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But unfortunately Android only? (not the fault of Briar, still unfortunate)


Are there "official" Linux distributions?


Maybe "unofficial Fedora version" would have been more deserving of the "unofficial" specification.


GUIX is the official GNU Linux Distribution


That is not an answer to the question. There are no "official linux distros".



> an upstanding burgher obsessed with death and corruption

I assume "burgher" is a misspelling of German "Bürger"? There are "Burgher people" but Thomas Mann doesn't seem to be one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgher_people


It's correct in English. [1] The family of Thomas Mann were representatives of German bourgeoisie. From [2] (machine translated): "Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann, as well as members of the following generation, became writers; in their numerous, often autobiographically influenced literary works, they explored themes such as the history of the German bourgeoisie and educated middle class, as well as its decadence. Through this, the family itself came to be seen by the public as a symbol and late representative of that very social stratum."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgher_(social_class) [1]

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_(Familie) [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsb%C3%BCrgertum

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgertum


From the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

  burgher noun
  ...
  1: an inhabitant of a borough or a town
  2: a member of the middle class : a prosperous solid citizen
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burgher


In German it is called "Bürger", yes. Burgher is some weird English spelling of the original french one, and I don't think it applies in any reasonable way to Thomas Mann. In German it really just means "Citizen".


> In German it really just means "Citizen".

It most definitely does not — it’s both “citoyen” and “bourgeois”.


Thomas Mann was German, so he most definitely was not a "burgher", he was just a "Bürger". And the German "Bürger" is just "citizen" in English.


It meant an upper middle class urban citizen, while "Kleinbürger" was their lower middle class counterpart. Buddenbrooks was all about Bürgers, their history and lifestyle. Mann was a member of that class or even of its upper crust, the patricians.


This isn’t hard to understand. “Burgher” is a perfectly legitimate translation of “Bürger” as in “bürgerlicher Mittagstisch”, “Der Bürger duldet nichts Unverständliches im Haus”. “Citizen” is a perfectly legitimate translation of “Bürger” when it comes to “Bürgeramt” or “Weltbürger”.


Well, Bürger means citizen, and bürgerlich means middle-class. Indeed, not hard to understand.


Excellent. Now do “bürgerliches Gesetzbuch”.


The trolling of auggierose aside, whatever the bürgerliches Gesetzbuch might literally translate to, it is a triumph of the burghers, the bourgeoisie.


Law that applies only to the middle-class. Duh.


But you do know it applies to everyone in germany?


Cynicism is punishment looking for a crime.


Please tell me you are trolling?

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrger says:

Bedeutungen:

    [1a] Einwohner einer Gemeinde
    [1b] Angehöriger eines Staates
    [2] Angehöriger der Mittelschicht, des Bürgertums



"Burgher" certainly meant that in traditional Scots usage.


> bash obviously is just using OS commands with syntactic sugar

No, bash is technically not "more" OS than e.g. Python. It just happens that bash is (often) the default shell in the terminal emulator.


Have to disagree, "technically" yes, both are interpreted languages, but the ergonomics and mental overhead of doing certain things are wildly different:

In python, doing math or complex string or collection operations is usually a simple oneliner, but calling shell commands or other OS processes requires fiddling with the subprocess module, writing ad-hoc streaming loops, etc - don't even start with piping several commands together.

Bash is the opposite: As long as your task can be structured as a series of shell commands, it absolutely shines - but as soon as you require custom data manipulation in any form, you'll run into awkward edge cases and arbitrary restrictions - even for things that are absolutely basic in other languages.


> In python, ..., calling shell commands or other OS processes requires fiddling with the subprocess module, writing ad-hoc streaming loops, etc - don't even start with piping several commands together.

You inspired me to throw something simpler together - https://pypi.org/project/shell-pilot/


That looks really cool!


The subprocess module is horrendous but even if it was great bash is simpler. I just think about trying to create a pipe of processes in python without the danger of blocking.


I love Python and dislike Bash, but just look at the difference between listing a folder in Bash vs Python, for example.


Right. Figure out if other users are logged in using Python. Get a human-readable remaining space on each partition.

It’s not like you can’t do in Python, but it’s a whole lot more work than typing <10 characters directly into shell.


Afaik you can install Win11 without TPM but you won't get Windows updates then. If I'm okay to not get updates I might as well stay on Win10?


So far updates work fine. It may change eventually, but as I noted in another comment, it's been 4 years, and none of the updates have required a TPM yet.


That requires the remote machine to be configured to SSH into your local machine. In the scenario where OP's project is useful (SSH to foreign machines) I might not want that.

On the other hand, if the remote machine is mine, it will have my config anyway.


There should be some way to mount a local directory onto a remote system without requiring the remote system to log in to the local system. SSH provides a secure bidirectional communication channel between the two systems. While we normally use sshfs to mount a remote directory to the local system, why should the reverse be impossible? Besides, you could also use NFS over SSH or TLS.


I don't want to be that guy, but I have to ask: this is ephemeral, unauthenticated chat for a handful of people over netcat. Why does it pull >1GB of dependencies?


Looking at the go.mod, tailscale lib seems to be the offender


> Basic phone charger <1A USB power supply was not enough to even finish booting, but a ~2A was enough to boot and launch octo4a

So it's drawing >1A over a single diode? Let's say 1.4A and 700mV voltage drop over the diode, then it's roughly 1W over the diode. Won't it get pretty hot?


The diagram calls it a 1N4001 which is rated to sustain 1A (but 40% over is probably fine). A safe 1N5400 would still be pennies.


Author should've just used a $1 adjustable buck converter with USB-C in. There would be no issues with heat, or the need for a big capacitor even.


I think HTML is exactly the "client-side multimedia file format" you want. I guess what we don't have is an established editor UI. You have to create it yourself.

It's if we had the .docx format but MS Word was read-only. You would have to create the XML and zip it yourself, to be then rendered by Word. That's effectively how I see HTML+js in browsers.


Yes, that's epub. See my other comment in this thread.


I think OP wants it to be an always-on device. The last sentence in the post is

> Nokia N900 enjoying its new life as an online radio device using Open Media Player.

But I agree with your sentiment. Using supercaps seems overengineered to me if the device is connected anyway.


It can't be used in a mobile way much anymore, with all 3G and many 2G shut down in the US.

The caps / supercaps are necessary to provide enough current during boot or more resource-intensive tasks.


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