Notices by ∑ XahLee (xahlee@noagendasocial.com), page 89

IBM 5251 Keyboard, beam spring switch.
see
http://xahlee.info/kbd/ibm_5251_keyboard.html
it's the grandfather of IBM Model M, and father of IBM Model F.

@jeremiah oroborous! hahah.

i think if twitter stop being political, it might do better.

that brings the question about facebook, which i haven't used for some 3 years. is conversation happening on facebook? or has it also gotten much worse?

i looked at twitter #haskell and #lisp tags of past few days. i don't see people chatting. sad. this is not due to politics. but, twitter has become ad/spam driven. especially e.g. js stuff.

but then again, the very nature of twitter or social network, is to encourage contentless ephemeral vanity stuff. It was photos of lunch, cats, selfie a decade ago.

does conversation still happen in twitter? or is it all just political extremists shouting things at each other and or patting each other's back?

it seems to me, conversation doesn't happen on twitter anymore, since about this year or last year. or, perhaps, it doesn't happen if you ever favored or indicated your political inclination.

Possibly a emacs bug.
(setq search-whitespace-regexp "[-_ \n]")
fails to find next if you search newline followed by 2 spaces.
see
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/blog.html

bbc now has a “pidgin” version. Very strange. Am not sure if it's pure propaganda.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-42007760

@SLRock let me ask in chinese to chinese circle on twitter and see if they've heard of it.

am interested in these very much myself, if only for the linguistics issue.

@SLRock @adam
the English version of Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Pidgin_English

compared to the chinese version
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B4%8B%E6%B3%BE%E6%B5%9C%E8%8B%B1%E8%AF%AD

the content is quite different.

typically, in any english literature, when talking about chinese lang, they make a big deal to elaborately drill on whether chinese “dialects” are diff languages.

my 2cents.

@SLRock @adam it's quite something to have discovered that site, bbc in pidgin.

i've now read Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Pidgin_English
and chinese version
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B4%8B%E6%B3%BE%E6%B5%9C%E8%8B%B1%E8%AF%AD

i think that bbc site is prapaganda. Namely, it exist, just to pass the idea that such idea exist and chinese need it.

am wondering if a human actually wrote those or machine translated.

pidgin, as such, is verbal, no written form, and usually temporary.

@SLRock @adam my initial reaction is wondering if that's a joke site.

i know "pidgin" only to mean mixed lang, but apparently now wikipedia says the origin is mixed eng+chinese, and has an article on it by itself.

@SLRock lol, what language is that!! pidgin... will have to look into a bit, on linguistics and the content, and where that article is from...

@SLRock that reuter article is particularly suspect. No ref, and lots handwaving + weasel writing.

about “sorcery”, well, there's no such concept of english sorcery, but basically, superstition is very big in china, especially taiwan. Eastern superstition, eg fengsui, palmistry, bagua, fatalism. they r tradition of mix of buddhism + taoism.

@SLRock always question what english literature says about china.

china has its ills, but usually, not what the english literature says. The english literature, are usually what english speakers want to hear, especially in USA.

@jeremiah http://xahlee.info/comp/xx.html
i think it might be a noagenda issue

@jeremiah
curl -O https://noagendasocial.com/emoji/1f602.svg

@jeremiah idon't think it's cache or browser. i just downloaded the svg, shows fine in safari. while, if using url directly in safari, it shows the mask (still do now).

am sure more digging will reveal answer

@jeremiah if i do, that means i need to relogin to many sites :D too lazy atm.

@jeremiah i flush about every few days. last times was yesterday i think, or maybe 2 days ago.

@jeremiah i was doing the same, and i also see black mask. both in chrome and firefox. (though, shows fin when in mastodon)
strange. don't know whats going on.

@jeremiah so i looked. mastodon replaces each unicode emoji char by a embedded link to svg. like this
〈img draggable="false" class="emojione" alt="😂" title=":joy:" src="/emoji/1f602.svg"〉