@alien are you on the lilypond mailing list? Sounds like Frescobaldi is abandoned. No word from the developer, and the people who were bugfixing don't have the time. (Plus qtwebengine needs to be updated badly, and nobody's able to do so.)
@garpu real life is eating up all of my time and that will not change soon. All I manage to release are package updates that do not challenge me. Anything which does not (or no longer) compiles and for which the fix is not easily found, ends up on an increasing TODO list. Sorry.
@hlegius my terminal mail program on slackware.com is unable to handle a reply to your email (due to all the strange characters). Therefore my reply here on Mastodon that you should have a temp password for your new Slack Docs Wiki account in your mailbox.
@hlegius indeed the 'Discussion' tab on every Wiki page is where you should discuss possible changes to that page or just want to talk with others on the subject.
@gepasi@Haydar you can read the commits that cause the damage. It's still open source. Read the assessments online of people who are a lot more knowledgeable.
@garpu actually I have that book on my 'TO-READ'. But there is a large queue in front of it ...
Currently I am anticipating @aptshadow 's Alien Clay which will be published next week.
@garpu physical health yes, but now my mother had surgery, had a blackout the night after, fell and broke her arm. That currently eats a lot of my time and attention because she can not walk, visit the toilet, get out of bed etc with the support of just one arm.
So, life is on the backburner.
@alien are they handing out paxlovid like candy over there? I didn't think I needed it, but my father-in-law has had it twice. Said the side effects were worse than covid.
@garpu never heard of that pill being administered here in the Netherlands. Even though it seems to be legal, it is prescription-only. Only for very specific use-cases from what I read.
@gamingonlinux ah, but they want your phone number otherwise you won't get an account from them. For me that is a big boo-boo and I will happily stick with Mastodon.
Liu Cixin’s sci-fi book “The Three-Body Problem” has been made into series called “3 Body Problem.” It will be on Netflix this spring and they just dropped a trailer.
@markwyner looks like it is going to get the #Hollywood sauce. Could still be an interesting action series but I encourage you to find where the #Chinese version is streaming and watch that first. The Chinese released "Three-Body" as a 30-episode series in 2023, depicting the events of the first book in a way that is probably tangential to what we in the West are used to. It takes some mental investment to set aside your cultural conditioning and watch it with open mind.
@garpu@markwyner the books are well worth reading.
And if you are able to watch all 30 episodes in 7 days then you can do that ad-free during trial-time of a Viki pass, see https://www.viki.com/tv/39255c-three-body . Otherwise, a one-month pass is 5 buck. And ad-sponsored this seems to be free to watch even.
Well this sucks. Both of us have covid. I'm about 2 days out, and the Frood is 3 days out. I'm to the point where I'm sick of being sick. And I want pancakes.
Looking to start new series for the coming year (second poll). Can you help me out #Bookstodon? Because you can only have for poll topics on Mastodon, this is the second poll asking for recommendations. I'll take the top two from both polls and do a final four poll. Go to the comments for a link to the first poll.
@seanbala please stop doing these irrelevant polls using generic hashtags. You've done your homework already, you found four candidates. Well done! Now, just read all of them.
I am not here either to trash or praise Rebel Moon, but I am here to say that one day someone is going to lock Zack Snyder out of the color-grading machine, and that's going to be a bad, crazy day for him
@scalzi nah, I think that Rebel moon is the best picture Zack created so far. I appreciate it when someone adds a defining style to his work and sticks to it. Color-grading is what makes his work stand out. Over the top? Maybe, but this was a movie that kept me glued to the screen until the end.