Paul Schaub: PGPainless 1.0.0 Released!
Close to the end of 2021 I’m excited to announce the release of PGPainless version 1.0.0! After a series of release candidates, it is finally time to party! The OpenPGP library successfully underwent a security audit in late November and I feel like it finally reached a state of sufficient maturity to be worthy of a major release with a “1” at the front.

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I just watched “Don’t Look Up” and somehow I think it’s not unlikely that the earth will really end up like in the movie… Not by a comet, but, well, by the climate crisis. Look up! ⌘ Read more

The CDE-look-a-like desktop gets a 2.0 release
The Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) has old-school looks… and it is gorgeous. ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Hempuli’s blog >> Snake nest ⌘ Read more

Make the Linux shell look like DOS.
Why would you want to make your Linux terminal look like DOS. Well. Why not? ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: generative artistry, interactive tutorials ⌘ Read more

Not enough tests
GoBlog’s test coverage is increasing (currently about 41%), but I keep being reminded there is nothing like enough or even too many tests. I still find some stupid bugs that aren’t covered by automatic tests. ⌘ Read more

🙌 Liked: Lisp in Life - Conway’s Game of Life ⌘ Read more

The 10 Awesomest Linux stories of 2021
These Linux news stories from 2021 will, like, totally make your head explode. ⌘ Read more

I was going to eat some chocolate, but apparently I ate all of it last night 😢 It seemed like such a good idea at the time!

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.11 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

This release contains some fixes to PEP to control memory usage, along
with a small batch of fixes for issues discovered since the last
release.

This will likely be the last release of the 0.11 branch.

A summary of changes in this release:

• net.server_epoll: Prioritize network events over timers to improve performance under heavy load
  
• mod_p … ⌘ Read more

** Olophont.js **
In Lord of the Rings there are creatures that look like giant elephants. JRR Tolkien named these creatures“olophonts…” simply replacing every vowel in the word elephant with an o. Here is a javascript function to do the same thing.

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<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title">olophont</span>(<span class="hljs-params">string</span>) </span>{
  <span class="hljs-keyword">let</span> replaceVowels = <span class="hljs-string">""</span> ... ⌘ [Read more](https://eli.li/2021/12/20/olophont-js)

Creator of Javascript apologizes for “screwing up a good thing and ruining, like, basically everything”
“Yeah. That’s my bad.” ⌘ Read more

I use VScode. Others seemto like JetBrains GoLand.

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com the things Gemini has going for it are mutual TLS and lack of JavaScript. Which makes for a secure albeit boring experience (much like gopher). The fake markdown is a bit of a drag.

A render mode for Gemini probably wouldnt be too hard. There are markdown to Gemini libs out there.

With Web3 the whole trust a 3rd party browser ext + high fees + env impact for compute and storage are serious no gos for me.. I have heard one too many horror stories about clicking the wrong link and some script draining your metamask wallet.

Day 16 of Advent of Code is so confusing that I will not finish today’s puzzle. I wonder if yesterday was my last day with Advent of Code, or will the puzzles become more understandable and easier again in the next few days? Maybe I’m just more the practical type. I like programming, but such complex algorithms are not really my thing. And in the end, Advent of Code is supposed to be fun… ⌘ Read more

Agreed on “aggressive” — as a general rule, I don’t think most folks are acting like we’re in the kind of crisis we are.

How I checked the battery health of my Android phone 🔋
My smartphone, a Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, which has been my daily driver for a year and a few months, has a 4500mAh Li-Po battery (“lithium-ion polymer” – like lithium-ion, but with solid or gel-like electrolytes that allow a thinner design). My smartphone can be charged with a maximum of 45 watts. The included charger, which I always use for charging, delivers a maximum of 25 watts. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

I feel like README will need a rework soon. There’s a lot of options now. Or maybe a manpage instead.

For example that local_twtxt_dir MUST end in path separator should be mentioned somewhere ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Works like a charm!

I am not launching it with a specific file right now, but I’ll likely have it default to my daily work log shortly.

“What would a real Web3 look like?”
Matt Baer, found of write.as, compares the web3 with his vision of how a real Web 3.0 could look like. ⌘ Read more

So the evolution of my nick is as follows. I had a bicycle that had the word Zephyr written on it. Which means a western wind. That is related to the Greek god Zephyrus.

I liked words where X make a Z sound. And also had a bit of dyslexia so my firs IRC nick was Xypher swapping the y and e.. I would also use the forms Xypherius or just Xypheri.

Because its close hemming to Cypher I found the nick would get used by others.. Though that is not my origin.

