#DiƔtaxis and #Python #documentation
https://discuss.python.org/t/diataxis-and-python-documentation/41836
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Sooooooooo, things happened, and I now have a dot matrix printer again. šš
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This is why I love tech from that era.
Write bytes to a parallel port and stuff happens. If itās just ASCII bytes, then it will print ASCII text. Even the simplest programs can use a printer this way.
With a little bit of ESC/P, you can print images and other fancy stuff. Thatās what I did this morning ā never worked with ESC/P before, now I can print images. Itās not that hard.
Hayes-compatible modems are similar: Write some AT commands to the serial port and the modem does things. This isnāt even arcane knowledge, itās explained in the printed manual.
Maybe Iām wearing rose-tinted glasses here, but I think with all this old stuff, you get useful results very quickly and the manuals are usually actually helpful. Itās so much easier to get started and to use this hardware to the full extent. Much less complexity than what we have today, not a ton of libraries and dependencies and SDKs and cloud services and what not.
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Iāve been doing this for so lang that Iāve unlearned how to do this.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Iām in Standard Camp. ;-)
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We went out an hour earlier to escape the rain. But we got drizzled on, nevertheless. As expected, the rain jacket was finally wet on both the out- and inside. Sweating under that plasic layer is unavoidable with these temperatures. It was still a very nice walk and great vibe with the gray soup. Just right. :-)
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de There havenāt been decent ones for a while.
Joining the Clippy profile picture club, now that I finally finished my custom one.
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We went out an hour earlier to escape the rain. But we got drizzled on, nevertheless. As expected, the rain jacket was finally wet on both the out- and inside. Sweating under that plasic layer is unavoidable with these temperatures. It was still a very nice walk and great vibe with the gray soup. Just right. :-)
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Aww, yeah. š (Reminds me, I havenāt paid attention to the sunset in quite a while ā¦)
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Sooooooooo, things happened, and I now have a dot matrix printer again. šš
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org When/if I can pull it off, there will be videos! š
I never used hardcopy terminals, either. We did have a dotmatrix printer, but that was just used as a regular printer.
Inkjets, I donāt know. They were pretty fascinating and cool when they came out. A lot faster than dotmatrix and obviously quiter. They never gave me much trouble, actually. But I switched to a laser printer long before crap like DRMāed ink cartridges became a thing.
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Bloody AI clowns:
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Hereās an interesting thought/angle on this topic:
gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/21.1
A further check showed that all the network blocks are owned by one organizationāTencent [4]. Iām seriously thinking that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) encourage this with maybe the hope of externalizing the cost of the Great Firewall [5] to the rest of the world.
@twtxtory@twtxtory.adn.org.es it is designed that way on purpose š¤£