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vopono
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Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
Vopono (https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono):
"vopono is a tool to run applications through VPN tunnels via temporary network namespaces. This allows you to run only a handful of applications through different VPNs simultaneously, whilst keeping your main connection as normal.
vopono includes built-in killswitches for both Wireguard and OpenVPN."
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The Mullvad Browser
you might want to check out vopono, i've gotten it working with firefox and its nice
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Me after renewing Mullvad monthly just so I can keep my low powered computer seeding while I'm at work
I highly recommend using something like vopono with this on Linux that runs only the target application (e.g. Transmission) in a network namespace in the VPN and only forwards the specified ports and only allows traffic via the VPN.
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More than a decade of doing this and I finally get a letter...
This is why I use vopono - you can run just the torrent client in the VPN on its own and the killswitch keeps it safe.
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Your favourite Rust CLI utilities this year?
I wrote vopono, I use it all the time for quickly spinning up browsers through different VPNs for checking geographical restrictions, etc.
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VPN kill switches do not always work?
I wrote vopono to do this automatically (mainly for running different applications via different VPN connections).
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Best VPN for Linux
I use vopono to just run certain applications through it (also makes it easy to switch countries if you need that for testing web stuff).
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How to contribute to open source or Linux kernel?
As for writing FOSS applications in general, you need to find things that you'd like to work on. For example, I wrote vopono since I wanted to be able to run only Firefox through a VPN connection and easily swap it between countries. Now I'm working on contributing to the Rust netlink crate to hopefully make it as comprehensive as pyroute2 (or the respective libraries in C and Go).
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(New Discussion) What are you working on right now?
Eventually trying to port vopono to use syscalls / rtnetlink messages instead of spawning ip commands directly.
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What am I supposed to do now?
Use a VPN like mullvad. I wrote vopono to make it easy to use after Sci-hub was blocked in my country.
sxhkd
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whkd: A simple hotkey daemon for Windows
After getting frustrated trying to update the library generation code to conform to the AHK2 syntax changes, I decided to run with an idea that I've had for a while now: writing my own simple hotkey daemon for windows based on skhd and sxhkd.
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How to make a keybinding for dmenu_run in .xinitrc?
Almost all of my shortcut keybindings are set up using sxhkd, https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
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What's the closest equivalent of AHK for LINUX?
For GUI automation and the like, I would recommend checking out xdotool and maybe sxhkd for keybinds -- though, each DE/WM tends to have some method of handling keybindings in its own way.
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shod: an acme-like window manager that tile windows inside floating containers
You control shod via a remote controller, called shodc. You map shodc calls to keybindings using a third application (a keybinder like sxhkd).
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Chromebook
That said, if you enable linux app support, you can use something like sxhkd for hotkey definitions in combination with bash scripting.
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Show HN: A tiling window manager like i3wm written in C#
komorebi dev here. I can't tell you the number of times I've wanted to just write my own take on sxhkd[1] for Windows and use that to manage my own keybindings for komorebi instead of ahk.
You can just as easily write your own/use another hotkey daemon or PowerShell scripts to handle komorebi's configuration and keybindings, in that sense there is no dependency on ahk at all. However, the inertia around ahk in the Windows ecosystem is undeniable and it's in the interests of making adoption and onboarding easier that the project provides example ahk files and has invested in an ahk code generation library.
My thoughts on the dominant hotkey daemon in the Windows ecosystem aside, I remain convinced that the famous bspwm socket communication architecture[2] is the best way to handle both configuration and keybindings for a tiling window manager that has been proposed to this today.
Unfortunately I have to concede that there is a certain configuration burden that comes with komorebi, which is amplified in some cases by having to write/maintain ahk. This configuration burden is largely due to the highly fragmented nature of Windows application development that is discussed often on HN and it is inescapable.
With this in mind, the next release of komorebi (currently available on master) will invest even more heavily in automatic configuration generation.
A separate repository of common application-specific configuration tweaks[3] (in YAML!) has been created which I and others from the komorebi Discord server are contributing to, with the goal of having the edge cases for as many applications as possible fully documented so that a comprehensive configuration file can be generated[4] for the user which ensures that every (major) Windows application behaves as expected under a tiling window manager.
I hope that other Windows tiling window manager developers can use these YAML definitions in the future to handle the same edge cases in their projects so that eventually there will be a tiling window manager of every flavour (bspwm, i3wm etc.) available for Windows users where having to manually accommodate and compensate for the non-standard behaviour of individual applications is a thing of the past.
[1]: https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
[2]: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm#description
[3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-application-specific-conf...
[4]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/#generating-common-applic...
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xdotool key won't work with sxhkd
I found This github issue thread that says a workaround is to "pass the synthetic event directly to a specific window." and gives the following example:
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Which WM should I use ?
my personal favourite is bspwm and sxhkd, together it's super satisfying for some reason.
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Review a random Anki deck
⌨ I use a sxhkd in order to bind the script to a key combination.
What are some alternatives?
xcape - Linux utility to configure modifier keys to act as other keys when pressed and released on their own.
scripts - *Well documented* scripts exploiting some useful UNIX utilities.
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
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SDRPlusPlus - Cross-Platform SDR Software
shotkey - A simple and lightweight hotkey daemon for X with configurable custom modes and key chords (in ~200 LOC)
win-vind - You can operate Windows with key bindings like Vim.
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dactyl-keyboard - Parameterized ergonomic keyboard
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