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Cirrus CI Permalinks

Imagine you have a Cirrus CI artifact link like

https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/artifact/task/5361614007828480/system/artifacts/FreeBSD/14/amd64/index.html

and now you want to figure out the permalink to the last successful build like

https://api.cirrus-ci.com/v1/artifact/github/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-build/data/system/artifacts/FreeBSD/14/amd64/index.html

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Inventing The Future

People mentioned in Inventing The Future by John Buck as per its Index.

Keywords added by Perplexity. May contain mistakes.

Bill Atkinson

• QuickDraw; MacPaint; HyperCard; menu bar; double‑click; selection lasso; marching ants; Lisa/Mac UI; General Magic

John Warnock

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Hacking HY300 Pro+ Projector (720p)

Hello manufacturer. Good device. But software we want to customize. If you allow, we will buy more.

Despite being advertised as "4K 1080P", it really downscales those to 720P.

But for 28.50 EUR from Amazon Warehuose Germany in 2025, one can't exactly complain. https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0DSP74YQW

Chengdu Hotack Technology Co., Ltd. is the OEM?

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#!/bin/sh

. /System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh

# Launch window manager if it is available.
if which uroswm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  (uroswm &) && sleep 2
fi

# Launch Menu and a D-Bus session if none is already there.

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Liberate desktops from ugly fonts

Blocking unwanted fonts

Certain surrogate fonts have plagued open source desktops for way too long, making them all look ugly. Trying to uninstall them will lead to the package manager uninstalling other vital packages, and just deleting them will reinstate them on package updates. The clean solution is to block them in fontconfig.

On FreeBSD (Linux is similar, but without the "local" part):

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Yellow Box for Windows

Here's how to get it: WebObjects_4.0.1.toast https://macintoshrepository.org/6896-webobjects-4-0-1

You'll also want the WinNT patch: https://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/WebObjects/Patches/Apple/4.0.1/

Source: https://x.com/chrisprice/status/1943826939846046142

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Are we XLibre yet?

X11 has been, and still is, a vital piece of technology at the core of professional Unix-like workstations since decades. It has a proven track record of supporting enterprise-grade applications with long-term protocol stability and platform compatibility. It has matured over decades. XLibre is an actively developed fork of the X.Org X11 server, initiated by the most active X.Org developer and supported by the open source community.

An incompatible alternative, Wayland, is being aggressively pushed by IBM = Red Hat = Gnome = Fedora = freedesktop.org. However, it is not ready to succeed X11 as it its governance model leads to never-ending discussions and prevents even the most essential functionality from existing. Think twice before abandoning Xorg. Wayland breaks everything!

It is time that the open source community reclaims what was ours to begin with. This page lists distrib

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M-VAVE SMK-37 PRO

https://www.m-vave.com/productinfo/1431195.html

The M-VAVE SMK-37 PRO is a MIDI keyboard (controller) with a built-in DX7 compatible FM tone generator.

It would be so much more valuable if the firmware would be open source for the community to modify and improve.

Note to manufacturer

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PyQt6 application without X11 as of 2025

On RPi OS (Bookworm) as of 2025. Configured with raspi-config to boot into a terminal rather than the desktop.

Trying to run PyQt6 application on the bare minimum software stack. This is the application, hello.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys

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Dictation

Dictate in https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html without puctuation, then let a chatbot fix spelling and punctuation.

Why isn't there a simple app in the OS that can do the same?