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by marttt 4y ago
Thanks for this. I quite like how Russian characters look in GNU Unifont: https://web.archive.org/web/20180321021749/http://czyborra.c... For my own needs, I prefer IBM VGA 8x16 from The Ultimate Oldscho
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by marttt 4y ago
What are the significant features of FELinks as compared to other Links-es?
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by marttt 4y ago
+1, this has been my preferred use of Youtube for several years, via youtube-dl [1]. At least when it comes to talks and lectures, the relevant part IMO mostly lies in the audio; visuals are rarely of essential importance. An audio-only min
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ANSi Web Browser concept (2012)(cambus.net)
30 points by marttt 5y ago|25 comments
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by marttt 5y ago
> Someone once said the best interface is no interface. Was this from an article by Golden Krishna, later turned into a book by the same title? Archived article (or, how to open your car door in 13 steps): https://web.archive.
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by marttt 5y ago
Something like Plan 9's Mothra browser for the Unix console would be great. Support for images, mousing, a small command language and good shell integration. I like and use w3m a lot (I found the link and posted it here :), but maybe i
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by marttt 5y ago
Virgil Dupras, the author of Collapse OS, also has an interesting fork, w3l: w3m With Way Less: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/w3l Last commit was 1 year 5 months ago.
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W3M Rocks(w3m.rocks)
194 points by marttt 5y ago|92 comments
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by marttt 5y ago
+1, came here to ask for this. My preferred front-end has been https://teddit.net/ though. Fast, modest-looking and lightweight.
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by marttt 5y ago
There's also Teapot, with FLTK or ncurses-based UI: https://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/how-to-use-teapot-l... Archived homepage of the project: https://web.archive.org/web/2021
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by marttt 5y ago
Make do with as little as you can in every aspect of life without torturing yourself . IMO this also counts for creative ambitions: there are writers who propose to postpone writing for as long as you can. Healthy long-term relationships
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Brilliant comments, indeed. Thanks for pointing out.
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2016 discussion (263 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12878706
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"Philosophy in the Flesh" has stubbornly been in my "most relevant books" reading list for several years, hmm. I came across it when I had interest in mind-body relationship, and immediately thought about it as the book
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by marttt 5y ago
Great question; rephrasing it for personal needs: in terms of durability, what is the 2022 equivalent of Linksys WRT54GL [1]? Something that supports open source firmware and will serve me for 5-10 years? Or, since I have modest needs (ethe
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by marttt 5y ago
+1. Haven't read that one, but I remember being fascinated by Varela's "Ethical Know-how: Action, Wisdom, and Cognition": https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=896
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by marttt 5y ago
(I'm in my late 30s, but I always try to look for "time-tested" books first. Books that seem to hold their value after decades; see also: Lindy effect.) Language and linguistics: "Metaphors We Live By" by George Lak
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by marttt 5y ago
Maybe try "Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It" by David Fleming. Really interesting structure; basically it's, indeed, a "dictionary". Took the author more than 30 years to write (sadly, h
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Appropedia, the Sustainability Wiki(appropedia.org)
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Two great blogs about actually using and improving Inferno (the relevant posts are 5-10 years old, though): Inferno programmer's notebook by Caerwyn Jones: lots of experiments with detailed descriptions and code. The entire blog is rea
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by marttt 5y ago
I would recommend the books "Putin's Russia" and "A Russian Diary" by the late Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya [1, 2, 3]. In 2006, she was shot dead at her apartment building in centr
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by marttt 5y ago
Has anybody here experienced more impulsive behaviour as a result of intermittent fasting? More internal anger, being rude or impatient with your peers or children much more often, etc. I was on IF for 2-3 years, and while I gained a lot fr
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Vladimir Sorokin: Putin sits atop a crumbling pyramid of power(theguardian.com)
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The federal agency Roskomnadzor also blocked access to the Russian language portal of Estonian Public Broadcasting because of war reporting: https://news.err.ee/1608512684/russia-blocks-err-s-russian-p...
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by marttt 5y ago
Here's a recent Youtube capture of BBC World Service war broadcast on 5875 kHz shortwave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsrOzB2Cfgs (I also submitted it to HN yesterday, but this current thread has more comments alre
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by marttt 5y ago
"An Introduction to General Systems Thinking" by Gerald M. Weinberg [0] was highly influential to me. I still often use his "systems triumvirate" when I have to sort out bigger-picture problems: 1. Why do I see what I se
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BBC World Service on 5875 kHz shortwave: Russia-Ukraine war broadcast(youtube.com)
9 points by marttt 5y ago|1 comments
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There is a 4+ minute Youtube clip that includes the central climbing scenes from "Free Solo" [0]. Amazing guy. The National Geographic documentary had Hollywood-esque layers that slightly annoyed me (ominous music etc), though. A
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Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) has a banner to ICTV Ukraine live stream on its frontpage. The channel is in Ukrainian, though. Link to ICTV stream through ERR: https://jupiter.err.ee/otse/eri6 About the ICTV channe
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by marttt 5y ago
An interesting solo game dev is also Jason Rohrer [1, 2]. I'm not a gamer, but I found his frugal work and life philosophy inspiring. 1: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/ 2: https://usesth

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