@xakan yeah, character encoding is weird, all the mb_ functions deal with the "multi byte" encodings like utf-8, as a speaker of a language with accents (spanish), I always use those just in case :)
Color me surprised that #antivaxxers might not use the best digital security practices. BTW, if my burner email pops up in that leak, know that I signed up just to monitor this particularly bonkers group of antivaxxers.😂
Still very WIP, but I am revamping the #obsidian UI for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Dhivehi, Hebrew, Farsi, Syriac, Urdu.
So many little questions I had never thought about:
Which way does a "back" arrow go?
Do progress bars fill right-to-left?
Are slashes in paths reversed?
Do window buttons get mirrored on major OSes?
This has been an eye-opening experience. Using start/end values rather than left/right is something I will think about with every project going forward.
Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there
I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.
@eliocamp related to this, the book "Guerrilla Science: Survival Strategies of a Cuban Physicist" really changed my perception of what "doing science" and "research" really is about and how important answering the small questions is. Specially because contrary to many people's belief, there's still a ton of small questions we (humanity) have unanswered.
Yesterday I found a bug (thanks @hananc !) on my bot server that caused the posts from all the bots would only be delivered to the server of the first follower (🤡). It is now fixed so if you're wondering why now you see messages from some of the bots on bots.uy that you didn't previously, that's the reason.
It's always bothered me that when people adapt Kafka's Metamorphosis they depict Gregor Samsa as a roach. Cockroaches do not undergo metamorphosis. They are born as nymphs which are just smaller wingless versions of the adult form.
Kafka writes that Gregor can only enjoy rotten food. Which also makes him not at all roach-like. Roaches strongly prefer fresh vegetables to rotten ones.
I always imagined him as a beetle. Which implies that the man Gregor was a larvae for all his pre-bug life.
Any thoughts on the Hugo static site generator? Kirby CMS didn't seem like my bag, especially with a subscription fee. They may not call it one, but if you only get 3 years of updates, then it is one (for all practical purposes)...
@wendigo I'm currently using it for "my site", which is a landing page with a few links and a little blog. I've recently added a few more pages and after some readings, it wasn't that hard so I'm liking it a lot. What are your doubts? did you try it locally already?
@wendigo@vanessawynn@benmo@jake4480 as mentioned somewhere else, initial setup is very easy and, if you find that any of the existing themes ( https://themes.gohugo.io ) works for your needs, it's overall pretty easy to start/maintain. If you want to customize stuff (besides what the theme allows), you need to get your hands dirty with (S)CSS, HTML and worst case scenario, a little bit of Go. And also as already mentioned, their docs aren't bad but they aren't great either.
@J12t@evan@liaizon@trwnh oh no! we've already started using the argument "because Meta does it" and they aren't even fully federating yet :picardfacepalm:
@J12t@evan@liaizon@trwnh sorry, didn't mean to flame, I don't have a personal preference for upper vs lower, but I was surprised to see the argument bc it's one of the fears I have with Threads, obviously, referred to technical matters, not vocabulary
