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Experienced with both frontend and backend web development (PHP; Wordpress, Framer, some Joomla and some Typo3), icon design, books, reports and document typesetting with ConTeXt, general graphic design and webmaster duties. Please feel free to check my portfolio for some examples of my work.

Got a Bravia TV for cheap back in 2014 that happened to be pre-Android TV (and pre-Google TV) so Android TV was just released and those something-else-os were "outdated".

Sony stopped releasing security patches a while back and there are no longer apps whatsoever and they all were crap - the youtube one was pure torture because of how slow it was and the web browser was just as miserable as ie6.

But besides that I can send it commands to it via its IP and control it, consume stuff via a DLNA daemon, do screen mirroring, and all the usual tv stuff. The image quality and sound are still great after 10+ years though I can't care less about oled 4k 120Hz and all that stuff. So it's no longer a "smart" tv but it's not also so "dumb" for a now dumb tv.

Day #1277 of wishing xfce rewrited all their stuff in the E libraries so they and Enlightenment did a dragon-ball-style fusion and became the one lightweight desktop environment to rule them all.

I don't get any of this hate. oklch makes it really easy to create new tones from a starting point and stuff like anchor positioning also makes it really easy to place absolutely-positioned things. So it's not like those "latest and greatest browser features" are there just to complicate your life, but actually the contrary.

This just seems to me like (1) not wanting to learn new things, (2) a logical fallacy because the conclusion that those changes are to "stay relevant" and not to make the life of any future mantainer easier, and (3) fear of the new (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophobia)

Some Kogi people have formal eastern education and go to universities, so they are not "isolated" as the strawman you're trying to put in there. I used to saw some of their people when I was at uni at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota.

I so wish Gentoo/BSD still was a thing.

fwiw c/[email protected] is also discussing banning them.

https://lemmy.ml/post/54271214

https://lemmy.ml/post/53021594

I do believe the US interference in flipping most of latin america to the right the last few years reached levels we haven't seen in decades and the magnitude of the machinery behind that is something we have never seen before. Trump surely got quite a few puppet governments with the likes of Milei, Noboa, here with the incredibly corrupt de la espriella and now Brazil in the verge to have another Bolsonaro.

I have a really poor memory, like I can't remember most of my childhood due to trauma and stuff. But also I have lots of scars for many reasons - one in my right elbow when I was learning to ride a bike, measles vaccine, on both of my knees when learning to walk since I've fallen to the ground more when walking that when riding a bicycle, hot silicone burns in my hands, a piece of steel that almos pierces my penis, mosquito bites... somehow still I can remember what caused which and that gives me a bit of the few sanity I still have

They delved too greedly and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm. Shadow... and flame.

Here in Colombia we still have a lot. I'd say the previous government would tell them they could take them out here for free and we would gave them a couple hippos as extra but with this current one I'd bet they would ask for them more money than if they were new.

It reminds me of OpenBSD's Spleen fonts

> I expect the US will never recover from Trump and the very rich.

The thing is that they are also dragging many other countries into that misery. Just look at here at Latin America.

Call me insane but I still think xfce and Enlightenment should do a fusion become one project. Get rid of the GNOME shenanigans on GTK and rewrite all xfce apps and stuff in the e libraries.

I recall a post here on HN from a few days or weeks ago where someone said they wished online dating was like in 2010-2012 okcupid, and someone else replied that it still worked that way.

But they conveniently forgot to mention now it is a ghost town with sooooooo many bots and scam accounts and, like in the local case, many of the actual human accounts are just selling so-called "content".

I know for sure I am stupid because HN reminds me about it from time to time with downvotes when I write dumb comments

    Location: Bogotá, Colombia
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    GitHub: https://github.com/acidrums4/

Experienced with both frontend and backend web development (PHP; Wordpress, Framer, some Joomla and some Typo3), icon design, books, reports and document typesetting with ConTeXt, general graphic design and webmaster duties. Please feel free to check my portfolio for some examples of my work.

So as every time I read something decrying how webp is allegedly "annoying", the conclusion is that the problem was never about webp itself but the tooling and ecosystem to handle it

> Being so obsessed with clicks and likes and retention and whatever. Then trying to earn money from it all.

That sounds like your SEO average day

> gimp is already opensourced and covers the same workflows

It's funny because just a few days ago there was this person in here implying that apparently GIMP (and Inkscape and Krita) are bad and their solution is... vibecoded ai slop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959674

If AI is indeed poised to kill us all in the next 10 years or so, there won't be a "we" in "some point in the future".

> Along with introducing multi-language support, the JavaScript code also inserts an SVG book icon.

Wait - using JS for dynamic content is understandable, but why using it for inserting a static SVG?

> Most times I'll grab ideas from multiple places, combine them, and endlessly iterate on them until I get to something I'm happy with.

The "designer" happens to not to be human. At that point it just sounds like going to a website template store and scrolling endlessly through options until you find a template you'd say "meh, this will do".

It's kinda odd (to me, at least) to see an active blogpost in 2026. Everyone here seems to miss pre-html5 and css3 web but nobody seems to miss this era of the web, circa 2007-2010

> It adds these // whenever anything close to tech is mentioned.

Shoot. I use those in my portfolio and didn't know they were using them everywhere.

Once (like a year ago or so) stumbled upon some person's post asking for someone to help them to "fix" some section at their website. It was done !important over !important over !important over !important. Said person was really convinced all it needed was another bunch of !important because apparently that was what ai spit for them, at least at that time

Read somewhere something going like "ai is just as smart as the person using it"

I wish the likes of Inkscape had a SMIL feature (or if I had a magic want I'd revive KDE's Karbon to be able to do this). Doing SMIL animations "by hand" is rather tricky and as far as I know there's no comprehensive tool to do this - i.e. something that fully covers both SVG and SMIL.

> The Telegram client leads in every aspect by far. It's just easy to use.

I really like Telegram, it's the closest thing to what I wish IM should be, but still it's so far from it and to be honest its apps suck now trying to shove the "premium" features down your throat. I prefer using TelegramX (or Forkgram to still be able to see statuses)

What do you mean "was"?