Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

@floppy My first impression was that it's built on the same Dash docsets that https://zealdocs.org/ uses but it looks like they wrote their own scraper.

(Dash is a paid offline documentation browser for macOS and its creator allows Zeal (an open-source clone for Windows and Linux) to piggyback on Dash's docset repository on the condition that Zeal not try to support macOS.)

@vordenken I'm preparing to rethink things but, currently:

1. Mirror non-blacklisted stuff in my /home to my four other drives (one external, only two of the same age and model) nightly using rdiff-backup with a two-week retention window

2. Mirror all of four drives to the fifth (a 6TB WD Red) nightly using rsync (rdiff-backup can't expire just some large files early)

3. Put my creations on GitHub (public) or BitBucket (private) ASAP

4. Manual DVD+R backups (with dvdisaster) for bulk stuff

@VikingKong@fosstodon.org @hund@linuxrocks.online It's not a movement.

The idea is that a lot of people are going to get infected either way but, if it happens too quickly, it will overwhelm the healthcare system's ability to keep up with demand and doctors will have to choose who lives and who dies when there isn't enough to go around.

Spreading it out over a longer period of time allows:

1. Hospitals to scale up by doing things like acquiring more ventilators.

2. Some people to recover (or die despite doctors' efforts) and free up space for new arrivals

There's an old verbal joke that goes "Perl is like a pair of vice grips. You can do anything with it, and it's the wrong tool for every job."

A family member just asked if we have any vice grips. I asked what size. He said "small".

Without thinking, I responded "Yeah. There's a pair hanging off my desk with a tag on them that says 'Perl'".

@david @dropdan Unfortunately, the DOS/Win311 side of the dual-boot is currently non-functional but I haven't had time to pull out the SD card and figure out what's fouled up the boot process.

@dropdan @david *chuckle* Mine *is* my bedroom and it's also what I'd describe with adjectives like organized, cozy, nerdy, and colorful.

I need to clean up a bit before I feel comfortable putting up a photo of the current state of my work machine for posterity, but here's the corner of the room that I reserve for retro-hobby work back around the beginning of 2017.

https://imgur.com/a/O3F8l

@kev @yetiops@fosstodon.org Oh, also, not going 4K makes things *much* less expensive. The last time I bought new was in 2007 and I still need to crack open that now-dead matched pair of 1280x1024 displays and recap them.

My current setup is a a $7 passive DP-to-DVI adapter, a 1280x1024 monitor a family member found, fully-functional, in an eWaste bin, a 1920x1080 monitor a family friend gave me when upgrading, and a 1280x1024 monitor a friend gave me because the power button was broken.

I've also got some spare 1280x1024 monitors from thrift stores that ran between $7 and $15 and a 1280x1024 monitor that I got earlier from the local non-chain used games shop for $30.

(I haven't needed to check pawn shops yet and, if I can find time to practice desoldering and recap the half dozen dead LCDs under the basement stairs, I may not need to for a *long* time.)

@kev @yetiops@fosstodon.org Likewise. I've got a 1280x1024, 1920x1080, 1280x1024 spread (photo after I clean up a bit) and, if I go 4K, it'll probably be a large-format display with the same pixel depth but equivalent to adding a second row of monitors.

Questionable Linux HiDPI without compositing aside, I spec my systems based on not having air conditioning and I'm used to this pixel depth.

(Not to mention, I grew up on laptops. When I moved from CRTs to desktop LCDs, my reaction was "I've come home!")

@przemo @wizzwizz4

Yeah. 70% for disinfecting, 99% for cleaning magnetic tape heads and any other electronics tasks that need a solvent but want minimal water.

Another interesting bit of trivia is that you can't buy 100% alcohol because, when alcohol's concentration goes above 99-point-something percent, it wants water in it so badly it'll pull it out of the air to reach that balance point. I forget what the technical term is.

@freemo @Counsel A fair point. Is *is* very important to make sure we share a common understanding of our terminology.

I think the point of confusion is that, because there's so much waste and corruption in the U.S. budget, it appears to be redistributing less wealth than it is.

Also, the amount of wealth redistribution from the top to the bottom has been declining in the U.S. for decades, as lobbying by corporations and the wealthy results in taxation being shifted from means-scaled taxes, such as income tax, and taxes which take effect only above certain levels, like the estate tax, to ones such as payroll taxes and sales taxes, which are either capped at a certain point (payroll tax) or don't scale with wealth and represent a larger portion of the income of lower-class citizens than of upper-class ones... thus making taxation more regressive.

In that respect, the aspect of socialism that Sanders is focused on is that the poor need more wealth redistributed to them and the issue is getting muddied by how much wealth is currently getting redistributed to the rich.

As a Canadian, who keeps a close eye on the state of the U.S. but, at the same time, has to deal with a less progressed version of the same trends, I argue that "demonize the rich" has the wrong connotations as, while there are certainly many good rich people, economic policy is currently being driven by a subset of rich people who are setting policies severely detrimental to the lower classes.

