GitHub registration on Linux (was Re: ... blinking carets.)

(Note, I quoted an earlier post but the topic was brought up again by the OP
this week.)

mullvadisen, you keep saying that GitHub and other sites refuse to let you sign
up for an account.

However, you don't say why or how.

The process just uses an ordinary generic web browser interface.

What exactly are you seeing on screen when you try to create a GitHub account
using your Debian desktop?

What do you mean by "it refuses"?

Is the problem by chance that when you try to set a new password it says it is
not validly formatted even when you follow all the formatting rules, eg length
and letters plus digits plus symbols etc?

Or is it making some kind of MFA mandatory that requires use of a cell phone or
device you can't satisfy?

Or what is it?

I would expect the problem is not widespread / affected a lot of people if it
has lasted this long.

Darren Duncan

On 2025-04-30 3:26 a.m., mullvadisen wrote:
> I'm using pgAdmin 4 on Linux (X11, Plasma, desktop mode, Debian, obtained from
> pgAdmin's custom APT repository). Naturally, because I value my eyesight and
> sanity, I use the dark mode. Recently, it has started doing something horrible:
>
> 2. The program doesn't respect my system settings to not blink the caret in text
> inputs. It keeps blinking even though I've set it to not blink (be fixed as
> visible) in the KDE settings. This "animation" makes it impossible for me to use
> the program; I'm forced to write any query etc. in a separate Kate text document
> (where the caret doesn't blink) and then paste it into pgAdmin 4, because having
> the pgAdmin 4 window up and working in it becomes impossible due to this "Caret
> from Hell".
>
> I've looked all over the GUI settings and searched online for some hidden config
> option to turn this infernal blinking off, but there is just nothing (that I can
> find after spending countless hours). Please enable this somehow so that people
> whose brains will never be compatible with stuff moving around or animating on
> the screen can also use this crucial software. It has overall massively improved
> in recent years, but these two things sadly really drag it down again.
>
> PS: I'm aware that pgAdmin 4 uses Chromium which uses some custom rendering
> engine from Google, which would maybe explain why it doesn't care about any of
> my system settings, but nevertheless they cannot have been sadistic enough to
> *hardcode* the cursor to blink? Words cannot describe how distracting and
> stressful that is.
>
> PS 2: I'm sending this to this e-mail list because you use Github for filing
> "Issues", and Github doesn't allow account registration ever since they sold out
> to Microsoft. (No, I'm not making that up. It's been the same every single time
> I've tried over the years. It consistently refuses, like all major websites today.)
>
> I'm not even sure I'll be able to respond to anything here. I might have to
> passively read any responses through the web archive depending on how many
> further hurdles there will be to actually posting/sending this...