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space_ghost

455 karma · joined December 15, 2015

Perl dork, linux user, and lover of all things cheesecake.
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space_ghost··on Nvidia Halos
I don't think a single human read this thing before they published it.
space_ghost··on Linux 7.1
>"Perfection is achieved..."

I, too, am a fan of RFC 1925.

space_ghost··on Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
Perl's DateTime module was pretty solid, IIRC. One of the things I miss about using Perl.
space_ghost··on you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker
This reminds me of Perl's ACME modules and I'm here for that.
space_ghost··on Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
I did something similar last year with a monitor without built-in KVM but with good DCC support (Ultrasharp U3417W) and Synergy [0].

I use Synergy as part of my desk setup already, but needed a way to view the UI of a normally headless machine. The solution I built was a small shell script that terminated the active Synergy session and started a new one with a different config file (so keyboard/mouse input would map to the normally-headless machine), and fired off a DCC command to the monitor to change its input. The same script ran with a different argument would switch back to the normal display/control configuration. This solution worked pretty well until I was able to retire the headless machine early this year.

[0] https://symless.com/synergy

space_ghost··on Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
Here's a good starting point for those of us that use XFCE:

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1231025/

space_ghost··on Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig
This [0] is pretty close. IBM made a version of the Model M with Trackpoint but those are rare. Lenovo also sells [1] a keyboard that's basically a Thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint in a separate chassis.

[0] https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CS1FVF2

space_ghost··on Nokia N900 Necromancy
I loved my N900. Enough that I eventually replaced it with an N9. It wasn't the same, tho. The N900 had a certain charm.
space_ghost··on X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
Followed immediately by these groups making VPNs a standard part of their toolkit. This data is enlightening but its reveal doesn't solve the problem.
space_ghost··on Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
I thought Myna looked weirdly familiar. I use Source Code Pro just about everywhere.
space_ghost··on Starcloud
The Webb telescope is a _wildly_ different apparatus, designed from the ground up to run as cool as possible, and with an effectively unlimited budget. It lives in the shadow of the Earth behind multiple layers of shielding. These "data centers" need to live in direct sunlight and operate as cheaply as possible _at scale._ Very little of Webb's tech is applicable.
space_ghost··on The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls
"Every time I see a programmer they're just staring at their monitors." :D
space_ghost··on KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser
Counterpoint: any modern linux distro will run fine on your 10yo computer.
space_ghost··on Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden
I have three of the cells, framed in my office. I adored the TV show.
space_ghost··on Show HN: Windows 98 themed website in 1 HTML file for my post punk band
That's high praise. :D
space_ghost··on Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue
The response rate is impressive! The "quality" of the responses not so much. Here's a transcript of my second test:

Moshi: "Hi there, what's going on?" Me: "What year is it?" Moshi: "Oh, it's 2019. I think it was about a year ago." Me: "Are you sure it's 2019?" Moshi: "Oh, yes, I'm sure. It must be 2019. The number is for the last one." Me: "What is COVID-19?" Moshi: "That's a rare disease. It's caused by an overactive immune system that attacks the skin."

At this point it stopped responding to me.

space_ghost··on Windows NT for Power Macintosh
The truest of arts require no purpose other than to exist.
space_ghost··on Playwright Test Generator
100% agree, that screenshot is a _perfect_ example of why I don't use these tools.
space_ghost··on Playwright Test Generator
SDET here, and no, I don't use these tools. Hammering out the actual test code is the easiest (and most fun!) part of the job for me, tools like this one actually make that experience painful and slower. :(
space_ghost··on Untranslatable
I like the idea, but the "see what people have added" button on the landing page links to the new-entry page instead of the explore page.
space_ghost··on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
Nitpicks:

* On Linux, clicking the main "Download / Linux AppImage" button results in Windows .exe download instead of an .appimage. Clicking on the down arrow and selecting Linux does work, however.

* The opening sentence of the description includes "it's" instead of the more correct "its".

space_ghost··on Google Fiber - 20 Gig + Wi-Fi 7 will be available to select customers
Google Fiber started a deployment in my city (Louisville) in 2017 before eventually giving up [0] after ~2 years.

AT&T, on the other hand, has been steadily rolling out gigabit fiber across the city since 2016ish, and I've enjoyed their service that entire time. It's consistently stable, fast, and the price is only slightly higher than Google Fiber's - I think I'm paying $90/month right now for symmetric gigabit.

The local Spectrum cable ISP guys offer ~300mbit (with a pathetic upload rate), and a Spectrum sales guy once asked me if I "really needed a full gigabit, no one actually needs that much speed." Lol.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/googl...

space_ghost··on Show HN: Watermelon – copilot for code review
According to the aria-label in the page: Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, and TypeScript.
space_ghost··on Therac-25
The always-excellent Plainly Difficult ran an episode [0] on this topic a few years ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7gVqBY52MY

space_ghost··on Debian celebrates 30 years
Debian installs perfectly on my Thinkpad x61, and works great out of the box. (x)Ubuntu's installer won't even boot on this hardware.
space_ghost··on Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony
My parents bought a PS1 shortly after they were available. We very much enjoyed it, but I _distinctly_ remember each time my friend brought over his N64 and copy of Goldeneye. The PS1 may have been the superior console, but Goldeneye was the superior game.
space_ghost··on Oracle Cloud is having a major outage
I snagged one of those as soon as they were available. And, so far, I've only used it to host my portfolio, which is entirely static. :D
space_ghost··on Over 100 kids illegally employed in hazardous jobs, contractor pays $1.5M fine
Yes, it's the specific (hazardous) conditions involved. Teenagers can and are legally employed, but there's laws that control the allowed nature and scheduling of that employment. Young teens cleaning dangerous meat-processing equipment during nightshifts is several kinds of nope.
space_ghost··on PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
Many PS1 games stored their soundtrack as normal CD audio tracks on the same disk. The first track would contain the game data, additional tracks were music.
space_ghost··on Folders with high file counts
ReiserFS was my first thought when I read the headline. Fantastic performance on folders with obscene file counts.
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