StreakyCobra
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm looking to improve my documents syncing setup. Currently I'm using owncloud, but that seems overkill for just files syncing and it requires maintenance, so I gave Syncthing a look. The "Untrusted device encryption" was not appealing to me because I'm not convinced by the security aspects yet, and also because it is in beta for now. I used gocryptfs [1] in the past and was quite happy with it, so I'm planning to use it on top of Syncthing to have files synced encrypted. As far as I have read this setup (Syncthing + gocryptfs) seems to be used by several people and has already been discussed by gocryptfs' author, who recommended a `-sharedstorage` flag for such use case [2]. Reading [3] I think gocryptfs is more suited for files syncing than cryfs. I'm aware that the metadata (file size, structure, …) of my files are not encrypted but that's a compromise I'm ready to make.
I would be happy to hear about opinions about this approach.
[1] https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/
[2] https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/549#issuecomment...
Comment · 4 years ago
If you use it in a web worker the UI does not hang. It requires a bit more setup though:
https://pyodide.org/en/stable/usage/webworker.html
Edit: typo
Comment · 5 years ago
> tiling window managers are awful and broken
You comment may have been useful if you would have said how and why they are awful and broken. For now it is just a rant without any supporting arguments.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Many of the people I speak to learned late in life that their inner voices were not the norm. For years, Worrall thought that other people also had attics in their brains.
I went through exactly the same situation around 10 years ago, but it was about mental imaging. Do you know people can actually visualize and see things when they close there eyes? You probably do, but it took me 25 years to figure out that for most people closing their eyes is not like closing a black curtain.
If that is a surprise to you that people can create and see mental images, you probably have aphantasia as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Since then I'm convinced that not two brains experience the world the same way. Inner voice and mental imaging are probably two of the many things we assume to be the norm.
Comment · 5 years ago
Oh… when git fails I always have to navigate to the end of this buffer so I thought it would not auto-scroll. I should have tried earlier. Thanks!
Comment · 5 years ago
Tip of the day: you can have `magit` as a fast and standalone tool by using this script (require emacsclient to be setup properly):
#!/usr/bin/env bash
emacsclient -c --eval "(progn (magit-status) (delete-other-windows))"
The only downside I have for now about magit is when using `pre-commit` it can run for long sometimes, so it would be nice to see the progress/output of pre-commit while waiting for the commmit message buffer to appear. If you know a way I'm all ears.
Comment · 5 years ago
There is also "tsfresh" [1] in the same domain that does «Automatic extraction of 100s of features». It filters the most useful features according to the given task, I quote: «This filtering procedure evaluates the explaining power and importance of each characteristic for the regression or classification tasks at hand.»
Comment · 5 years ago
> We clarified our definition of commercial usage in our Terms of Service in an update on Sept. 30, 2020. The new language states that use by individual hobbyists, students, universities, non-profit organizations, or businesses with less than 200 employees is allowed, and all other usage is considered commercial and thus requires a business relationship with Anaconda.
Looks like small companies are exonerated from commercial license.
Comment · 6 years ago
I totally resonate with your reaction. I wrote a response to their email out of hopelessness. Pretty sure it won't be read, but as it summarizes my thoughts I can post it here as well:
> Hi Shannon,
> I thought for some years that Autodesk was a smart company.
> Most people I know in the makers community were using Fusion 360 because it was free, and when you are a hobbyist this makes a big difference, you are not gonna to spend hundreds of dollars for simple side projects. Your previous approach of allowing people to use Fusion 360 for free unless they made money out of their project was really smart. These people were anyway not going to be your clients so you (almost) did not "lose" money, and on the other side they got used to your product so when moving to a professional environment they would push for Fusion 360. It was kind of a win-win approach, with the additional effect that Autodesk looked like a hobbyist-friendly company.
> Today you did not just break the main use-case for hobbyists by disabling the export in DXF, but you also showed that you prefer to spend money to block existing features of your software instead of improving it with new paid features. That's an indicator that you don't care about the product itself anymore, but that you are just trying to extract the maximum money out of your current users instead.
> I don't see the point to support a company like that anymore, so I deleted my account. It is now useless anyway.
> You did not only lose a user, you lost my trust. And probably not only mine.
Comment · 6 years ago
You can also have it in you pocket all the time with Free42 and a skin I made: https://github.com/StreakyCobra/dm42-skin
"Almost" have it though, because the display is a bit different on the real DM42, but all functionalities are the same otherwise.
Side note: I checked out your other blog post, and it resonates with my own first post, which I wrote just two days ago: https://fabiendubosson.com/blog/overcoming-perfectionism/. You’re definitely not alone in battling anxiety, perfectionism, and procrastination when it comes to blogging. Keep writing! :)