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If you want to get some flavor of what editing on the Canon Cat may have felt like, especially the LEAP keys, try Jasper and/or bitters.

Jasper:

https://lab.alexanderobenauer.com/jasper/

https://lab.alexanderobenauer.com/updates/the-jasper-report

bitters:

https://m15o.ichi.city/bitters/

https://nightfall.city/nex/in/m15o/projects/bitters/ (very similar to the link above, but Nex is a neat protocol...)

https://sr.ht/~m15o/bitters/

Furthermore, Internet Archive hosts a runnable Canon Cat Emulation. I believe this means it is available in MAME as well.

https://archive.org/details/canoncat

Forgive me if this isn't what you meant, but a Jesuit has trained his own LLM:

https://www.magiscenter.com/magisai

From the "Core Features" tab: "Trusted sourcebase: answers are consistent with Catholic Church Teaching and the most contemporary scholarship in science, philosophy, history, scriptural exegesis, social science, and theology."

The Jesuit priest behind this is Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.

https://www.magiscenter.com/father-spitzer

I haven't used magisAI, but I've read a small to fair amount of Fr. Spitzer's writings, and also seen and heard some of his videos and podcasts (largely from his show Fr. Spitzer's Universe), and probably qualify as a big fan of his.

https://ondemand.ewtn.com/Home/Series/ondemand/video/en/fr-s...

https://www.ewtn.com/tv/shows/father-spitzers-universe

P.S. In case you are wondering about the glasses he wears or his appearance in photographs, he suffers near blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa:

https://www.magiscenter.com/blog/latest-news-on-fr-spitzers-... [2018]

EDIT: Formatting.

The world's first website makes heavy use of <dl>s.

https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

https://info.cern.ch/ (A landing page of sorts to give context and orientation about the actual first website.)

I'm just seeing these two replies today, but it appears to be back up. Timestamp: ca. 2026-05-03 14:19 UTC

There's also "Chisel - Fossil SCM Hosting".

"This service is completely free and run because a service like it should exist."

https://chiselapp.com/

"All public repositories":

https://chiselapp.com/repositories/

I don't know if it has all the GitHub features people may be looking for.

Chisel runs on Flint, "The ISC licensed codebase behind http://chiselapp.com.":

https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/flint/index

EDIT: Add "...should exist." sentence from the homepage.

AV Linux uses Enlightenment 0.27.1. The creator of that distribution also offers a version based on Moksha 0.4.2, the E17 fork mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

https://www.bandshed.net/

Latest Version Release Announcement:

https://www.bandshed.net/2026/03/01/av-linux-and-mx-moksha-2...

A few more details from and older release announcement:

"Both ISO’s are built on an MX Linux 25/Debian Trixie base with Liquorix kernels."

https://www.bandshed.net/2025/11/27/av-linux-and-mx-moksha-2...

Perhaps try the clips available at the "Video and 16-mm Galleries" from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal:

https://apollojournals.org/alsj/alsj-video.html

On the other hand, maybe don't get your hopes up--I've only tried a few, but even the large MPG files don't seem to be "super high quality," but maybe they will meet your expectations.

"The Nikon D5 remains the camera of choice for the Artemis II mission and will be assigned primary photographic duties. It is a proven, highly-tested camera that the Artemis II team knows will excel in the high-radiation environment of space. However, as Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman explained ahead of yesterday’s launch, he successfully fought to have a single Nikon Z9 added to Artemis II’s manifest."

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/02/a-nikon-z9-made-it-aboard-t...

There are more interesting details in the PetaPixel article, such as: "'That’s the camera that they’ll be using, the crew will be using on Artemis III plus, so we were fighting really hard to get that on the vehicle to test out in a high-radiation environment in deep space,' Wiseman said."

H/t to "SiliconEagle73" who linked to that PetaPixel article in the thread linked below.

https://old.reddit.com/r/nasa/comments/1sbfevm/new_high_reso...

I'm so happy to see two HNers who love this song (and the video)!

"....

