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oigursh commented on Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code   docs.mermaidchart.com/blo... · Posted by u/msfi
anitil · 5 months ago
I use excalidraw, even upgraded to pro out of my own pocket. It's not git-compatible in the sense that it's not text (though you can export to SVG and commit that, which I've done). But I love that it has the feel of an approximation or just a quick sketch rather than a formal promise of how a system works.

When I've used dot or mermaid to build diagrams I've always found it hard to specify layout, colours and sizes, which I use to emphasise different views on a system. I'd love some sort of middle ground where I get the benefits of version control but also the sketch-like character of excalidraw

oigursh · 5 months ago
can it automatically re-flow flowchart layouts?
oigursh commented on Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code   docs.mermaidchart.com/blo... · Posted by u/msfi
oigursh · 5 months ago
Is there a visual interface for Mermaid?

I can blast out auto-reflowing flowcharts in Flying Logic on a keyboard but it's moved to a subscription model that doesn't make sense for my irregular use.

Seeing the connections in real time really helps with my thought process.

oigursh commented on Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app   github.com/johnbean393/Si... · Posted by u/volemo
oigursh · 5 months ago
Could this help categorize and prune backups?
oigursh commented on I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)   haterade.substack.com/p/i... · Posted by u/voxadam
munchler · 6 months ago
Sorry, how does the snow factor into this tale?
oigursh · 6 months ago
contrast for the blood? Would have stuck in the memory
oigursh commented on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website   404media.co/anyone-can-pu... · Posted by u/mahkeiro
ModernMech · 6 months ago
I also pay into the the system, and I want to spend my tax dollars on all the things you don't want to. Moreover, I want to defund all the services which benefit you personally. Where does that leave us as a society?
oigursh · 6 months ago
I'd like my tax to pay for some oxygen for that other person, since they have clearly been deprived of it for a while.
oigursh commented on Car Alternators Make Great Electric Motors;   hackaday.com/2020/01/16/c... · Posted by u/rkisensee
oigursh · 7 months ago
Are AC washing machine motors coverable in this way? Similar power output?
oigursh commented on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Despegar
zfg · 7 months ago
> Musk is a libertarian not an authoritarian.

What, your claim is that libertarians suppress speech? Explain why Musk is censoring speech on Twitter.

Musk is authoritarian by nature. He always has been.

> “Misinformation” is a very subjective word

It isn't. It's lies, falsehoods, and untruths. Here are some of the lies Musk has spread:

- Lies about Paul Pelosi: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/30/business/musk-tweet-pelos...

- Lies about the recent LA fires: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/10/elon-mu...

- Lies about USAID: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250202-musk-brands-u...

- Lies about how good he is at video games: https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-01-24/elon-musk-a...

And so on and so on. He never stops lying. He can't help himself. There's something wrong with him.

> Don’t forget that the media have a vested interest in denigrating Musk, because he’s their most significant competitor, and while X exists, and we’re able to hear directly from influential people, the legacy media is powerless to control the narrative.

This kind of conspiratorial thinking won't get you anywhere.

Carl Sagan worried this would happen to you (https://www.openculture.com/2025/02/carl-sagan-predicts-the-...). Sagan said, "I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness"

And, sure enough, it has.

oigursh · 7 months ago
Chilling.
oigursh commented on Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions   github.com/marketplace/ac... · Posted by u/hrpnk
simonw · 7 months ago
Google Reader shut down nearly 12 years ago. Its legacy now is that there are still people who are pissed off about that, and I get the impression that a surprising amount of them are now in positions where they get to make purchasing decisions over whether or not to buy Google Cloud.

(Being a Mac+iPhone person I've settled in quite happily with NetNewsWire now, but it took me a few years to get there.)

oigursh · 7 months ago
They tried to force the free GSuite editions into paid a year or two ago.
oigursh commented on F-Droid's Progress and What's Coming in 2025   f-droid.org/2025/01/21/a-... · Posted by u/mappu
oigursh · 7 months ago
Anyone preferring a privacy respecting store should key an eye on https://accrescent.app/
oigursh commented on Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder   velofuso.com... · Posted by u/smeeeeeeeeeeeee
alias_neo · 8 months ago
We have a Quooker and I recommend them to all our friends who ask, it's more expensive than others (starting at around £1200) but it's incredibly well built, designed/created in an era of making things to last, and they seems to stand by that; you can get spare parts and they sell a service kit for £25 (last I bought it) with the filter that you can replace every few years if you want, but you can also buy the individual parts of system like a new tank, just the core/element, etc.
oigursh · 8 months ago
"starting at around £1200"! It would need to bring it to my chair for that price.

u/oigursh

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