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tux··on The kids are not okay
I'm sure daily disaster/apocalyptic news don't help.
tux··on How to build a super-slim smart mirror
Just a few days ago, I thought to myself... "We are in 2023 but still no smart mirrors" like in "The 6th Day" Arnold Schwarzenegger film. ^_^ Very cool project.
tux··on ChatGPT launches boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon
Just did a quick search on Amazon.

"Written by Artificial Intelligence" 2,000 results.

tux··on The internet wants to be fragmented
There are many online radio stations without ads, and you can already wall off advertising with something like PiHole or extensions like uBlockO. I never hear or see ads anymore :)
tux··on An M1 for Curl
Yeah no such luck here ^_^ [1] But I like doing my projects so much that this is not discouraging me to continue. But it does motivate me more when I get donations.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34084960

tux··on An M1 for Curl
I actually have different experience, I spend all my time on projects but see very few donations :) But thank you to all who donate to open source and other projects.
tux··on Ask HN:Hey HN what are your favourite RSS feeds?
I think its time for internet to use JSON feed instead of XML (https://www.jsonfeed.org/) We use JSON for APIs why not feeds :-) But the best feeds are https://news.ycombinator.com/rss also take a look at https://hnrss.github.io/ hnrss supports json feeds, exp: https://hnrss.org/newest.jsonfeed?q=Christmas
tux··on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
Not sure how accurate this is, but you can take a look on wikipedia. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

tux··on X11 Conservancy Project
Because not everyone can afford and/or use latest and greatest hardware, Xserver and X software in general will never go away. Even when Wayland is mainstream. There will always be a need for older software. This is my prediction for the future. Just wait and see ^_^
tux··on X11 Conservancy Project
Thank you, I discovered few new tools with this website :)
tux··on X11 Conservancy Project
You can also try feh (https://feh.finalrewind.org/) feh is an X11 image viewer aimed mostly at console users. And sxiv (https://github.com/muennich/sxiv) Simple X Image Viewer (but this one was archived on github since Nov. 9th, 2022) and now replaced with nsxiv (https://github.com/nsxiv/nsxiv) Neo (or New or Not) Simple (or Small or Suckless) X Image Viewer.
tux··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?
- With help from allies Ukraine wins war against Russia.

- Crypto currency price crash, it will cost dirt cheap.

- Price of all electronics (computers,hardware) will cost cheaper.

- New advancement in techology and software like we never seen before.

tux··on Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell
Actually by using something like GPT3 you are kind of doing copy-and-paste in a way, because you are given pre-defined set of commands without ability to modify its arguments. It looks to me like typing in terminal at random and hoping for the best results. This is especially bad for newbies, because they won't know how this commands work and what all this arguments mean. This is my two cents anyway.
tux··on Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell
I for one agree with pleb_nz, its kind of like replacing CLI with GUI. Thank you, but no thanks! To me writing custom bash script or "kill -9 $(lsof -t /dev/nvidia0)" is much better than typing "do kill the process which is locking up my GPU". Plus what if you want ot pass additional arguments to kill or lsof? Once you master CLI you'll never go back, at least that true for me. I'm actually tyring to replace more software that I use with CLI not go back to GUI. I'm even considering making terminal based websites of my projects as an option. So everyone can access them with lynx and similar.
tux··on A year of building for the terminal
First time I heard about Rich and Textual. Very impressive work, will definantly use it for something. Thank you to all involved.
tux··on Philadelphia Phreakers installing free payphone
Actually 2600 is still alive and well, they sell 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly @ Amazon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly
tux··on Philadelphia Phreakers installing free payphone
One of the best projects I've seen in years. This project should receive some sort of grant or at least award from Philadelphia. This brought back good memories :) EDIT: Hack The Planet and maybe @giantg2 for downvotes! ^_^
tux··on XFCE 4.18
I've used XFCE (since Mar 9th, 2008 until Apr 7th, 2021) now using "i3-wm v4.21" as my main window manager on all computers. But I still use a lot of XFCE software like Thunar been most notable. Thunar has received much needed love, thank you to all developers making it better. Thunar now has "Split View" (dual pane mode) this is one of the reasons why I used more "PCManFM" or "ranger", but unlike Thunar "PCManFM" never had an option to hide "menu" in GTK only in QT. And now Thunar's menu/toolbar is more customizable. File Highlight is a nice addition, I've been using custom "LS_COLORS" for terminal for a while now. Now all the Thunar needs is embeded file info dialog similar to side pane and maybe ability to have toolbar vertical (on left or right) ;-)

EDIT: One of the best choices XFCE team made is to not use/enable CSD [1] by default. This would of killed XFCE project for those of us who love classic XFCE look. Please never force users to use CSD, make it an option(al). Thank you!

[1] Window Header Bars - All header bars of Xfce Windows/Dialogs by default will be drawn by the window manager now (Xfwm4). Some dialogs optionally support 'GtkHeaderBar' (CSD) which can be enabled via a xfconf setting.

tux··on Lastpass Security Incident
Never using online password manager is a good start. Only use encrypted local password manager preferably on encrypted file system and never use same passwords and emails. Best have seperate emails at least for the most important data. Also generating random 50+ alpha-numeric-symbols.
tux··on Show HN: A new way to do footnotes
WOW I didn't even know markdown has footnotes will definantly come in handy for one of my projects. Thank you!
tux··on Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
Thanks HN for been a gateway to the internet! This is the best social news site online! Thank you to all writers and readers! Happy thanksgiving to all!
tux··on “You don't have a voltmeter. Do you have a potato?”
Sometimes low-tech works best can litterly save your life. This kind of reminds me how you can start a fire with a watter bottle [1].

Good job MTA @ diy.stackexchange.com for recommening this and jasonhansel @ HN for posting it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwQJ-3pZfwc

tux··on Ask HN: Anyone else struggling to get a software dev job?
>> You're trying too hard to rationalize away personal problems and your inability and/or unwillingness to address them.

Stop your anonymouse trolling on HN and seek some professional mental health you really need it.

tux··on Spy agency uses 'computer network exploitation' to take digital information
Nothing specific, just the way its written made me think about this.
tux··on Invisible Computers
Technical Specifications are incomplete. Need more info, CPU/MEM/SSD/HDD
tux··on Spy agency uses 'computer network exploitation' to take digital information
Why does this sound a lot like a hardware backdoor like in motherboard or CPU...
tux··on Your Next Smart Home Device is a $30 Used Kindle
First time I heard about BackMarket thank you.
tux··on Mass of transactions leaving crypto.com wallets
I agree, I think crypto won't survive for too much longer. Just by looking at BTC price for the last six months it dropped -14,201.80 (47.23%)[1] and just in one day -434.70 (2.67%). I'll take about six more months to one year but BTC will cost below 5k soon :) This is my prediction.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=btc+price

tux··on Louisiana man tells joke online, gets arrested by swat
Any country that is not "Five Eyes"[1] and similar will do. But the list is short and getting shorter by the day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

tux··on W00w00 Interview with Mindw0rk (2003)
Yes this was translated using Google Translate.
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