dmacvicar
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Comment · 1 month ago
MiniStack is not (as I remember), a fork of LocalStack.
Disclaimer: I work for LocalStack
Comment · 1 month ago
LocalStack has an Azure emulator in preview:
https://www.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-azure
Disclaimer: I work for LocalStack
Comment · 2 months ago
Cosmoe and VitruvianOS are two different approaches of "Haiku" you may find interesting.
Cosmoe works at the application toolkit level, allowing to build and run BeOS/Haiku apps on Linux. The toolkit is then implemented using Linux classic APIs.
Vitruvian is Haiku on the Linux kernel (with some extra modules).
Comment · 5 months ago
After I moved away from Google services as much as I could (https://www.mac-vicar.eu//posts/2020-10-20-migrating-away-go...), and after some years on mailbox.org, which I did not enjoy, I ended moving to Infomaniak.
The experience has been nothing but awesome. I love the Android clients (mail, calendar sync) and I am also using their AI services for light tasks. Management UI is a bit confusing but not the worst I deal with.
Glad to see this move. I am a fan!.
Comment · 7 months ago
"AI is sort of like money... it just makes you more of what you already are."
Comment · 10 months ago
Looks very nice! Need to test if it supports AWS_ENDPOINT_URL so it works with LocalStack.
Comment · 10 months ago
Not very likely, what if the BeOS API emerged as "the standard" on Linux?
It would not solve the ABI problem, but it would give at least an opinionated end to end API that was at some point the official API of an OS. It has some praise on its design too.
Comment · 11 months ago
For OAUTH2, I recommend starting pizauth (https://github.com/ltratt/pizauth) as a user systemd unit.
Then you can just do (eg. in mbsync)
PassCmd "pizauth show accountname"
Comment · 1 year ago
I upgraded from a Pixel 4a (running Calyxos) to a 8a, only because at some point Whatsapp videos broke on the 4a and friends got videos with some green encoding. Otherwise, I had no reason to upgrade.
I hate my new phone. I could use the 4a with one hand comfortably, but that is not the case with the 8a. My thumb does not reach the top of the screen like before. I have to hold it in diagonal position just to be able to do the gestures Android -by design- expects.
The fingerprint sensor moved from the back to the front. That design helped having the phone in the right direction when taking it out of my pocket. Now it comes half of the time upside down. The fingerprint sensor is bad. Half of the time does not work and I have to use the pin. On the 4a was flawless.
Camera is better. Yes.
Comment · 1 year ago
Genuine curiosity. Why would you buy a laptop with nvidia for the purpose of running Linux when it is known to be problematic?
I use Linux since ~ 28 years, and having seen all the trouble with Nvidia drivers, I just avoid it. I just pick an Intel graphics Thinkpad, likely the previous generation to the last one, check compatibility in the Arch wiki and then buy it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I have managed my dotfiles in git for over a decade, and I have never needed anything else than git and GNU stow.
I organize dotfiles in a few modules, and then I stand in the top of the git checkout and do: "stow modulename", and it will symlink everything.
If you don't like separate dotfiles in modules/packages, you can just have one (e.g. "main").
Stow has been around since 1993 or something, so I expect to be around for a while in my distro.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you remember those times, KOF91 by Moah was one of the few open-source alternatives to MUGEN, albeit not compatible with its data.
During those times I helped porting it to Linux together with Ric Leite. I remember being easy as it was Allegro.
I archived the sources here (from Sourceforge):
https://github.com/dmacvicar/free-fighting-engine
You should be able to build it and run it on Linux (speed may be wrong).
I have tried a few times to revive the code, but it is a "everything is global" code-base.
I am currently testing an approach with Claude Code and Amazon Q, not very successful.
Comment · 1 year ago
Depending where you look your numbers, Chile's crime and homicide rate is very similar to the United States.