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hezag commented on Zen Browser makes RSS and GitHub PRs first-class citizens via Live Folders zen-browser.app/whatsnew/... · Posted by u/hezag

hezag · 10 days ago

Not affiliated with the Zen Browser team, just a user who got excited about this latest release.

I submitted this because of the new "Live Folders" feature. For a long time, RSS has felt relegated to third-party extensions or separate reader apps. Zen's update integrates RSS feeds and GitHub Issues/PRs directly into the sidebar tab hierarchy.

hezag commented on Bunster: Compile bash scripts to self contained executables github.com/yassinebenaid/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

Phlogistique · a year ago

The README fails to address the elephant in the room, which is that usually shell scripts mainly call external commands; as far as I can tell there is no documentation of which built-ins are supported?

That said, in a similar vein, you could probably create a bundler that takes a shell script and bundles it with busybox to create a static program.

hezag · a year ago

Disclamer: the elephant in the room has nothing to do with ElePHPant, the PHP mascot.

hezag commented on Practical Radio Circuits (2003) [pdf] fracassi.net/iw2ntf/manua... · Posted by u/_Microft

hezag · a year ago

Loved this practical guide publication format. Anyone know other magazines like this Everyday Practical Electronics?

hezag commented on Western Digital cloud services down for 4 days status.mycloud.com/os4... · Posted by u/cloudking

gcr · 3 years ago

How do you get syncthing to back up photos on your phone? Are you on Android?

hezag · 3 years ago

You can share the Camera folder with the "send only" mode in the phone app.

hezag commented on Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/mmastrac

45453836 · 3 years ago

To be fair the mobile device iteration of the repairability movement has always been laden with irony. It's a user empowerment movement solving a problem users didn't care about or want to deal with, championed mainly by middle and upper income individuals in tandem with politicians looking for easy karma (bonus points if they're European because it makes them look tough against the big corporate Americans plus Samsung), all under the guise of helping users who want to save money (poor people) even though this category lacks the skills and the interest to repair their devices anyway outside of a rare few exceptions. At this point a model being easily repairable is like "GMO Free" labels on food, a thing you advertise because it'll bring in money from the activists while every other consumer ignores it and focuses on a combination of performamce and price. In short, as long as the device can be advertised based on its repairability I don't think the company cares much since the objective is already complete.

hezag · 3 years ago

> all under the guise of helping users who want to save money (poor people) even though this category lacks the skills and the interest to repair their devices anyway outside of a rare few exceptions

This is simply not true. At least in my country, poor people generally have interest and the skills to repair their devices (or to pay someone to do so, as it's cheaper than buying a new one)

hezag commented on Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools popular.info/p/florida-te... · Posted by u/celtoid

hezag · 3 years ago

  > If the book is available in the district libraries, that means it was approved by a media specialist and can be made available to students again. But any book not currently held in the district libraries must be individually evaluated and approved by a librarian.

So... It's an allowlist and not a denylist. Even worse.

hezag commented on Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping github.com/whipper-team/w... · Posted by u/catseyechandra

je42 · 3 years ago

How about flatpak? To fulfil this function?

hezag · 3 years ago

And snap, Appimage...

hezag commented on Does ChatGPT Exhibit Ideological Bias? hwfo.substack.com/p/the-w... · Posted by u/htunnicliff

datawaslost · 3 years ago

I got about as far as "indoctrinated woke shibboleths" before I started to doubt that the author is truly interested in overcoming ideological bias.

hezag · 3 years ago

> "The bot is very deep on gender ideology"

Ok... Totally unbiased statement. /s