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prash_ant··on Toxicity in Open Source Discussions
I hope this method catches on.
prash_ant··on Jabber.org, the original XMPP IM service will migrate this weekend to Prosody IM
Wow.

What are they running currently / before this migration?

prash_ant··on Waze tests new alerts warning drivers about roads with a ‘history of crashes’
Would there be such a curated list available, to begin with, including value by year?
prash_ant··on GNU Health, the Libre digital health ecosystem
I thought this was always intended for a hospital. I never knew that have a personal health record as well. Thanks for sharing the link.

https://www.gnuhealth.org/docs/mygnuhealth/#the-health-track...

prash_ant··on Moving the Ctrl Key
Are you saying you moved it to the traditional left-Alt key?

That makes the key on the left of the spacebar as Ctrl and the key on the right of the spacebar as Alt. This is much better, in my opinion, than using the pinky on the Capslock.

prash_ant··on Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall
Yep, Discussions are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33277445

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33325026

prash_ant··on The slow death of the traditional business card
Yes, overkill. But it makes headlines.
prash_ant··on Ask HN: Who has ditched their phone and what is your replacement?
I am interested in knowing more about your fancy business landline phone.
prash_ant··on Math on GitHub: Following Up
The `$...$' and `$$...$$' delimiters are used in TeX. LaTeX uses the more superior delimiter as `\(...\)' and `\[...\]'.

All the MathJax and KaTeX related markdown for math should use the LaTeX delimiters and avoid the TeX delimiters.

For more info see https://docs.mathjax.org/en/v2.5-latest/tex.html#tex-and-lat...

prash_ant··on Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens
They may be bought by someone bigger and then shutdown to protect the existing wild gardens. There are many analogies. Astrid[0][1] and Wunderlist[2] come to my mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_(application)

[1] https://github.com/tasks/tasks

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderlist

prash_ant··on The case for unique email addresses (2020)
Yes, but the fraction of users using the +company part would be similar to the fraction of linux desktop users on the internet.

The way we don't see most software companies supporting linux desktop users simply because it is not profitable, we can hypothesize that the spammers won't spend time-energy-money on getting the +company filtered out.

prash_ant··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
We should appreciate the diversity of the 7,903,275,000 people in the world. Everyone single one of us has different opinions, ideas, abilities and interests.
prash_ant··on Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it?
Subscription to your regional or local newspaper will help you connect more with your community. We have so many wonderful regional newspapers. You can choose from your region.

  - Los Angeles Times
  - Chicago Tribune
  - The Boston Globe
  - San Francisco Chronicle
  - Miami Herald
  - Dallas Observer
  - Houston Chronicle
  - Denver Post
  - Star Tribune
prash_ant··on Plain Text Calendar
Emacs users, you have the built-in diary which also integrates with org-agenda. It's perfect for recurring events like birthdays, bills and also provides reminder.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fo...

prash_ant··on Poll: How are you doing currently?
Your timing matches with the winter "seasonal affective disorder", where you felt depressive at the peak of winter and became better in spring.
prash_ant··on Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still like to use today?
I can imagine the costs of supporting users and data sync over web, desktop apps, mobile apps on all platforms. Wunderlist had paid accounts which allowed more themes, but I remember most of the other features were on-par with free accounts.

Other list apps have become more of a todo list app. Wunderlist encouraged all kinds of lists. - movies to watch. - packing list for weekend trip. - shopping list. - yardsale items.

prash_ant··on Ask HN: Why XMPP failed and SMTP didn't?
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769
prash_ant··on Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
There have been reports earlier [1] that processing power of some GPUs is suppressed by software rather than the hardware capability itself. It is frequently easier to mass produce similar chips than to have different chips for different priced devices. I had come across comments in other online forums where the users alleged that some software flags restrict the capability. I hope someone else will link those webpages if they come across them

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-system-processo...

prash_ant··on I unwillingly stopped using Firefox
Did Firefox prevent you from login to your work account, or was your work web-software configured to work only on Chrome?
prash_ant··on I won an award from the FSF for my contributions to Emacs
Prot is one of those contributors who has made his contributions accessible in the form of videos, tutorials, blogs, and other documentation. As far as I know, he's not contributing to the Emacs internals and instead providing packages, he has given most of his code to be part of GNU. I came across his work on modus-themes and understood from his documentation that he's done a lot of research in making it compliant to accessibility standards of WCAG AAA. This theme is going to be bundled with the next stable release of Emacs 28 when it comes.

One can truly see his journey in contributing to free software, including philosophy, documented in his videos. Congratulations Prot.

prash_ant··on Ask HN: What laptop should I get for development?
If you want Photoshop then you either need Windows or macOS. I'm not sure if anything else (GNU/Linux) will work on it.
prash_ant··on What a $500k grant proposal looks like
This is impressive. Did others in the workshop have same experience as you of getting grant on first submission too? If so, the workshop can get credit, else you deserve the credit.
prash_ant··on Simple XMPP command line client
I understand you can encrypt the message with gpg2 and then send the message with the CLI (perl based) script sendxmpp [1].

[1] https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/sendxmpp