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nor-and-or-noton What if psychedelics' hallucinations are just a side effect?

No disrespect, but you speak of it like a fact when in fact it's a nice anecdote.

nor-and-or-noton My User Experience Porting Off Setup.py

The funny thing in context to this is that Perl has rock solid package management and distribution since like forever (CPAN).

nor-and-or-noton Armbian and Devuan = Armvuan

Why do systemd proponents always compare it to SysVinit?

Compare it to Runit (Void Linux, antiX, Devuan package, as well as packages for all BSDs), OpenRC (Alpine, Gentoo, Devuan package, compatible with FreeBSD and NetBSD), … with S6, which many folks (including me) do use on their Linux and BSD systems.

I, too, operate a fleet of servers without any trouble using Runit and OpenRC.

nor-and-or-noton Armbian and Devuan = Armvuan

Does it matter how many users there are if the people who made it are happy with their work?

nor-and-or-noton Armbian and Devuan = Armvuan

Yes, apart from being systemd free per default, it is backed by a nice community.

Also Debian having the possibility of providing systemd alternatives now, doesn't guarantee that this will be so forever. My personal guess is that at one point, systemd will be the only de-facto working init for desktop systems on Debian.

nor-and-or-noton Show HN: A C++ dump func. that can print multi-D vectors, maps, tuples, and all

Someone coded something, possibly just for themselves. They happen to share it on a platform for sources. Then it ended up here. And it seems to fall into the area of your interest because it was important enough for you, to leave a degrading comment about it, when you simply could have opened an issue or – even better – created a pull-request improving it. But no.

I'm advising you to reflect on your words on how they do or don't add professional value.

nor-and-or-noton CT scans of coffee-making equipment

In macOS you can also use:

option+minus for en-dash – and shift+option+minus for em-dash —

nor-and-or-noton Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps

Alfred is a quite well-known macOS app (alfredapp.com)

nor-and-or-noton MIDI 2.0 driver support coming with Linux 6.5

I finally had time to try this, but support for mount_options.conf was added to udisks2 in version 2.9.0. Sadly the Linux distribution I'm using for audio stuff is still Ubuntu 20.04 which ships with udisks2 version 2.8.4.

So I manually remounted the loop device using mount -o remount,unhide /mountpoint and now I'm seeing the hidden files.

Again, thank you very much for your guide! :)

nor-and-or-noton MIDI 2.0 driver support coming with Linux 6.5

Hey, thank you very much for your detailed explanation plus even a video! Much appreciated! I'll try it asap. :)

nor-and-or-noton MIDI 2.0 driver support coming with Linux 6.5

May I ask how you installed Kontakt and such? If I try to install some sound libraries using Native Access 1, it complains (something about ISOs can't be mounted and the data itself is stored within the ISO, but without file access). If I try to use Native Access 2 (the shitty electron app) it won't even install correctly.

nor-and-or-noton Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

How does Obsidian work? Is it an app/client only which has its data local?

nor-and-or-noton Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

I'd like to know, too.

WeKan is absolutely great! But self-hosting it is a bit cumbersome; except when using it as a Sandstorm (sandstorm.io) web app.

nor-and-or-noton Animal meat and milk sales drop in Europe as vegan versions hit record highs

B12 and Iron, depending on my levels of exercise also Magnesium.

nor-and-or-noton Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine

Wow, so everyone is qualified as teacher or nurse? It seems to me that you have no respect and knowledge of those jobs and the people doing them.

nor-and-or-noton Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen

Oh, you quoted correctly, but the display of the right quotes is messed up. They should go from upper left bottom to upper right top, but instead show as upper left top to upper right bottom.

nor-and-or-noton Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen

Actually we quote „like this“.

nor-and-or-noton The Future of Thunderbird

MailMate (https://freron.com/)

nor-and-or-noton Why Object Pascal Is More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring the Power and

Newsflash! Linux kernel considered obsolete because of its usage of C.

But honestly - neither C nor Object Pascal are considered obsolete by folks including me.

Some of the most productive people I know write most of their code in Object Pascal.

Really big companies still use Object Pascal, even if they could have switched to a different language a long time ago; but they don't. Because Object Pascal is a proper language with a lot of useful features, but without all the bloat.

Obsolescence is, when no one is using it any more, not when some people think it is.

nor-and-or-noton Building a 100% New Commodore 64 [video]

I'm quite sure this isn't "THIS CENTURY’S FIRST 100% NEW COMMODORE 64!" as he's really just assembling the ready and buyable EVO 64 board with new components, ready and buyable for everyone.

The chips were previously available, e.g. from Individual Computers, which also produced new, improved mainboards (the C64 Reloaded) and a lot of other hardware and accessories for the C64 (and also for the Amiga computers).

The case is from a previous kickstarter campaign, which you can also buy normally now.

