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If you don't have an RSS feed you don't have a podcast.

And that is a hill I will die on.

A painting of a bird beside the text "i don't owe you shit"

In space, no one can hear you meow :blobcatspace:
cat in a travel backpack that looks like a mini cat space ship!

I've been working on a little static website (see my earlier thread about my current side project). The site started out as a single hand-coded page. Now it's two hand-coded pages. I should really move up to a static site generator. I could use Zola like we did for the AccessKit site. But I'm tempted to do something more custom using a Makefile.
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Matt Campbell
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Or I could go all trendy and use Earthly (earthly.dev/), which combines something like a Makefile with Docker containers for the build steps. That might actually be a nice way to do a more complex build pipeline, with the possibility of building the demo video from scratch and then running a static site generator like Zola to build the actual site.

Earthly - Make Builds Super Simple

Fast, consistent builds with an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby. Write builds once, and run them anywhere – on your laptop, remote, and in any CI. Great for monorepos and polyrepos. Open source, 9000+ stars.
earthly.dev
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x0
x0
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What static site generators would you recommend? My partner wants to use one to replace WordPress for simple blogging but isn't as comfortable with CLI, and needs it to use markdown.

The Internet is decentralised by nature, and could be an entirely different world if ISPs weren't so hostile to self-hosting.

Imagine simple home appliances to host your email, blog or XMPP server.

Just buy a domain and configure a little device in your closet.

The tech is all feasible, but your ISP will refuse to give you a fixed IP or to unblock ports for this to work.

in reply to Hugo 雨果

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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I'm fortunate to have AT&T fiber in my apartment building, and that gives me the option of buying a static IP block. They specifically list light web hosting as a use case for that. Now I'm looking for suitable hardware. I want something small, low-power, and fanless that I can put next to the AT&T gateway.

In the 90s, we went on the Internet in an attempt to escape the real world. Nowadays we go to the real world in an attempt to escape the Internet.
in reply to Matthew J

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@bermudianbrit in the 90's, that'd have risked your electrocution. damned IP67 tech these days.
@Matthew J

The fact that the general consensus on #GNOME among Linux users seems to be hatred or distrust based on blind misinformation is unsettling. We really can’t just dismiss everyone as “trolls”. We absolutely need better public relations and coordination with the Foundation, because right now, we are letting bad faith actors dictate the direction of all discussions of the project.
#gnome
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Martin Owens
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Community management.

Its work, and someone should be being paid to do it professionally.

The brief is simple, work out who is the expected constituency of gnome software and actively include those voices in the entire stack of development. Build community and if possible, economy between the workers and the users.

Ignoring users is useful for solving some sets of problems, but creates many long term social issues. Gnome is not the only project with this problem.

It is a biblical truth not as known as it should be that the beauty of worship and the beauty of creation belong together.

“For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God…”
-Romans 8:19

With all creation, be beautiful today. Go to Mass.

Takhle zpětně přemýšlím, jak jsem ten první rok v UK vlastně přežil ve zdraví...
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Ivan Stloukal
Ivan Stloukal
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@SuspiciousDuck
Já bych býval po 14 hodinách v tom pekle vypil klidně i Starobrno nebo Budvar.
@SuspiciousDuck
in reply to Ivan Stloukal

SuspiciousDuck
SuspiciousDuck
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jako jo, kdybych byl bez peněz tak jo to je pravda.

edit: Starobrno neviem či nie je lepšie náhodou

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Well, I've just started watching a new dramatisation of Jilly Cooper's Rivals. Not for the shockable, but my word it's good! Beautiful to look at, really well cast and with an absolutely banging eighties soundtrack. I'm looking forward to seeing more, but I'm trying not to binge it, I want to eek it out as there are only eight episodes.
in reply to Lulu Hartgen

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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ooh is this the new disney plus one? Mrs R wants to sit me down with that. I've never done any Cooper.
in reply to Sean Randall

Lulu Hartgen
Lulu Hartgen
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@cachondo It is. I've been a big Cooper fan for years, so obviously it's right up my street. I'll be interested to know what you think.
@Sean Randall

Watching the US elections and I'm wondering if the USA is so great, why did they make a USB

@Tutanota When you update something like for example tuta.com/blog/how-to-start-an-… would it be possible to add a short description (preferably at the top) of what was updated so people don't need to reread the whole thing to try and find what was changed.

