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loulouxiv··on Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro
I asked Claude and it told me it should be doable to port this project to Meta Quest 2/3. I plan to give this a try in the coming weeks
loulouxiv··on Exe.dev
As a test I used their Shelley coding agent to vibe-code a multiplayer Queen of spade game : https://extra-crimson.exe.xyz/
loulouxiv··on Lua 5.5
This cookie consent banner is handled in 0 clicks thanks to Consent-O-Matic Firefox extension
loulouxiv··on Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
What do you mean by "a custom GPT" ?
loulouxiv··on Show HN: One prompt generates an app with its own database
Tried to make it generate a multiplayer card game unfortunately it does not work : https://noble-bee-hmay7x.manyminiapps.com
loulouxiv··on Show HN: dn – full-text search and archiving for your Chromium-based browser
It looks like this works by making the browser use dn as a local proxy. That should also work with non-chromium based browser right ? I guess it will then be necessary to configure the proxy manually.
loulouxiv··on How the Totem Compass Works
The radio has a range of max 1km. If there are no other devices in range to extend your reach by mesh routing, you will quickly lose track of your pet... Maybe with a lower band radio and/or a Lora-like transmission technique these could have been made with a higher range but 1km seems ok for a festival setting
loulouxiv··on Show HN: KittyCal – minimalist PWA calendar app for couples
Oh you are right, thank you ! I don't know why I didn't found this out earlier... Still, it's a shame that this feature is only usable on the desktop web app that most users will never use
loulouxiv··on Show HN: KittyCal – minimalist PWA calendar app for couples
When I wanted to have a shared calendar with my spouse, at first I was very motivated to go full self-hosted and spent quite some time to investigate CalDAV, CardDAV, the server implementations (Wikipedia has a good feature matrix), the client implementations (of course there is no builtin way to synchronize an android phone with calDAV, even if the software managing Google calendar sync must be more or less the same...). In the end I managed to have it work on my phone with an a ad-hoc server, but was not really sure that would be the good solution for my problem since I would still have to host that on a publicly reachable place, with my own implementation of access control and to configure everything on both of our phones... In the end I figured that there must have been some way to share a calendar between Google accounts as I had used at work, and found out about the family group https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/6286986?sjid=31... and family calendar https://support.google.com/families/answer/7157782?hl=en&co=... Google features. Five minutes later we had a working synchronized calendar, even if I am still a bit sad to be dependent of Big G instead of relying on a open standard...
loulouxiv··on Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked
How did you measure inflammation level ?
loulouxiv··on Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)
Another useful thing, you can press Alt-# to the same effect as C-a # <Enter> (comment line and accept line to history)
loulouxiv··on Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)
C-x C-e opens an editor with the currently edited command
loulouxiv··on Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)
Did not know of this plugin but my life changed when I realized that pressing ALT+<key> registers as pressing Esc then pressing the key. Therefore in insert mode I just do ALT+I to go to start of line, ALT+A to go to end of line, ALT+o / ALT+O are also useful
loulouxiv··on Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative
Have you tried https://tmate.io/ ? It's a fork of tmux that, on startup, gives you web links and ssh connection strings to connect to the session. For each connection method you get one adress for read-only access and one for normal access.
loulouxiv··on Gemini Flash
How do you proceed to use it this way ? Did you have to write custom code to call the API with your codebase ? Can you give some example questions for which the LLM gave you useful insights and/or made you save time ?
loulouxiv··on Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
du -h|sort -h goes a really long way
loulouxiv··on John Carmack on Meta Horizon OS
It is working flawlessly on my current phone despite it having a aarch64 CPU, I guess that my OS must have some kind of multilib setup to keep compatibility with 32 bits apps. I am really anxious of not being able to continue capturing stereopanoramas whenever I will have to replace my trusty Huawei P30... Is there any way of knowing in advance if a given phone would be able to run Cardboard Camera ? I have built a collection of 200+ panoramas and really enjoy capturing some more when I am visiting new places. I got even more into this since I hacked myself some workflow to convert them and finally viewed them in all their glory in my Quest 2. The stereoscopic effect makes them really immersive ! I want to make the collection public when I will have taken the time to make a more practical/pretty listing page.
loulouxiv··on John Carmack on Meta Horizon OS
Since you say that you were working on VR at Google, did you work on Cardboard Camera or know someone that did ? Do you think there is any chance that the app woukd be open sourced some day ?
loulouxiv··on Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN
That is the hid mode parent is mentionning. With ykman you can configure the Yubikey to simulate being a USB keyboard (Human Interface Device) and then "type" a static password. The default setting is to type a Yubico specific OTP that can be checked by calling an API. The issue with the static password is that anybody getting near the yubikey with a device having a USB port can steal the password in seconds.
loulouxiv··on Mille Bornes
I used to play a lot of this with my grandmother and cousins when I was a child. Later I happened to work in the factory mentionned in the article, which was at the time rented as warehouse and office for an E-commerce company. There was a huge Dujardin logo painted on the outer wall, which was preserved when they repainted the building [0]

[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/2HMq4m4qkCH6FtYa6

loulouxiv··on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
I had a similar problem with the Tecurs KB510 I got at work. The only way I found to type F1-F12 keys on Linux was to set up a hack with kbct [0] and the Super key... until I tried the configuration described in the gist you linked. Thanks a lot for that !

[0] https://github.com/samvel1024/kbct

loulouxiv··on Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage
I am trying to find the link, but for the moment I only find comment making, I think, references to it :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495546

Does anybody here remember enough keywords to find it out ?

Edit: I guess it was this Twitter thread https://mobile.twitter.com/johnath/status/111687123179245568...

Edit 2: The associated HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19662852

loulouxiv··on Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox outage
Putting in place an infrastructure to test this kind on changes on the 5-10 most popular browser would be, I think, very cheap for a company like Google. I can't help thinking these may be deliberate moves to eat the little market shares of Chrome concurrents. I remember reading here on HN an article written by an ex-Mozilla insider relating the dissonance between the "friendly" Mozilla-Google employees exchanges and the year-long track record of very oddly recurrent "unfortunate mistakes" from Google degrading the Firefox compatibility.
loulouxiv··on Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (2017)
This was the only free service I think. More streamlined than pagesjaunes.fr for a long time
loulouxiv··on In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
UTF-16 can represent the full range of Unicode codepoints by using couples of surrogates
loulouxiv··on Clever uses of pass, the Unix password manager
I had to do it when importing keys on another device
loulouxiv··on Show HN: WebFrame: F# framework for rapid prototyping with ASP.NET Core
Frankly if you go with the most popular extensions: Flask-SQLAlchemy, Flask-Login and Flask-Admin you will have more or less all the features of Django with a nicer API, better documentation and more flexibility
loulouxiv··on Oculess – Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices
The rumors say that it will launch with Half-Life 3 pre-installed
loulouxiv··on Magpie Driven Development (MDD)
The technology most suited to improve one's resume will be the one most in demand on the job market, and therefore also the most difficult skill to hire for...
loulouxiv··on Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone
It seems that termux is packaging rust now,

pkg install rust

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