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Naac··on A tour to my Zettelkasten note clusters
I mentioned this in another comment, but you should check out tiddlywiki[0] with the mind map plugin[1]

[0] https://tiddlywiki.com/

[1] https://github.com/felixhayashi/TW5-TiddlyMap

Naac··on A tour to my Zettelkasten note clusters
You should take a look at tiddlywiki, which has a mind map plugin[0]

[0] https://github.com/felixhayashi/TW5-TiddlyMap

Naac··on dwm
dwm requires you to configure your environment in C, and recompile the project.

>> You don't have to learn Lua/sh/ruby or some weird configuration file format (like X resource files), beside C, to customize it for your needs: you only have to learn C (at least in order to edit the header file).

From a usability perspective, that's pretty awful.

Stick with i3 for a happier time.

Naac··on Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__
For those curious, here is a great explanation of what metaclasses are in python: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6581949
Naac··on /tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system
The same thing is unfortunately happening in the US. I would assume that iphone to iphone communication over imessage also does not go through traditional sms.
Naac··on Elementary OS 6.1
I would recommend you give Regolith a try. I was also looking for a "just works" tiling window manager solution and Regolith gives you the best of gnome, and i3.
Naac··on Elementary OS 6.1
The Regolith package is available in Arch Linux.
Naac··on Elementary OS 6.1
If you want a tiling WM backed by a full DE ( with sleep, volume buttons, media buttons, working automagically ) you should try Regolith[0]

[0] https://regolith-linux.org/

Naac··on Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG
Thanks, that's exactly what happened.
Naac··on Passage: A fork of password-store that uses age instead of GnuPG
I tried reading up on what age is, but I'm getting a cert error from their website: https://age-encryption.org/
Naac··on How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
AFAIK this was a work in progress[0]. I am not sure what the status of this is now.

[0] https://jitsi.org/blog/e2ee/

Naac··on How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
>> There is no off the shelf software that would allow us to support calls of that size while ensuring that all communication is end-to-end encrypted, so we built our own open source Signal Calling Service to do the job

But wasn't there Jitsi? [0]

I think its great we have competition among Free Software projects so that both can improve. But sometimes I feel like maybe duplicated efforts create two 5/10 solutions. Instead what we really want is one 8/10 solution, or better.

[0] https://meet.jit.si/

Naac··on uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
Can the title be changed to: Ublacklist - Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results
Naac··on Why U.S. Infrastructure Costs So Much
Please follow up to the article/source of this graph.
Naac··on Cache warming at Netflix: Leveraging EBS for moving petabytes of data
So reading this article am I understanding correctly that multiple VMs are mounting the same EBS volumes, and some write while others read?

What's the underlying technology here? If EBS is implemented over iSCSI AFAIK this is not supported currently available to do in most distros.

Naac··on Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020)
>> Coz it's my own money at stake I bill by the day.

That's orthogonal to what the parent was talking about.

You can't just say "I bill by the day" until the MVP is complete. Whoever is contracting you out will want a ceiling on how many days it's going to take. They don't have unlimited money or time. And once you give them that initial number of days for the MVP, congrats, you just made an estimate.

Naac··on A Guide to Your 1816 Stagecoach Journey
Potentially interesting, but it was hard to read. The author needs to do a thorough proofread of this post, and potentially some editing.
Naac··on Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font
This appears broken on Firefox 93b7 on Ubuntu.
Naac··on Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip
They are from 2012. They are not "are getting kind of old", but are actually discontinued.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/64583/i...

Naac··on MasterClass Isn’t Really About Mastery (2020)
>> My take on the university is simple - the university originally existed because you needed a single physical location for books and smart people. Access to people and information was finite and location really mattered. This is the opposite of the world we live in now - ability to access people and knowledge today is only hurt by the physical colocation aspect. So the university, which is still operating under the "books and smart people are scarce so you need to pay us to be near them" principle just no longer makes sense as the default way to educate the masses.

