If you are a KDE user, I highly recommend fooyin, which is essentially a Qt6 clone of Foobar2000:
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cullumsmith commented on DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player deadbeef.sourceforge.io/... · Posted by u/theden
cullumsmith commented on Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it? · Posted by u/zackoverflow
vim with zenburn theme. grep/find when I need to look for something.
I've been programming professionally for about a decade, and the basic Unix tools have always "just worked." They're available everywhere, my dotfiles are easily portable, and there's no licensing or procurement to worry about with corporate beancounters.
I'm sure I'm giving up some marginal level of efficiency, but I've watched so many fads come and go that I'm OK with the tradeoffs of "old reliable."
cullumsmith commented on Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus
The drugs are digital now.
cullumsmith commented on 'PDF to Brainrot' study tools are an iteration on a TikTok trend techcrunch.com/2024/11/20... · Posted by u/ZeljkoS
There is a small segment of parents who completely prevent their children from accessing these brainrot platforms. Usually these kids are in homeschool groups with other like-minded families, with no phones or screen time.
I often wonder if this cohort will be the future elite class, or if they will be so incompatible with their peers that they'll end up forming insular communities amongst themselves (like the Amish).
cullumsmith commented on XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging adele.pages.casa/md/blog/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
My family uses a self-hosted Prosody instance with the Conversations app on Android and Dino/Gajim on the desktop. It works great.
Combined with JMP.chat, we even get SMS and voice calls from the telephone network to all our different XMPP apps. Truly feels like the future.
The technology of yesteryear seems to have more staying power. The protocols churned out by my generation seem destined for either VC/advertisement capture or death by CADT [0]. Maybe with the exception of Signal (so far...)
cullumsmith commented on Improving Xwayland window resizing blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
"Jank" is still functional. And, to a first order approximation, nobody cares.
Even Windows generally switches down to software rendering when resizing. And on mobile devices, nobody resizes.
No pointer warp, however, is a failure (CAD packages all have significant issues on Wayland). Lack of multilingual support/accessibility is a failure. Lack of screenshots/screencasts is a failure. Lack of support for the BSD lineages is a failure. etc.
People are still bitching up a storm because Wayland still (Pipewire does screen sharing using DBUS(!) for example) hasn't fixed basic things while DeadRat is shoving it down everybody's throat by dropping X11 support.
The Wayland devs aren't wrong about the security implications of this kind of stuff. However, they're also not giving anybody solutions, either.
One big issue is that Wayland devlopment is so slow that the entire space moved forward and destroyed a bunch of assumptions that Wayland is based around.
The FreeBSD handbook claims that KDE works with Wayland but I have never gotten it to work. X11 still works flawlessly.
cullumsmith commented on The IPv6 Transition potaroo.net/ispcol/2024-1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
For my entire life, the networking nerds have been shaming us for not using IPv6. Back when I had a NeoPet in middle school, IPv6 was was "just around the corner." I'm now raising my own children and still listening to the same IPv6 talking points.
Every company I've ever worked for has completely disabled IPv6 on the corporate network. My own ISP still doesn't offer it. Disabling it is often the quickest fix for a variety of networking issues.
At some point we must admit failure. There is no conspiracy to limit IPv6 adoption. If the technology was truly useful, you'd see far more in our profession advocate for it.
Sacrificing some convenience? Probably. But POSIX shell and coreutils is the last truly stable interface. After ~12 years of doing this I got sick of tool churn.