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Tmpodon Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

This exactly. My rsync patterns file is littered with dozens of edge cases to capture the configs and ignore state/caches of stuff that doesn't follow XDG. Really dislike the chore of double checking everything and adding new stuff to the list every time I take a backup.

Even worse are those that seemingly follow XDG but not really, like a lot of Electron apps, that just shove config, state and cache in ~/.config.... sigh

Tmpodon CUDA-accelerated program to search Minecraft seeds for Mooshrom Island biomes

Somewhat silly goal, but there appears to be a big community around it. Found it in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-1c9gxK9ac

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Intro blog post: https://plyx.iz.rs/blog/introducing-ply

Tmpodon Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

Still barebones, but there are two emerging projects for Portugal's (passenger) trains:

- https://comboios.live

- https://comboios.ruicosta.pt

Tmpodon Organic Maps

Wasn't aware of that one, neat! I'll leave another web app: https://osmapp.org

Tmpodon Organic Maps

That's OSM Carto[1] on the bottom, the default renderer/style on osm.org, but there are many alternative ones too. For example, Maptiler[2] has a bunch of cleaner styles, closer to Google's, yet with greater detail. Here is a basic one used my OSMApp[3] for that place as well: https://i.ibb.co/7dD05Ldp/Captura-de-ecr-20260706-092411.png

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_Carto [2]: https://www.maptiler.com [3]: https:/osmapp.org

Tmpodon Organic Maps

Indeed. I have been slowly but surely completing a11y info in my area for a while. It seems never ending, but it's a good excuse to go take some long walks outside. Hopefully the data is useful to someone in need too :)

Tmpodon Organic Maps

For the more experience OSM contributors, there is also a fork called SCEE[1] that adds some extra "quests" and a ton of UI customisability!

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SCEE

Tmpodon Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane

You're right, the USA is huge and highly diverse as well. Yet, I'd still say it's more of a unit than the EU is, in many ways, and especially more so than "Europe". That's what I meant with "Europe is not a unit like the USA is"; not that the USA has absolute unity and Europe has none. But I may be wrong about the USA's cohesion on a deeper level, I've never been there and only see it through an outsider's lens.

Tmpodon Europe's resistance to AC is driving it insane

I always struggle to take these sort of posts from people who don't live in "Europe" seriously. Europe is not a unit like the USA is, it's very diverse, and you generally can't neatly extrapolate your observations from one country to all others.

It hasn't ever been this hot, this regularly, especially in the northen parts of the continent. Add that to the number of historical building, streets, etc, that really can't (or shouldn't) get littered with eyesores on every balcony, and you can understand why AC units never picked up much steam in a lot of places. But that doesn't mean people have some twisted aversion to the technology, in fact, it already exists in many places. Where I'm from (a southern country), it's more common for a public place (buildings, transport, and so on) to have AC than to not have it. On people's homes, it's less common, but there's been a natural increase in demand. Unfortunately, many can't justify the investment to retrofit it into existing buildings, though new ones are likely to be built with central HVAC systems.

I don't know, it feels weird to read pieces like this one. It seems clear the author does not live over here and has a skewed conception of what Europe is and the peculiarities of each country and region. His previous post on the topic even goes as far as calling out some form of resistant to "foreign technology"...

It's easy to make blanket assumptions, but a bit of empathy and a more careful approach into these issues would go a long way.

Tmpodon Macrodata Refiner – infrastructure for the robotics data loop

Seems interesting, found it on Twitter[1]. From their page:

> Macrodata Labs helps robotics teams turn raw physical-world data into better training datasets. Refiner, our open-source data processing framework, lets you build pipelines locally in Python, then scale the same pipeline on managed cloud compute.

And it looks like it's built by ex-HuggingFace people.

[1]: https://twitter.com/macrodata_labs

Tmpodon Servo is now available on crates.io

Agreed, I find Slint really interesting. To me, the biggest pain point is the very limited theming support. It's virtually impossible to make a custom theme without re-implementing most widget logic, which is a shame.

Tmpodon Radicle 1.7.0 – Daffodil

New version of Radicle (node v1.7.0 and httpd 0.24.0) has dropped today, with an important security fix and dome other nice improvements.

Tmpodon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://tmpod.dev

Not regularly updated, still. I should try to train some habit of writing, maybe.

Tmpodon Text-based web browsers

There's also the even more barebones DDG Lite: https://lite.duckduckgo.com

I use it often when on very slow or metered connections (still find some of those around).

