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nfd | 1 year ago | on: Blissymbols – Ideographic Writing System

Blissymbols is kind of fun to look at for a toki pona speaker; sitelen pona (the most popular hieroglyphic script for the language) shares a lot of features with it and Egyptian hieroglyphics. And it's pretty comprehensible—maybe easier for beginners than Roman script in some weird ways—while being tied to a whole speakable language that is decently easy to pick up. Might be fun for some of the people who think Blissymbols looks cool.

nfd | 3 years ago | on: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

In brief, an extensible, syncable tool for making lightweight personal Markdown wikis. Emphasis on being very smooth and stylish. Emphasizes giving you a lot of tools that can suit a lot of writing/note taking workflows.

If I were to need to start writing a book this week, this is probably where I'd organize the research and composition.

nfd | 4 years ago | on: US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse

> It was a reaction to the previous administration's foreign policy strategy, which was to position America as less of a world leader and more of a partner.

Happen to know of any direct discussion of this being the intent behind that slogan from the Trump administration? Especially from Trump himself?

nfd | 4 years ago | on: US labor board official orders Amazon to redo union vote at Alabama warehouse

I have fair understanding of a teachers' union. I think I can say that the NY situation is pretty degenerate relative to most places/unions. My cursory understanding is that if NYSED made an effort to actually push through their arbitration backlog at various points in the past, that situation would be much less ridiculous.

Around plenty of municipalities, teachers' unions are just trying to get teachers slightly closer to living wages, and trying to best advocate for their students. That's the impression I've gotten from being vaguely around during a lot of bargaining meetings.

nfd | 4 years ago | on: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

rM support's statements in the past have been to the effect of "we aren't going to remove the root access; you need it for GPL compliance, and we need it for troubleshooting. And merely using it doesn't void the warranty, but we don't support third-party modifications." So if there's e.g. a flaw in the hardware that you didn't obviously cause by doing something absurd with modifications (e.g. overriding the temperature lockouts, deliberately wearing out the eMMC with writes, ...) they say that it shouldn't really effect your claim.

Now individual experiences with rM support have varied rather wildly between "they're great!" and "they're the worst!" so feel free to temper your expectations.

nfd | 4 years ago | on: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

Color e-ink probably isn't going to be at quality-parity with e.g. LCD displays anytime especially soon. Kaleido is still really cool, especially when it's used properly, but it's probably going to be a bit too weird for something really like reMarkable for a little while yet.

Sometimes there's Indiegogo hype for "ooh, a large color e-ink tablet!" and I'd encourage cautious pessimism about those listings. Might be a good idea to wait for them to ship, and to wait for some reviews.

nfd | 4 years ago | on: The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader

rM seems to omit backlight as a philosophical idea; if you're mainly interested in similar form-factor of hardware with backlights, https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/ is upcoming. (Firmware/software support's not going to be up to "whatever-Android" or rM quality in a hurry, of course, but it's starting out as a hacking platform anyway.)

nfd | 4 years ago | on: Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

librespot is a reverse-engineered thin client (using the same api that e.g. your "smart speakers" would). It doesn't use official APIs, arguably violates DMCA, and you pretty much have to use it if you don't want to simultaneously run the full thick official client on the same device at the same time.

nfd | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://b.nfd.moe

Over the past several months/years, I've usually gone around in my life with a notebook on my person. Some of these notes/lingering ideas seem like things about which I should go write essays.

I've got three posts live at the moment, all of which have something to do with my (generally leftist) takes on the far right--though I might be coming at things a little bit more sideways than that implies. I've got some ideas for both more-of-that and not-that. You should read it because I'm digging into cultural issues (and probably other things) via some ideas you may not have seen before.

nfd | 7 years ago | on: Ultimate Hacking Keyboard

I mean, no product HAS to be for you, but part of the point of the board is that it's really, really easy to change the keymappings on a whim. If/when they finish the adaptive mode on Agent, you can in-fact make it switch bindings when you're in an editor/shell. Swapping ESC for ~ will take you no more than a few seconds using Agent, and doing any other remapping isn't drastically harder; I've messed with my maps plenty since I got my device.

As someone used to ANSI boards who doesn't use the arrow keys routinely (since I use a LOT of vim binding), it's generally pretty spiffy.

nfd | 9 years ago | on: Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins

I really hope amateurs with "a {} is a {} is a {} is a {}" level skills aren't working on cryptographic or financial software in C or C++. Write Rust, though, which is {}, and at least the box of hand grenades you're giving them doesn't have all the pins pre-pulled.
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