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New comment by aorth in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

aorth — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:09:06 +0000

> Manually edit pyproject.toml to add upper bounds for every single dependency.

Hah! I thought I was the only one. Still very happy with uv though.

New comment by aorth in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

aorth — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:54:11 +0000

Another vote for pass. I've been using it for ten years with a git repository. I sync to all my machines and use https://github.com/agrahn/Android-Password-Store on Android. Not a solution for non-technical people though...

New comment by aorth in "A desktop made for one"

aorth — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:10:17 +0000

Brilliant! I hate it. The author will surely admit that there was "joy" in creating this suite of software, but it's a different kind of joy than most of us here would recognize. I am looking forward to being a part of the group of detractors doing things the old way, similar to the "small web" or other counter cultures on the Internet. I fantasize about being here to pick up the pieces after all the others went full-on into AI-assisted everything and lost their critical thinking capacity, programming skills, knowledge of Unix command line, etc.

There is part of me that understands the appeal of the all-in on AI and personalized software approach. It's a bit cyberpunk! In terms of open-source software, the downsides outweigh the benefits in my opinion, though. Important principles like community ownership and commitment are absent, and this approach is even radically antisocial. And then there's the inevitable issues with maintainability, to say noting about dependence on big tech companies.

To each their own, but this is not for me.

New comment by aorth in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

aorth — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:29:44 +0000

> GTK4 / libadwaita frontend

Nice! Looks good. I prefer GTK UI/UX over Qt. Looking forward to seeing the development progress on that.

New comment by aorth in "Zed 1.0"

aorth — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:50:17 +0000

Massive congratulations to the team and the community. Thanks for the solid product. It's fast and native on Linux with Wayland. I don't use any of the AI stuff, though, so I'm glad there is a switch to disable it.

New comment by aorth in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

aorth — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:25:06 +0000

I know gitea / forgejo will be a popular suggestion, either self-hosted or via something like Codeberg. Despite also being a GitHub user since 2010 and also "doomscrolling" issues for projects I am involved in, I do host a gitea for personal projects where I don't need the GitHub network effect. It works well and is surprisingly capable!

Having said that, I stumbled upon this curious blog post about a security issues in Forgejo: https://dustri.org/b/carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html

New comment by aorth in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

aorth — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:04:52 +0000

I doom scroll GitHub issues too. :( I'm so addicted to open source hahahahah.

I'm GitHub user 191,754 (2010). Wow...

New comment by aorth in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

aorth — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:38:40 +0000

A good reminder to go through my extensions and remove some that I can live without.

New comment by aorth in "One item purchased, ten emails"

aorth — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:35:42 +0000

I highly recommend using an email alias service. The author mentions SimpleLogin. I've been using Firefox Relay for a few years and it's great!

New comment by aorth in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

aorth — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:36:17 +0000

What version of npm has this? This isn't working for me on npm 11.6.2 (Node v24):

  ~/.npmrc
  min-release-age=7 # days

New comment by aorth in "The Slow Collapse of MkDocs"

aorth — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:27:24 +0000

I'm not an MkDocs user yet but I've been meaning to be for years! It's unfortunate to hear about the issues with project leadership. Why bring the drama about gender into this?! It should be closed as off topic.

New comment by aorth in "Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust"

aorth — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:41:47 +0000

Figurative!

New comment by aorth in "Blacksky AppView"

aorth — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:45:20 +0000

How much was the 8TB NVMe?

New comment by aorth in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

aorth — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:49:06 +0000

For local music it's my preferred client as well. I've set mine up to resemble the old iTunes interface, with three panes: artist (left), album (right), and song (bottom), and explicitly configured it to use album artists instead featuring blah blah.

For network-based music Navidrome is very good. A good client for that on desktop is https://github.com/victoralvesf/aonsoku. It's Electron, but I don't mind. Ironically, it was Tauri based until a few months ago and that was much heavier and buggy, which is what people complain about with Electron.

New comment by aorth in "US Government wants DNA and social media from visitors"

aorth — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:13:47 +0000

American citizen living abroad for almost 20 years here. This happens to me ever so often when entering the US. Last under Biden, when I had been living in Jordan for a few years. I got pulled aside for a secondary inspection and the guy asked for all my phone numbers and social media accounts, and was surprised I didn't have Facebook—I just said I was a computer scientist and didn't like Zuckerberg. I gotta give him credit for being patient as he asked for all my addresses abroad etc. But this has been happening before Trump.

New comment by aorth in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

aorth — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:03:00 +0000

It comes from жици in Bulgarian, which means "wires".

I think the author should remove that part of the blog post because it detracts from the author's point and is even a bit embarrassing that they hadn't looked it up.

A reference for the name: https://desktop.jitsi.org/Documentation/FAQ.html#spelling

New comment by aorth in "Tech Writers Are About to Become Obsolete"

aorth — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:04:16 +0000

You guys had tech writers? I write everything myself—from the code to the reports to the policies to the deployment scripts. Well at least I also get to write the firewall rules myself! Sigh...

New comment by aorth in "Xfce is great"

aorth — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:54:36 +0000

> Many people praise KDE. But to me, KDE is extremely ugly. > > Admittedly, I use Gnome.

Same. To each their own, but I also prefer the aesthetics of the GNOME and GTK ecosystem. Though I use Sway as a WM the past few years, I always opt for GNOME and GTK apps when there are options. I've been using Linux since about 2000.

New comment by aorth in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

aorth — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 06:40:57 +0000

Love to see it. I've been a paying Kagi member for three years (!), and for now I trust them more than Google, but I echo the other users' concerns that to switch to this long term I'd want it to be open source.

New comment by aorth in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

aorth — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:34:49 +0000

For technical users who are in the know, yes. I would not recommend Brave to less-technical friends and family knowing that they would surely be duped by some dark patterns in Brave's UI/UX.

Even Firefox, which is the best we have currently, surprises us a few times a year with questionable decisions. Still, it's what I recommend to people.