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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Mesh Editor (Text / Code Editor)
« Last post by Tuxman on August 14, 2024, 05:00 AM »
There is Zed. AI helper included. And a lot of other features that may prove to be very useful for projects that involve more than one developer. Available for free on Linux and MacOS. They seem to be working on a Windows version as well, They do provide the source and instructions to build it yourself on Windows.
-Shades (August 13, 2024, 08:27 PM)

Ah well, if an "AI helper" was the most interesting part of a text editor  :P , GNU Emacs can use LLaMA (see the screencasts!) for whatever you want to throw at it.  :D Zed looks nice, but its features have not convinced me, last time I checked. But you know, the grass on the other side of the fence...
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Mesh Editor (Text / Code Editor)
« Last post by Tuxman on August 13, 2024, 09:52 AM »
Where has the website gone?
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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.
« Last post by Tuxman on August 13, 2024, 08:21 AM »
Most of the mice I've had so far were Logitechs, including my first one (the good old Pilot Mouse). What they (almost) all had in common was that the left mouse button had hardly any resistance within a few months, which is of course nonsense for a mouse. For the first time, I have a new problem: I've been using a Logitech G402 for a few years (after all!) - and its right mouse button is now weak.  :huh:

I seriously consider getting a SteelSeries mouse next, hoping that the modern "gaming" mice will be more resistant.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Super simple idea, possibly hard to implement
« Last post by Tuxman on August 10, 2024, 09:25 PM »
A modular approach would probably work (and is a good idea for most applications, actually), but if we limit the subset of supported applications to those which have a sane definition of (and sufficient ways to highlight) "text", the result will likely not really cater TotalFanboy's needs wishes.  :D
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Super simple idea, possibly hard to implement
« Last post by Tuxman on August 08, 2024, 05:55 AM »
That would be pretty hard to implement indeed, given that "all opened applications" can be web browsers, 3D games, file managers, text editors... all of them have a different definition of what "text" is.  :huh:
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Official Announcements / Re: New server/OS update
« Last post by Tuxman on August 06, 2024, 07:23 PM »
that's 4 outages
-KynloStephen66515 (August 06, 2024, 05:44 PM)

Could be continued, but I'll leave this as an exercise to the readers.
-Tuxman (August 06, 2024, 07:57 AM)

 :P
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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)
« Last post by Tuxman on August 06, 2024, 10:37 AM »
If you need to explain how the algorithm is supposed to work en detail, wouldn’t it be easier to just write the algorithm yourself either way?
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Official Announcements / Re: New server/OS update
« Last post by Tuxman on August 06, 2024, 07:57 AM »
Only a single one of those posts has anything to do with Cloudflare being the issue.  The rest are just informative posts about widespread internet outages across the world.
-KynloStephen66515 (August 05, 2024, 02:41 PM)

The single outage that has anything to do with Cloudflare (1):
https://blog.cloudfl...om/cloudflare-outage

The single outage that has anything to do with Cloudflare (2):
https://blog.cloudfl...tage-on-july-17-2020

The single outage that has anything to do with Cloudflare (3):
https://blog.cloudfl...age-on-june-21-2022/

The single outage that has anything to do with Cloudflare (4):
https://blog.cloudfl...dent-on-june-20-2024

(Could be continued, but I'll leave this as an exercise to the readers.)

In all of these cases, sites without Clownflare "protection" had no problems being available everywhere in the world. These problems with their network "services" are multiplied by occasional failures of their DNS "service" (= those who use it cannot resolve domains), their CDN "service" (= those who use it, their image files are not available), their status "service" (= those who use Clownflare cannot even check why their image files are currently not available), ...

Well, after all, yes, those are very informative posts indeed.  ;)
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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2024 - BeastBoard by luvnbeast v1
« Last post by Tuxman on August 06, 2024, 06:35 AM »
The user went on a hiatus (he sent PM explaining his situation)
-paradisusvic (August 06, 2024, 05:37 AM)

Ah. This was not obvious, especially as he was around here in June, according to the board stats. I was curious. :)
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Living Room / Re: AI Coding Assistants (Who uses them and which)
« Last post by Tuxman on August 06, 2024, 05:24 AM »
Two of the main problems with "AI coding assistants" - whether they claim to be able to write a complete application or simply complete variable names based on what they boozed up on the internet last night - are these:

  • They violate licences. There are many examples (and probably a large number of unreported cases) of parts of code copied verbatim that were under a clear licence, but that clear licence is not part of what was copied.
  • They are writing rubbish. A work colleague likes to have work supposedly done by ChatGPT. I would need the time he needs to iron out the worst mistakes in the result to simply write what he wanted to achieve myself. Incidentally, this does not seem to be a ChatGPT-specific problem.

