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icy replied

@ben

favs:

  • serif: Instrument Serif (display), Charter (body)
  • sans: Inter all day everyday
  • mono: Input, SF Mono

not favs:

  • Ubuntu/Mono
  • Cantarell

icy replied

@geekodour tbh idk, I just do steam run zed . and it just works. I think it does still pull in bins etc. which is gross but eh. It does pick up language servers from PATH now (I think) so there's that.

icy posted

I really do miss the sheer convenience of on-demand healthcare in India. Need a dental checkup, x-ray and a cleaning done? Do it all the next day, and it'll cost you ~€100–150, or even less.

icy replied

I'm glad I don't have to do daily stand-ups anymore. They're an ineffective waste of time, and daily is too frequent a cadence for any meaningful outcome—it's far too zoomed in. Weekly refinements make way more sense.

icy replied

@SiteRelEnby ah, unfortunately we can’t hire outside of the EU (as much as we’d love to!) due to certain legal restrictions. Good luck with your search!!

icy replied

@wezm I love Apple Reminders (the app) but I wish they supported subtasks etc. when using CalDAV. Does that work with Fastmail?

icy posted

Turns out steam-run is the trick to making Zed play nice with NixOS. Copilot et al work perfectly now.

#nixos

icy replied

@jbauer great stuff! Sounds like you had a pretty okay experience with German immigration. I've been through the process with my previous employer and it was genuinely nightmarish. I had to post(!) my application for a Statement of Comparability (Zeugnisbewertung?) and it took them ~4 months to send that over, which I then needed to send alongside my EU Blue Card application; and so much more emailing and calling (the Bundesagentur für Arbeit ugh). Suffice to say, they made it real hard for me.

Many balls were dropped—both by my employer and German immigration that I decided to just quit. Fortunately, I moved to Finland immediately after and that was an immensely pleasant experience—took just over a month to move from Bangalore to Helsinki, EU Blue Card and all.

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A new pedestrian-cycle tunnel had been opened under Helsinki's main train station. With an underground bike park for 900 cycles, with chargers and cycle maintenance/wash station.

Cc: @notjustbikes

Entrance to the tunnel with pedestrian access to the train platform on the left and separate cycle and pedestrian tracks on the right Entrance to the bike park In the tunnel- wide two way asphalt cycle road and raised wide pedestrian walk Inside the bike parking
icy posted

I prefer not to adopt the ⁂ symbol as the fediverse.info website does not recognise honk as a federated platform.

icy replied

@ols @petersanchez
so curl -H 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://yeet.ols.wtf/u/ols gives

...
"icon": {
    "mediaType": "image/png",
    "type": "Image",
    "url": "https://yeet.ols.wtf/meme/https://ols.wtf/profile.jpg"
  },
...

which doesn't look right. Looks like you're setting the avatar image to a URL? You want to pass in just a filename.

icy posted

The Sourcegraph HN thread is really funny. The CEO of Sourcegraph is trying to justify (weasel his way around saying OSS just wasn't making money) and the HN peanut gallery refusing to accept that OSS can't be profitable.

Regardless, I think the combination of VC investment and building an a company on an open source product are at odds with each other—which Sourcegraph eventually realised. Even more so if it actively sabotages your "enterprise" version by:

  • being hard to maintain two versions of the code base
  • driving customers away from the enterprise version (since the OSS/free version is plenty good!)

From a purely business PoV, building an open source product today is starting to seem not-that-great of an idea because eventually you're going to need to sell that enterprise version—so why not start from day 1?

icy replied

Hah! It's in your 'about me' text field in /account. You set

avatar: whatever.jpg

in there.

icy replied

Tried a few “street” compositions—not sure they turned out that great. I need to learn to compose better when I feel “uncomfortable”.

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@petersanchez wow that was incredible. The cinematography was so good. I was scanning the background so OFTEN for something/someone.

And I loved the tiny details like the shadow of the devil in different scenes—hard to spot since it’s like a split second but still very cool once you do.

I did find the story to be missing few bits but I can look past that/fill them in myself.

icy posted

Disabling the Nvidia GPU was the best decision I made for my laptop. I just assumed that using offload-mode would essentially turn it off unless I explicitly specified a program to run on the GPU—but as it turns out, it's been constantly sucking like 4–6 watts on idle.

On the integrated GPU, it's now about 6–10 W depending on what I'm doing. Sometimes up to 12–14 if I'm building something bigly.

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icy posted

If I now see this emoji ✨ anywhere, I instantly know there's going to be an AI somewhere after that.

icy replied

@moonmehta

Have the member-only stories you read made you think and improved your understanding of the world?

Perhaps back in ~2016–2018 it might've been good. I remember reading a bunch of independent journalists pushing pretty high quality content. It was also the de facto infosec blog platform. But in its current state? Hell no.

icy posted

It’s funny that x.com still uses the t.co link shortener—it’s one character shorter.

icy replied

@petersanchez I have used aerc before and I used to use s-nail for a good three years; but I really don’t want to use email in the terminal anymore haha.

icy replied

Exists as pantheon.elementary-mail but it's like a fish out of water in GNOME—hella broken without elementary-settings-daemon etc.

icy replied

Come to think of it, elementary Mail was actually pretty tight. Lemme see if I can install it on NixOS.

icy posted

The Linux GUI email client situation isn't great. KMail, last I used it was a buggy mess. Evolution is slow and ugly. Geary is just ugly.

I need a GNOME Circle-tier email client.

icy replied

@aynish I tried it briefly but I didn’t find it as … appealing as the fedi. It’s entirely possible I just didn’t spend enough time there to build a network.

I do like some of their ideas however—composable moderation is a pretty nifty concept.