In-reply-to » @prologic, the new line character. \u2028, is no longer being rendered right on the description metadata.

Well, crap, and now it is. This is so odd. Things do not work sometimes, then sometimes they do! 🤯

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In-reply-to » I have grown used to, and to love, the Ubuntu font. It is highly legible.

@prologic@twtxt.net oi! :-D I think it is fine as is right now. My vision isn’t as good as it used to be, and my display is not the “standard” size. Phanpy uses a pretty neat slider on its settings that allow you to set the default size. I will query its developer to see what he has to say.

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

Oh. so i can see it now that i trust your pod.

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In-reply-to » Since we’re liking masked musicians here on twtxt, let me share this gem with you:

@bender@twtxt.net Yep. 😅

I thought the same thing as this person in the comments:

Whenever a band looks like this I always like to imagine a conversation where at least one member was like “I ain’t wearing that, man”

🥴

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is I think he is on vacations (I sure hope he is, having fun and all!), or something. I haven’t seeing anything from him for over a day now. Very unusual.

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In-reply-to » Had a test drive on a foldable e-bike today and now I’m extremely tempted to get one of those things. 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Because the cities are too optimized for cars? 🫤 Yeah, I live in a somehwat rural area and you can use the bike for a lot of things. There aren’t many “big” cities here anyway, that’s true.

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Oh the joy of working half the day in remote desktop environments with intermittent Internet connection issues… Good thing there is still some LTE left.

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In-reply-to » Jack Dorsey's Block Scraps 'Web5' Project Block will abandon development of its Web5 decentralized internet project and reduce investment in music streaming service Tidal to focus on bitcoin mining hardware and self-custody wallets, the payments company announced in its third-quarter letter to shareholders. The Jack Dorsey-led firm cited strong market demand for its bitcoin mining products and Bitkey wallet as key drivers behind the st ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net just rebuild my image.. though git says i am already at latest

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In-reply-to » Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, the Swiss and C++ programmers use apostrophes. :-) My grandpa had an electronic desk calculator that also used some kind of apostrophes as the thousands separator on its cool display. Maybe it consisted of Nixie tubes, can’t remember anymore.

I think non-breaking spaces are preferred nowadays to avoid the confusion.

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In-reply-to » Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

@bender@twtxt.net I noticed that I can’t type a . directly. Yesterday, I pasted the number from an email (because why would I type it and probably make a mistake in the process?), so it looks like it simply stripped the dot entirely …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Dots as thousands separators are the most confusing thing to me. 🥴 I like '. Basically, anything at the bottom should be a decimal point and anything at the top a thousands separator.

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Maybe it’s time to think about taking the website and all software offline.

This will open the gates of hell, allowing lawyers to harass free software developers. Not because of the actual content of those proposed laws, because there is supposed to be an exemption for free software – but because there is a great tradition here in germany, where lawyers just make false claims and try to extort money from you. Can you safely ignore them? Should you seek legal council immediately? You never know. It’s best to avoid becoming a target in the first place.

Besides, the current wording is just an EU thing. It will have to be transformed into german law (and french law and spanish law …), which means our legislative bodies can screw up things big time. It’s quite possible that they won’t include that exemption or include it in a very vague and ambiguous way.

I’m really angry right now and hopefully I’ll think differently tomorrow.

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In-reply-to » @prologic what do we make of Labor's proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven't been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it's broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

@eldersnake sorry I meant to get to this today, please remind me to elaborate on this position a bit more later but I think it’s otherwise pretty rubbish

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In-reply-to » Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de that would have never worked for me. I don’t have that kind of money in a bank account. 😂

We should standardise numerical notations, at least the nations using the Arabic numerals. Spain also uses the period as the thousands separator. For legibility sake, commas and periods make sense, like €3,500.25, for example. That’s three thousand five hundred Euros, and 25 Euro cents. But this should also work: €3500.25.

It makes little sense that €334.90 gets interpreted as €33490 (or €33,490). 🤯

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In-reply-to » Lol. "Lighty Encrypted" https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed

Oof, is it any wonder some of us don’t want to just give out our info online willy-nilly.

Also that credit card ‘encryption’ will likely land that company in very hot water, no doubt far away from PCI DSS requirements.

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@prologic@twtxt.net what do we make of Labor’s proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven’t been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it’s broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

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In-reply-to » Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The dot is the thousands separator, so I’m surprised that it did not interpret it as €334,900.00. Luckily, you caught it in time! :-)

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Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

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In-reply-to » OpenAI and Others Seek New Path To Smarter AI as Current Methods Hit Limitations AI companies like OpenAI are seeking to overcome unexpected delays and challenges in the pursuit of ever-large language models by developing training techniques that use more human-like ways for algorithms to "think." From a report: A dozenAI scientists, researchers and investors told Reuters they believe that these ... ⌘ Read more

You need to figure out what it means to have “free thought”, “to reason”, “have deep understanding” and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to “dream”. You have to figure out what it means to hold “ethics”, “morals” and even “beleifs”.

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