Deebster

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[–] Deebster 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't think people should downvote this Linux-related content that's in a Linux sub just because it's been posted on different servers in the Fediverse. People are too free with their downvotes.

[–] Deebster 4 points 1 hour ago

Oof, that's embarrassing for a "hacker" distro. I guess they have too many red teamers and no blue.

[–] Deebster 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

But you're misrepresenting my argument.

Hardly, I'm directly addressing your statement that case insensitive is intuitive to users, grandmas or otherwise - I give examples where it's not initiative or obvious which filenames match. I didn't mention ease of implementation at all.

The principle of least surprise is an important UX consideration, and your idea of effectively introducing collation and localising which files conflict is just trading one problem for another set of problems and suprises (e.g. copying directories between drives with different settings).

[–] Deebster 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Case insensitive is more intuitive

Are these the same filename?

  • ΑΓΑΘΉ.txt
  • αγαθή.txt

What about these?

  • MY-NOTES-ON-Δ.txt
  • μυ-notes-on-δ.txt

Databases have different case-insensitive collations - these control what letters are equivalent to each other. The fact that there's multiple options should tell you that there's no one-size-fits-all solution to case insensitivity.

This issue is only simple and obvious if you don't know enough about it.

[–] Deebster 1 points 5 days ago

It is a map, though, unlike OP's image!

[–] Deebster 9 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Sad because the UK's quite small/unsunny and that means most other countries aren't doing much?

I thought that the UK was quite strong in wind, so it'd be interesting to see that charted.

[–] Deebster 41 points 1 week ago (4 children)

[MIT] does not allow removing the original license and purport that the code was created by someone else.

Sounds like it wouldn't matter which licence he used. Shitty behaviour from Microsoft.

[–] Deebster 12 points 1 week ago

I love how short this article is; it's really respectful of the reader's time.

[–] Deebster 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Forgejo v11.0 is availablet ?

[–] Deebster 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure about the exact setup (default or yours), but is it possible that there's a prettifier that's responsible?

[–] Deebster 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not quite what you were asking for, but there is https://tomgroenwoldt.github.io/helix-shortcut-quiz/

It's quite good for letting you know about things you didn't know you could do, but sometimes it tells me I'm wrong because I'd do it a different way - e.g. I'd go to line 13 by :13 but it wants 13G.

Also, from within Helix you can do space ? to get the list of commands and any bindings they're on.

edit: also, FYI Helix and similar are modal, not modular (although there is a plugin system on the way).

[–] Deebster 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Still interesting, though. I looked for any more up-to-date news and didn't find any articles, although the ISP's site says they're expanding in 2025.

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Advent of Svelte (svelte.dev)
submitted 2 months ago by Deebster to c/sveltejs
 

This is old news, but no-one posted it at the time.

They released a bunch of new features, including error boundaries, each without as (simple but useful), exported snippets and er LLM-friendly documentation.

There's 24 new things in total, as it was a Christmas advent thing.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Deebster to c/[email protected]
 

Title text:

Can you pass the nackle?

Transcript:

[Cueball is holding a pointer and gesturing towards a whiteboard that shows the chemical formulas HCOOH and CH₃COOH. Below these, respectively, are classic diagramatic representations of formic/methanoic acid [with an apparently accidental doubled bond between the carbon and the hydroxy group] and acetic/ethanoic acid; being, in turn, a single- and double-carbon chain molecule with a double-bonded oxygen (carbonyl group) plus an oxygen-hydrogen (hydroxy) upon one carbon of each, to form the full carboxyl grouping, and hydrogens completing all other expected bonds.]
Cueball: The two simplest carboxylic acids are hakoo and chuckoo.
Off-panel voice: No!!

[Caption below the panel:]
How to annoy chemists

Source: https://xkcd.com/3040/

explainxkcd for #3040

 

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Animal Far (programming.dev)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Deebster to c/[email protected]
 
 

Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Deebster to c/linux
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21363946

The normal complaint new Zellij users have is that it has a lot of keybindings which are likely to conflict with programs like nvim or Helix that use a lot themselves. Before, the workflow was to lock Zellij with ctrl-g which let input go through to the focused shell/program.

The new mode has most of the keybindings behind the ctrl-g lock, e.g. a new tab is ctrl-g t n (instead of ctrl-t n). You can still use alt-(cursor) for changing focus and alt-n/alt-f for a new tiled/floating pane, but all other key presses get passed along.

You can switch between default and unlock-first (non-colliding) modes so if you need those alt shortcuts you can lock everything as before.

Plus some other nice features like being able to change modifier keys while running (via the Kitty Keyboard Protocol), and autoloading the new config when you edit the file.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Deebster to c/commandline
 

The normal complaint new Zellij users have is that it has a lot of keybindings which are likely to conflict with programs like nvim or Helix that use a lot themselves. Before, the workflow was to lock Zellij with ctrl-g which let input go through to the focused shell/program.

The new mode has most of the keybindings behind the ctrl-g lock, e.g. a new tab is ctrl-g t n (instead of ctrl-t n). You can still use alt-(cursor) for changing focus and alt-n/alt-f for a new tiled/floating pane, but all other key presses get passed along.

You can switch between default and unlock-first (non-colliding) modes so if you need those alt shortcuts you can lock everything as before.

Plus some other nice features like being able to change modifier keys while running (via the Kitty Keyboard Protocol), and autoloading the new config when you edit the file.

 

Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

Spoilers ahead.

 

Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

Spoilers ahead.

 

Let’s discuss tasks, contestants and the show in general.

Spoilers ahead.

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Bacon v3 released (dystroy.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Deebster to c/rust
 

Bacon is a Rust code checker designed for minimal interaction, allowing users to run it alongside their editor to receive real-time notifications about warnings, errors, or test failures (I like having it show clippy's hints).

It prioritizes displaying errors before warnings, making it easier to identify critical issues without excessive scrolling.

Screenshot (from an old version I think):

v3 adds support for cargo-nextest, plus some QoL improvements.

v3.0.0 release notes

 

Getting later and later at posting these!

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