My #dotfiles are turning into an exercise in testing for features and degrading gracefully when they are absent.

While working around the “don’t change your wallpaper unless you like screen freeze” behavior in #sway on #FreeBSD, I discovered that installing certain software packages related to #amateurradio force the #waybar package to deinstall. Instead of digging into the nature of the incompatibility with the eventual goal of having both, I chose to work around it by using #m4. #Macros that test whether certain executables exist, and define other macros based on the results. Then ifdef() and #bobsyouruncle.

It’s nice that this is possible, with a minimum of tools. Not always easy to read, but possible.

Why the #workaround? Mostly because I always want a status bar of some sort, regardless of whether the computer’s role relates to amateur radio. And I want those bits of amateur radio functionality present on the machine, even if they are seldom used.

Yes, I could probably find a way to use the #ports collection to compile with exactly the right flags and make everything work. It might be educational. It probably won’t be enjoyable.

Mein Leben als mein eigener #SysAdmin

Inkomatible Apps der #Nextcloud deaktivieren

#Nextcloud updaten

Inkompatible Apps wieder aktivieren

Der #Workaround läuft recht stabil

#yunohost

Je n'arrivais plus à éviter une route sous #osmand

#workaround : vider le cache, forcer l'arrêt.

Ça fonctionne de nouveau.

#osm

#LifeSkills #JustifiableHack #WorkAround #HTML #Spam #Unsubscribe

I was trying to unsubscribe from Royal Mail Marketing emails, I clicked through to the page and there is an "email" box which I can't type in...

OK, I think, maybe they already know my email from the URL and I don't need this, so I tick things to unsubscribe and click the [broken image] "OK" button...

Nope! I get an error saying I need to enter my email... so I right-click on the input field, go to "developer tools -> inspect" and view the original HTML. There is an attribute readonly="readonly" which I delete. Field is now typable and off we go...

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/06/23/12484/apscheduler-requests-%e9%81%87%e5%88%b0-oserror-errno-24-too-many-open-files-%e7%9a%84%e5%95%8f%e9%a1%8c/

APScheduler + requests 遇到 OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files 的問題

#apscheduler #bug #code #collection #flask #gc #gunicorn #pypy #pypy3 #python #requests #source #urllib #urllib3 #workaround