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system7rocks commented on Show HN: I built a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer   github.com/embedpdf/embed... · Posted by u/bobsingor
system7rocks · 10 days ago
This is really great. The speed is great, and I've had issues with Mozilla PDF viewer recently. (Printing fails for some unknown reason.)

But I assumed it was also a standalone app? Could this be used as a standalone app in some fashion?

system7rocks commented on College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe   bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025... · Posted by u/bcantrill
system7rocks · 2 months ago
A profoundly wise and great article.

My son is a big kid and is playing high school football. It was not on our radar, so we have begun to navigate these kinds of questions. Like - do you want to play at the next level? What do you even need to do if you would like to? But also the realization of how much money is made off of these kids and how cruel and unforgiving it can be.

system7rocks commented on The Battle to Bottle Palm Wine (2021)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/prmph
system7rocks · 3 months ago
I am very intrigued as local, culturally specific wines/beers/fermentation speak so much to our creativity and community as human beings.

But thanks for the heads up about Nipah Virus! Wow!

system7rocks commented on Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk released from immigration detention   npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/colinprince
system7rocks · 3 months ago
This is long overdue. Spending six weeks in prison for writing an op ed? Even if you think the op ed was dumb or awful, what society do we have if we can't have the freedom to be stupid or wrong about something? We live in dangerous times - it must stop.
system7rocks commented on Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy   osuosl.org/blog/osl-futur... · Posted by u/aendruk
system7rocks · 4 months ago
I am not working in the computer science field any more, but my experience working with computer systems in an environment like this helped me gain a lot of confidence as an individual. This is amazing work and deserves to be funded!
system7rocks commented on How to program a text adventure in C   helderman.github.io/htpat... · Posted by u/nivethan
system7rocks · 4 months ago
This is all one really needs to program a huge hit game in 2025.

DOOM is essentially a text adventure but with fewer keywords.

system7rocks commented on Fedora 43 Proposal Filed for Removing Gnome X11 Packages: Wayland-Only Gnome   phoronix.com/news/F43-Cha... · Posted by u/rbanffy
system7rocks · 4 months ago
Hey, this is the step forward. I think there are going to remain some X11 only distributions down the line that target older machines that may struggle a little with Wayland. Although I wonder about all of that... Wayland doesn't seem overly resource hungry. I use Q4OS on an old Chromebook, and it's kind of great.
system7rocks commented on US judge finds administration wilfully defied court order in deportation flights   abc.net.au/news/2025-04-1... · Posted by u/stubish
hayst4ck · 4 months ago
Without rule of law no other issue matters.

You think you are a citizen today because you've always been a citizen, you have papers to prove it. It's never even been questioned. What if those papers get destroyed? What if the officer interpreting your papers is employed by someone who doesn't like you because you're disobedient. Without rule of law your status as a citizen doesn't protect you. Without a functioning judiciary capable of providing consequences to those who violate rule of law, you have no one to appeal to.

This administration complains about single judges restricting their actions. That should literally terrify you. The judges are not stopping the administration, they are ruling that the law is stopping the administration. When the administration says it is judges stopping it, it is claiming that there is no law, only the actions of loyal or disobedient men.

We are in a constitutional crisis. We are effectively lawless. Right now, we cannot depend on the law to restrict powerful people's actions. We have no way to predict what is possible for someone with a gun who is loyal to the president to do without consequences and therefore no way to act as if the law protects us.

system7rocks · 4 months ago
Right here.

We are in a crisis.

system7rocks commented on America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back   molsonhart.com/blog/ameri... · Posted by u/putzdown
system7rocks · 4 months ago
This is an interesting read though I’m not an economist but even pick up that the author is wrong about some of these points. Still, I don’t think the author is an economist either. And a little harsh on US workers - but I know there are people really struggling in the US who need work and bring their problems with them.

What a mess this country is in.

system7rocks commented on A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9   github.com/bbenchoff/MacS... · Posted by u/DanAtC
system7rocks · 4 months ago
This is sick. I know Classilla, our last somewhat modern web browser, was having issues with SSL/TSL stuff at the end. Maybe this opens the door for some smart hero to revive it a bit.

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