Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

@andrioid@mastodon.technology

@vancha Oh, I almost forgot. I've gotten some excellent indie music from bundles on https://groupees.com/ over the years.

(For example, the albums containing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5u9glfqDsc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52rxz2sjRs )

@vanitasvitae @fribbledom That one amused me because, as a UI/UX enthusiast, I agree with the sentiment but, perhaps ironically, I can also do that because I habitually unpack archives in the terminal.

@alexbuzzbee @Jason_Dodd I'm similar, but I usually say "Unixy OSes".

@TsRoe @vordenken When I have time, I want to set up my own mail server which uses a milter combined with a web service to treat e-mail aliases as revokable API keys bound to expected senders.

(eg. So an eBay seller who subscribes my eBay address to their newsletter without asking will find it bouncing with "You are not an authorized sender for this e-mail address. Please fill out this CAPTCHA to exempt the current message. Note that abusing this feature may result in blacklisting.")

@vordenken I have a domain registered through the registrar https://nearlyfreespeech.net/ partnered with and I pay 3¢ per day for e-mail forwarding on it with no limit on how many addresses.

@vancha Yeah. I actually discovered Jamendo through an open-source game that uses music by a band on it.

http://mars-game.sourceforge.net/ (`marsshooter` in the Ubuntu Universe repository)

https://www.jamendo.com/track/337572/ezer-ev

It's sort of like a SoundCloud that doesn't fight tooth and nail to prevent downloading unless the uploader pays money.

@vancha I don't know if any of the ones listed at https://fckdrm.com/ are built on open-source software, but they don't require clients.

@nebunez @orbjet@fosstodon.org Were you launching `libreoffice --quickstart` first, to keep LibreOffice Calc resident as a tray icon after the initial load?

@EclecticEclipse

Here are some classics from that period that are on sale on GOG.com and have open-source engine offerings:

The Curse of Monkey Island (classic funny point-and-click adventure, ScummVM)

Theme Hospital (tongue-in-cheek management sim, http://corsixth.com/)

Arx Fatalis (would have been Ultima Underworld 3 if they could get the rights, Arx Libertatis)

You can extract the data files using either the newest version of https://constexpr.org/innoextract/ or using Wine.

@floppy @wizzwizz4 @gxtony@fosstodon.org

5) See if Xephyr (Linux) or Cygwin/X or VcXsrv (Windows) can be configured to achieve a sufficient "split focus" effect.

6) Try running a browser under Wine in "virtual desktop" mode, then full-screening it so the pointer can't leave the website before it leaves the desktop.

As for #1, see http://greasemonkey.win-start.de/patterns/override-method.html

@kev Still, I really *should* find time to write the Git repository-splitting helper I've wanted to write. I've got quite a few useful little things that are ready to share once I get them split out of their incomplete parent projects without losing history.

(Basically, I want to build a Qt GUI which makes it feasible to audit what I'm telling git-filter-branch to do before pushing the result public.)

@kev To be honest, when I've had time to work on it, I've been trying to push the uniqueness of the design out into the extremities so that it'll be possible of just rework it as a set of plugins on top of something with an actual user base.

That said, the parts which *would* make good plugins *are* interesting.

* CSS, HTML, and internal link validating with an external link TODO note.
* lxml.html.clean with a whitelist that trusts the author, but forbids "template-only" tags.
* etc.

@kev True, but Apache or Nginx and the OS are going to be there either way. It's not a matter of WordPress *or* an HTTP daemon. It's a matter of "do I want fewer or more things poking me to update them?")

...and yeah, definitely personal preference. (In fact, Pelican is just my most likely candidate. If it turns out to not line up well enough with my preference, I'll either pick something else or modernize the aforementioned homegrown one.)

@kev ...as for Gutenberg, I find that its handling of keyboard shortcuts is *very* frustrating when I want to do something like selecting to the beginning/end of a block.

I'm also not a fan of how it sends HTML to applications which request a text/plain form of the clipboard contents and neither editor is especially comfortable when I want to use definition list markup.

Heck, Pelican would let me write some pages in ReST to make that and footnotes comfortable.

@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.