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Reminds me of one of my favorite games: Hacknet (https://hacknet-os.com - https://store.steampowered.com/app/365450/Hacknet/). Likely contributed in a meaningful way to me becoming a programmer. I think I have Zachtronic's SHENZHEN I/O on my wishlist—will have to check out his whole catalog.

Matt Webb made a version of this (and wrote about it) a while back—Cursor Party: https://interconnected.org/home/2024/09/05/cursor-party

I contemplated implementing it on my site for a while but decided I didn’t want to add the JavaScript. Still find it a really cute concept.

My understanding of Palantir's actual, technical offering is profoundly boring: a hosted platform that connects to existing diverse sources of data and organizes them according to well-defined (by Palantir's FDEs) useful schemas. I have developed this impression through actually building a product on the Foundry as well as several rounds of interviews. Frankly that is profoundly boring. The anti-Palantir propaganda, portraying them as this all-powerful Skynet software, is as much a part of their marketing as anything else.

On the other hand, their effectiveness appears to be less in question: the article above claims that Scotland Yard found hundreds of police officers to have been abusing their posts in various ways through use of the Palantir system. I am not a fan of corrupt cops, so I think this is good. Similar stories exist elsewhere, like a 68% reduction in 48-hour mortality at a Tampa hospital through deployment of Palantir's anti-sepsis monitoring tech.

Thus I arrive at the conclusion that this decision is ultimately a loss. Khan's legal standing appears to rely on them not investigating other potential suppliers—I'm not sure that there are any, and "develop these simple data systems in-house" is a bad option because if they could have they would. I suppose ultimately I don't think that Palantir's "bad vibes" among constituents should impact governments' desire to be effective in the programs they purport implement.

It's not a technical issue but a UX one. It would be a pain to set up pushing via SSH to a knot container on my server because I am use SSH for the host already. And specifying a port is ugly. Doing this over the internet negates all these.

Well said, in particular the last sentence: IIRC at the time I was seeking to delete a repo that I had made accidentally so as to clean up my profile.

I discovered Radicle back in 2020 (when their website looked incredible: https://web.archive.org/web/20201201030505/https://radicle.x...). I bounced off of it, in part due to being unable to effectively delete repositories. They used to have an FAQ about that—looks like it's gone now, though the public-private repository area is much more fleshed out (you can make a repo private, in which case no new updates will be publicized but the history will still exist). In truth, it's just profoundly difficult to effectively "delete" things in a decentralized system (see: Matrix, BitTorrent, et. al.). But definitely something to consider; people accidentally upload secrets, and want to have some recourse when that happens.

Still, time has passed and I have become more interested in GitHub alternatives (https://figbert.com/posts/ideating-tragit/). Will likely end up moving to Tangled. But first I need to add support over there for pushing over HTTPS...

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https://figbert.com

coolest damn site on the net

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I was tricked into trying Gleam earlier this summer, and really liked it! I anticipate that I will at least use it for all future web projects (one example: https://github.com/FIGBERT/bdab) due to my serious JavaScript allergy.

I will note something that might be of use for the work in this particular article: https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_stdlib/gleam/dynamic/decode.html

Gleam Decoders are something I haven’t fully wrapped my head around, but are supposedly very powerful and do exactly what this article is focused on (parsing input data into Gleam types) in a more(?) idiomatic way.

Made something similar that is probably my proudest work: https://figbert.com/projects/roll-call/

I increasingly have come to believe that it is the screen itself that lies at the root of the ills of technology. It brings so much benefit—and so much convenience, from its flexibility—but it is in its fundamental glow-y rectangular nature that sucks us in, crushing our attention, posture, and so much else. Was incredibly fun to experiment with something radically different.

Excited to see where things go from here.

Coolest page on the site: https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/color-gallery.htm...

Appreciate the recommendation, will check out the course!

my personal favorite hacker news tui: https://github.com/bensadeh/circumflex

Is there a link to a version of this that's still live? Would love to check it out.

I live in the terminal and recently found https://github.com/maaslalani/invoice, which looks really cool. Still will likely stick with my own solution (a little ruby and some tectonic latex [https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/]), which lets me create PDFs more in-line with my aesthetic.

The argument that passwords are acceptable as long as everyone practices good "hygiene" strikes me as having many parallels with the argument that C code is memory safe as long as it is written properly.

I'd rather just have memory safety built in to the language I'm using—I'm not sure exactly what the equivalent is for passwords, but I don't think I would oppose it.

I would second the idea of custom storage backends, but also warn that Google Drive and Dropbox aren't really under your control either.

If I'm understanding correctly, this basically just kicks the ball a little further down the road...

You shouldn't use pip directly because you don't know which version is the one in your path. Ok: the same applies to the python command?

Calling pip is version ambiguous, but so is calling python.

It is! Highly recommend.

Thank you! Unfortunately, we don't yet support v2. The upstream library we use (see: sibling comments) hasn't implemented support.

The font isn't strictly required – Mabel functions just fine without it, you will just have one or two characters that don't render properly.

I suppose we could make Nerd Fonts opt-in via the config, but I don't think it's that unusual an ask. See: https://starship.rs

The images in the README have been updated.

You know, like how it used to be with RSS.

That, my friend, would be because it is RSS!

You simply must try https://www.mysaffronapp.com

It really successfully imports and de-clutters recipes from any and all recipe sites I've thrown at it. Ben Awad, the programmer behind Saffron, actually posted about their scraping technique on HN to significant success: https://www.benawad.com/scraping-recipe-websites/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142220)

Their UX is unmatched, they've got apps for iOS and Android in addition to the web app itself. Undoubtedly one of my favorite pieces of software.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1435439291715358721.html

unJewgled Chromium

What the fuck?

I had my first encounter with The Elm Architecture through the Go Bubble Tea library (https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea). What a revelation. Such a drastically different way of thinking about UI.

Here it is on Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1426587396343099397.html

Yes! You just have to get it set up properly in the config (I remember reading about it in the docs or mailing list somewhere).

I use Hetzner, personally.

Did a bit of a cost analysis here: https://figbert.com/posts/moving-to-hetzner-from-digitalocea...