thingsiplay

thingsiplay, 6 hours ago

Basically another shell scripting language. But unlike most other languages like Csh or Fish, it can compile back to Bash. At the moment I am bit conflicted, but the thing it can compile back to Bash is what is very interesting. I’ll keep an eye on this. But it makes the produced Bash code a bit less readable than a handwritten one, if that is the end goal.

curl -s “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ph0enixKM/AmberNative/master/setup/install.sh” | $(echo /bin/bash)

I wish this nonsense of piping a shell script from the internet directly into Bash would stop. It’s a bad idea, because of security concerns. This install.sh script eval and will even run curl itself to download amber and install it from this url

url=“https://github.com/Ph0enixKM/${__0_name}/releases/download/${__2_tag}/amber_${os}_${arch}”… echo “Please make sure that root user can access /opt directory.”;

And all of this while requiring root access.

I am not a fan of this kind of distribution and installation. Why not provide a normal manual installation process and link to the projects releases page: github.com/Ph0enixKM/Amber

thingsiplay, 1 day ago

This looks slick! The current edit mode is confusing and one presented in the video is a such an improvement and better user interface / experience. With it, I can finally introduce this concept to my brother.

thingsiplay, 1 day ago

Is that really the case? Would everything one type to the keyboard be send to the companies and used as training data for AI? Does that any keyboard at all on the smartphone?

thingsiplay, 1 day ago

I think predictive text predates even Android and smartphones (but not exactly), when we had to press a key 3 times until specific characters appeared; called T9 and just a dictionary. Having or not having a dictionary suggestion was the difference between life and death. Now the modern smartphone has way more compute power and resources, therefore they can analyze text in more depth. It’s just the logical next step to the plain and simple dictionary.

thingsiplay, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

I’ve seen this before. It’s a nice visualization. As for the “biggest” script, its not as slow as you think. It’s a single du call (alongside cheap sort, head and tac) and therefore quite fast. In example in my ~/Documents directory is almost 1 TB big and running time biggest Documents executes it in almost 2 seconds (for the first time after a reboot). Subsequent calls are quicker, 0.6s and then 0.07s. Edit: And BTW, it’s a mechanical HDD, not SSD too.

Also I like the output of the files or folders and I can even use commandline arguments like biggest Documents/*.txt in example. So for me this is enough and exactly what I need.

thingsiplay, 3 days ago

Also recommended to watch: The History of Tetris World Records

1. 2:32 Chapter 1
2. 11:39 Chapter 2
3. 16:28 Chapter 3: ENEOOGEZ
4. 25:48 Chapter 4: Hypertapping
5. 31:45 Chapter 5: The Next Generation
6. 49:00 Chapter 6: Rolling
7. 1:00:27 Chapter 7: Vaulting & Scaling
8. 1:15:25 Chapter 8: Colors
9. 1:25:00 Chapter 9: Crash

thingsiplay, 2 days ago

Its a classic conflict of interests. But I believe he is a sportsman guy and truly was happy for the kid. Kinda felt bad though, but this is how things goes. Either way, congratz to both.

thingsiplay, 3 days ago

Why would PKGBUILD solve the issue? The packaging issues are still the same, as every distro has different package names, revisions and not all packages in their repository. The dependencies are not solved with this.

thingsiplay, 3 days ago

Same for side loading apps. If the rest of the world / governments does not care, then Apple won’t care in the rest of the world too.

thingsiplay, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

One of my favorite blogs recently.

A few weeks ago, some of us discovered that KDE apps just looked terrible when run in GNOME.

They should test this much more often and frequently. Unlike Gnome, KDE do actually care about their users, not just about themselves.

Dolphin now gives you the option to enable previews for folders on remote locations.

I wouldn’t use this for internet connections, but when accessing my Steam Deck through Dolphin on my PC, then this could be fast enough for smaller directories I guess. Meaning as long as the remote location is in the LAN and not the internet, the performance wouldn’t be too bad I guess.

Discover now handles the case where one of your Flatpak apps has been marked as “end of life” and replaced with another one; it gives you the opportunity to switch to the new one, or cancel and keep using the old one anyway

Wow! This is a topic we discussed a lot in the web. Not for Flatpaks but often for native package managers like in Fedora or Archlinux, where no longer supported programs are still in the repository (such as neofetch). I still wish this check from Discovery app would be on the side of the package managers+repository information like Flatpak+Flathub itself, as I do this in commandline only. But very nice to see how KDE improves on this front.