Play softball with the guys, wife made curly fries

Drink about four O'Doul's, grounded out, two pop flies

...."

Also see this related Cocoa- or GNUstep-based project from some of the same people: http://coreobject.org/

"Distributed version control + Object persistence"

There's another Veritasium video that has a neat experiment ostensibly showing light (both lamp and laser sources) "taking all paths" (or words to that effect--I don't really know what I'm seeing or what I'm talking about!) It starts around 25 minutes in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZ1Ez28C-A

EDIT: Whoops. The YouTube video linked by naasking in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771713 touches on the Veritasum video I linked to and goes to some length to explain that it is NOT proving the light is taking "all possible paths." He also brings up and links to a video on the "Looking Glass Universe" channel in which the hostess recreates the Vertiasium experiment and gives a differing interpretation. (Some commenters there have objections to the experimental setup. Oh boy, I may be down a rabbit hole here.)

May I ask the name of the plugin, please?

(In case you haven't heard of it and it proves helpful to you and/or someone else:)

Have you heard of Epyrus?

Homepage: http://www.epyrus.org/index.html

(The download link is easily found there, as well as git repository and forum links.)

It's based on UXP (the Unified XUL Platform) and is thus related to the Pale Moon browser (which doesn't bother me). I've been using it on Linux as a way to have an "older Thunderbird" look and feel, e.g., I have real scrollbars, and the "Send" button didn't mysteriously vanish from the Compose window with no way to get it back upon some "from the ground up redesign" upgrade.

EDIT: Typographical error, phrasing.

I don't know if it will work for booting Windows, but have you tried installing Haiku's BootManager to the MBR?

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/boot...

On the booting Windows front, this thread has a few people describing how they successfully used BootManager to dual and triple boot Haiku, Windows 7, and/or Linux:

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/dual-booting-haiku-and-window...

I have a laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T410s) with Haiku, Linux Mint, and Devuan GNU/Linux. I use BootManager in the MBR, and it gives me a menu of all three to choose from. For the two Linux options, I have GRUB installed on each of their own partitions, so BootManager just sends me to the GRUB installed on whichever Linux partition. (Of course, this isn't exactly "replacing" GRUB altogether.)

I do it this way because I find dealing with BootManager to send me to individual GRUBs to boot a particular Linux partition much, much easier than fiddling with GRUB to boot Haiku.

(One last thought, parenthetical as I'm not sure it can even work from a USB drive: Worst case, you might make a USB "boot stick" that uses BootManager to choose between Haiku and Linux and let Windows do its jolly thing on the MBR?)

I don't know if this will be helpful or inspirational or depressing, but your comment made me think of Paul Lutus, who pulled off at least some parts of the dream of living in a cabin and writing software. Here's an interview he did with Adam Gordon Bell on Bell's CoRecursive podcast (transcript and audio):

https://corecursive.com/remote-developer/

To give just a taste, here's a forum post that quotes a few highlights from that CoRecursive episode:

https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/remote-developer-1970s-app...

I had the same frustration as you with finding the pricing information. With some serendipitous clicking, I managed to find it!

https://pico.sh/plus

It does also mention there is a $0 "Starter" tier.

(I found that link on this page:

https://pico.sh/pgs )

EDIT: Mention the Starter tier.

Thank you for sharing this.

I want to add that Sufjan Stevens has a song, "Exploding Whale", which is not really about the event per se, but uses it as a metaphor: "....Embrace the epic fail/Of my exploding whale...."

https://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/album/exploding-whale

The folks at OpenXTalk are continuing to develop fork(s) of the final Open Source LiveCode Community Edition.

https://www.openxtalk.org/

https://www.openxtalk.org/OXTDownloads.html

https://www.openxtalk.org/forum/

The forum seems a little disorganized to me, but I lurk a few times a year and get the pulse of how the development is going by reading the recent-ish posts.

From the first link:

"What is OpenXTalk?

OpenXTal k [sic] is the working name of a fork of the now unsupported Legacy LiveCode Community Edition project, with the goal of keeping a FREE OPEN SOURCE xTalk language publicly available...."

