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I pour some water in a trough
I sneeze and splutter, then I cough.
And with a rough hewn bough
My muddy paddy fields I plough.
Loaves of warm bread in a row
Crispy crusts and doughy dough.
Ow, my final duty to do
And then my chores will all be through.
My lament is finished, even though
Learning this word game is really slow.
It is so difficult, it's very rough
Learning English is really tough.
If a trough was a truff
And a plough was a pluff
If dough was duff
And though was thuff
If cough was cuff
And through was thruff
I would not pretend, or try to bluff,
But of OUGH I've had enough...
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@dgar More seriously,
one pair is pronouned like "red" and "led", the other pair like "reed" and "leed" - all English words as well.
The secret to English spelling is understanding that the rules are actually consistent for each source language - but there are a lot of source languages. 50% latin, 25% Greek, Saxon (short words like dog, cow, cat), Old French, German, Hebrew, and many more.
Many words from Latin and Greek are duplicated. E.g. indigestion and dyspepsia have identical meaning, but come from Latin and Greek respectively.
You probably already know this but Pidgin is named after "pidgin English", not pigeon the bird.
However, the word origin of "pidgin" seems to be derived from "pigeon":
@pidgin is the reason I will never be able to spell "pigeon" correctly.
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@pidgin is the reason I will never be able to spell "pigeon" correctly.
Not just English. In Jeremiah 1:11-12 we have:
שקד - almond tree
שקד - watch over (be wakeful over)
For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”. #EnglishIsHard
@pidgin I want to be able to click on xmpp: or tel: links in firefox and have pidgin bring up a chat window for that account (or expand telno into an xmpp address for a telco/xmpp gateway service like jmp.chat).
I've looked at https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/XMPP_URIs which gets me as far as running an arbitrary cli. But how do I bring up a specific chat window in pidgin from the cli?
@freemo Color has been shown to have an effect on violence and mood. Pink guns are already popular with the ladies. If you mandate pink, however, shooters will just repaint so it doesn't interfere with their mood.
My remark was about decentralized video and streaming. I realize that youtube is a remarkable technical achievement in the sense of delivering reliable streaming.
But even on decentralized protocols, you can always download first - and after that, it is better than youtube 🙂
Effective at what? That is the real question.
@freemo I actually like ECC best for efficiency, but it has 256 bit keys, and IBM projects having 128 qubit quantum this year and 256 qubits Real Soon Now. As I understand it, there are quantum algorithms that can quickly crack ECC with 256 qubits.
At that point, 4096 RSA looks real good despite the relative inefficiency. It may be the first to have a quantum algorithm to crack it - but difficulty of coordinating more qubits grows much faster than difficulty of doubling RSA key size.
@freemo It was that way on usenet, when AU got their feed via tapes sent by airmail, and we got it via dialup UUCP - back then we called such responses "flames", and would precede potentially controversial remarks by donning (metaphorical) asbestos underwear.
Totalitarian social media is no different - except the platform owners also censor stuff they don't like.
You misread. I said the *federated* protocols had problems with consistent streaming. You have to download first to really enjoy videos. On the other side, downloading is a "premium" feature of centralized video streaming services.
@wordshaper @lauren @timbray
Decentralized platforms for video work great for downloading content. But streaming is very inconsistent (if not mostly mostly unusable). That is also a plus since centralized services generally try to upsell downloading as a "premium" feature.
The biggest weakness of decentralized video is lack of a coherent monetization strategy. ActivityPub comes close since you have view counts which can be presented to in-stream sponsors.
If other decentralized protocols like SSB become as popular as broadcast TV, you could estimate viewship with something like nielsen ratings.
@lauren I still have the ARPANET whitepapers on my shelf. A treasured memento.
@lauren Most people have no clue how the internet works. Usually, they think their HTTP client is the "internet".
@omi_geek It looks like Japanese art.
Ah - you paste into search field in URL format to be able to follow an account on another server.
@engelbart Much smaller footprint than synapse. Passes more and more of test suite with each release. I will deploy a test as soon as I get it built for Fedora. (According to Fedora packing standards - offline, repeatable build.)
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