olav

Joined 19 years ago

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/olav; my proof: https://keybase.io/olav/sigs/PgiqRJCcNTHomSSPJGOkUmC92tCnl10lb_nK20QtdBo ] https://knowfox.com https://erinnertes.de https://wundertablet.de https://meet.hn/city/de-Bonn https://olav.at.hn?refresh.
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Comment · 2 months ago
Why is everybody so stoked about Markdown? Isn't Asciidoc better in about every aspect?
Comment · 7 months ago
> The traditional Office suite is still good

I don't think so. The web version is mostly incompatible with the Windows or Mac desktop versions.

Have you compared the UI of Word/Powerpoint/Excel with alternatives like Apple Pages/Keynote/Numbers or Google Docs/Sheets? For me, the MS products are a complete mess with arbitrary collections of unrelated buttons, abysmal font rendering and insane defaults.

Comment · 8 months ago
The could shut down the company and `rm -rf *` all their assets, no?
Comment · 8 months ago
Plus, fulfillment of wishes to users as opposed to IT architecture management. Users have been brainwashed to demand certain brands. When you combine this with an IT Management that lacks mid-term risk management or a vision, you get happy users and an IT landscape easily taken hostage by single vendors.
Comment · 8 months ago
> I avoid folders because many of my entries belong to more than one area of thought

This is the reason why I find Trilium Notes so liberating, where one note can have many parents.

Comment · 10 months ago
Even more so: The 9P protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9P_(protocol)

Maybe the most mainstream incarnation is its use in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Comment · 11 months ago
I love it and use it for personal projects and internal tools. I tend to combine it with https://pocketpages.dev/ which gives me file-based routing and nice templates.

Ah, and Pocketbase has automatic database migrations, so all schema modifications can go into version control.

I even hacked a Gemini protocol server into it, so that I can browse my personal knowledge graph using Lagrange.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'd rather stay in Linux and use Windows if I really must. Can we have an LSW, then?
Comment · 1 year ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250518171639/https://amberwill... as long as the original throws a 500 "Internal Server Error".
Comment · 1 year ago
For thirty years now, the world knows that the last company to trust calendars and mail is Microsoft and yet they are all over the place. I have lost all hope for humanity‘s future.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
A password manager for ~20€

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