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Comment on Joy of sharing a creation replaced by a longing sadness in ~talk
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Comment on Cassini, a spiritual successor to Microsoft Paint for the iPad in ~creative
kwyjibo LinkLovely website. The app’s design looks cool too. Your buttons especially reminded me of Teenage Engineering’s OP-1. My iPad is quite old, I’m waiting until March when Apple releases the new ones,...Lovely website. The app’s design looks cool too. Your buttons especially reminded me of Teenage Engineering’s OP-1. My iPad is quite old, I’m waiting until March when Apple releases the new ones, and when I do, I’ll be sure to give it a try!
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Comment on Here are your choices for a self-hosted ebook server in ~books
kwyjibo LinkDo any of these allow me to zoom into specific areas of the comic when I double-tap or click? I have tried Kavita and Komga, but they don’t let me do that, which is frustrating.Do any of these allow me to zoom into specific areas of the comic when I double-tap or click? I have tried Kavita and Komga, but they don’t let me do that, which is frustrating.
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Comment on Something big is happening in ~tech
kwyjibo (edited )Link ParentThanks! And thank you for the heads up, you’re right. When I start a new project, I have a local folder where I iterate on it. When I think I am done, I set up a new, completely separate folder...Thanks! And thank you for the heads up, you’re right.
When I start a new project, I have a local folder where I iterate on it. When I think I am done, I set up a new, completely separate folder and move files over to it, stripping everything of any private data (such as tokens for which I use environment variables) and then publish it on Github. (I do manual checks, but also put the project folder through Gemini and Codex in case I missed something.) I’m sure there’s a better way of doing this and I’ll eventually learn what it is or they are, but given the limited scope of my projects and how I almost never update them, it works.
As for user data, I have not created a project where I can gather that even if I want to, and I most certainly don’t. (I guess I could’ve done so with the extension, but I didn’t.) For the fountain pen management project, I thought about making it available online (apart from the static website it generates) so that people can manage their collections online instead of installing an Electron app, but that’d have opened doors to a whole range of risks, so I didn’t. For example, I allow users to use photos of their own swatches (ink samples on a piece of paper). If I had an online website with auth, I’d have to guard against potential upload of naughty or downright illegal photos, which is a headache I am simply not equipped to deal with.
I make sure everything runs locally, at most in a docker container so it can be served on a server but only if the user explicitly wants it so on their own server and not mine.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games
kwyjibo LinkHello everyone! I hope you’re having fun with the game. I tried to carve some time for it but I don’t think I’ll be able to do it going forward. Life’s just too busy, and my focus on how to spend...Hello everyone! I hope you’re having fun with the game. I tried to carve some time for it but I don’t think I’ll be able to do it going forward. Life’s just too busy, and my focus on how to spend the little free time I get to have has shifted away from Minecraft. I didn’t get to play that much apart from the first week anyway, but it was fun.
I believe I had already mentioned this in one of the previous threads, but please feel free to do whatever you want with the land I was building on. I was very slowly building a floating house in an island close to the town center at
x201 y88 z235.I hope I’ll have more time on season 3, if there ever is one. Have fun!
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Comment on Something big is happening in ~tech
kwyjibo LinkThis certainly reads like a hype piece with some truth in it. I have big qualms about some aspects of AI but from an entirely personal experience, I’ve been having the time of my life tinkering...This certainly reads like a hype piece with some truth in it. I have big qualms about some aspects of AI but from an entirely personal experience, I’ve been having the time of my life tinkering with Codex and Gemini on their respective apps.
I am not a software developer, nor do I know how to write code. But I am technical enough person. I know my way around Linux, I can write simple scripts here and there to automate some stuff, I can speak the technical language and keep up with a developer in a conversation, but I have never been good at coding relatively complicated stuff. I’ve never had the time to polish my skills in that area because I am in an entirely different line of work and I don’t intend to change careers, so why would I sink hundreds of hours, if not thousands, just so that I can manage a few side projects, right?
In just two weeks, I managed to create the following:
- A Firefox extension to fix punctuation marks. Things like proper quotation marks and whatnot. Windows is notoriously bad at this, unlike macOS, so I created a solution for it.
- A library showcase for my physical books. I was already managing an Excel spreadsheet for this, but this project takes that data in, and outputs a static website with neat animations, book covers (fetching them directly from Goodreads), search, statistics and so on.
- A neat little software to manage my fountain pens, inks, and swatches. It works great, looks great, it’s universal, and I can have it build a website out of it if I want to, so I can have my collection publicly available.
