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New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Before GitHub"

pidgeon_lover — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:41:04 +0000

Found a link to the Fossil forum thread I opened about this very problem of the split between Fossil Wiki and docs:

https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/e19ed2bfea94fc91f544c...

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Before GitHub"

pidgeon_lover — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:38:29 +0000

I wanted to host our company wiki in Fossil, but there is no way to import it because Fossil completely separates versioned project docs and the built-in Wiki function. Our git-based wiki could be imported into Fossil as "docs" but would not receive the nice formatting, GUI editor or dedicated page that the Wiki function does. There is also no benefit to manually converting it all to Fossil Wiki as some of our wiki editors work on raw markdown.md files and commit changes by git which is not possible with the Fossil Wiki; everyone would be forced to use the online editor only, whereas currently we have a choice of markdown or Gitea's editor.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Issue links now open in a popup"

pidgeon_lover — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:51:23 +0000

I don't understand why browser-makers don't leave window management to the window manager. Split view has been standard in Windows (and probably Linux?) since 2009. I know Mac doesn't really do split windows without additional software, but that's an Apple-being-awkward problem.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge"

pidgeon_lover — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:10:28 +0000

> "This is a quite a unique situation, and I think the young female has a keen eye to actually spot it," [Chris Newman, director of the National Centre for Reptile Welfare, said]

What an odd thing to say.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection"

pidgeon_lover — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:28:24 +0000

Someone made a nice player website for the Aadam Jacobs collection (probably vibe-coded): https://aadamjacobs.dunlap.ai/

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage"

pidgeon_lover — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:25:05 +0000

> use the subscription plans you already have, avoid paying for API usage, and keep the setup simple enough that you can try it in a few minutes.

That interested me, but the article does not explain how to do this at all. I was hoping it would tell how use my work's ChatGPT Pro subscription via the CLI without having to pay per token over their API.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared"

pidgeon_lover — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:42:46 +0000

> Unused memory is wasted memory.

Why does my computer freeze and become unusable when the RAM is 90%, then? That myth is complete nonsense - RAM is like a seatbelt or a crumple zone, serves as a buffer between the user and crashes, and will hopefully never be tested under use.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

pidgeon_lover — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:09:05 +0000

Wagic the Homebrew and MtG Forge are both high-quality FOSS Magic the Gathering simulators.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

pidgeon_lover — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:32:03 +0000

I love the smell of bloatware in the morning

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript"

pidgeon_lover — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:42:13 +0000

Once installed, I've found Electron installs tend to balloon from 80-200mb (installer) to 1.5GB or more (Electron + dedicated browser cache)

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

pidgeon_lover — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:25:47 +0000

Thank you very much for that! That might explain why one of the macbooks I installed Windows on seemed to have laggy screensavers, whereas the others (Air) seemed to work just fine.

I installed the MacOS Lion installer from a memory stick to the internal SSD (partition 1), Mac OS Lion itself to partition 2 (minimal size) and Win7 to partition 3 via Bootcamp, and it works well, aside from laggy screensavers on one of them, and losing around 10GB to the Mac Lion installer partition 1 (I don't know if there's a way to force it to install MacOS to 1x partition, rather than 2x, while fully offline)

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

pidgeon_lover — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:34 +0000

I had to reinstall MacOS Lion manually recently, as Macs do not have a BIOS and require a MacOS environment to begin installing Windows. I was installing Windows on legacy Macs, because it gives me 30+ years of software and performs well, unlike MacOS (5 years software if lucky, unusably slow performance on older hardware). I intentionally did it all the hard way offline from a Windows host, so that I could replicate it without depending on someone else's flakey servers (which incidentally refused to serve me OS installer images)

I detest crummy Unix-style online stub installers and package managers, because the original downloads are always down when you need them, and it's much harder than it should be to force offline replicable reinstallation.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "India and EU announce landmark trade deal"

pidgeon_lover — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:06:35 +0000

This sounds like a terrible deal, especially if it involves a flood of immigration from India

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Why IRC is better than Real Life (2000)"

pidgeon_lover — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:39:21 +0000

I don't get IRC - it seems to be antiquated unencrypted live group chats, with no usable clients. Group chats are useless for finding information and for communicating in between 10 ongoing conversations.

Web forums make sense and are searchable.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Intricuit: A touchscreen add-on for Mac laptops"

pidgeon_lover — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:31:20 +0000

It looks a bit like an IR scanner attached to glass, and quite a nice form factor for one.

Does anyone know of a similar product that would work with actual computers (Windows, arbitrary monitors), not just fruits?

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels"

pidgeon_lover — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:55:02 +0000

I wish there were some of the Metal Gear or Monster Hunter maps.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

pidgeon_lover — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:47:29 +0000

I've been experimenting with Syncthing on Kindle (https://github.com/Darthagnon/syncthing-kindle), but have had no luck seemingly because the Linux kernel included is too old and doesn't support network connections, or because the CPU is too weak.

Is there a project other than the one I forked?

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes"

pidgeon_lover — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:31:00 +0000

Frontmatter CMS is a VSCodium plugin that works as a somewhat user-friendly CMS for the likes of Hugo. https://frontmatter.codes/

I set it up for my brother to run his static blog, and it's quite good if you like that kind of thing. There are some quirks where it gets confused if you rename mycoolarticle.md, so I still prefer using notepad++ and git and CLI for mine.

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

pidgeon_lover — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:45:27 +0000

> Can install any version of Python

Does "any" version include custom homebrew builds of Python, e.g. backports of Python 3.12 to Windows Vista/7?

New comment by pidgeon_lover in "Why Nigeria accepted GMOs"

pidgeon_lover — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:45:44 +0000

No, GMOs are hazardous and inferior