Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 39

This is a great thread by @ajroach42 about old computers and how some of the things they did were great. It’s also very long. If you aren’t following him, then this is my recommendation that you do.
https://retro.social/@ajroach42/99882571926573176

Any recommendations for museums and parks in #osaka? I have two days. I love history and crafts. Close to Nipponbashi is better.

@orbifx @sajith @yomimono I don’t remember anybody talking about this. As far as I am concerned, I’d say using TLS and client certificates checked on the server side should solve this but the setup can be tricky.

@hcs @tinker I lived as a teenager in Bangkok for two years and was too young to appreciate it. But when I visited Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo or Osaka when I was older, I loved them. I think I could spend many weeks in one such Asian mega city and never tire of it. Or live there for a year or two or three.
(… he writes from Osaka)

@sajith @orbifx @yomimono Some people use TLS, some people use port 7443 for it, others say we should be sniffing the handshake on the server side, and finally some people want us to use onion something something.
Because of the ease of implementation I support TLS on both my fav. client and my own server, but others hate the resulting split. #gopher

@hcs @tinker Just now a friend recommended I watch this show on Japanese craftsmanship. Too bad I don’t have Netflix and hardly ever watch tv. It seemed super interesting. But I know myself: I’ll want to buy all the Japanese products, then. 😢

@ralph I totally agree with "we have to get rid of any messenger that requires your mobile phone number as your unique identifier." This has been annoying me for quite a while, now.

@vickysteeves @clhendricksbc All I can say is I remember the discussions before 4.0 of the CC licenses came out and duckducking for some links I found this collection of pro and contra arguments. Sure, it’s old, and pre 4.0, but I think the general questions remain. https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial

@loke I'm actually amazed that somebody found it useful after so many years. This is code from 2001! If it does make it into a release, please let me know and I'll write a little blog post celebrating the occasion.

@loke Ah, OK. Whatever works for you! :)

@loke And I added a long explanation to the README now that I've taken a look. 😄

@loke
This is done using
bidi-logical-to-visual-paragraph.
If you just load bidi.el, it will bind bidi-testing to t and this will result in bidi-table-test.el being loaded which is much smaller than the full table. For real examples, you need to load bidi-table.el instead to get support for it all. See the README.md

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@loke

From:

;; this is a normal paragraph containing some
;; words in ARAB and HEBREW. these strings need to be
;; reverted. numbers like 123 should work, even when
;; ENCLOSED IN ARAB TEXT SUCH AS 4567.89 IS ON THIS LINE
;; AND ON THE NEXT.

To:

;; this is a normal paragraph containing some words in BARA and
;; WERBEH. these strings need to be reverted. numbers like 123 should
;; work, even when SIHT NO SI 4567.89 SA HCUS TXET BARA NI DESOLCNE
;; TXEN EHT NO DNA ENIL.

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@loke I’m currently on a trip in Japan with limited access so don’t hold your breath. I’ll try to get a working example.

I just discovered @NewsBot. I like this more than some of the other news bots (which are usually just importing Twitter feeds), because it pulls from multiple outlets.

#news #bot

@c25l Tranks for the pointer. I'm hardly ever on Twitter, though...

In a discussion on Reddit of a setting generator of mine called Hex Describe a user referred me to the text generator Tracery. I duckducked for it and found a tutorial by @aparrish and so I decided to post a link on my Octodon Social account and not just on my Dice Camp account.
Hex Describe: Generating gaming content, inspired by Abulafia.
https://campaignwiki.org/hex-describe/
http://air.decontextualize.com/tracery/
http://random-generator.com
#generator #rpg