I just tried to build on Linux and it keeps panicking because it requires dozen(s) of API keys. I was not expecting that from local first software.
Readit Newspolyaniline commented on Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker · Posted by u/yujonglee
polyaniline commented on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps github.com/FossifyOrg... · Posted by u/jalict
What's strangely missing from the list of FOSS android apps is a simple "pixel-like" launcher. I have some old devices that I use for small tasks, and I'd love to install the very basic launcher on them, basically the only thing I need is a paginated grid on the desktop, a scrollable list of apps in the main app menu, and a swipe up gesture to bring this menu. I checked a lot of launchers some time ago, and all of them either go hard into "minimalism/functionalism" and don't even show icons, or go deep into customization and fail to be lightweight.
Check out Lawnchair.
polyaniline commented on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps github.com/FossifyOrg... · Posted by u/jalict
Genuine question – do Android people get ads in their OS default camera, calculator, calendar, phone, file-manager or SMS messaging applications? Or do have these Fossify application some extra privacy features that do not come with the default ones?
As far as I'm concerned, I run LineageOS, which doesn't come with everything I need OTOB, so I use app suites like Fossify, Simple Mobile Tools and other great work. Others may just want alternatives to pre-installed or standard apps that are more private and tuneable (eg. I maintained a fork of KDE Connect until they switched to Material 3 colors, and still do for VLC) because they're open source.
polyaniline commented on Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'? ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-c... · Posted by u/healsdata
No, it's not
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polyaniline commented on Programming on 34 Keys (2022) oppi.li/posts/programming... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I'm one of the people that uses neovim, a tiling window manager on nixos, and a weird split keyboard.
It's true that it will lead to healthier wrists and more productivity, but thats not the point. I know people with incredibly unergonomic setups and habits (vscode with membrane keyboard and a chronic overuse of the mouse) that get around the same or more actual features implemented as me. There might even be something to be said for more friction forcing you to think more.
The reason most of us do it (at least if we are honest with ourselves) is because it's fun---and that's ok. Jumping around in vim on a split keyboard gives me the same joy that watching my first lines of code execute in Gamemaker Studio 2 did in 8th grade.
It's always worth investing to make your work joyful.
I have a really similar setup to yours. NixOS, Niri, Draculad. I think being forced to use something like Windows 11 with something like VSCode would be very frustrating long term. Mostly the looming knowledge of we can do better, we have done better.
polyaniline commented on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
This has also been my biggest gripe with Gemini 2.5 Pro. While it is fantastic at one-shotting major new features, when wanting to make smaller iterative changes, it always does big refactors at the same time. I haven't found a way to change that behavior through changes in my prompts.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is much more restrained and does smaller changes.
Asking it explicitly once (not necessarily every new prompt in context) to keep output minimal and strive to do nothing more than it is told works for me.
polyaniline commented on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones ericmigi.com/blog/apple-r... · Posted by u/griffinli
This whole thread is chockful of thought-terminating cliches, and I say that as someone who grew from a waiter to a developer thanks to Apple and made a lot of these arguments.
I also worked on Android Wear's iOS app for working with iPhones.
The major problem I see now with these excuses, that I'd like to claim wasn't an issue when I was making them circa 2015-2017, is they're cargo cult (a la Apple likes making things that just work) or boogeymen (if they did anything different, a bluetooth connection would be used, unencrypted, sending all your data into the ether).
The watch has been out for 10 years.
Software is software. Where there's a will, there's a way.
It's very, very, very, hard to believe there's 0 way for Apple to ensure an encrypted connection.
Put another way, avoiding the global observations: If it's impossible, why allow watches to be paired at all?
Sorry for going out of subject but I had to ask - how did Apple take you from waiter to developer?
polyaniline commented on Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally · Posted by u/Shasnani
Hindi is a central aka standard language for India, just like Urdu in Pakistan. Technically Urdu is an Indian language too
Hindi is spoken by only around 40% of the total population, and is very regional. Using Hindi as a catch all for Indian users alienates around 800M people. English makes much more sense.
Ladybird and Servo are exciting and much needed projects since Microsoft abandoned their own independent browser engine to use Chromium.
If you didn't know you could see the massive progress both projects have made in web compatibility here: https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&product=chrome&product...
As of today, browsers pass this percent of tests:
Chrome: 96.82%
Firefox: 95.41%
Safari: 94.97%
Ladybird: 89.30%
Servo: 78.61%Hasn't Servo been around much longer than Ladybird? Has it stagnated?
Also Linux issue pointer: https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/issues/67#issuecomment-...
Anyway, thanks for your work and good luck!