Tmpodon Build Android apps using Rust and Iced

+1 for Slint! I worked with it for a while and enjoyed it quite a lot. Florian was working on a more glossy compinent library, not sure what has been made of it.

The DSL was pleasant but still had some rough edges. I think they made some nice QoL improvements in the latest releases, but I've not kept up with it. The compile times were quite something, though you can use the previewer tool to prototype faster.

Definitely worth giving Slint a shot, they learnt a lot from QML imo

Tmpodon Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years

Well, I can't check if it is still a thing today, but Element's managed servers used to allow you to do that, at least for the web app (though I had the idea they also did that for the old mobile apps?)

Here's a couple of links:

https://element.io/blog/custom-branding/

https://element.io/blog/a-white-label-messaging-app-to-creat...

Tmpodon Firefox expands fingerprint protections

Perhaps fingerprint.com has stepped up their detection game and have new heuristics to identify you, thwarting the resistFingerprinting measures.

My experience lately has been that fingerprint.com is able to identify my main profile "in bursts", i.e. it will identify me consistently for some days, then it will forget and tell me it's never seen me. Maybe the service they provide on the landing page has a TTL policy? Either way, I've observed this behaviour on both my main profile and my "Firefox Focus"-like profile (a mix of no history + automatic temporary containers). On Mullvad Browser, however, it always seems to group me with random access across the globe.

Tmpodon Blender 5.0

It seems it was pushed to 18/11. Here follows the notice posted on Discord:

> Hey @everyone, apologies for the Blender 5.0 false alarm earlier today. The announcement was scheduled to go out this morning, and I even double-checked the official release date last night before bed to confirm everything was still on track. Unfortunately, an unexpected delay pushed the launch back at the last minute. Blender 5.0 will now officially release on November 18. Thank you all for the enthusiasm and understanding, your support means a lot, and the wait is almost over.

Tmpodon Blender 5.0

To be released tomorrow.

Tmpodon JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in

+1 for ijson. I wrote some pretty fast and lightweight parsers a while back, using ijson's basic stream. Never heard of jiter, thanks for the posts!

Tmpodon Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

This is a joke, right? The landing page makes it seem so.

I tried the captcha in their login page and it made the entire page, including the puzzle piece slider, run at 2 fps.

My god, we do really live in 2025.

Tmpodon Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

+1 for go-away. It's a bit more involved to configure, but worth the effort imo. It can be considerably more transparent to the user, triggering the nuclear PoW check less often, while being just as effective, in my experience.

Tmpodon Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

I run a service under the protection of go-away[0], which is similar to Anubis, and can attest it works very well, still. Went from constant outages due to ridiculous volumes of requests to good load times for real users and no bad crawlers coming through.

[0]: https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away

Tmpodon Pixel 10 Phones

Oh man, I'm still using my 4a and am quite afraid of what I'll do once it goes caput. There's essentially no real replacement. The S23/24 are kinda okay, but the custom ROM support is meh. Pixels are unbeatable in that regard... It's a shame

Tmpodon Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

I've been interested in dictation for a while, but I don't want to be sending any audio to a remote API, it all has to be local. Having tried just a couple of models (namely the one used by the FUTO Keyboard), I'm kinda feeling like we're not quite there yet.

My biggest gripe perhaps is not being able to get decent content out of a thought stream; the models can't properly filter out the pauses, "uuuuhmms", and much less so handle on the fly corrections to what I've been saying, like going back and repeating something with a slight variation and whatnot.

This is a challenging problem I'd love to see being tackled well by open models I can run on my computer or phone. Are there new models more capable of this? Is it not just a model thing, and I missing a good app too?

In the meanwhile, I'll keep typing, even though it can be quite a bit less convenient to do; especially true for note taking on the go.

Tmpodon Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow

Was thinking the same. Might be worth looking into renaming the project, to prevent situations like that for both maintainers and users.

Tmpodon Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

As it is, and without the toolbar, this really reminds me of how this[0] neovim plugin renders Markdown in the terminal. One of its nice features is doing syntax highlighting inside fenced code blocks (through tree-sitter I believe).

[0]: https://github.com/MeanderingProgrammer/render-markdown.nvim

Tmpodon Zig's Lovely Syntax

> only downside is the trimming is done at runtime but that could easily be fixed without changing the language.

trimMargin and trimIndent (as well as other operations like concatenation) actually get handled at compile time if the string isn't interpolated.

Tmpodon Do not download the app, use the website

Unfortunately, i.reddit.com is no longer available :(

Fortunately, Redlib exists: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib