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submitted 6 months ago by tarneo@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

Article questioning the usefulness and legality of “the AI pair programmer”

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

From my experience:

  1. I typed around 60 WPM before on a standard keyboard, now it's barely 25. It may be because I don't use standard keyboards at all anymore though.
  2. I learnt colemak with my first split keyboard since it seemed like if I was going to learn a new layout, then I should commit to it entirely. I think keeping AZERTY (since I'm french baguette haha) would have just made me even slower on standard keyboards because there wouldn't be much difference with my normal workflow. Separating the two layouts entirely seems better to me, but you might also say keping the same layout to some extent is better.
  3. I went from a full-size keyboard to my monkeyboard, gradually removed keys (left row, top row, inner thumb keys) and now I'm at 34 keys with my triboard. But making the jump could also have worked seems it's a complete change anyway.
[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago

Because it's a decent competitor to the GitHub monopoly. It also has a few unique features when compared to it. Just guessing why OP uses it though (many people do)

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by tarneo@lemmy.ml to c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world

keyboard picture

This board:

  • Is tiny, less than 10x10 cm for each half, making it easy to carry in a point-and-shoot camera carrying bag.
  • Can be made wired or wireless. The wireless version (the one I built) only supports two thumb keys instead of three on each side to leave space for the battery.
  • Is cheap (as far as split keyboards go): the whole build cost me less than 90 euros with shipping. The reversible PCB greatly helps with this.
  • Can be modified to fit your hands: the four stagger values (pinky to ring, ring to middle, middle to index, index to inner) are defined at the top of the ergogen YAML file and should be changeable without having to worry too much about the rest.
  • Supports Kailh Choc hotswap sockets for the switches.

GitHub repo

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OK, here there are:

  • I have an ergogen mounting hole footprint with a 2.2mm diameter. The metric screw clearance chart I found describes 2.2 as "close": what does that mean? What I want is the screw to come through freely (without having to turn it).
  • But for the bottom plate, I would like the screw to be held in place without additional nuts (to minimize height). Can I just make the hole a bit smaller and hope I can screw the screw in?
  • Are the splitKB m2 screws flat enough to be placed between choc keys (with MBK keycaps)?
[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Seeing how unethical the company is in general, it would'n't surprise me if the anticheat was just the worst. Even forgetting the anticheat part, I would NEVER play it.

(Unethical is actually a pretty big euphemism here)

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 178 points 8 months ago

Yeah, most anticheats are actually just rootkits (running at kernel level with unlimited privileges). This is also a big security issue, some games like genshin impact have also been used to create botnets since there is only one privilege escalation from the game itself to the kernel.

Whenever you use an anticheat, you just have to take the company's word for what they are doing with that kernel-level access.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by tarneo@lemmy.ml to c/ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world

Basically title.

Because I live in Paris, it would be nice to buy batteries in store. The most promising model I found is a 180mAh 32x17x4mm lipo.

I could also theoretically use one of these li-ion cylindrical batteries, but they are longer than the keyboard's size (which is 77mm).

Here's what I already tried:

  • removing the inner thumb key, which makes the keyboard 34-key and leaves enough space for the battery mentioned above. Though after a few hours of using home row mods on my current keyboard I don't think that will be a good solution.
  • moving the MCU (Seeed XIAO BLE) to the right, which makes the board 2cm wider (and doesn't look very good since I have no keys there). This one isn't very elegant, plus I don't really want to make the board wider, and I'd like to avoid it even though it is a solution.

Please ignore the mounting holes and TRRS jacks, I am still unsure about whether or not I want to just ditch bluetooth and make this board wired (which works with kmk)

The ergogen config is available on the github repo.

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Wait.. Its actually not bad. Apart from advertising WSL there's some decent instructions for installing Linux in place of windows. This could be a tutorial not affiliated with Microsoft.

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Use librewolf instead of Firefox to get rid of the whole spyware part of it. Librewolf only has a single request when starting, to "check for updates". But using Firefox is the second best thing you can do both for your privacy and to fight Google's " Web Environment Integrity" crap.

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Check out the blogpost here: https://tarneo.fr/posts/split_keyboard/

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submitted 10 months ago by tarneo@lemmy.ml to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

I just thought this tutorial could genuinely be useful to some fellow ricers.

It explains not only the git status part of making a pure zsh prompt that looks like this:

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by tarneo@lemmy.ml to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

Tl;dr: Automatic updates on my home server caused 8 hours of downtime of all of renn.es' docker services including email and public websites

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by tarneo@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
#if _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE < 32
#error "Here's a nickel kid.  Go buy yourself a real computer."
#endif

-- /arch/sparc64/double.h

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 87 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here are a few nice ones, I can't really pick:

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” - John Maynard Keynes

(You can also apply this one to proprietary software vs. Free software (don't say open source in my presence))

“The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.” - Étienne de La Boétie

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Use a non-chromium browser son that web environment integrity doesn't work. (Librewolf)

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

C'mon you've ditched windows but your wallpaper is full of them... /s

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submitted 1 year ago by tarneo@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

This is an article about another example of Amazon being an asshole for account and data deletion.

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Total wealth of people who died because of titanic: two similarly sized spikes

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Librewolf, icecat, qutebrowser, iceraven, surf... are not chromium-based.

[-] tarneo@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

More like "Installing... Do you want avast or X or Y installed along with it?" No thanks, I very much prefer Linux package managers.

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