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avtaron Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

I've used pretty much this type of setup:

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-02-01-coding-agent-...

If you want something not NixOS-related, smolmachines.com (I haven't tried this yet) gets mentioned here a lot.

avtaron The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

Less distractions, yes, but mainly it's the size and e-ink display.

avtaron Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

Not sure if you've looked into this but you can ditch Bell's router with one of these:

https://store.10gtek.com/1-25g-media-converter-sfp-slot-with...

Or a non-copper equivalent in your case. You just need to use the VLAN IDs that Bell expects, see https://www.reddit.com/r/bell/s/uUltTdyqFC

avtaron The Emacsification of Software

> Oddly enough, Google’s LLM is the only one that has been answering my questions well on a research project these last weeks.

Google Search declined in quality when results started containing more noise (more ads, SEO spam) that required sifting through. Gemini isn't displaying all that garbage.. yet.

avtaron Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight

Given the context, they're probably referring to epubs. Files could contain just generic malicious javascript or malware that attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in specific ereaders.

avtaron Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent

TBH that part of your landing page exhibits some confusing UX. Perhaps it's just me but when I see a UI image with a play button I assume that clicking it is going to play a video, not redirect me to a login page.

avtaron Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

Got a link or more info regarding the theme?

avtaron Bitwarden integrates with OneCLI agent vault

> and price seems to have gone down

They sent an email a couple months ago stating prices were increasing as of Mar 27. The family plan went from $59.88 USD per year to $71.88 But it's still worth it IMO.

avtaron Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small

Maybe Lemmy without federation?

avtaron Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small

Thanks for the quick fix :) Nice to see more Discord alternatives these days.

A few other landing page issues if you feel like addressing them:

- Attempting to navigate with the Tab key results in tab order following nav elements once, where focus indicators aren't visible, and then the same elements get iterated over again but this time focus indicators are visible.

- Tab order doesn't include screenshots and jumps to the FAQ

- Clicking a thumbnail shows the larger image but without any elements for closing the overlay

- Pressing Esc doesn't close the overlay

- No skip links on any of the pages

avtaron Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small

Please consider adding screenshots of the UI that provide an idea of what the experience will be like without having to log in using Bluesky or other credentials.

avtaron My Homelab Setup

Thanks for clarifying :) I'll try it out this weekend.

avtaron My Homelab Setup

This would be perfect with TLS. The docs don't make this clear...

> tailscale serve --service=svc:web-server --https=443 127.0.0.1:8080

> http://web-server.<tailnet-name>.ts.net:443/ > |-- proxy http://127.0.0.1:8080

> When you use the tailscale serve command with the HTTPS protocol, Tailscale automatically provisions a TLS certificate for your unique tailnet DNS name.

So is the certificate not valid? The 'Limitations' section doesn't mention anything about TLS either:

https://tailscale.com/docs/features/tailscale-services#limit...

avtaron Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state

Unfortunately communities tend to be endangered species these days. Perhaps this issue and other seismic societal shifts will change that.

avtaron A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

I guess let’s say we also add Colorado to the growing list

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

avtaron Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win

Young people are more into TikTok than CNN, and the Ellisons already control that in the U.S.

avtaron Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

Looks like books.google.com

avtaron Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?

> Pair it with Debian

A KDE dev mentioned on a podcast that issues related to Debian Stable get closed automatically on their bug tracker because fixes don't get backported :/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1pneqp4/kde_dev_do_n...

My wife was complaining about Windows issues so I ended up installing Fedora with KDE on her laptop. I would have preferred Debian but using Testing (as suggested by the dev) doesn't some ideal.

avtaron Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system

There’s also notmuch with various frontends which will let you index and search colossal mail accounts

https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/

avtaron Adobe Animate (formerly Flash) will be discontinued on March 1st

While not a one-to-one situation, probably Blender and specifically Grease Pencil?

avtaron Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers

I thought that the blog's domain looked familiar. The author maintains an awesome and well maintained Emacs starter kit https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock

avtaron Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters

Rancher Desktop comes to mind. Maybe Podman Desktop https://podman-desktop.io/docs/migrating-from-docker

avtaron Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files

> though from a quick search it doesn't seem to have a "Vagrantfile" equivalent (is that correct?)

It's just YAML config for the VM's resources:

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/instances_...

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/explanation/inst...

And cloud-init for provisioning:

https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/jnt6/incus-config/-/blob/main/co...

avtaron Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files

It's been ages since I used VirtualBox and reading the following didn't make me miss the experience at all:

> Eventually I found this GitHub issue. VirtualBox 7.2.4 shipped with a regression that causes high CPU usage on idle guests.

The list of viable hypervisors for running VMs with 3D acceleration is probably short but I'd hope there are more options these days for running headless VMs. Incus (on Linux hosts) and Lima come to mind and both are alternatives to Vagrant as well.

avtaron Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible

React Native doesn’t depend on Electron for desktop apps either. It renders using native UI components and don’t use a browser engine.

avtaron FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

Learning effort aside, there’s also the ZFS hardware requirements issue. I bought a four bay NAS couple years ago and looked into TrueNAS. I (somewhat) remember coming across details such as ZFS benefitting from larger amounts of ECC RAM and higher number of drives than what I had. This post covers details about different types of caches and resource requirements:

https://www.45drives.com/community/articles/zfs-caching/

avtaron Show HN: Yapi – FOSS terminal API client for power users

Hurl's another great option for this https://hurl.dev/

avtaron Iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)

For anyone curious about accessibility support, looks like it's a WIP with contributions from System76 staff <3 https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/issues/552

And TIL about AccessKit https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit

avtaron Leaving Intel

> cassette deck on his desk

Greybeard reporting for duty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette

avtaron RFK Jr.'s loathesome edits: CDC website now falsely links vaccines and autism

Another way to interpret the parent comment would be that a lot of people are autistic.