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New comment by flas9sd in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

flas9sd — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:18:48 +0000

maybe for the business target audience, but I doubt this can be a thing for the majority of users. They just want to get on with their day, not learn magic words to search for and relate to each other.

As for Apple fans, they specifically seek the vertical integration.

New comment by flas9sd in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

flas9sd — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:01:15 +0000

I tend to use quite old hardware that is powered-off when not in use for its intended purpose and I coined "capability is its own quality".

For dedicated build boxes that crunch through lots of sources (whole distributions, AOSP) but do run seldomly, getting your hands on lots of Cores and RAM very cheaply can still trump buying newer CPUs with better perf/watt but higher cost.

New comment by flas9sd in "AnduinOS"

flas9sd — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:06:24 +0000

addressing that concern, the dev blog roadmap[1] lays out the plan to commonize in the 1.4 version cycle with completion in v1.5 to

> .. establish our own apt software repository, managing all changes directly via dpkg. [..] This also allows other Linux distributions like Debian to install AnduinOS's customizations easily

[1]: https://news.anduinos.com/post/2025/5/21/anduinos-future-dev...

New comment by flas9sd in "AnduinOS"

flas9sd — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:31:00 +0000

it's pretty straightforward to change: a makefile, some preset variables in a .sh, then it iterates through https://github.com/Anduin2017/AnduinOS/tree/5bbd94d9c4fa455e... - the tree also points at the gnome-extensions it uses to create and mod the global menu.

can't be too hard to rebase onto Debian (the superior .deb distribution). I put it on 2 endof10 laptops as whatever I do every few years, kde just doesn't stick

New comment by flas9sd in "Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook"

flas9sd — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:42:16 +0000

if you add a cover page with http link, an example download read at a later time will find its way back more easily. Looks good!

New comment by flas9sd in "Have I Been Pwned 2.0"

flas9sd — Tue, 20 May 2025 01:17:53 +0000

it's right there after the "The Domain Search Feature" heading. Verify ownership, then you get results

New comment by flas9sd in "Gmail to SQLite"

flas9sd — Sat, 10 May 2025 13:09:31 +0000

having sqlite exporters for platforms is great help for archiving, but also general questions: I used https://github.com/ltdangle/mail2db to see how much mail volume I still receive monthly on a mail account that I want to move away from. A top10 of senders directed my un- and resubscribe actions.

New comment by flas9sd in "Gmail to SQLite"

flas9sd — Sat, 10 May 2025 12:44:42 +0000

in both iOS and Android it's all stored in sqlite already. Table schemas circulate forensics blogs and QA sites and how to obtain the unencrypted db

New comment by flas9sd in "Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)"

flas9sd — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:28:53 +0000

come for the reminder to try FreeBSD some time again, read light systemd bashing (can't be harmed at that point), stay for managing Jails backup through.. NocoDB :) Stunning travel photography btw!

New comment by flas9sd in "Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room"

flas9sd — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:22:17 +0000

you could try Zealdocs - it was a reason to go reading more of the projects own documentation pages. There are converters for whatever-doc/ssg-framework a project uses to Docset, the packaged format it relies on. Though ignoring that, how approachable the docs are to different levels of experience is another thing.

I learned heaps from treating a REPL as an (offline) escape room, in terms of how to get inline help, variable introspection and debugging tricks. Not every language offers a convenient one though.

New comment by flas9sd in "Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room"

flas9sd — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:03:00 +0000

seen the win32 aesthetic used for higher-order reasons: separating "work mode" from playtime. An extra user to do so on the same machine helps.

Connect the dots reading https://www.marginalia.nu/log/99_context/ and seeing the ui change in old vs new screencasts https://www.youtube.com/@ViktorLofgren/videos

New comment by flas9sd in "PeerTube v7.1 Is Out"

flas9sd — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:29:08 +0000

a quick shortcut flow in a browser on the youtube channel page (a click below the video title):

ctrl+u ctrl+f "rss+x" -> shows a click+copyable video.xml link

I understand people being pleased to learn this, for me the peertube announcement was learning about p2, as it's been around a few years already.

alternateEnclosure is a real gem in the p2 rss spec, the thing that makes multiple channels and alternative formats/codecs/resolutions work.

New comment by flas9sd in "PeerTube v7.1 Is Out"

flas9sd — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:43:48 +0000

> .. improves support for Podcast 2.0, allowing users to subscribe to channels and play the video audio stream (if available) using classic podcast applications

that refers to https://podcasting2.org/podcast-namespace

A youtube channel url provides a rss link too, but it's not advertised much and you need a player that can extract the audio stream. I often yt-dl the audio from talks/interviews, but it could be easier.

The v7 interface came out nice, for examples see https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-version&p...

New comment by flas9sd in "Rippling sues Deel over spying"

flas9sd — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:50:23 +0000

for anyone wanting the Matt Levine delivery on this, it was in his Newsletter yesterday under "Spies in the Sales Slack"

New comment by flas9sd in "A look at Firefox forks"

flas9sd — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:49:44 +0000

had a positive experience recently on an issue and getting it fixed, people were helpful and instructive. For drive-by newbies there's an initial penalty to dig into Mozilla tooling. Lowering the threshold there will attract more contributors.

New comment by flas9sd in "Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps"

flas9sd — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:36:44 +0000

well done.. made me enable my static-sitegens opengraph plugin, add images, rewrite summaries, thanks!

Mastodon preview? :)

New comment by flas9sd in "Uchū – Color scheme for internet lovers"

flas9sd — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:06:11 +0000

webb.page is fun!

New comment by flas9sd in "I Blog with Raw HTML"

flas9sd — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:47:27 +0000

had a look and I like it. More "raw markdown" (what the OP uses too) instead of HTML in web publishing is a good thing - basically because xml syntax is not how humans want to write.

This, combined with git forges pages concept or tilde user accounts makes for nice corners in the webs.

New comment by flas9sd in "What does it mean that MP3 is free?"

flas9sd — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 04:11:56 +0000

true, but the complexity is greatly reduced between a caf container and (since Safari 17.5) a webm encumbered opus: the provider can offer 1 webm file to all platforms.

Especially in podcasts where it's just voice the savings in storage and traffic are significant. My own listening preference is 32kbits opus at ~1/4th size of the original 128kbits mp3.

New comment by flas9sd in "X partners with Visa to enable money transfers on the platform"

flas9sd — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:48:01 +0000

centralized services can execute on "give every user a wallet", but federated services and protocols can also add an attribute to piggyback on the addressbook that is inherent to a following/follower relation. Subscriber tiers and encrypted content is harder, but the peer discovery is already there.