https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Intestinal_Disgorge/Twodeadsluts_Onegoodfuck_-_Intestinal_Disgorge/235570

hey alright

It's a shame the BitTorrent protocol never implemented any file advertisement or messaging, but I can definitely understand why.
It'd be nice if it were standard to host some kind of ncat two-user messaging service on TCP port whatever.

>>3
>It's a shame the BitTorrent protocol never implemented any file advertisement or messaging
DHT????? You probably disabled it already if you're on a private tracker.

>>8
eh. whatever. Suckless and related groups' only worthwhile work is their individual utilities like ii, dwm if you're into tiling, etc. trying to make linux sane overall is a sysiphean task.
Linux is like a windows or mac that respects your freedom and privacy, and that you can configure to present a sane, comfy interface by ignoring most of whats installed and configured.
openbsd (or maybe netbsd) is for if you want a reasonable unix system, plan9 is for if you want an actually reasonable system in general.

>>9
stop posting frogs

>>10
I like their overall philosophy though; an app should fill a single purpose and nothing else, and if the user wants more functionality they should install more apps

>>12
Thats just a simplified version of the basic design philosophy of UNIX/the labs people. Its missing a bunch of big important parts, like consideration of how the parts of a the system work together, how adding or changing functionality in a small way in one place can obsolete large swathes of special purpose bullshit, etc.
Some of them get this right sometimes with stuff like ii, other times their shit is just pointless, and yet other times its retarded "hurr durr less stuff more better"
And on the whole, while using a selection of sanely designed programs that actually compose as parts like god intended can make your superficial YOU-EKS(*retch*) better, linux is already drowned in accumulated bullshit, it cannot be saved.
Trying to make a sane modern UNIX system is impossible and pointless. Theres too much accumulated bullshit to do anything but sweep what you can under the rug and avoid new subsystems that introduce new bullshit to deal with.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html

>>7 Not sure, but for the record the theme in the OP pic uses 70 (out of 100).
Although, I have heard the Solarized theme is based on a decent amount of research. Like they have a brighter background and it's slightly green which might be good.
Maybe copying the Solarized theme and just adjusting the colors a bit to have a fixed luminosity would be pretty good.

>>6
ah yeah you're right, I mixed up the terms. always thought brightness and luminosity were synonyms.

Just posting a version based on Solarized. I think I like this a lot more than the one in the OP.
Also I reduced the vibrance of that red color that Solarized uses because it just didn't feel right.

>>1
>>6
anon... you have it wrong. the two phrases in your second left picture have the same amount of luminance, or the perceived amount of light if same amounts of light of different colors were emitted. whereas the words in your right picture have the same brightness, or the amount of perceived emitted light if the amount of emitted light was adjusted such that both colors would look equally bright to a human.
the issue isn't with the iris. the actual reason why it is harder to make out the words in your left picture is because your brain has a harder time detecting dark colors compared to the right picture, which was adjusted to look equally bright

i'm not sure if you're implying that a color theme with constant luminosity is better for reading code easily, though i do uncritically accept that constant luminosity is probably good for reducing eye strain. but i don't think eye strain is the only factor in a good syntax highlighting scheme. the contrast between keywords and language tokens is also important, so the perfect color scheme would need some amount of contrast between colors too. also, color schemes are really personal not just in preference i think. what's tiring and confusing for me might be very comfortable and legible for you. i think if the number of unique colors are kept to a minimum it's a good color scheme. a lot of them have too many colors. if your editor supports italics and bold, that's another channel that can convey syntax information. i also like to use different values of the same color to keep the number of uniquely contrasting colors low. i arrived at this after months of trial and error.