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flas9sd··on Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login
Red Harvest I guess. Let's build our own, this time with.. oh, a lot of lemmy instances already do have an old. subdomain and interface!
flas9sd··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
maybe for the business target audience, but I doubt this can be a thing for the majority of users. They just want to get on with their day, not learn magic words to search for and relate to each other.

As for Apple fans, they specifically seek the vertical integration.

flas9sd··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
I tend to use quite old hardware that is powered-off when not in use for its intended purpose and I coined "capability is its own quality".

For dedicated build boxes that crunch through lots of sources (whole distributions, AOSP) but do run seldomly, getting your hands on lots of Cores and RAM very cheaply can still trump buying newer CPUs with better perf/watt but higher cost.

flas9sd··on AnduinOS
addressing that concern, the dev blog roadmap[1] lays out the plan to commonize in the 1.4 version cycle with completion in v1.5 to

> .. establish our own apt software repository, managing all changes directly via dpkg. [..] This also allows other Linux distributions like Debian to install AnduinOS's customizations easily

[1]: https://news.anduinos.com/post/2025/5/21/anduinos-future-dev...

flas9sd··on AnduinOS
it's pretty straightforward to change: a makefile, some preset variables in a .sh, then it iterates through https://github.com/Anduin2017/AnduinOS/tree/5bbd94d9c4fa455e... - the tree also points at the gnome-extensions it uses to create and mod the global menu.

can't be too hard to rebase onto Debian (the superior .deb distribution). I put it on 2 endof10 laptops as whatever I do every few years, kde just doesn't stick

flas9sd··on Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook
if you add a cover page with http link, an example download read at a later time will find its way back more easily. Looks good!
flas9sd··on Have I Been Pwned 2.0
it's right there after the "The Domain Search Feature" heading. Verify ownership, then you get results
flas9sd··on Gmail to SQLite
having sqlite exporters for platforms is great help for archiving, but also general questions: I used https://github.com/ltdangle/mail2db to see how much mail volume I still receive monthly on a mail account that I want to move away from. A top10 of senders directed my un- and resubscribe actions.
flas9sd··on Gmail to SQLite
in both iOS and Android it's all stored in sqlite already. Table schemas circulate forensics blogs and QA sites and how to obtain the unencrypted db
flas9sd··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
come for the reminder to try FreeBSD some time again, read light systemd bashing (can't be harmed at that point), stay for managing Jails backup through.. NocoDB :) Stunning travel photography btw!
flas9sd··on Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
you could try Zealdocs - it was a reason to go reading more of the projects own documentation pages. There are converters for whatever-doc/ssg-framework a project uses to Docset, the packaged format it relies on. Though ignoring that, how approachable the docs are to different levels of experience is another thing.

I learned heaps from treating a REPL as an (offline) escape room, in terms of how to get inline help, variable introspection and debugging tricks. Not every language offers a convenient one though.

flas9sd··on Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
seen the win32 aesthetic used for higher-order reasons: separating "work mode" from playtime. An extra user to do so on the same machine helps.

Connect the dots reading https://www.marginalia.nu/log/99_context/ and seeing the ui change in old vs new screencasts https://www.youtube.com/@ViktorLofgren/videos

flas9sd··on PeerTube v7.1 Is Out
a quick shortcut flow in a browser on the youtube channel page (a click below the video title):

ctrl+u ctrl+f "rss+x" -> shows a click+copyable video.xml link

I understand people being pleased to learn this, for me the peertube announcement was learning about p2, as it's been around a few years already.

alternateEnclosure is a real gem in the p2 rss spec, the thing that makes multiple channels and alternative formats/codecs/resolutions work.

flas9sd··on PeerTube v7.1 Is Out
> .. improves support for Podcast 2.0, allowing users to subscribe to channels and play the video audio stream (if available) using classic podcast applications

that refers to https://podcasting2.org/podcast-namespace

A youtube channel url provides a rss link too, but it's not advertised much and you need a player that can extract the audio stream. I often yt-dl the audio from talks/interviews, but it could be easier.