Edit: Newline formatting.

I plan to dig in deeper, but this looks like a great introduction to building websites.

I teach a one semester high school Web Design class and currently use a mixture of lessons from these two for learning the basics of making pages by hand with HTML and CSS:

https://internetingishard.netlify.app/

https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/webd2/student/ind...

This looks very promising and could supplant or at the very least supplement those.

I'm half-heartedly trying to RTFM of 'xpra', but haven't found the 'run_scaled' script yet. If it's not too much trouble, can you please reply with the commands you use to scale an X11 program?

(I'm on Devuan Daedalus 5.0, ~= Debian Bookworm 12.0.)

(I currently use 'xzoom' to scale X11 programs, but it's a little kludgy.)

EDIT: Single quotes for all program names. Bookworm, not Bookwork.

There is this Rust program to display a bouncing DVD logo in a terminal:

https://github.com/pythops/bouncinamation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35785932 [2023]

I haven't used a recent macOS in years, but I use the following command to get a fullscreen screensaver and locked screen on (Devuan GNU+) Linux. It's probably about as secure as a cheap padlock and flimsy chain or cable to lock a bike.

  xtrlock -f & xterm -fullscreen -e 'sleep .05 ; /path/to/file/bouncinamation'

If running with 'xtrlock' you must enter your password first to unlock 'xtrlock', and then 'Esc' to exit 'bouncinamation'.

The 'sleep .05' is to make it work better or more reliably. I don't remember exactly what, but there was some kind of issue that was fixed when I did 'sleep .05' before running 'bouncinamation'.

For those who may be wondering what became of the erstwhile Free & Open Source LiveCode Community Edition (LCCE), check out OpenXTalk:

https://openxtalk.org/

and Forum:

https://www.openxtalk.org/forum/

and Downloads:

https://openxtalk.org/OXTDownloads.html

Some of the download links are for RCs of the OpenXTalk DON'T PANIC! Edition (DPE) IDE , which is a fork of LCCE

GitHub of OXT DPE:

https://github.com/OpenXTalk-org/OpenXtalk-IDE-DontPanicEdit...

Other download links are to another fork, OpenXTalk Lite Edition (OXT Lite), which seems to have recently been rebranded to "tIDE."

tIDE Homepage:

https://www.tsites.co.uk/sites/other/other.php

EDIT: LiveCode, not Live Code.

Do you or does anyone else have a summary of or any link to read about what you are alluding to, namely Proton Mail rewriting email bodies?

I don't know if you are DE shopping, but I've been very happy for the past few years with the MATE Desktop Environment, which "...is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems."

https://mate-desktop.org/

Among a great number of things I really like, I will mention that Caja, the MATE version of GNOME 2's Nautilus file manager, can still be switched to spatial mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager

Generally speaking, I too really liked GNOME 2.32 and its predecessors, and, as far as I'm concerned, MATE is as it describes itself.

EDIT: Wording mistake.

In Latin, adding the enclitic -ne to (generally) the first word of a sentence makes that sentence a yes/no question.

See https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1... , especially paragraph #332.

The Dillo+ (Dillo-Plus) project has already added Gopher and Gemini support to their port (they don't use the word fork) of Dillo:

https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus

https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus#gopher-and-gemini...

Edit: Newline formatting. Edit 2: Wording (port not fork).

Also of note:

NASCAR Garage 56 Wins Le Mans Pit Stop Challenge With a Floor Jack: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a44109401/nascar-garage-56...

Watching [and Hearing] the Garage 56 NASCAR Camaro at Le Mans Will Have You Crying Bald Eagle Tears: https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a44116310/garage-56-nascar...

Is there any way to see a running demo of tlb (or a real-life website)?

Another one is http://httpforever.com/.

You may already be aware of the Trinity Desktop Environment, and if not:

"The TDE project began as a continuation of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) version 3.... Trinity is an independent fork..." (from the "About" page)

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/index.php

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php