<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: opan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=opan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:56:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=opan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by opan in "Hang on to Your Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Mobile firefox is OK, it simply feels like it's designed for a different person. For example even Chrome has "force reader mode" button.. Firefox does not.<p>I'm using Fennec from F-Droid, but I have a little document symbol on the URL bar I tap for reader mode. I guess the issue is it doesn't show on all sites then?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:09:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529533</link><dc:creator>opan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by opan in "2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>RuneScape was very popular at my local public library, and as a kid I only played the F2P content. I knew maybe one or two people around that time that played WoW. The paid subscription made it not a realistic option for me at the time. Though one of those WoW players did once bring his discs over for me to install the game and play on a private server with him. I don't think I kept playing WoW long for whatever reason. I was more into MapleStory, Graal Online, and RuneScape.</p>
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<p>Maybe they meant elementaryOS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:16:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514939</link><dc:creator>opan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by opan in "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spaces, voice and video calls, custom emoji or stickers. Basically the stuff people coming from Discord are used to but the people coming from IRC/XMPP aren't used to.</p>
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<p>Is it still easy to get C cells? I probably would've used an 18650 or some AAs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:18:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507012</link><dc:creator>opan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by opan in "SteamOS 3.9.0 Preview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think Steam being 64bit stops you launching 32bit games, just reduces the need for all the 32bit dependencies to use Steam at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:02:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491904</link><dc:creator>opan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by opan in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Besides the TUI program itself, you also have your terminal emulator (unless in a TTY) and possibly a multiplexer like tmux. I use irssi inside tmux from my phone a lot and you can get pretty precise control with keyboard shortcuts that make up for some of the flaws of a touchscreen. Like instead of mashing or holding the arrows to go back and fix a typo, I'll use the readline binds and hit esc and b a bunch of times to close most of the distance, then switch to arrows at the end if needed. The tmux copy mode is also pretty friendly in the same way, you can vary gradually adjust your selection start/end without having to hold anything down.</p>
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<p>That's a funny example, reminds me of how often fresh Windows 7 or older installs were missing the ethernet driver so you had to move stuff over on a flash drive to get started really setting stuff up.<p>In your situation, a couple possible solutions come to mind. 1) turn on "mouse keys" which lets you use the numpad to move the mouse and click, 2) a vim addon for the browser (e.g. vimperator or tridactyl) likely could've clicked the button via the hints mode.
It's in the past now so maybe these wouldn't have worked or you didn't know, of course, just fun to think of what I would've done.</p>
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<p>Seconding Conversations, though I wish it'd let me disable relative timestamps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:26:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49429059</link><dc:creator>opan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49429059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49429059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by opan in "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I regularly use IRC, XMPP, and Matrix. I think your description fits IRC better. XMPP kinda has a Plan 9 or Amiga type of vibe, cult following "ahead of its time", but never took off totally how people hoped, or didn't stay relevant at least.</p>
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<p>XMPP is somewhat popular on the fediverse, especially the Pleroma side. If you meet people there who want to chat elsewhere, they likely are on XMPP. Also if you have a Disroot account it comes with XMPP.</p>
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<p>I think GP was speaking hyperbolically, because most new features hit Element/Synapse first and other clients lag behind implementing them. If you care about more than the basics working, it's kind of just the illusion of choice.</p>
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<p>IRC and email worked out pretty well I think.</p>
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<p>I strongly prefer that with XMPP I can disable the encryption when it breaks to tell my friend I'm trapped under a boulder and bleeding out. With Matrix our chat is encrypted, I can't turn it off ever, if it stops working I can't communicate, my only option is to make a new room with encryption disabled and invite my friend hoping he sees the invite and accepts in time.</p>
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<p>Used to be you saved and shared screenshots by pasting into Paint and saving it. Printscreen didn't save a file and only some programs (Skype) let you paste the screenshot directly from the clipboard. That's how I remember it anyway.</p>
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<p>With QMK you can have mousekeys including scrolling in another layer. IME mostly useful when you can't use j/k or pgdn/pgup or similar.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:05:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405050</link><dc:creator>opan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by opan in "typ.ing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. The biggest hits to typing speed are usually typos or fixing typos. If you slow down and try harder to hit the right key the first time, I'd bet you can hit 20wpm at least.</p>
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<p>>I wonder how long it would take to get to 75WPM on graphite. A decade?<p>Assuming you can already type that fast, 3-6 months at most I would think (with daily practice / full immersion). My best speed with QWERTY was 160wpm and I was able to get to 120wpm+ with Dvorak and later Workman in under a year each. One big tip I have is to not avoid typing particular things. Enable the punctuation, symbols, numbers. You're gonna be slow at everything at first, so might as well train in a well-rounded way. A friend of mine chose not to do this and struggles greatly with typing numbers and symbols. monkeytype is my favorite site to train speed, but there are some others that are useful for the first few days as you're drilling where the keys are and getting used to typing common bigrams.</p>
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<p>If you care about the ergonomics of the thumb cluster, the Ergodox and others like it have a bad one. It sticks out too far. For a more modern and ergonomic thumb cluster, check out Pinky4, Iris, or Corne. I've been using a Pinky4 for years and all the thumb keys are easy to reach and comfortable. I haven't used the Ergodox EZ, but I did borrow an Infinity Ergodox for a few months once.</p>
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<p>I believe it's so people who use a 60% or 80% keyboard can order 20-40 fewer than those with a 100% keyboard.</p>
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