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theedwood commented on Calendar.txt terokarvinen.com/2021/cal... · Posted by u/Iuz

kruffalon · 6 months ago

Have you looked into remind[0] while working on this?

There might be value in checking that out.

Personally I haven't used it in years, but the latest release is from this year so it seems active.

---- [0] https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/

theedwood · 6 months ago

I used to use remind and wyrd[0] along with remind-caldav[1] for calendaring. I believe I either used remind-caldav or a custom python script set in my mailcap file (I don't remember which it was now) that would open up calendar attachments on emails and save them in remind and remind was sync'd with google calendar.

The details of how I had it all wired up are now lost to memory, but it seemed to accomplish a similar goal to calendar.txt while supporting standard calendar file formats and sync with Google Calendar.

[0] https://wyrd-calendar.gitlab.io/wyrd/

[1] https://github.com/jspricke/remind-caldav

theedwood commented on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? · Posted by u/0bsolete

theedwood · a year ago

While I try to stick with cross platform utilities whenever possible, the list below contains both MacOS-only and cross platform tools I use daily and could not live without:

# GUI Tools

  - Alacritty -- Cross platform, lightweight terminal emulator
  - Rancher Desktop -- Better Docker desktop experience
  - Alfred -- Replaces spotlight for me
  - Amphetamine -- Keep laptop awake
  - Rectangle -- Window snapping
  - `notunes` -- Prevents iTunes from popping up (brew install notunes)

#CLI Tools

  - Homebrew -- package manager
  - `lazyvim` -- neovim with a lot of stuff pre-configured.
  - `tmux` -- terminal multiplexer
  - PagerDuty CLI - https://github.com/martindstone/pagerduty-cli
  - Silver Searcher `ag` -- faster grep (brew intall the_silver_searcher)
  - Github cli -- `gh` (brew install gh)
  - `fzf` -- fuzzy finder (brew install fzf)
  - `jq` and `yq` -- Parse json and yaml respectively (brew install jq yq)

theedwood commented on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? · Posted by u/0bsolete

yen223 · a year ago

I highly recommend reading this list of built-in macOS terminal commands: https://ss64.com/mac/

Some commands I use often:

- `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` to copy and paste data via the clipboard

- `date -u` to give the date in UTC

- `networkQuality` is speedtest but built-in to macOS

- `caffeinate` prevents your computer from going to sleep (it's the same as the old Caffeinate program, but built-in now)

- `open ...` to open a file, as if you double-clicked it in Finder

- `security` gives you command-line access to the Keychain.

theedwood · a year ago

> caffeinate

TIL there is a built in utility. I switched from Caffeinate to Amphetamine a while back and never bothered to look for a built-in solution. Great to know!

theedwood commented on Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition? · Posted by u/nagstler

Fizzadar · a year ago

Thank you for posting this! Happy to answer any questions anyone has :)

theedwood · a year ago

I’ve used several different IaC tools; Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and Polumi to name a few.

What would you say are key differentiators of PyInfra from these existing projects?

theedwood commented on Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239... · Posted by u/lawgimenez

apitman · 2 years ago

You've identified a real problem but blamed the wrong target. We don't need to avoid using domain names, we need to make them an order of magnitude easier for laypeople to buy and use.

99% of people who could benefit from owning a domain should never have to know what a DNS record or TLS cert is. This should all be managed by apps through a simple delegation system built on OAuth2.

You log on to bsky.app, they say, "want to connect a domain?". You say yes and get redirected to your domain registrar, where you grant access to for bsky.app to have control over bsky.example.com until you revoke access.

DomainConnect[0] should solve this but in practice it's turned out to be very gatekeepy in my opinion.

[0]: https://www.domainconnect.org/

theedwood · 2 years ago

You're only addressing half the issue here. By delegating control of your domain to bsky.app, you're still beholden to a centralized ban list and retain no control over your own instance.

theedwood commented on Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

theedwood · 2 years ago

Recently started looking in to GPT/LLM based search tools like perplexity.ai for this very reason. I've not used perplexity enough yet that I feel I can form a solid opinion one way or another yet, but I have yet to receive sponsored results or SEO spam from it. Sometimes I have to tailor the query a little differently than I would on a traditional search engine (using more natural language, for example) but it almost always returns useful information and cites it's sources for me so I can read more if the summary wasn't sufficient.

I think Google has divested enough of it's profit from search that it's no longer the cash cow it once was and we're likely to see the quality of the product continue to decline. I would not be surprised if most people have replaced it in the coming years with one of the emerging LLM augmented competitors unless they choose to get on that bandwagon.

The ultimate irony would be to see Google, ever the killer of products, kill off their original product at some point down the road.

theedwood commented on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible quuxplusone.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/ingve

e12e · 6 years ago

There's also wee-slack:

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack

theedwood · 6 years ago

Wee-slack was my go-to for the longest time but can no longer use it and it makes me sad... The problem with it now is that they had to migrate off the legacy API tokens. You now need an administrator to authorize wee-slack as an application for your organization. Not all organizations are willing to do this.

theedwood commented on Raspberry Pi 4 raspberrypi.org/blog/rasp... · Posted by u/MarcScott

universenz · 6 years ago

Could you outline/bring clarity to why that is totally unimportant for many use cases?

theedwood · 6 years ago

Because there are still, over a year later, no reported cases of any spectre/meltdown vulnerabilities actively being used in the wild.

theedwood commented on What a Real Train System Looks Like (2009) newworldeconomics.com/wha... · Posted by u/apsec112

ken · 7 years ago

> These days, it’s easy to make subway systems because we have amazing tunneling machines, which will bore a train-sized hole like a giant rock-eating worm. So, no excuses.

I wouldn't say "easy". It's possible. Here in Seattle, we're building a new 2-mile tunnel (for cars). It was originally scheduled to open 3 years ago, and will finally open in 2019. It was planned to take 29 months, but took 67.

We're not so great at bridges, either. One of my managers observed "We've got 4 floating bridges, and we sank 2 of them." That was back when I was on the Boeing 7E7 project (first flight: 28 months late).

Is it any wonder we can't get excited about the prospect of an "easy" new rail project? We can't estimate big engineering projects to within 50%, and we can't keep existing infrastructure afloat (literally). I always vote for public transit on principle, but I'm also aware it's always going to take longer and cost more than they claim, so I can't really blame people who don't.

Want broad support for infrastructure projects? First, demonstrate you can execute on them reliably. Nobody wants to agree to pay for a tunnel that might end up being the next "Big Dig".

theedwood · 7 years ago

> I wouldn't say "easy". It's possible. Here in Seattle, we're building a new 2-mile tunnel (for cars). It was originally scheduled to open 3 years ago, and will finally open in 2019. It was planned to take 29 months, but took 67.

To add to this, some areas are made of materials that are simply difficult to bore through. Atlanta, for example, sits on top of a bunch of granite which at least partially contributes to the difficulties of underground rail expansion.

theedwood commented on F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules nytimes.com/2017/12/14/te... · Posted by u/panny

DigitalJack · 8 years ago

I wonder if this would be feasible at the neighborhood level via Home owners association. The neighborhood gets a tower and microwave link to a backhaul station, and provides internet via wifi or wires to the neighborhood.

I think our neighboorhood is about 130 houses. probably not enough to make it cost effective.

On the flip side, maybe starting a local company to provide LOS microwave hookups to the various neighborhoods in the area could make it work.

theedwood · 8 years ago

Yes, it is feasible: https://dbiua.org/

There are lots of local groups doing this around the country already in underserved areas as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B0u6nvcTsI