That doesn't make sense. Maybe for some fields, but certainly all the fields that actually require a lab to work in still benefit from the physical space a university provides.

I'm also not convinced that remote work/meetings == in person collaboration between colleagues.

Naac··on MasterClass Isn’t Really About Mastery (2020)
> Not sure how the author could define MasterClass more “at the beginning” than in the title and by-line.

They do define properly, just after an unrelated blurb about public universities: "MasterClass is an online education portal"

> It does, MasterClass is capitalised in the title showing that its a proper noun and the by-line is

That's fair, although it wasn't capitalized on hackernews

Naac··on MasterClass Isn’t Really About Mastery (2020)
>> The truth is that universities sell all of these things, bundled together. And that’s a big reason they’ve been able to raise prices to astronomical levels over the past several decades — it’s really hard to disrupt all of those things at once.

No, it's because no matter what the cost of school is, universities know their "customers" will just take out a loan to match whatever the price is. And one way to "disrupt" this is to make public universities free for in state students, similar to what California used to do with the UC system.

It was difficult to read the rest of the article given that it started on this false premise.

More specifically, this article should really define what MasterClass is right at the beginning. Because given the picture at the top, I thought it was referring to the generic masterclass [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_class

Naac··on Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux
On the surface looks like an improvement over htop ( which I've been using for 10+ years )

But this is the kind of software that I would want to keep using. Will btop keep being supported? Is btop going to be available in practically all distros I use? Even currently on Arch its only in the AUR.

Its also concerning there is btop[0] and bpytop[1]? I don't understand the difference.

[0]https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

[1]https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop

Naac··on Manyverse – A social network off the grid
Its not very clear from your comment ( or from the Manyverse landing page ) but Manyverse is an android/ios app for the scuttlebutt social network

More clients are listed here: https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/

Naac··on Tools for Thinking
This looks like some extensions built on top of tiddlywiki
Naac··on Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?
Regarding point 2, isn't it pretty common ( or at least was ) for comments to disparage potential projects?

For example, the infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Naac··on Introducing the PineNote
Looks like a direct competitor to the Remarkable[0] which I own, and is a great device. The Remarkable is also "mostly" open. The main binary running the UI of the system is proprietary, but the Linux system underneath is ssh-able, and the hacking community of the device is pretty active and large [1].

Looking at the announcement page of the PineNote I'm very excited! I'm hoping the open software running on the PineNote will be comparable to the Remarkable, and if it is I'm definitely going to be making the switch.

As a side note, I'm hoping maybe this encourages the Remarkable team to open source their proprietary binary. Their advantage here is definitely the hardware not the software.

[0] https://remarkable.com/

[1] https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable

Naac··on Back to Linux
> I hope everyone has noticed the shift in macOS to be something more like iOS. That’s good for most users, but not really for software engineers.

I've been saying this for a long time. I find it funny so many developers use and love macOS. You are clearly not the target audience and in fact, lots of decisions Apple makes go against making macOS a nice development environment.

Naac··on IPv6 Watch
That table isn't very helpful. What does it mean for Arch Linux to have IPv6 support? When you say "Amazon" doesn't have IPv6 support, do you mean AWS, the retail store?

It would be better if instead of linking to say, archlinux.org, you link to the actual page describing what specifically about Arch is IPv6, same for all the other endpoints. I would also replace the support sentence with a green/yellow/red color checkbox, and get rid of the twitter link.

Naac··on Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client
Does the Algolia hackernews api ( the specific API this client uses ) still require you to query in a tree like fashion, every comment item id if you want an entire page of comments?

Its extremely inefficient, to the point where I have a better time curling the HN web page and piping it through python beautifulsoup

Regarding a native app vs the using the HN website. The HN website I think is pretty ideal for the type of content its displaying, a native app doesn't give you much over having a HN tab open. I guess only if you want to read HN but not have a web browser open? But how often does that happen?

The only benefit I see from a native app ( and why I use one on Android ) is the ability to save articles and comments for offline reading, say, when I get on a plane.

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