Just launched the beta of Yass - an open source Kotlin implementation of the Swiss national card game.
Readit NewsTwelveday commented on Swiss voters back e-ID legislation admin.ch/gov/en/start/doc... · Posted by u/Davidbrcz
Voter here. Although I'm not totally convinced of the absolute necessity of an e-ID, and that there are a few points that I find inherently bad (mainly the necessity of using a smartphone, and possibly excluding rooted ones or those with customized installations like LineageOS), I still approved this. The reason is simple: the tendency to be able to identify people on online services can only increase and will so. It can be proper identity verification (let's say to activate a SIM card or to request some service like to open a bank account), age verificaiton (prove that you are >18), or perhaps other things too. The system they propose seem to be able to provide the minimum amount of data possible (e.g. you can verify your age without providing your birth date). My guess is that if we don't have a public e-ID system, we'll have one or more private ones, probably managed by one or more of the usual big corporations. Personally I trust the Swiss government more than them. And finally if it gets totally wrong, 100k people are enough to go to the vote again and abolish it through a popular initiative.
Apparently the team is actively working on a solution to allow for rooted phones (just shows you a warning) and alternative stores.
I was really torn on what to vote but went for a yes in the end - only time will tell if and how this will be abused.
https://github.com/swiyu-admin-ch/eidch-android-wallet/issue...
Twelveday commented on IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine ircdriven.com/... · Posted by u/pabs3
I just got sucked down the rabbit hole looking at all the super low pop servers here: https://www.ircdriven.com/networks/list/ definitely some interesting looking stuff, very esoteric websites. Cool.
This is a fun one to look at: https://www.desktopmasters.com/
I love how the download for Java still links to JDK7 :)
Twelveday commented on Show HN: High School Student's First App – NWS Weather Report weatherreportnow.com/... · Posted by u/Orcazephyr
I really like the effort they put into the user manual [1]
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It seems like there's a little pay to win even in a simple game like 2048 nowadays :)
Twelveday commented on Command Line Tools I Like (2022) rwblickhan.org/newsletter... · Posted by u/yu3zhou4
I always try to predict what tools are mentioned in these posts and this time I was pretty close to get them all :)
I recently started using forgit and find it really usefull without having to change my workflow too much.
And instead of tldr i just do `curl cheat.sh/tar`
this. i'm on the swiss german keyboard layout. backticks are hard to do as a keyboard shortcut. they barely work as a character (e.g. for markdown formatting) but with a bit of pracitce that _does_ work.
try getting default vim bindings to work on a swiss german keyboard... i eventually gave up.
I'm in the same boat as you and after 15 years of coding I finally switched to the US layout 3 weeks ago. Got a Wooting 60HE and installed the EuroKey layout and so far I'm super happy about the switch and many default shortcuts make a lot more sense (e.g. no more acrobatics needed for ctrl+b+[ to enter tmux copy mode).
The first few days are a little rough to unlearn all the muscle memory but I found this neat site to practice typing with your own public gists: https://www.codetyper.io/
I was trying to create a simple "mascot logo" for my pet project. I first created an account on Kittl [0] and even paid for one month but it was quite cumbersome to generate images until I figured out I could just use the nano banana api myself.
Took me 4 prompts to ai-slop a small python script I could run with uv that would generate me a specified amount of images with a given prompt (where I discovered some of the insight the author shows in their post). The resulting logo [1] was pretty much what I imagined. I manually added some text and played around with hue/saturation in Kittl (since I already paid for it :)) et voilà.
Feeding back the logo to iterate over it worked pretty nicely and it even spit out an "abstract version" [2] of the logo for favicons and stuff without a lot of effort.
All in all this took me 2 hours and around 2$ (excluding the 1 month Kittl subscription) and I would've never been able to draw something like that in Illustrator or similar.
[0] https://www.kittl.com/ [1] https://github.com/sidneywidmer/yass/blob/master/client/publ... [2] https://github.com/sidneywidmer/yass/blob/master/client/publ...