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lytedev

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lytedev··on Buying a TV in 2025? Expect lower prices, more ads, and an OS war
Not an Apple TV, but I've had a similar experience with a cheap mini PC velcro'd to the back of my TV. A lot cheaper ($30), less plug'n'play, more software options. Pretty fantastic way to go!
lytedev··on Ask HN: What open source projects need help?
Some open source projects don't necessarily want help. I don't think adding a help-wanted tag qualifies for begging as much as letting you know that contributors are actually welcome if you're interested.
lytedev··on Ask HN: What open source projects need help?
While I don't have any free time to contribute, I do like hearing about cool stuff out there that people care about and I pass the world along! Word of mouth and fun is at least "anything"!
lytedev··on Red Hat to contribute container tech (Podman, bootc, ComposeFS...) to CNCF
I've been using podman-compose, yes.
lytedev··on How I ship projects at big tech companies
It's more work, NDAs, and probably not particularly relevant to the article. Why list some of them?
lytedev··on Meta Movie Gen
This comes up a lot. Because synthesis is so generally feasible plus the existence of very powerful editing tools for things like movies and whatnot, I'm guessing that it will simply become the norm to assume that any image, sound, movie, or whatever may be fake. I expect there won't be a way to verify something was synthesised or "real-synthesized" (since images and videos are ultimately synthesized themselves, just from reality instead of other synthesized content). Even with signing and web of trust we can only verify who is publishing something, but not the method of synthesis.
lytedev··on Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
val.town or something similar may be an option?
lytedev··on Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website
Statistically, Tom is using a browser that cost him $0. Why are you asking?
lytedev··on Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit
How would that work?
lytedev··on Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)
I use it for proxying general internet traffic (such as from your web browser) using the SOCKS5 proxy described in the article. Combined with FoxyProxy or similar it's nice if you want certain traffic (such as to a certain domain which only allows certain IP blocks) to flow from a certain host based on things like the domain.
lytedev··on Visual guide to SSH tunneling and port forwarding (2023)
B could port forward (as in route packets?) to C, but I don't think there are any HTTP Permanent Redirect equivalents, no.

Maybe you can explain the problem more and perhaps there's a more suitable solution?

If you have a host that's somewhat embedded, you can have DNS handle the "routing" for you. You will have to handle fingerprint verification.

lytedev··on Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting
+1 for NixOS. Amazing for self-hosting and everything-management.

Getting into it has a learning curve, but it's honestly so much easier in a lot of ways, too.

lytedev··on SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99
Has there been any progress with using browsers' support for QUIC for latency-sensitive game networking?
lytedev··on Okay, I Like WezTerm
What are you excited about concerning Ghostty? I revisit the project every once in a while, because I think Zig has a wonderful and bright future, but I don't think I could ever use a terminal emulator that isn't completely open-source. WezTerm has an _enormous_ leg up over Ghostty in this regard IMO.
lytedev··on Superconducting Microprocessors? Turns Out They're Ultra-Efficient (2021)
Pardon my ignorance, but would this then be a semisuperconductor or a supersemiconductor?
lytedev··on Show HN: A source-available billing system I've spent 18 months building
Of course some people do! Programmers mostly, I would expect, since they can possibly patch or audit code which may be a requirement.

Personally, I would never reach for a tool or component or any piece of software if I have to run or operate it unless I can change the code.

Now, "source available" has another implication, however...

lytedev··on The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?
You seem security-wise, so surely you can understand that in some (many?) cases, antivirus is totally acceptable given the threat model. If you are wanting to keep the script kiddies from metasploiting your ordinary finance employees, it's certainly worth the tradeoff for some organizations, no? It's but one tool with its tradeoffs like any tool.
lytedev··on A Motherfucking Website
The main thing I like about the Internet is the exchange of information. Many sites make this awfully difficult or insane (download tens of megabytes to read a few dozen bytes).

There is absolutely the side of the internet you're talking about, regarding making things pretty, but it's secondary in my opinion.

lytedev··on Zed on Linux Is Here
It's the main reason I switched from Neovim. I didn't want to maintain a thousand lines of Lua of stuff to have a good baseline editor. I only wanted to maintain my configuration idiosyncracies on top of an editor with good defaults. I think there are Neovim distributions that accomplish mostly the same thing, but then I fell in love with Helix's Kakoune-inspired differences.

Give it a try! It's lovely.

lytedev··on Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive: A laptop webcam with smartphone technology
I ordered their new display and am very excited about it! 2x scaling and 120Hz are going to be awesome.
lytedev··on Elixir Anti-Patterns
I like your take here quite a bit. Thank you for sharing!
lytedev··on Elixir Anti-Patterns
I felt the same way at first coming mostly from JS. I think it's different enough that you need it to become familiar before it feels as comfortable.

That said, I don't think it's as easy to read as Python, but the perceived verbosity and reading difficulty definitely goes down with familiarity.

lytedev··on Igloo, Inc.
I'm assuming this was posted because the site is essentially a very cool demoscene-esque site.

I liked it a lot. Very impressive!

lytedev··on Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work
The icons look Android-y to me. I'm betting on Android.
lytedev··on Special-use domain 'home.arpa.' (2018)
Per GP, this will be VERY difficult to explain to houseguests.
lytedev··on The new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processor
Hidden in this announcement is the new display: 2880x1920, 120Hz, VRR, 500 nits https://frame.work/products/display-kit?v=FRANJF0001

I'll see if I can find a separate link for that. Definitely upgrading my Framework 13 Ryzen 7640U with this new display.

Feeling really excited that I paid a little premium for upgrade-ability right now!

lytedev··on Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash
I'm guessing because Bash is "more everywhere" than Python.
lytedev··on New UUID formats have been approved
> Basically useless

And yet, implemented across an incredible number of systems! Is it cargo culting? Was it "good enough"? Why do you think these "basically useless" mechanisms are/were so widely adopted and used?

lytedev··on Kate editor on all platforms
Agreed! I recently switched from a very custom Linux setup with a tiling window manager and all kinds of bells and whistles. The Plasma 6 release in combination with running NixOS which makes trying things out both easily and safely convinced me to give it a shot and I simply haven't left. It took some setup, of course, but Plasma is wonderfully configurable and has everything I wanted available with some tweaking.

Whereas GNOME and others required extensions, which are often out of date or somewhat sketchy -- before I could set things up how I like.

Big fan so far.

lytedev··on Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
#ThatDropboxComment ;)
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