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BTW a personal little problem from me: My Application Launcher menu is very slow with bad performance. It always freezes for half a second goes loads when I move mouse and freezes again. Does anyone experience this issue?

thingsiplay, 3 days ago

I don’t use SMB. It’s SSH connection using Files transferred over Shell protocol (FISH).

thingsiplay, 3 days ago

I didn’t change from any desktop environment. But I think that I also use Gnome applications, not sure. cleaning .config or .local directory is not an option for me.

thingsiplay, 4 days ago

This is the equivalent of Sony requiring PSN account in countries where no PSN account exist. Just on a different technical level, but with the same outcome. This should be illegal.

thingsiplay, 4 days ago

Reddit has become one of the internet’s largest open archives of authentic, relevant, and always up-to-date human conversations about anything and everything.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says

But refuses to pay the users or at least moderators who build Reddit to what it is now. Instead, it pushes more advertisements and sells data to AI companies for millions of Dollars.

thingsiplay, 4 days ago

The license does not apply to posts and replies in Reddit, right? Thank god I created a blog to post about any stuff that I want, without license or restrictions from Reddit. Before the AI breakthrough and what happened to Reddit. But even if so, do AI tools understand such a license text and evaluate if they can or cannot use the material?

thingsiplay, 4 days ago

Well the companies and developers don’t decide for every single material. In example what I expect is, that they program the scraper with rules to respect licenses of individual projects (such as on Github probably). And I assume those scraper tools are AI tools themselves, programmed with AI tool assist on top of it. There are multiple AI layers!

At this point, I don’t think that any developer knows exactly what the AI tools are fed with, if they use automatically scraped public sources from the internet.

thingsiplay, 5 days ago

fpath is not a replacement for a ls like command, but to change its output (I am an eza user myself). fpath takes output of eza to transform it into whatever I want. And its not just usable with an list program such ls or eza, but also operates on stdin like grep, even non existent files to maybe form something on a different place with same name in example. I still use ls (which is eza for me as an alias) for regular day operation.

fpath is useful for output from find command or baloosearch6 (KDE’s file indexer, that only outputs full path of matching search). In this case eza does not help me. Sometimes it can get messy with using sed and grep mulitple times and Bash substitution to get file extension and so on. Or I use baloosearch6 “Super Mario World” | fpath -F{name} -x*.pcm to just show filename, excluding all paths matching *.pcm glob (not regex) for whatever reason I want to use. The thing is, this is just a moment to be in. Next moment I can easily adjust the output to output it with or without other information.

thingsiplay, 5 days ago

It’s a bit hard to show examples that justifies such a tool. But it’s not about making things possible, as there are other tools like ls, grep and sed and awk and Bash commands to do all the formatting and output. But its a little bit easier and more flexible to have fpath, which understands paths and has dedicated functionality to support that. It’s more about being flexible and doing it in place easily. At least for me, because I know the tool.

Let’s say I want to output some information about files that come as a result from my file indexer baloosearch6 (from KDE). It only outputs full paths. Let’s say I want to show only its names and the file type information (or any other) next to it:

<span style="color:#323232;">baloosearch6 </span><span style="color:#183691;">"Super Mario" </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">grep /snes/ </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">| </span><span style="color:#323232;">fpath -F</span><span style="color:#183691;">'{name}nt{file}n'
</span>

thingsiplay, 6 days ago

Human Rights are higher than any law. Just because its law in China, does not mean it is correct to follow the law. It is not we decide which laws to follow, but it is universally in entire world the right thing to support Human Rights, regardless of any law.

thingsiplay, 6 days ago

It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.

Which does not change the fact that Google does it. So the reason why Google supports China and their anti Human Rights laws is, because of money. That’s what we criticize.

thingsiplay, 6 days ago

This would probably make the entire world talk about it and it would be worse in China, because this would only anger people and fighting against the country. We won’t see that, because Google wouldn’t dare. The money is more precious than any Human Right, regardless of law.

thingsiplay, 6 days ago

It’s the ideal solution morally-wise, but it still samples out a ton of users precisely because people are used to the idea of telemetry = bad

And that’s a good thing. Because that is the decision by the user. The freedom of choosing in opt in fashion is much more important than collecting some individual data for a specific use case of a specific company. Opt in is not just ideal solution morally-wise, its the best solution we have in general and every company should strife this solution. Plus the data should be presented before sending, so there is no ambiguity. Steam, a closed source program, does that in the best possible way.