SK
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This is quite interesting: www.inkandswitch.com, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8O...
And the main reason for that is that this is so ... not current?! It is a beautifully designed website, not about whatever is supposed to be the next "big" thing.
And the main reason for that is that this is so ... not current?! It is a beautifully designed website, not about whatever is supposed to be the next "big" thing.
Ink & Switch
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.
www.inkandswitch.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is quite interesting: www.inkandswitch.com, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8O...
And the main reason for that is that this is so ... not current?! It is a beautifully designed website, not about whatever is supposed to be the next "big" thing.
And the main reason for that is that this is so ... not current?! It is a beautifully designed website, not about whatever is supposed to be the next "big" thing.
`make-sparse-keymap' is all you need! www.gnu.org/software/ema...
Changing Key Bindings (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual)
Changing Key Bindings (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual)
www.gnu.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:04 AM
`make-sparse-keymap' is all you need! www.gnu.org/software/ema...
Reposted by SK
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Reposted by SK
![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most of the features here are already in Firefox. I don't know what is the point of reinventing the wheel in the name of "UX innovation" (?) I was excited about a "different" approach to a browser, but now, this feels more and more like yet another clone.
browsercompany.substack.com/p/the-strate...
browsercompany.substack.com/p/the-strate...
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Most of the features here are already in Firefox. I don't know what is the point of reinventing the wheel in the name of "UX innovation" (?) I was excited about a "different" approach to a browser, but now, this feels more and more like yet another clone.
browsercompany.substack.com/p/the-strate...
browsercompany.substack.com/p/the-strate...
Reposted by SK
![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Post android upgrade: why do the icons look like an iPhone? 🤮
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Post android upgrade: why do the icons look like an iPhone? 🤮
Ozark season 1 and 2 - background music track choices are the best.
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Ozark season 1 and 2 - background music track choices are the best.
www.debian.org/releases/tri...
How can this be a known issue? It breaks Debian 13's boot immediately after installation. The resolution (apt download and dpkg --root) is unclear from this page too.
(How exactly would one install this package if one were installing from scratch, and not upgrading?)
How can this be a known issue? It breaks Debian 13's boot immediately after installation. The resolution (apt download and dpkg --root) is unclear from this page too.
(How exactly would one install this package if one were installing from scratch, and not upgrading?)
5. Issues to be aware of for trixie — Dokumentace pro release-notes
www.debian.org
October 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
www.debian.org/releases/tri...
How can this be a known issue? It breaks Debian 13's boot immediately after installation. The resolution (apt download and dpkg --root) is unclear from this page too.
(How exactly would one install this package if one were installing from scratch, and not upgrading?)
How can this be a known issue? It breaks Debian 13's boot immediately after installation. The resolution (apt download and dpkg --root) is unclear from this page too.
(How exactly would one install this package if one were installing from scratch, and not upgrading?)
I have been taking a look at the latest version of the software I use, and the version that is available on the Debian 13 repositories: It is the same. New OS setup is going to be so much faster without having to build everything from source ❤️ I will be keeping those build Ansible roles around tho.
October 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I have been taking a look at the latest version of the software I use, and the version that is available on the Debian 13 repositories: It is the same. New OS setup is going to be so much faster without having to build everything from source ❤️ I will be keeping those build Ansible roles around tho.
People use their smartphones too much: 4 hours daily, 200 unlocks. So, we should make a high resolution screen, that they never have to unlock, and can be glued to for 16 hours a day? Huh? No logic, just sales 💵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKa...
$3 Trillion War for Mobile’s Future
YouTube video by CaseyNeistat
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
People use their smartphones too much: 4 hours daily, 200 unlocks. So, we should make a high resolution screen, that they never have to unlock, and can be glued to for 16 hours a day? Huh? No logic, just sales 💵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRKa...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAZR... the comments on this video are great.
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAZR... the comments on this video are great.
`pinentry` is wild; `sway` is great; I spent ~3 hours figuring out how to get `pinentry` to work properly with `yubikey-agent` on Sway. Everything else works well (I might switch to it? Tiling WM dream lives on? I am not getting my hopes up.)
Final hurdle: Sharing a screen in Zoom takes a long time
Final hurdle: Sharing a screen in Zoom takes a long time
October 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
`pinentry` is wild; `sway` is great; I spent ~3 hours figuring out how to get `pinentry` to work properly with `yubikey-agent` on Sway. Everything else works well (I might switch to it? Tiling WM dream lives on? I am not getting my hopes up.)
