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ropeladder | 10 months ago | on: Sunbeam: Command-Line Launcher

I saw this over on lobste.rs and came over here to see if there were any comments, because it looked like a cool project. Alas, it got even less traction here.

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: Firefox Sync actually works

Tree style tabs works as well as it did before, except that it's more difficult to get rid of the top tabs.

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: Generation Junk

You can probably access CR for free through your local library!

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal

Well, not for the customer...

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

I looked at a bunch of these 2 years ago and ended up using PhotoView for a private gallery. It had the right mix of simplicity and features, and I was actually able to get it running.

https://github.com/photoview/photoview

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: A new attack can unmask anonymous users on any major browser (2022)

With Temporary Tontainers you can just install one of the cookie-ignoring plugins, since cookies don't do much if your containers are ephemeral.

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: A new attack can unmask anonymous users on any major browser (2022)

Temporary Containers is fantastic. Its functionality should really be a core feature of any browser that claims to be concerned with privacy.

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps

Also the bird is gigantic (relative to the laptop)!

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: Windmill: Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs

I'm confused as to how this compares to tools in the workflow manager space such as Airflow/Perfect/Dragster. The words describing the software are almost the same but it seems to come from alternate universe of tools I'm not familiar with. Could someone fill me in?

ropeladder | 2 years ago | on: Broadband Consumer Labels

This is good as far as it goes--I think better information can help consumers at the margins. But it's hard to imagine this will do much to actual induce competition in markets where there are only a few (or one) players and most consumers are sticky.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: Launch HN: DAGWorks – ML platform for data science teams

Congrats on the launch, guys! Hamilton was the first MLOps library that really seemed to fit the challenges we face, because it offered a more granular way to structure our code. Really excited to see what other tools are on the way.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: Wine 8.1

Alas, Foobar2000 has started crashing regularly on me after a few seconds with Wine version 7.19+: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53818

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: Graph showing level of Covid, flu and RSV in US wastewater systems, by city

Sorry, my comment was a bit misleading: as the other commenter noted, they are doing testing in rivers, etc. When animals defecate/urinate onto the ground, some of it eventually gets carried and aggregated into flowing water.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: Graph showing level of Covid, flu and RSV in US wastewater systems, by city

Wastewater surveillance is a pretty crazy technology. My neighbor works on projects using it for wildlife tracking, and they can get startling amounts of information about what is going on in a given watershed. What (e.g endangered) animals are present, what animals humans are eating, etc. And all the way down to the viral level, obviously.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: Silver Bullet: Markdown-based extensible open source personal knowledge platform

This is far more impressive than the almost-blank screen on Firefox Mobile led me to expect.

It looks like it's mostly engineered this for personal use, but as somebody currently underwhelmed by GitLab Wiki (/Gollum) for enterprise documentation, some of the features here would be very useful in that context.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: “Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized”

Anyone's ability to broadcast on Twitter is only as far as the system dynamics of Twitter and its users allows them. Retweeting is not some pure expression of speech that needs to be "free", it is limited already shaped and limited by all kinds of incentives and technological particularities (character limit, anyone?).

I think media should function to encourage speech that balances social and individual utility. That is, speech that has important protection from powerful actors like the government and CEOs, but also that incentivizes true and useful information, in all the nuance that is necessary to actually understand the world. (Obviously entertainment is useful as well.)

But engaging lies are not a form of speech I value, and equating the current operation, or slightly-more-permissive version of it, of an overwhelmingly constructed forum (i.e. Twitter and it's retweet system) with "free" speech doesn't make much sense.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: CommunityRule is a governance toolkit for great communities

This is very interesting! For some reason the name and crown logo rub me a bit the wrong way, but I love the way they dissect and categorize different models.

Edit: just to add some substance to my comment, I think more awareness of governance models and how power is allocated in the various domains of our lives is an absolutely critical piece of moving toward a more just, fulfilling, and less authoritarian world.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: HiSHtory: Your shell history in context, synced, and queryable

Looks nice! Do all of these shell history replacements completely override native history functionality or just add on to it? (and if I delete something using `hishtory redact` does it delete it from my native shell history too?)

Also just a heads up, I find the demo gif to be unintelligibly fast.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: Graphviz 7

Does anyone know of any DOT -> mermaidjs format converters? I was looking for one recently and was surprised not to find anything more robust than someone's quick search and replace script.

ropeladder | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Discord banned me with no recourse

I triggered some Discord flag where now they require me to give them my phone number to log in via the web. I won't give it to them. Luckily I have a still-logged-in instance on my home computer, do I can still use that for the time being. Super frustration though.