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paequ2@lemmy.today I mean… I don’t really fully understand Elisp either, despite my Emacs config being 10 years old! 😅

cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de yes. Lock screen widgets went away after Android 7, I think. Now, 8(?) years later, we can introduce it as new feature!

I want to love Guix (both the package manager and the distro). I want to love Scheme. But I can never find any good tutorials for Scheme and using it with Guix. The GNU documentation is more of a reference than a tutorial. I use Emacs on the daily, and I just can’t get into Scheme.

I’m over here still using OpenRC. Mostly because I want to. Some servers I run have systemd on them. systemd is generally nice. OpenRC has finally gained the ability to run user services, which is also very nice.

Probably a case of legislative inertia and tried-and-true practices. It’s also a thing that’s mostly limited to the US, I feel like. I want to say many other Western countries have digital systems in place (maybe not the BEST digital systems, but something better than fax).

Fax is not end-to-end encrypted. Not even sure it’s encrypted in transit. But it is also something that doesn’t rely on a third party provider storing all your data indefinitely and then losing it all in a data breach. Of course, that doesn’t stop people from hooking up to a virtual fax service that might store info on a server… but still…

treadful@lemmy.zip well, easy is relative, but it’s this treaty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT

treadful@lemmy.zip Netherlands also has a xenophobia problem. It’s not as progressive as people think, at least not anymore.

That being said, it’s not a bad country. Also one of the easiest EU countries for Americans to immigrate to.

You assume precedent, consistency, or ethics matter to the current people in power in the US.

There are several on F-Droid. There’s Energize and Food You, which integrate with some external food databases.

palordrolap@fedia.io said in Heroes & Villains of software development: > You don’t know how to do something in raw JavaScript. You’re not even sure you should. You find a library / module / package / whatever-the-name-is-this-week on the Internet. You paste it into your code. Your code now works. Your code is now 1MB larger. This web app is heavy, man.

npm install left-pad :D

Don’t quite understand the JavaScript one.

Definitely an overreaction lol.

But why are you not sold on Gemini? I mean, does it even need selling? Does Gopher need a selling point? They’re both deliberately simple protocols that work basically only on text. Gemini itself was conceived as an alternative to the modern web, deliberately simple in most ways, but not as simple as Gopher.

Icelandic has no word for “a.” A noun without a definite article suffix can be either “noun” or “a noun.” Then there is a suffix for definite article (epli “apple” -> eplið “the apple”). There is also a slightly more obscure hinn/hin/hið which can mean “the” as a separate word, but that’s not really used in most situations.

The vitriol between Republicans and Democrats in the US has always been there, and I think it started escalating rapidly after Nixon. Even with George Bush Jr in the early 2000s, which had its own set of big problems, it was still “civilized,” although people look back at that time and think it was insane (because it was). But the rhetoric has only accelerated even more, and the Trump administrations are the natural end result of this ever-increasing polarization, unfortunately.

I feel like “reasonable” Republican positions died with out after Reagan. Even though most people in this space will never say Regan’s positions were reasonable (much less good or defensible), there was still a veneer of civility and respect for what little democratic function America had at the time.

At this point, all of that has been thrown out the window. Even Pence, for how evil of a person he is, still refused to destroy the process, at least.

mwa@thelemmy.club It is certified to be UNIX, yes. But Linux is not UNIX. Not that it would matter if Linux was certified to be UNIX anyhow. UNIX is a certification that you go through and pay for. The kernel beneath is not necessarily binary compatible with other UNIX operating systems.