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0lpbm··on Christo has died
I visited the installation "Big Air Package" in Germany a while back. And it was transformative.

The installation consists of a canvas "balloon" inside an old, desafected gasometer. The public can visit the interior and the exterior.

At that time, I remember quipping to myself that it was a cathedral for the non-believers. The peace and tranquility of its "inside" space lending it spiritual properties. But yes, it was just an industrial amount of canvas and rope that they had to landfill somewhere.

0lpbm··on Knoppix 8.6 abandons systemd
Here's a better[1] overview: https://lwn.net/Articles/593676/

[1] Less blog spam, less click bait, better reporting.

0lpbm··on Ask HN: I am looking for a C and Assembly mentor
Despite not using the full features of the standard, Handmade Hero is written in C++ not C. And you know what those people think when you conflate the two.
0lpbm··on Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment
Well, I think the scale of the problems you can takle on your own in an open source project vs. as part of an established game dev studio team is quite different.

Please don't project your own perspective on other's people work/life balance and consider it as the only valid way that things can be.

0lpbm··on Technical Vision for Qt 6
> Those skills are not very transferable.

I think you are very wrong. Qt is just a bunch of C++ with preprocessing. Knowing C++ is a very transferable skill.

0lpbm··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
As someone that didn't get an on-site interview because of a failed coding challenge, despite 15+ years experience, relevant open-source work, and previous development done for companies under the DH umbrella as a contractor, all I can say is: you guys need to have a better hiring process.
0lpbm··on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages
If this is a scenario that happens often, you probably should invest in a portable method to hold your ssh keys, such as a smart card. I have only used YubiKey for this purpose, but I'm sure others, like the Nitrokey, work similarly.
0lpbm··on Ask HN: Are You Hopeful About the Environment?
How about telling people to stop having kids? That's going to have a greater impact[1] in the long run than not eating meat.

Well, if you can't bring yourself to tell people that, what makes it all right to tell them to go vegetarian (TODAY)?

Prozelytizing your style of life is not how you get others to be more friendly to the environment.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...

0lpbm··on Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
I use gopass a lot, but they direction in which they took the pass API is absolutely horrible. The ammount of irrelevant commands they added made it an UX nightmare.
0lpbm··on Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
Pass has no out of the box multi user support. Gopass allows encryption for multiple keys, hence better for teams.

I use it for the same reason to encrypt different folders with different keys (work vs. private).

0lpbm··on Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad
Also on an older X1 Carbon (5th gen) and fwupdmgr supports it out of the box.

> No upgrades for 20HRCTO1WW System Firmware, current is 0.1.39: 0.1.39=same, 0.1.37=older, 0.1.36=older, 0.1.35=older, 0.1.34=older

0lpbm··on Luakit – fast, extensible, and customizable web browser
Are there other embedable, modern, multi-platform and open-source browser engines besides webkit?

I'm looking forward to the day when we will be able to use servo instead, but we're not there yet.

0lpbm··on Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust
Follows work at least. Commenting directly on stories works, as far as I remember, but I think the main issue is that it doesn't properly create a list of inboxes that a comment is addressed to to push the messages to them.
0lpbm··on Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust
Or https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go - which is my project.

Not federated yet either unfortunately. But I think one of the few fediverse projects that dogfoods ActivityPub by using the client to server protocol to communicate between frontend and api.

0lpbm··on I Don't Like Debuggers (2000)
Out of curiosity, why do you find it cringe worthy?

Do you think the statement is untrue? What makes you believe that he tries to convey "how dominant he is" instead of just stating a fact? Why would it be a problem that he has a personality disorder[1]?

[1] I believe that Linus himself aknowledged that when the CoC was added to the kernel documentation.