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lobste_rs @adi @jlj I definitely need to give this a try. I've always found tmux a little clunky. Have you gentlemen seen twin?
lobste_rs @adi @jlj I definitely need to give this a try. I've always found tmux a little clunky. Have you gentlemen seen twin?
@prologic You are definitely not the only one. Here's someone who "sold" a git commit for $127, because that isn't completely ridiculous.
@prologic You are definitely not the only one. Here's someone who "sold" a git commit for $127, because that isn't completely ridiculous.
@prologic @slashdot As far as I can tell it's like buying art, but with a blockchain, non-free JavaScript, lower quality art, and you don't really get to own it.
@prologic @slashdot As far as I can tell it's like buying art, but with a blockchain, non-free JavaScript, lower quality art, and you don't really get to own it.
No need to apologize, I was just curious. Thank you very much for looking into it. I know you're a busy guy.
No need to apologize, I was just curious. Thank you very much for looking into it. I know you're a busy guy.
I followed several feeds about a half an hour ago, and they all appeared in my following list as they should. I've had to re-follow my feed on mckinley.cc at least one time in the past, but I haven't consciously noticed other users missing before today.
I followed several feeds about a half an hour ago, and they all appeared in my following list as they should. I've had to re-follow my feed on mckinley.cc at least one time in the past, but I haven't consciously noticed other users missing before today.
Hey @prologic, I think feeds are being removed from my following list. I've certainly followed more than seven people, because I click "follow" on almost everyone involved in conversations here. Users I am very sure that I have followed here include @xjix and my main feed on mckinley.cc which I just followed for the third time. I am fairly sure I've followed @lazarus and @jlj as well.
@prologic For most iPods, a Rockbox install is just a couple of clicks on their installer program. It doesn't actually wipe the stock OS, though. You can still boot into iPod OS by turning on the hold switch when booting. iPods were much, much more open back then.
@prologic For most iPods, a Rockbox install is just a couple of clicks on their installer program. It doesn't actually wipe the stock OS, though. You can still boot into iPod OS by turning on the hold switch when booting. iPods were much, much more open back then.
@movq @lyse iPod classics hold up as great portable music players nowadays. You can run a free OS on them, and storage can go up to 2TB if you have the right model iPod, 4 512GB MicroSD cards, and an iFlash Quad. I use a 5th gen iPod running Rockbox every day.
@movq @lyse iPod classics hold up as great portable music players nowadays. You can run a free OS on them, and storage can go up to 2TB if you have the right model iPod, 4 512GB MicroSD cards, and an iFlash Quad. I use a 5th gen iPod running Rockbox every day.
Behold, the smart watch of champions:
Casio CA53W
Behold, the smart watch of champions:\nCasio CA53W
Could it be your browser's autofill? On my settings page, the 'change email' box has no content.
Could it be your browser's autofill? On my settings page, the 'change email' box has no content.
@jlj I'm excited to see it, man.
@jlj I'm excited to see it, man.
@prologic\n
XKCD: Ten Thousand\nAdmittedly, those websites aren't something *everyone* knows, but I am surprised you haven't seen them yet.
@prologic
XKCD: Ten Thousand
Admittedly, those websites aren't something *everyone* knows, but I am surprised you haven't seen them yet.
@xjix Yes, that's an excellent way of putting it. :)
@xjix Yes, that's an excellent way of putting it. :)
@darch I couldn't get around to it, I'm sorry.
@darch I couldn't get around to it, I'm sorry.
@prologic 
Linus Torvalds flipping off Nvidia
This was almost nine years ago
@prologic Linus Torvalds flipping off Nvidia\n\nThis was almost nine years ago
If they don't plan on doing a bunch of invasive garbage to stop people from doing what they want with the computer part they own, then the whole thing looks like a tremendous blunder. The only problem is, while Nvidia's executives do have a certain deficiency of IQ points, I doubt this is the end. They will start adding invasive garbage, and we can expect the experience of GNU/Linux users with Nvidia cards to diminish even further as a result. I predict we'll be seeing mod chips for graphics cards within two generations if they keep this up.
If they don't plan on doing a bunch of invasive garbage to stop people from doing what they want with the computer part they own, then the whole thing looks like a tremendous blunder. The only problem is, while Nvidia's executives do have a certain deficiency of IQ points, I doubt this is the end. They will start adding invasive garbage, and we can expect the experience of GNU/Linux users with Nvidia cards to diminish even further as a result. I predict we'll be seeing mod chips for graphics cards within two generations if they keep this up.
