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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (18w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Speaking of manpages:

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Colorized manpages have been a thing for a very long time:

https://movq.de/v/81219d7f7a/s.png

Problem is, hardly anybody knows this, because you configure this by … drumroll … overwriting TERMCAP entries of less in your ~/.bashrc:

export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[38;5;3m'      # Bold
    export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m'           # End Bold
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[4;38;5;6m'    # Underline
    export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m'           # End Underline
export GROFF_NO_SGR=1                     # Needed since groff 1.23

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (19w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » Xfce does one thing very right: It stores its settings in plain-text XML files. This allows me to easily read, track, and maybe even distribute these settings to other machines.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I spent so much time in the past figuring out if something is a dict or a list in YAML, for example.

What are the types in this example?

items:
- part_no:   A4786
  descrip:   Water Bucket (Filled)
  price:     1.47
  quantity:  4
- part_no:   E1628
  descrip:   High Heeled "Ruby" Slippers
  size:      8
  price:     133.7
  quantity:  1

items is a dict containing … a list of two other dicts? Right?

It is quite hard for me to grasp the structure of YAML docs. 😢

The big advantage of YAML (and JSON and TOML) is that it’s much easier to write code for those formats, than it is with XML. json.loads() and you’re done.

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (20w ago)

The WM_CLASS Property is used on X11 to assign rules to certain windows, e.g. “this is a GIMP window, it should appear on workspace number 16.” It consists of two fields, name and class.

Wayland (or rather, the XDG shell protocol – core Wayland knows nothing about this) only has a single field called app_id.

When you run X11 programs under Wayland, you use XWayland, which is baked into most compositors. Then you have to deal with all three fields.

Some compositors map name to app_id, others map class to app_id, and even others directly expose the original name and class.

Apparently, there is no consensus.

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lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
 (21w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » This aggressive auto-logout on my bank’s website …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, it’s a shitshow. MS overconfirms all my prejudices constantly.

Ignoring e-mail after lunch works great, though. :-)

Our timetracking is offline for over a week because of reasons. The responsible bunglers are falling by the skin of their teeth: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/timetracking.png

  1. The error message neither includes the timeframe nor a link to an announcement article.
  2. The HTML page needs to download JS in order to display the fucking error message.
  3. Proper HTTP status codes are clearly only for big losers.
  4. Despite being down, heaps of resources are still fetched.

I find it really fascinating how one can screw up on so many levels. This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (21w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » The lack of suckless-like simple, hackable software these days is appalling.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this really could use a proper definition or a “manifest”. 😅 Many of these ideas are not very wide spread. And I haven’t come across similar projects in all these years.

Let’s take the farbfeld image format as an example again. I think this captures the “spirit” quite well, because this isn’t even about code.

This is the entire farbfeld spec:

farbfeld is a lossless image format which is easy to parse, pipe and compress. It has the following format:

╔════════╤═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Bytes  │ Description                                             ║
╠════════╪═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║ 8      │ "farbfeld" magic value                                  ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 4      │ 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (width)                      ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 4      │ 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (height)                     ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ [2222] │ 4x16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-major ║
╚════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

The RGB-data should be sRGB for best interoperability and not alpha-premultiplied.

(Now, I don’t know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesn’t.)

I think these are some of the properties worth mentioning:

  • The spec is extremely short. You can read this in under a minute and fully understand it. That alone is gold.
  • There are no “knobs”: It’s just a single version, it’s not like there’s also an 8-bit color depth version and one for 16-bit and one for extra large images and one that supports layers and so on. This makes it much easier to implement a fully compliant program.
  • Despite being so simple, it’s useful. I’ve used it in various programs, like my window manager, my status bars, some toy programs like “tuxeyes” (an Xeyes variant), or Advent of Code.
  • The format does not include compression because it doesn’t need to. Just use something like bzip2 to get file sizes similar to PNG.
  • It doesn’t cover every use case under the sun, but it does cover the most important ones (imho). They have discussed using something other than RGBA and decided it’s not worth the trouble.
  • They refrained from adding extra baggage like metadata. It would have needlessly complicated things.

