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frantathefranta

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Hi, I'm Franta. [Blog](www.franta.us)

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frantathefranta··on Herdr has released native app
Another vote for publishing it, would love something like this in Emacs.
frantathefranta··on Emacs Turns 50
I can only imagine that Pip is an orange cat with typical orange cat characteristics like being crazy and breaking things occasionally.
frantathefranta··on Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
Just got nostalgic about the 4 hardware buttons on my Sony Xperia Play: back-home-context(option)-search.

Still the best navigable phone I had when coupled with the Nova Launcher gestures.

frantathefranta··on OLED iPad Mini
Yeah, the picture of the iPad is probably taken like /, not like |.
frantathefranta··on New iPad mini
Unlike the iPhone getting bigger, the iPad with the 9.7/10.2/11" screen is still basically the same size though. It's just the bezels getting smaller.

Quick look at the Mini dimensions also seems like it barely got bigger overall since 1st gen.

frantathefranta··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
It was a tweet: https://x.com/Merman_Melville/status/1088527693757349888
frantathefranta··on RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
There is an RFC for ICMP extensions that fix this, RFC 5837.
frantathefranta··on New Apple TV 4K
If you don't mind me asking, how does your YouTube video discovery looks like?
frantathefranta··on Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
Their ethos is that Home Assistant should be deployed in a non-complicated way and that many things that "IT people" want to do with HA are not actually necessary. I can't find the source but I recall frenck (one of the lead devs) explaining that people ask him about stuff like setting up HA using Terraform and he just wonders why someone would want that.
frantathefranta··on Transit rewards
In my experience, a Nissan Altima/GMC Acadia are about as nice as a Gillig bus.
frantathefranta··on A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W
Czech is my mother tongue and I have regular issues with this too (have been mainly English speaking for the last 10 years). Czech does not have a /w/ sound and it confuses me the other way as well, like you said with "victory".
frantathefranta··on I don't like passkeys
I think passkeys were made to work in mind with complete idiots (here's a pop-up, tap it, now you have access to website without password, don't think about where it was saved or that it exists at all). I can understand parts of IPv6 like Router Advertisement being like that but there is so much customizability for the user that I can't really see them being similar that way.
frantathefranta··on The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire
The German acronym (DDR) is much better known among Eastern Europeans. My parents (Czech) would almost never call it East Germany.
frantathefranta··on iPhone Duo
Yes I'm quite interested in a foldable from Apple. Have been since I got an 7" Acer Android tablet ~13 years ago and was annoyed at the necessity of carrying 2 devices.
frantathefranta··on Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader
TikTok (ironically) has a bunch of anti-brainrot content, I think the Xteinks got popular that way. Super easy to use and even flash to 3rd party firmware.
frantathefranta··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
How do you go about generating the garbage data? Bunch of ESP32s with rngs in the same subnet?
frantathefranta··on Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
I guess I don’t look at company Wikipedia pages very often but this one seems particularly “written by corporate”.
frantathefranta··on Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer
I'm in <other US city>. It's possible to earn enough to buy property here. I already have a mortgage (as an immigrant, building a credit score from credit cards which in turn qualifies you easily for a mortgage is pretty nice).
frantathefranta··on A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
This does remind me of driving on the western edge of the Dead Sea in 2014 with my family. The only device we had that was capable of 3G-less navigation was my Nokia Lumia 620 (windows phone) with bing maps. I had maps downloaded for all of Israel and Palestine, but they refused to work at that particular spot. Still not sure if it was some kind of GPS/map blocking or just being at a really low altitude. Pretty sure that once we passed Jericho and turned towards Jerusalem, it started working again.
frantathefranta··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
Out of all the annoying website things, always thought that one was pretty tame. Almost feels like a spiritual successor to the visit-o-meter. Obviously as long is it doesn't put a (1) on my tab or makes a noise and doesn't steal mouse focus.
frantathefranta··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
I'm very well aware it's a me problem, anime just isn't for me and it's super popular. I'm honestly surprised that a single person seemed to agree with me.
frantathefranta··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Yes, I do believe not having a pfp at all would be better (for disclosing CVEs or sharing a statement about disbanding the nixpkgs team). By all means use any pfp for normal forum purposes.
frantathefranta··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
I will tell on myself here but having an anime pfp evokes something childish for me and I do judge the user based on it. I expect to be judged similarly because I use the album art for a favorite album of mine as a pfp on the same platform and would consider it equally inappropriate if I were to share a heartfelt and serious message like this one.
frantathefranta··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
I don’t mind the internet being a weird place and enjoy the weirdness that exists in places like the NixOS community. I’m fully aware that the software I use has been built by extremely smart people who seem to like anime. It’s just that my line in the sand is that if you are trying to share a serious topic on the Discourse, the anime pfp seems to undercut the message.
frantathefranta··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
In my mind Nix is too strong of an idea and once this community finally self-immolates, someone else is going to pick it up (maybe Determinate) and it'll continue on.
frantathefranta··on Mario Meets Pareto
On the other hand, if you are a casual and want to dominate 99% races you enter at people's homes, pick Toadette (with Mr. Scooty). I don't think I've lost since 2019.
frantathefranta··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Ghostty has chosen to use that as the default and I feel like it's going to be the tipping point where people will assume $HOME/Library/Application Support is normal for CLI programs.
frantathefranta··on Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism
I think NIMBYism around the world is often "to keep out the poors", they don't have to be black. Slots in my theory that a lot of racism is just classism.
frantathefranta··on What's Under Your Feet in New York City?
Somebody posted on HN before about an eruv index, that’s how I found my city had one as well[0]. I assume they got sort of popular around Jewish neighborhoods.

[0]https://eruv-columbus.com/

frantathefranta··on Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means
Feeding stray cats and feeding birds are very different things, pretty much at odds with each other. If a stray cat is fed, birds have a more difficult time surviving.
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