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by skyfaller 4y ago
I don't think he is still on Mastodon, and while deleting his Mastodon could be interpreted as hiding the public record of him being a jerk, it could also be interpreted as him leaving an environment where he had a habit of toxicity, w
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I use Sway and I pay to host my code on SourceHut. I admire Drew and I think he is making invaluable contributions to FOSS. That said, he has a history of... rash? impulsive? reactions to situations that might have been resolved with less b
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by skyfaller 4y ago
We probably aren't headed for 8 degrees of heating, based on what we know today . There are a lot of "out there" scenarios that don't make it into sober, conservative scientific reports from the IPCC, because they rec
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by skyfaller 4y ago
There are a large number of things that could kill everyone, but I think the top threat will always be ourselves. It's very easy to imagine some resource war degenerating into a nuclear war. A few self-induced crises like that on top o
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I think this is a decent and brief response to why geoengineering is a bad idea: https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/reasons-to-oppose/ The most convincing argument to me is that we're already facing a vast prob
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I agree that we need to plan for climate adaptation (preparing for predictable problems) and resilience (preparing for unpredictable problems), but I have a few kneejerk responses: - Although it's looking increasingly unlikely that we
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Do you happen to know if Relm addresses accessibility at all, or has plans to do so in the future? Every time I see a Rust GUI post, that's my first question: https://www.cmyr.net/blog/rust-gui-infra.html#accessibi
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I use Musikcube a lot, it works great on macOS and Linux, and is snappy even on very cheap or old systems. It has very good mouse support (if your terminal emulator supports it), it's the first time I saw a TUI app with a right click m
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by skyfaller 4y ago
And this is why I always check the comments first before clicking on HN links! Thanks for saving my time / helping me not give irrelevant pages traffic.
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Another commenter noted that this appears to be a Mercurial repo, not a git repo. Does `go get` support Mercurial repos? If yes, what else does it support, besides git and Mercurial?
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by skyfaller 4y ago
> Not all fonts installed on your computer are available to webpages I recognize that I'm probably in the minority for wanting to avoid web fonts in my web pages, to make my web pages more lightweight / faster / environmen
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by skyfaller 4y ago
mgmt looks really promising, and I want to try it out, but if their FAQ is up to date, then this is concerning: "Auth hasn't been implemented yet, so you should only use it in trusted environments (not on publicly accessible netwo
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Could you explain how this is different from Ansible? That webpage says pyinfra is "Integrated with Docker, Vagrant & Ansible out of the box", so I would think the use cases aren't identical, otherwise they wouldn't
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Yep, it wasn't too hard to get it working. I modified my theme slightly to get rid of the search bar that doesn't work, and I hid comments, since those won't work either. My homepage running on vanilla Wordpress: https:&#x2F
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I admit it's a little small for my tastes at only 36 keys, but I do a lot of typing on an Planck EZ with 47 keys which is only 9 more keys... ok actually that's a significant percentage of the keys, this is ~20% smaller. I enjoy t
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I see it's a fork of piku, but I don't see an explanation of why they bothered to fork. Do you know what the difference is? https://github.com/piku/piku
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by skyfaller 4y ago
Anecdotally, I'll note that some USB-C stuff is rather power-hungry, compared to MicroUSB gadgets. I have a portable solar panel that easily charges my Kindle over MicroUSB, but struggles to make headway with many of my USB-C devices.
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by skyfaller 4y ago
I think one problem is that it's difficult to make videos easy for anyone to edit, the way a wiki text page is. - The skills to edit video are more difficult to acquire, in part because - The hardware and software requirements can be e
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by skyfaller 4y ago
My favorite band is Queen, so only counting their studio albums, that already gives me more than a dozen LPs I will listen to all the way through over and over again. Then there's their live albums, the band members' solo albums,
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by skyfaller 5y ago
I'm admin for a small Mastodon server, and I'm kind of depressed that the official app is simply not going to support my local feed, that any feedback about this is ignored. The local feed is the main motivation to run a small Mas
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by skyfaller 5y ago
Feels like this might be an example of "worse is better". Or alternately, that the community that SerenityOS has built and the joy they find in tinkering matters more than their technical foundations, in terms of getting something
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by skyfaller 5y ago
Isn't Hypercore (and its predecessor Dat), essentially Bittorrent + version control? https://hypercore-protocol.org/
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by skyfaller 5y ago
Do you mean the "Our Incredible Journey" Tumblr? https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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by skyfaller 5y ago
I'm not hopeful about this for a few reasons: - They used to be really into blockchain / smart contracts: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/25/resonate-spoti... - Looking at their foru
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by skyfaller 5y ago
I've been buying more mainstream artists (who aren't on Bandcamp) from 7digital: https://us.7digital.com/ That said, I didn't spend nearly as much money there because Bandcamp showed a lot more evidence that
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by skyfaller 5y ago
The biggest alarm bell going off for me when reading these articles is "Notably, the system could also be used by bitcoin to help clean up the largest cryptocurrency’s dirty image, according to Filecoin Green’s creator, Alan Ransil.&qu
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by skyfaller 5y ago
Dammit, yet another project integrating/promoting cryptocurrency (Filecoin in this case). I like and use F-Droid, and I'm really unhappy about how difficult it's becoming to avoid web3 crap turning everything into a financial
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by skyfaller 5y ago
You don't need Go, but it enables certain features like Hugo modules, which I find easier to use e.g. for themes than e.g. git submodules: https://gohugo.io/hugo-modules/ Basically it uses the Go dependency mana
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by skyfaller 5y ago
Ever since Google Talk stopped supporting Jabber, I quickly ran out of anyone to talk with. I talk with friends on Signal, I talk with FOSS projects on IRC or Matrix, and I occasionally set up ad-hoc video conferences using Jitsi Meet, but
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by skyfaller 5y ago
Also see https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/03/urban-fish-ponds-l... The end of that article is kind of sad because it details the reasons these very effective low-tech sewage treatment methods are being phase

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