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- WhyNotHugoIf you’re using a VPN: iPhone won’t route hotspot clients over the VPN, so you need to set up VPN on all clients.
- Readers of HN will value flexibility and extensibility, but the other 99% of the folks there are fine with totally locked-down devices because it’s the only thing they know of. The lack of extensibility likely doesn’t affect sales/profit in any significant proportion.
- TUI tools are generally as accessible as the terminal on which they run.
GUI apps are much trickier. They require that the developer implement integration with accessibility frameworks (which vary depending on X11/Wayland) or use a toolkit which does this.
- Mullvad does offers several obfuscation methods well geared towards the scenarios you mention.
- I’ve been storing cards as markdown with a horizontal ruler separating the prompt from the response and another ruler separating historical data.
That is: the historical data in on the same file as the card. This makes cards trivial to sync.
- I’ve been writing my own flashcards (purely text-based, no SQLite like in this case) primarily because Anki never worked out for me (too hard to use, too hard to sync, everything too complicated). I have zero time or motivation to research how to import data from it.
This needs to be contributed by folks coming from Anki. By folks who actually have interest in the feature.
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- > In an attempt to not deliberately misinterpret you, […] Kids need access to YouTube in order to talk to their family?
Your attempt has failed; obviously I’m not taking about YouTube, but about things like WhatsApp, Telegram, WeChat, Instagram, and other social media which families actually use to talk to each other on a dialy basis.
Perhaps you don’t use these, but most of the world population uses some of these (or something similar) to keep in touch with family and friends.
Heck, even when I was a teen (before smartphones) I kept in touch with friends over social media. We’d even organise meeting up through it.
- It truly is, thanks for pointing it out! I just went through the entire site 5 minutes ago and it didn’t occur to me to grab my headphones and turn sound on first.
- I've not seen any mention of how this affect families.
A lot of my family growing up lived in different cities. We kept in touch via social media. PSTN was expensive and impractical. Postal mail was obviously less practical.
Does this new ban move kids to using email to keep in touch with friends and family? Are they now completely isolated from the rest of the world?
- This sounds like what microsoft did to get their Office formats standardised by ISO. Paid membership to a bunch of folk and had the vote in favour of approving the standard. (I'm summarising *a lot*, but that's the general gist of it).
- > It wouldn’t surprise me if they continued acquiring them through, well, less than legal means.
Strictly speaking, it's not illegal for them to acquire it, it's illegal for an exporter in the US to sell (even if transitively) to them.
- > Not sure if the big manufacturers would want to depend on a proprietary Google OS.
They already do; Google's flavour of Android adds plenty of proprietary components on top of AOSP.
- Framework is a not a huge organisation. This sponsorship consists of a few laptops and committing to a $250 monthly donation. There’s no contradiction here. CachyOS is also not a huge project.
- Ghostty feels a lot less native than foot on Wayland. Example: it doesn't respect Fontconfig preferences, so it doesn't use your configured monospace font. In general, Ghostty feels quite alien for me.
- > I speculate that within a few months, the communities will have settled on a single dominant one.
I really hope not. Heterogeneity is really valuable in this space, and there's really no "one size fits all" model.
- The CI job definitions for sourcehut are a pleasure to use: https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/manifest.md
A really neat feature is that you can also trigger a job by just submitting a yaml file (with the web interface, the API or the cli) without needing to push a commit for each job. This is neat for infrequent tasks, or for testing CI manifests before committing them.
- I tried using Tauri a few weeks back, and the build system is an absolute nightmare.
I gave up after a few hours. The last issue I encountered was it trying to link udev and libinput. libinput is a library for writing compositors, and their website literally state "libinput is not used directly by applications". I've no idea why Tauri was trying to link this (and some rough ideas of why it wasn't working due to the absence of udev on that host), but at this point, I didn't care any more.
- The idea of AppImages is neat, but the implementation is awful and rarely works (except perhaps on Ubuntu and Fedora and extremely similar scenarios).
The main issue being that they're dynamically linked binaries, which is exactly what you want to avoid for their use case.
Using packages from your favourite distribution is usually your best bet.