samdoshi's comments

On: Compromising Garmin Sport Watches: A Deep Dive into GarminOS and Its MonkeyC VM

[samdoshi]

I think you can download the EPO file manually.

https://github.com/StevenMaude/armstrong

https://github.com/StevenMaude/epo-bin

On: Winding down my Debian involvement

[samdoshi]

Nix / NixOS[1], and Gentoo[2] also use monorepos with some provision for overlays.

1: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

2: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo

On: A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages

[samdoshi]

It's very active. Just on the `develop` branch.

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/develop

On: The Mac Pro Lives

[samdoshi]

This feels very reactionary to me.

That fact that the new Mac Pros will not be out till next year makes it sound like they've only started working on it quite recently, perhaps in response to the furore over their treatment of their professional users.

[DoofusOfDeath → samdoshi]

That was my initial reaction as well. But after parsing their quotes a little more carefully, I don't see anything implying that they just started.

On: XMonad 0.13 released

[samdoshi]

There is a (recent) video from Ethan Schoonover demonstrating his config.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70IxjLEmomg

On: XMonad 0.13 released

[samdoshi]

There is a BSP based layout[1] in xmonad-contrib. You can resize it using the mouse or the keyboard (with appropriate configuration).

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs...

On: Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO

[samdoshi]

It's not Dropbox, but SyncThing does support a `.stignore` file.

https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

On: Kinesis Advantage 2

[samdoshi]

You could always 3D print your own one...

https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard

Bonus points for having used Clojure to design it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4

On: Background Music, an OS X audio utility

[samdoshi]

There is also BeardedSpice which is a Mac native menubar app, works with lots of websites, YouTube included.

http://beardedspice.github.io/

On: Introducing Kindle Oasis

[samdoshi]

> it feels way more natural to press a button than make a slide motion, to the point where you don't even realize you're pressing the button after a few pages of immersive reading, unlike the slide action which breaks the continuity

You probably know this already, but on my PW1, you only need to tap the right hand side of the screen to go forward a page, and similarly, you tap the left hand side to go back a page.

[riffraff → samdoshi]

Sadly, it feels to me that half of the side taps I make end up pulling up the dictionary on a word. The 3g side buttons were not prone to "misclicks" :(

[creshal → samdoshi]

Not reliable enough in my experience. And you need to either hold the Kindle exclusively with your right hand, or move your hand more than with corner buttons.