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by gmac 5mo ago
If you think I’ve done something wrong according to the licences involved here, please do clarify. I had understood that open-sourcing the Linux stuff (as branches of a fork of v86, linked from the /credits page) met all relevant legal
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by gmac 5mo ago
Do you really find you can reliably sustain your full attention that long? My EV can do 3 – 5 hours on the motorway between charges (depending on weather conditions and speed), but to avoid fatigue I always want a break within 3 hours or so
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Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP(yes-we-scan.app)
132 points by gmac 5mo ago|35 comments
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by gmac 5mo ago
Previous discussion on Yes We Scan's sibling project, printervention.app: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677885
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Show HN: Yes We Scan: rescue old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM and WebUSB(yes-we-scan.app)
4 points by gmac 5mo ago|1 comments
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by gmac 6mo ago
This is great. It makes https://printervention.app ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677885 ) and the soon-to-be-released https://yes-we-scan.app work on Firefox. It would be even greater if it
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by gmac 6mo ago
Staying in a holiday rental and there are no hooks on the walls!
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by gmac 6mo ago
I don’t feel like that’s a reasonable analogy. Kitchen knives don’t purport to give advice. But if a kitchen knife came with a label that said ‘ideal for murdering people’, I expect people would go after the manufacturer.
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by gmac 6mo ago
Claude was great, but I did put a fair amount of my own time and (non-printing-specific) expertise into this. OTOH, sure, I wouldn’t be asking for a million dollars.
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by gmac 6mo ago
Fair enough! I just don’t think I fully understand what you’re suggesting.
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by gmac 6mo ago
Can you elaborate on how using the network sharing features of CUPS would let you achieve the same thing (printing to old USB printers) in any major web browser?
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by gmac 6mo ago
Huh, interesting. Is the driver built in to Windows, downloaded from Canon, or acquired some other way? TBH the web app story on Windows isn’t ideal anyway because you have to install Zadig before it will work.
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by gmac 6mo ago
I mean, anyone is welcome to do just that! But I guess coding Rube Goldberg machines in JS (to push the boundaries of the web) is a thing I really kind of enjoy.
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by gmac 6mo ago
From the Gutenprint home page, https://gimp-print.sourceforge.io/ : As of July 7, 2024 the Gutenprint project has formally deprecated MacOS support. This means that no further MacOS-compatible binaries will be produced. Gute
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by gmac 6mo ago
Interesting suggestion: I guess that would have been possible. On the other hand I think this is a more general solution, and it does minimal reinventing-the-wheel.
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Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP(printervention.app)
230 points by gmac 6mo ago|98 comments
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by gmac 6mo ago
In case you were to miss it, there's some background and explanation here: https://printervention.app/details
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Show HN: A web app to rescue old printers, using Linux in a v86 VM plus WebUSB(printervention.app)
3 points by gmac 6mo ago|1 comments
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by gmac 6mo ago
It doesn’t much change your calculations, but if you charge at home in the UK (we trail a cable across the pavement with a low-profile cover) then the electricity _is_ all but free. We pay 7.5p/kWh for 6 hours overnight, but we also ge
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by gmac 7mo ago
Apple verified my account that very way this morning!
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by gmac 7mo ago
In the UK, having a credit card is an overwhelmingly good move even if you never use the facility for credit. You can set up a direct debit to pay it off in full every month, making it effectively a debit card, but you get what are known as
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by gmac 7mo ago
Renault Mégane and Scenic EVs are also great.
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by gmac 7mo ago
Right wingers have a whole different set of moral values that strike me (as someone more on the left) as _immoral_ values. Look up moral foundations theory by Jonathan Haidt and others. I’ve found this in one sense useful (so _that’s_ why R
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Ctrl-C in psql gives me the heebie-jeebies(neon.com)
4 points by gmac 7mo ago|0 comments
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Ctrl-C in psql gives me the heebie-jeebies(neon.com)
2 points by gmac 7mo ago|0 comments
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by gmac 7mo ago
Must vary by car — not had any problems with my iPhone 17 + Renault.
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by gmac 7mo ago
Yeah. Vauxhall/Opel has always been my go-to example here. Their cars excel at nothing. They’re not especially stylish. Not the fastest or nicest to drive. Not unusually efficient. Not particularly reliable or guaranteed for a long per
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by gmac 8mo ago
Huh, 1st Word Plus was what I had! Sudden recollection of pressing a rhombus-shaped F10 key to reflow after editing ...
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by gmac 8mo ago
The certificate just expired, so mobile Safari is not willing to let me see it. :(
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by gmac 8mo ago
Same for me. I wrote my PhD in LyX for that reason.

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