Hacker News: jimbosis

New comment by jimbosis in "Before GitHub"

jimbosis — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:40:39 +0000

There's also "Chisel - Fossil SCM Hosting".

"This service is completely free and run because a service like it should exist."

https://chiselapp.com/

"All public repositories":

https://chiselapp.com/repositories/

I don't know if it has all the GitHub features people may be looking for.

Chisel runs on Flint, "The ISC licensed codebase behind http://chiselapp.com.":

https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/flint/index

EDIT: Add "...should exist." sentence from the homepage.

New comment by jimbosis in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

jimbosis — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:45:12 +0000

AV Linux uses Enlightenment 0.27.1. The creator of that distribution also offers a version based on Moksha 0.4.2, the E17 fork mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

https://www.bandshed.net/

Latest Version Release Announcement:

https://www.bandshed.net/2026/03/01/av-linux-and-mx-moksha-2...

A few more details from and older release announcement:

"Both ISO’s are built on an MX Linux 25/Debian Trixie base with Liquorix kernels."

https://www.bandshed.net/2025/11/27/av-linux-and-mx-moksha-2...

New comment by jimbosis in "Lunar Flyby"

jimbosis — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:18:37 +0000

Perhaps try the clips available at the "Video and 16-mm Galleries" from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal:

https://apollojournals.org/alsj/alsj-video.html

On the other hand, maybe don't get your hopes up--I've only tried a few, but even the large MPG files don't seem to be "super high quality," but maybe they will meet your expectations.

New comment by jimbosis in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

jimbosis — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:37:48 +0000

"The Nikon D5 remains the camera of choice for the Artemis II mission and will be assigned primary photographic duties. It is a proven, highly-tested camera that the Artemis II team knows will excel in the high-radiation environment of space. However, as Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman explained ahead of yesterday’s launch, he successfully fought to have a single Nikon Z9 added to Artemis II’s manifest."

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/02/a-nikon-z9-made-it-aboard-t...

There are more interesting details in the PetaPixel article, such as: "'That’s the camera that they’ll be using, the crew will be using on Artemis III plus, so we were fighting really hard to get that on the vehicle to test out in a high-radiation environment in deep space,' Wiseman said."

H/t to "SiliconEagle73" who linked to that PetaPixel article in the thread linked below.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1sbfevm/new_high_reso...

New comment by jimbosis in "16-inch softball"

jimbosis — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:55:34 +0000

I'm so happy to see two HNers who love this song (and the video)!

"....

Play softball with the guys, wife made curly fries

Drink about four O'Doul's, grounded out, two pop flies

...."

New comment by jimbosis in "Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep"

jimbosis — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:46:34 +0000

Also see this related Cocoa- or GNUstep-based project from some of the same people: http://coreobject.org/

"Distributed version control + Object persistence"

New comment by jimbosis in "Double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials"

jimbosis — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 04:49:11 +0000

There's another Veritasium video that has a neat experiment ostensibly showing light (both lamp and laser sources) "taking all paths" (or words to that effect--I don't really know what I'm seeing or what I'm talking about!) It starts around 25 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZ1Ez28C-A

EDIT: Whoops. The YouTube video linked by naasking in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771713 touches on the Veritasum video I linked to and goes to some length to explain that it is NOT proving the light is taking "all possible paths." He also brings up and links to a video on the "Looking Glass Universe" channel in which the hostess recreates the Vertiasium experiment and gives a differing interpretation. (Some commenters there have objections to the experimental setup. Oh boy, I may be down a rabbit hole here.)

New comment by jimbosis in "Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras"

jimbosis — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:55:27 +0000

May I ask the name of the plugin, please?

New comment by jimbosis in "Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”"

jimbosis — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:17:19 +0000

(In case you haven't heard of it and it proves helpful to you and/or someone else:)

Have you heard of Epyrus?

Homepage: http://www.epyrus.org/index.html

(The download link is easily found there, as well as git repository and forum links.)

It's based on UXP (the Unified XUL Platform) and is thus related to the Pale Moon browser (which doesn't bother me). I've been using it on Linux as a way to have an "older Thunderbird" look and feel, e.g., I have real scrollbars, and the "Send" button didn't mysteriously vanish from the Compose window with no way to get it back upon some "from the ground up redesign" upgrade.

EDIT: Typographical error, phrasing.

Scrappy: Make little apps for you and your friends

jimbosis — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:04:51 +0000

Article URL: https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44118159

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

New comment by jimbosis in "Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes"

jimbosis — Sun, 04 May 2025 14:05:47 +0000

I don't know if it will work for booting Windows, but have you tried installing Haiku's BootManager to the MBR?

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/boot...

On the booting Windows front, this thread has a few people describing how they successfully used BootManager to dual and triple boot Haiku, Windows 7, and/or Linux:

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/dual-booting-haiku-and-window...

I have a laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T410s) with Haiku, Linux Mint, and Devuan GNU/Linux. I use BootManager in the MBR, and it gives me a menu of all three to choose from. For the two Linux options, I have GRUB installed on each of their own partitions, so BootManager just sends me to the GRUB installed on whichever Linux partition. (Of course, this isn't exactly "replacing" GRUB altogether.)

