Didn’t even know that this existed. Will have to try. Thumbs up for using mark up which makes it easy to export/import notes.

It’s so annoying to have to discover the rules one rejected attempt at a time. Worse yet: sometimes you just get vague feedback a la “password contains illegal characters”. I usually let KeePassXC generate a safe password for me but in that case I then have to manually permutate the different character classes (numbers, letters, spaces, punctuation, etc) until I find the offender. No good.

Aww, too bad. I really rely on autocorrection suggestions a lot as it speeds up my typing.

different dictionaries but merged into one.

many keyboards handle it like this: if you switch to English keyboard layout, you get English autocomplete, if you switch to chzech layout you get suggestions for chzech words, etc

what I want is to be able to pick any layout and get suggested words from English, Czech and whatever other languages I select.

It’s GNU GPL v3 according to their page on f-Droid.

Librera Reader is a PDF // ebook reader for Android. It has a very smooth user experience and useful options. I used to have 5 or so different PDF readers installed and would pick and choose according to the task at hand but now I’m down to just 1.

¿Does Gimp on Windows finally use the same interface as the Linux version? But either way while I have learned to use Gimp over time and appreciate it the interface certainly has rough edges. For me that’s particularly noticeable when it comes to handling different layers and controlling which part of the interface has focus.

Some functionality is also quite hidden and exploring the interface isn’t so useful for finding it, often I found myself prompting a search engine instead. But I can also see that Gimp is a complex program with a ton of functionality and it’s very hard to make the interface intuitive for every type of user at once.

¿Does florisboard support multiple input languages at once? I might switch within a conversation or even mix words within a single sentence. So far I haven’t found a good open source alternative to SwiftKey in that regard.

One reason to keep in mind is backwards compatibility and the expectancy that every Linux system has the same basic tools that work the same.

Imagine you have a script running on your server that uses a command with or without specific arguments. If the command (say tar) changes its default parameters this could lead to a lot of nasty side effects from crashes to lost or mangled data. Besides the headache of debugging that, even if you knew about the change beforehand it’s still a lot effort to track down every piece of code that makes use of that command and rewrite it.

That’s why programs and interfaces usually add new options over time but are mostly hesitant to remove old ones. And if they do they’ll usually warn the others beforehand that a feature will deprecate while allowing for a transitional period.

One way to solve this conundrum is to simply introduce new commands that offer new features and a more streamlined approach that can replace the older ones in time. Yet a distribution can still ship the older ones alongside the newer ones just in case they are needed.

Looking at pagers (programs that break up long streams of text into multiple pages that you can read one at a time) as a simple example you’ll find that more is an older pager program while the newer less offers an even better experience (“less is more”, ¿get the joke?). Both come pre-installed as core tools on many distributions. Finally an even more modern alternative is most, another pager with even better functionality, but you’ll need to install that one yourself.

ouch stands for Obvious Unified Compression Helper.

great name

Curious that reminds me:

There’s players of online games, specifically subscription based MMOs, that have been cynical about a related topic for a long time. They say that from a business point of view it’s actually lucrative for a platform provider to periodically ban bots but give them just enough leeway so that they keep coming back to pay the subscription fee. In this context that would mean that if for instance a subscription lasts 30 days you could aim to get a bot banned after 15-20 days on average so that if another bot is registered to fill its place soon after you get to “double dip” for a good while.

Make of it what you will; ultimately whether this is done can only be verified by someone with insider. knowledge. However it’s hard to refute the argument that it makes sense from the business side if that is all that you care about.

I just use atool (archive tool) instead. It works the same for any common compression format (tar, gzip, zip, 7zip, rar, etc) and comes with handy aliases like apack and aunpack obsoleting the need to memorize options.

Many do as it’s considered good practice, but it’s not guaranteed, it just depends on the individual command (program). Usually you can use the --help option to see all the options, so for instance tar --help.

In case your browser isn’t completely locked down: there’s also image editors that run as web apps like photopea.

Good point.

I guess just having a staggered temporal restriction is fine, don’t need to wait until you retire necessarily. You would still receive a portion of your salary package in the form of classic currency and plenty for a good life too. An example could look like this and I’m obviously making up the percentages and durations here, they would need to be fine tuned:

• 40% of salary as cash
• 10% of salary as stocks that can’t be sold within 6 months
• 10% of salary as stocks that can’t be sold within 12 months
• 10% of salary as stocks that can’t be sold within 18 months
• 10% of salary as stocks that can’t be sold within 24 months
• 10% of salary as stocks that can’t be sold within 30 months
• 10% of salary as stocks that can’t be sold within 36 months

I guess it would be best to change the rules so that they cannot trade their company stocks at all while working there and a reasonable period beyond. I think some legislations already restrict floating stock like that but I’m no expert on the matter.

Printed comics (in native language are also really good), paticularly those aimed at a younger audience (think Walt Disney classics like Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck). The phrases are usually short and use everyday language. The graphical design (colors, postures, framing, fonts, panel alignment, etc) are all in support of conveying the action.

Shout out to Banjo Kazooie, an older platformer from the Nintendo 64 game era, where the antagonist always speaks in silly rhymes. So the translators needed to translate and also make it rhyme while also keeping the context and humor intact. They took creative freedom of course because there simply isn’t a good match but it actually enhances the game in a way. So if you played the game in French before and now switch to English you’ll get a fresh set of jokes and rhymes.

To be fair in this subfield even the articles written by real humans are often speculative at best. Stock markets are influenced by millions of individual decisions (most of which are in themselves carried out by digital algorithms) and there isn’t a single narrative responsible for a stock’s course. It’s much like the weather in that regard.

The development is certainly extant though. In newspapers many of the shorter, repetitive snippets have been machine generated for a long time now. I’m talking about summaries of sports matches with sentences like "but then just before half time scored to . You just feed the program a table with who scored goals at which minute and it generates it for you.

If Pakistan becomes Bahrat India could rename itself to Pakistan. Full circle of confusion 🤯.