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(#huaer3q) Also, the lack of libraries is worth noting. I’ve come across one program that uses some UI library, but everything else appears to be self-contained. That’s good and bad. For example, there was no such thing as sqlite yet, so I’m seeing a lot of custom line-based file formats: ā€œ3 bytes for an ID, 10 bytes for a name, 40 bytes for a description, ā€¦ā€ The code then literally reads 40 bytes to get the description, meaning there had to be space padding in the data file. 😱


#z22zoha

(#qojxy3q) Good luck! 😲 I tried archery once, harder than it looks. The instructor couldn’t really explain ā€œhow to aimā€, though. šŸ¤” Maybe he was just bad at it, I don’t know – we beginners hit almost as good as he did. 🤣


#ngfwmbq

@anth@a.9srv.net (#mxlhmsq) Ah, are you using something BSD-ish? SIGINFO is not as common on GNU … Sadly. Actually, I even vaguely remember SIGINFO being ā€œnot a thingā€ on GNU, because we tried to use it in BundleWrap, but had to resort to using SIGQUIT instead for portability … Not sure anymore. šŸ¤”


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@prologic (#huaer3q) Yeah, from when I was a kid and stuff like that. Some kind of ā€œfamily heirloomā€. 🄓 Fun fact, we might be looking at a lot of money: One new floppy sells for about 4 EUR in Germany these days. Granted, lots of these will already be broken, but still …


#j2imupq

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#gylns4a) The ā€œused it for some timeā€ part is probably the key ingredient. šŸ¤” However, I can’t really imagine that the OpenBSD gals/guys didn’t have a lot of contact with Git by now. I still suspect there’s something special about CVS that they really value. šŸ¤” (Or maybe it’s just this: They probably would have to reimplement or at least audit Git in order to get it into their base system, which would be a hell lot of work.)


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@hackew-news-newest@feeds.twtxt.net (#oacok3q) That’s super misleading. It implies ā€œfacebook.comā€ previously had access to the cookies of, say, ā€œgoogle.comā€, which it clearly didn’t. Also, this is scary: ā€œā€¦ when Total Cookie Protection detects that you intend to use a provider ā€¦ā€ They try to detect my intentions? That’s going to work out just great. šŸ™ƒ


#kwewgda

Why I love the Finnish language: No grammatical gender (easier to learn, less politics), written almost exactly as spoken, simpler alphabet (no diacritics, no ambiguities like in some languages, e.g. in German ā€œfā€, ā€œvā€, and ā€œphā€ can sound exactly the same), numbers follow a simple and consistent pattern, and finally, sounds awesome. Why I hate it: Kirjakieli (written Finnish) vs. Puhekieli (spoken), you basically have to learn two languages. 🤦


#iwnmyha

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#uckc5ia) Date-based versions, such as xiate-20.07. šŸ¤” It’s rare, but some of my software does get packaged for some Linux distros … At the end of the day, most of my releases would probably end up bumping the major version number. šŸ™„ But with semver, it would at least be obvious for users that something might/will break.


#xszi6qq

(#kanuqhq) I’ll give Mojeek a try. šŸ¤” Have used DuckDuckGo for a couple of years now. Neither of them are actively transparent on how they make money. At least I couldn’t find anything in ~10 minutes. I remain sceptical (of both), but hey, you can’t be sure anyway with these things, and alternatives are good. šŸ‘


#m2oiwuq

@prologic (#zafd26q) Huh. twtxt.net computed the hash zafd26q for melyanna’s original twt. I get kjsxeka. The difference appears to be that my client used the URL https://tilde.club/~melyanna/twtxt.txt, while twtxt.net used just http://. That’s a) a bit of a problem if people provide their feed over multiple protocols (half-baked thought, maybe we should omit the scheme? šŸ¤”), b) might be a bug because twtxt.net’s web interface shows https://. 😯


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