icarito

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Sebastian Silva ( sebastian [AT] fuentelibre.org )
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Comment · 1 month ago
Love to see Godot used creatively beyond games! The terminal is for sure an area that can see innovation, why not!
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Hi all — I help manage somosazucar.org, one of the local volunteer groups of Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the open-source Sugar Learning Platform originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

SomosAzúcar has supported open education and children’s digital literacy initiatives across Latin America since 2009.

The domain expired on 2025-10-06, but due to a Postfix configuration issue on sugarlabs.org, GoDaddy’s renewal notices never reached us.

By the time we discovered the problem — about 35 days after expiration — GoDaddy informed us that the domain was already being prepared for auction, and that the only way to recover it would be to bid for it like any other buyer.

It feels wrong that a long-standing nonprofit project could lose its .org domain over a technical mail glitch.

Has anyone here faced something similar with GoDaddy or other registrars?

Is there any way to appeal to PIR (.org registry) or GoDaddy executive support to restore the domain before it’s auctioned?

Any advice or contacts would be deeply appreciated — this domain represents more than 15 years of open education work.

Comment · 1 year ago
I sometimes use llm from the command line, for instance with a fragment, or piping a resource from the web with curl, and then pick up the cid with `llm gtk-chat --cid MYCID`.
Comment · 1 year ago
For all of you using `llm` - perhaps take a look at [Gtk-llm-chat](https://github.com/icarito/gtk-llm-chat).

I put a lot of effort into it - it integrates with `llm` command line tool and with your desktop, via a tray icon and nice chat window.

I recently released 3.0.0 with packages for all three major desktop operating systems.

Comment · 1 year ago
That's right this is a nontrivial problem that I struggled with too for gtk-llm-chat! I resolved it using the streaming markdown-it-py library.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey I felt bad that there was a longer delay and by making sure to lazy-load everything I could, I managed to bring down the startup time from 2.2 seconds to 0.6 on my machine! Massive improvement! Thanks for the challenge!
Comment · 1 year ago
I've got a i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz.

You triggered my curiosity. The chat window takes consistently 2.28s to start. The python interpreter takes roughly 30ms to start. I'll be doing some profiling.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'd truly like to know! But I've no access to a Mac to try. If you can, try it and let me know? If it does, please send a screenshot!
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder! In my more modest setup, it takes a couple of seconds perhaps. After that it's quite usable.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah I agree, I've been thinking about using Rust. But ultimately it's a problem with GTK3 vs GTK4 too because if we could reuse the Python interpreter from the applet that would speed things up but GTK4 doesn't have support for AppIndicator icons(!).

I've been pondering whether to backport to GTK3 for this sole purpose. I find that after the initial delay to startup the app, its speed is okay...

Porting to Rust is not really planned because I'd loose the llm-python base - but still something that triggers my curiosity.

Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah absolutely, I've just got to point where I'm happy with the architecture so I'll continue to add UI. I've just added support for fragments and I've thought to add them as if they were attached documents. I've in the radar to switch models in mid conversation and perhaps the ability to rollback a conversation or remove some messages. But yeah, system prompt and parameters would be nice to move too! Thanks for the suggestions!
Comment · 1 year ago
I think this is big. The fact that it isn't saddens me.

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