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@rlafuente@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
 (21w ago)

Sem palavras pra descrever esta baixeza de artigo:

https://www.publico.pt/2025/07/04/impar/opiniao/banir-smartphones-escolas-impacto-bemestar-2138957?cx=ultimas_1

  1. é citado um único estudo baseado em testemunhos de alunos (ficam de fora pais e profs), um estudo qualitativo por isso não generalizável. Mm assim, os autores do artigo copiam as conclusões do estudo, e o Público tb parece estar ok com artigos decalcados

  2. os autores do artigo são consultores que dão formação a pais e educadores sobre problemas do digital nas crianças, por isso basear opinião apenas num estudo q os ignora é ainda mais wtf

  3. argumento de q crianças têm acesso a dispositivos fora da escola é parvo - tb têm acesso a tabaco e álcool, por isso tb os devemos permitir na escola? come on

  4. e é muito conveniente clamar pela regulamentação das redes sociais sem especificar a forma (proibir anúncios? introduzir idades mínimas? não sabemos).

No final é o costume, os pais e profs que se desenmerdem, a responsabilidade é deles e não das empresas que criam mecanismos de viciação, claro

#SmartphonesNasEscolas

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Oatmeal
feeds.twtxt.net
 (22w ago)

** Om nom nom LLMs, in which I respond to Simon Willison’s analogy **
I am hesitant to wade into the tumultuous waters that are the discourse around generative AI and LLMs, but this morning I came across a thing that so thoroughly melted my brain I feel uncontrollably compelled to respond.

This morning, at evidently 4:10 AM (no mention of timezone), Simon Willison shared the following blog post, quoted here in full:

Quitting programming as … ⌘ Read more

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@marado@ciberlandia.pt
tilde.pt
 (23w ago)

Exigimos ao governo de Portugal o mínimo. Que:

  1. Condene a agressão ilegal ao Irão por parte de Israel e dos Estados Unidos da América;

  2. Proíba o uso de infraestruturas e do espaço aéreo português para qualquer tipo de apoio aos ataques;

  3. Aplique sanções ao Estado de Israel pelas suas consecutivas violações do Direito Internacional e pelo genocídio em curso na Palestina;

  4. Reconheça de imediato o Estado da Palestina.

Assina-se aqui: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/parar-a-guerra/

#Portugal #Israel #petição

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movq
www.uninformativ.de
 (23w ago)

Saw this on Mastodon:

https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114718466149264471

18 rules of Software Engineering

  1. You will regret complexity when on-call
  2. Stop falling in love with your own code
  3. Everything is a trade-off. There’s no “best” 3. Every line of code you write is a liability 4. Document your decisions and designs
  4. Everyone hates code they didn’t write
  5. Don’t use unnecessary dependencies
  6. Coding standards prevent arguments
  7. Write meaningful commit messages
  8. Don’t ever stop learning new things
  9. Code reviews spread knowledge
  10. Always build for maintainability
  11. Ask for help when you’re stuck
  12. Fix root causes, not symptoms
  13. Software is never completed
  14. Estimates are not promises
  15. Ship early, iterate often
  16. Keep. It. Simple.

Solid list, even though 14 is up for debate in my opinion: Software can be completed. You have a use case / problem, you solve that problem, done. Your software is completed now. There might still be bugs and they should be fixed – but this doesn’t “add” to the program. Don’t use “software is never done” as an excuse to keep adding and adding stuff to your code.

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prologic
twtxt.net
 (24w ago)
↳ In-reply-to » @bender Both Gopher and Mastodon are a way for me to “babble”. 😅 I basically shut down Gopher in favor of Mastodon/Fedi last year. But the Fediverse doesn’t really work for me. It’s too focused on people (I prefer topics) and I dislike the addictive nature of likes and boosts (I’m not disciplined enough to ignore them). Self-hosting some Fedi thing is also out of the question (the minimalistic daemons don’t really support following hashtags, which is a must-have for me).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Me too 😅 – Speaking of which i know you’ve lost a bit of “mojo” or “energy” (so have i of late), rest assured, I want to keep the status quo here with what we’ve built, keep it simple and change very little. What we’ve built has worked very well for 5+ years and we have at least 3 very strong clients (maybe 4 or 5?).

