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There might be legal or compliance reasons for them want to not be a weapons or military equipment providers, no?

As others have noticed, this is similar to ytch.xyz.

What ytch does better is that it is mostly keyboard navigable (with minor annoyances), which also makes it usable with a remote control, unlike this.

I actually do use ytch (alongside Kodi and YT Leanback mode) on my Raspberry Pi HTPC that is controlled by remote only. Works fine. Chromium, kiosk mode, entry in ~/.local/share/applications/ytch.desktop, and you're good to go.

I guess you could use this with a remote if your remote can emulate mouse, mine doesn't. Mine is just some old otherwise useless remote recycled from the junk drawer, and made useful again by a cheap IR receiver diode from Amazon.

I'm not too crazy about the UI of Channel Surfer in general, but others have noted that it reminds them of cable services they used, I guess that was the goal.

I'll check out Channel Surfer in a few months. I wish you luck and lots of users :)

ebook reader. epub, chm...

That looks like low hanging fruit.

Kinda, but not really.

It has no support for rrdcached flush, AVERAGE CF is hardcoded , and I cannot seem to get it to not connect lines through gaps where there were no measurements.

Example not related to rrd, but same problem different db: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2125.

Will Grafana ever add direct support for rrd datasources?

I don't think there's a tiling wm that puts mouse first. I think years ago there was some work on KDE to add some tiling behaviour, but I don't know if it was merged and buried in settings somewhere, or it was a plugin, or a patch. I only remember some demonstration video from years ago.

I'm pretty sure there's also Openbox setup with tiling behavior.

I use dwm with some patches, and some customizations that allow for more mouse use.

For instance mouse wheel on the tagbar cycles through tags, mouse wheel on window title cycles through windows, middle click on window title makes currently selected window master, control + mouse wheel on the window title pushes selected window around, mouse wheel on status text increases or decreases sound volume, middle click on status text kills selected window, ctrl + mouse-wheel-up sends selected window to that particular tag, etc etc etc...

So yeah, it's doable in dwm. It's not "mouse first" but most used actions are also doable with mouse, in addition to the keyboard.

It's not too hard, spend an afternoon, or two and you can get it working that way.

I wonder why is https://prgmr.com/xen/ never mentioned in these benchmarks.

Years ago it often was, whenever there was Linode there was prgmr, but nowadays not so much.

Could you please link to the mentioned thread?

The stranded bloggers story discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468037

Because js-heavy sites are slow on a bit older pc's that are otherwise perfectly capable for most of the other tasks.

See idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

He's referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11782364

Yes, the nag text was removed, but at least xscreensaver gets updates, which was the whole point.

> patches/packages/xscreensaver-5.34-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. I promised jwz that I'd keep this updated in -stable when I removed (against his wishes) the nag screen that complains if a year has passed since that version was released. So, here's the latest one.

Personally I don't get the point of screesavers at all, since we have monitors that can be sent sleep/standby mode when they're not used.

So? Large majority code running in any distro was developed by third parties. This means nothing. It's a part of Slackware.

It was announced in Tue Sep 16 11:20:30 PDT 2003 that it's a part of 'extra' repository. So, not installed by default, but it's there.

Announcent on Fri Nov 21 13:51:57 CST 2008 says it was moved from extra/ to ap/, meaning installed by default on all except the most stripped down installs.

Also, there's nothing special in using third party tools as package managers, they all use slackwares pkg tools under the hood. Think (apt<->slackpkg, dpkg -i <-> installpkg, dpkg -r <-> removepkg, etc etc etc).

Because you weren't supposed to see it there. Because it was never announced. Because it was never planned to be in there.

It might happen in the future, but as of now Slackware (and Gentoo) are those distros that don't have systemd. Some people might like it for that.

I used Arch for 8 months sometime in 2010. And I switched my main computer to Arch just yesterday, just to give it a shot, to see a different approach, to use a systemd-based system, to re-learn some stuff, etc etc. Basically to experiment.

IMO Slackware is definitely easier to install, more reasonable defaults, less fiddling with the system post-install. For me it's basically aiming slapt-src (something like yaourt) to https://slackbuilds.org/ (something like AUR, but the scripts are reviewed and tested by site admins) and letting stuff compile & install (with a _lot_ less interaction required than AUR stuff).

