itsmenow · HackerTrans

Thanks for those links. I recently looked for a plugin that reads highlighted text in firefox that "just works"... but found limited success (this was on linux). But really great to see that there are large-scale, OS-level already established FLOSS projects out there.

itsmenow

9 mesi fadiscuss

Just out of curiosity, do you have thoughts on what some of the most useful projects are to those in your position, that one could contribute to?

itsmenow

4 anni fadiscuss

Kingsajz [1] is one of my favorite Polish movies of all time. It's about way for people to consume some elixir and become tiny (it's an adult movie, although may not sound like it). The special effects are absolutely phenomenal - it's mind boggling that it was done in 1987, and with communist budgets! Unfortunately looks like no English subtitles are available.

[1] https://35mm.online/vod/fabula/kingsajz

itsmenow

4 anni fadiscuss

wow, this is really fantastic! The whole site seems quite useful in fact.

itsmenow

5 anni fadiscuss

CBC Market place did a bit on that in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1yqcagavfY

itsmenow

5 anni fadiscuss

That has never happened to me and I've been using the android version for years. I will agree that the Blackberry Hub version for android is indeed not as good as the original Blackberry version (on BB10), but i still prefer it over the alternatives. In fact I still pay them $1/month as it's subscription based...

itsmenow

5 anni fadiscuss

This thing is magical! I use it as a quick scientific paper finder. Basically have a folder with, probably thousands by now, papers (each file's name contains paper title, authors, year, journal) and by typing a couple words can fuzzy search for stuff by whatever fields. It also works incredibly nicely with vim as a fuzzy search for either files or phrases within files.

itsmenow

7 anni fadiscuss

so do I. Although I discovered it rather late - in 2004. It's remarkable how configurable it is. I adopted some version of what this guy did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSgf-IykIo to do "manual tiling". Also can't find anything modern that even remotely can compare.

itsmenow

7 anni fadiscuss

related video for those interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aVYb-a7Uw

itsmenow

9 anni fadiscuss

There is a new plugin called "spotty" (see here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?107615-Announce...) that lets you stream spotify to any client.

itsmenow

9 anni fadiscuss

I second this. I've been using various squeezebox devices (and software players) for years, for both listening to my own music collection as well as streaming (spotify mostly). The squeezebox server (i.e the core software that various clients can connect to) has been open-sourced, and is still actively developed/updated. There are also open-source software clients readily available.

itsmenow

9 anni fadiscuss

look into the squeezebox ecosystem.

itsmenow

9 anni fadiscuss

I personally much prefer using a local setup (editor+plugins+instantaneous compiling, etc), but of course collaboration is painful that way, especially given my collaborators much prefer web-based/shared work-flows. Just few days ago, however, discovered that I can use an overleaf project as just a git repo, then push/pull as I see fit. That is an amazing feature!... everyone get to work how they want. Hope that it stays included with the free version.

itsmenow

10 anni fadiscuss

This is also doable with fvwm.

itsmenow

10 anni fadiscuss

It's indeed actively maintained!... lots of changes and updates recently. They're cleaning up the code base. After using it for over 12 years, I'm still amazed just how incredibly flexible fvwm is. You can even mimic tiling with a bit of effort (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSgf-IykIo ).

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