@xjix If I read your meaning correctly, I'll have to say no. A web of trust is much more concrete, based on a single standard that changes, if at all, very mildly. 'Proof of Woke' is a standard that frequently makes wild shifts, which is why high-profile nodes are dropped from the swarm so frequently.
@xjix If I read your meaning correctly, I'll have to say no. A web of trust is much more concrete, based on a single standard that changes, if at all, very mildly. 'Proof of Woke' is a standard that frequently makes wild shifts, which is why high-profile nodes are dropped from the swarm so frequently.
@eldersnake @prologic I'm really tired of Amazon's shenanigans surrounding books. All we can hope for is that enough frogs in the hot water reach the same conclusion.
@eldersnake @prologic I'm really tired of Amazon's shenanigans surrounding books. All we can hope for is that enough frogs in the hot water reach the same conclusion.
@adi Thanks. Blank line under the quote, noted.
@adi Thanks. Blank line under the quote, noted.
@darch I'm sorry, I hope you didn't take offense to my reply. It wasn't a great choice of words. I didn't mean to imply anything, I just wanted to offer some help.
@darch I'm sorry, I hope you didn't take offense to my reply. It wasn't a great choice of words. I didn't mean to imply anything, I just wanted to offer some help.
@adi @mckinley Please excuse me, I don't know how formatting works on this thing. Second line of the quote is supposed to be my response.
@adi @mckinley Please excuse me, I don't know how formatting works on this thing. Second line of the quote is supposed to be my response.
@adi I really appreciate your help but as I said in my blog post, I just need to make my own generator in a real programming language if I want it to be exactly right for my website. \n> Depends on what you understand by "mess" and "complicated"\nIt's 55 lines long and I'm having trouble understanding it as I read through it, less than a week after it was written.
@adi I really appreciate your help but as I said in my blog post, I just need to make my own generator in a real programming language if I want it to be exactly right for my website.
> Depends on what you understand by "mess" and "complicated"
It's 55 lines long and I'm having trouble understanding it as I read through it, less than a week after it was written.
@adi As for seding files, that's what I'm already doing. At the moment, I just can't benefit from pp inside my content documents because I'm escaping everything. I agree it's not impossible, I'm sure I could make sed skip sections for pp, but the end result would be even more of a complicated mess of a shell script than the one I have now. I really don't want to deal with something like that when it's not that much of a chore, in the grand scheme of things, to maintain it manually.
@adi As for seding files, that's what I'm already doing. At the moment, I just can't benefit from pp inside my content documents because I'm escaping everything. I agree it's not impossible, I'm sure I could make sed skip sections for pp, but the end result would be even more of a complicated mess of a shell script than the one I have now. I really don't want to deal with something like that when it's not that much of a chore, in the grand scheme of things, to maintain it manually.
@adi Huh, I tried going back to stock mkws while I was working on my own script, and it wouldn't generate pages in other directories. I didn't really poke through it and figure out why. Do you have to add the new directories manually in the script?
@adi Huh, I tried going back to stock mkws while I was working on my own script, and it wouldn't generate pages in other directories. I didn't really poke through it and figure out why. Do you have to add the new directories manually in the script?
@darch If I have some time today, I can recreate your mock-ups in HTML and CSS. It always helps to scroll through it in the browser, see what it would really look like.
@darch If I have some time today, I can recreate your mock-ups in HTML and CSS. It always helps to scroll through it in the browser, see what it would really look like.
@adi If all the documents were in the root directory and I could get used to not using quotes, mkws would most certainly be my pick.
@adi If all the documents were in the root directory and I could get used to not using quotes, mkws would most certainly be my pick.
@darch Great job, and I like the look of the sidebar. It makes the whole thing look delightfully retro, and doesn't cost that much space on the side. I agree that it shouldn't be fixed while scrolling, though.
@darch Great job, and I like the look of the sidebar. It makes the whole thing look delightfully retro, and doesn't cost that much space on the side. I agree that it shouldn't be fixed while scrolling, though.
@adi No, I like its normal styling a lot. I just did this for fun, and thought you gentlemen might enjoy it. Maybe I'll make Lobsters look like HN at some point. That would probably be a lot easier, I won't have to work in the confines of tables.
