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Putting the following in my ~/.ssh/config fixed all ssh-related issues I had with kitty.

  Host *
    SetEnv TERM="xterm-256color"

remedanon StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta

StreetComplete asks about things other than street data as well. For example, I get queries about operating hours of businesses.

remedanon There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

I enjoy the this extension that redirects search results from Fandom and other such terrible hosts to their higher quality indie alternatives.

https://github.com/IndieWikiBuddy/indie-wiki-buddy

remedanon Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

Agent Shell connected via ACP to local Claude Code.

https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell

remedanon Chess.com regional pricing: A case study

> It is the goal of every business to maximise profits. As a business, it is your responsibility to price your products in a way that will yield the most profit.

This is how the article starts, and it might be somewhat off-topic, but I disagree. Plenty of businesses (at least privately held ones) have the goal of simply making enough for the owners to get by. Not to optimize for the absolute maximum. And why should they be responsible to do so?

remedanon Which NPM package has the largest version number?

I don't know if this is the origin, but the semver spec says 0.x.y is unstable. Sure, not everybody uses semver, but it is popular enough for people to make incorrect assumptions.

https://semver.org/#spec-item-4

remedanon Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)

Artifact flopped really hard.

remedanon Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver

This is off-topic, but I use the Firefox extension Foxy Gestures. When I draw a gesture on the featured website, a pop-up shows the gesture I'm drawing.

I have never seen that before. Is that some JS/CSS trickery? Or a bug in the extension?

remedanon Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby

Does that correlation hold if you look at let's say the top 20 popular languages?

remedanon GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

I'm pretty sure that to upload your code to GitHub, you have to agree to their terms of service, which potentially give them all sorts of rights to your code. This creates a special relationship between you and GitHub that is separate from the license you assign to your project.

remedanon Piracy

I think so, yeah. Although orpheus is also all right.

remedanon Piracy

Do yourself the favor of joining Red and download your music in flac or mp3 made from high-quality sources instead of YouTube. The interview is not hard to pass if you prepare for it.

remedanon Show HN: Void, an open-source Cursor/GitHub Copilot alternative

Isn't VSCodium built from the same source code as VSCode? Excluding a few proprietary things Microsoft puts into the official binaries.

remedanon Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

I really like the UI! I use Firefox with Sidebery and the top tab bar hidden via userChrome.css, which is kind of a hassle. Zen supports that kind of layout out of the box.

I'm very happy to see a new modern browser not based on Chromium. Will definitely test drive it to see if it's worth switching to.

remedanon National Park Service Will Cite AWD Drivers for Driving on 4WD-Only Trails

Are you implying there used to be honesty in marketing?

remedanon How old is your globe? [pdf]

A Czech here with a small correction. Countries often have a long and a short version of their name. For example "Federal Republic of Germany" aka "Germany".

We didn't change the name, rather we adopted "Czechia" as an official short variant, since we previously didn't have one. So both are correct.

Otherwise I agree with your point. This is just a bit of a pet peeve of mine.

remedanon For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

This was already tried with the Do Not Track header. Websites simply ignore it. They don't want an easy way to get the user's preference. Because they know that most users would set it to decline tracking. Sites would rather annoy every visitor for the chance that they click 'accept'.

remedanon RuneLite – open-source RuneScape Client

I installed this flatpak-packaged Jagex Launcher and RuneLite, and it works flawlessly on Linux. It does run in Wine, but the package takes care of setting that up.

https://github.com/USA-RedDragon/jagex-launcher-linux-flatpa...

It is seemingly somewhat officially sanctioned, as a help article links to a repo that links to the flatpak.

https://help.jagex.com/hc/en-gb/articles/13413514881937-Down...

https://github.com/TormStorm/jagex-launcher-linux

remedanon Don't name packages common nouns

That could be done base on metadata like description, tags or categories.

remedanon Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else

To me, a "modern multi-user paradigm" is Nix with Home Manager. Where most of my software is installed in my user's environment and not on the system level. Thus, if there were another user on the same machine, we could each manage our own software and updates without affecting the other.

remedanon Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

Video games already have to prove their suitability to receive an age rating.

remedanon Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy

Sure, but there are also single-player games on the list. You asked for a source that such a thing happens. The link proves that it does.

remedanon Bypassing Denuvo in Hogwarts Legacy

Here is a (probably not exhaustive) list:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_using_Always...

remedanon Apple Vision Pro review

Not gp but I have multiple friends who got the Quest just to play Beat Saber as a form of cardio exercise.

remedanon Brickception

To add another data point, it works for on me on Linux/Firefox/X. So the Wayland theory might be correct.

remedanon Apple's Scary Fast event could spell the end of its Lightning port

EU legislation previously mandated micro USB on phones. That didn't seem to kill innovation, we still got USB-C. The only thing it killed was every manufacturer using a different bad connector. I don't see any downsides.

remedanon OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access

ChatGPT seems to be able to parse images pretty well now. I wonder why they don't simply feed it a screencap of the rendered page instead of the html.

remedanon Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better

Have you tried the Multi-Account Containers? It sounds like they might work even better for your use case.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

remedanon Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off

I think the author of VLC has shared the fact that they keep receiving offers to buy the project for some significant sums of money. They refuse to sell on principle.

It is difficult to prevent enshittification when it requires people to refuse to get rich. Most aren't willing to stick to their principles in the face of that.

remedanon Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?

The hardware I have is:

  - 12th Gen Intel NUC with an i7-1260P, 64GB of RAM and 1TB NVMe drive
  - Synology DS920+ with three 10TB WD Red drives, NVMe cache and upgraded RAM
  - Mikrotik hAP ac3 router
  - APC Back-UPS BX 750VA UPS

I run Proxmox on the NUC and have a Kubernetes cluster in VMs. Any stateful services mount storage from the NAS via NFS. The UPS can keep all of this up for about 30 minutes. Data gets backed up to a Hetzner storage box via Synology Hyper Backup.

I monitor the power consumption with a smart plug and Home Assistant. It averages around 100W for everything above.

The stuff that I have running includes Gitea, Matrix, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Pi-hole, Home Assistant, and some small websites.

If you're interested, here's what it all looks like, running next to me as I type this in my kitchen/office: https://i.imgur.com/duOM2Bh.jpg