@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Sandra

@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.

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Sandra, to random

@loke But if you use the xfe0e magic code it doesn't render as an emoji!

Sandra, to random

Today I finally learned about xfe0e, a unicode magic code that tells modern devices to use plain text representation! So now my hearts ♥︎ can finally go back to their stylish style that WRNU and Story-Game veterans remember as my schtick since ages immemorial!

I've been actually typing that same playing card heart this whole time, it's just that modern devices started displaying it as a red heart (🤦🏻‍♀️) but xfe0e to the rescue I guess!

Yet another instance of this bullshit:

https://idiomdrottning.org/past-web

Sandra,

@loke

No selection is device dependent. So for me, the code block version is non emoji and the non-code block version is emoji. And then the magic xfe0e version is also non emoji just like the code block version.

I agree that the default should be non-emoji. Probably what I would do if I would design a device. 🤷🏻‍♀️

lumpley, to random
@lumpley@dice.camp avatar

I'm supposed to be working at my day job (makin games), but instead I'm listening to the immunity appeal live audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5675pKP4ndU

Sandra,

@lumpley I can't really make out anything? Just traffic and static. Or did it happen already?

Sandra, to random Swedish

Har läst e-leg-utredningen nu och dom föreslår att den ska vara NFC men det står inte hur ska den kunna användas online?

WebNFC verkar ju inte funka speciellt bra…?

Det jag tycker utredningen saknar är en total blästring av Google Play och App Store. Om e-legget behöver nån av dom två är det hopplöst. Har sagt hela tiden såhär: det ska funka på en gammal Amiga med Debian. Inte för att det är det panschisarna har men för att lyfta taket hur oberoende av nätverksexternalitetsexploaterande aktörer lösningen behöver vara: vill ha ett protokoll, inte bara en tillämpning.

Samtidigt känns det creepy att staten ska veta vem jag är. Gud jag borde bara gå off the grid ändå. Slänga datorn och logga av helt. Samhället är ju bara dåligt.

https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2023/10/sou-202361/

Sandra,

Att dom okritiskt skildrar den danska och nederländska situationen är rätt så 😰

Vi kan inte ha nån jävla Kivra-scam! Det räcker gott med vanlig TLS-krypterad email tack!

Sandra, to random

Piping HTML snippets (perhaps with shell-command-on-region) through w3m for a quick look at how various combinations of p and br will render:

echo '<p><br/><br/>this is the<br/>example</p>'|w3m -T text/html |cat

The type flag makes it understand that it’s not text input, and then piping it through cat isn’t useless at all since it turns off the whole curses stuff that goops up Emacs, instead just giving plain text output.

Sandra, to random

When a web forum has a “login with GitHub” button the way some Discourse servers have, is there a way to instead use another OAuth provider?

somafm, to random
@somafm@sfba.social avatar

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    Sandra,

    @somafm

    How can I see an approximate number of how many others are listening? 🤷🏻‍♀️

    Sandra,

    @somafm

    I couldn't find it on the website 🤷🏻‍♀️

    Sandra, to random

    Topic-based mailing lists and IRC channels were a huge part of the Internet when I grew up. To me this is a throwback to when the internet was manageable and cozy and fun.

    It’s also the kind of discoverability that I think is good: topic based, rather than “trending” algorithm based, or, worst of all, “promoted”.

    https://idiomdrottning.org/fedi-wishlist

    Sandra, (edited ) to fediverse

    The stuff on the explore tab seems to be pretty much the same across all instances. That's exactly why we were against an explore tab, the homogenization and algoification and celebrity culture of social media 🤷🏻‍♀️

    @fediverse

    Sandra,

    It's great that kbin added this feature! It ameliorates some of Fedi's groups problems.
    I've been using a script that mashes together several RSS feeds into one to sorta simulate this.

    (I'm not really sure how this new approach is implemented or what a multireddit is.)

    Sandra, to random

    That’s exacerbated by how in the world of programming, because automation is a thing that’s usually worth it, working lifo can sometimes get massively rewarded.

    https://idiomdrottning.org/lifo-vs-fifo

    Shkshkshk, to DnD
    @Shkshkshk@dice.camp avatar

    What makes elves fun to play?

    @dnd

    Something I've been puzzling over with my stuff is about the classic elf. I don't really know what makes the Elves a compelling race to play. I'm thinking of changing them quite significantly for my campaign, but how far can I change them until they no longer hit the same buttons?

    Sandra,

    Elves are of a culture that's long familiar with magic yet respects magic and its ways.