Later I would sign websites I created as The X-Urban Underground (where X was short for Xypher) and that evolved to xuu. Pronounced like zoo.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org ah and here I am pronouncing it in my head like an abbreviated version of Lysine.

Webb
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m a big fan of using PyCharm and IntelliJ on large Python and Java codebases respectively. In my personal life, I mostly use Emacs (because I don’t hack much Java outside of work), but I do wonder what GoLand is like.

Using Perl and RegEx is like riding a bike…
THE COMIC ⌘ Read more

Tigers and Bears and Programmers.
That’s a comic strip. You like it very much. You probably want to send it to everyone you know. If you aren’t currently a subscriber to The Lunduke Journal, I highly recommend it. It is so choice. The free edition is great. If you pitch in a few bucks you get ⌘ Read more

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Chocolate and skumtomtar (literally “foam santas”, a marshmallow-like candy) are awesome. They’re even better with tea. And that combo becomes at least twice as good after a run, shower, and shave. True story.

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com tbh I wish it were the nick.txt

Like txt.sour.is/xuu.txt

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Mark emails me all the time with bugs he found in GoBlog (some that I would never have found myself) and features he would like to see (e.g. better display of Brid.gy webmentions). I take it as motivation and try to improve GoBlog in a way that it is useful for others as well. And I think there is a good progress. ⌘ Read more

No on gitlab. If its self hosted gitea is best in class.

I can see hosting a mirror on github if only for the redundancy/visibility. Some projects will host but then direct contributions on their self host. Like Go does.

I would suggest using a vanity domain that can redirect tools like go get to hosting of choice. And not require rewriting all the packages any time it gets moved.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk Ooh fantastic. I love shots like this!

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com You might not want to .. like the other tiktok it is rather pointless noise. Especially because its set to my personal timezone.

did some debugging and it looks like the advanced URL was breaking. @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com @movq@www.uninformativ.de can you try the wkd now?

looks like i might be missing a policy file.. though the key is GET able.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de If there were something like verify_command, how could we signal to other feed consumers how to decrypt and/or verify a post? Also what about using TOFU here instead of a key sharing service?

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com Some of my friends in college were really excited to actually find other fellow nerds in college willing to engage in a key signing party. They used it to send like 3 or 4 inconsequential emails and then just gave up on it.

Oh man this is my first real social weekend in a long time. Thanks to COVID it’s like I’m flexing disused muscles.

Hey @manton I got this email this morning from name.com – Just wondering if I could have my prologic.blog domain transferred to me? 🤔 Whilst I have enjoyed using my micro.blog service I’d like to move away off of micro.blog and host my own blog, which I intend to use my own static tool for.

Thank you for providing such a great service over the years I’ve used micro.blog 🙇‍♂️

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Echo Chambers are Awesome
Echo Chambers are not a bad thing… they’re actually pretty fantastic. Un-Echo-Chambers (like Twitter) are just the worst. ⌘ Read more

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com sorry. the fix was around having a mention in parenthesis like (yo @prologic@twtxt.net)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Well, the point is, things do not work like this.

Actually in nano you would have to ctrl-k ctrl-k ctrl-x y to discard your reply.

Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
The new sparse index feature makes it feel like you are working in a small repository when working in a focused portion of a monorepo. ⌘ Read more

@adi@f.adi.onl Ugh sorry for not replying. If the file list is dynamic, usually you use something like autoconf to generate the Makefile. I’ve also used wildcards in the past and that works okay. You should be able to use shell commands to populate the file list.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah like normally I’m just a little annoyed and just say “whatever” and shrug it off, but come on I am searching for emojis here. Do you really need to harvest my user data for what is essentially a fuzzy search in the Unicode table?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de My workflow is as follows.

I hit “reply” hotkey and my editor comes up.

With or without writing something I close my editor without saving the content.

Of course I close it by C-x C-c, not by :q! ;-)

Jenny finds the temp file unchanged, e.g. it’s content is the same as it was when my editor was started. I would like that jenny discards the reply then.

Autosaving is no problem either. Real editors do this to a temporary (kind of backup) file. Only in case of a crash that file is consulted and the user is asked if she would like to continue with that stored content.

Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophy vs. Ideology
Today I’d like to explore some implications of my recent series of posts about the nature of opinion; specifically, the dangers of ideology. (As a reminder, so far I’ve discussed holding fewer opinions, opinions about opinions, holding multiple opinions, opinions vs. truths, and opinions weak and strong.)… ⌘ Read more