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ethanpil··on Ask HN: What's your Linux window manager and/or desktop environment?
I like my setups to be as configurable yet minimal and resource light as possible.

Lately AwesomeWM[1] with Lain[2] seem to provide the flexibility and easy configurability I like with the minimal overhead I love.

[1] https://awesomewm.org/

[2] https://github.com/lcpz/lain

ethanpil··on AWS Private 5G
I wonder if this is a product that was built on top of something they needed to use internally. Makes me wonder how Amazon is using this technology for themselves... Anyone care to speculate?
ethanpil··on Reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
... when Windows 12 comes out it will be half GNU/Linux
ethanpil··on DietPi is more than just a minimal image
There was a trend for a very short period of time for JEOS (Just Enough OS) releases. I loved these and always wondered why they suddenly died out. These days I use Alpine Linux which is as close as you can get...
ethanpil··on Ask HN: Shared Hosting Recommendations
Can you provide some additional information such as, how long you've been using them for and why you recommend them?
ethanpil··on Ask HN: Shared Hosting Recommendations
Thanks, I'll check them out. Do you know if the plans are for unlimited domains per account or a single domain?
ethanpil··on Show HN: Hookdeck – An infrastructure to consume webhooks
care to share something on GitHub? curious
ethanpil··on Kopia – Fast and Secure Open-Source Backup
You can setup Zerotier on your NAS and your computer (and Phone, etc) and things will always stay connected via an internal ip no matter where you are. I have been using this setup for several years. Best part is it works with any software running on the computer or Dockers, etc on the NAS.

I bought a second (cheap,slow) NAS and installed it off-site (away from home) and I keep a full off-site mirror of my NAS.

Use any tools you want, syncthing, rsync, smb, NFS... It's all just internal IPs routed via ZeroTier.

ethanpil··on Replit now supports every programming language in Nix
https://github.com/ethanpil/php-with-sqlite-on-replit
ethanpil··on Ask HN: What tool/method do you use to maintain your bookmarks?
https://floccus.org/ cross browser and self hosted via webdav if you like...
ethanpil··on HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor
Can you give me some info on "new Sciter - the one that uses JavaScript"

Last time I played with Sciter it was based on a proprietary JS engine that wasn't fully exchangeable with common JS. Is that not the case any more, and Sciter will now understand ECMA standard JS?

ethanpil··on AmigaOS 3.2
Anyone interested in a comprehensive summary of the Amiga legal spaghetti should take a look at https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/

Play by play updates on their Twitter at https://mobile.twitter.com/amigadocuments

ethanpil··on Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments
Methinks "Three things I can carefully build myself and gain a competitive advantage over everyone else who thinks they can't..."
ethanpil··on Show HN: DbGate – open-source, cross-platform SQL+noSQL database client
Looks like something interesting to try, thanks for the efforts. Would really love/need to see SQLite support here.
ethanpil··on Ask HN: How do you run better meetings?
can you provide some specific recommendations here?
ethanpil··on Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
How are you going to centrally manage the meshing and transition between APs?
ethanpil··on Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
Does this type of setup support a mesh network with multiple APs and SSIDs, VLANs, etc? I have never seen a PC based all-in-one interface that supports all of these things the way Unifi does...
ethanpil··on Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
Does anyone have experience with lvarchive or FSArchiver (or similar) to backup images of live systems instead of file based backup solutions?
ethanpil··on Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
Why not run a launchd script on boot that does the update? Does it need to be in the .bashrc?
ethanpil··on Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
Why not run a script on boot that does the update? Does it need to be in the .bashrc?
ethanpil··on AROS is a lightweight, efficient, and flexible desktop operating system
Anyone interested in this legal turmoil should visit https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/

I wonder if anything would have been different if the Amiga IP was opened to the public. Perhaps nothing...

ethanpil··on AppGyver Joins SAP
As an alternative, positive thread... Lets realistically guess How could this be amazing for AppGuyver's product... besides the payday?
ethanpil··on Why I Built Litestream
Ben - What are some practical examples of use cases you see here over the long term?
ethanpil··on AppGyver Joins SAP
Goodbye open platform, fast iteration, fun, and free/hacker plans! Welcome to a slow death by enterprise.
ethanpil··on I wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one
We live in a fundamentally capitalist society. Venture capital, entrepreneurship, the startup culture, etc, are all fundamentally profit driven.

Open source is a movement which is ultimately driven by ideology. Even open source advocates need to put food on the table.

While there are business models that can support open source projects, these will always be the exception when humans are involved. There is always an entrepreneur willing to ignore ideologies (and sometimes laws and/or morals) to make a buck.

I believe that there is a need and important place for open source and free software, but the fact is that this needs to be funded by philanthropy and dedication to ideology, at the exception of profit in most (almost every) case.

In this context, I think the article is correct. Depending on a majority of people for good behavior, good will and altuism is naive.

ethanpil··on Litestream – Streaming S3 Replication for SQLite
I'm not the author but thought this was an interesting new release.
ethanpil··on Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu
Even at $100 more, i'd love to see one of these as a mobile device with a pop-out keyboard and Wifi/SIM slot. I think that's what's been missing in the open phone community. Something decently priced and decently designed.
ethanpil··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I simply cannot believe I have never seen this before! What an exciting project. have you had coverage in Make or Hackaday or Hackspace?
ethanpil··on Ask HN: Do you have a homelab? Why and what's your setup?
Wow, what's your electricity bill look like?
ethanpil··on Ubiquiti Networks Breach
What APs do you use with a MicroTik setup?
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