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blinry

TIL: Firefox has a cool built-in method for keyboard navigation! ⌨️🦊

Pressing ' (the apostrophe key) opens the "Quick find (links only)" tool. Start typing a part of the thing you want to click, until it's highlighted. Press Enter to confirm.

If there are multiple hits for what you typed, you can cycle with F3.

I think you can get very good and fast with this!

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Mazzo

@blinry oh, this is awesome! :breaddrool:

:awesome:

damien

@blinry oh what the hell i've been relying on Vimium's link hints features for years and didn't know Firefox had that natively

blinry

Booked an Interrail Pass to travel to #emfcamp, a hacker camp in the UK! #emf2024

Getting excited! πŸ˜† This will be the first time I use the Channel Tunnel!

blinry

Here I go! \o/ Will make a couple of in-between stops on my way to #emf2024!

camping_equipment.zip

A medium-sized backpack on the platform of a small train station.
blinry

The Chaos Computer Club is giving out art grants!

If you're an artist/writer/creator of whatever type, you can apply for 420–4200 EUR, to work on your visions and utopias for the Chaos Community! ✨

See 42.ccc.de for details. Application deadline is already the 2024-02-29! ⏰

If you have more questions, join the @callforstories "office hours" next Thursday!

A poster:

CALL FOR STORIES!

SHOW us your visions and utopias of the Chaos Community!

CREATE an image, short story, animation, comic, game, recipe, theater play, poem (or something else)

RECEIVE 420-4200 EUR of funding

APPLY at 42.ccc.de
blinry

(I've been asked to be part of the advisory board. I'd love it if some of you applied with your wildest project ideas! You can also apply as a group!)

blinry

My Framework laptop is here! ✨ It's a modular, repairable laptop that I've been hearing really good things about!

This is the "DIY edition", so let's assemble all the pieces together!

Opened box, containing components in paper boxes, and a welcoming letter in the lid of the box.
blinry

I'm greeted by a small envelope in the lid of the box, which contains... stickers! \o/ And a QR code leading to the assembly guide.

Stickers with Framework logo (a cogwheel), and one with the words "Reduce Reuse Repair Recycle".
blinry

Learn how QR codes work, and how to read them without a computer!

@piko and I just released the interactive explainer that we used in our workshop at #37c3!

✨ qr.blinry.org ✨

A diagram that shows the different parts of a QR code, and the order in which the content is read.
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Cqoicebordel ❎

@blinry @piko
You use bytes to store alphanumeric dataβ€―?

Because I made a QR Code watchface for the Watchy (github.com/Cqoicebordel/Watchf), and I guarantee trying to decode alphanum data on paper or in your head is hard, each char use 5Β½ bits.
Guaranteed headache.

All that to say, it would have been funnier to use alphanumeric encoding ;)

datatrash

@blinry @piko Some time ago I learned about QR codes out of curiosity.
But I realized I forgot most of it when reading your post.

However, you inspired me to use my pixel art editor to draw some QRs.

The rainbow colored one can't be read by my reader, so a little more work needs to go into finding colors with enough contrast.
But I still like the message it contains.

Am I?

@blinry
Uhh, really not what it is for, but think about doing a#CPP #mdspan iterator to do this 😳
@piko @vitaut

blinry

I thought I could control the power of the yeast. I was wrong.

Plastic containers with pizza dough on the fridge are completely spilled over, and have smashed the hummus containers which were placed there to contain the dough.
blinry

Exciting announcement: @bleeptrack and I will create a 2.0 version of our open-source Git learning game ohmygit.org! πŸŽ‰

For the first time, you'll be able to play the game directly in your browser, using a *real Git* in a tiny Linux VM!

And for people whose first language isn't English, the game will come with other language versions!

Thanks to the @PrototypeFund for funding these often-requested features!

A mockup of how the Oh My Git game looks like in the browser, with multi-lingual speech bubbles.
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ClickHouse CI :archlinux:

@blinry @bleeptrack @PrototypeFund I've installed it today, and here's the story hostux.social/@ClickHouseCI/11

Besides that, git is my daily tool, and I have a lot of fun by commit --fixup + rebase -i --autosquash

IMHO it's the best way to keep the repo clean, and almost nobody uses it v_v

Nik | Klampfradler 🎸🚲

@blinry @bleeptrack @PrototypeFund

It would be great if you could ensure that *every* learner can use it and contribute to it freely and self-determined.

