TootSweet

@TootSweet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you guys deal with the death of a parent?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dissociation, mostly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Very likely ME/CFS.

  Also, you apparently don’t want to hear this, but a huge percentage of sufferers of long COVID had no acute symptoms, have no positive test, and otherwise have no reason to believe they ever had COVID except a) chronic symptoms consistent with long COVID b) which came on in 2020 or 2021. Nothing about “I wasn’t” (acutely) “sick” or “gradual onset” sways me in the slightest away from the possibility that this sounds very much like long COVID. Both are entirely consistent, even typical, of long COVID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an imposter⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  $130k after 2 years? 2 years after I started I was making like… $60k? That’s not even counting the 4.5 years I spent starting a startup and making nearly nothing.

  That said, I don’t live in Silicon Valley or anything. Pretty low cost-of-living here. Probably a big part of the discrepancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do elevator's have that Kenny G like music? Why not something with a little beat to it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever actually ridden in an elevator that played music? I’m not sure I can remember ever having that experience.

  Of course, I’m familiar with the term “elevator music”. And I don’t doubt music in elevators was a thing or anything. But I’m surprised to hear it’s a thing now-a-days.

  I think I’ve probably been in elevators in establishments where music was playing over a speaker system, and the music was audible in the elevator, but the music was never only in the elevator as far as I can recall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You ok?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy.world/post/49360492/24735359

  Also:

  hit enter and not get any result

  You mean “hit enter and have it not affect the rendered output.” It does produce a result. It makes it appear/act differently in the editor. That’s not “not getting any result.” Just “not getting any result” that’s visible in the rendered output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  but why isn’t it “fixed”?

  Because it is useful to many people in certain contexts. It’s not a bug. It truly is a feature. Not something to be “fixed”.

  You may prefer your ice cream strawberry flavored, but that doesn’t mean any ice cream that is instead chocolate flavored is “defective” and needs to be “corrected” or “fixed” to make it strawberry flavored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I think I kindof know what you’re getting at here, but you’re not being very precise about it.

  First some definitions (just for purposes of this conversation – don’t take this to be any assertion that a particular term always inherently has a particular meaning, it’s just a tool for this conversation specifically):

  • Character: a single unicode character.
  • Plain text: unicode text absent any formatting.
  • Source: the plain text to be fed into a Markdown renderer to produce rendered output.
  • Rendered output: the formatted output of a Markdown renderer, as displayed to an end user.
  • Editor: any computer program or component of a computer program for the entry of plain text.
  • Line: text (plain text or rendered output, depending on context) rendered at the same vertical position.
  • Line break: the point at which text (either plain text or rendered output depending on context) starts rendering on the next line because of a newline.
  • Newline: a character that always forces a line break in an editor. (Remember “editor” is only about plaintext, so a newline doesn’t necessarily force a line break in rendered output.)
  • Wrap: the point at which, absent a newline, text starts rendering on the next line due to column width constraints.

  (As an aside a line break is sometimes accomplished with a “line feed” character. A “carriage return” character is something else that isn’t the same thing. Which is a big part of where the confusion comes from.)

  What you’re saying, I think, is that putting a single newline in the source doesn’t result in a line break in the rendered output. Is that right?

  In some editors (Vim being one I know of), when plain text word wraps, pressing “down” when the cursor is on the first line of a wrapped series of lines causes the cursor to jump not to the second line of wrapped text, but to the first line after the next newline. To illustrate:

  If this line is wrapped due to
  being wider than the available
  width.
  And if this line is on its own line
  due to being immediately preceeded
  by a newline.
  

  If your cursor in the above example was on the “w” in the first line there, pressing down would take the cursor to the space immediately before “is” in “And if this line is on its own line”.

  As a result, it can be quite a pain to deal with word wraps in such editors. This is part of why certain code style guides (like this one and this one have hard limits for how many characters are allowed before the next newline.

  Given how much more convenient line breaks can be than word wrapping, people writing source to be rendered into rendered output may wish to be able to insert newlines to cause line breaks in the source without causing any change in the corresponding rendered output.

  That all make sense?

  At least that’s most likely at least one reason why the people who invented Markdown decided specifically to make Markdown work that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why there’s so much confusion.

  Because you’re not using the right terminology. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re talking largely (mostly?) about Markdown. (For instance, in Lemmy, when you stick a newline there, it doesn’t give you a line break in the flow of the text.) And when they say “Carriage Return”, they don’t know what they’re talking about. If I’m interpreting them correctly, I think they just mean “newline”. And when they say “two spaces”, I think they mean two newlines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon joins a shitposting group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Took me longer than I care to admit to figure that out. Heh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU be like:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  EUSA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know the feeling. Truly we are living in the strangest timeline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're F*ing trying again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true that the public keys aren’t sensitive and nothing is compromised (in fact, it’s recommended) if the public key is available from, say, a key server.