And I'm not even taking into account the mental embarrassment I would personally experience were I to be degraded from a developer to a supplicant to the computer...
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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2024 - BeastBoard by luvnbeast v1
« Last post by Tuxman on August 06, 2024, 05:11 AM »
I should be pushing code to GitHub somewhere within the next days.
-publicdomain (December 18, 2023, 07:51 AM)

You really should.  :D
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Official Announcements / Re: New server/OS update
« Last post by Tuxman on August 05, 2024, 05:17 AM »
Clownflare tends to be the reason for sites to be completely unavailable:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/outage

But you do you, I guess.
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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl
« Last post by Tuxman on August 04, 2024, 11:02 AM »
0.15.0 adds a way to define your own Invidious instance: Set YAYDL_INVIDIOUS_INSTANCE to https://whatever and it will be used.
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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl
« Last post by Tuxman on July 27, 2024, 04:13 PM »
0.14.1 now.  8)
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Living Room / Re: Mouser in the movies
« Last post by Tuxman on July 25, 2024, 06:10 AM »
I love seeing a non Windows section, especially after the crowdstrike fiasco. Yes, I know it wasn't a Windows specific failure.
-Rover (July 24, 2024, 10:09 PM)

So you'd want to see a section with Plan 9 failures? Would be a short list.  :D

Most of my applications are multi-platform-compatible, I (personally) don't see a Windows-specific section here. Which one would that be?
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Living Room / Re: [Important] Known DC Issue
« Last post by Tuxman on July 22, 2024, 03:40 AM »
Cloudflare is now doing a good job of keeping things online!
-KynloStephen66515 (July 20, 2024, 12:22 PM)

I understand why you do this, but beware that Cloudflare comes with its own set of problems:
https://blog.cloudfl....com/tag/post-mortem
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Living Room / Re: Upgrading/migrating server prepare for some downtime
« Last post by Tuxman on July 05, 2024, 07:46 PM »
Ah, I started my current website in 2005 (my first was around 1999, but it was really ... nothing of value was lost, to say the least), but I still never liked any of those "panels", causing more work than they'd absorb.
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Living Room / Re: Upgrading/migrating server prepare for some downtime
« Last post by Tuxman on July 04, 2024, 03:18 AM »
Ew, CPANEL.  ;D
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.
« Last post by Tuxman on May 15, 2024, 07:58 PM »
New icon ... just because I could. (Both were "designed" by me.) The Windows package already comes with the new icon. Enjoy.
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.
« Last post by Tuxman on May 03, 2024, 06:32 AM »
Thank you again for helping me making this a valuable software. :)
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.
« Last post by Tuxman on May 02, 2024, 12:37 PM »
0.14.0 released.
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.
« Last post by Tuxman on May 01, 2024, 01:40 AM »
Well, it won’t keep track of which files were built previously, so that’s (technically) working as expected.  ;D A note would be the only thing I can do about it without adding a whole version control system, I guess. But I won’t be on Windows before tomorrow, so one day more until the next release…
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.
« Last post by Tuxman on April 30, 2024, 07:24 AM »
Ugh.  ;D
No, it actually created both files, but ...

Code: Text [Select]
  1. if buildSuccess and not chkKeepPostscriptFile.Checked then;     // <<< the ";" ends the command...
  2.     DeleteFile(outputFileName); // get rid of the .ps file

But yay, we're getting there!
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.
« Last post by Tuxman on April 30, 2024, 07:03 AM »
Like this?
edit: replaced
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.
« Last post by Tuxman on April 30, 2024, 06:01 AM »
Good idea, actually. I will add that option. :)
edit: In order to not clutter the GUI any further, I'll add it to the settings screen.
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