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gmemstr··on I use `exa` instead of `ls` on Linux
On the other hand, I've had `ls` aliased to `exa` for a while now, and there's been no downsides that I can see. It accepts roughly the same flags and has slightly nicer (or more cluttered, depending who you ask) output.
gmemstr··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Rewriting my storage application from Go to Rust, since it offers some better ergonomics for what I want it to do - Ideally I want to merge a bunch of different file and object storage providers together into one API/web interface: https://github.com/gmemstr/sliproad/tree/3.0-rust-rewrite

Also working on reading more books :)

gmemstr··on iPhone 7 with dead NAND netbooting unmodified Ubuntu 20.04 via USB ethernet
That doesn't really match up with the ethos of Apple or why people buy their products though, so it doesn't make any sense for Apple to allow or endorse this.
gmemstr··on Show HN: Lightspeed – subsecond, open source, self hosted stream from OBS
From my experience it largely depends on the stream - for some I can easily get <2 seconds, others will be >10s. I'm not sure what causes this difference (ingest server?).
gmemstr··on Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan
I haven't tried this myself, but you might be able to add the existing directory to Steam on the Linux side and Steam might be smart enough to download exactly what it needs, since all the assets are already present.
gmemstr··on Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
Hey, one of the people responsible for orbs (primarily writing and maintaining our first-party ones) - curious if you can elaborate on "infamous for stability issues". Obviously it's hard to argue against the lock in, but I am aware that GitHub Actions has a similar system.
gmemstr··on VM Computers
I feel the reddit post is much better at demonstrating the mod :) Might be nice if the post's URL was updated to the post rather than the curseforge page.
gmemstr··on Show HN: Textdb.dev – simple data sharing for fun projects
Is there an upper limit to the amount of data that can be stored on an endpoint?
gmemstr··on Running Linux on My MacBook
Also slightly off topic, but I'm glad to hear Linux support for Razer laptops are improving. I had an early Razer Blade Stealth (late 2016 12.5") and the Linux support was _terrible_, as demonstrated in this repository: https://github.com/rolandguelle/razer-blade-stealth-linux. It took a lot of work to get it stable.
gmemstr··on Show HN: Sliproad – Combine filesystems into one API
Hey all :) This is another one of my personal projects I'm sharing with the world in hope of improving it. This was primarily build to unify my Backblaze storage with my Raspberry Pi and external drives, but I'm hoping to implement more "providers" later down the line, e.g S3. The focus is mostly on the API, but the frontend works fairly well, especially for my own use. Very open to feedback!
gmemstr··on NPM: 429 Too Many Requests
Sure, it's an opinion, but I've been keeping an eye on this issue since very early on, and I have seen some mentions of workarounds. Best of luck finding them, however, as they're buried somewhere in the middle.
gmemstr··on NPM: 429 Too Many Requests
> if

It 100% is, unfortunately. I don't recall this happening in recent history, but it has been the case that 3rd party services have broken CI/CD pipelines and production pushes (e.g pip broke a few weeks ago, and their own pipeline for deploying changes was blocked by the bug).

gmemstr··on NPM: 429 Too Many Requests
This seems to be slowly clearing up.

Regardless, can we talk about the conduct in this GitHub thread? I know every community is different but is it common to have memes and jokes posted this quickly and often in a GitHub issue? It makes it really hard to follow and discourages genuinely useful discussion of workarounds or progress.

