Thom2503

225 karma · joined August 1, 2021

Computer Science student, Part-time programmer in the Netherlands. Interested in programming languages (theory), mathematics, logic, and automata. Listens to a lot of music.

thomveldhuis.xyz

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Thom2503··on Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

Grammarly does use AI https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-to-acquire-... since 2025.

Thom2503··on Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

There is also https://github.com/franssjz/cpr-vcodex which I use, which is one of the many forks of this project.

Thom2503··on Ask HN: Share your personal website

Mine are https://thomveldhuis.xyz and https://thomthomthom.wiki :)

Thom2503··on Ratatui – App Showcase

The dutch teletekst has a SSH interface, which is also made with ratatui [1].

ssh teletekst.nl

[1] https://tweakers.net/geek/237754/nos-maakt-teletekst-beschik...

Thom2503··on IPv6 Based Canvas

They also had something like this at TU Twente in the Netherlands, https://pings.utwente.io/ with open-sourced software :)

Thom2503··on The Last Question

Yes, but the Greeks coined the actual phrase.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina#Origin_of_the_...

"Deus ex machina is a Latin calque from Greek ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός (apò mēkhanês theós) 'god from the machine'. The term was coined from the conventions of ancient Greek theater, where actors who were playing gods were brought onto stage using a machine."

Thom2503··on Ask HN: Software That Insults You?

https://gitlab.com/dwt1/bash-insulter like this?