Siddharth Kannan

"For Arendt, the problem was not that we kept creating things in our image; it was that we imbued these artifacts with a kind of transcendent power. Rather than focusing on how to use science and technology to iprove the human condition, ...

why can't you build emacs without makeinfo 🙃 lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/h…

Letterboxd is great, letterboxd.com.

pipewire + qpwgraph is not even comparable to pulseaudio server + pavuctl. the graph-based audio routing is simple and intuitive. github.com/rncbc/qpwgraph

"every individual is only a version of you, how can they forgive when there's no forgiveness in your heart" open.spotify.com/track/0RgjEkSb…

GNX my-gnx.com

no standard, well-supported EXIF like thing for all video formats? superuser.com/questions/1036…

idea: a program which covers the top 90% of the active application's window with a white, translucent image => this would be easy to bind to a keyboard shortcut

creepy, "cream puffs". this movie is good. youtube.com/watch?v=LjN7iz…

Force updates have the usual reasons: enforcing a new fee structure, forcing people to upgrade hardware, etc. Security updates is a joke, when most Android OEMs don't push timely security updates anyway. 🧐

This is the fundamental difference between browsers and closed platforms. (Not only WhatsApp; just an example.) Just because my device has few other users, why should software that will work today not work on it after some arbitrary point of time? faq.whatsapp.com/11502612025422…

Oh, Rust does not produce static binaries. AHHHH, I assumed that "modern" languages do, but I guess that's only Golang. Interesting! Now, I understand why people run completely different distros (Void Linux) for musl support. musl.libc.org/about.html, voidlinux.org

GCP free tier includes 30 GB months of standard persistent disk; but when you go to create a new e2-micro instance, the disk attached is 10 GB months balanced persistent. So, you have to manually change the boot disk type. #free-tier-usage-limits" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cloud.google.com/free/docs/free…

Oneliner that nobody should ever use: `notmuch show thread:000000000000000e | rg -w '\d{6}' | tee /dev/stderr | pbcopy` (to copy 6 digit OTP from inbox)

AH! `touch /mnt/boot/ssh` => a truly headless support. raspberrypi.com/news/a-securit…

It turned out, as I suspected, that the $2.50 per month VMs are available only in 2 datacenters. I could find them in the New Jersey DC, but not in the Seattle DC.

Vultr's online pricing page advertises a non-existent $2.50/month VM plan. 🤦‍♂️ vultr.com/pricing/, web.archive.org/web/2024081910…

🤣 great sketch! youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1ho…

(... and I am planning to upgrade all my machines to Debian 12 soon anyway) Debian 12 does not have a prebuilt package for Shotwell latest stable release 0.32.1 though. Can this be fixed by asking the Debian team to use the latest stable release, somehow? packages.debian.org/bookworm/shotw…

github.com/jessfraz/docke… does not have a Dockerfile for Shotwell, but it should be possible to somehow use the X server running locally to start GUI applications inside a Docker container. I am not desperate enough for HEIC support at this point though. So, I'll leave it at that.

The convenient method of building Shotwell in a Docker container, or inside CI on GitHub Actions, and downloading just the binaries to run it locally also does not work due to dynamically linked binaries.

I am extremely used to statically linked binaries, for applications written in Go. So, I am very surprised that I can not use Shotwell 0.32 (for its HEIC support) because the libraries it needs are not packaged for Debian 11 yet. (packages.debian.org/bookworm/libwe… is a good example.)