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quasigod··on Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices
Bottles is a wine/proton runner, not a VM manager. I think you might be mixing it up with Boxes?
quasigod··on Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
If you're on android the extension works for Firefox
quasigod··on Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
I just finished setting this up yesterday and I'm kind of obsessed with it. I was previously a heavy user of Karakeep, but I hated forgetting to save something and losing it. I also think Hister's semantic search is a better solution than AI generated summaries and tags. Support for local docs is super cool too, I have it set up to index my org notes directory.
quasigod··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
You'll have to wait a bit for private repo support unfortunately. Once its ready setting up a knot via Nix or Docker is super easy: https://docs.tangled.org/knot-self-hosting-guide#knot-self-h...
quasigod··on I Like Small Keyboards
I really don't think it effects your ability to do that. I've used a split keyboard as my primary keyboard for many years, it has not at all effected my ability to use a standard keyboard. As soon as my hands are on a typical layout the muscle memory kicks in.
quasigod··on We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky
Hosting CSAM material? What? I've never seen CSAM on Bluesky, but I have seen it generated by Grok on Twitter.

I've seen plenty of people cheer for murder on Twitter as well, both from the left and right. Cheering for the killing of a protester is no better than cheering for the killing of a federal agent.

quasigod··on We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky
On atproto your PDS and the appview you use are not linked. Your data is stored on your PDS and available to any app that handled Bluesky records.
quasigod··on Who owns your ATProto identity?
How the addition of user choice doesn't make it better. I agree it's suboptimal, but I feel its still a clear improvement over centralized services. Getting to choose who, if anyone, I trust as my provider is better than having no choice.
quasigod··on There are no instances in ATProto
NP! And yep, their own appview is a WIP. You can read more about their future plans here if interested: https://northskysocial.com/posts/beginning-phase-2-of-norths...

Theres also front ends that avoid using an appview at all if that sounds preferable to relying on an appview not run by your PDS host: https://tangled.org/whey.party/red-dwarf

quasigod··on Who owns your ATProto identity?
Yeah, I think Bluesky should put more effort in getting users to create their own PLC key. It's trivial for someone who knows about it to do it, but of course the average user has no idea what atproto is. They need to explain it in a user-friendly way and have a simple tool to do it.

I'm not aware of what Proton does here, I'll look into that.

quasigod··on Who owns your ATProto identity?
You can register a recovery key which allows overriding the signing key. This allows users to move from an adversarial PDS. I do think Bluesky should push for more users to add a recovery key, but I also understand why they haven't.

Moderation tools arent limited to specific PDS's, labels are public. If an account has received many reports it will have been labelled by Bluesky's moderation account and other independent labellers. A PDS can check against these before allowing an account to migrate if they choose to. I'm not sure any are currently doing this, but this is something that can absolutely be improved in current implementations, not an inherent limitation of the architecture.

quasigod··on Who owns your ATProto identity?
Atproto gives users choice for where their data is hosted as well as the ability to migrate their data to a new host. Users who dont want to put trust in a provider can host it themselves. How is that not an improvement over being locked in to a single centralized provider?
quasigod··on Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You
When was the last time you checked that? That is definitely not currently true and hasnt been for as long as I've used Bluesky.
quasigod··on There are no instances in ATProto
https://northskysocial.com/ might work for you!

You can have an account on Northsky and use it with Blacksky's appview!

quasigod··on Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release
I'm very surprised to hear that. Ive seen some issues with apps using Xwayland, mostly scaling related. I dont recall ever seeing an issue with a game running on Xwayland. Its also how the Steam Deck runs all games.
quasigod··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
Security Specialist Location: Philadelphia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Site: quasigod.xyz Résumé/CV: DM for resume Skills: security analysis, offensive security, framework compliance.

Recent MS Cybersecurity graduate. 1 year of professional experience in security and 5 years of IT experience. Currently working on independent security research, occasionally sharing findings on my site. CEH and Security+ certified. Looking for an entry level security position.

quasigod··on OpenWarp
Their "Introducing Warp" post from 2022 actually doesn't mention AI: https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp. They introduced Warp AI in 2023: https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-warp-ai

I was pretty interested in it when it was just trying to be a modernized terminal. I still think some of the UI ideas are cool.

quasigod··on OpenWarp
Yeah that's pretty much my opinion on warp. I really liked some of the ideas used for the actual terminal side of it. The IDE-like prompt and completions, file tree, vertical tabs, etc. I mostly just wanted a terminal that was trying something new UI/UX wise.

Nowadays it just tries to do so much and seems overwhelming. I'll probably still give it a try once it supports Nushell, but I'll need to spend some time disabling a ton of the extra features.

quasigod··on Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small
Theres more recent updates on it in a blog post from Bluesky head of protocol: https://dholms.leaflet.pub/3mhj6bcqats2o
quasigod··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
What do you mean? This is for CI, whatever the dev machine runs is irrelevant. Either way, the CI uses OCI containers built with Nix, you don't need Nix installed on the host. Also Nix supports MacOS.
quasigod··on Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class
People rarely read whole books anymore. I know very few adults in my life who read books, lots of people are put off by reading in school and never give it a try in their adult life.

I think the biggest offender is summer reading assignments. I never knew a single person that actually read their book, and being expected to spend time during break reading for a school assignment definitely creates a negative association.

I loved reading as a child, up until high school. Once I graduated, it took years before I enjoyed it again.

quasigod··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
Codeberg doesnt currently support any, but Forgejo, the software it runs on, is implementing support for ActivityPub. Codeberg will likely enable it once support is stable.
quasigod··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
The majority of that list is quite old. Have you seen what they're doing now? Not saying every single thing they make anymore is bad, but the average quality is far lower than it used to be.
quasigod··on Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine
Ive been wanting to give this a try. I see that it mentions markdown formatting support, but I wonder if it actually supports markdown. I'd love to find a way to integrate it with my Obsidian vault, since I already have all my shell snippets and homelab docs there
quasigod··on Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine
Yeah even the completely offline features make it much nicer than a standard shell history
quasigod··on Internet Handle
What do you mean every time? You only need one. Plus theres loads of TLDs for different people to have similar names.
quasigod··on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition
I dont think its much more or less complicated, just depends on which one you're more familiar with.
quasigod··on Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd
You dont need root access to sync files with rclone
quasigod··on Mount Proton Drive on Linux using rclone and systemd
Really glad to hear theres effort going towards a drive client on Linux, its my biggest gripe with Proton by far. I hardly end up using it because its a pain to use on Linux and Android.
quasigod··on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
Both are great options, but if you're happy with Fedora, there's probably not a big reason to switch. Arch is a full rolling release, which requires you to be aware and ready to deal with any breaking changes each time you update your packages. On Fedora, you'll mostly only have to be ready for this on a new version release. If you want to always have the newest packages for everything and don't want to wait, then CachyOS is great. If you want to turn on auto updates and only think about changes when a major release drops, Fedora is a better pick.

Bazzite, being an atomic distro, is kind of hard to compare to. For basic use-cases like running just software available in Flathub, it is incredibly solid and easy to use. If I were choosing a Linux distro for a non-technical family member, I would go with an atomic Fedora distro and be completely confident they could get things done without breaking anything. However, if your needs are more advanced, you're going to need to be ready to relearn a lot (e.g. using containers for development), since atomic distros are a big paradigm shift from standard ones. This isn't a bad thing, just something to be ready for.

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