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The Institute is extremely concerned to see #ImageMagick, a major component of the graphics stack, on the slippery slope towards becoming slopware, more by @ansuz 👇🏻

https://gts.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/statuses/01KKRC56ETV2WP4GCWTNCRN74Z

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I find it very distressing to see that ImageMagick is included in the ["open-slopware" list](https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware), not due …

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Heidi 2d ago

The Doctor Jun 9

"Do you acknowledge our applicant privacy policy?"

I acknowledge that you're storing my application in a completely unprotected S3 bucket because I'm looking at its contents right now...

Heidi 5d ago

To not continue to spam another conversation, but since it came up recently:

I have done my best to make #macos act like a tiling wm like #dwm #sway or #i3

To accommodate this I have installed Amethyst which automatically tiles in a similar way to i3 (there are various options but the one I use has a main window on the left half of the screen and subsequent windows stack on the right half of the screen.)

I changed keyboard shortcuts (primarily in Amethyst, but somewhat in macOS settings) similar to i3 with things like cmd+1-6 to change desktops, and shift+opt+1-6 to throw the active window to a desktop. (The hardest part of this was setting all the keyboard shortcuts.)

Then I just found whichspace which is an app that can show you which desktop you are currently viewing in a menubar icon (it can even show you all desktops with the currently viewed highlighted.)

I like how the whichspace dev says in the repo “an app that nobody was asking for.”

Me.

I was asking for it.

Thank you

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Heidi 5d ago

@r1w1s1

I use macOS at work, which I really don’t mind (please don’t throw tomatoes,) but I really wish it did tiling more than what most desktop environments do which is sort of as an afterthought with limited features and a lot of slow mouse controls.

I installed an app that makes tiling automatic and I have tried to set up keyboard shortcuts to mimic Sway as much as possible because it is a headfuck using one UI all day at work and getting home and shifting gears into a different workflow for the same actions.

I was hoping I would find something that was like “makes macOS act like dwm/sway/i3” but I guess there aren’t enough people on macOS who are crazy enough to want a real tiling interface 🙃

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Heidi 5d ago

@arth

RTL-SDR recommended SDR++ or Gqrx for Linux.

I believe SDR++ is the one I didn’t get working (couldn’t get it to build after installing dependencies, I believe, decided to try Gqrx and maybe come back to it and when Gqrx worked I forgot about it.)

So Gqrx has got to be the one I’m talking about (oh yeah now I see a screenshot, that’s the one.) Really slow to just scan up and down frequencies and it’s even kind of a pain to hop around by typing in a frequency.
Also I would love to be able to zoom out more, it’s like you can only see so many megahertz at a time which makes it even harder to scan around for interesting signals…

All that said, I played with it for a few hours one evening so maybe it is more usable if I learn the UI more…

Heidi 5d ago

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Heidi 5d ago

Jeff Atwood 6d ago

"There is just one way to save yourself, and that's to get together and work and fight for everybody." -- Woody Guthrie

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Heidi 5d ago

@r1w1s1

1) that is rad

2) I love dwm better than any other window manager

3) I felt like we are supposed to move on to Wayland so I switched to Sway, but I really just want dwm, still :/

Heidi 5d ago

r1w1s1 6d ago

Are you familiar with dwm's powerful tag feature?
THE TAGGING MODEL
Many desktop environments organize windows using rigid workspaces:
Workspace 1
Workspace 2
Workspace 3
A window belongs to a single workspace.
dwm uses a different model, treating workspaces as bitmask labels (tags).
This allows a single window instance to hold multiple tags simultaneously,
acting as a persistent visual anchor across different contexts:
Firefox -> Tag 1 (Web Browsing)
st (nvi/dev) -> Tag 2 (Code/Scripts)
st (Monitor/Logs) -> Tag 1 + Tag 2 (Persistent)
When you view Tag 1, you see your browser and the log monitor. When you
switch to Tag 2, the browser disappears, but the exact same log window
remains on screen, now sharing space with your text editor.
The application is never duplicated or restarted in memory.
The UI remains minimal while enabling workflows that are difficult to
express using traditional workspace-oriented desktops.
Two decades later, this tagging model remains one of the most
distinctive features of dwm.

#suckless #dwm #unix #linux #sysadmin

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Heidi 5d ago

@arth
There are SDR applications for Linux, but I’m not sure if you can predefine frequencies… I only got one of the two recommended apps working I’ll have to look at it later.

Actually the one I used was really slow to seek through frequencies, like you could type in a frequency to jump right to it but scrolling around was really slow…