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skrellm

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    Comment #49174871

    I've created a similar tool, for compressing and converting, but it can handle not just images but animations as well. https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/paltool/ https://news.ycombinator.co…

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    Comment #49157156

    > If you meet with a technical friend to drink a beer, and s/he ask what your project can do, which are the 10 coolest examples that you can show? Nothing. This is for those who al…

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    Comment #49135677

    > My suggestion is to write a blog post Thank you for your kind advice. But the thing is, I'm not a blogger guy, I've never ever written any blog in my life. If you take a look at …

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    Comment #49133314

    > Now they produce electricity at a price that's often above market price Do you have any source? I'm not french and all I can hear from the news is that France's nuclear electrici…

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    Comment #49090480

    > You should update the page to say that. Definitely not. That page is the web service. And if you meant the HN post, that's no place for long explanations either, imho. The info y…

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    Comment #49088600

    I mean all palette related conversions. See the README in https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/paltool For example, you can say, take a true-color animated WebP, quantize it to 64 colors max,…

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    Show HN: Palette Manipulator

    PalTool is the ultimate swiss-army knife for converting palettes and reducing image sizes even in animations. Also smoothly converts between APNG, animated WebP and GIF. Available …

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    Comment #48908201

    Small correction, you're wrong about the details. You say ttf and otf are the same, but that's not true, one utilizes quadratic curves, the other cubic curves. Also one is patented…

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    Comment #48893120

    More backends for SKrellM. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538174 After adding X11, SDL and GDI backends, now I'm working on a native Wayland support (for now, running throu…

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    Comment #48790162

    Hi dev, > Warning: This overwrites data starting at sector 64! Use a dedicated blank USB. This would be much more usable if you'd put a file system on the USB stick with a sufficie…

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    Comment #48718584

    I've created a similar tool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538174 But it's multi-platform (Linux, Windows and some BSDs), more capable and even skinable so looks even coole…

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    Comment #48598154

    I've created a similar (minimal, lightweight, ANSI C) UI library, which is even easier to use. https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/smgui I don't like immediate-mode, because you must handle …

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    Comment #48538284

    SKrellM - system monitors on your desktop (lightweight, multiplatform gkrellm reimplementation) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538174 - https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/skrellm/

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    Comment #48538175

    The skrellm is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme. It displays these s…

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