Seirdy

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by Seirdy 7y ago
A better solution for p2p E2EE file-transfer is croc [0] because it can compile to a statically-linked binary without runtime dependencies. Sending files: `croc [files]` Receiving files: `croc code-phrase` Custom code-phrases are supported.
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by Seirdy 7y ago
(Note: I speak only for myself and others who share my personal preferences) This comment really hit home for me. Making something good is often at odds with making something that's profitable/popular. I've often found that
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by Seirdy 7y ago
What's truly ironic is the browsers in question use QtWebEngine, which is based on Chromium/Blink. It even says so in the User Agent.
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by Seirdy 7y ago
I am mostly in agreement with this article; releasing a tarball is a necessary and sufficient mechanism for distributing your software. If it is valuable enough, maintainers can use that tarball to package it. I strongly believe that my sof
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Also check out Fennel, a lisp that transpiles to Lua [0]. Lua is a first-class scripting language for Neovim. A previous article on using Fennel for lispy Neovim configuration was posted here a week ago [1]. [0]: https://fennel-l
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Plan 9 is the successor to UNIX. Inferno OS is the successor to Plan 9. If you use either for a while, you'll appreciate how well-designed the system is. That, in itself, is valuable. It doesn't need to bring a profit to your star
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by Seirdy 7y ago
9front runs wonderfully well on the Pi and other SBCs. #cat-v on OFTC is very helpful if you want to try it out.
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Whenever I see a new IM service pop up, my first two questions are: 1. Is it FOSS? 2. Can I use it in Weechat? That's really all that matters to me. I currently use Weechat to handle IRC and Matrix.org. I've had to use Slack in an
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How I Switched to Plan 9(helpful.cat-v.org)
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Tridactyl [0] lets you open text fields in your preferred $EDITOR with a keybind, open YouTube/Vimeo/etc links in MPV, etc. on top of adding Vim navigation to Firefox. This comment was written in a floating Neovim window opened by
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Vimscript is good for setting simple configurations, but bad for large/complex software. The Neovim team found that Lua seems to do both pretty well and has a fast implementation (LuaJIT), so they're trying to get Lua to be Neovim
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by Seirdy 7y ago
I think there are good ideological reasons to support Linux, BSD, and other FOSS operating systems, not despite , but because of their unpopularity [0]. Edit: to clarify, I refer to operating systems that have a considerable amount of po
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Can confirm; I switched to curlie a long time ago and haven't looked back. It would be interesting to create an alternative to `http-prompt` [0], using curlie and go-prompt [1] instead of HTTPie and `prompt_toolkit` [2], respectively.
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Fennel is a Lisp that transpiles to Lua. One of Neovim's goals is to make Lua a first-class citizen. Eventually, it will be possible to replace your init.vim with an init.lua. Making an init script in Fennel sounds like a great way to
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by Seirdy 7y ago
I should really make a list of things I would change if we could adopt better standards free of legacy. Dvorak would be included; the only reason I haven't learned left-handed Programmer's Dvorak is because most devices don't
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by Seirdy 7y ago
I'm really disappointed that Linux gets less attention from FOSS-supportive organizations like Mozilla. Desktop Linux adoption is a catch-22: people don't use it because it doesn't have as much software; however, it has less
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Mozilla has implemented DRM support in Firefox. I think Mozilla is more concerned with reducing dependence on nonfree software than supporting free software. Just to clarify, I don't fault Mozilla for having that attitude, but that doe
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by Seirdy 7y ago
> Undoubtedly, we can all agree that vi, like all other UNIX tools, is poorly conceived and awful to use. I disagree with everything in this sentence. (neo)vim + Unix tools make the best IDE in existence. Nothing else to date can hold a
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Thanks for this; it'll keep my cookie-consent-, overlay-, and dickbar-blocking filters company.
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by Seirdy 7y ago
> That's because you already paid for it This is not true for free over-the-air television.
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by Seirdy 7y ago
> the same people who complain...don't stop using the website itself We do stop using the website. Instead of using the website, we use tools like https://archive.is/ and the Wayback Machine to view less user-hostil
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by Seirdy 7y ago
You can use Guix inside toolbox!
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Not everyone is in your boat. As developers, we build things for others to use; empathy is a cornerstone of the job description. Hopefully this will help illustrate why Electron isn't a good choice: Say a somewhat below-average user ha
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by Seirdy 7y ago
There is literally no reason to distribute an electron app when you could simply run it as a web server using `npm start` and navigate to ` http://localhost:[port number]`. Electron is born out of a misplaced notion that some app
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Consider using toolbox[0][1], a tool built by and for Fedora (especially Fedora Silverblue and CoreOS). Essentially, you enter an unprivileged container (no root, no daemon), but keep your username and home directory. What this means is you
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by Seirdy 7y ago
If you want even better startup speed, try `zplugin`[0]. It can load plugins asynchrously after your shell starts up, or after you type the first few characters of a command. [0]: https://github.com/zdharma/zplugin
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by Seirdy 7y ago
Safety on Linux is arguably better; with sandboxing utilities like SELinux, AppArmor, bubblewrap and Flatpak, as well as being the platform receiving the most containerization efforts (Docker, Podman, LXC), Linux is arguably more secure. Th
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by Seirdy 7y ago
A thousand times this. Desktop Linux is the smoothest and most user-friendly computing I've ever experienced. Also, to those who didn't get the reference: https://xkcd.com/743/
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Heresy! Always indent using spaces so that you can easily use Vim's `conceal` feature to replace the spaces with the 🅱️ emoji. /s
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by Seirdy 7y ago
To add to all these comments: For the specific use-case of installing executable Python scripts, pipx [0] is the way to go. It creates a virtual environment for each package, and lets you drop a symlink to the executable in your `$PATH`. I&

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