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c-hendrickson Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

Watched the video but don't really see why the title mentions pedals. This is decidedly not a pedal. A neat interface for sure, but not a pedal you can stomp.

c-hendrickson The Weed Got Too Strong

> if older weeds were half as "strong", the user could just smoke 2x as much and become just as high as with newer weeds

I'm definitely not versed enough in this, but I don't think 9 women can make a baby in one month in this scenario.

> But vapes give micro doses

My vape pen can absolutely incapacitate me from a single hoot, the user is in control of the dosage.

c-hendrickson Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?

I'll defend Uwe Boll's Postal movie. It's on par with the source material at least.

And IIRC Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge was a fun time.

c-hendrickson Building textlog without JavaScript

    $ curl -L 'https://textlog.cc/'
    curl: (35) LibreSSL/3.3.6: error:1404B42E:SSL routines:ST_CONNECT:tlsv1 alert protocol version

c-hendrickson Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

It's right there, it's the guy who started it and can't help but share his politics unprompted

c-hendrickson HTML Can Do That

That solves the validation portion, but not the rest of the UX issues

c-hendrickson Sol loves to cheat

"Dave constructs a homemade megaphone using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone"

c-hendrickson Anthropic's War on open source AI

It's much worse than Reddit, but yes Reddit is getting worse by the day.

c-hendrickson GitHub down again? no PR access

It sounds like what I was seeing when trying to view PRs last night, so it started almost 12 hours ago.

c-hendrickson RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

Yes this will give you similar results.

There's VNC and VNC-likes (rdp, steam link, rustdesk, etc) which all do similar: stream a screen, allow remote keyboard/mouse, maybe redirect sound, maybe use video encoders.

There's also things like deskflow, which allow you to use one keyboard/mouse and control with multiple machines.

c-hendrickson DeepSeek Harness

yep, it's a handy architecture. Tho I don't know many people who prefer to run without coreutils.

c-hendrickson uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

Going from memory, but that's how many elements are in the tree between what I wanted to be hidden and where the matching text/elements actually lived.

c-hendrickson uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

Last I tried writing custom rules for Facebook was years ago, but they did have proper aria attributes, and uBlock origin does have selectors for text content. These are from 2020:

  facebook.com##span:has-text(Suggested for You):xpath(../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..)
  facebook.com##div[aria-label="Sponsored"] span[aria-label="Sponsored"]:xpath(../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..)
  facebook.com##div[aria-label="Sponsored"]:xpath(../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../..)

c-hendrickson OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300

You absolutely can just press a button on a phone to instantly start an AI voice conversation. Heck, you don't even need to press a button in a lot of cases.

c-hendrickson Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

> one file contains a switch statement that has so many case statements it spans more than 1000 lines

Probably best to leave YandereDev's code out of the training data.

c-hendrickson Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible

Users can install extensions to tame websites and PWAs, like ad blockers

c-hendrickson Where .env Went Wrong

Also mise: https://mise.jdx.dev/environments/

c-hendrickson Show HN: Port Zero – How I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0

Is that the only thing governing unprivileged ports, or do programs also implement their own rules?

c-hendrickson Our position on open-weights models

Frankly, why would I put much weight into what Anthropic say about open weight models?

c-hendrickson Systemd Linger

What I don't get is why (on Arch) I have linger off yet have never had trouble with tmux/ zellij being killed.

Edit: ah, this post clears it up. Mentions linger has nothing to do with screen muxers, and also brings KillUserProcesses to peoples attention.

Damn systemd and its multiple levels of convenience.

c-hendrickson The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory

> No, it is not my choice, because I'm not talking about my PC at home, but rather what organizations use - commercial companies, universities, schools, NGOs etc

How much of a say do you have over the minutiae choices of various organizations anyways?

> I want only the people who explicitly prefer systemd, to use systemd, and not the rest

And some those people that prefer systemd happen to have a lot of influence on the choices for what init system a distro uses.

Maybe we could build something that lets us convert between different init systems to ease the maintenance burden. We'd need a structured format to start from, I wonder what options are out there...

c-hendrickson The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory

Personally I think moving away from the hodgepodge of scripts, giving a consistent interface for people to use, extend, etc, is kinda necessary for the average user to have a decent system. It can often be complex to make things simple.

I'm also not sure how systemd could override a config file, because systemd does not write the unit files on a system. Wouldn't that be on the maintainer, distro, or other methods of getting the unit file?

c-hendrickson When is NVLink worth it?

"Supported" it sure, but I'm dubious of the "70%" increase. It was very dependent on the game being played, and the CPU being used.

c-hendrickson When is NVLink worth it?

Wasn't that actually a very short lived period of time? Especially with gains up to 70%, and you had to contend with new stutters?

c-hendrickson I Stopped “Creating Content”

Kane Parsons is 20 years old

(Sorry to use a meme but I couldn't drop this oddly perfect opportunity. Also Kane Parsons is 21 years old)

c-hendrickson How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

I always got a kick out of that, coming from a JavaScript background where people constantly harp on the size of node modules.

My Tauri project, where the backend is much smaller code-wise than the frontend, has 9gb of rust artifacts (node_modules is 550mb for comparison)

c-hendrickson Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending repos to the cloud

So since Musk said it there's a fair chance of it never happening I guess

c-hendrickson How do you use Vim in the era of AI?

copilot.lua, CodeCompanion when I want in-editor agents (hooked up to OpenCode), OpenCode web for most everything else. Neovim works fine in OpenCode web's terminal too.

c-hendrickson Price per 1M tokens is meaningless

One more ~~lane~~ layer of LLMs is sure to solve all our problems

c-hendrickson Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

Still not sure if the alternative of vendoring like Shadcn, where a migration like this requires a black box probability machine to do the migration for you is any better.