edcastro (u/edcastro)

edcastro commented on Home Assistant – open-source home automation home-assistant.io/... · Posted by u/gjvc

rcarmo · 4 years ago

I’ve been trying HA yearly (as my home set up is essentially HomeKit/homebridge with Node-RED bolted on to expose unsupported devices) and it always strikes me as very declarative and finicky to configure, requiring either maintaining a bunch of YAML files or clicking through screen after screen of longish forms.

I wonder if there are any plans to make the UX feel simpler and less crowded…

edcastro · 4 years ago

It already is. With the latest changes, almost everything can be done through the UI, hardly ever I touch YAML files.

edcastro commented on Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet marko.fyi/firefox/... · Posted by u/markosaric

dguo · 6 years ago

The post briefly mentions multi-account containers[1]. I have loved using them and regard them as a killer feature for Firefox. Very few websites support account switching. Google is probably the best example, and even then, I don't really want to log in to both my personal and work Gmail within the same session. But containers effectively and cleanly enable multiple sessions for all websites.

Like tabs so many years ago, it's the kind of feature that seems obvious in retrospect. I can't think of a hard technical reason why we couldn't have had container tabs a long time ago. I hope mobile and desktop OSes will one day implement the same feature for apps/programs.

Whoever was involved in coming up with the idea and with implementing it, thank you!

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

edcastro · 6 years ago

I just wish they had per-container proxy support. That would make me immediately switch to Firefox.

edcastro commented on German city offers $1.1M to whoever proves it doesn’t exist apnews.com/4986a008effe48... · Posted by u/kalonis

gcmrtc · 6 years ago

In Italy we have an entire region (Molise) that doesn't exist.

Do other countries have their own non-existent places too?

edcastro · 6 years ago

In Brazil, it's a very well established fact that the state of Acre doesn't exist.

edcastro commented on Go 1.8 Release Notes beta.golang.org/doc/go1.8... · Posted by u/petercooper

enahs-sf · 9 years ago

random question here, but what are people using in the way of ORM/sql access with go? Just database/sql or are there any other good packages worth checking out. I don't expect a full-blown activerecord style ORM, but something that takes a bit of the pain out of mapping structs to records.

edcastro · 9 years ago

https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm is quite ok

edcastro commented on pfSense: Open source network firewall distribution pfsense.org/... · Posted by u/lobo_tuerto

sandGorgon · 9 years ago

I always had this question - can something like pfsense be built on linux with comparable performance or is there something inherent to the whole stack that makes this effective?

I have always wondered if building pfsense on a modern linux kernel + selinux + BPF with something like nginx/lua scripting (for addon packages) would make more sense.

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux...

edcastro · 9 years ago

https://vyos.io/ might be what you're looking for.

edcastro commented on Elementary OS taoofmac.com/space/blog/2... · Posted by u/rcarmo

t0mislav · 9 years ago

For me, only showstopper to migrate from Mac to Linux is alternative for iMovie and Lightroom. Any progress on this alternatives for Linux in last year or two? What programs do I need to check?

Elementary is nice, it is also my backup OS, and I also donated some money to them 1 year ago.

edcastro · 9 years ago

Plenty of options there.

iMovie: Pitivi, OpenShot, KDEnlive and even Lightworks for something more advanced.

Lightroom: Darktable, Rawtherapee and Corel Aftershot Pro.

edcastro commented on My Mechanical Keyboard joeposnanski.com/my-mecha... · Posted by u/walterbell

keyle · 9 years ago

I have about 5 mechanical keyboards (WASD, Duckys, DAS, ...) and yet if I want to type fast, I use an apple keyboard. The short travel distance of those keys really work for me.

I've been waiting for switches that are somewhere in between, mechanical but thin travel. I've looked at some really esoteric and rare keyboards as well but I wouldn't fork $220 for a keyboard...

Anyways I totally understand his view though. I can't believe the latest keyboards on the macbooks. I couldn't stand them for 10 mins at the apple store trying to surf. My 2008 Mac book pro keyboard was the best thing on earth. I found it better than my older thinkpad (I know, hot topic).

And I bloody hope that they don't mess up the external keyboard in that fashion, or I will go out and buy 10 and stash them for the future. That's the only down side of the apple keyboard, they last a year at most, after which the switches get mushy.

edcastro · 9 years ago

It seems the Razer Blade Pro comes with a low-profile mechanical keyboard, maybe they will do a external keyboard with those. Petition? :D

edcastro commented on Font Awesome 5 five.fontawesome.io... · Posted by u/kauegimenes

edcastro · 9 years ago

Not sure why you are being downvoted but I agree with you. I wouldn't mind if the pro version was for the assorted "addon" packs and I'd definitely contribute to the project even without using it ever, but making it the pro having a different set of icons from the free one is kinda chilling. Guess I will just stick with Material Design Icons.

edcastro commented on Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) robert.ocallahan.org/2014... · Posted by u/jonotime

blub · 9 years ago

Firefox is good. It has support for modern standards, is performant, has tracking protection built in and plenty of extensions.

Google is winning because it's bundling its browser just like Microsoft used to and is aggressively advertising it on all of its web properties, which might have a reach of close to 100% of the web-using population. Firefox also has a reputation for being slow, gotten probably from people doing ridiculous things as keeping tens of tabs open and not restarting it for days - learn to use bookmarks!

Silly Mozilla thought they were fighting hand in hand with Google for web standards when Google was fighing for ad money all along.

edcastro · 9 years ago

I use exactly 3 extensions and hardly EVER have more than 2 or 3 tabs opened. In this scenario, using Firefox over Chrome, at least on Linux, is gruesome. The startup time is terrible, the constant stuttering and delays opening things is terrible. I wish I was able to use Firefox, I tried many times, but the performance nowadays is just subpar.

edcastro commented on Distro Chooser distrochooser.de/?l=2... · Posted by u/franzpeterstein

edcastro · 9 years ago

That directed me to the exact distro I'm using. Nice. :D