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@notavi10@critter.cafe @schratze@todon.nl "emergency" measure it's intended for things like war or natural disasters. It was probably illegal to use it to represent a failed motion. No one will go to prison for this, but they should.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot Back in the 1990's I programmed Perl professionally and it was truly amazing to see the reactions of other Perl programmers to functional Perl. Mostly negative but occasionally like a bolt of enlightenment. I suppose it shouldn't be that surprising that it has good syntactic support for call-with style functions, as Perl has everything in there somewhere @vnikolov@ieji.de @janneke@todon.nl @spook@pleroma.m68k.church

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @vnikolov@ieji.de @janneke@todon.nl @spook@pleroma.m68k.church The thing I found interesting about functional programming in Perl is just how much the language (not APIs obviously) did not work against you. Refer to things by value, don't try to mutate references, use closures, and things are easier. The ref counter doesn't get confused. The whole language and a lot of its weird warts just ... work.

@Yoxem@g0v.social @tea@fedigroups.social Yeah, I'm expecting it to be pricey

I'm planning ahead for someone's 50th birthday gift, and I'd like to get them some aged oolong. Does anyone on here have recommendations for tracking down aged oolong ideally from 1980 (or thereabouts) ? Public or private recommendations would be appreciated! @tea@fedigroups.social #tea

@marcoxa@mastodon.social @jameshowell@fediscience.org Intertwined with the lack of a Labor party, but yeah

@typeswitch revises my opinion I guess C shouldn't have iterators 😹

@iaruffell@mastodon.scot @Merovius@chaos.social @dr2chase@ohai.social I think it's mostly because their actions betray their beliefs. As you say, some of them are opposed to accessibility accommodations because they're in favor of opression of disabled people. Mostly those same people are actively looking for reasons to gather files on you, police your behavior, betray your kids' privacy. When I look at the individuals who are spending effort on maintaining and improving accessibility (or often trying to build back up to a previous level that was wantonly destroyed), those are not the ones jumping on the censorship bandwagon

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @vnikolov@ieji.de @janneke@todon.nl @spook@pleroma.m68k.church (The APIs all fight you tooth and nail, though)

@mdhughes @amoroso Honestly, I think that's a terrible article. Anyone who doesn't already understand how intertwined Ada is with the Wirth languages would come away no wiser

The two groups I named are not the only ones in FLOSS of course. But they are the two who are fundamentally coming into conflict at the moment. And I'm addressing this to other civil libertarian minded Free Software folks.

@federicomena@mstdn.mx I have an electric Renault, so the nice thing is that anywhere that can handle general Renault service can handle the minor things it needs (tyres, filters, eventually aircon). Break pads eventually too, but as others have mentioned that's not a big thing for EVs. A colleague had rust on his EV's discs from underuse ! Choosing an easy-to-service manufacturer is a decision I'm very happy with

@jameshowell@fediscience.org Spare an additional moment of ire for the browser implementors who enabled this

@mattsheffield Also hope you don't use focus follows mouse because that's been broken for years and no extension to fix the resulting window-stacking mess

@freedosproject@fosstodon.org I didn't know about emTeX back then! I'm actually glad because that was one of the motivators for me to get various unixes installed on my PC ... but emTeX would certainly have been the easier route

@kevinhiggins@mstdn.social Have you contacted the FGTB? I'd expect they could put you in contact with resources and (importantly) syndicalists at workplaces that organised successfully

@release_candidate@mastodon.bsd.cafe My dual-boot thinkpad gets about equivalent battery life under Linux and NetBSD. NetBSD doesn't suspend properly (though it does on an older thinkpad that is netbsd-only), which I should probably try to debug at some point.

@oebpx It even has omemo support ! https://thanosapollo.org/posts/emacs-jabber-revival/

@joomy@functional.cafe Oh this is great !

@ephemeral I was trained as a printer and binder in the early 1990's just as the classical matting and typesetting techniques were on their last legs. Getting TeX and PostScript installed on my PC was my main motivator for running Linux, because that was so obviously the future. When I went off to university, the job market absolutely dried up, and I switched to working in shipyards for extra income (plus I got myself blacklisted because of labour agitation). I enjoyed being one of only two people I was aware of at the university with custom calling cards and personalised notebooks 😹

@ephemeral For books, I'd say they're both. They're obviously a product of the fairly sophisticated technologies of printing and binding. But they are also a technology for preserving and transmitting knowledge and ideas.

@ephemeral As someone who's done everything from setting physical type, developing plates, offset printing, and cutting and binding books, I'd say absolutely

@kevinhiggins@mstdn.social Spaces go on both sides of ! ? : ; — and « » Not sure what's going on with your French teacher, but they're not optional

@godsandcroziers@pagan.plus I think anything that intersects death and accusations of superstition will be especially fraught. But I agree, it's a shame (pun intended)

@godsandcroziers@pagan.plus The presumption that if something isn't directly attested to in the written record that it has died out, leads to a lot of strange conclusions. Similar to the claims that eg keening didn't survive into the 20th Century and any 21st Century practice is a revival. Where if you just go and ask the ladies where they learned it, they'll tell you. At least, if you're in the extended clan, and not a folklorist or historian.

@menelion Oh heck, weblate is full of unlabelled buttons? I guess I'll take some of that upcoming translation time and try to figure out how to fix that instead.

@fedora@fosstodon.org What are you doing to ensure this doesn't happen in future? I understand that the US-based Fedora organization will follow US laws, but giving the US government the power to cut people off of free software is a problem. How are you going to ensure that your US organization is unable to shut off access to Fedora?

@zersiax@cupoftea.social I was thinking of translation/localisation of software or websites. I could see LLMs helping make that work faster and better, but what we get instead is 'the llm translated everything, it's grand' and me sitting there needing to mentally translate back to the original English to make any sense of the UI I'm also happy to try to learn enough to do things like eg order tea entirely in Chinese ... but I also think people should be able to use their computers in their own language. It's not quite the same as accessibility, in that theoretically someone could learn enough English to use mainstream tech in English. But if they haven't done so by middle age, it rapidly approaches "just learn to see" territory

@Aroogi@wobbl.xyz @Hiro@loutre.info I absolutely love how completely fine and normal the picture is, and how much he clearly has his mind in the gutter

@labellaragassa@exquisite.social It's almost as though life is full of trade-offs and compromises and people should quit with the hyperventilating moralism which exists largely to exhaust you and cause you to give up on evaluating your preferences vs your principles

@lw Merges rather than rebases, make things much easier

@zersiax@cupoftea.social It's rather like translation. Can it help? Sure, it's a powerful language manipulation tool. In the right hands, it can fill in gaps, help speed things up, etc. A bunch of monolinguals excited about how they no longer feel obligated to pay people to do the task, though?

@jameshowell@fediscience.org can, very unfortunately, confirm 80's uncles but same thing

@th I love that the DOS column is there just for ERC

@kevinhiggins@mstdn.social So this is how the insane AIs in cyberpunk come into existence is it

@mew@fwoof.space @jdking92@dragonscave.space Command shift 4 prompts for you to select an on-screen rectangle Command shift 4 then press space prompts to select a window. Clicking on the window takes a screenshot of that window

@simon Websites that lie about "incorrect" passwords are an absolute plague. I have no idea what's going on there, but I encounter it quite a bit too

@kevinhiggins@mstdn.social Thinking about it, I wonder if it's a slightly misguided attempt to get you to not waste time worrying about typographical conventions around punctuation. It's a small enough thing that it's not worth correcting someone on, and it might be a waste of brainpower. That approach would absolutely backfire for me though. I just gorged myself on details of typographical conventions in German when I learned the language!

@kim cc @LeftArchive :akko_wink:

@gsuberland@chaos.social if they were honest they'd have named the subcommand npm yolo

@nathanlovestrees@disabled.social It's because they're big but untrustworthy and tend to gas people if you talk to them too long

@dmbaturin@functional.cafe There's something charming about enthusiastic heretics who are blissfully ignorant of their heresy

@niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be An export clause? A heck off to Lawrence Livermore labs? Both would be my guess