I do it this way because I find dealing with BootManager to send me to individual GRUBs to boot a particular Linux partition much, much easier than fiddling with GRUB to boot Haiku.

(One last thought, parenthetical as I'm not sure it can even work from a USB drive: Worst case, you might make a USB "boot stick" that uses BootManager to choose between Haiku and Linux and let Windows do its jolly thing on the MBR?)

New comment by jimbosis in "The Subjective Charms of Objective-C"

jimbosis — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:30:09 +0000

I don't know if this will be helpful or inspirational or depressing, but your comment made me think of Paul Lutus, who pulled off at least some parts of the dream of living in a cabin and writing software. Here's an interview he did with Adam Gordon Bell on Bell's CoRecursive podcast (transcript and audio):

https://corecursive.com/remote-developer/

To give just a taste, here's a forum post that quotes a few highlights from that CoRecursive episode:

https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/remote-developer-1970s-app...

New comment by jimbosis in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

jimbosis — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:51:03 +0000

I had the same frustration as you with finding the pricing information. With some serendipitous clicking, I managed to find it!

https://pico.sh/plus

It does also mention there is a $0 "Starter" tier.

(I found that link on this page:

https://pico.sh/pgs )

EDIT: Mention the Starter tier.

New comment by jimbosis in "When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite (2024)"

jimbosis — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:22:08 +0000

Thank you for sharing this.

I want to add that Sufjan Stevens has a song, "Exploding Whale", which is not really about the event per se, but uses it as a metaphor: "....Embrace the epic fail/Of my exploding whale...."

https://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/album/exploding-whale

New comment by jimbosis in "MacBASIC"

jimbosis — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:21:24 +0000

The folks at OpenXTalk are continuing to develop fork(s) of the final Open Source LiveCode Community Edition.

https://www.openxtalk.org/

https://www.openxtalk.org/OXTDownloads.html

https://www.openxtalk.org/forum/

The forum seems a little disorganized to me, but I lurk a few times a year and get the pulse of how the development is going by reading the recent-ish posts.

From the first link:

"What is OpenXTalk?

OpenXTal k [sic] is the working name of a fork of the now unsupported Legacy LiveCode Community Edition project, with the goal of keeping a FREE OPEN SOURCE xTalk language publicly available...."

Edit: Newline formatting.

New comment by jimbosis in "Show HN: HTML for People"

jimbosis — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:14:35 +0000

I plan to dig in deeper, but this looks like a great introduction to building websites.

I teach a one semester high school Web Design class and currently use a mixture of lessons from these two for learning the basics of making pages by hand with HTML and CSS:

https://internetingishard.netlify.app/

https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/webd2/student/ind...

This looks very promising and could supplant or at the very least supplement those.

New comment by jimbosis in "Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11"

jimbosis — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:53:04 +0000

I'm half-heartedly trying to RTFM of 'xpra', but haven't found the 'run_scaled' script yet. If it's not too much trouble, can you please reply with the commands you use to scale an X11 program?

(I'm on Devuan Daedalus 5.0, ~= Debian Bookworm 12.0.)

(I currently use 'xzoom' to scale X11 programs, but it's a little kludgy.)

EDIT: Single quotes for all program names. Bookworm, not Bookwork.

New comment by jimbosis in "Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)"

jimbosis — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 18:07:43 +0000

There is this Rust program to display a bouncing DVD logo in a terminal:

https://github.com/pythops/bouncinamation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35785932 [2023]

I haven't used a recent macOS in years, but I use the following command to get a fullscreen screensaver and locked screen on (Devuan GNU+) Linux. It's probably about as secure as a cheap padlock and flimsy chain or cable to lock a bike.

  xtrlock -f & xterm -fullscreen -e 'sleep .05 ; /path/to/file/bouncinamation'

You can skip the 'xtrlock -f &' part to just run 'bouncimation' in a fullscreen xterm. 'Esc' exits.

If running with 'xtrlock' you must enter your password first to unlock 'xtrlock', and then 'Esc' to exit 'bouncinamation'.

The 'sleep .05' is to make it work better or more reliably. I don't remember exactly what, but there was some kind of issue that was fixed when I did 'sleep .05' before running 'bouncinamation'.

New comment by jimbosis in "HyperCard Simulator"

jimbosis — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:15:30 +0000

For those who may be wondering what became of the erstwhile Free & Open Source LiveCode Community Edition (LCCE), check out OpenXTalk:

https://openxtalk.org/

and Forum:

https://www.openxtalk.org/forum/

and Downloads:

https://openxtalk.org/OXTDownloads.html

Some of the download links are for RCs of the OpenXTalk DON'T PANIC! Edition (DPE) IDE , which is a fork of LCCE

GitHub of OXT DPE:

https://github.com/OpenXTalk-org/OpenXtalk-IDE-DontPanicEdit...

Other download links are to another fork, OpenXTalk Lite Edition (OXT Lite), which seems to have recently been rebranded to "tIDE."

tIDE Homepage:

https://www.tsites.co.uk/sites/other/other.php

EDIT: LiveCode, not Live Code.

New comment by jimbosis in "Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter"

jimbosis — Thu, 16 May 2024 02:03:12 +0000

Do you or does anyone else have a summary of or any link to read about what you are alluding to, namely Proton Mail rewriting email bodies?