Final hurdle: Sharing a screen in Zoom takes a long time
Final hurdle: Sharing a screen in Zoom takes a long time
With 500-1000 Org files where TODO items _may_ be stored, setting the `org-agenda-files` list using `ripgrep` improves the time taken to display the weekly agenda significantly: run time goes down from 144 seconds to ~6 seconds.
github.com/icyflame/.em...
github.com/icyflame/.em...
github.com/icyflame/.em...
github.com/icyflame/.em...
feat: Add the reduction of the org-agenda-files list as an advice · icyflame/.emacs.d@0e37f9a
This function will always run before org-agenda-list runs. It is has a significant impact on how
long it takes to prepare the weekly agenda, which is my most common use-case of Org-agenda.
Analysi...
github.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
With 500-1000 Org files where TODO items _may_ be stored, setting the `org-agenda-files` list using `ripgrep` improves the time taken to display the weekly agenda significantly: run time goes down from 144 seconds to ~6 seconds.
github.com/icyflame/.em...
github.com/icyflame/.em...
github.com/icyflame/.em...
github.com/icyflame/.em...
The most important feature of ledger-cli.org is that a single account can have a balance in multiple commodities: In the real world, my "investment account" has multiple funds. I don't like that GnuCash forces me to create a separate account for each one.
ledger, a powerful command-line accounting system - ledger
Website and documentation for the open source command-line double-entry accounting system named ledger
ledger-cli.org
September 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The most important feature of ledger-cli.org is that a single account can have a balance in multiple commodities: In the real world, my "investment account" has multiple funds. I don't like that GnuCash forces me to create a separate account for each one.
Meta-replication-crisis.
![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwuu57ullc7vacjyno6c5z3gtyakkg2qub6cn3dbbjdpn2kaowmi@jpeg)
August 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Meta-replication-crisis.
I need to switch from Debian stable to testing, because stable is too old now.
gitlab.com/-/snippets/4...
www.debian.org/doc/manuals/...
gitlab.com/-/snippets/4...
www.debian.org/doc/manuals/...
July 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I need to switch from Debian stable to testing, because stable is too old now.
gitlab.com/-/snippets/4...
www.debian.org/doc/manuals/...
gitlab.com/-/snippets/4...
www.debian.org/doc/manuals/...
For Some Reason Angry
A sketch from 'A Bit of Fry & Laurie'
abitoffryandlaurie.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I don't want to jinx it, but I just backed up and restored Miniflux (?!) I was not expecting it to work. Well, that's my weekend back.
miniflux.app/faq.html#bac...
miniflux.app/faq.html#bac...
Frequently Asked Questions
miniflux.app
June 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I don't want to jinx it, but I just backed up and restored Miniflux (?!) I was not expecting it to work. Well, that's my weekend back.
miniflux.app/faq.html#bac...
miniflux.app/faq.html#bac...
I am using the latest Manjaro off of a live USB to test a PaperWM patch on Gnome 48. It is *nearly* identical to Debian (hard pressed to tell the difference). I am tempted to install it on my development machine.
github.com/paperwm/Pape...
manjaro.org/products
github.com/paperwm/Pape...
manjaro.org/products
Fail gracefully instead of crashing if grab fails with the error "Could not grab modal" by icyflame · Pull Request #1031 · paperwm/PaperWM
I have been using PaperWM on a daily basis for the past few months and it is great. One of the problems that I kept running into repeatedly was #991. This issue was reported on Gnome 47. I ran into...
github.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I am using the latest Manjaro off of a live USB to test a PaperWM patch on Gnome 48. It is *nearly* identical to Debian (hard pressed to tell the difference). I am tempted to install it on my development machine.
github.com/paperwm/Pape...
manjaro.org/products
github.com/paperwm/Pape...
manjaro.org/products
Love bike shedding videos related to Linux distributions. (What is "what" anyway?)
youtu.be/VzAw8a3Jx-k
youtu.be/VzAw8a3Jx-k
Manjaro is NOT Arch
YouTube video by TechHut
youtu.be
May 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Love bike shedding videos related to Linux distributions. (What is "what" anyway?)
youtu.be/VzAw8a3Jx-k
youtu.be/VzAw8a3Jx-k