Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

@kev Automatic updates are still chances for things to go wrong. Better to just not need to update.

I'll look into Grav, but it looks like the part of a CMS that I'm trying to ditch.

(I prefer a workflow more like editing code. Edit, lint, test-build, git push. One Pelican plugin I'd write is a port of the HTML/CSS/link verifier for the custom templater I NIHed for http://vffa.ficfan.org/ as a dumb teen.)

GitHub-pages style would also be easy to let anyone mirror. (with a FOSS Disqus clone)

@alexbuzzbee Probably because most of the standard library predates both Linux's inotify interface and PyPI and, since then, there's been a strong push to rely more on PyPI and pip so the standard library is less likely to accumulate more API design oopses like urllib and urllib2.

This looks like the closest thing to what you're asking for:

https://pypi.org/project/inotify-simple/

@kev To be honest, it's not the performance of WordPress that makes me want to ditch it. It's that I'm tired of installing updates so frequently and wrestling with bugs in both the classic and new WYSIWYG editors.

When I can find the time to do more than just maintain, I'm going to switch to something static (maybe https://getpelican.com/ with custom plugins) so I can comfortably write my Markdown in an editor of my choice and know that one doesn't need to update code that doesn't exist.

@Linux4Everyone@fosstodon.org
I dunno. I'm all in favour of companies innovating but, these days, I'm starting to feel like it's better to adapt myself to "whatever is bog-standard enough that I can trust there to be many different suppliers offering replacements for as long as I'm alive".

It's bad enough that I'm used to Unicomp buckling springs when they retired their "bog-standard US104" layout in 2013. (I had to use eBay saved searches to acquire two spare units and I'm planning to buy a bag of replacement parts.)

It's bad enough that the Logitech G3 mouse that I bought in 2007 hooked me on the "bog-standard mouse, but with two added "cycle workspace" buttons, no red light bleed, and a wired connection" design that isn't that common anymore. (I bought a Logitech G203 so I could box up my G3 as a spare.)

Am I allowed to be a grumpy old man at age 34?

@snow Thanks. Some of the mistranslations are a bit comical, but it's still perfectly comprehensible.

@fribbledom I'd recommend these open-source games. They're *huge* time sinks:

https://www.openttd.org/
https://endless-sky.github.io/

There are also these freeware games:

http://egomassive.com/ks/ (and http://nifflas.ni2.se/games/Knytt%20Stories%20-%20A%20Strange%20Dream%20102.exe )
http://www.supercratebox.com/
http://www.postudios.com/company/games/thesilverlining/
https://spelunkyworld.com/original.html
https://archive.org/details/CaveStory
https://archive.org/details/La-Mulana
https://jayisgames.com/review/an-untitled-story.php
http://www.retrosouls.net/?page_id=614
https://www.supermariobrosx.org/
https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=aearuuxv83plclpl

...and more if anyone is interested.

@musicmatze@mastodon.technology Could you rephrase the "Problem is, [...]" part? I'm not sure what you're describing.

As-is, all I can do is guess that you're running up against the inability to `derive(PartialOrd)` in more complex situations and suggest that you manually `impl PartialOrd for MyType` instead.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cmp/trait.PartialOrd.html

@snow Ahh. Still possible that Google Translate would produce worthwhile results.

@Tayo@fosstodon.org @ndegruchy@fosstodon.org

A more search-friendly term would be the genericized trademark "Washlet".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washlet

@Matter Copyright and patents aren't the same thing, but I definitely agree with the sentiment.

At the very least, there should be laws about patents being suspended in crisis situations to meet demand and, for chronic problems, exceptions to the "limited liability" part of corporations in the medical sector. Executives would think twice about profiteering if they ran the risk of imprisonment for it.

@snow Do you have a link for it or was it in print?

@jordan31@fosstodon.org Bourne-family shells like bash are definitely great for quickly banging out simple stuff but, compared to a modern scripting language like Python, they can get hairy very quickly.

(I'm not a fan of using `trap` to ensure temporary files get cleaned up no matter how the script exits, for example.)

You'll probably want http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ at some point.

@rvlobato One thing that article doesn't mention is that, if you want the LibreOffice/OpenOffice or Standalone LanguageTool options to be as smart as the hosted service, you'll need an SSD and to download the optional 8GiB (compressed) bundle of n-gram data in addition to the hand-written rules it comes with by default.

https://languagetool.org/compare
http://wiki.languagetool.org/finding-errors-using-n-gram-data

@aluaces In my experience, the audio stream may also be exposed as a USB audio device independent of uvcvideo... so be sure to check that. Otherwise, you might wind up with what is essentially a $1 stick-on sliding cover except that it can be disabled with just a remote root exploit.

I just recently ran across this blog post on the core flaw in the Go programming language's focus on simplicity that I felt like sharing.

https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride/

TL;DR: They seem determined to force a veneer of simplicity, even when things are fundamentally complicated, and that makes things painful when the abstraction leaks.

It occurs to me that I'm going to have to get used to this whole idea of having timelines that are slow-moving enough to follow everything that happens among strangers.

It looks like it's leading me toward impulsive faving/boosting behaviour when the better choice would be to make a note and then wait to see if I can fave or boost someone else's more balance/rational/calm-headed toot on the same article.

@ndegruchy@fosstodon.org I know the feeling. When things get close enough to start to evict disk cache, the whole system thrashes itself to a standstill long before the OOM killer triggers.

Thankfully, it has rarely needed to trigger since I realized that having swap was necessary for proper RAM defragmentation and added zram-based swap to my 16gb of RAM.

@SciencePhysicist As enthusiastic as I am to see Wayland developing, there's one papercut on X11 which would turn into a deal-breaker under Wayland and I haven't seen anyone but Enlightenment acknowledging it:

There needs to be some mechanism for preventing a compositor crash or forced reload from kicking the user back to the login screen.

As someone who leaves my X11 sessions logged in for weeks or months at a time, I've never had a KDE session that didn't need Kwin restarted at least once. (Usually more unless I turn off compositing.)