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very throw-away then

.. after being pwned, and even then only maybe. Unless.. pushy ads for bugfixes?

Is HN not the place with lots of people qualified to build an alternative to all this scam data silos with their profit-driven toxic dark patterns? An open source, open access meeting platform run as a commons (and maybe upkept by a foundation for love, joy & connection.. or, meh, the wikimedia foundation?) should be far from rocket science with today's tools..

Very much so. Why have we not yet started building an open source open access alternative platform for meeting people with shared interests? All the technological pieces are avail?

yeah very sad, had a tmux shortcut for quickly "googling" things.. However, https://www.startpage.com/ does not complain and supposedly sports the same search index..

For modern sites and if your terminal toolchain does not support sixel, https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl is a neat hack that gives you a text-rendered blink engine, i.e. supporting all the same sites as those pesky GUI browsers. With sixel/kitty graphics, there was another option which slipped my mind.. [edit: maybe chawan as in sibling comment, but that also is "not supported" by google with the default user agent.]

Agentic browser, fine, might be cool, we'll see.

Though what I really would love to have is an LLM-powered browser extension that can simply do fluid DOM/CSS manipulation to get an upper hand on all these messed up websites.. fiddling with devtools inspector and overriding element styles one by one really takes too much time.

Good thing is: they have no moat – there will be open source alternatives, even if a little later and a little less performant.

Careful folks! This escalates quickly. Do not use xdotool on this.

from my `/etc/tmux.d/keyboard-shortcuts-comfort.conf`:

    bind-key j command-prompt -p "vim:" "new-window -c '#{pane_current_path}' 'stty -ixon -ixoff && vim %1'; select-pane -T '%1'"

This binds `j` to prompt for files to open (* or just hitting enter works) and launches vim in a new window in tmux (turning off flow control and setting filename as title). Probably one of my most-used shortcuts.

That is soo old-fashioned.. Next you demand your gravity fields always point downwards? Unleash the chaos I say.

Super cool, gaussian splats ftw! .. warning: compute intense xD

As in.. for small durations of "never" ? ..

now here's a legit ai use case: saving on filament for meme production

Yes, Mylord! We'll find and destroy all of that damn shrubbery!

how would you know it converges on human limits, why wouldn't it be able to go beyond, especially if it gets its own world sim sandbox?

how about drumming up some public support for an open access post-scarcity economy where we shift focus to quality instead of profit and use our resources for building resilient planetary infrastructure...

a bit further down from the main stream, there are some fringe chinese manufacturers like unihertz doing small phones..

Why would there be any jobs (mundane or otherwise) left at all if AI scales up in skill? Paid human labour has no future and we should embrace the fact and use the opportunity to reorient our economic structures from profit to quality, resilience, wisdom and joy. Biggest opportunity in a lifetime..

Yes, but both permutations of digital coercion suck, right? ^^D

true now

& it looks awful without spaces — imho

That's based on the assumption models would not soon cross that treshold of autonomy and self-reflection that suddenly makes an escalating number of jobs (with cheap humanoids, even physical) automatable for ridiculous pricing. Even if this isn't certain, likelihood could be considered quite high and thus we urgently need a public debate / design process for the peaceful, post-commercial, post-competitive, open-access post-scarcity economy some (RBE / commoning community) have been sketching for years and years. Seems this development defies most people's sense of imagination - and that's precisely why we need to raise public awareness for the freedom and fun OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING & Universal Basic Services could bring to our tormented world. 2 billion without access to clean water? we can do much better if we break free from our collective fixation on money as the only means and way to deal with things ever.

nohang also has been a good one for desktops, with friendly notifications under memory stress and sane defaults.

Aside these complementary tools, the amount of systemd traps (OOM adjustment score defaults & restrictions, tmux user sessions killed by default etc etc) associated to OOM has really been taking a toll on my nerves over the years.. And kernel progress on this also has been underwhelming.

Also, why has firefox switched off automatic tab unloading when memory is low ONLY FOR LINUX? Much better ux since I turned on browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory ...

Well with a lot of packages, including from 3rd party repos, and only seldomly doing upgrades, one can get pretty stuck in resolver hell.. of course, noone to blame for the frankendebian approach but myself xD

>It's basically ransomware-in-waiting. RIWAAS, nice. Classic ms move.

in hindsight, I do regret not yet being able to supply my <3 grandma with a small dose, might have condoled her senseless fury (dementia rage or so).. RIP

Also, here's a few settings to limit memory growth for your about:config / prefs.js:

  // Enable automatic tab unloading (true by default on windows & mac os)
  user_pref("browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory", true);
  
  // tab unloading enabled when free memory drops below either
  user_pref("browser.low_commit_space_threshold_mb", 8192);
  user_pref("browser.low_commit_space_threshold_percent", 30);
  
  // time in milliseconds (so 15min) to wait before kicking tabs out
  user_pref("browser.tabs.min_inactive_duration_before_unload", 900000);
  
  // visibility 
  user_pref("browser.tabs.fadeOutUnloadedTabs", true);
  user_pref("browser.tabs.fadeOutExplicitlyUnloadedTabs", true);

And here's a one-liner (courtesy of deepseek-v3) to conveniently show current free memory ratio in percent to make an informed choice about what value to put in:

   awk '/MemTotal:/{total=$2} /MemAvailable:/{available=$2} END{printf "%.1f%%\n", (available / total) * 100}' /proc/meminfo

And thus, the machines managed to build trust in their harmlessness in men. Which, eventually, would turn out advantageous..

.. as of yet, promises aside.

Someone should try porting the open source TG clients to the matrix protocol by the way..

The real crime is an economic system that limits the spread of knowledge and access to other "human rights" by requiring everyone to hustle to survive (and, if possible, increase capital gains for the financial overlords) when we would already be technologically equipped to feed and house well all of mankind, instead of letting thousands of children starve to death each day and restricting access to education so that billions miss out on their intellectual development - a void easily filled with addictive media full of rage and distraction. Pirating books is just a symptom of this wretched system. And it is not enough - RISE, HN! .. towards RBE & beyond..