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by vinc 4y ago
I've played with the readability lib by Mozilla before to extract articles from web pages and then feed that to the summarizers we had years ago but the result wasn't great. This is indeed different now, interesting! Another thing
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by vinc 4y ago
Same! I made myself years ago a little web app to fetch Wikipedia Current Events, the top n articles of the day (or the week) on HN, and a few subreddits and that's it. I also progressively stopped using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagra
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by vinc 4y ago
https://pi.ctu.re Nice domain hack for a photography hosting app. Only one user over the last decade. It made absolutely no money but it doesn't cost me much to host it so it's not an issue at all. It's open sourc
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by vinc 5y ago
https://vinc.cc This a very simple personal website where I write about the various things I care about from time to time.
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by vinc 5y ago
I've been playing with OS development for 2 years while writing MOROS[1] thanks to this project, it's such a great resource when you don't know where to start! With this and the help of the OSDev Wiki[2] you can really build
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by vinc 5y ago
Writing a little OS for fun in rust: https://github.com/vinc/moros I started two years ago and I'm finding that project very fulfilling with lots of areas to explore. For example I recently bought an old ThinkPad
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by vinc 6y ago
I did it for two years in remote places of Oceania, best time of my life.
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by vinc 6y ago
Same thing for me, I love OsmAnd and I paid to support it, but I'm frequently completely lost in the UI. I have used it for years and still I often need to kill it to be able to leave the menu. I think the main issue is that the app is
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by vinc 6y ago
I only tried cutting regular gloves but I can't touch type efficiently with them. I could indeed try liner gloves, good idea thanks!
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by vinc 6y ago
I live in a 150 years old farm in the middle of a forest that have no heating, it's my third winter here and the temperature goes down to 5C inside for a few months (oceanic climate, it's rarely below 0C outside), especially on cl
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by vinc 6y ago
Same thing here ^^ It's annoying to reflex type `:q` and see it on the screen and nothing happen! One good thing with nano being beginner friendly is that it reminds you at all time how to quit on the bottom left of the screen so the a
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by vinc 6y ago
I recently wrote a very simple and naive filesystem in rust for a toy OS I'm building and it was quite an interesting thing to do: https://github.com/vinc/moros/blob/master/doc/filesystem.md Th
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by vinc 6y ago
First they kill their low cost bare-metal servers[1] and ask customers to move to the low cost VPS servers, and now a few months later they increase their prices. Too bad their low cost offer wasn't sustainable. [1] https://
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by vinc 7y ago
I'd suggest sticking to Bootstrap for a prototype with maybe changing the colors for a bit of customization and that's it. Of course that may not be possible depending on your project but when it's possible it saves a lot of
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by vinc 7y ago
It's really sad to watch Reddit being slowly destroyed like that, one user-hostile feature after the other. All of it for short term gains. For me the threshold to leave will be when old.reddit.com will not be available anymore. At tha
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by vinc 7y ago
I spent a couple of years in NZ and Australia a few years ago, and since then I've been hearing about quite a few places I loved that have been severely damaged by water or fire. I have a wonderful memory of a week spent on the Routebu
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by vinc 7y ago
I'd suggest adding a removable battery filter to the phones. You already have jack port and micro SD, good.
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by vinc 7y ago
What you describe looks like a Fairphone, and by choosing carefully what to install on it I think it'd be a good solution.
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by vinc 7y ago
I use this in my RSS reader, from an open source web app I made a few years back: https://news.vinc.cc/search.atom?q=wikipedia+events
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by vinc 7y ago
Doesn't `ls` behaves like this, printing in multiple columns when the output is a tty?
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by vinc 7y ago
Personally I live hours away from the nearest town, use only my bicycle even when it's snowing, and I don't have any heating in the house. So I quite understand that not everyone have the same lifestyle as me :) But you are right
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by vinc 7y ago
If you want to be alone in your own mode of transportation in a city, there's no real need to use a ton of metal and gasoline for that. We can put a lot of innovation to bicycles and electric bicycles or scooters to make them more attr
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by vinc 7y ago
Indeed, using the day as the fundamental unit may be a nice choice for humans on this planet as a personal system, it's equivalent to looking up and telling the time by the position of the sun in the sky, but it's not accurate nor
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by vinc 7y ago
There's a clock using French Revolutionary Time exposed at Musée des Arts et Métiers if you happen to be in Paris and want to see one. I've been using centidays (and dimidays) for a few years now and it works well for me as a pers
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by vinc 7y ago
You know what's the simplest solution for carbon sequestration on industrial scales? Trees! And do you know how we could make space for more trees? By switching as much as we can to plant based diets because it takes a lot more plants
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by vinc 7y ago
The coder in me made that: https://geodate.org I'm the only one using it so there's absolutely no coordination problem, and it's great :3 But yeah use local time for personal time, and Unix timestamp for everythin
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by vinc 8y ago
I wish at one point in the future it will allow us to save a picture as JPEG. And then to be able to simply quit the program. It's pretty basic, I know GIMP have a reason to make it more complicated and painful, but I don't agree
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by vinc 8y ago
I got the land at the beginning of this year, started living on it last summer (northern hemisphere), I'm not really much ahead of you! The first year you just watch the land, see what happen naturally with the seasons. And then oh shi
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by vinc 8y ago
Thanks for the links! I'll definitely share the experience in the future. At the moment I'm still doing a tone of learning and trying to reproduce the basics of what I saw in the past years. There's so many things to do just
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by vinc 8y ago
Does he have a website? I'd love to read more about his place! I spent a couple of years traveling and living in remote permaculture communities before starting my own project six months ago, so far I feel like I'm living the drea

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