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I used Zotero quite a bit in the past, the thing that ultimately drove me away is that when synchronizing you couldn't easily access the PDFs just via the filesystem. I use a nextcloud and also wanted to access PDFs from devices without Zotero installed and this turned out to be a pain at the time. Is this possible with more recent Zotero versions? Is the sync still cumbersome with a zotero account + self-hosted webdav?

Sadly many countries have 0 education on this topic and it might not be straightforward to get hold on good information about the subject.

Just logged in to say that this work is amazing and that I really like your style :)

I also keep coming back to generative art and think about getting a pen plotter for years already. Now I am getting one!

Many people here say that slowing down is a must -- and I agree it's probably the best solution -- but surely there are more approaches we could think of:

* Not allowing packages with similar names to popular ones

* Not allowing packages creation to be anonymous (in the extreme case you would require to validate your passport or similar)

* Automatic detection of malicious code

* Central auditing organization ...

This is just on top of my head, there must be many more ideas.

The website says "ZOOMQUILT 2 An infinitely zooming painting created in 2007" (Version 1 is from 2004) and on both pages it says "A project by Nikolaus Baumgarten". So it doesn't seem to be the case that we compare two eras of web-dev here.

Thanks for the tip. I'll probably give this a shot.

Very interesting article, thanks for sharing the information.

FWIW, I used to be very happy with the Gnome environment but 2 recent (nautilus related) changes frustrate me incredibly:

* Copy / paste file paths from nautilus to terminal is broken. (You get this extra meta information in the path starting with `x-special/nautilus-clipboard`)

* Type ahead is gone. Previously you could type the first letters of a file / folder and select it this way. Now typing automatically triggers a search (equivalent to ctrl+f), which is much slower.

These might be minor things but I hit them so often that I was driven away from Gnome.

> My answer: you will suffer from brain drain.and reputation loss,when you buy a smaller company,consumers assume that brand is now dead.

Not so sure about that. Maybe if you read HN a lot, but I think most users won't even notice.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."

This. A 1000 times.

Nobody really wants to focus too much on build configurations when working on things, they should 'just work'.

And CMake, although I am using for a long time already, is not the offering this 'just works' experience I am afraid. It is so easy to introduce side-effects, and figuring out the intended way to include a project can be a big pain when documentation is sparse. Sometimes I wished I had a CMake debugger. And with modern CMake I feel like this got worse to some degree.

Is someone here running an Anki sync server[1]?

I would be keen to know about the experience of setting it up and maintaining it. The github project doesn't seem active, which I always find fishy for server applications.

[1] https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

Not the point, I know, but the 3D diff is pretty cool actually :)

The article actually sounds pretty alarming to me, no matter what title.

Really nice!

It reminds me somehow of work from Dirk Koy: https://twitter.com/DirkKoy

What exactly do we actually see here? (I am surprised because there are vertices not connected to the origin, how were these detected?)

Really cool!

I sometimes find it amazing that we do computer science for decades now, but there is still a lot of room to improve very basic things.

> written with a mild sense of superiority

I like how this perfectly describes your own comment

It would be amazing if this is turned into a reusable widget!

I tried a few note taking apps but in the end came to the realization that regular editors are actually better at the job.

My reasoning:

* _Sync_ should not be solved by the note app (applications that implement sync themselves are usually buggy, I prefer to outsource sync to nextcloud / dropbox / ...)

* I want the same _editing capabilities_ as usual (block edit etc., note apps are usually less power full editors)

* A _tree organization_ is important to me, which is trivially solved using editors and the file system

* There are _Markdown_ packages for pretty much every editor.

Note taking apps tend to ship these features but are not as mature as editors are.

I totally get that this is irritating, however, there is also an advantage when run by someone like facebook: Users care about their existing profile and will behave better because of this (basically because they are not anonymous). IMHO, this is why FB marketplace works so nicely in the US.