Siddharth Kannan

I read books, listen to music, and write blog posts. Austen, Dylan, Kendrick, Elliott Smith. 😍

[Siddharth Kannan @_icyflame]

"For Arendt, the problem was not that we kept creating things in our image; it was that we imbued these artifacts with a kind of transcendent power. Rather than focusing on how to use science and technology to iprove the human condition, ...

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why can't you build emacs without makeinfo 🙃 https://t.co/AIVWBLBzmG

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Letterboxd is great, https://t.co/cyxdhUFdij.

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pipewire + qpwgraph is not even comparable to pulseaudio server + pavuctl. the graph-based audio routing is simple and intuitive. https://t.co/SVyy1RPhyc

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"every individual is only a version of you, how can they forgive when there's no forgiveness in your heart"

https://t.co/NL7DA12qt4

[Kendrick Lamar @kendricklamar]

GNX
https://t.co/h9NaZaivRd

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no standard, well-supported EXIF like thing for all video formats? https://t.co/QSNsdR4ofc

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idea: a program which covers the top 90% of the active application's window with a white, translucent image => this would be easy to bind to a keyboard shortcut

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creepy, "cream puffs". this movie is good. https://t.co/fuFr1ZsdAE

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Force updates have the usual reasons: enforcing a new fee structure, forcing people to upgrade hardware, etc. Security updates is a joke, when most Android OEMs don't push timely security updates anyway. 🧐

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This is the fundamental difference between browsers and closed platforms. (Not only WhatsApp; just an example.) Just because my device has few other users, why should software that will work today not work on it after some arbitrary point of time?

https://t.co/hgjmKULvSY

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https://t.co/cbmAIH853O

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Oh, Rust does not produce static binaries. AHHHH, I assumed that "modern" languages do, but I guess that's only Golang. Interesting!

Now, I understand why people run completely different distros (Void Linux) for musl support. https://t.co/PH658kXlOe, https://t.co/rSb3GWAPnY

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GCP free tier includes 30 GB months of standard persistent disk; but when you go to create a new e2-micro instance, the disk attached is 10 GB months balanced persistent. So, you have to manually change the boot disk type. https://t.co/s8oepW20Wb

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Oneliner that nobody should ever use:
`notmuch show thread:000000000000000e | rg -w '\d{6}' | tee /dev/stderr | pbcopy` (to copy 6 digit OTP from inbox)

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AH! `touch /mnt/boot/ssh` => a truly headless support. https://t.co/fGY9hNW73u

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It turned out, as I suspected, that the $2.50 per month VMs are available only in 2 datacenters. I could find them in the New Jersey DC, but not in the Seattle DC.

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Vultr's online pricing page advertises a non-existent $2.50/month VM plan. 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/LNYIREeKnV, https://t.co/8V4LkLjXBG

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🤣 great sketch!

https://t.co/oLETiS51TM

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(... and I am planning to upgrade all my machines to Debian 12 soon anyway)

Debian 12 does not have a prebuilt package for Shotwell latest stable release 0.32.1 though. Can this be fixed by asking the Debian team to use the latest stable release, somehow? https://t.co/z4AtGzRryR

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https://t.co/kpfb2d1CZg does not have a Dockerfile for Shotwell, but it should be possible to somehow use the X server running locally to start GUI applications inside a Docker container. I am not desperate enough for HEIC support at this point though. So, I'll leave it at that.

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The convenient method of building Shotwell in a Docker container, or inside CI on GitHub Actions, and downloading just the binaries to run it locally also does not work due to dynamically linked binaries.

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I am extremely used to statically linked binaries, for applications written in Go. So, I am very surprised that I can not use Shotwell 0.32 (for its HEIC support) because the libraries it needs are not packaged for Debian 11 yet. (https://t.co/kEFQS8mnMB is a good example.)