TrevorFSmith

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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
That's a spendy domain for performance art. At least, I hope it's performance art.
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
Hey, ex-Mozillian here. For the old alt OS people, also an ex-NetPositive dev. With that context, I'm on board with not giving money to Mozilla Corp. Late last year I cancelled my subscriptions to Pocket, the VPN, and recurring donatio
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
PyGame is also great for scripting quick UIs for the fb. You don't want to write big apps in it but for ease of setup and use it's sweet.
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
We no longer have an open web. We have a Google web. No amount of coding will change that. Nothing will change until enough people stop using Chrome that devs can get paid to support other browsers. People won't stop using Chrome as lo
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
Most gigs are fine as long as you refuse the responsibilities of leadership. The compensation bump rarely compensates for the weight of catching the crap that's falling down the org chart. Don't let your ego drive you up the org c
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
We can save literal tons of waste if we stop re-implementing the wheel because the C-suite thinks everything from login pages to monitoring is their special sauce. Entire careers are wasted coding that stuff instead of writing and maintaini
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
It's interesting to me that this article was written ~seven years ago and already feels thoroughly outdated. The core problem is that its basic premise is that we need to scratch-write an OS that is essentially the Alto WIMP (1972), a
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
My free stack, 2024 edition: Fedora Linux Sway spin, Inkscape, GNU Image Manipulation Program, KdenLive, Natron, Blender, FreeCAD, KiCAD, OpenSCAD, Orca slicer, IceCat, Zulip, LibreOffice, and a flock of CLI tools
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
Windows, icons, menus, and pointers ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing) ) had its origins in the late 60s and was codified at PARC in the early 70s. It's ridiculous that we still use it despite the
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
For someone with zero doubt he made a lot of claims with zero evidence. We're all carrying high resolution cameras 24/7 but somehow there's nothing but shaky-cam and Vaseline lens blurs. Grain of salt and all that.
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
Maybe they don't want to pay Apple and Google a third of their revenue for the privilege of shipping software in the app stores.
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
Apple and Google take 30% of app revenue and love to implement in the OS the best features of popular apps. It's a bad deal for most businesses.
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by TrevorFSmith 2y ago
Has Cyc been forgotten? Maybe it's unknown to tech startup hucksters who haven't studied AI in any real way but it's a well known project among both academic and informed industry folks.
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
At any time there are platforms with 20x more or less speed or space than the average, from tiny embedded processors through PCs and on up to clusters and mainframes. So, to see how a 20x slower computing platform could be you can look at s
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
I don't believe the 1.2b euro number for how much it would cost a company to write the Linux kernel (and only the kernel) from scratch. We have many examples of small teams writing great kernels in a few years. Some in academia, some i
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
IceCat is a usable replacement if you disable the add-ons that supposedly keep you safe but totally don't.
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
Hands down my choice is the Pinecil soldering iron: https://pine64.com/product/pinecil-smart-mini-portable-solde... It's less than $50, it runs FOSS (IronOS) so you own it, and it can be powered by USB or by via a
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
Them: let's do a new thing with text Me: Yay! Them: listen to this podcast, also let's put audio enclosures in the new thing Me: Boo!
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
Thanks!
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
Oh, hey. I made that! Let me know if you have questions. This is the QT Py board that's inside: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5426 It's connected to this display: https://www.adafruit.com/p
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
I think it's more of a "grift drift": flashy cheap cars performing ridiculous tricks for the cameras.
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
I highly recommend comparing google results with kagi.com results. The extreme difference in quality has a simple explanation: kagi.com is a paid service so it can downrank sites with many ads and tracking scripts. Google needs that sweet s
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
TL;DR Keep your documents in a hierarchy with three top level labels: Projects, Areas, and Resources. Put your short ongoing projects in Projects Put your responsibilities in Areas (of Responsibility) Put your long term information storage
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
My tiny workshop contains a greater number of hand tools than the number of items this guy owns. I suspect that the person who made the fancy shoes worked in a larger workshop. Not everyone types for a living.
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
Yes, it feels wrong. I guess that Altium is paying him to do the work which is a cool gig, anyway. Hopefully the design files can be converted or manually ported for use with FOSS.
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
It's possible to be a long lived, consumer-oriented search provider. It might not be possible to do it in a way to satisfy VC managers. If a business takes more than five years to crush existing players then a growth company funded by
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
I'm pretty happy with Kagi's results since they down-rank sites with loads of ads and tracking scripts. It feels like the era for ad-funded information is ending and only paid services will be able to provide a useful noosphere. (
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
"It's almost like they care more about shareholders than Googlers." The C-suite works for the board and the major shareholders. They'll immediately throw workers under the bus if told to do so. That's their job. The
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
A useless generalization like "people don't want this" is a great example of why there's room in the world for a federated network of small instances. Humanity is not the Borg. The folks who obviously do want something d
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by TrevorFSmith 3y ago
Monoculture is stuck. Media companies are stuck to monoculture. There's a whole wide world of actual culture out there waiting for you to turn off Netflix and go outside.

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