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return_to_monke··on Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners
Even if the networks will move over, a lot of links won't. Search engines won't put results from "VeryFreeCompletelyTransparentWiki.com" as a first result/Sidebar, they will put Wikipedia because the large user base can effectively prevent vandalism. Wether that's a good thing or not is up for debate
return_to_monke··on Ask HN: Is the world run by badly updated Excel sheets?
I don't have a problem with spreadsheets personally. Complexity is bad; it's best if it gets the job done.

My issue is that they're very bad to use on mobile. It just feels off - like when the first smartphones arrived and you had to zoom in on every single website because they weren't optimized for small screens.

Additionally, you lose a lot of portability. My most recent example of this is discovering that macros don't work on mobile while trying to use a sheet that relied on them.

I would maybe even pay money for a better spreadsheet, or even DB frontend user experience on mobile.

return_to_monke··on Why doesn't flutter.dev use flutter as their front end?
Well yes, although I would reorder in terms of support/completeness:

mobile/desktop/web/embedded

return_to_monke··on Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2014) [pdf]
I am not sure, but I think the GDPR mandates an unsubscribe link for unwanted automatic emails.
return_to_monke··on Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
While I am not a skia person, an use case I could imagine is (flutter) web apps.

Flutter currently has 2 ways to run something on the web: 1. CanvasKit. Primarily, this uses webgl. Though, the app has to download a kind of webGl runtime on the first launch, iirc. If the browser does not support openGl, it will use Skia with a Canvas frontend, leading to blurry and poor performance results 2. webRender. This is flutter's way of trying to make a HTML DOM, but its not that great either. It's inconsistent with the rest of the flutter implementations, and has performance issues because it's not really mature/optimized and has a virtual Dom.

I think an exciting use case would be something like 1. Instead of the blurry image and bad performance of canvas redrawing, it might try to manipulate an SVG in the browser. This is pure speculation tho, correct me if I'm wrong.

return_to_monke··on Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.
Looks nice. do you have a mobile app?
return_to_monke··on What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?
creatine supplementation is supported by the literature to have cognitive benefits.

Also, lifting heavy does train your central nervous system too, which might be a pathway to better cognitive ability? (This second part is 100% bro science, though)

return_to_monke··on Unix as a tool forge and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy
But you can use these chords inside the editor's terminal (for example (n)vim's :term), so it's easier to scroll back, search stuff and copy-paste, for example
return_to_monke··on Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
While i partially agree, even DNS query/http headers (I'm not sure if that is encrypted with ssl?) Could be useful here. Told the software not to connect to cloud, still connects to cloud. Enough reason to complain.
return_to_monke··on Rust: “Explain GATs Like I'm 5 Years Old”
String was indeed once named StrBuf: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/60
return_to_monke··on Manifesto for minimalist software engineers (2013)
Well, the authors could have invented their own network stack. Since they didn't, it's minimal.
return_to_monke··on Quantum winter is coming
The special purpose is figuring out what the special purpose is :)
return_to_monke··on Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares
I don't think the hard thing is switching emails. The difficult thing is telling everyone about the fact that you switched.
return_to_monke··on Show HN: Explainpaper – Explain jargon in academic papers with GPT-3
This looks great !! A few nitpicks: - does not work at all on mobile, even with the browser's "desktop mode" (i guess it has to do with the highlighting hook) - a landing page explaining what this does would be amazing
return_to_monke··on The Perl Foundation will now be known as The Perl and Raku Foundation
> I don't like Rust because it seems overly bloated (the recommended way to parse command-line arguments - "clap" - involves downloading 400 megabytes of dependencies off crates.io, which just seems unreasonable), although the borrow checker is a very interesting idea.

Where do you get that from? https://lib.rs/crates/clap states that the code itself is 1MB, and the maximal amount of dependency code is 7mb, with all optional features enabled.

return_to_monke··on Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet
I am not sure if you're supporting, or opposing what Moolenaar does here. But a large difference is, that, although i am not sure if there's any sort of transparent reports available on the project, they don't ask "donate so I can keep working on vim", they specify "Donate to help poor Ugandan children"
return_to_monke··on Incidents caused by unappreciated OSS maintainers or underfunded OSS projects
I think what they meant is that a lot of popular open source projects are maintained/created originally by companies. So, Facebook created React. FB devs are, i assume, paid for working on React, even though it doesn't directly benefit FB itself (they aren't writing a new messenger feature, for example)
return_to_monke··on We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations
I love the (cat) json response. Rock on!
return_to_monke··on A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]
Nah. That would induce significant overhead because of the distributed Blockchain systems. I think using zig with latent diffusion or some variation of GAN would do better.
return_to_monke··on “You meant to install ripgrep”
yup! And what if i reserve ripgrep/ripgrep as a typosquat, while the real one is burntsushi/ripgrep?
return_to_monke··on Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
> I'm really struggling to understand how Obsidian isn't free. Maybe I'm simply missing your point.

I think they mean free, as in free software. Obsidian is not free neither open source software.

return_to_monke··on JSON Crack – A tool that generates graph diagrams from JSON objects
This, of course, isn't exactly what you want, but what about difftastic?[0] It claims it supports JSON [1]

[0] https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic [1] https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/languages_supported.html

return_to_monke··on Show HN: Garnix, fast and easy CI for Nix
Why would you recommend using this over for example GitHub Actions (also free) with a workflow that installs nix and then builds the flake?
return_to_monke··on Show HN: Garnix, fast and easy CI for Nix
what about "you may run this locally on your, or your organization's servers, but you cannot offer it as a free or paid service?"
return_to_monke··on Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
Honestly, i have no idea. I've got amazing results with flutter so far; and therefore I'm obviously biased. Packaging it from source is pretty hard; but a bit of the industry has already adopted it. Even tho of course it could always have more features; i for one don't think it would be that big of an issue if google called quits on it today
return_to_monke··on An easter egg when you Google “Dart Mission”
Doesn't seem to work on mobile, as usual.
return_to_monke··on Dear Chess World
He did cheat in online chess. Other than that, what do you mean "known cheater"?
return_to_monke··on Checkmate: Cheating Detection
True! Didn't consider that. New age doesn't sound that cool tho.
return_to_monke··on Checkmate: Cheating Detection
Yes! This isn't the middle ages anymore. To accuse someone, you'd imagine that they would actually lie up evidence that he is cheating. This seems like a weird witch hunt.
return_to_monke··on Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
Can you give more details on netgate v wireguard? I can't really find the "drama" other than it being added and then pulled
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