cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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  • Nice, thanks.

    It would certainly be nice to be able to pre-download language pair models without selecting to and from and then actually initiating a translation using the model i don’t have yet.

    re: getting uBlock externally, i also see the attraction of that approach but unfortunately Debian’s package was last updated in October (from 1.62 to 1.67) while AMO has a release from January (1.69) :/

    imo it would be better to bundle UBO and ship its updates along with browser updates.

    are there plans to distribute Konform via flathub?



  • could Red Hat eventually take control of the project

    Fedora started in 2002 and merged with “Red Hat Linux” in 2003.

    Red Hat, Inc has had full control of it ever since then.

    It is a “community project” inasmuch as there are Fedora developers who are volunteers (and some who are paid by companies other than Red Hat), and the Fedora Council includes people who are not employed by Red Hat - but the Project Leader is always a Red Hat employee, and if the Council ever has an irreconcilable difference with Red Hat then Red Hat can simply ignore and/or dismiss them.

    Red Hat owns all Fedora-related trademarks, and the Fedora Project is not an independent legal entity: it is a part of Red Hat.

    If Fedora developers don’t like Red Hat’s decisions regarding the project, they can fork it but they’d need to change the name and find some other sources funding.

    Also, icymi, Red Hat became a subsidiary of IBM in 2019.


  • Idk it works for me.

    I don’t think there is any possible value for the sign variable which would make that if statement do anything other than raise a TypeError.

    Also "8:00:00" > "10:00:00"

    but "08:00:00" < "10:00:00". comparing timestamps as strings is weird but actually works, as long as the hour is zero-padded :)

    the problem with this code is that & (bitwise AND) has higher operator precedence than > and == do, so it is first trying to bitwise AND "10:00:00" with sign (which i’m assuming would also be a string) and that will always raise a TypeError.

    to do what the author appears to have intended to do, they would either need use parenthesis around both comparisons to actually bitwise AND their results, or (better) to use the boolean AND operator (and) instead of &.

    The boolean and operator is the right tool for the job, and since it is lower precedence it also wouldn’t require that any parenthesis be added here.



  • I don’t think anyone called those “web apps” though. I sure didn’t.

    As I recall, the phrase didn’t enter common usage until the advent of AJAX, which allowed for dynamically loading data without loading or re-loading a whole page. Early webmail sites simply loaded a new page every time you clicked a link. They didn’t even need JavaScript.

    The term “web app” hadn’t been coined yet but, even without AJAX I think in retrospect it’s reasonable to call things like the early versions of Hotmail and RocketMail applications - they were functional replacements for a native application, on the web, even though they did require a new page load for every click (or at least every click that required network interaction).

    At some point, though, I’m pretty sure that some clicks didn’t require server connections, and those didn’t require another page load (at least if js was enabled): this is what “DHTML” originally meant: using JavaScript to modify the DOM client-side, in the era before sans-page-reload network connections were technically possible.

    The term DHTML definitely predates AJAX and the existence of XMLHTTP (later XMLHttpRequest), so it’s also odd that this article writes a lot about the former while not mentioning the latter. (The article actually incorrectly defines DHTML as making possible “websites that could refresh interactive data without the need for a page reload” - that was AJAX, not DHTML.)




  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMtoLinux@lemmy.mlCan you use Linux today without the terminal?
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    Does anything provide a similar experience to Arch’s amazing AUR

    I am not aware of any software distribution service with a comparable experience (massive userbase with zero vetting for uploaders) as Arch’s amazing AUR - if you are looking for a way to distribute malware to many unsuspecting people (who’s friends think they’re hackerman), it’s really unparalleled. (😢)

    To your primary question, yes, many people do successfully daily drive various Linux distros without ever opening the terminal. 🙄





  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@programming.devThere was no other way!
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    I’m going to need you to drop a source that will take me less than five minutes to understand

    that sounds like sealioning 🤡 but i'll bite, once:

    are you asking for evidence that lunduke is queerphobic, or that the rust community has a disproportionate number of queer people in it?

    or, do you acknowledge both of those things, and are actually suggesting that lunduke’s vehement opposition to rust could maybe conceivably be entirely coincidental and perhaps he dislikes it for purely technical reasons? 😂

    in any case, i’m not going to link to lunduke but i just checked and confirmed that (as i assumed) if you simply search his twitter for the word rust you can find many tweets (and i only went back a month) where he is in fact complaining about people being queer.