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mdwalters

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Hey, I'm Max! I code stuff that goes into the trash burner when I'm finished coding it, but I code anyway.

https://fursona.directory/@mdwalters

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mdwalters··on Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (February 2024)
sorry for the confusion, i'll be sure to fix it for next month
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on?
I've tried out this game, and so far, I'd say that it's pretty well made. I would definitely try contributing to this in my spare time.
mdwalters··on Ask HN: What are you planning to work on in 2024?
I've been looking into alot of discontinued Linux apps recently, and I stumbled upon GNOME Empathy, an app that connects to multiple chat platforms at once. I'm thinking of forking it, or making one from scratch.
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Why Is HN Having Trouble Servicing Us More Often Recently?
> [...] the YC data center [...]

sctb (previous HN co-moderator) mentioned a few years ago that hosting is provided by "M5 Hosting."[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041

mdwalters··on Martin Goetz has died
https://archive.ph/3GZef
mdwalters··on Tell HN: Photopea refuses to create or open files if you have an ad blocker
Clickable links: https://i.imgur.com/NAxZQKf.png
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Who is developing a programming language that compiles to C?
My friend is making a programming language called ACPL[1] that used to be written in Python, and outputs Python code, but now, he's working on a C implementation called CACPL, which is written in C and outputs C code.

[1]: https://github.com/rjmsg/ACPL

mdwalters··on Why is Debian the way it is?
> if a system component like Gnome is crashing, there will be neither log records or crash dumps and you will never figure out why it crashed

On Fedora you can use ABRT (AKA Problem Reporting) to view logs and tracebacks of a component that has crashed, and report the problem via Bugzilla. Also, GNOME isn't a system component, Fedora would still work without it, but it would use a TTY terminal instead.

mdwalters··on ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data
Not OP, but the only phone with hardware kill switches that I know of is the Librem 5.
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Were there any Reddit instances before it got closed-sourced?
No, I mean Reddit instances, not third-party Reddit clones, e.g. Lemmy.
mdwalters··on ASCII protocol buffers as config files
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782010.
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Succession Planning in Libre/FOSS
For Linus, I suggest looking for some forum posts for "what if Linus gets hit by a bus?" questions. And for RMS, he states on his website[1] that working on GNU would be his long-term committment.

[1]: https://stallman.org/

mdwalters··on ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
Remember, GNU is a collection of packages. ChromeOS still has GNU utilities built in, therefore, it is still running on GNU/Linux. Now, if Google made a GNU replacement, then the ChromiumOS kernel would have been named Chromium/Linux, or Chrome/Linux.
mdwalters··on Humans got to America 7k years earlier than thought, new research confirms
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782287.
mdwalters··on Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
chezmoi actually uses git to manage the dotfiles, see https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/setup/#use-a-hosted-repo-t....
mdwalters··on ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
Not exactly. There are some ways to install GNU/Linux distros on Chromebooks, the Eupnea project's Depthboot script[1], for example, lets users build/run a distro by extracting the rootfs from an ISO file, and apply Chromebook-specific patches, like using ChromeOS' kernel, using keyd to make patches to support the Chromebook keyboard's action keys, and much others.

(Disclaimer: I'm the current maintainer of the Eupnea project.)

[1]: https://github.com/eupnea-linux-backup/depthboot-builder

mdwalters··on ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
Which brand, though? I have a feeling it's one of those first-party Google Chromebooks...
mdwalters··on ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment
You can do Search/Launcher + [action key here], for example Search/Launcher + ← triggers F1. There is also a setting on ChromeOS that makes the action keys into function keys.
mdwalters··on Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
I just started using chezmoi, a cross-platform dotfiles manager. Would highly reccommend chezmoi if you're looking for a reliable dotfile manager.
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Delayed open source licensing / “eventually open” examples?
2 months ago (August 2023), on a "What are you working on" thread, I stated that I was making a extensible text editor on the web. I said on the comment that my laptop was undergoing repairs, and it would be open-sourced by the end of August. The repair took much longer than expected, and had to push the deadline to the end of October 2023, as a result of me forgetting about the project.
mdwalters··on Is 1.1.1.1 resolver having issues?
Works for me... Maybe it just got resolved?
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (October 2023)
Thanks. I learned so much while volunteering on projects, so why not help others find volunteer projects while I'm at it?
mdwalters··on Editing Stuff in Prod
(2022)
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Could a Wii be a good headless server?
What do you mean by "in blade form?"
mdwalters··on Ask HN: Could a Wii be a good headless server?
No, I'm actually serious about this. Many projects like Wii-Linux exist and it would be great to take advantage of that to repurpose a Wii into a headless server.
mdwalters··on A NICER approach to genome editing with less mutations than CRISPR (2023)
You don't need the year tag when the article is recent.
mdwalters··on Google Shutting Down Jamboard
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37694154 (this one has a first-hand source).
mdwalters··on Tell HN: Please don't print –-help to stderr in your CLI tools
I don't see why a developer would do this, nothing failed, so why print to stderr on `--help`? I've printed help contents with an additional `one or more arguments expected` line to stderr in my code, but I wouldn't think someone would take it this far.
mdwalters··on Show HN: yget – get top stories on HN without a browser
This is great! You should expand this to be a full-fledged HN reader.
mdwalters··on Apple exec defends Google as default on Apple Devices
Sorry for the title change, HN said it was too long, original was "Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs."
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