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alanz, to random
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Hmm, I am shocked that the official mastodon UI doesn't prompt for alt text on images. Fedilab always does, I was expecting a step to do it.

alanz, to random
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Unpopular opinion: I really dislike the UI style of the magit pane, which is taking over for everything. It gives no feedback on location, the evil bindings don't work well, and it uses a different paradigm from the rest of emacs.

alanz,
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@aleks I mean when you M-x magit it shows you a window, broken into sections, and each can be expanded/collapsed, and pressing keys on them make things happen.

More and more other packages in emacs are starting to use it too.

e.g. in the one below, it is really tricky to copy-paste one leg of the diff to experiment with it

mattblaze, to random
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Especially if this will be your first total eclipse, my advice is to go light on cameras and optics and focus on just experiencing the event. There’s a lot more to see and feel during totality than just the occlusion of the sun.

I’m planning on bringing a tripod (it gets dark!) and wide angle lens to capture the overall environment. But I’m leaving the “portable solar observatory” stuff to the astronomers.

alanz,
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@mattblaze

I recall seeing one in South Africa. And a really simple and safe way to view is to literally make a pinhole in a piece of paper, and hold it above a flat piece of ground.

@evan

rabble, to random
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I just had a comment removed from instagram for violating their community standards. Apparently they think I’m spamming for mentioning Unicode I guess. Honestly I’m not sure. It was in response to a instagram rule asking why the kiwi bird isn’t an emoji.

I posted it once, and to a instagram post from someone I’m following. I don’t think I’ve made a comment about Unicode or emojis on instagram before.

This is crazy.

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alanz,
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@danie10

It's probably collateral damage from banning this stalker site: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

@rabble

alanz, to random
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Things I hate about Google Maps. Parks simply don't exist.

Compare gmaps Vs organic maps

Map of the same urban area in organic maps showing a park, including the walking paths in it

alanz, to random
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As I contemplate working the CPP hack tokens into the GHC ParsedSource for ghc-exactprint, I am once more motivated to go back to my GHC_CPP proposal. And implement it.

enkiv2, to random
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when movies were shot on film, screwing up light levels would make your footage utterly unusable (and you'd still be out the cost of the film and the cost of developing the film), so even very low budget movies would have absolute experts doing camera and lighting, so you got a lot of beautiful trash

alanz,
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@enkiv2

One of my first ever projects was a controller for "light valves" in a movie printing machine. It had to adjust the physical vanes exactly on the frame line according to the editing instructions, read from punched paper tape

alanz, to random
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I really like head.hackage. It means I can start on the GHC 9.10.1 ghc-exactprint update immediately, without having to wait for libraries to catch up.

frescosecco, to programming
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Can the principles of moldable development be applied to Erlang? What would that look like? What is already there (good tooling for system insight, for instance)?

alanz,
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@frescosecco

The Erlang Language Platform can emit data for https://glean.software/, as a start.

gvwilson, to random
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Looking for a word to use in contrast to "exascale" to mean "the laptop-sized computing that is all 99.9% of researchers need". Thought about "human-scale" but that doesn't have enough zing. Suggestions?

alanz,
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@gvwilson

Convivial scale. Taps into the whole convivial computing thing.

alanz, to random
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Thanks to the @SocialCoop people dealing with the current spam onslaught.

I know one is happening based on what people are saying, but have not yet seen any here.

ebel, to random
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hmmm, looking into a way to split a password so X of Y people can reconstruct it in an emergency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing

alanz,
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@ebel

Have a look at dark-crystal from secure scuttlebutt.

Here is a pointer https://morioh.com/a/ea82befbb936/dark-crystal-a-new-way-to-build-crystal-applications

alanz,
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@ebel That is a generic secret sharding approach (I think), which uses ssb as transport.

YMMV

organicmaps, to random
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If you missed it, the February 2024 Organic Maps update is already available in Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, and AppStore.

Thanks to our contributors ❤️, there is a big list of changes!

Please read the detailed changelog on our website: https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-02-14/february-2024-organic-maps-update-is-already-available-in-google-play-huawei-appgallery-and-appstore/

Paphos
Washington, D.C.

alanz,
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@organicmaps

I have not seen an update in Fdroid since December. Are you guys still doing them?

nil, to Lisp
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    alanz,
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    @nil What do you use for this? Is it publicly visible anywhere?

    alanz,
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    @nil

    I would love to have something like the codebase manager for Lisp.

    flameeyes, to random
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    No, I Don’t Miss Google Reader

    I don't miss Google Reader. Let me say that out loud, and explain why I don't feel the nostalgia that so many seem to find.

    https://flameeyes.blog/2024/02/11/no-i-dont-miss-google-reader/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

    alanz,
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    @flameeyes

    FWIW I am a happy user too.

    wingo, to random

    finally breaking down and installing the guix channel that shall not be named (https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix), and it's just to install firefox. how did we get here

    alanz,
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    @wingo

    Welcome to massively slower updates

    nixos_org, to random
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    Explore the simplicity of source code verification with git-verify!
    Have you given this solution a spin yet? If not, dive into the project and discover more in the announcement by its maintainer, Finn Landweber: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/git-verify-in-band-commit-verification/38991

    alanz,
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    @nixos_org

    And I see Guix git verification is the inspiration. Nice

    @smallcircles

    wilfredh, to random
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    I'm experimenting with a patch-style display format for difftastic.

    What do you think? Do the colours work? What about the last example, where there's only whitespace changes and the syntactic diff has nothing to highlight?

    alanz,
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    @wilfredh

    Looks good.

    I am pretty sure normal diff has a flag to turn on or off showing whitespace only changes. This could have something similar.

    alanz, to random
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    I just listened to

    Developer Voices: How Lisp is designing Nanotechnology (with Prof. Christian Schafmeister)

    Episode webpage: http://www.developervoices.com

    I love the concept of choosing common lisp as a "forever language" because things like Python change too fast and code rots.

    alanz,
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    @sharlatan

    The Nyxt codebase has some Guix packaging in it, but it looks pretty hairy and ad hoc.

    But can be used as an example.

    alanz, to random
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    I just signed up for . Hopefully this time I can get a visa in time.

    jgoerzen, to random
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    The case for and , a thread.

    Lately I've noticed an increase in very pessmistic posts here. The topics are varied: COVID, AI, capitalism. Sometimes valid points are included. But the hopeless tone is the opposite of what we need.

    We know there is hope, that activism can and does make a difference. Give people hope and they will act. 1/

    alanz,
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    @matt

    This whole train if thought is exactly why Hans Rosling wrote Factfulness.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factfulness:

    @jgoerzen

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