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floathub
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About floathub
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Comment #49009540
Depends on what qualifies as a password "manager", but I've been using pass ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ) for years on multiple desktops, and have recently added iOS app sepas…
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Comment #48859028
Came across this recently, which I find is a good and short intro to Emacs for people who don't use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJZDmO5yOxE
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Comment #48804895
Hi HN. We use YubiKeys on desktops/laptops with pass/password-store, and have been fiddling with various ways to get them to work on our phones and tablets for a long time. Sort of…
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Comment #48196630
Thanks. Not the original author, but I agree completely with the sentiment that it is good way to get across what's special about Emacs in a relatively short amount of time.
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Comment #47967120
It's wild to me Time Machine works on your network. Are you just doing "first backups" over and over again, or have you somehow achieved the very rare state where Time Machine can …
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Comment #47618803
And then in vim you can spawn a shell to run ... oh, never mind.
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Comment #47568107
Free software has never mattered more. All the infrastructure that runs the whole AI-over-the-internet juggernaut is essentially all open source. Heck, even Claude Code would be fa…
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Comment #47509876
The power generated from Niagara river stations was traveling on an international "grid" between Canada and the US in the late 1890s.
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Comment #47355366
Man, how could they not wait 2.5 weeks until April 1 !!!
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Comment #47342423
Emacs will solve this too: https://github.com/tanrax/org-social :-)
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Comment #46224631
This may help, it has an example pizauth config (scroll down to "Authenticating with pass and pizauth"): https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html
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Comment #46217687
This another similar resource with some additional stuff about using mu4e-org: https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html
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Comment #46128382
The "watch" method is so awesome: mpv https://live0.emacsconf.org/gen.webm
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Comment #46028503
I used Emacs for several years before I discovered "project" (it's built in). If you're navigating dired trees or similar to find files or grep for strings in groups of files, this…
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Comment #44252414
Thank you, that is greatly appreciated.
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Comment #44169515
Apparently Microsoft put half a billion dollars into this.
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Comment #44139844
Keep going. Here's the next step after Thunderbird: https://stuff.sigvaldason.com/email.html (Hint: Emacs) :-)
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Comment #43978606
> npx create-expo-app@latest --template blank HelloWorldExpoReact > du -h HelloWorldExpoReact/ 258M! A quarter of a gigabyte for a HelloWorld example. Sheesh.
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Comment #43978519
Canadian north makes sense (very cheap electricity, ridiculously easy heat management). Space? I really don't get it.
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Comment #43878703
If you're already using Emacs and/or org mode, then this is a useful guide to setting up a blog/site that is super easy to maintain/push/etc, including free hosting at github with …