New are the keycaps itself, which finally seem to be shipping from the crowd funding campaign. Most likely he also backed the first attempt from someone who found and bought the original molding machine for the keycaps, but got bogged down by small little details and sadly never delivered. So it's good to see, that the second crowdfunding campaign from a different person who recreated the keys in a 3D layout and then went on to let them cut/print elsewhere, but which also took a long time to finally happen. Not few - including me - thought they lost their money a second time.

Since there existed previous test samples from both key campaigns, I'm confident someone already built a completely new C64 this century.

So, there you have it. The original video headline is quite a bit clickbaity and I honestly expected he did the layout of a completely new C64 board; nevertheless the video is fun and I'm happy that the C64 (scene) lives on in so many hearts.

nor-and-or-noton XFCE 4.18

I use XFCE4 together with Albert https://albertlauncher.github.io/

nor-and-or-noton Ask HN: What brand of laptop do you use?

1. for development: Samsung Galaxy Book Pro (13.3-inch AMOLED, 8GB, i5) with Void Linux

2. mostly for office related stuff & browsing: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, early 2013, 8GB, i7) with macOS High Sierra

The Galaxy Book Pro is ultralight and thin, perfectly portable. The Mac Book is super durable and reliable.

Although I own a few other (bigger) laptops, I like those two the most.

nor-and-or-noton After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel

Do you have a source for this? Because I don't think it's true.

nor-and-or-noton Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it

> Stuttgart railway station reconstruction

I lived there for some time so I know a lot of details about this; and I have to disagree with your statement.

This wasn't a lack of knowledge - quite the contrary. "Stuttgart 21" (the core in Stuttgart itself, not the smaller sub-projects in the surroundings) is nothing more than a prestige project and most of the local politicians and a lot of the business folks wanted it, e.g. to have some new area for buildings and to have something special in Stuttgart to attract people, tourists, plus more advertising for the city.

But they ignored _all_ warnings about the unsuitable rock layers for an underground rail station, the shortcomings of the rescue system in the tunnels itself, the too steep slope of the platforms, the decreased amount of trains, the accessibility problems, the water problems, and so on - which all became clear in very early discussions, as some folks (including railway enthusiasts, as well as scientists such as structural engineers and geologists) formed a small club against the project and also did a lot of lectures to inform the public. This all was years before it even was announced widely.

Later all of these warnings came to be true, hence the multiple cost explosions.

nor-and-or-noton Ask HN: Is it still conceivable to remain an anonymous developer nowadays?

A friend of mine programs free / open source software and one of his libraries was used in a crypto scam project.

Suddenly he got accusations and threats from a person from a completely different country, because that person thought he was the brain behind the crypto scam where they lost some money. He had to take it to the police to get that person stop threatening and harass him.

nor-and-or-noton Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?

The Theremin and early Moog synthesizers by Bob Moog.

SID (the sound chip of the Commodore 64) by Bob Yannes.

nor-and-or-noton Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?

Thanks for mentioning. I haven't tried that, yet.

Yes, that was my reason to settle on pass as well. Plus it has a healthy community discussing in the mailing list and also many eyes looking at the source.

nor-and-or-noton Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?

I use pass[1], which is a command line tool to store gpg encrypted passwords in a local git repo.

I share the git repos between different machines using my own servers. All remote mirrors are synced over SSH using git-remote-crypt[2], which additionally encrypts all remotely stored files - including the metadata (e.g. paths and file names of the files) of the remote git repo itself.

On mobile I like to torture myself and enter the passwords manually.

I definitely wouldn't trust any SaaS password manager.

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/ [2] https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/git-remote-gcrypt/

nor-and-or-noton Libtree: Turns ldd into a tree; explains why shared libraries are found or not

> C++ is probably painful even statically compiled, and Go/Rust would be better

What does that even mean?

nor-and-or-noton Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

I hate self promotion, but the heck with it. Demoscene/chiptune musician here. I started making music on the C64 in the 80s (but never released anything back then) and then later on the Amiga in the early 90s.

https://soundcloud.com/freQvibez

Besides the occasional C64 SID tune, these days I mostly compose and play just for myself on the piano and learning to properly play the cello. I'm also in love with various rhythm instruments. The drums were my first, real instrument apart from computers. :)

Some "noteworthy" tunes:

Die Wurzel https://soundcloud.com/freqvibez/die-wurzel

PC 4k intro. The player and tune was made directly in x86 assembly.

Rad-X https://soundcloud.com/freqvibez/rad-x

C64 SID tune that tries to be cute.

Ladybug Vision https://soundcloud.com/freqvibez/ladybug-vision

8-channel XM tune, made for a module competition.

Warp-o-Mat https://soundcloud.com/freqvibez/warp-o-mat

A tune programmed in why's Bloopsaphone. I really miss him and his creativity.

Brimborium https://soundcloud.com/freqvibez/brimborium

Something experimental with real instruments and synths.