ndegruchy

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by ndegruchy 1y ago
What a phenomenal woman, scientist and activist. We could use more people like her. Rest in peace, Jane.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Yeah, the Windows directory story is a mess. Of all the vaunted backwards compatibility they offer, there are some very strange user-facing breaks that don't make much sense. The Home directory structure being one of them. %APPDATA% is
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
It's a stretch to say /var is for application _user_ data. For a certain value of "user" sure, like MariaDB or Redis. They're "users", and have data in /var but it's a non-interactive session. Us
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
You only really see ~/.var for flatpaks.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
> Though the flip side of my own subjective take here is that "home directory dotfile vomit" has just never seemed as big an issue to me as many make out. This is a fair take, and something that I've considered when going
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Oh, I'm well aware of this on Windows. It's stupid and easy enough to fix for the developer, but I'm also aware there is virtually no desire to implement.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
I disagree with this. macOS isn't Linux, and as much as I _absolutely support_ the XDG BaseDir spec, I don't think it's fair to try and apply it to macOS. Linux has no 'proper' directory for storing configuration, c
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
I feel like most folks misunderstand Eshell when going into it. It's not really their fault, as they _expect_ something bash-like, and in many ways it is. However, Eshell is _not_ bash. It's not zsh. It's not fish. It's
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
I honestly wish this were the case for 80% of the calls I make to local stores. Most people they have working the phones do not care about the inventory and will just say they're out of stock or don't know if there are any on the
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Because he got paid $0. They hired him as an “intern” or volunteer.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Neat, this looks a lot like the Linux-focused Profile Sync Daemon[1], which can move your profile to a RAM-backed tmpfs. PSD does more browsers, though. I wonder if PSD could work on macOS, too. [1]: https://github.com/grays
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Where's the outcry and rage from the MPAA and RIAA that the infringement on their copyright is for more than all the money in the world combined? It's fine to nail a $10m verdict against a guy with no money, but dare to tread on
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Comparison of Spreadsheets, advertisement for Grid.is. I guess it really matters what you need . Is Numbers going to take over accounting firms? No, they need Excel because it's Excel and that's what they use. If you need a free
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
I remember requesting the source code after they bought it[1]. They kept kicking the can down the road. It looks like they dumped everything in a monorepo on Github[2] which does nothing good for anyone. Seems like Mozilla is dead-set on gr
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
So we can't dragnet surveil our own people? Hmm, how about we just buy it from the folks who do it for work? Then _we're_ not doing it. _We're_ just buying a bundle of data from a broker. Couple this with the idea that we sof
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
> Apple computers are now spyware What? By what definition? Is there evidence of this? I mean, you can get yourself any old laptop and run Linux on it, but it won't compare with a system that is run by the company building the hardw
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
This was released on GitHub 5 years ago. Hardly new. Nice set of tools though. Glad to see the legacy of the old PowerToys living on.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Yeah, I don't have my KDE setup in front of me right now, but I feel like there is something in the keyboard settings that could emulate at least a subset of Epsanso's features. I know on macOS/iOS there is text replacements
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
No, not especially. What Espanso does is watch keystrokes, looking for the specific combinations in the config to then expand the shortcut to whatever it's defined to do. There is similar functionality built into macOS/iOS but it&
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Yeah, I used DAVMail with Emacs+MSMTP+MPOP+notmuch for ages. Works really well, the only occasional thing I had to do was reauthenticate the token, which pops up in a browser window.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Thanks for that. I kind of wondered how SQLite was relevant to SCM, but I hadn't really bothered to investigate it. Still, having it in a format that can be browsed and reasoned about is handy. Not that Git is any worse in this regard.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
+1 for this. I love having a self-contained, syncable GitHub-lite. It uses SQLite for the format, too, which makes it easy to discover the internals. It just needs some more 'modern' themes
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
So, he's Bob Pope? ...I'll see myself out.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Seems like the trifecta group is /just/ about migrating tools to rust? Am I understanding that right? I don't have a problem with it, specifically. Seems odd that they don't advertise it, though.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Neat. Kind of like a scratch pad/buffer. I like that they're embracing the idea that they're not a note-taking app in the traditional sense. It's just for grabbing ideas as they happen and organizing later.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
Nice app. I use it as a sort of 'second dock'. Apps and folders I'd like to be able to get to quickly enough, but don't need frequently enough that they have a spot on my dock.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
What.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
You can do that on Kagi, too. You just don't _need_ to.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
So sad. I loved Fosstodon. I hope it can weather this storm, and that Kev finds some solace away from the drama.
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by ndegruchy 1y ago
I mean, if it's not broke...

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