gmemstr··on Show HN: A CLI Minecraft modpack installer/builder
I've found that, in general, the tooling hasn't changed much _because_ of the acquisition (for the Java edition). It's mostly been down to the developers working on such tools maturing and producing better software, not to mention larger companies like Twitch/Curse producing their own stuff as well. I can't speak much for the Bedrock edition community (Windows 10/Console/Mobile versions) since it's a very different beast, but the Java side of things is still alive and well. I'm not sure if I can comment on the popularity of larger for profit servers, but from my casual observation they seem to have taken a slight hit in terms of player numbers.
gmemstr··on Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
From what I remember, the crowdsource app is exactly what is used for community sources.
gmemstr··on World's First Patented Unhackable Computer Ever
I find the website particularly amusing - it appears the "specs" are just copied from those of a Macbook https://microsafex.com/
gmemstr··on SwiftUI
I bet it's going to stay relatively the same, for now. React Native still works across iOS and Android, which is one of the key features. SwiftUI is iOS only.
gmemstr··on Show HN: Platypus 3.0 – Server monitoring with websockets
I was debating the best way to handle that - the front end is currently written in React (so I could get a taste for it) and I knew I couldn't just include the source files from that. I'm completely open to alternative way to handle this though.
gmemstr··on Show HN: Platypus 3.0 – Server monitoring with websockets
Hi HN, I've posted this project before but that was pre-rewrite to use Golang rather than relying on Python. The advantages are pretty clear, most importantly being compiled binaries to make deployment super easy. I was hesitant to post 3.0 since it's lacking in features compared to 2.0, but I've been using it personally for a couple weeks and a few close friends have been testing it as well. Always open to new suggestions, and the roadmap for the rewrite is in the README. :)
gmemstr··on Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12
Wasn't there a movie recently released along these lines?
gmemstr··on Why I Am Switching to Secure ProtonMail
On the other hand, I've been using my ProtonMail account for a little over a year and while my mailbox has gotten pretty out of hand I'm only using 87MB out of my 5GB (+500MB) storage limit. Your mileage may vary but I have all my emails funneling in :)
gmemstr··on Atom understands your code better than ever before
I can't speak for the other two but I know syntax highlighting works fine if you bring up the command line wihtin Sublime (CTRL+SHIFT+C iirc) and then type in the language you want to highlight for - it should give you an option to switch over. I use this all the time at work - Sublime is basically my notepad
gmemstr··on Basic features that will hopefully return to the MacBook Pro
For the first part, probably just take it to the Apple store or just "factory reset" it. I don't think the average apple user cares enough to completely reinstall iOS themselves. Same goes for non-iCloud backups - the average person probably doesn't care enough to do backups normally, much less plug it into their computer manually. I'm not saying you're wrong, but rather taking your complaint with a grain of salt. It's sad but the average apple user (from my experience) doesn't care.
gmemstr··on Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
Essentially, but the joy of working remote is being able to work whenever you happen to be, whether it be on the road (I thought I saw an article about this but I fail to remember the author) or in your home office
gmemstr··on Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network
PHP is fine, no software is bug free, especially when it accepts external input. Drupal, WordPress etc are huge so there's definitely a lot of chances for things to sneak in, but PHP itself can't be 100% to blame.
gmemstr··on Ask HN: Am I allowed to embed HN discussions on a site, like Disqus does?
I'd read through the Legal section at the bottom of the website (http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/).
gmemstr··on Show HN: Colorpage – Web app to choose background color for your webpage
This is neat, but I think you should tweak how the font colour is determined - it's incredibly hard to read sometimes when you have a hex like #ff6600 and the text is essentially pink. Maybe take a gander at the WCAG guidelines https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/. Otherwise, looks good.
gmemstr··on Show HN: Ensemble – Keep your PHP apps safe from compromised Composer packages
Definitely going to keep this bookmarked until Monday but I'm curious, how does it monitor for security threats? Do you manually add them to your own database or can the plugin monitor for them itself (I'm assuming the former but it doesn't hurt to ask).
gmemstr··on Show HN: Alzheimer password generator
I second this, and I don't really know if a memory-deficient password manager is a _good_ thing.

> Final password is cryptographically derived from web page URL address, salt and user provided secret passphrase. The salt should be stored physically, so you can recover it in the future.

I didn't really know, at first glance, what this project accomplishes besides generating a random password, although looking through some of the screenshots it looks like passwords are _always_ generated on-page instead of storing an encrypted vault. A super cool idea, but I'd be curious what everyday use of it would look like, and since I don't use Chrome I can't really test it myself.

gmemstr··on Ask HN: How old are you (optional) and what was the last thing that you learned?
18. I've been learning a lot about Drupal recently, and it's been really eye opening in terms of what PHP can actually do. I haven't taken a serious look at it in years and frankly writing tests in it has been really odd.
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