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FediFollows has moved!

Bund.de is the official German government portal for doing government-related paperwork online.

They have now created their own Mastodon instance at social.bund.de which contains some official accounts. You can find them on the instance's directory page:

➡️ social.bund.de/explore (in German)

This is a really promising sign! The Fediverse can allow citizens to interact with public officials without having to give away personal data.

#BundDe #Germany #Deutschland #Deutsch #Government

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Music enjoyers: How do you sort your music files? What do you recommend?

Right now, for all music I download in 2022, I have:

music/2022/<artist>/<track_title>.ogg

But this has some issues. I want a general timeline of music by year of download, but then some songs by the same artist a separated into different years. Do I instead ditch the years thing and use/abuse the files' modified time stat? Do you have a different approach?

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Metadata is data

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Akiva

"If you want to write fast software, use a slow computer" - Dominic Tarr

I have always loved this quote and lived by its message long before I found it so succinctly put. Thanks again, Dominic.

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The Spritely Project

New post on the Spritely blog! @tsyesika writes about "Petname Systems"! spritelyproject.org/news/petna

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Anatoly Shashkin💾

Somehow I've never seen these shots of the map editor for MadSpace, a Russian non-euclidean DOS fps. Just about what I expected. #DOSGaming

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Pixels and more!

#PixelArt birds!
A partridge, turtle dove, wren, blue tit and robin. 🐥

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victoria

university compsci clubs in the 90s: we host our own IRC server, email infrastructure, ftp, shared UNIX computer, NNTP...

university compsci clubs in 2022: google suite is too hard so someone here has a Discord you could join if you know who to ask

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It's so disheartening when a project's domain name *redirects* to a GitHub README page. There's not even anything worth bookmarking.

Even something as dead simple as this is miles better:
soju.im/

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pan

RE: mk.nixnet.social/notes/8wlr1ze

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Another recent example.

Indent all but the first line of your paragraphs. This is useful when you have long lines which, when wrapped, become hard to dicern. It’s like a cross between a description list (<dl>) and a list (<ul>).

p {padding-left:2rem; margin:0; text-indent:-1rem}

Also, use <dl> and

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Reminder that negative margins and paddings in CSS are a thing, and are quite useful. Some of my favourite uses follow.

More space between document sections:

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {	margin: 2rem 0 -0.5rem;}

When viewport width is small (mobile, etc.), <pre> stretches to the walls, and it’s content is aligned with the rest of the document’s text:

pre {	margin: 0 -0.5rem;	padding: 0.25rem 0.5rem;}

torresjrjr.com/ast/style.css

torresjrjr.com/

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Sean Tilley

Reading a paper written by @cwebber, and this stuck out to me:

Do you and I mean the same thing? Lojban enthusiasts clearly solved language, creating something completely syntactically unambiguous! Except, oh no, turns out syntactic unambiguity does not mean meaning unambiguity. What’s a bear? From an evolutionary standpoint, something moved from a pre-bear state to a bear-state, but evolution didn’t put a pin in it… this was rough, statistical, approximate. Not to mention, what’s a “dead bear”? Is it still a bear? When does it decompose into bear goo? And when does it decompose beyond that? Vocabulary thus seems to be a tug-of-war between fuzziness and crispness.

“Bear Goo” is a fun metaphor. :thaenkin:

https://dustycloud.org/tmp/interfaces.html

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vladh

I'm working on the standard library of the language we're developing. Here's datetime::arithmetic, a lot of fun to work on :)

paste.sr.ht/~vladh/36b8032168a

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vladh

Working on OpenGL support for our language. Self-implemented math stdlib, linear algebra functions, OpenGL bindings.

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@freemo
Thank you for hosting and administrating this instance. If I can give back, please let me know how.

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Am I deep down a lisper?

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@w @p
I love good serif monospace fonts. A favourite of mine is Triplicate.

mbtype.com/fonts/triplicate/

You can see it being used throughout this site:

beautifulracket.com/explainer/

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Sam Henri Gold

this violates every single one of my senses 10 times over. I love it. suricrasia.online/iceberg/

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pistolero
:9front:front ships with /lib/font/bit/vga/unicode.font, but not with the old-timey MacOS font, "Chicago". So I found a TTF, used ttffs in Inferno to convert it to the Plan 9 bitmap format, and then made a tarball. Here's the tarball. You can install it by un-tarring it in /fonts (Inferno) or /lib/font/bit (Plan 9).

I couldn't find a monospace version; I don't know if one was produced. Code is more readable than expected, but Pike be damned, variable-width fonts are terrible.
chicago.png
chicago.tgz
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