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Cake day: February 27th, 2025

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  • There is something really weird going on right now. On one side, hardware manufacturers sell their wares with ever brighter screens and higher color gradients and accuracy - on the other, interfaces have become dark, low contrast, monochrome, and stylized.

    When I look at my KDE bar, there are only two icons with any color or line thickness at all. The other ones are all dark gray on light gray and line-based. I have to look three times to decide whether something is the WiFi indicator or the volume control; the clipboard and the wallet icons look too similar to tell which is which.

    I don’t want the garish world of manufacturer ads, showing off how much brightness and color their devices are capable, but please don’t give me the exact opposite, and indistinguishable mess where everything looks the same even though you have the ability to distinguish it all. Life is already gray enough, show me something that cheers me up, please.





  • It feels like the factors of authentication discussion misses one important aspect: can the factor be replayed. Passwords can be replayed indefinitely, while the email links you get or the OTP token only work for a short period of time.

    I remember it from the bad days when I used LastPass. Suddenly I got a notification that the place had been compromised and I had to suddenly change hundreds of passwords. 90% of them were for sites that didn’t even exist any longer, but sifting through the long, long list to go change passwords was more work than I wanted to do.

    Don’t have to do that if I need to use a one-time token via Aegis or email! I do agree, though, that for low risk sites, username/password is totally fine.















  • Did you look at Pelican? I share the frustration with much of Hugo’s infrastructure: the template language is buggy and inscrutable, and the plugin architecture wanting.

    I ended up with Hugo, but I considered Pelican. It uses standard Jinja templates, which I find much more rational (but it might just be me) and I recall there were plugins for a lot of things, including different source formats. The code is written in Python, so that even if there isn’t a plugin for a format you need, there probably is a Python library for it and it should be relatively easy to make it a plugin.

    Crap, now I want to switch to Pelican…


  • Hugo watch mode (both server and build) does not produce accurate sites on change and is really meant for development. I find after a developing for a while, I have to kill the process and restart it and then things are “fresh”

    From reading the documentation, I strongly have the impression that hugo focuses on being fast on re-render and that the idea is to build and deploy to public site each time there is a change. The big difference is probably whether to render locally and push the generated content, or to push the source markdown and render remotely (which I chose).