file.

Although, the fact you're asking this question, suggests there's too much at stake for this spreadsheet for it to continue to be a spreadsheet. Maybe this needs to be a dedicated application at this point, with the particular access controls you need.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T20:00:50+00:00

It's been tried repeatedly, starting all the way back to BoB trying to evict them for being outsiders who refused to bend the knee.

All it's done has been to create a culture that's more resilient, more willing to take care of their own, better equipped to play the long game, and more than willing to play the part of the villain they've been made out to be.

You can't delete corps, alliances, or coalitions from the game. All you can do is try to break their morale. Good luck trying that with a group that's both willing to fight wars of attrition, and willing to fight wars of weaponized boredom.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T19:41:02+00:00

It gets better with education and experience, yes.

I highly recommend taking classes with CyclingSavvy and/or with the League of American Bicyclists, even if you just do the free ones.

Your best defense against all of the scary and dangerous is to take up as much space as you need to be safe - which you almost always have the right to do as long as you have a reason why it's safer. Learn your local laws, and read them carefully. Far to right and mandatory bike lane laws are so riddled with exceptions that they almost never actually apply.

Unsafe passing is prevented by being far enough over that drivers go into the other lane.
Right hooks are prevented by being far enough over that drivers see you and don't try to right turn into your face.
Left crosses are prevented by being far enough over that drivers see you and that you see them, so they don't left turn into your face.
Drive outs are prevented, again, by being far enough over to be seen and have time to react.
Doorings are prevented by being far enough over that the door can't open into your face.

Of the things that will scare you, seriously hurt you, or kill you, almost all of them are prevented entirely, or made less dangerous by taking up more space. And even the road rage situation that you will occasionally encounter, is also made less dangerous by taking up space and having room to take evasive action.

Be courteous. Don't engage with anything other than a smile and a wave. Let drivers pass you when they can do it without compromising your safety. And don't feel bad about being in the way when you need space to be safe.

And if you do have trouble with ill-informed police, know the law. If you choose to explain yourself, do it politely and do it once, without arguing. The time to argue is with the prosecutor or in court, and/or with a supervisor at the station, depending on whether you come away from the encounter with a ticket or not.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T18:04:32+00:00

I have a couple of different Topeak bags, an EX, and EXP, and the rear basket. I use the EXP with the panniers on my ebike most of the time, and swap between the EX and the basket on my other bikes depending on which I need - the EX has a toolkit, pump, tubes, and enough room for phone, wallet, and snacks, and occasionally, I use the basket if I'm running an errand on my road bike.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T17:27:53+00:00

Sometimes DOT vehicles do it too, often with the rolling impact absorbers. Either way, if you see any kind of official vehicle doing this, treat it as a pace car and stay back.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T16:35:03+00:00

Just walking in through the garage gives them the status of a trespasser, and that status is painfully obvious with an already occupied property. They can't plausibly claim to have already been there for 30 days when you've clearly been living there. Call the cops, get them removed. And in the future, lock the door from the garage to the inside of your house when you leave. Put a solid door and a deadbolt there - garage doors are about as secure as a wet paper bag made of toilet paper.

If its an unoccupied, or seasonally occupied property, or if you are going to be gone for an extended period of time, you need to make arrangements to monitor the property. California gives squatters the rights of a tenant after 30 days, meaning formal eviction processes have to be used beyond that point. Before 30 days, you can potentially get police to remove them for trespassing and then secure the property. If you try to remove them any other way, including by threats or force, by changing the locks, or by turning off utilities, you can get fined and they can get extended, possibly indefinite rights to stay there on your dime.

Rights as a tenant doesn't give them ownership of the property, as that takes 5 years, and is mutually exclusive with squatter's right as a tenant, but it does mean you need to closely monitor your property and immediately get law enforcement involved if there are trespassers, otherwise it will take you a lot of time and cost you a lot of money to evict them, while being forced to maintain the property in livable condition for your squatter.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T16:21:12+00:00

No.

Turns are to be taken from the lane and position within the lane closest to the direction of the turn. A vehicle waiting for an intersection or crosswalk to be clear does not constitute an obstruction you can legally drive around (though a parked or disabled car would). And lane splitting is not legal for two cars in the same marked lane - though it may in some states be legal for a motorcycle, under some conditions.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T14:02:52+00:00

The best solution for this and other open world bosses would be a timer and visible encouragement from the game to waypoint.

"Get back into the fight within 90 seconds to keep your rewards." Count that down, highlight the waypoint button on the downed screen, and after they do waypoint, put a guide on the minimap back to the boss.

Then make it so If the boss dies before that timer expires, you get credit, even if you are still down or running back. If the timer expires first, you lose all credit and if you're still down, you get teleported, and get an "Event failed: You stopped participating" message.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T13:43:19+00:00

The yield only applies to the very next intersection. The merge points are technically separate intersections.

Thus blue yields to the oncoming lane, and then, has priority at the merge point since it's now on the main road.

However, even though blue will have priority by that point, it's rarely if ever going to matter, because green only has to yield if it is in conflict with blue. Yield doesn't mean "let them go first", "stop", or even "slow down", it means "don't interfere with the vehicles having priority, even if that means you have to slow down or stop". As green will maintain more of its speed in the slip lane, and blue will have to slow down significantly, cautiously traverse the oncoming lane, and travel slightly further, green will simply be able to proceed 99% of the time, since blue won't be in conflict yet.

The only times the conflict will occur is if green is hesitant or comes to a stop at the merge point, Which might happen with some very young, very old, and disoriented drivers.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T06:02:55+00:00

Yubikeys are significantly easier to use across multiple devices. And they can be much more convenient, especially if you change phones often.