@adi No, I like its normal styling a lot. I just did this for fun, and thought you gentlemen might enjoy it. Maybe I'll make Lobsters look like HN at some point. That would probably be a lot easier, I won't have to work in the confines of tables.
@adi (#k3qmxgq) Very minimal progress has been made since my last twt about it. After working for hours and making glacial progress, I couldn't get titles to work, got frustrated, and left to go do something else. Haven't worked on it since that day. Now that I think of it, I couldn't take advantage of pp in the content of documents anyway because I'm escaping everything.
@adi (#k3qmxgq) Very minimal progress has been made since my last twt about it. After working for hours and making glacial progress, I couldn't get titles to work, got frustrated, and left to go do something else. Haven't worked on it since that day. Now that I think of it, I couldn't take advantage of pp in the content of documents anyway because I'm escaping everything.
@adi It's HN, but made to look like lobste.rs. It's not a slightly off mock-up made in GIMP, I spent much more time than I care to admit writing very messy, very hacky CSS.
@adi It's HN, but made to look like lobste.rs. It's not a slightly off mock-up made in GIMP, I spent much more time than I care to admit writing very messy, very hacky CSS.
@prologic Yeah, I don't know what to set it to. I don't know if I should go with the synthwave bagel I usually use, or something else.
@prologic Yeah, I don't know what to set it to. I don't know if I should go with the synthwave bagel I usually use, or something else.
The suspense is killing me, was it successful?
The suspense is killing me, was it successful?
@adi Void and OpenBSD are pretty hardcore, as operating systems go. I'm surprised you can tolerate Windows.
@adi Void and OpenBSD are pretty hardcore, as operating systems go. I'm surprised you can tolerate Windows.
@adi I'm trying it again with a clear head, and I'm making a little headway.
@adi I'm trying it again with a clear head, and I'm making a little headway.
@adi Thank you, I appreciate it. If I remember correctly, the printf program can escape a string for shell input, but I had difficulty making it work elegantly with the contents of a multi-line file.
@adi Thank you, I appreciate it. If I remember correctly, the printf program can escape a string for shell input, but I had difficulty making it work elegantly with the contents of a multi-line file.
@adi I believe so, and I can't for the life of me remember what problem I ran into.
@adi I believe so, and I can't for the life of me remember what problem I ran into.
@adi Double quotes and ampersands with a backslash for sh, probably other characters it uses to do special functions as well. I just can't get used to omitting quotes or using single quotes in HTML tags.
@adi Double quotes and ampersands with a backslash for sh, probably other characters it uses to do special functions as well. I just can't get used to omitting quotes or using single quotes in HTML tags.
Mkws is great the way it is, and pp is genius. The only reason why I don't use it for my own site is because I can't figure out how to escape the required characters in an elegant way before files are sent to pp. The best parts of mkws are the simplicity and the ability to tweak the script for your use case. Putting everything in one binary or adding a bunch of extra features like a web server would add unnecessary complication.
Mkws is great the way it is, and pp is genius. The only reason why I don't use it for my own site is because I can't figure out how to escape the required characters in an elegant way before files are sent to pp. The best parts of mkws are the simplicity and the ability to tweak the script for your use case. Putting everything in one binary or adding a bunch of extra features like a web server would add unnecessary complication.
@prologic I really like that. Email can't be known until it's needed.
@prologic I really like that. Email can't be known until it's needed.
@prologic Thanks for clarifying. Either way, it's a very reasonable privacy policy. I was just wondering about the details. If you don't store the email addresses, is it just a hash that's stored? Check against it for recovery, send an email if it passes?
@prologic Thanks for clarifying. Either way, it's a very reasonable privacy policy. I was just wondering about the details. If you don't store the email addresses, is it just a hash that's stored? Check against it for recovery, send an email if it passes?
@prologic Thank you. I rarely use my phone for things other than calls or text messages, but I'll give the app a try if I need to post from my phone.
@prologic Thank you. I rarely use my phone for things other than calls or text messages, but I'll give the app a try if I need to post from my phone.
Hello, @mckinley here. I hope it isn't confusing for me to maintain two feeds. I made this feed to more easily interact with the twt.social community, leaving the one on my website as a regular microblog.
Screenshot of twin