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@marado@ciberlandia.pt
tilde.pt
 (24w ago)

Essa tentativa de revisionismo é uma afronta a todos os que sofreram sob o jugo da ditadura. Mais grave ainda é a postura ostensivamente ofensiva e arrogante que o “professor” tem perante quem se identifica com ideais de Esquerda. Em vez de promover o debate democrático, Mithá Ribeiro opta pela caricatura e pelo insulto, tratando os seus opositores ideológicos como inimigos a abater. O autor de “Um século de escombros”, livro que dedicou, entre outros, a Steve Bannon (o fascista que arquitetou a linha política seminal de Trump) demoniza o pensamento progressista, rotulando-o de forma simplista e maliciosa, como se defender a justiça social, igualdade ou direitos humanos fosse sinónimo de ignorância, fragilidade ou subversão.

Num momento em que o discurso público exige responsabilidade e rigor, a presença de figuras como Mithá Ribeiro nos espaços de decisão e influência representa um retrocesso. A sua glorificação de um passado ditatorial e o desrespeito constante pelas vozes divergentes são sinais claros de um projeto político que rejeita a convivência democrática e que procura, através da provocação, normalizar a intolerância e a ignorância histórica. Esta retórica despudorada corrói a democracia e instiga o ódio.

¾

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lwn-net
feeds.twtxt.net
 (25w ago)

20 Years of the Open Invention Network
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
its 20th anniversary.

The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
license’s benefit by including more than 4,500 software components … ⌘ Read more

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lwn-net
feeds.twtxt.net
 (25w ago)

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django), Fedora (krb5), Mageia (cockpit, golang, kernel, and kernel-linus), SUSE (augeas, go1.23, go1.24, iputils, libwebp, transfig, and xen), and Ubuntu (amd64-microcode, apport, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure-fips, linux-raspi, systemd, and tomcat). ⌘ Read more

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yue-fang-readfog
feeds.twtxt.net
 (25w ago)

萬字總結 NIO 多路複用技術，深入解析 NIO 的實現原理！
什麼是 NIO NIO 是 Java 提供的一種基於 Channel 和 Buffer 的 IO 操作方式，即：利用內存映射文件方式處理輸入和輸出。NIO 具有更加強大和靈活的 IO 操作能力，提供了非阻塞 IO、多路複用等特性，特別適合需要處理大量連接的網絡編程場景在 JDK1.4 時提出了 NIO(New I/O)，在 BIO 模型 (Blocking IO) 的基礎上，增加了 NIO 模型 ⌘ Read more

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ABC_JustIn
feeds.twtxt.net
 (25w ago)

Illicit tobacco crop worth $4.4m discovered near Shepparton after tip-off
Authorities seize a 20-tonne crop of mature tobacco being grown on 2.4 hectares, an area equivalent to more than 450 tennis courts, in Victoria’s north. ⌘ Read more

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bbc-news-home
feeds.twtxt.net
 (25w ago)

‘Extraordinary dismissal!’ - Charles nutmegs himself to lose wicket
Johnson Charles’ attempt at a scoop shot goes wrong as the batsman directs the ball through his legs and onto the stumps to leave West Indies on 117-4 in the second T20 International against England in Bristol. ⌘ Read more

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Oatmeal
feeds.twtxt.net
 (25w ago)

** Stinky **
This morning I set up our new composter. This entailed shoveling a lot of compost from the old one into the new so that it can actually finish cooking. Shoveling 4 years worth of mostly kitchen scrap compost is a very very stinky endeavor. Despite wearing gloves I don’t know if my hands will ever not smell again. ⌘ Read more

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ABC_JustIn
feeds.twtxt.net
 (25w ago)

Four rescued by helicopter from Hoskyn Island after boat begins to sink
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority says it detected a distress beacon from the recreational boat near the remote island about 4:30am. ⌘ Read more

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os-x-daily
feeds.twtxt.net
 (25w ago)

Deals: AirPods Pro 2 for $169, AirPods 4 for $99, Apple Watch 10 for $299
Father’s Day is coming up, so perhaps you’re shopping for that, or shopping for yourself. In any event, don’t miss these great deals from Amazon, whether you’re getting a gift for yourself or a loved one. With great deals on the latest iPad mini, MacBook Air, AirPods, AirPods Pro with Hearing Aid functionality, Apple Watch, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/06/deals-airpods-pro-2-for … ⌘ Read more

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ABC_JustIn
feeds.twtxt.net
 (26w ago)

Sunwater directed to start work on $4.4 billion Paradise Dam rebuild
Farmers in Queensland’s Bundaberg region are cautiously optimistic after the government ordered Sunwater to start early works rebuilding a beleaguered water source. ⌘ Read more

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