How to start an email (with examples) | Tuta

How to start an email (formal & informal), and the dos and don'ts of email greetings.
Tuta
@Tuta
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Tuta
Tuta
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Hi there! Thanks for the suggestion, we will pass it on to our team.

Tomorrow is Global Encryption Day! 🥳🎉 Celebrate with us and #win ONE year of Legend for free!!! 🎁

Can you guess how many % of Tuta emails are sent end-to-end encrypted? Comment below! 🔒

We'll announce the numbers and the one who guessed it on #GEC Day. ❤️

#GED2023 #GlobalEncryptionDay #Win

Every time you use encryption, you're protecting someone who needs it to stay alive. Bruce Schneier, cryptography expert.
#Win #globalencryptionday #gec #ged2023
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User01
User01
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unrelated but can you guys add a mini month calendar to the agenda view like Samsung calendar
in reply to User01

Tuta
Tuta
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@User01 Thanks for the suggestion, we will pass it on to the calendar team :)
@User01

Dont count the days, make the days count.

For static websites, is there any kind of open standard for announcing that it's a static site, making all of the files on the site easily discoverable without recursive crawling, and ideally, also offering the full site in a form that can be downloaded as a single archive?
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Andrew Woods
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@redstrate you could just create a .tar.gz or a .zip of all your content and put a link to it on your homepage. As far as announcing it, wrap it in an informational message box so it stands out. something like this codewithrandom.com/wp-content/…
@redstrate
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elle
elle
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i don't if there's a standard but a lot of static sites are on services like github pages which lets u download a zipped archive of the repo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

fuck I really need a new keyboard. Trying to get a 2.4GHZ / Bluetooth compatible keyboard on the cheap was hands down one of the stupidest decisions I made this year. My shift key seems to be broken now, and I've been using a program to block key repeating for months.
in reply to Haily Merry

Khronos
Khronos
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If you can get a k380 keyboard. Doesn't cost much and works well.
in reply to Khronos

Haily Merry
Haily Merry
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@khronos If it's mechanical, sure. I'm looking at the Logitech G613 right now, but I'll need to save a little and I'm moving soon, so not sure when this will be practical.
@Khronos

This: #antiracist vs "not racist".

If you want to start on that education, I really recommend reading "So You Want To Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo.
I've previously recommended "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo, which was good as an initial bridge - a white person talking to white people why they should care to be antiracist. But she's since turned that into a whole white savior consultant business, which is gross.
Ijeoma Oluo though? Her words as another woman of color _gave me breathing space_. She wrote all the things that I'm too exhausted to bring up with my white friends anymore. She wrote that, so the rest of us BIPOC don't have to anymore - it's a book of empowerment like that, in a big way.

And this is why I implore everyone to read that book, even if you need "White Fragility" as a stepping stone first.

Antiracist vs. "Not Racist" by #TheRealDrBatGuy A wheel with 4 icons on the left for "Antiracist" opposite 4 icons on the right for "Not Racist" (with quotation marks). Top icons: Antiracist - an eye icon for Awareness: Being aware of your own biases, privileges, and how you benefit from white supremacy Not Racist - a struck through eye icon for Colorblindness: Saying things such as "I don't see color" or "I don't care whether you are Black, white, or purple" Middle top icons: Antiracist - an ear icon for Listening: Leaning in and listening without centering your own experiences and whiteness, owning your mistakes and not getting defensive Not Racist - multiple location icons grouped together for Proximity: Making comments like, "My husband/kids/uncle/brother/friend/roommate is Black, so I can't be racist!" Middle bottom icons: Antiracist - book with lamp icons for Education: Educating yourself on race, racism, and white supremacy, paying Black educators (not expecting free education) Not Racist - a circle with an x icon for Avoidance: Avoiding conversations about race and racism, and asserting that talking about racism perpetuates it Bottom icons: Antiracist - a megaphone icon for Activism: Speaking out in your personal life, professional life, and social media, and calling people out/in as needed Not Racist - a struck through speaker icon for Silence: Staying silent when others make racist comments or jokes, noting that it's ok as long as you are not the one saying it
#antiracist
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Grandma used the word “whatsome” a lot. I've never heard anyone else say it. I often wonder where it came from.

Curiously, the Oxford Dictionary defines it as an obsolete #MiddleEnglish word meaning “whatever” that hasn't been used in over 500 years.

“Whatsome” was Grandma's “whatchamacallit”. She could also say “and whatsome” in the sense of “and so on”.