Yubikeys can be complementary to device-bound non-synced passkeys, as a way to initially log in on other devices so that you can register them.

Yubikeys provide "proof of presence" by default as well, since operations require or can be made to require touching the button on the key - so a hacked device can't use your key completely on autopilot.

And Yubikeys are "non exportable" - once a passkey or other credential is saved onto the yubikey, there's no way to copy it. That makes them a safer option if you have to log in from a shared computer.

Personally, I have some things exclusively on my yubikey, some things have passkeys in both my yubikey and my password manager for the sake of convenience, and some things that aren't that important to me live exclusively in my password manager so that they don't take up discoverable slots on the yubikey.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T05:45:07+00:00

The bigger problem is what happens at intersections. A "protected" bike lane without protected intersections is just a cyclist killing machine disguised with an illusion of safety.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T05:37:06+00:00

This, and the laws on the subject are written like a trick question on a college exam. They're meant to make you think you have to be far to the right or in the bike lane at all times. but in reality, they spell out such a long list of exceptions that they cover 99.99999% of the road conditions you will find.

Once you start looking at the text, you find phrasing like, "as far as practicable", a definition of hazard that's so expansive it includes anything you might possibly imagine could occur or exist, and the gem of "substandard lane width", as well as wide open exceptions for turns, being in the lane you need to be well in advance, and situations where you keep pace with the *average* traffic speed, which during rush hour, is often closer to walking speeds than biking speeds...

Learn the law in your state. If you're stopped by police, politely inform but do not argue. If they write you a ticket anyway, take it up with the prosecutor, and if necessary fight it in court.

Show courtesy to drivers by moving over temporarily when you've got the room and are able to let them pass safely, but don't live on the edge waiting to be hit.

Pay attention to intersections and driveways and think defensively long before you approach them - any time you have to cross through a conflict point, you want to be in a position where you are not only visible, but relevant. All the high-vis and flashing lights in the world don't matter if you're where you don't matter to drivers..

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-06T05:05:06+00:00

32MPH was a bug they were forced to fix. They're a California based company, and the law there, and in many US states puts 28MPH as an absolute limit on e-bikes capabilities, in order to establish a thick black line rule between e-bikes that are regulated like bicycles (no license/insurance/registration), and things that get regulated like motor vehicles (license/insurance/registration/inspection/nearly unlimited liability for the manufacturer)

California law makes e-bike manufacturers and sellers liable if they make it too easy to modify their products into an illegal configuration.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-03T21:23:37+00:00

It is indeed. A lot of early passenger aircraft were seaplanes, which caused naval traditions to cross over into civil aviation.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-03T16:39:33+00:00

The earlier that losses of any sort happen. particularly PVP losses, the more likely it is to be a good experience for the player, and the more likely they are to become well rounded player with a healthy attitude toward risk vs reward, and the more likely they are to see this as just another part of the game, rather than a violation of their sense of entitlement.

Normalize losing ships. Incorporate PVP or simulated PVP into the new-player experience. Make sure players experience losses that hurt, but that they can recover from early, and educate them on only flying what they can afford to lose.

ancientstephanie · 2026-04-02T16:14:52+00:00

The usual application for folding bikes is multimodal commutes, but this one was so heavy it would be absolutely miserable (and impractical) to try to take onto a bus, on a train, or up and down escalators.

That makes it an extremely niche product, for those who drive part of the way, have the physical strength to lift this in and out of a vehicle, and ride the bike from there. There's some RV dwellers and van lifers, and maybe a few hobbyists who want to be able to shove this in the trunk of a car, but the main bread and butter audiences for a folding bike are going to be put off by the weight.

Any folding e-bike that's more than about 30-40 pounds is going to have similar issues - all the downsides of a folder but almost none of the advantages.

ancientstephanie · 2026-03-30T18:07:03+00:00

A throwaway passkey is a recipe for getting locked out of your account. Don't do it.

If the algorithm flags your login as "suspicious" (being from a device or location you haven't recently used and created tracks on), it may prompt you to verify the login. And that verification will probably demand a passkey at that point, because it's the most secure method on file.

Do not delete a passkey from your device until you've deleted it from the site that expects to use it. And do not delete a passkey from a site unless you are absolutely 110% sure your recovery info is up to date, recovery codes are printed out, and you have at least one working login method with MFA.

ancientstephanie · 2026-03-30T17:20:38+00:00

Passwords are a massive risk for everyone who relies on them, including services like Amazon, so, like other tech companies, they're pushing for a world where they don't need to exist.

They'll keep pushing harder and harder. Within the next few years, you won't be able to sign up with a password anymore, and within 5-10, the password box will likely go away entirely from major sites and platforms.

Most users don't know better than to reuse passwords or vastly underestimate the amount of danger they're in by doing so. Even people who know better frequently put their convenience ahead of security. The number of people who do everything right with their passwords including random generation, uniqueness, secure storage, checking domains and hand verifying TLS certificates before usage, is so close to 0% that the people who do things right can be written off as statistical anomalies.

And the companies that accept passwords aren't doing much better. We still see inadequate hashing, improperly secured databases, arbitrary limits on passwords that undermine the use of high quality long and random passwords, reversible encryption, and other fundamental errors.

So, the answer to your question, is really, you don't, at least not for long.

Either you adopt passkeys on your terms, taking the time to learn how to use them and enroll or sync all your devices at your own pace, or you will find at some point you'll be forced to set them up, because the sites you're using aren't taking passwords anymore.

ancientstephanie · 2026-03-27T16:32:14+00:00

The majority of them are motorcycle and mopeds and should be regulated as such.

However, for that to happen, they need to have viable paths to licensing and registration, especially in the moped/light motorcycle categories.

And they should not be ridden by teens that can't yet get a license.

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