Wait for a 14.2 to be released and then give it a shot. See the readme files and http://docs.slackware.com/. I hope you like it.

slackpkg update && slackpkg upgrade-all. See http://slackpkg.org/documentation.html. slackpkg is a part of Slackware, installed by default. If you really like apt, you can use slapt-get (and slapt-src) http://software.jaos.org/.

After answering this f. question with the same f. answer for literally 10 years, I'm starting to feel that some kind of re-branding would be a good thing for Slackware. It doesn't matter what Slackware is, it matters what people think it is. And what they think it is isn't really what it is. It's a reasonable distro.

Anyways, I recommend you give it a shot. See the README files, and http://docs.slackware.com/. And have fun.

You could use dnsmasq for your LAN. That way you can just use the hosts files as they are.

If it really has to be bind, check out this page for a tutorial on blocking using bind: http://www.malwaredomains.com/?page_id=6

Then just use awk to go from hosts file format to this: http://mirror2.malwaredomains.com/files/spywaredomains.zones

Hope that helps.

Unfortunate naming. There's also a ledger-like CLI finance app using the name Penny. And I honestly thought that's what the submission was about.

http://massysett.github.io/penny/

Years ago Radiolab did an episode on colors: http://www.radiolab.org/story/211119-colors/

In the second segment they introduce a potential tetrachromat, Susan Hogan (not the same person as this article). I don't remember if her tetrachromacy was confirmed a real science experiment, I don't think it was.

But I'd still recommend the whole episode. All three segments were pretty interesting.

Alpha Centauri is the only game of the whole genre I could get into. The SF setting, the faction leaders and their personalities, voiceovers, music, atmosphere... That game is basically my reason for installing wine and playonlinux.

slackpkg doesn't do dependencies.

slapt-get (http://software.jaos.org/) does, but it needs repo that has dependency metadata. Official repos don't have it. If a repository doesn't have dependency metadata then slapt-get doesn't resolve deps for that set of packages.

Some other repos (AlienBob's for instance) do have dependency metadata, which assume that you did a full Slackware install, so only dependencies that aren't part of Slackware are listed.

There is also slapt-src (same URL) that automates installing stuff from http://slackbuilds.org/, and it resolves dependencies. It's not fullproof, but is good enough (for me, at least).

There's a new repo on http://slackonly.com/ which offers binary packages built from scripts on slackbuilds, and it looks like it has dependency metadata. I can't vouch for the quality of those packages, I haven't used it yet.

UPDATE: After skimming through PACKAGES.TXT for a few minutes, I'm not confident that slackonly repo has all dep. metadata correct, but hopefully they'll get better with it soon.

99% invisible did a pretty good episode on that: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magent...

Could you please provide some links about this? I'm curious.

Try this: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/18/324

One Finnish student describes his experiences with the German education system:

http://www.zeit.de/studium/hochschule/2015-08/study-abroad-g...

Yeah, but the point of the talk is the opposite. It's more of a motivational talk than a tech talk. It was pretty good, the runtime (<15 min) and his attitude helped. He was OK with not really being sure of himself or what he's doing, and still he did it.

I'd bet the phone he made isn't going to be the last phone he makes. He'll make more. He'll learn more. Maybe he'll talk more, or write something up and then we all will know more.

Hell, after watching the video I was like "I gotta make me one of those. But with Slackware!!!" :)

Don't feel bad about a few downvotes. I just think you missed the point. (Also, I didn't downvote).

That's discouraging.

He pretty much admits during the whole talk that he doesn't really know what he's doing. But he's doing it nevertheless. He's learning. And he's encouraging others to try and do stuff they don't know much about. And to celebrate small victories.

Also, I never ever have proper diagnostic skills to figure out the problem when I'm doing something I've never done before.

There's also sdf-eu.org for users located in Europe (eu server is in Germany).

There aren't really that many shell providers. SDF (with SDF-EU) and devio.us are about the only ones that seem trustworthy (whatever that means) to me.

These kind of services should be more popular, I think. I'd definitely join a Plan9 (or 9front), just to play with the stuff and learn the system.

Check out 'profiles' on SDF. It's a CLI social network thingy. People don't really use it, but it brought a smile to my face.