It will be a looong time before I set foot in that country again, if ever. I’m very sad that I can’t visit my nice friends but nobody should have to risk going to a concentration camp.

I use a variety of laptops with their built-in keyboards, and sometimes with a variety of plain usb keyboards.

It’s easy to run an AHK script on each machine, just for me. It’s not feasible to carry a special keyboard around.

Among my primary uses is completely remapping the keyboard layout, from scan codes to international Colemak (like Dvorak but different).

That means my script captures every alpha keystroke and sends something else instead.

AHK is marvelous to run on otherwise locked-down corporate computers.

While I’m at it, my AHK also tracks typing stats, just for fun.

I wonder how hard it might be to build something like AHK for Linux.

I’m a big fan of AHK myself, and my small scripts would be a real gap when I finally manage to kick Windows out.

What about 2FA, and banking apps, and banks’ payment apps? At least in Yurop they require a “safe” / “uncompromised” OS. Oh the irony! But that is why I am still unrooted.

Likely, but you did not let poor code pass. That is valuable.

It won’t be just for criminals.

Is he, though? ;-)

And is this stolen robot body in the room with you now?

Sounds interesting! Care to share it?

I run Mattermost at home since several years, and now I am switching to Zulip.

Mattermost is also enshittifying itself and imposing limits like those that caused us to flee from Slack.

Zulip is (afaik) true FOSS without venture capital, and has no restrictions. It’s what we should habe done from the start.

Yeah but we pay way less for housing and health.

Correction #1: rich assholes don’t care.

Correction #2: rich assholes already diddle their own kids.

As for the rest of us, we are decent human beings.

I see myself as a project manager and executive producer. I know I don’t write that code, and I couldn’t even if I tried.

But I am skilled at directing and verifying, and this has allowed me to create (not code) a fairly complex WordPress plugin for course bookings with online card payment processing etc.

I have made a few manual tweaks here and there but that code is 98% Claude. And you know what? It works. That is good enough for me.

You are ice cold metal, my friend 🤘

Unpopular opinion: LCARS is utter garbage UI.

Sure it looks cool in the TV series, and its brand recognition is spectacular. But actually using it? Horrible.

Then use… a camera??

Also depends on how you phrase the question to the LLM, and whether it har access to source files.

A web chat session can’t do a lot, but an interactive shell like Claude Code is amazing - if you know how to work it.

In light of recent events, other countries should drag Trump to the ICC and thence straight to the gallows.

And the Colemak keyboard layout 😅