Big Mediaā€™s lobbyists have been running a smear campaign trying to paint the Internet Archive as a greedy big tech operation bent on stealing booksā€”which is totally absurd. If youā€™ve ever used the WayBack Machine, listened to their wonderful archives of live music, or checked out one of their 37 million texts, itā€™s time to speak up. In the wake of this judgment, everyone is showing their support for the Internet Archiveā€™s determination to keep fighting.

Sign a petition to defend @internetarchive@internetarchive at
https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

#digitalrightsforlibraries

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In-reply-to » After a bug in the Open Watcom OS/2 resource compiler has been fixed (imagine that ā€“ they still fix bugs related to OS/2! šŸ¤ÆšŸ’š), I was able to make some more progress with the OS/2 GUI version of my little disk usage tool. It now has a menu bar and a dialog to open another directory:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thatā€™s what I figured, since ncdu shows it at the bottom. ;-) But itā€™s actually pretty smart, to be honest. More space for precious content. And the title bar exists anyway, so why not make use of it with something helpful? Also, with entries being in descending order, itā€™s actually natural to show the sum as the even higher number above the largest entry and not at the bottom in another status line widget. 8-)

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In-reply-to » We have great April weather over here. Yesterday sun, rain, sun, rain, sun, hail, sun, hail, sun, rain, etc. It didn't hail today, but sun alternatd with rain a bunch of times. Went out this evening and boy, what an absolutely gorgeous scenery!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Wonderful! Great dandelion shots. šŸ˜ƒ

That sheep reminded me to read up on how sheep eyes work, having elongated pupils and all. They have multi-focal lenses ā€“ what?! Fascinating!

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In-reply-to » Thanks again @movq !! I have figured things out and set up Jenny and Vim completion following your blog post! Cheers!

Welcome @aelaraji@aelaraji.com!

What the heck is going on with the encoding here?! The feedā€™s Content-Type header does not include any charset, but Iā€™m still relying on the official twtxt client to fetch and parse feeds. Havenā€™t noticed this with any other feeds. Where in the chain is this messed up? :-? Seems like the ā€œspaceā€ is the Unicode line separator U+2028, that we use for newlines.

Maybe WTF-8 encoding!?

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In-reply-to » After a bug in the Open Watcom OS/2 resource compiler has been fixed (imagine that ā€“ they still fix bugs related to OS/2! šŸ¤ÆšŸ’š), I was able to make some more progress with the OS/2 GUI version of my little disk usage tool. It now has a menu bar and a dialog to open another directory:

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, I was too lazy to introduce a new widget for that (and the current directory), so I just (ab)used the titlebar. %)

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In-reply-to » @pratikbaid3 is looking for a few small projects to add to his contractor/freelance CV and has reached out to me to see if he could do a bit of work on the Yarn.social mobile app. He's done work before in the past and has done a pretty decent job.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! This is helpful šŸ™‡ā€ā™‚ļø

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