@freemo @Counsel Capitalism vs. socialism is a continuum. Compared to the U.S., they're socialist. Compared to a communist country, they're capitalist.

The important thing is that going to either extreme fails. We're just arguing over where in the middle makes the healthiest economy.

(eg. Too much socialism and everyone has money but there's nothing to spend it on. Too much capitalism and money can buy anything, but nobody has it to spend. Either is unhealthy for an economy because they both represent a failure to properly connect supply and demand.)

Likewise, you could argue that a proper social safety net is "saving for an emergency" for economies.

For example, going to work despite being sick is a major problem in America known as presenteeism and it causes a *lot* of lost productivity as people not only can't focus on their work properly, but spread what they've got to others.

Another term not enough people know is "the velocity of money" and it refers to how readily people who receive money put it back into circulation again.

(And, thus, how the most effective way to bolster an economy is to inject money at the *bottom* (demand-side economics) because the poor have a nearly infinite capacity to find needed goods and services they've been putting off for lack of money compared to the rich, who are already in the habit of saving what they receive.)

@codesections @aral They've revised the announcement in response to criticism:

A Note On Web Applications Added to the Home Screen

As mentioned, the seven-day cap on script-writable storage is gated on “after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site.” That is the case in Safari. Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Their days of use will match actual use of the web application which resets the timer. We do not expect the first-party in such a web application to have its website data deleted.

If your web application does experience website data deletion, please let us know since we would consider it a serious bug. It is not the intention of Intelligent Tracking Prevention to delete website data for first parties in web applications.

@10X Rust, because you get lots of compile-time control over performance-critical details that a GC-based runtime would otherwise have to infer, the lack of a garbage-collector demonstrably helps to keep your memory footprint low, and you want strong compile-time safety and correctness guarantees for anything you're going to expose to a network.

@Counsel I find that article to be suspect. NBC News is part of a corporation with a vested interest in the status quo. That means that they'll have a strong tendency to give voice to people who argue in favour of the worldview they want to espouse (The "It's not socialism. It's culture and work ethic." thread in that feels very familiar, for example.) and minimize the exposure of arguments which could be harmful to their profit margins.

First, it brushes under the rug the fact that the U.S. is the only country in the developed world that does not have a universal healthcare system, nor paid parental leave or mandatory paid vacation days or various other aspects of "socialism".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/16/u-s-lacks-mandated-paid-parental-leave/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country

Second, it ignores that the U.S. has "socialism" in things like police, fire, and military services in an effort to draw a false dichotomy and support the idea that the U.S.'s current state is the ideal balance of public and private services. (Keeping in mind that the U.S. has roughly a third of the entire world's military spending, and there are tanks sitting mothballed in the desert because "we don't need more tanks" was answered with "but my friends who make tanks want more money".)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Military_Expenditures_2018_SIPRI.png

Third, it argues in favour of free markets... something the U.S. very much does not have because of how entangled big business is in setting government policy so they get unnecessary subsidies and "corporate welfare". (ie. croney capitalism)

For example, the U.S. heavily subsidizes fossil fuel companies (who are some of the most profitable companies in the world) while neglecting subidies for renewable energy, which is a young sector but growing massively as a source of jobs... global warming aside.

Fourth, it points out co-occurrences but doesn't justify its claims that they have causal relationships.

At *minimum*, I'd want to check how representative Mr. Schatz's views are of the scientific consensus rather than taking him at his word because he has a degree.

@Counsel There's a sad bit of trivia surrounding it too:

Frost spent the years 1912 to 1915 in England, where among his acquaintances was the writer Edward Thomas. Thomas and Frost became close friends and took many walks together. After Frost returned to New Hampshire in 1915, he sent Thomas an advance copy of "The Road Not Taken". Thomas took the poem seriously and personally, and it may have been significant in Thomas' decision to enlist in World War I. Thomas was killed two years later in the Battle of Arras.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken

@hrisskar My Internet seems good enough but I'd probably be doing the same (posting quotes) if I didn't have programming projects to fixate on.

That said, I already automated it years ago for a slice of my quotes collection that doesn't need to be automated for sensitive information first. → http://www.ficfan.org/

Sorry I haven't had any new posts. I've been meaning to start adding in some retro-hobby posts in addition to continuing the music ones, but, over the last couple of days, I've been getting carried away trying to clean up a proof-of-concept hobby project to the point where I can post it.

(An experimental Tesseract OCR frontend intended to make it as comfortable and efficient as possible to OCR speech ballons and text boxes in manga and doujinshi and feed them to Google Translate.)

@sir Do you have any plans to expose either an NNTP bridge or a web interface capable of more than just archive browsing?

For the last two decades, I just haven't cared enough to choose "wrestle my Thunderbird into shape" over "decide not to communicate" for mailing lists that weren't available over GMane.

@RyuKurisu @feld

If I'm splitting it into its roots correctly, god-killing.