Posts by ed1conf@bsd.network
(DIR) Post #9tfqN2CdqIJADb726C by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-04-03T17:48:01Z
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@krixano Reviewing this thread I see@solderpunk posting frustration at their perception of the world's lack of marking functionality@djmoch tagging my account to share a smile and possibly summon tips.this ed1conf account sharing some common utils that do support marking@solderpunk expressing thanksYou contribution...self-promotion of your own editor. And complaints on a sub-thread where you're not a party. Then having the audacity to complain about being a jerk.
(DIR) Post #9tfvXz8m4Hqtg1LQFE by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-04-03T18:45:59Z
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@solderpunk That's a fascinating question.I've picked up on the linguistic differences, and occasionally vacillate to choose a "right" term in one context or another, but I've never applied serious thought to the historical background. My digging doesn't show "bookmarks" in any of my pre-browser (I lump lynx & other gopher/WAIS browsers in that category) document searches. Not saying it didn't exist, but "marks" has a much stronger presence.
(DIR) Post #9tfwbysd4uKfyvGJBw by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-04-03T18:57:46Z
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@solderpunk I got to the point where my mind had convinced me that the Turbo Pascal v5.5 or v6 IDE (late 80s) had referred to them as "bookmarks" but I pulled up the manual and sure enough, they were only "marks" there too. The quest continues. :flan_wink:
(DIR) Post #9thDydkJiGTVTUiyau by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-04-03T18:50:03Z
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@solene I hope this is the beginning of a delightful series of audio man-pages. :flan_cheer:
(DIR) Post #9thDyrB1mGZ786JzX6 by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-04-03T21:25:05Z
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@devinprater @solene I think the benefits would be1) having a human voice (espeak is passable but far from pleasant)2) that the content would be rearranged for the purpose of making it clearer, perhaps something like "To specify the fields you want, use the dash-f option followed by the list of fields you want" rather than the verbatim "dash-f list the list specifies fields".
(DIR) Post #9thScOfl6hsRlcFJzc by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-04-04T12:05:48Z
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@lanodan Nice, I haven't heard of mimic or Voxygen before (I know there were some licensing issues with Mbrola voices which were more listenable than espeak's). Time to go check my package repos for mimic. Thanks!
(DIR) Post #9tjlyfP3s1SDTLgkZk by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-04-05T14:59:51Z
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@jleedev Depends on the situation and which flavor of ed(1). GNU ed offers a "-l" (--loose-exit-status) to ignore errors. Alternatively, you should be able toed file.txt < script.txt || truein your crontab entry. Or you can create a shell-script to ignore the non-0 exit code and return 0 from the script.
(DIR) Post #9um3fN4WBvPJxnQKlk by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-05-05T17:48:32Z
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@interneteh Reminds me a lot of this one.
(DIR) Post #9x1Xcoih9TWFQFEbA0 by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-07-12T17:48:47Z
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[source image courtesy of @shenanigansen over on :birdsite:]
(DIR) Post #9xkPWs62mFHhSzTbqi by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-08-03T12:01:46Z
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@craigmaloney a year or three ago:"I know, RSS, but with JSON instead of XML!"(https://www.jsonfeed.org/)A year from now"I know! RSS but with YAML instead of XML!"And yet XML-based RSS has worked just fine for years. Very much like Usenet/NNTP. :flan_wink:
(DIR) Post #9xmIA4pkwY4EwmxgSe by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-08-04T11:53:13Z
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@mwlucas Is the Karen spherical?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
(DIR) Post #9zpRWraEfMptnip7yK by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-10-04T20:09:16Z
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@publius @docskrzyk Though on the bright side, if one does adhere to the original spirit of interlinked documents, there are far more browsers that do just fine with that, such as lynx, elinks, links2, w3m, edbrowse, browsh (sorta), links+, and dillo.
(DIR) Post #A0625nCd1T1w8kJhjc by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-10-12T18:54:01Z
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@mwlucas finding it somewhat overused?Occasionally I find myself overusing certain words and I've used$ xsel -ob | tr -sc "a-zA-Z'" '\012' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | lessto see my word-frequency and finger suspect words. Doesn't catch all of them, but gets a good number of them.
(DIR) Post #A064vd7xvX4trJyv2m by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-10-12T20:46:12Z
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@mansr @mwlucas longer and uglier, but doable:$ tr -sc "a-zA-Z'" '\012' | awk -vLOOKBACK=5 'recent[w=tolower($0)]{for (i=NR-LOOKBACK;i<NR;i++){other = ring[i % LOOKBACK]; printf("%s%s%s ", w==other?"[":"", other, w==other?"]":"")}; print "[" w "]"}{++recent[w]; loc = NR % LOOKBACK; if (--recent[ring[loc]] < 1) delete recent[ring[loc]]; ring[loc] = w}'
(DIR) Post #A064yocxcvvQOUzxCq by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-10-12T20:46:41Z
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@mansr @mwlucas longer and uglier, but doable:$ xsel -ob | tr -sc "a-zA-Z'" '\012' | awk -vLOOKBACK=5 'recent[w=tolower($0)]{for (i=NR-LOOKBACK;i<NR;i++){other = ring[i % LOOKBACK]; printf("%s%s%s ", w==other?"[":"", other, w==other?"]":"")}; print "[" w "]"}{++recent[w]; loc = NR % LOOKBACK; if (--recent[ring[loc]] < 1) delete recent[ring[loc]]; ring[loc] = w}'
(DIR) Post #A065iXaVJPT2rqeWTQ by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-10-12T20:54:07Z
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@mansr @mwlucas I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader. Just have to determine the right value for LOOKBACK. :flan_wink:
(DIR) Post #A1Avvg72058pFVWvU8 by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-11-14T00:32:12Z
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@mwlucas [in the best Mariah Carey voice a 40mumble-year old male can pull off]I won't wear a mask for ChristmasI just want muh freedoms, man.I don't care about the peasants orthat our leaders have no plan.I just want a haircut now andMore increases in the Dow.We'll go declare a coup.Baby, all I want is Covid or flu.
(DIR) Post #A1i3BWU5doUvAAOjQW by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-11-20T18:15:57Z
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@wikihowillustration shows an empty cage for a small pet, a bowl of water, and dish of food. A rodent (pet hamster/gerbil/mouse/rat? can't quite tell) is eating out of the food-bowl.
(DIR) Post #A1lywjYV8dJqArzee8 by ed1conf@bsd.network
2020-12-01T20:11:34Z
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@phessler @mwlucas I suspect the toxic aspects may be magnetic-toner-specific.The vacuum risk stems from the particles being small enough that most filters don't catch them, recirculating particles into the air or getting into the machinery, killing the vacuum. But accurate there.For average (non-magnetic) toner, washing it with cold-to-lukewarm water should be fine for the skin (warmer water causes it to set) and staining should ablate in time.MSDS example:http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/community/environment/productinfo/pdf/lj_92295a_eng_v1.pdf
(DIR) Post #A2ufKgKwVBsisgoU0u by ed1conf@bsd.network
2021-01-05T02:13:50Z
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@Ricardus Food drives make me a bit bonkers and even moreso measuring success in pounds-of-food. That 734th can of green-beans might produce good weight-metrics, but not when clientele need diapers & formula. Cash is so much more fungible and lets the frontline people stock the shelves with the things they know are needed. Instead of near-expiration-date rubbish. So it's just good ol' cash here.