- A price tracker. I give it a link, it scrapes the price data, and checks it every hour to see if there’s any changes to it. It also checks whether it went out of stock or not. It’s got price history graphs, support for Discord webhooks and quite a bit more. I packaged it as a Docker container and it’s now running on my home server. All it took was a few clicks.
I’m sure these projects sound terribly easy to some of you. They’re not essential in the slightest, but it tickles my OCD brain to know that I got these things organized. And it’s more than likely that the code is a horror show. But I genuinely do not care. Does it work? It does. That’s what I care about.
I read this blog post a couple of weeks back, it was written by the person who inspired me to build the library showcase. He had a line that stuck with me: “AI [Claude] handled implementation. I handled taste.” That’s a great summation of what AI, or at least “coding” with AI is to me.
It still struggles in some areas, especially when it comes to UI and aligning elements, but the AI development could halt today and I’d still be a happy person because for my personal use case, AI has already made it. Now I am gonna think about what my next project should be.
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Comment on What are your food aversions? in ~food
kwyjibo Link ParentThat’s a good point. I’ll order some next time I do my groceries and hopefully it turns out well. Thanks!That’s a good point. I’ll order some next time I do my groceries and hopefully it turns out well. Thanks!
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Comment on What are your food aversions? in ~food
kwyjibo Link ParentThanks for the tip! I’m glad it works with an air-fryer. I’m curious, do you salt them before or after?Thanks for the tip! I’m glad it works with an air-fryer. I’m curious, do you salt them before or after?
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Comment on What are your food aversions? in ~food
kwyjibo Link ParentThat sounds delicious (assuming I’d like the taste of the sprouts) but unfortunately it’s not for me. I am on a strict diet and stir frying and maple syrup (which would be hard for me to source)...That sounds delicious (assuming I’d like the taste of the sprouts) but unfortunately it’s not for me. I am on a strict diet and stir frying and maple syrup (which would be hard for me to source) is a no-go.
I was thinking of using an air-fryer to cook the sprouts. My goal is to make it dry/crispy as much as I can without using oil. As for dressing, I’m not sure.
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Comment on What are your food aversions? in ~food
kwyjibo Link ParentI was exactly the same as you! I could not stand broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprout and as you said boiled cabbage. Now that I am a middle aged person, as cliche as it sounds, I started to...I was exactly the same as you! I could not stand broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprout and as you said boiled cabbage.
Now that I am a middle aged person, as cliche as it sounds, I started to care a bit more about my health with the new year. Last week, I forced myself to eat some broccoli (and zucchini) and it wasn’t half bad. What I did was I found a cheat. With some garlic yogurt and a bit of MSG, broccoli and zucchini’s taste profile take a backseat to that of garlic and yogurt and become somewhat a pleasure to eat. I was so surprised how good it tasted, I ended up preparing it two dinners in a row.
I am now slowly preparing myself for Brussels sprouts. I think that’s a tougher challenge, especially compared to cauliflower given how close they are with broccoli which I already started liking, but we’ll see. One thing I don’t think I’ll ever be able to accomplish is getting over how gross boiled cabbage is to me, though. There’s this dish called Kapuska and whenever my mom made it when I was a kid, I’d either lock myself into my room or just leave the house. I simply could not stand the smell and I still can’t. That being said, to this day, I love munching on pickled cabbage. Given how low calorie it is, that is also a cheat code for those who want to lose weight. (Though it’s pickled, so gotta watch out for excess sodium.)
I hope you don’t give up!
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Comment on Actual underrated films of the 2020s so far in ~movies
kwyjibo LinkIn no particular order: Freemont, Çatlak, My Small Land (マイスモールランド), The Kid Detective, As bestas, Hytti nro 6, Das Lehrerzimmer, Presence, and Babylon. I don’t love any of the films above, but...In no particular order: Freemont, Çatlak, My Small Land (マイスモールランド), The Kid Detective, As bestas, Hytti nro 6, Das Lehrerzimmer, Presence, and Babylon.
I don’t love any of the films above, but they’re really good in their own right. My Small Island and Çatlak were particularly affecting. Babylon has been watched a lot, and I added it to my list only because I think it’s very much undervalued, and I’m saying this as someone who’s not the biggest fan of its director. I just have a soft spot for films that are flat out interesting to watch, where you don’t know what the next scene will be about. (Granted, that doesn’t make a film good, but that’s not a priority for me.) Under my definition of underrated, Presence would take the cake, though. It’s a Soderbergh film, so it didn’t go under the radar, but it’s “misinterpreted” and brushed off by a significant number of people as a simple ghost story. It’s so, so much more than that. It didn’t affect me as much as the aforementioned films, but Presence is by far the best film on my list.
