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bananamerica··on Saner macOS keybindings with skhd-Zig
As an intermediate user who is not in IT, I share several impressions about the tools macOS makes available for the creation and management of keyboard shortcuts. My dissatisfaction with these tools led me to skhd-zig, an excelent tool in the vein of something like xbindkeys on Linux and a small subset of AutoHotkey on Windows.
bananamerica··on 'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)
> Secret Agent has a slow, difficult beginning (~hour). Not much happens. And it's not clear why what's happening is happening, particularly for someone unfamiliar with Brazil's political climate in the 1970s.

That's very much the director's philosophy. He values the dead time between things. I saw him talk years ago. He's a bit of an intelectual. Very competent too. I haven't watched Secret Agent yet though.

Beto Brant is another Brazilian director. He is phenomenal. Also artsy but his films usually work on a more traditional level as well. They're more satisfying. I highly recommend him -- particularly "O Invasor", "Ação Entre Amigos" and "Crime Delicado".

bananamerica··on I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years
Those broads limitations also make writing the stories easier, since the author/worldbuilder doesn't have to come up with 100 different reasons why it can't be done for each particular case. He only have to do it once.
bananamerica··on Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep
Consider using a TRT[1] Tinnitus hearing aid. It was prescribed me by my ENT doctor and it provides me with great relief. My Tinnitus is persistent and extremely loud. Loud enough that I couldn't get use to it even after many years. I'm not sure what would be the procedure for you to get one in your country. It is not a cure, but it made my life immensely better. I wished I had gotten it sooner. Good luck!

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[1] Tinnitus Retraining Therapy

bananamerica··on Ben-Hur on a Computer Screen
This is a “crônica” about my relationship with computers in Brazil in the 1990s.

The crônica is a uniquely Brazilian format that emerged in Brazilian newspapers in the 19th century. The crônica is very short. It is characterized by a mix of fact, subjectivity, and often fiction that is supposed to reflect or say something about reality (this one has no fiction). Oddly enough, I wrote this crônica directly in English. It was an interesting experience to write something so profoundly Brazilian in English.

Crônicas are often slice-of-life.

bananamerica··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
That is usually the case. Unless you manage to stop optimizing and have a very simple system.
bananamerica··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
I know this is a website for programmers and I am not one. I like LLMs for quick answers and simple tasks like proofreading (just to fix errors, not to add or change anything) and simple text formating. I absolutely hate for everything else. I am a writer and LLMs prose may be correct and sometimes whimsical but it has soulless quality to it that makes me forget about what I just read after five seconds. My friends use Meta AI on our chat groups on WhatsAppp and I hate it so much, I delete every single AI message as soon as I see it.
bananamerica··on How to Meditate Wrong
Holy shit someone posted my blog post to Hacker News and it wasn't me! That's awesome!
bananamerica··on A Serious Man: On Bruno Latour
I actually read Derrida in my time with the literature department so there was no analytics vs continentals struggle going on at all.
bananamerica··on A Serious Man: On Bruno Latour
Deleuze is a fairly traditional philosopher once you get to know him. Derrida kinda wants to burn the very things he needs to convey ideas, so understanding Derrida feels like something Derrida wouldn't approve.
bananamerica··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
That was very enjoyable.
bananamerica··on U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction
Here in Brazil shadow libraries essentially make research possible. Paying for ebooks in US dollar is prohibitive to most academics.
bananamerica··on Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky
I also don't see anything wrong with trying to do that. I am talking about communication, not development. Mussolini probably used fountain pens, but I wouldn't advertise a pen as just the way Mussolini liked it!.
bananamerica··on Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)
Yeah... I just tried to make st terminal to start maximized using wmctrl. For half an hour

I'm not a programmer but still... It's a little demotivating.

bananamerica··on Leaving Neovim for Zed
I think more in terms of enjoyment than pure typing productivity. If I'm using a text editor that I found comfortable and fun, I am more likely to feel good while working. So a text editor is more like a chair -- the gain in productivity is indirect and maybe a little subjective.
bananamerica··on Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)
I would most certainly not compare Autohotkey to Emacs in that way, as Emacs, powerful as it is, is not really meant to be the same as Autohotkey. However, Autohotkey can do pretty much anything you can think of in terms of GUI OS level local automation (for cli, I'd probably use WSL).

On Linux, I may sometimes have to glue xmodmap + xcape + xbindkeys + xdotool + wmctrl + whatever-else in a bash script that will probably require reading multiple man pages and multiple iterations to get right. Autohotkey would only require accessing a single source of solid documentation, as it can all be done in a single Autohotkey script that doesn't rely on any other tool.

More often than not GPT will give you the entire code that you need on the first or second response. But it only knows Autohotkey version 1.

bananamerica··on Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)
In many relevant ways, Windows is more easily hackable than Linux. That is in no small part due to Autohotkey, but also many other tools made by independent programmers.

Autohotkey is vastly superior to anything available on Linux, where one must string together several arcane tools to achieve similar scripting effects. Autohotkey serves for everything, it is extreme reliable and predictable. I know someone will shout "there's Autokey on Linux! And pyautogui!". Rest assured, I know these tools. They're not nearly as reliable and comprehensive as Autohotkey is on Windows.

bananamerica··on Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
> People also seem to like me better when I cut my mids a little bit, but additional research is required.

Instead of digitally recreating your voice so people like you more, have you considered getting some psychotherapy? Maybe? :/

bananamerica··on Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player
VLC makes video choppy on my low-end Debian machine. MPV plays them perfectly.
bananamerica··on Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
That's super complicated lol. Why not use the browser extension or accessibility feature?
bananamerica··on Sonny Piers was removed from the GNOME Foundation board
I am firmly in the camp where I am not answering this question only to satisfy an irrelevant need to take things literally while ignoring the actual issue being discussed.
bananamerica··on Sonny Piers was removed from the GNOME Foundation board
And I answered with the actual issue that is relevant to conversation.
bananamerica··on Sonny Piers was removed from the GNOME Foundation board
Have you actually used vanilla Gnome? I did it fairly recently. Gnome 46 is like a fridge. It has fewer graphically exposed settings than Windows 95. I literally had to install a program to scale my wallpaper. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I understand this is a forum for programmers, but it's unrealistic to expect real users to manipulate a program like that by rewriting its source code, or even through dconf.

bananamerica··on Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
No making any accusations but I used Little Snitch extensively at a shop that didn't pay licenses for either Final Cut or the Adobe Suite.
bananamerica··on Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland)
So it's text expansion. Maybe you should just call it that? Also I 100% thought it was a keylogger with some relation to a sex act in the UK, which is why I clicked in the first place. Maybe not a great name for something as innocuous and not entirely erotic like text expansion.
bananamerica··on Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
Over the counter in Brazil.
bananamerica··on Show HN: I created a Chrome extension that block media giants in Google search
Could that be a Ublock Origin filter instead? Honest question, I'm not a programmer.
bananamerica··on After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer
I'm sorry. I genuinely thought you might be watching DVD disks.
bananamerica··on After Furiosa flops, Hollywood could be facing a biblically disastrous summer
Are you really watching DVDs on modern large screens though? Maybe you meant Blu-ray. DVDs look terrible on modern screens.
bananamerica··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
Seems to be offline.
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