LanternLight83

> AI-based

No thanks, I'll use Scribus.

Different mod schemes (ctrl-click and such) than InDesign, but I'm sure I can get used to that, adjust the settings, or patch it. Might have worked for them though, good suggestion!

The level of cross-platform desktop support here is really impressive

I thought hackernews sounded like an akward poll platform, so (just for fun) anyone who would like to vote can contribute here:

https://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=e954c5a89f228a3e1

I got a printer recently, tried Blender bc it was what I knew, then FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, CadQuery, and Build123D. The last two are Python frameworks built on the same OpenCascade kernal that powers FreeCAD, and I really reccomend them to software folks looking to work in version-controlled plain-text.

Related projects[1]:

Spacial Shell (i3/Sway, OCaml) https://github.com/lthms/spatial-shell

Newm (Wayland, vry fancy) https://sr.ht/~atha/newm-atha/

Video of newm https://youtu.be/z7S3L-RZskY

Obsolete (but fascinating):

CardboardWM (https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard)

EndlessWM (Wayland) https://github.com/peterfajdiga/EndlessWM

1: From https://lobste.rs/s/urwcat/spatial_shell_6th_release_might_b...

i once used hyperfine to micro-bench elisp functions. i se $SHELL to a script that evaluated it's arguments in emacs by talking to a long-running session over a named pipe. Hyperfine runs a few no-ops with $SHELL and factored out the overhead, though it was still helpful to run a nested loop in elisp for finer results.

> are there services which don't support [non-TOTP MFA]?

Yes, there are many which still only support SMS MFA -- and if you meant TOTP-On-Yubi, that's its own can of worms (limited size, [intentionally?] hard to sync or backup, vender lock-in?). I hope passkeys lead to brouder FIDO/U2F support.

Reminds me of Tagsistant's FUSE-based tagged-filesystem API, which touts full compatibility with graphical file -managers and -sharing protocols as a major advantage.

I get that, I've practiced with my ergo board for like a year and still don't use it exclusively bc of one-handing stuff (though learning a new layout at the same time cert. didn't help).

There's a layout based on multi-key chords called Taipo that has this really interesting "reversable" property, in that each half is a mirrored copy of the other, so you can type any letter (or eg. tab or return) with either hand. I think that's super cool, but don't think chording is for me, so I'm trying to imagine what a compromise might look like.

Layers in software are thing with eg. kmonad or kanata

I for one would love to see what that looks like, even just an example use of these libs c:

This is awsome bc Github Gist links aren't Cool URL's and break on name changes even though repo's don't and Gist's have those hash ID's. I don't know that the Styles need be quite so on-the-nose, though I am glad to see syntax highlighting is already in.

Just judging by fan speed on me anchiant Core i3, this out-performs github's sign-up flow by a substantial margin.

Sunless Seas and Sunless Skys are two narrative-driven games in the Fallen London universe which otherwise hit a lot of these beats.

I associate program synthesis pretty heavily with William Byrd following his demo in the second half of this talk:

https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc?feature=shared&t=4656

I built my own NAS (six drives in a Mini-ATX case) about three years ago. Creating a custom init system and immutable distro on it has been my primary hobby since, and I expect to be finished within another ~two years, by which point the drives will be reaching their life expectancies. On the plus side I'm pretty sure this is a me problem, and that anyone else would have stuck with Proxmox and had their siht together in 3-6 weeks-- but maybe that person would also be the type to prefer a Synology in the first place :p

I'd recommend both routes, but primarily synology unless you know you wanna geek out w/ it

I found it hard to parse whether you were describing JBC tips specifically, so as an FYI for readers, this is (AFAIK) how both JBC and Pinecil tips work (while still at very different price points)

I get some of this (have an unused Pinephone), but I'm still thankful they tried (built up a stir) and, FWIW, the PineTime is OK and the Pinecil is the best soldering iron I've seen anyone use

Not that I'm aware of, but I've ran LLM's in Termux myself and am pretty it's not a huge leap from there to a simple python scaffold with a restricted grammer (the kind llama supports, for consistant structured output) and a Tasker integration. Hardest part would be trigger-word activation (maybe hardware key-bind is enough fr u?). It would probably run well locally with the all the cumulative speedups over the past year, but I do bet it would drain your battery more than Google Assistant, and am not sure that moving it over the network would change that.

