nikitonsky: Don’t make users move their mouse so far for no reason. Especially in a scenario that’s so easy to predict

A burrowing owl chick and adult in South Florida (© Carlos Carreno/Getty Images)

Meta Platform’s Metaverse (Internet ≈ Facebook in my country) might just succeed. Well… not because they deliver on the “metaverse” (whatever that means) but because it sets up a hardware distribution chain for software/browsers (the only thing that actually matters).

The problem of global discoverability (in this case mmorpgs) is partly technical and human. Habbo Hotel might just make a return :-)

Faro de Playa Lago, Costa da Morte, Muxia, Galicia, Spain (© Carlos Fernandez/Getty Images)

dmitriid: Edit: After this was posted, Ilya K pointed out that this is not a functionality provided by Apple. It’s a behaviour enabled by an extension, and it baheaves as well as it can given the constraints.

nikitonsky: Which window is active? Yep – the one on the right. You can tell by red traffic light

Squint hard enough and it sure looks like a command line interface.

Surely typing/saying the below Alpine command to install Firefox is way easier than who knows what multi–stage process other operating systems require.

apk add firefox

Google’s search box (rather tongue in cheek) is the most popular command line interface in use today. With NLP, installing and running firefox would just be a phrase equivalent that compiles to:

firefox

On NixOS, we can already do stuff like that. Of course, NixOS lacks a translation/encapsulation layer for imperative to declarative specification — so user friendliness suffers dramatically.

Larnyx/Rhasspy is an excellent/fast offline text to speech program. There’s approximately 50 voice samples.

It would be trivial to turn this into an API that reads articles/posts, but it’s on Python so packaging it “directly” (there’s a docker container) is way harder than actually using it.

Beehives in the Muniellos Nature Reserve, Asturias province, Spain (© ABB Photo/Shutterstock)