Incidentally, Oxford recognises “whatsomever” as a surviving #dialect word.

#Linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #English #Etymology

#linguistics #english #dialect #etymology #middleenglish #historicallinguistics

What are folks using to automate backups on their linux systems these days? I'd like something that is largely set-and-forget, but would appreciate it having some smarts, like being able to pattern match rust target directories and always exclude them without exhaustively listing them out. I don't need super sophistication; my strategy is to backup to my NAS which then takes care of replicating offsite. Being easy to navigate and restore from is desirable. I'm fine with a good cli for that.
in reply to Wez Furlong

Erion
Erion
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Honestly, if you don't mind a bit of tinkering, the easiest are rsync or rclone if you need to back up to a remote server. Set these up via cron (or fcron), they work like a charm.

#Bitwarden is no longer free software.

The new code introduces a dependency on @bitwarden/sdk-internal, whose license explicitly states that it can’t be used by any software other than Bitwarden.

That violates the freedom 0 of free software (I can do whatever I want with the source code as long as my output is also free and open).

This seems to be part of a long strategy from Bitwarden to gradually pull the rug under their “free and open” principles and turn the product into a closed product after gaining sufficient market share.

And it’s a reminder that open projects maintained by companies should never, ever, ever be trusted.

In my case I already moved to Vaultwarden a while ago. I had a hunch that Bitwarden was going in this direction, plus running 15 .NET containers on my box just to run a password manager seemed pure insanity to me.

I advise everyone to move away from Bitwarden too before it’s too late.

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…


Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...
GitHub
#bitwarden

The small one and I have gotten through 2 of these today. Bit moreish.
They have all the pop into your mouth chewability of sweets with the slightly unpalatable reality of salami
a packet of Beretta Salamini

Study: Digital Mental Health Tracking Services: Perspectives of Blind Users groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…

Study: Digital Mental Health Tracking Services: Perspectives of Blind Users

groups.io

Moja pravá ruka bude na Instagrame! Stay tuned.
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Watching Bluesky become a massive stream of pics without alt text as people basically beg people to add it... "We really value alt text here!"

Yeah, when millions of people suddenly flood a space, who "we" is changes right fucking quick, doesn't it?

#Bluesky

#bluesky
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IncorporealGrill
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Remember when folks over there made fun of Mastodon for people asking for content warnings and alt text?

Now they're begging people to mark NSFW picture and art while alt text is basically being ignored by almost all new users.

Idk y'all, sometimes folks on Fedi may be wound a little tight, but we sure did make sure the community we had here was tight and gave a fuck.

#Bluesky

#bluesky

A problem that has puzzled my partner and me for a couple of years now has been solved. When asked in Japanese who her ichiban (top, best, first) friend is, she always answers with the name of a friend who moved to the States five years ago and who she rarely interacts with or even talks about. I thought it was some sentimental thing. This morning while the three of us were in the car, my partner asked this, got the usual mysterious response, and then said, “Okay, then who’s your niban (second) best friend?” She thought and said, “I guess it’s [name of friend she sees once in a while and rarely talks about].” “Okay, how about your sanban (third)?” (1/2)

Um so yeah. I was a technology kid, even at 5 or 6 years old. I loved it, thought it was fascinating. But I never brought my iPad into a public place, then proceeded to ignore my mom when she told me to put it down and that we were leaving for at least 5 minutes, or put on headphones and stared an an iPad for the entirety of brunch while the rest of the family socializes. Maybe this is just my generations version of my parents complaining about me and my sister using our phones when we're sitting right next to each other, but it does worry me a bit. The in public part is what truly gets me, I never had tech in public until I got a phone. And that's just how it was, the iPad was for at home, not the mall. But I suppose it's easier to just throw it in for the ride. After all, you don't have to parent your kid that way, because why should you have to be responsible for the thing you willingly created and brought into this world?
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Matthew J
Matthew J
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absolutely. and if you're gunna let your crotch goblin have unfettered access to technology, give it some fucking headphones so its not polluting the rest of the space.
in reply to Matthew J

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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@bermudianbrit be glad you misseed out on the "portable dvd players" generation. Those made public transit unbearable, along with the teenagers who loved music but didn't have bluetooth yet
@Matthew J
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

Matthew J
Matthew J
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@miki I think its worse now to be honest. every fucker watching shit on public transport etc. because everyone always has their phones
@Mikołaj Hołysz
in reply to Matthew J

