Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 24

Reading «Barefoot Gen» and having a sad.
CW for the link: surviving Hiroshima
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen

@kaushalmodi The Japanese renders find in both Emacs and the terminal (Tilix); the Goth mystery letter renders as a question mark in both which makes me think it’s already misencoded in the data.

@dredmorbius US Census TIGER in duct format sounds intriguing but chances of me using it seem minuscule. Now if Switzerland published something like that, I’d be more interested. 😀

@kaushalmodi I'm somewhat disappointed when looking up a word like «hunger» and finding that Japanese words display correctly but that gcide 0.48 gives me some sort of encoding error ("Goth. h?hrus hunger") both on the command line and in Emacs.
Where is Unicode when I need it?

@kaushalmodi To my untrained eye it looks as if wordnet was a subset of dict by I wouldn't be surprised if they both evolved to handle everything. 😃

@kaushalmodi Is there a benefit to running dictd on localhost? How does the binary interact with all the other dictionaries installed? When I use dict(1) I get the results from all the local dictionaries; and dictinoary-mode does the same.

Holy cow and now I've installed the Moby thesaurus and various dictionary pairs for German/Japanese, German/French, German/Portuguese, Japanese/English.

apt-cache rdepends dict is giving me too many ideas!

Looks like the "GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English … contains … 1913 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, … definitions from WordNet, the Century Dictionary, 1906, and many additional definitions … The definitions in the core of this dictionary are at least 85 years old, so they can not be expected to be politically correct by contemporary standards, and no attempt has been, or will be, made to make them so."

I've been enjoying #Emacs dictionary, the client for RFC 2229 dictionary servers. I use my own: (setq dictionary-server "localhost") and installed  … uhm, actually I don't remember. I get Webster 1913 and others.

@aral I see this occasionally and explained it away as Mastodon giving users two URLs: the cached one on your server, and the original at the originating server. If your instance no longer has the cached one, your client can retrieve the original image. This is often necessary as admins clear out local caches. If the connection to the original instance is slow, or the original instance is gone, then the image remains black.

@applecandy how did you like it? I remember thinking it was weird in a good way, but bleak and violent in ways I don’t enjoy. So, all in all it was a meh for me.

Spanish #Trunk, perhaps?
https://confederac.io/es/lista-fediversal
Contact: @skrlet13

Just now my wife cut down the last flower of our #Hippeastrum collection. Then she looked at her notes. We had 120 flowers this season! Amazing. It all started with one or two I bought many years ago, and another two or three my hairdresser gave me when I told him he shouldn't throw them away. And the rest was all budding and grown seeds (just once, but it was enough to add dozens of plants).

@cosullivan I use a lot of 👍 and sometimes I also use 🖖 (live long and prosper) or 🤘 (rocks) or even ✊ (revolution), depending on nerd factor, coolness, or political inclinations, haha. But generally speaking, thumbs up would be "approval". Not sure about solidarity, though. Interesting question. Maybe also a sign of how emojis are shaping our language and how we speak about emotions. 😃

@cosullivan Hm. I've heard that same story about Iraq when the Americans moved in the population welcomed them with a big thumbs up. But I never discovered whether it was true. Anyway, I see plenty of high-five here in Switzerland as well (two people show their hand, palm towards the other, and then clap them, together – repeat until you actually hit and hear a satisfying clap, haha). That would be ✋ I guess, but it could also a "stop!"