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SebiH··on 4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery
I wonder if you could somehow get this to work with some form of passive wifi, maybe slowly harvest energy from available radio signal to trigger a screen update. Maybe someone knows if this is theoretically possible?
SebiH··on Jitsi Meet: open-source video conferencing
From personal experience a few months ago: Firefox works for the essentials, but anything more than webcam video failed. Sharing/synchronised watching of youtube videos or screen sharing only worked on Chrome..
SebiH··on Show HN: Scholarref tools – never deal with journal webpages again
> I use Zotero for references but keep the files in a separate organized directory structure, where the filenames match the citation key in Zotero. Each approach has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Why not install the Zotfile plugin [1]? You can configure it to do exactly that, and point it to a Dropbox folder to get better synchronisation between devices.

[1]: http://zotfile.com/

SebiH··on How Stoicism can help us
I find Gregory Hay's translation much more readable, here's the same passage:

Fatal necessity, and inescapable order. Or benevolent Providence. Or confusion—random and undirected. If it’s an inescapable necessity, why resist it? If it’s Providence, and admits of being worshipped, then try to be worthy of God’s aid. If it’s confusion and anarchy, then be grateful that on this raging sea you have a mind to guide you. And if the storm should carry you away, let it carry off flesh, breath and all the rest, but not the mind. Which can’t be swept away.

SebiH··on 58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere
There's also https://bestmotherfucking.website/
SebiH··on Eisvogel: A clean pandoc LaTeX template with a focus on computer science
While I really like the colours (reminds me of Nord[0]), wouldn't it be better to use a serif font? Most researchers I know still read research papers on actual paper, where serif fonts seem to be preferred.

[0]: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord

SebiH··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
How about https://snapdrop.net/ ?
SebiH··on Kakoune – A Modal Text Editor
For me, the advantage of vim no longer lies within the original vim editor, but in its ubiquity -- I can have all the advantages of Sublime Text, VS Code or whatever and still use (mostly) the same keybindings thanks to various vim plugins.

I'd consider switching if there was a viable plugin for my current main editor or, better yet, something similar that NeoVim is trying to achieve (i.e. running actual vim as background process for these plugins instead of emulating).

SebiH··on D6tflow: Python library for building data science workflows
> We have put a lot of effort into making this library useful to you. To help us make this library even better, it collects ANONYMOUS error messages and usage statistics. See d6tcollect for details including how to disable collection. Collection is asynchronous and doesn't impact your code in any way.

That seems really out of place. I'm somewhat used to automatic data collection from applications, but automatic data collection from programming libraries / frameworks? Really?

SebiH··on Keyboard latency
A more recent video claims that the PS/2 advantages are negligible even for serious gamers (around 3:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWkvzycD5PE
SebiH··on Sublime Text 3 dev build 3128 released
For vim users, there's also the ActualVim[1] plugin, which uses neovim's headless mode for processing. I've always been somewhat disappointed by vintage mode / vintageous in ST, and while ActualVim still has some issues, it's definitely promising. (It even works on Windows now! Though I couldn't quite get my plugins running yet)

[1]: https://github.com/lunixbochs/ActualVim

SebiH··on What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
You can hide the scrollbar with ConEmu, not sure about unlimited buffer though
SebiH··on Difficulties accessing medical services as an EU immigrant in Germany
Article aside - repeating (what feels like) every other sentence as big heading is incredibly annoying and makes it hard to focus on the content. Who thought that would be a good idea??
SebiH··on PuTTY 0.68 has been released
I did try conemu when bash for windows was first released, but ran into some problems. Will definitely try again, thanks! Though the wsltty linked below looks promising as well
SebiH··on PuTTY 0.68 has been released
Are you using an insider build or a different shell than Windows' cmd? I find myself using Putty to connect to a Linux subsystem ssh server just to get a decent terminal emulator with full colour support!