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txtsd commented on NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer flathub.org/apps/net.newp... · Posted by u/FuturisticGoo

txtsd · 10 months ago

I'm going to try and get android_translation_layer building on Arch and then we can have a third distro to add to the list!

txtsd · 10 months ago

It is done!

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android_translation_layer...

txtsd commented on NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer flathub.org/apps/net.newp... · Posted by u/FuturisticGoo

clfdev · 10 months ago

If you have a device running postmarketOS or Alpine Linux you can try this out yourself with other Android apps. Just "sudo apk add android-translation-layer" and then run

$ android-translation-layer some-app.apk

I tried a few (F-Droid, Spotify, Megalodon) but they all failed with various issues, looks like there's a lot of API surface still not covered. Hopefully a lot of it is fairly easy to add now that the foundational work has been done!

txtsd · 10 months ago

I'm going to try and get android_translation_layer building on Arch and then we can have a third distro to add to the list!

txtsd commented on Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts? · Posted by u/raleighm

txtsd · 10 months ago

I wrote a scraper to create vCard contacts from Facebook a few years ago when I still used Facebook.

https://github.com/txtsd/fb2vcard

txtsd commented on 3K free SVG icons for popular brands simpleicons.org/... · Posted by u/noashavit

txtsd · a year ago

Just what I needed today. Thank you!

txtsd commented on WebP: The WebPage Compression Format purplesyringa.moe/blog/we... · Posted by u/Kubuxu

niutech · a year ago

This page is broken at least on Sailfish OS browser, there is a long empty space after the paragraph:

> Alright, so we’re dealing with 92 KiB for gzip vs 37 + 71 KiB for Brotli. Umm…

That said, the overhead of gzip vs brotli HTML compression is nothing compared with amount of JS/images/video current websites use.

txtsd · a year ago

Same on Mull

txtsd commented on Waterfox × Tree Style Tab: A Collaboration for the Waterfox Sidebar waterfox.net/blog/waterfo... · Posted by u/txtsd

txtsd · a year ago

I built TST from source to test it. The UI feels SO MUCH smoother now!

txtsd commented on Android App Devs now require 20 people to test before publishing to Play Store techcrunch.com/2023/11/09... · Posted by u/robertwt7

mpalczewski · 2 years ago

This would have prevented me from publishing my first app, which ended up getting me my first job and a great career.

txtsd · 2 years ago

Wow. Could you tell us more about your journey?

txtsd commented on GitHub Actions could be so much better blog.yossarian.net/2023/0... · Posted by u/woodruffw

solatic · 2 years ago

GitHub Actions is a horrible CI/CD system. You cannot run steps in parallel on the same VM; container-based workloads are a second-class citizen. The first problem means that setting up local credentials and other environment dependencies cannot be parallelized (I'm looking at you, google-github-actions/setup-gcloud, with your 1m+ runtime... grrr), the second makes it quite difficult to put a Dockerfile in a repository to represent setup of the CI environment, and have both (a) the CI rebuild the container images when the image would change, pausing workflows depending on that image until the image is rebuilt, (b) not attempting to rebuild the image when its contents did not change, and immediately running workflows inside that image, including all dependencies already installed.

No, in GitHub Actions, you will attempt to repopulate from cache on every single run. Of course, sometimes the cache isn't found, particularly because there's a 5 GB cache size limit (which cannot be enlarged, not even for payment) which cycles out FIFO. So if you go over the 5 GB cache, you might as well not have one.

I deeply miss Concourse. Too bad Pivotal dismantled the team and it barely gets even maintenance work. Parallel tasks. Custom pipeline triggers. SSH into the CI environment to debug. Run one-off tasks in CI without needing to set up a pipeline. Transfer directory contents from one job to another without needing to create artifacts (which cost money to store if you're not careful about how long they should stick around for).

GitHub Actions is a bastardized toy CI/CD system that only got popular because GitHub make it as simple as uploading a file to .github/workflows in any repository - no additional signup, no in-house ops required, everything you could want is just there. So let's be very clear about what GitHub Actions is good and what it's bad at - it's good at getting people to sign up, but it's not nearly powerful enough to be the "best" system once you start to outgrow the early features.

txtsd · 2 years ago

Try the sourcehut build server

txtsd commented on Chidori – Declarative framework for AI agents (Rust, Python, and Node.js) github.com/ThousandBirdsI... · Posted by u/transitivebs

matjet · 2 years ago

Is this a sarcastic joke, or is it a serious comment? I honestly cannot tell.

txtsd · 2 years ago

Yes. Poe's Law.