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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@bermudianbrit Maybe the UK is different, I remember Poland being far worse as a kid. I haven't seen much of that on transit these days, and I now travel quite a lot more than I used to. I remember hearing a few cases of this ::in the days after the Ukraine war started, but that's pretty understandable IMO. Other than that, yeah, it used to be so, so much worse.
@Matthew J
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

Quin
Quin
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@miki @bermudianbrit Oh I had a portable DVD player! It just almost never left the house with me, and when it did I had headphones.
@Mikołaj Hołysz @Matthew J
in reply to Quin

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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@bermudianbrit oh, kids here used to take them everywhere, especially longer train rides and trips by school bus / coach. I guess the US is a lot more carcentric, so seeing random, unrelated kids on longer-ish trips wasn't as common for you.
@Matthew J
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

James Scholes
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@miki I don't remember the portable DVD player generation ever happening in the UK. It always seemed like one of those ideas that was going to take off any minute, for so long that it never did. @bermudianbrit @TheQuinbox
@Mikołaj Hołysz @Quin @Matthew J

fuck!

#embracer

#embracer
in reply to Fred Brooker

SuspiciousDuck
SuspiciousDuck
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jednotku mám takmer prejdenú... ty vole niečo bych si zahrál.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Fred Brooker
Fred Brooker
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@SuspiciousDuck

DXMD jsem hrál 4x, DXHR asi taktéž - ale nedokázal jsem porazit prvního bosse

@SuspiciousDuck
in reply to Schmaker

SuspiciousDuck
SuspiciousDuck
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čeknem to chalani díky.
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They teased you when you were young, because you didn't fit in. But you've grown up now, and you were never an ugly duckling; it turns out you were a horrible goose.

Make them pay. :goose_027:

Inspired by a recent podcast, I read this article on digital minimalism. Interestingly, I think I'm already much of the way there: very little interaction with corporate social media, no difficulty leaving the phone at home when going to a concert, for example, no desire to use technology when I'm meeting people or at a conference - even a technology conference.
I'm reasonably selective about what podcasts or radio to listen to, what fora to engage in, what to read online, etc., although there are probably some that I could remove without loss of substantial value.
I prioritize creation over consumption in general.
calnewport.com/on-digital-mini…
#Digital Minimalism #SocialMedia

On Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport

The Curmudgeonly Optimist People are sometimes confused about my personal relationship with digital communication technologies. On the one hand, I’m a computer scientist who studies and improves these tools. ... Read more
Study Hacks (Cal Newport)
#digital #socialmedia
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Cleverson
Cleverson
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I like the concept, and try to implement what I can of it as well.

Ještě jsem se s vámi chtěla podělit o jednu perličku z Lidlu. 2.10.2024 koupeno velké retro GRANKO v akci za 89,90 a tento týden nabízejí taky GRANKO za 89,90, ale ne retro a pouze pokud máte LIDL PLUS. Hlavně ta cena pokud tu appku nemáte...Tak jako kde to jsme???
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brabitom
brabitom
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Samozřejmě. To je kouzlo internetových diskuzí. V těch je odpověď na vše. 😁

So, I, a half-Canadian/half-German/half-Chinese/all-bad-at-math woman go out to dinner with my Chinese personal trainer after working out and we wind up eating Lebanese food made by Syrians in the middle of China in a pop-up restaurant that has a Palestinian flag and a sticker on the door in support of Palestine.

While listening to German music.

I love living in Wuhan!

TV Bra: inside the world's first TV station for and by people with learning disabilities:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0grk…

TV BRA: Inside the world’s first TV station for and by people with learning disabilities

All the reporters at Norway's TV BRA are disabled or autistic.
William Kremer (BBC News)

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Meta releases Spirit LM, a multimodal (speech text) model. #Multimodal #LLM #AI #ML ai.meta.com/blog/fair-news-seg…

Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR

Today, Meta FAIR is releasing several new research artifacts in support of our goal of achieving advanced machine intelligence (AMI) while also supporting open science and reproducibility.
ai.meta.com
#AI #ML #llm #multimodal

No sé si lo he dicho alguna vez, pero estoy harto de la barba y de afeitarme. De tener la piel cada vez más áspera por culpa de la cuchilla. De que haya pelos que intentan salir y no pueden, creando quistes e infectando la zona. Qué puto asco, acabaría con ella para siempre, ganaría en salud cutánea y ahorraría en cuchillas y lociones.
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José Manuel Delicado
José Manuel Delicado
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@modulux no sé tío, no me veo. Me gusta tocarme la cara y encontrar piel. Supongo que esto ya va con los gustos de cada uno.
@modulux
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

modulux
modulux
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Yo tampoco me veo, jeje. No, en serio; depende mucho del gusto de cada cual. A mi me gustan las barbas pero entiendo que si te da mal rollo tener pelos por ahí pues es una mierda.

