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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Nyxt is basically a front-end to the Big Tech web engines, yes, but one that (I think sincerely, from my not-overly-technical standpoint) attempts to re-empower the user. I didn't understand your original point about needing "a mo
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Have you got an overview of how the technical side of this works, from your perspective? Or should I just go read more about the details of email and DNS and networking and blah-blah and wait for it to click one day? Usually that type of in
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I'm seperating concerns here with a seperate answer: I do exactly the opposite, when it comes to software! I started "learning computers" a few years ago, rather than just pointing and clicking in a Windows 7 laptop, understa
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I wonder if I had a demo of Command & Conquer on a CD we got from some magazine back in the day, because shots from the game seem oddly familiar, and we used to play the odd demo like that on our family Windows XP machine. Not sure if I
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
@dang, or whoever has the power to do so: Can the title be changed? It is the exact title of the "report", but it's not a real report, and that's the story here. Keeping the real title of the fake AI-slop-report only add
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Like this, maybe you mean? https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein They got the name right, anyway
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Oh, one other thing I just wondered: has there been any progress on interacting with Nyxt from Emacs? I saw something about that at some stage.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Ooh thanks for the quote, I'll happily follow up on something Fisher says is worth a look.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
No, but I've been meaning to get around to trying it out! Is it wonderful?
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I still find it confusing - was that a thing, historically, that the mere use of Common Lisp meant that the thing written in Common Lisp was considered "AI"? I thought it was a general-purpose, high-level language, that was someti
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
TL;DR There's simply no grounds for rat-molesters to feel so triggered. No-one is saying "hacker" means someone who is allergic to mouses, it's not what's being said whatsoever. The Nyxt page there unfortunately lea
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I was enjoying this comment very much, and then nearly got whiplash from the twist at the end! Wow. Rediscovers Debian and all the creative possibliites of open source tooling, and then at the end, sits back for a nice proprietary gaming se
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
While discovering emulators recently and playing a few older games and just enjoying it immensely, I've asked myself if it's not a bit unfortunate, or suspicious, or misleading, the way the world of software and hardware is split
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Hmm ok, shoot. I hope someone comes and cleans it up with one day, a historically significant piece of software, I would say.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/inspiration.html That's linked to from the ratpoison page, I enjoyed reading it a few years ago, it hasn't gotten any less funny in the meantime. Why did I ever leave ratpoiso
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Someone was triggered by the Nyxt post getting so much attention... =D I like Qutebrowser very much, though. Used it for a good spell and was very happy. I'd some bug I couldn't fix which was driving everything really bonkers, but
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Nyxt already exists, and fits your description perfectly
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I agree that's is a bad look, and I wonder who does Nyxt's writing. And I wonder what they mean, I didn't think there was any sort of LLM integration, and definintely not built in... has something changed there? Do they just
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Had to look that up: "Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence"
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
When are we getting a web engine written in SBCL? :) or how hard would it be, I wonder... One thing about Nyxt that's great is this idea of trying to push towards being renderer-agnostic. I'm not sure how achievable that is in rea
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Please, it's only in the comments that people are reducing a complex reality to a silly and childish "hacker = keyboard" thing. Nyxt aims to provide a great experience for emacs and vim users from the first run, but also has
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Somebody call jwz, quick
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
It's a standalone program, and you can absolutely use vim keybindings! Not locked to emacs in any way. Out of the box it is ready to do vim keybindings, emacs keybindings, or CUA style keybindings. How practical, wouldn't you say?
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Please, netizen, educate yourself. Common Lisp is written in many places outside of Emacs. If you want to wear your underwear as a hat, that's your own business. Don't blame Common Lisp, or the array of editors which have nice sup
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> I don't get the hype of keyboard == hacker mentality There's no (or extremely little...) hype, it's just the sort of thing which starts to appear prominent in a world where conversations are driven more and more by the t
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Hmm, I was using it fairly heavily while going through a book which required loads of messing with graphs last year for a month maybe and I don't remember it acting up... Perhaps I got lucky? Is it known to be buggy, in general?
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Maybe you're aware of the sort of reference essay on the subject, but just in case you hadn't see it, it's very readable and beautiful: http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~johnda/Papers/wignerUnreasonableEf...
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
That's so terrible to hear! Is there no nice tool out there that converts guitar tabs from ultimate guitar or whatever to ASCII? Maybe scraping there big clunky websites is hard... Hmm. A Braille display - it converts any ASCII charact
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Wow. So great. Just learning of the existence of these games recently, and feeling nostalgia for pasts I didn't live. On account of your username, I clicked on your profile to see if there was some story behind it, and got to the gunki
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Love that article, and this thread. Very new to the world of games, and this sort of area (and MUDs, generally, too, I suppose) seems so ripe for further exploration. What an exquisite world

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