    @Shkshkshk @dnd

    Sandra, to random

    So awesome is Magit and its staging area that I sometimes put a text file under git that I normally would never use VC for, just so I can revert hunks from commits and revert hunks from the staging area, too.

    It sometimes feels like this wonderful time machine; I still use the weird default Emacs “undo chain” but that hardly matters with all the glorious powers of Magic available!

    https://idiomdrottning.org/staging-is-great

    Sandra,

    The problem with this is that it makes going left the same as going right, meaning that any decisions by the players where their characters should go become meaningless. I use a ton of random generators but it's in conjunction with more prepared stuff.

    https://idiomdrottning.org/blorb-principles https://idiomdrottning.org/the_quest_queue

    Sandra, to random

    Why my Dovecot! I loveded you! I loveded youuu!

    Is there a fork on the horizon?

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333086

    Sandra, to random

    Aaron on how he wrote web.py:

    I imagined how things should work and then I made that happen. Sometimes making things just work takes a lot of code. Sometimes it only takes a little.

    http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit

    Sandra, to random

    Sometimes it’s easy to start thinking that since even breathing is part of the CO2 cycle, I’d do a better job of fighting climate change if I were in the grave, and that everyone better forget about having kids.

    But the entire point of wanting to fix climate change is to preserve life. Annihilating the planet just to save it would be majorly missing the point. Yeah, yeah, it’s more than just human life that’s at stake, and it’d be worse if all animals died than if “only” humans died, but ideally we do want people to get to live their best lives.

    https://idiomdrottning.org/anti-life

    Sandra, to random

    Finished a project a month early so I might try to do some of the puzzles for the first time ever. Thinking it might be fun since I've enjoyed the code golf SE and Project Euler.

    Immediate first reaction is there is no lightmode, not even in the settings, so I literally can not see the text. 😭 Browser reader mode to the rescue.

    Second reaction, I'm confused by the actual question since it seems like the examples already answer the question. I'll have to read more carefully.

    OH! I couldn't get the puzzle input in reader mode 🤦🏻‍♀️
    I was stuck on that for a bit.
    But it was a li'l easier than the typical Euler puzzle and a li'l harder than the typical golf puzzle (although luckily no golfing required). Here is my answer for Dec 6.
    Or is it gauche/forbidden to post answers?

    https://ellen.idiomdrottning.org/aoc23-06.brev.txt

    I'll go back and do the older answers without peeking at other people's answers. I've had advent of code filtered out of my Fedi for years. Now I finally have time to participate ♥

    Sandra,

    I took a break from working on day 5 to do day 7 first:

    https://ellen.idiomdrottning.org/aoc23-07.brev.txt

    Sandra,

    And now that day five is done I'm all caught up.

    https://ellen.idiomdrottning.org/aoc23-05.brev.txt

    The big lesson here that I need to keep relearning is that when I'm stuck on a progarming thing, taking a break is very difficult but also very efficient since it's usually what can help me get a new perspective on things.

    Sandra,

    The first one I did, day six*, was so easy so I thought the rest of 'em was gonna be similarly easy.

    There's been a couple of ones that have been very difficult for me and some that have been easy, algorithm-wise, but day six was also easy smop-wise at only a couple of lines. Maybe because my linear brute-force-every-number version just happen to work 🤷🏻‍♀️

    I thought all of them was gonna be on this level, like "Oh, that's a cute way to start the morning, something to think about for a few minutes like if it were Wordle or something". 🍶

    *: I started on day six and so I did 6 1 2 3 4, started 5, did 7, then finished 5.

    Sandra,

    @RogerBW

    Is your rule that you can use any tool/language that fits the job? I've been trying to stick to brev so I can stress test it a little bit and come up with things to add to it. And also because it's just fun (although when it's not a good fit I feel super ashamed since it's my own fault if it's not).

    Thanks for your advice re breaks. It's so difficult to tear myself from the puzzle even though I'm really way too tired and barking up the way wrong tree, but brain just goes "uh but just let me try it this ONE more little tweak".

    Sandra,

    @RogerBW

    Compared to Euler Project I'm happy there's so much parsing because that's for me the really fun part of these.

    Day six I didn't do any parsing, I just typed in the numbers.

    But even when there is significant parsing like days 5 or 7, the parsing isn't the bottleneck for me, it's like 1% of the entire time spent. Not hyperbole but that's maybe saying more about how bad I am at discrete mathematics than how awesome I am at parsing. 💁🏻‍♀️

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