I had the same frustration as you with finding the pricing information. With some serendipitous clicking, I managed to find it!

https://pico.sh/plus

It does also mention there is a $0 "Starter" tier.

(I found that link on this page:

https://pico.sh/pgs )

EDIT: Mention the Starter tier.

Thank you for sharing this.

I want to add that Sufjan Stevens has a song, "Exploding Whale", which is not really about the event per se, but uses it as a metaphor: "....Embrace the epic fail/Of my exploding whale...."

https://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/album/exploding-whale

The folks at OpenXTalk are continuing to develop fork(s) of the final Open Source LiveCode Community Edition.

https://www.openxtalk.org/

https://www.openxtalk.org/OXTDownloads.html

https://www.openxtalk.org/forum/

The forum seems a little disorganized to me, but I lurk a few times a year and get the pulse of how the development is going by reading the recent-ish posts.

From the first link:

"What is OpenXTalk?

OpenXTal k [sic] is the working name of a fork of the now unsupported Legacy LiveCode Community Edition project, with the goal of keeping a FREE OPEN SOURCE xTalk language publicly available...."

Edit: Newline formatting.

I've tried the downloads from there a few times, and never got a working result --- I'll keep an eye on it and keep trying though.

I plan to dig in deeper, but this looks like a great introduction to building websites.

I teach a one semester high school Web Design class and currently use a mixture of lessons from these two for learning the basics of making pages by hand with HTML and CSS:

https://internetingishard.netlify.app/

https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/webd2/student/ind...

This looks very promising and could supplant or at the very least supplement those.

I have to say, for me, https://internetingishard.netlify.app has uncomfortably pale body text. It is #5d6063 on an #fdfdfe background where I sampled it. (The background is `linear-gradient(0deg,#f9fafb 0,#fff)`.) The serif typeface looks too thin on a low-res display.

https://paste.dbohdan.com/internetingishard.netlify.app.1728...

I think that if you want to lower the contrast of a dark-on-light page—well, first, don't lower it too much [1], but second, it is better to make the background darker than the text lighter. Avoid thin faded text.

Here is a minimal edit to the page:

https://paste.dbohdan.com/internetingishard.netlify.app-edit...

This is #333 on an #f9f9f9 background (without the gradient to simplify things and with no change to the headings). I find it more pleasant to read.

[1] https://contrastrebellion.com/

Check out Mozilla's tutorials, too.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML

I'm half-heartedly trying to RTFM of 'xpra', but haven't found the 'run_scaled' script yet. If it's not too much trouble, can you please reply with the commands you use to scale an X11 program?

(I'm on Devuan Daedalus 5.0, ~= Debian Bookworm 12.0.)

(I currently use 'xzoom' to scale X11 programs, but it's a little kludgy.)

EDIT: Single quotes for all program names. Bookworm, not Bookwork.

Xpra itself ships this script, but Debian’s version is quite old. You need at least 4.1 and Debian Bookworm seems to have 3.1. Xpra seems to have an own apt repo you can probably use.

This is the old, original version by me. xpra itself ships nowadays an improved version.

There is this Rust program to display a bouncing DVD logo in a terminal:

https://github.com/pythops/bouncinamation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35785932 [2023]

I haven't used a recent macOS in years, but I use the following command to get a fullscreen screensaver and locked screen on (Devuan GNU+) Linux. It's probably about as secure as a cheap padlock and flimsy chain or cable to lock a bike.

  xtrlock -f & xterm -fullscreen -e 'sleep .05 ; /path/to/file/bouncinamation'

You can skip the 'xtrlock -f &' part to just run 'bouncimation' in a fullscreen xterm. 'Esc' exits.

If running with 'xtrlock' you must enter your password first to unlock 'xtrlock', and then 'Esc' to exit 'bouncinamation'.

The 'sleep .05' is to make it work better or more reliably. I don't remember exactly what, but there was some kind of issue that was fixed when I did 'sleep .05' before running 'bouncinamation'.

For those who may be wondering what became of the erstwhile Free & Open Source LiveCode Community Edition (LCCE), check out OpenXTalk:

https://openxtalk.org/

and Forum:

https://www.openxtalk.org/forum/

and Downloads:

https://openxtalk.org/OXTDownloads.html

Some of the download links are for RCs of the OpenXTalk DON'T PANIC! Edition (DPE) IDE , which is a fork of LCCE

GitHub of OXT DPE:

https://github.com/OpenXTalk-org/OpenXtalk-IDE-DontPanicEdit...

Other download links are to another fork, OpenXTalk Lite Edition (OXT Lite), which seems to have recently been rebranded to "tIDE."

tIDE Homepage:

https://www.tsites.co.uk/sites/other/other.php

EDIT: LiveCode, not Live Code.

Thoughts on the rebranding of tIDE? I'm sorry I missed it as "OXT Lite", but worry about it being presented Athena-like as born fully-formed from a single developer...

Thank you for this. It lives! I will try these forks out. Don't you just love open source!

Do you or does anyone else have a summary of or any link to read about what you are alluding to, namely Proton Mail rewriting email bodies?

I don't know if you are DE shopping, but I've been very happy for the past few years with the MATE Desktop Environment, which "...is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems."

https://mate-desktop.org/

Among a great number of things I really like, I will mention that Caja, the MATE version of GNOME 2's Nautilus file manager, can still be switched to spatial mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager

Generally speaking, I too really liked GNOME 2.32 and its predecessors, and, as far as I'm concerned, MATE is as it describes itself.

EDIT: Wording mistake.

In Latin, adding the enclitic -ne to (generally) the first word of a sentence makes that sentence a yes/no question.

See https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1... , especially paragraph #332.