The v7 interface came out nice, for examples see https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-version&p...

flas9sd··on Rippling sues Deel over spying
for anyone wanting the Matt Levine delivery on this, it was in his Newsletter yesterday under "Spies in the Sales Slack"
flas9sd··on A look at Firefox forks
had a positive experience recently on an issue and getting it fixed, people were helpful and instructive. For drive-by newbies there's an initial penalty to dig into Mozilla tooling. Lowering the threshold there will attract more contributors.
flas9sd··on Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps
well done.. made me enable my static-sitegens opengraph plugin, add images, rewrite summaries, thanks!

Mastodon preview? :)

flas9sd··on Uchū – Color scheme for internet lovers
webb.page is fun!
flas9sd··on I Blog with Raw HTML
had a look and I like it. More "raw markdown" (what the OP uses too) instead of HTML in web publishing is a good thing - basically because xml syntax is not how humans want to write.

This, combined with git forges pages concept or tilde user accounts makes for nice corners in the webs.

flas9sd··on What does it mean that MP3 is free?
true, but the complexity is greatly reduced between a caf container and (since Safari 17.5) a webm encumbered opus: the provider can offer 1 webm file to all platforms.

Especially in podcasts where it's just voice the savings in storage and traffic are significant. My own listening preference is 32kbits opus at ~1/4th size of the original 128kbits mp3.

flas9sd··on X partners with Visa to enable money transfers on the platform
centralized services can execute on "give every user a wallet", but federated services and protocols can also add an attribute to piggyback on the addressbook that is inherent to a following/follower relation. Subscriber tiers and encrypted content is harder, but the peer discovery is already there.
flas9sd··on HMD Key – A lightweight, affordable smartphone
after june 2025 producers cannot sell a phone in the EU market with such a short software support timespan

https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/...

> availability of operating system upgrades [..] at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model

flas9sd··on Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?
Seedvault, Syncthing, DAVx5-to-Nextcloud, Signal Archive, passwordstore.app (discontinued) + git
flas9sd··on Firefox DevTools Network Tab: How to filter requests by properties
thanks for the PSA, I use the network tab alot and was still unaware. If you hover in the field the '?' symbol will actually link to this help page.

when you filter the requests and export an .har, the archive will include only the requests listed. For adhoc extraction I then poke at the har with jq to get what I need.

flas9sd··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
there's Named Data Networking (went by Content-Centric Networking earlier). You request data, not a url, the pipe/path becomes the CDN. If any of your nearest routers have the bytes, your request will go no further.

I don't see it much mentioned the last few years, but the research groups have ongoing publications. There's an old 2006 Van Jacobson video that is a nice intro.

flas9sd··on VLC vs. the App Stores
off by a line - 75% according to apilevels.com / statcounter. But true, apilevel pace is relentless
flas9sd··on Better adb shell
why pad my opinions with outdated quotes if I can have first-hand experience? it's a good tip I gave on recent developments and your objections aren't convincing. Latest Lineage/Graphene both include in their forked seedvault repos a current enough version to check out d2d-transfer, give it another try.
flas9sd··on Better adb shell
did you base your impression for 'half the time' on a version that can't skip the allowBackup=False app manifests via d2d ?
flas9sd··on Better adb shell
if you use an AOSP based ROM, give Seedvault another look since they merged device2device-transfer in the beginning of the year https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/pull/562
flas9sd··on Why is remote desktop slow when host monitor is off unless HDMI cable is used?
I had the opposite experience with RDP and Debian 12 / GNOME 45. It marks the release where I can easily tell family how to enable RDP in GNOME from the settings (or do it myself if ssh is available). Next release had even more refinement: https://release.gnome.org/46/#remote-login-with-rdp

'grdctl' managed to be able to configure everything with RDP the gui does. VPNs help to secure the port though. I wonder if your experience hinges on trying to work it out with vnc instead of rdp.

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