$610m for a Chromium skin with generic AI bolted on feels like a lot. But what do I know?
They did well to get acquired before the AI bubble pops.
Readit Newsasystole commented on Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlas... · Posted by u/kevinyew
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asystole commented on Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass touchgrass.now/... · Posted by u/risquer
People are just going to carry a patch of fake grass around with them to bypass the checks. So I suspect the reviews will be astroturfed.
This is on the order of the "descartes before the whores" joke on reddit years ago. Generational stuff
asystole commented on WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops github.com/vinceliuice/Wh... · Posted by u/nateb2022
I’ve not actually built any themes so take these thoughts with a grain of salt, but my impression is that with GTK at least, most of the problems come down to CSS conflicts and libadwaita doing its own thing separate from GTK proper. It seems like a lot of GTK apps hardcode colors, fonts, etc instead of parameterizing too, which means they aren’t going to respond to theme changes correctly. All together these combine to produce a pretty spotty theming experience.
Things seem a bit better on the Qt side of things, but it suffers resolution scaling issues. Most KDE/Qt themes I’ve tried can’t draw correctly at non-integer scales.
Personally I think that CSS is actually pretty badly suited for the use case of desktop UI toolkit theming. It’s fine for one-off apps but quickly becomes a mess when it needs to be part of a larger more flexible system.
GTK theming was a mess long before libadwaita came along.
asystole commented on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life johnnydecimal.com... · Posted by u/debone
This product looks awesome and the mobile app looks exceptional. But if it’s not self-hosted and in some kind of standard format,you’re SOL when the company shuts down. Even though you can export your data, where are you supposed import it to?
Here are some possible alternatives: https://selfh.st/alternatives/notion/
Trust me, I do understand all that. My personal set of trade-offs is such that I really can't be bothered with self-hosting.
Capacities has one-click export of all of your objects (notes/pages) with a sensible folder structure that produces markdown with frontmatter and includes all media attachments. That's good enough for me.
asystole commented on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life johnnydecimal.com... · Posted by u/debone
I just tried it, looks good. But TBH, I miss outlining. I would like they offer a way to have an outlining mode (with collapsing ability). Thanks for the recommendation.
asystole commented on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life johnnydecimal.com... · Posted by u/debone
asystole commented on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life johnnydecimal.com... · Posted by u/debone
I tried many organization systems, including Johnny Decimal like PARA. And none of them worked for me.
As an ADHD person, I've found the best way for me is not put effort in organizing at all.
For that reason I've found tools like Logseq/Tana/Reflect does a great job. I just write in the journal and tag items accordingly if required, then if I need to write some long form document, I create specific pages for it.
Then search and backlinks are everything I need. My brain works better searching than browsing.
This is why I love Capacities. It's object oriented with properties and tags. No folders.
I watched Threads for the first time recently and it really did ruin the rest of my day. I still think about it regularly. It influenced my thinking on the threat of nuclear annihilation a lot.
If you don't feel like watching the whole film (and you definitely should, the first third is all lead-up and it's masterfully done - and the aftermath part is the most believable post-apocalypse I've ever seen in a movie) you should at least watch the bombing scene:
asystole commented on Building SimCity: How to put the world in a machine mitpress.mit.edu/97802625... · Posted by u/jarmitage
Is the ebook (on Penguin Random House) DRM-free? Are you planning an audiobook version?
I haven’t read the book, but in TFA it’s described as a “lavishly visual book” so I’m not sure it would translate well to audio.