stochastictrebuchet

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.workstoWorld News@lemmy.world•Belgium To Recognize Palestine, Impose Sanctions On IsraelEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Belgian here. Their wording is confusing and I’ve been trying to figure out how much of it is meaningful.

    They tacked on a precondition to them recognizing Palestine: Hamas must give up power. I don’t see that condition being met faster than Israel can flatten what remains of Gaza and force its population out – which in turn only creates more suffering and anger for the militant recruit pipeline.

    The sanctions mostly concern boycotts on products produced in occupied regions. Fuck that – boycott all trade with Israel.

    Our rightwing prime minister is on record saying that the whole debate was annoyingly motivated by ‘morality’ and that he’s glad the government (an uneasy coalition) can move on to more important matters. Downright shameful.

    Come protest this Sunday in Brussels. Last one was attended by 100k demonstrators. Was a fun afternoon. More info at 11.be

  • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ghostty in review: how's the new terminal emulator?
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    4 months ago

    I give it a spin every month or so to see how it’s getting on. I’m on macOS.

    Every time I walk away unimpressed, despite its maker’s very deserved esteemed reputation.

    I’m probably not seeing something. What I do see, however, is that I can’t search my scrollback history, nor can I select text without a mouse.

    Also, pressing cmd+, on macOS opens the config inside TextEditor (yes, a separate GUI app) rather than in $EDITOR. It’s a small thing but I couldn’t figure out how to change it. Coming from Kitty, this drove me mad.

    I’m not sure who Ghostty is for. My feeling is it’s aiming to be an excellent, polished experience for casual terminal users. But I didn’t see anything that Kitty or just tmux anywhere can’t do.

  • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.workstoUnixporn@lemmy.ml•TIL Kitty terminal can show a dock panel on Linux desktops!
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    5 months ago

    Any time I read the Kitty docs I’m just in awe of everything its maker, Kovid Goyal, has built for it. Like, not just individual features but entire protocols, which other terminals then adopt.

    I just wish remote session persistence was more of a priority. Goyal dislikes tmux (to put it mildly) but doesn’t suggest an alternative to those who do their work on remote servers. If I’m already organizing my work in tmux over ssh, I might as well do the same locally as well – which unfortunately means missing out on some of Kitty’s best parts.

  • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)English
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    6 months ago

    I’ve really been enjoying Vivaldi. It’s also Chromium-based. It’s easy to customize and it has really good tab management. You can group tabs into workspaces, open split panes, and – this one I really appreciate – you can stack tabs by domain. Added bonus is that the company behind it, Vivaldi Technologies, is Norwegian, which ticks the ‘shop European’ box for me.

    As for ad blocking, the shittiness of manifest v3 made me look at options outside the browser rather than rely on extensions. These days I pass all my traffic through adguard, which filters out ads from the request responses. All in all this has been a positive step, because now I can play around with any browser without ever seeing ads.

  • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.workstoBuy European@feddit.uk•Folks are pressuring the Organic Maps team to move the codebase to Codeberg
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    6 months ago

    Wonder how easy it is to migrate issues, pipelines, wikis, etc. to a different remote repo provider. Because that’s what comes with what these users are calling for.

    GitHub is a blessing and a curse. Open-source has over-centralized on a MSFT-owned platform that has no qualms with vacuuming up code for its AI.

    But since most developers like myself are already there, it lowers the barrier to opening issues, starting discussions, and contributing code. I don’t want to have to check notifications on 4+ platforms. I don’t want to have to join some Discord or figure out how to search for messages on Element. (I realize I’m part of the problem.)