Both points resonate with me, but I'd push back againt the idea that colored syntax highlighting is neccessary for either. I'm thinking of the Pygments 'bw' theme[1], which denotes strings in italics, and nano-emacs[2], which also manages to do.. a lot with a little (at least aesthetically, ie. idk about code volume or corner cases).

1: https://pygments.org/styles/

2: https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs

This reminds me, somewhat tangentially, of one my favorite videos, the Miles Davis / LCDS YT Duet w/ the oddly affectionate mouse cursor

https://youtu.be/huEtJw7pfLk

The animation in the orginal post was beautiful, I've looked it up to show people on a few occasions (bc i'm fun at parties)

I developed strong opinions about fonts recently, and went to /r/typography looking for exactly this sort of material -- found it lacking :c

This is a treasure, I know there are a few "Little Big Things"-esque font-focused blogs, and my next hope will be traditional forums like high-logic.

I concur that the style doesn't appeal to me, but I figure it's ne of those marketing things like over-the-top thumbnails that no one likes but statistically works. FWIW, the XFCE desktop lets you zoom in on your cursor with integer scaling and /i love it/, legit use that as a magnifying glass (even to show people things) all the time-- but it /feels/ very different. The thing is okay, it's the style that feels patronizing.

One of the top comments in Zed's post claim this performs really nicely, but I imagine it doesn't run on GNU/Linux on it's own either; it'll probably come before Zed itself, and hopfully makes a splash so I can check it out then.

That's kinda cute, yeah-- love how they struggle to explain their besoke "AI Tokens" system and incompatability with existing local models. That would have made sense when they started development (and generally for accessability), but I wonder what network calls it makes, and how well it would work if we MITM-proxied those to eg. Mixtral.

Seems to be on everyone's minds today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39015876

Guix has had some developments in this direction too.

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2023

https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52555

Were those changes recent? A family member of mine once spent several hours shopping on Home Depot, asked for my help checking out. I quickly realized why shopping took them so long: every UI action blocked for 35-40 seconds. Poor soul cared about chipping in and was suffering sunk cost fallacy, but I had to explain that, while I really appreciated the amount of time they'd put into their cart, I simply could not spare the time to carry it over the finish line-- but I was happy to help them screenshot their picks and assemble+purchase a new cart on Lowes in half the time it would have takes us to get through checkout on HD. They'd probably been at in for six hours, starting well before I got home. This was on a core duo with ZorinOS (based on Ubuntu 22.04??) Firefox ~119, maybe ublock origin(?) and partly user error (nieve tolerance), but t's soured by opinion:

https://youtu.be/uO5A8bdDd7Y

> when you buy a keyboard that advertises "ZMK", you're getting a binary blob you can't customize or audit

You've got a fine argument for preferring GPL software, but I'd be shocked if there was a ZMK keyboard out there you couldn't flash.

a.) That's how you configure it

b.) Upstream (including the platforn, Zepher) is moving quickly, with frequent performance, feature, security, battery life, and usability improvements-- eg. a recent commit touts support for bitlocker screens

c.) I had to hack on it to get the behavior I wanted, which.. oh, that means a company might want to hack on it too, i see

but this all to say that it would be a remarkable tragady for a company to not support mainline provide you with the sources, if just for integrating upstream updates, and thankfully I can't think of a product that does so. I'd prefer it was copyleft too (so we didn't have to worry about it), but I wouldn't go so far as to proclaim that's what "you're getting" as if it's endemic to the platform.