Readit NewsI_like_pigeons commented on Pulsar, the best code editor since Atom optimizedbyotto.com/post/... · Posted by u/ottoke
And then you have Linus Torvalds who uses nano
I thought he used his own fork of a micro emacs?
I_like_pigeons commented on I Know What Your Password Was Last Summer labs.lares.com/password-a... · Posted by u/aa_is_op
> I always tell these people to just sign up for a password manager and they always resist and say no. I must be missing something obvious.
Maybe they don't want to be relying on a random third-party for all their passwords?
Rather than getting them to sign up for a password manager, what about getting them to install a password manager? I use https://www.passwordstore.org/ - it encrypts your passwords with GPG, and shares the storage via a Git repository for synchronisation between different machines.
I suppose the biggest advantage of a online password manager for non-tech savvy users is the syncing between devices.
I_like_pigeons commented on Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark theprivacydad.com/final-d... · Posted by u/kawsper
I really don't get this, as far as I am aware, in Portugal there are still hardly any laptops or tablets in most schools, other than fancy ones for upper class folks.
Everyone else is pen and paper, shared computer labs, and home computers shared by all family kids.
Actually a few years ago schools started lending laptops (which you have to return at the end of the school year), but as far as I remember we never used them in class.
I can't quite recall if this was before the covid outbreak, but I think we still had in person classes that year.
I also raised an eyebrow at the three web browsers, but then I was thinking that it's quite likely that none of them are reliable for opening a modern webpage, so users might have to routinely try more than one.
I'm more amused by the inclusion of a GUI application for SCP and FTP. As someone who uses a full-featured desktop Linux distro as my daily driver, and uses SCP on a daily basis, I've never felt the need for anything but the CLI for that.
Also a number of games?
To be fair, the page states that "The new goal of DSL is to pack as much usable desktop distribution into an image small enough to fit on a single CD," so it is explicitly more about showcasing a collection of lightweight applications than it is about providing the smallest distro.
I believe one of the browsers mentioned (badwolf) just uses webkit, so it probably can browser the modern web just fine.
Dillo and links2 might have a harder time with js and css tho, I'm not even sure if they support js at all.
I_like_pigeons commented on Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language cassette-lang.com... · Posted by u/news_to_me
K7 also works in Portuguese, and possibly other languages.
I mean, while K exists in the Portuguese alphabet, no words use it.
Curiously, I was just playing with it yesterday.
In the end I decided to just replace it with uBlock origin plus some filters [0], [1], [2].
While this solution doesn't add a convenient button in the UI to show the hidden domains and to quickly block them, for some reason this extension didn't work if I had javascript disabled, while the native uBlock one did.
I believe there's also a userscript that does something similar, but I never tried it.
[0]: https://letsblock.it/filters [1]: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter [2]: https://github.com/rotgruengelb/BlockModReposting
> mpv with a yt-dlp hook
What does hook mean in this context? Is it some kind of plugin or addon to MPV or can MPV do that out-of-the-box?