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Comment on Wired vs. wireless mouse and keyboard? in ~tech
kwyjibo LinkThere’s no drawback with wireless mice. Majority of competitive players play with them. The ones who still use a wired mice do so out of habit. There’s basically no input or sensor lag. Keyboard...There’s no drawback with wireless mice. Majority of competitive players play with them. The ones who still use a wired mice do so out of habit. There’s basically no input or sensor lag. Keyboard side of things is a different story, but for your purposes, it makes no difference either. You will not notice any difference from their wired equivalents, apart from the price. Rtings is a great resource if you want to check what’s available for either peripheral.
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Comment on Renfrew Christie dies at 76; sabotaged racist regime’s nuclear program (gifted link) in ~society
kwyjibo LinkRenfrew Christie, a South African scholar whose undercover work for the African National Congress was critical in hobbling the apartheid government’s secret nuclear weapons program in the 1980s, died on Dec. 21 at his home in Cape Town. He was 76.
The A.N.C., in a statement, called Dr. Christie’s role “in disrupting and exposing the apartheid state’s clandestine nuclear weapons program” an “act of profound revolutionary significance.”
From the doctoral dissertation he had written at the University of Oxford on the history of electricity in South Africa, Dr. Christie provided the research needed to blow up the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; the Arnot coal-fired power station; the Sasol oil-from-coal facilities that produced the heavy water critical to producing nuclear weapons; and other critical sites.
The explosions set back South Africa’s nascent nuclear weapons program by years and cost the government more than $1 billion, Dr. Christie later estimated.
Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”
After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities.
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Renfrew Christie dies at 76; sabotaged racist regime’s nuclear program (gifted link)
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft - Season 3 Launch Day in ~games
kwyjibo Link ParentMy base is at 200, 88, 236. It’s an island. I have a ton to work on, but I can only devote so much time. It’s somewhat close to the town, so if I am in the way, I can move somewhere else.My base is at 200, 88, 236. It’s an island. I have a ton to work on, but I can only devote so much time. It’s somewhat close to the town, so if I am in the way, I can move somewhere else.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft - Season 3 Launch Day in ~games
kwyjibo (edited )LinkUh oh. Can’t log in. Says I’m not whitelisted. I thought this was the way to do it. Am I missing something? Edit: It’s fixed.Uh oh. Can’t log in. Says I’m not whitelisted. I thought this was the way to do it. Am I missing something?
Edit: It’s fixed.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft - Season 3 Launch Day in ~games
kwyjibo Link Parent@TaylorSwiftsPickles already answered your question but yes, I only downloaded client-side mods. It’s a new world to me as well, despite playing the game for so long, so I had to try a few before...@TaylorSwiftsPickles already answered your question but yes, I only downloaded client-side mods. It’s a new world to me as well, despite playing the game for so long, so I had to try a few before settling on them. Here’s my list:
Mods, shaders, etc.
Downloaded via Prism Launcher.
Mods:
- AmbientSounds
- Cloth Config v20
- Continuity
- CreativeCore
- Fabric API
- Falling Leaves
- Iris
- Lithotitched
- Mod Menu
- Placeholder API
- Sodium
- Sound Physics Remastered
- Tectonic
- Voxy
- Web Chat
- Xaero’s Minimap
- Xaero’s World Map
- YetAnotherConfigLib
Resource packs:
- Haven’t settled on one yet, but Patrix 32x is decent. Though I might end up not using anything.
Shader packs:
- Photon (Voxy compatible version that you can download from Github)
I don’t know what half of the mods do but they were installed because some mods that I liked had them as their dependency.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft - Season 3 Launch Day in ~games
kwyjibo LinkGot my client side mods and whatnot ready and I’m excited to be there on launch!Got my client side mods and whatnot ready and I’m excited to be there on launch!
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft - Get hyped countdown thread in ~games
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft - Get hyped countdown thread in ~games
kwyjibo Link ParentThank you for your detailed reply! I’ll go with Prism for the time being. I don’t mind a bit of a learning curve and I could get familiar with names like shaders and resource packs and all that. I...
Hey, I’m sorry you have to go through all of that. I know how tough it can be to try to exist in a politically and culturally oppressive society with limited resources. If there’s anything I can do to help, please feel free to reach out. I am in a neighboring country.