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Karaoke test 2. Teevee is too small to see from the plastic island, so I’m figuring out how to get the screen on the island. I’m looking up at the Tiki Hut, which made the patrons amused.

Two of the patrons were the maintenance guy and the landowner. So I’m pretty-much clear to do this whenever I want.

Lady who runs the marina, after watching, said something along the lines of “I WANT YOU TO DO THIS EVERY DAY!”

AND it’s officially off condo property, so no condo-biddies can complain. #slack

Dear #Slack,

Please update your choice of hashing algorithms for your APT #Debian repository.

```
Hit:3 packagecloud.io/slacktechnolog jessie InRelease
Err:3 packagecloud.io/slacktechnolog jessie InRelease
Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Signing key on DB085A08CA13B8ACB917E0F6D938EC0D038651BD is not bound: primary key because: No binding signature at time 2025-07-24T20:19:54Z because: Policy rejected non-revocation signature (PositiveCertification) requiring collision resistance because: SHA1 is not considered secure since 2013-02-01T00:00:00Z
```

Assuming a complete workspace backup is taken - does anyone know of tooling that will reproduce a Slack backup in a web browser, along with search?

Use case - if an org has to migrate away from Slack, but wants to preserve any institutional knowledge trapped in there.

EDIT: Ah, I think I found one such tool: github.com/hfaran/slack-export

A Slack Export archive viewer that allows you to easily view and share your Slack team's export - hfaran/slack-export-viewer
GitHubGitHub - hfaran/slack-export-viewer: A Slack Export archive viewer that allows you to easily view and share your Slack team's exportA Slack Export archive viewer that allows you to easily view and share your Slack team's export - hfaran/slack-export-viewer

Um #RoamResearch ist es in still geworden. Roam konzentriert die Kommunikation auf den #Slack - Kanal. Updates fokussieren wenig sichtbare Aspekte der Anwendung.

Die Konkurrenz legt zu, konkret #Obsidian. Und die Mobile-Version kommt kaum voran. Die Roam-Community ist teilweise verunsichert.

Doch das täuscht nicht darüber hinweg, dass - gerade für die wissenschaftliche Arbeit - Roam meines Erachtens immer noch überzeugt.

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Turns out that the weird clipboard-reading behaviour of #Slack is indeed deliberate, for some purpose involving making auto-login work (although I still don't 100% understand the details of why it's necessary).

But better still, you can turn it off, by asking the Linux Slack binary to load this URL:

slack://setting/?update=isClipboardReadDisabled:true

Thanks to @relsqui and @apparentlymart for putting me on the right track!

(The Slack employee who told me about this config setting also warned of possible login problems if I used it. In fact I didn't have any – login still works fine for me.)

A weird thing about #Slack on #Linux #X11: whenever it gains keyboard focus, it immediately reads the X11 clipboard, even if you didn't try to paste anything. I see no evidence that it _does_ anything with what it reads, but I know it reads it.

I found this out by accident, because I wrote a stunt X11 client which owns the clipboard for just long enough to paste _once_, and then terminates. The idea was to queue up three different pastes on the command line, and paste them in quick succession into fields of a form. Works very well, _unless_ I accidentally mouse over Slack on the way to the form I want to paste into – then my focus-follows-mouse activates it, and it consumes one of my clipboard strings!

I have no idea why, or whether it's on purpose. I'm prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt, by assuming until further evidence that it's some unforeseen emergent consequence of the huge wobbly tower of libraries and wrappers and browsers that the desktop Slack app is built on top of. But it's not great. Some password managers will put passwords in the clipboard!

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Should you feel the need to overdose in your reminder of your mission, your goal to achieve #Slack and whatever that might mean to you, do so in moderation.

If you exceed moderation, and feel compelled to dose frequently in ARISE!, then it is recommended that you seek help from one of the numerous Doktori at dobbs.town