  But MITM is always a concern. Public-key encryption is supposed to mitigate that by ensuring that any third-party listening in in the middle can only get the ciphertext and cannot derive the plaintext of the communication.

  But, if a jurisdiction legally forces a rule like the “we get to snoop on everything” one in this law, it changes things. They could, for instance, force key servers to to only give out keys that are generated/controlled by the EU agency so that they can MITM to their heart’s content. My guess at Aniki’s thought process is that if there’s a central distributor of keys, that can be legally strong-armed into bad things, but the people you’ve talked directly to are a different matter. “Web of trust” as it were.

  I do think there are probably better ways to deal with that than what Aniki’s getting at, though. If you have Alice’s public key, you can verify signatures she generated, and you can be sure (hand-waves, rubber-hoses, caveat emptor, blah blah blah) that if you have a valid signature signing Bob’s public key with Alice’s private key, Alice vouches for that specific public key being authentically Bob’s public key.

  Now, if you only ever get public keys from a small set of (compromiseable) central key servers, then the very first public key you get could be compromised and any other signature generated from the associated private key could be forged by an adversarial party (like the EU.) And theoretically the EU could generate a whole counterfeit web of signatures. So there’s benefit to having at least some of the public keys you trust come directly from the one who generated the key through a known-secure channel.

  Before this law goes into effect, (maybe) we can trust at least some of the signatures in public key servers and use those as a basis for secure communication from which we can create a pool of known-uncompromised (qualifier, caveat, tin hats, etc) public keys, and based on those (maybe) detect forgeries and such.

  (Mind you, I don’t know the details of this law or whatever. It might be that the law as written will require, say, GnuPG to introduce backdoors. Not that I think they should, no matter what the law says, but it might be that the EU isn’t really likely to engage in quite the lever of subterfuge that I’ve outlined above. It might be more of a blatant “fuck you, we’re the government and you’re going to comply” approach than a sneaky-sneaky trick-everybody-into-thinking-they’ve-got-security-they-don’t approach.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I shudder to think of a future in which we’re like “I miss trump”. 😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're F*ing trying again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus. I’m not in the EU, but how is this the first I’m hearing about this?

  Time to go back to email and GnuPG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USAnon copes with FIFA loss⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FIFA is the same organization that invented a bullshit “peace prize” to give Trump. Apparently FIFA is the sort of organization that doesn’t need threats to french Trump’s asshole. They’ll do that for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fine with DRM as long as I can break it.

  … in a jurisdiction with no anticircumvention laws, of course. 😶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't have kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You want to get peanut butter all up in the door chamber that the window recedes into?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is prophesied⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🎶 Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Pizza Hut. 🎶

  The first time I heard that song, it was at a sci-fi convention at an evening concert put on by Ronny Cox. This guy:

  Ronny Cox as Captain Jellico from Star Trek: The Next Generation

  Also this guy from Stargate SG-1:

  Ronny Cox as Robert Kinsey from Stargate SG-1

  The Pizza Hut song was an audience participation portion. Great memories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stahp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More details on methodology might make this even a tiny bit useful or enlightening to someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll catch you outside⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Bitch you better pray.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Molting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the Internet says it’s true, this is molting not mites.

  The person you responded to was referring to why his beak looked weird, not to the lack of feathers on his head. But I didn’t see anything in the article you posted about beaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favourite gaming console you have played?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to say this. N64’s a close second, but a the re-releases of N64 games on the Gamecube helped a lot with that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is the hatch day of Mickey7. The man who puts the shit in shit posting. A toast to you, friend.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We must do the communal chant to summon him.

  Someone remind me how the chant goes again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you point on the doll to where the bad penguin man touched you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A nice addition to my collection⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately I’m accepting applications for a new sleep paralysis demon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Linux? Those guys who like to talk about themselves?"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And a whole bunch of Windows users clearly thinking way more about Linux than they care to admit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any particular piece of information that he revealed which could have been used by anyone really to… I dunno… bypass defenses or take advantage of people or whatever in some a way that could actually hurt people?

  I dunno. Everything I’ve heard is that everything that he leaked that has been released was super innocuous militarily (not that the military is a bunch of knights in shining armor or anything) or national-defense-wise. It is (or at least should be) very embarrassing to the U.S. “intelligence apparatus”. And it’s clearly good reason to believe that Uncle Sam clearly doesn’t have our (American’s) best interests at heart. But what could possibly have even hypothetically been used to cause any harm?

  (And, I don’t know, maybe you know something I’m unaware of, but it really seemed like he went out of his way to avoid any harm to anything but the reputation of the intelligence industrial complex. And maybe a few presidents.)