Nostr Web Client

Sir, you are genius. This has fixed it. It is still not as pretty as the Mac version, but at least now I can read. I'm going to experiment with more-speech now.

The worst part about Clojure is that it's part of the Java ecosystem. The best part about Clojure is that the Java ecosystem was so annoying twenty years ago that there's a mountain of posts explaining how to mitigate almost every annoying little problem that the non-Clojurescript Clojure ecosystem has in the present day.

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Try adding: _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true'

to /etc/environment

(You can also just use it as an environmental variable, just prefix lein run with it.)

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Well, after this video I felt an irresistible urge to try more-speech again after a long time. But unfortunately I remember why I stopped using it in the first place. It looks much better on the video than on my computer, it's hard to read even. I don't know what my computer is doing wrong, maybe Swing just doesn't like Linux:

Video:

My computer:

I was today years old when I learned about Guix and I’m amazed https://guix.gnu.org/

Try adding: _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true'

to /etc/environment

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jack

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/

Did you see that they recently managed to bootstrap their entire system in 357 bytes?

They've been trying for years to get bootstrapping down, and this is exceptional.

They mention Mes in it, which I think is one of the most important projects in the world for genuinely trustworthy computing:

https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/

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jack

My programming hero: http://cr.yp.to

If half of the code in the world was half as good as anything djb wrote in the 1990s, people would be far less skeptical of computers doing interesting things in the real world.

djb's C is written more securely than most people can manage to write Rust. Absolutely mind-boggling. His existence is an anachronism.

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jack

I’m growing more and more concerned about the reliance on GitHub.

And starting to think a bounty isn’t the right way to fund this work.

The bounty wasn't specific enough, because "replace GitHub" is really broad. GitHub does a really wide amount of things really poorly.

Could you list the feature list you were hoping for?

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I think these Golang websocket libraries are all broken.

Alternatively, the websocket protocol is another victim of Google stepping in and "embracing" it but adding pseudo-optional features to it such as compression and weird parameters that not all libraries support in the same way but some will assume others do support.

Rust 🤝 Go

Terrible networking libraries.

This is the one situation where I won't blame a W3 protocol or Google for being bad. Aside from some people failing to implement the WHATWG/W3 standard (which had some slight differences from the original RFC pushed forward by Google, but in ways that simplified things, mostly), web sockets is one of the few relatively sane web standards.

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Why do so many Bitcoiners like repl.it? It doesn't even accept Bitcoin as payment.