Some random thoughts, but I sometimes feel there are two different and mutually exclusive strands of techno-optimism about computers. I'm referring here to people who want to use computers to liberate, not to the claim that this has already been achieved.

On one hand, what we could call the Smalltalk strand. Don't get hang up on the name: it might as well be Lisp or Unix or free software or Emacs strand. This is the most radical position, and holds that computers are 1) sui generis (their own thing), 2) and the full potential of computing is the common heritage of humanity. So this is the view of infinite customisability, of trusting that users can, should and will write their own software and tweaks.

The other version is the Apple strand: again don't get hang up on the name. This is an optimistic but less radical position that computers are universally able to substitute every other machine, but that they should behave like the machines they substitute for the sake of simplicity and ease of use. So while the Smalltalk strand looks at computers as their own special thing that brings new affordances, the Apple strand focuses on making computers useful for specific tasks, with an appropriate UI.

I think both are legitimate views. My sympathies are more with the Smalltalk strand, and I find it frustrating when it is seen as elitist or exclusionary, because our precise point is everyone can program, and that software should be optimised for modifiability. On the other hand, the Apple strand gets accused of dumbing down, which I also think is not warranted.

What I?m trying to get at is we can work on both visions, though inevitably there are points of divergence. Computers should be general purpose, flexible and customisable. People should be able to modify their own systems to suit their needs. But also, computers should be manageable and easily understood, and it should be possible for people to use them.

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Anke
Anke
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I think people who have already learned to program may over-estimate how much "everyone" is interested in learning to program.
I agree that pretty much everyone could learn it if they put in enough work, but a lot of people would rather do something else with their time and have computers "just work".
Speaking as a programmer, that's why I've stuck with Windows so far instead of getting into Linux more than necessary...

What's your favourite punctuation?

#FunPolls

  • Semicolon (;) (36%, 22 votes)
  • En dash (–) (26%, 16 votes)
  • Question mark (?) (13%, 8 votes)
  • Exlamation mark (!) (24%, 15 votes)
61 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

#funpolls

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MicroBlog Castellano
MicroBlog Castellano
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Well, in Spanish we don't use the en-dash, we use the longer em-dash. Unluckily, word processors don't manage Spanish em-dashes as they should – as parenthetical signs used around words and surrounded by spaces, as quotes are used in English, but to tell exactly the opposite: that a text is not said by a character, but part of narration.
in reply to MicroBlog Castellano

modulux
modulux
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I always thought the punctuation for dialogue stuff was the hyphen. Good to learn something new. These days lots of Spanish people seem to use something closer to the English dialogue rules, only sometimes with the (« and »).

We have reached peak absurdity

#Covid #Covid19

sign at the entrance to a hospital in the US saying Stop, please do not enter our hospital if you're feeling unwell
#covid #COVID19

Zitra nas ceka velky Unreleased den. Dva nove Unreleasy jejichz Unrelease oslavime vypustenim noveho webu. (driv to nejde, neb tam s nimi flexime)

Jako znamka toho, ze to s umelci myslime vazne jsme se placli pres kapsu a natocili reklamni video.

Je pekne.

Nalakame na nej Justina? Uvidime.

#music #video #art #startup

#music #art #video #startup

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I wrote a pure python gradle wrapper this afternoon :3

github.com/obfusk/gradlew.py

(for those who prefer not to have a binary blob wrapper.jar in their repos and would like to ensure checkums match those published on gradle.org)


GitHub - obfusk/gradlew.py: gradlew.py - pure python gradle wrapper

gradlew.py - pure python gradle wrapper. Contribute to obfusk/gradlew.py development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

Turns out I should not have worried about whether automatic mirroring of git repositories would work smoothly. After a year, only 4 out of 593 repositories had issues. 2 I was able to fix, one had a protocol error (I am assuimng their git server has issues), one has an SSL error. That's 31 GB of code, via #forgejo.
#forgejo
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