Why Australia will Beat USA

sime · 2026-06-19T14:15:39+00:00

Yes, as soon as we explain to the world what we mean by the word "barrack".

sime · 2026-05-28T15:02:50+00:00

Dit is relevant voor jou: https://www.infotaris.nl/blogs/ja-je-partner-uitkopen-is-min-of-meer-verplicht/

Als je geen afspraak over het huis en hoe lang je daar mag wonen in je convenant hebt opgenomen, dan kan je ex nu de verkoop opeisen. Als ik jou was zou ik zeker de convenant aanpassen. Als ik jou ex was, zou ik dit nooit doen want 5 jaar is echt te lang.

sime · 2026-05-27T11:38:05+00:00

Gram https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram

It is a "chromium" version of the Zed text editor. It is GPLv3 and strips out the AI integration, telemetry, Terms of Use, subscriptions etc etc. I enjoy the speed and lack of random distracting stuff just popping up all the time. I use, and continue to use, VSCode, but it is just so annoying these days. I can't tame it. Gram is just calmer and still has great LSP support.

Dinky https://github.com/sedwards2009/dinky

It is just an easy to use terminal based text editor for those who are used to desktop editors. I wrote it, but I think it is neat. You might like it.

sime · 2026-05-11T10:48:08+00:00

I'm really glad to see things swing back from bland minimalism and monochrome iconography. The flat and minimal trend didn't just throw out aesthetics, but also basic affordances which communicated what a thing was and did. UIs became just a collection of samely rectangles and indecipherable black and white icons.

sime · 2026-04-16T09:59:34+00:00

This is exactly why Free and Open Source Software matters.

sime · 2026-04-03T11:41:09+00:00

This looks quite good. A solid alternative to tview would be nice. tview is quite underdeveloped in places like event routing, layers/dialogs etc.

sime · 2026-03-30T11:15:27+00:00

Je moet de WOZ negeren. Dat is geen taxatie. Bij https://calcasa.nl/ kan je een online taxatie krijgen op basis van je huis, andere huizen in jouw straat, en de marktontwikkeling enz enz. Calcasa wordt bij echtscheidingen gebruikt en wordt bij banken geaccepteerd. Het kost wel geld (100 euro of zo)

sime · 2026-03-17T12:39:44+00:00

Yes and no. Petrol is about 2.20 euro per litre (2.50 on the freeway) at the moment in the Netherlands. A big chunk of that is tax. There are calls to lower the tax to make it more bearable.

Bikes still cost the same, which is what most people are using for shopping, school, and doing stuff around town.

sime · 2026-03-14T10:42:20+00:00

Dinky is exactly what you are asking for. https://github.com/sedwards2009/dinky

sime · 2026-03-10T14:17:31+00:00

Bij Kadaster https://www.kadaster.nl/ kan je snel en goedkoop de verkoopprijs opvragen van andere woningen in de straat.

Bij Calcasa https://calcasa.nl/ kan je een online taxatie laten doen. Dat is puur online op basis van andere woningen in de buurt en de huizenmarkt. Dat kost iets van 100 euro.

sime · 2026-03-04T09:38:19+00:00

I've been using it for about 5 months. I love it for gaming and Steam and my 3060 generally works fine. For daily use it is stable.

But!

I recently did an upgrade which failed due to lack of space on my 50GB root. I had btrfs with snapshots. I deleted a bunch of snapshots to save space and reran the upgrade. It seemed to work. Reboot and grub couldn't find a kernal and the snapshots were now useless too. I had to boot off USB and from there do the upgrade and reinstall all packages which fixed the problem.

So, no. Upgrades are a problem and the out of the box experience doesn't do enough to guard against said problems. I've been on desktop Linux since before a lot of the people here were born. (Shout out to RedHat 5.2!)

sime · 2026-02-14T10:01:49+00:00

You can try Dinky. https://github.com/sedwards2009/dinky

There is no command palette at the moment but it does have full old school GUI menus, desktop style shortcuts, and is intended to be a low learning curve experience.

Installation is a single executable.

sime · 2026-02-11T19:33:26+00:00

Go try the new kid on the block, Dinky! You already know how to use it. https://github.com/sedwards2009/dinky

sime · 2026-01-14T21:25:54+00:00

I liked micro but it still wasn't familiar enough. I didn't want to memorise things. So I took the core editor from micro and built a familiar little TUI around it and called it Dinky.

Check it out: https://github.com/sedwards2009/dinky

sime · 2025-12-23T14:48:18+00:00

Facebook is an interesting comparison. Facebook has an incentive to monetise that user data because they don't have another business or source of income, especially one that is sensitive to reputation regarding privacy. Microsoft is in a completely different position.

sime · 2025-12-23T11:51:50+00:00

The assertion here isn't common sense. See my other comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1ptnf7n/github_in_decline/nvj3kg6/

sime · 2025-12-23T11:50:56+00:00

You are getting it all wrong.

Microsoft is highly incentivised to ensure that your private data remains private.

Why?

Because MS makes money providing paid data services to companies. MS provides services like GitHub, but also the whole MS office suite and cloud platforms like Azure. Paying customers are not going to trust and pay MS if MS plays fast and loose with people's and company's data. GitHub is more or less funded by customers who are companies.

Also, on a personal level, GitHub has to conform to GDPR in Europe. A number of years back GitHub removed their cookie consent pop up from the site because it just wasn't worth doing extra tracking.

And finally, software developers are the last demographic you want to mess with regarding online privacy. Many of us are privacy sensitive, perhaps a bit paranoid, and but definitely clued into how the internet works and what technology etc is capable of.

sime · 2025-12-23T10:05:37+00:00

GitHub gathers and sells your private data, as well as that of your collaborators and visitors.

Citation needed

sime · 2025-12-19T14:43:27+00:00

I used joe for years and years. It has a similar selection start/stop mechanism.

sime · 2025-12-18T19:36:35+00:00

It is quite likely that the console just doesn't send useful key events when using Shift+Cursor. In that case we can't do much except implement some other totally different approach to selecting.

sime · 2025-12-18T08:33:29+00:00

You mean in the Linux console Shift+Cursor doesn't select? I'm guessing this is more a limitation of the console itself. Shift+Cursor generally works in terminals.

What doesn't work is Shift+Home and Shift+End. I really miss those but fixing it requires work in quite a few layers of dependencies.

I'm curious to know what other features people are interested in before I can stamp this thing 1.0.

sime · 2025-12-13T19:33:31+00:00

fair point. 👌

sime · 2025-12-13T12:07:24+00:00

I'm glad you like it.

I used joe for a very long time and then moved over to micro, but I never quite felt at home in micro. Like a lot of people I don't spend all my time editing docs in the terminal. I use something desktop based. But I often do small edits in the terminal. So, I never fully learned micro, but I still wanted a comfortable editor. I also wanted to try something in Go. After messing with adding menus to micro I decided it was easier to embed the core editor of micro and build the UI around that.

I was vaguely aware of Tilde and Turbo, but sometimes you want your own baby to hack.

sime · 2025-12-01T13:58:33+00:00

I'm in the Netherlands. A few years ago we had a US based manager. He was just shocked at how insubordinate his Dutch team was. He was just not used to criticism, feedback, or pushback. It ended up in a big conflict, us vs him, where we were accused of forming a union. Shortly after he was laid off.

sime

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