heywire (u/heywire) - Readit News

heywire commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster

ColinWright · 16 days ago

Still reading the article, but early on it says:

"Also, is it weird that I still remember the specs of my first computer, 22 years later?"

My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 1, 1.78 Mz Z80 with 16 KB RAM.

That was 48 years ago. Is it weird that I remember that?

heywire · 16 days ago

IBM PC XT 5150 4.77MHz, 640KB, no, not weird at all :)

heywire commented on State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11? ntdotdev.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/xd1936

tokyobreakfast · 17 days ago

Linux is not getting better in those respects, either. DE's are crazy bloated. For everyone bitching about control panels, tell me how is it done in Linux? In the WM control panel or the DE control panel? Or some obscure .conf file you must edit by hand? Your guess is as good as mine and it's beyond disorganized. If I want to change a font it's a game of three card monte.

Linux desktop environments remind me what TempleOS would look like if it was designed by committee.

heywire · 17 days ago

Try a distro like Fedora. I mostly use Arch, but I’ve found Fedora to be an excellent out of the box experience.

heywire commented on Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack github.com/markqvist/Reti... · Posted by u/brogu

the__alchemist · 24 days ago

I hadn't heard of this. It sounds like then you'd need a dedicated radio co-processor that is just running their firmware. Then, connect to it via [SPI?] to your main MCU or similar.

heywire · 24 days ago

You can run it on a common board like a Heltec LoRa 32 (can’t remember if it supports v3 or just v2). I played around with it some, but mostly stick with Meshtastic.

heywire commented on Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack github.com/markqvist/Reti... · Posted by u/brogu

the__alchemist · 24 days ago

Here is what I'm confused about: There is no published protocol/spec. It's nominally for radios like LoRa (Semtech) which are programmed with microcontrollers. To run it, you need Python software, or more recently, std Rust, both of which can't be used on the devices that would make sense for the hardware.

heywire · 24 days ago

Sounds like you’re looking for the RNode firmware

heywire commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus

heywire · 6 months ago

I am so tired of Microsoft cramming Copilot into everything. Search at $dayjob is completely borked right now. It shows a page of results, but the immediately pops up some warning dialog you cannot dismiss that Copilot can’t access some file “” or something. Every VSCode update I feel like I have to turn off Copilot in some new way. And now apparently it’ll be added to Excel as well. Thankfully I don’t have to use anything from Microsoft after work hours.

heywire commented on Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer enda.sh/primegrid/... · Posted by u/dduplex

heywire · 6 months ago

Reminds me of what I do when trying to look for structure in binary data. Print it to the screen in either bits or bites with word wrap enabled and drag the window around.

heywire commented on Debian 13 “Trixie” debian.org/News/2025/2025... · Posted by u/ducktective

binwiederhier · 6 months ago

Thank you to all the Debian volunteers that make Debian and all its derivatives possible. It's remarkable how many people and businesses have been enabled by your work. Thank you!

On a personal note, Trixie is very exciting for me because my side project, ntfy [1], was packaged [2] and is now included in Trixie. I only learned about the fact that it was included very late in cycle when the package maintainer asked for license clarifications. As a result the Debian-ized version of ntfy doesn't contain a web app (which is a reaaal bummer), and has a few things "patched out" (which is fine). I approached the maintainer and just recently added build tags [3] to make it easier to remove Stripe, Firebase and WebPush, so that the next Debian-ized version will not have to contain (so many) awkward patches.

As an "upstream maintainer", I must say it isn't obvious at all why the web app wasn't included. It was clearly removed on purpose [4], but I don't really know what to do to get it into the next Debian release. Doing an "apt install ntfy" is going to be quite disappointing for most if the web app doesn't work. Any help or guidance is very welcome!

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ntfy

[3] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/pull/1420

[4] https://salsa.debian.org/ahmadkhalifa/ntfy/-/blob/debian/lat...

heywire · 6 months ago

Just wanted to say thanks for ntfy! I use it daily to notify me on events from my home Meshtastic node.

heywire commented on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-... · Posted by u/ahurmazda

avhception · a year ago

I second the TUI argument here.

Back in ... maybe 2005 or what, in our ~60 people family business, I had the pleasure to watch an accountant use our bespoke payroll system. That was a DOS-based app, running on an old Pentium 1 system.

She was absolutely flying through the TUI. F2, type some numbers, Enter, F5 and so on and so on, at an absolutely blistering speed. Data entry took single-digit seconds.

When that was changed to a web app a few years later, the same action took 30 seconds, maybe a minute.

Bonus: a few years later, after we had to close shop and I moved on, I was onboarding a new web dev. When I told him about some development-related scripts in our codebase, he refused to touch the CLI. Said that CLIs are way too complicated and obsolete, and expecting people to learn that is out of touch. And he mostly got away with that, and I had to work around it.

I keep thinking about that. A mere 10 years before, it was within the accepted norm for an accountant to drive a TUI. Inevitable, even. And now, I couldn't even get a "programmer" to execute some scripts. Unbelievable.

heywire · a year ago

I was at a ticket window buying concert tickets a couple weeks ago and was surprised to see the worker using the Ticketmaster TUI / Mainframe interface. She flew through the screens. The same experience on the Ticketmaster website is awful.

heywire commented on Eggs US – Price – Chart tradingeconomics.com/comm... · Posted by u/throwaway5752

bluedino · a year ago

Michigan here, this is has been made worse by a new law requiring all eggs to be 'cage-free'. I think I paid $9 for the cheap store-brand eggs (18) last week.

And that is, if they even have any eggs at the store. I've been to Wal-mart and Kroger when the entire section is empty with a sign saying there are egg supply issues.

It's also winter so my 'chicken farmer friends' are low on eggs, when it's cold the chickens don't lay nearly as many.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/12/18/m...

heywire · a year ago

Just paid $3.59/doz at Kroger here in Ohio about an hour ago (plain store brand). They were stocked pretty well.

heywire commented on Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube? tedium.co/2025/02/05/warn... · Posted by u/shortformblog

not2b · a year ago

YouTube doesn't even bother with scene cut detection; they'll insert ads mid-sentence. A lot.

heywire · a year ago

That’s one way to keep you watching, you’ve at least gotta hear the rest of the sentence! /s