Someone should make a windowmaker dockapp out of this.
Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map
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#52Dam! Great tool. Very clean. Thank you.
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#53Re: Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map
#54One step closer to those futuristic screen interfaces you see in Hollywood blockbusters!
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#55This seems like it belonged on freshmeat ca. Y2K.
For this application, current best practice is using Electron stack, or better, cloning VSCode and relying on GeoLeoMaximusDYP v3.2 LLM for geo-location.
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#56I thought of doing something similar, it looks pretty cool. What about showing lines going through the various traceroute hops?
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's that? Webarchive/google don't return much of anything.
A modern equivalent is https://freshcode.club/ >
I was about to mention Aminet[1] too as a joke of sorts (it's Amiga focused, but still updated, though it stores the actual archives more than focus on the "news"), but scanned the front page on freshcode first and one of first things that stood out was an Amiga program[2]... If anything makes Freshcode a successor to Freshmeat, the only thing missing is an Enlightenment theme being posted too.
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#58This seems like it belonged on freshmeat ca. Y2K.
What's that? Webarchive/google don't return much of anything.
Way to make us feel old :)
Others have mentioned it was a directory, but it sent me off on a nostalgia trip, so here is an "obituary" of sorts, that is itself getting rather old:
https://jeffcovey.net/2014/06/19/freshmeat-net-1997-2014/
And here's the HN discussion from back then:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7925135
(including a couple of my own comments, which aren't all that intersting)
And the wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode
None of these really convey the cultural importance of Freshmeat to the opensource community at the time, though. For a while, Slashdot + Freshmeat were among the two first sites almost everyone I knew and worked with would open in the morning.
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#59LittleSnitch has such a map feature
https://help.obdev.at/littlesnitch6/lsm-map
Main difference would be that LS being actively handling connections the list is always accurate whereas this appears to poll current connections using `ss` so it may miss some if they happen to be entirely between two refresh beats.
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#60Works also great with WindowMaker.
I've added it to ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart