Tom Ryder @tejr@mastodon.sdf.org
Tom Ryder
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I'm also using cgit, it didn't require too much effort to set up, and it tends not to require any effort for maintenance (other than the basic “keep the server updated”)
@alexandra @rysiek
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I’m doing better now. Thank you to everyone who was concerned.
@iron_bug I dunno. At least it didn’t get Rusted. Did take me a bit to adapt my build script, but not too bad.
Of particular note: the nickcolor.pl script doesn’t work since this update. I recommend switching to nickcolor_expando.pl. Worked for me.
Irssi v1.4.1 released; lots of bug fixes, some IRCv3 features, and a move to a Meson/Ninja build system.
Tom Ryder
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We have had to cancel this meeting as both speakers, the meeting chair, the President, and the Vice-President are all absent or unwell! We have decided to cancel the meeting and will try to re-schedule the talks.
Vim v9.0 release pencilled in for a couple of weeks from now: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/E37hUdqPBQw
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New versions of Windows might change the UI or underlying components, but they don't change the only thing important to know about Windows: it's nonfree software. Choose software that actually respects its users instead. https://u.fsf.org/3eu
Tom Ryder
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PLUG meeting June 8th 2022: Inkscape with John Flower and Leetcode with Tim-Hinnerk Heuer: https://www.plug.org.nz/2022/06/june-inkscape-and-adventures-in-codeland/
Or the first time you try to print the string "-n" and you try `echo -n` and it doesn’t work and you try `echo -- -n` thinking you’re clever and it *still* doesn’t work and someone tells you about `printf` and how even the POSIX standard recommends not using `echo` but they can’t deprecate it because people just won’t stop
Or the first time someone tells you that you don’t need to use `dd` to copy block devices, you can just use `cat`, `cp`, `pv` etc
* https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479
* https://eklitzke.org/the-cult-of-dd
That one sometimes makes people reel so much that you have to get them to try it out and do a checksum afterwards before they’ll believe you
Or the simultaneous relief and anger you feel when someone first explains to you that /bin/sh and /bin/bash are not at all the same thing, but on some systems /bin/sh invokes Bash, but it still behaves slightly differently to be more historically consistent and POSIX-fearing, but doesn’t actually turn off at least some of its non-POSIX features, etc, etc
It’s a bit like the gotcha of GNU Bash’s “builtin” commands behaving slightly differently from the programs with the same names documented in `man` pages, if nobody tells you about e.g. `help -m printf` vs `man printf`, `help -m echo` vs `man echo`, etc
I wonder how many times in Unix’s history someone’s got confused/frustrated because nobody had told them about manual page sections and they typed `man crontab` and it had nothing at all to do with the file format (`man 5 crontab`).
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@tejr@mastodon.sdf.org I just used "copy as curl" a couple minutes ago. Please stop harassing me.
We know, of course, that human beings survived before the invention of “Copy as cURL” in web browser consoles, but how this was possible is a mystery lost to time.
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Now, the N-Gage was released in 2003, right at the dawn of online meme culture. So as you might imagine, people on message boards from sea to shining sea glommed on to this weird-looking, weird-working phone as perfect meme fodder.
The result was the brief fad of "sidetalkin'," in which people made fun of the N-Gage by posing with other electronics as if they were poorly designed phones too.
Inevitably, a website eventually emerged to collect these photos, which in a minor online miracle still exists: https://sidetalkin.com/
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