Hacker News: LanternLight83

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Laying out the 404 Media zine"

LanternLight83 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:41:10 +0000

> AI-based

No thanks, I'll use Scribus.

Different mod schemes (ctrl-click and such) than InDesign, but I'm sure I can get used to that, adjust the settings, or patch it. Might have worked for them though, good suggestion!

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization"

LanternLight83 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:25:00 +0000

The level of cross-platform desktop support here is really impressive

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Owl Lisp – A functional Scheme for world domination"

LanternLight83 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:37:33 +0000

I thought hackernews sounded like an akward poll platform, so (just for fun) anyone who would like to vote can contribute here:

https://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=e954c5a89f228a3e1

New comment by LanternLight83 in "The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out"

LanternLight83 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:26:28 +0000

I got a printer recently, tried Blender bc it was what I knew, then FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, CadQuery, and Build123D. The last two are Python frameworks built on the same OpenCascade kernal that powers FreeCAD, and I really reccomend them to software folks looking to work in version-controlled plain-text.

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm"

LanternLight83 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:52:15 +0000

Related projects[1]:

Spacial Shell (i3/Sway, OCaml) https://github.com/lthms/spatial-shell

Newm (Wayland, vry fancy) https://sr.ht/~atha/newm-atha/

Video of newm https://youtu.be/z7S3L-RZskY

Obsolete (but fascinating):

CardboardWM (https://gitlab.com/cardboardwm/cardboard)

EndlessWM (Wayland) https://github.com/peterfajdiga/EndlessWM

1: From https://lobste.rs/s/urwcat/spatial_shell_6th_release_might_b...

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Troubleshooting: Terminal Lag"

LanternLight83 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 01:32:41 +0000

i once used hyperfine to micro-bench elisp functions. i se $SHELL to a script that evaluated it's arguments in emacs by talking to a long-running session over a named pipe. Hyperfine runs a few no-ops with $SHELL and factored out the overhead, though it was still helpful to run a nested loop in elisp for finer results.

New comment by LanternLight83 in "The Light Phone III"

LanternLight83 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:11:22 +0000

> are there services which don't support [non-TOTP MFA]?

Yes, there are many which still only support SMS MFA -- and if you meant TOTP-On-Yubi, that's its own can of worms (limited size, [intentionally?] hard to sync or backup, vender lock-in?). I hope passkeys lead to brouder FIDO/U2F support.

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Language, OS and GUI -independent windowing API provided as a virtual filesystem"

LanternLight83 — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:18:15 +0000

Reminds me of Tagsistant's FUSE-based tagged-filesystem API, which touts full compatibility with graphical file -managers and -sharing protocols as a major advantage.

New comment by LanternLight83 in "00Key a 75% Keyboard"

LanternLight83 — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:46:59 +0000

I get that, I've practiced with my ergo board for like a year and still don't use it exclusively bc of one-handing stuff (though learning a new layout at the same time cert. didn't help).

There's a layout based on multi-key chords called Taipo that has this really interesting "reversable" property, in that each half is a mirrored copy of the other, so you can type any letter (or eg. tab or return) with either hand. I think that's super cool, but don't think chording is for me, so I'm trying to imagine what a compromise might look like.

New comment by LanternLight83 in "00Key a 75% Keyboard"

LanternLight83 — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:37:08 +0000

Layers in software are thing with eg. kmonad or kanata

New comment by LanternLight83 in "3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js"

LanternLight83 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:33:09 +0000

I for one would love to see what that looks like, even just an example use of these libs c:

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists"

LanternLight83 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:25:27 +0000

This is awsome bc Github Gist links aren't Cool URL's and break on name changes even though repo's don't and Gist's have those hash ID's. I don't know that the Styles need be quite so on-the-nose, though I am glad to see syntax highlighting is already in.

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Infinitown"

LanternLight83 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:17:54 +0000

Just judging by fan speed on me anchiant Core i3, this out-performs github's sign-up flow by a substantial margin.

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Equinox.space"

LanternLight83 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:18:40 +0000

Sunless Seas and Sunless Skys are two narrative-driven games in the Fallen London universe which otherwise hit a lot of these beats.

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Program synthesis"

LanternLight83 — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:10:47 +0000

I associate program synthesis pretty heavily with William Byrd following his demo in the second half of this talk:

https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc?feature=shared&t=4656

New comment by LanternLight83 in "My DIY NAS Adventure"

LanternLight83 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:10:03 +0000

I built my own NAS (six drives in a Mini-ATX case) about three years ago. Creating a custom init system and immutable distro on it has been my primary hobby since, and I expect to be finished within another ~two years, by which point the drives will be reaching their life expectancies. On the plus side I'm pretty sure this is a me problem, and that anyone else would have stuck with Proxmox and had their siht together in 3-6 weeks-- but maybe that person would also be the type to prefer a Synology in the first place :p

I'd recommend both routes, but primarily synology unless you know you wanna geek out w/ it

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Pine64 March update: making waves"

LanternLight83 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:20:28 +0000

I found it hard to parse whether you were describing JBC tips specifically, so as an FYI for readers, this is (AFAIK) how both JBC and Pinecil tips work (while still at very different price points)

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Pine64 March update: making waves"

LanternLight83 — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 22:37:07 +0000

I get some of this (have an unused Pinephone), but I'm still thankful they tried (built up a stir) and, FWIW, the PineTime is OK and the Pinecil is the best soldering iron I've seen anyone use

New comment by LanternLight83 in "Gen AI Consumer Apps"

LanternLight83 — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:33:05 +0000

Not that I'm aware of, but I've ran LLM's in Termux myself and am pretty it's not a huge leap from there to a simple python scaffold with a restricted grammer (the kind llama supports, for consistant structured output) and a Tasker integration. Hardest part would be trigger-word activation (maybe hardware key-bind is enough fr u?). It would probably run well locally with the all the cumulative speedups over the past year, but I do bet it would drain your battery more than Google Assistant, and am not sure that moving it over the network would change that.

New comment by LanternLight83 in ":syntax off (2016)"

LanternLight83 — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:03:20 +0000

Both points resonate with me, but I'd push back againt the idea that colored syntax highlighting is neccessary for either. I'm thinking of the Pygments 'bw' theme[1], which denotes strings in italics, and nano-emacs[2], which also manages to do.. a lot with a little (at least aesthetically, ie. idk about code volume or corner cases).

1: https://pygments.org/styles/

2: https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs