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pure-orangeon Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

I use brave browser on iOS which has a feature to block YouTube shorts. It’s clearly a cat and mouse as YouTube keeps changing the selector but works 95% of the time

pure-orangeon Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees

Digging in I now see how btrfs will also copy over non git tracked files, e.g. target/ dir. this is super nice actually.

pure-orangeon Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees

Currently it just sounds like an alternative to work trees, but with no explanation on how it’s better. Seems early stages, use of btrfs is cool, but unsure why I’d use this right now

pure-orangeon Omarchy Is Not A Distro

Strongly disagree with this post. And I am not a DHH fan.

The biggest problem with Linux as a desktop gaining more popularity is the learning curve. In our bubble, you might not want any software installed and want your first install to barely have a desktop environment, but the average Joe wants their browser, music player and password manager ready to go. If omarchy is nothing but a gateway drug to making leaving windows much easier then I am all for it, even if we bikeshed about whether or not it’s a distributed (I agree it’s not). Once you have it installed you can customise just as much as you would any other “distribution”, it just makes that first step that bit easier. Linux, if it wants to win the war, needs to make it easier for new folks to onboard. The winning desktop distributions (omarchy, cachyos etc) make onboarding easy.

pure-orangeon HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

https://tangled.org/ is close to what you are describing

pure-orangeon Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English

this will have to compile to something tho? So there will always be code

pure-orangeon Show HN: difi – A Git diff TUI with Neovim integration (written in Go)

very nice, lovely tui. Does it support viewing the diff of unstaged files? I tend to do a lot of commit amending locally so would be nice if I could see the status of these before I amend the commit

pure-orangeon Formatting code should be unnecessary

Did you not read the article?

pure-orangeon Replacing tmux in my dev workflow

This doesn’t sound like a “you might not need tmux” argument. It more just argues than tmux is a pita on the terminal ecosystem which I’m sure is true. But the workarounds described are just reimplementing tmux features by taping together a bunch of tools. A better argument I think is - a lot of people do need tmux, so perhaps we should rethink protocols etc to make many of these features more native

pure-orangeon Willdolater.dev – find ancient todo comments

Hey HN!

I recently spent a weekend building this fun little project when a friend and I were comparing legacy codebases we'd worked on. I had the sudden idea that it would be funny to compile old TODO comments to see who else procrastinates tech debt as much as some we've seen.

The site is pretty slow; namely cloning and git blaming on repos with a large git history is naturally slow. If anyone has any fun hacks to make this more efficient - the code for this is open source! https://github.com/rupert648/willdolater.dev

pure-orangeon Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative

its an open source alternative to github, not git