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jompeon Cozy is a modern audiobook player for Linux

Do you know if there is any open API for that? Last time I checked the API for doing pretty much anything else than play a specific song/album/playlist wasn't there. Maybe the API for books are different?

jompeon Baldur's Gate 3 Announced, from the Creators of Divinity: Original Sin

I'm consistently amazed by the articles produced by the RPS team. Maybe they just fit my preference of writing style but I genuinely think they write some of the most interesting and engaging articles on the internet as of right now. Kudos!

jompeon Alan Kay and OO Programming

I'm a fresh graduate from uni so I'd say that I don't have that much experience. My last years working on the side of studies using Python really made me prefer strongly typed languages like Haskell, Rust, Elm etc. My experience is that the compiler almost always finds my small errors and would-be-bugs which Python exposes at runtime (crashes with e.g. None-type errors).

What would you say the benefits are with dynamic typing?

jompeon Touch-typing feels good but isn’t for me

I've got the Ergodox as well and like it in general but I think the thumb keys are a bit too far away from the rest of the keys. A very interesting project is Mitosis[1] which uses PCBs both for keeping the switches in place as well as connecting the swithces.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/66588f...

jompeon Switching to Firefox, Concerned with UBlock Origin Changes

Have you considered using DuckDuckGo or do you just prefer the results Google provides?

jompeon Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

> Remember that advertisers are Google's customers, not us

Exactly, we are the product they are selling

jompeon Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam

In my experience, I've accidentally heated lettuce when making some kind of salad which makes it really bitter. Because of that, I've thought of lettuce as only fresh food. Is that not the case then?

jompeon Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?

I've tried since I didn't want to accept their escape hatch when GDPR came and thus couldn't use their services anyway. Unfortunately they apparently drag out the deletion process so I haven't successfully deleted it as of yet.

It's actually worked out quite OK, I'm relying on a few friends updating me on what happens in some group chats right now but a lot of friends has already moved over to alternative chat platforms like Telegram, Signal, etc.

I haven't missed other parts of facebook like groups and events at all which is nice and I've never used IG or WhatsApp.