Currently, the issues preventing that are mainly:

* Development on GitHub (locking out young learners and learners from US-embargoed countries)
* Feedback survey (a good way to make a first contribution) on Google Docs

If you need help choosing good open platforms, feel free to contact @Teckids!

blinry

Are you curious how Git works under the hood?

Check out the first technical prototype of Oh My Git 2.0:

✨ ohmygit.blinry.org ✨

It lets you try all commands of a real Git in a Linux VM *directly in your browser*, and shows you what they do internally!

A web application that is split into three parts:

One part shows a graph with colorful nodes, representing the internal state of a Git repository.

One part shows a text documentation of what the nodes mean.

And one part is a white-on-black terminal.
blinry

Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! πŸ˜‚

"Every Author as First Author"

arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393

Title of a LaTeX paper:

Every Author as First Author 

(Two almost unreadable author names overlaid on top of each other.)

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 (Email address with overlaid names before the domain)
Abstract

We propose a new standard for writing author names on papers and in bibliographies, which places every author as a first author β€” superimposed. This approach enables authors to write papers as true equals, without any advantage given to whoever’s name happens to come first alphabetically (for example). We develop the technology for implementing this standard in LATEX, BIBTEX, and HTML; show several examples; and discuss further advantages.
Bias. A fundamental limitation to any approach that lists the authors in a fixed order arises when citing papers with several authors. In the body of a paper (as opposed to the bibliography), it is most common to write β€œX et al. [#]” when referring to a paper [#] whose first author’s surname is X. In authorβ€”year styles such as APA, this is even built into the citation itself, e.g., (X et al., 2023). As a result, author X gets their name effectively promoted with every citation, which is inconsistent with multiple or all authors being equal.

In our own writing, we try to avoid this practice, and instead write all authors’ surnames whenever citing a paper, e.g., β€œX, Y, and Z [#]”. But this workaround becomes impractical for refer- ences with over a dozen authors, such as some of our papers (four examples with a lot of author names overlaid on top of each other, with publication years.)
Figure 3. Circular arrangements of the authors of Fisimindon (2020). Drawn in Inkscape using Circular Align and Distribute, onto a circle of radius 50 (left) or 200 (right); followed by 90Β° rotation (left); and rotating 180Β° to make names upright (bottom).

4. Future Work

A final issue is that overlapping name stacks are not easy to read. It may be possible to write names in a way that has no first name but still makes all names clearly readable. For example, a circle has no beginning or end, so arranging the names in a circular pattern avoids arranging any author β€œfirst”. Figure 3 shows some initial experiments in this direction. Related, traditional round- robin documents (Wikipedia 2022) are signed by authors in a circle to prevent identification of a ringleader (such as mutineer sailors). It remains unsolved how to fit such circular arrangements in with the rest of a text document, which feels inherently sequential. Circular arrangements also seem difficult to apply to small numbers of authors such as 2.
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MOULE ("Snow Way" out on Fri!)

@blinry Just print the paper in holographic film so a different name appears depending on what angle you look at it. Or maybe merge the top and bottom halves of letters together, or combine them like sigils οΏΌοΏΌοΏΌπŸ€”

The Corodon

@blinry
"A final issue is that overlapping name stacks are not easy to read."
Chef's kiss, 11/10, no notes.

Jencel Panic

@blinry So, all authors' names would be unreadable - sounds good, actually.

In traditional Asian culture, there was no custom of specifying the author of a given work.

blinry

Traveling to Lapland by night train today!

A train with a santa claus logo
A two-bed cabin on a train.
blinry

Our cabin has a toilet that converts to a shower! :3

blinry

Do I have followers who live in Copenhagen, Oslo, or the rest of Norway? @daniel_bohrer and I will do a train trip this month, and would love to visit or meet people! :)

Also, general recommendations on what to do/see/eat super welcome! πŸ‡©πŸ‡°πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄

Souvlaki Space Station πŸ›Έ

@blinry @daniel_bohrer
Southern tip of Norway, feel free to hmu if you want recs for what to check out in the region or if you need someone to go hiking with, my dog and I might be available

rtn

@blinry @daniel_bohrer While in Denmark you must obviously eat SmΓΈrrebrΓΈd.

blinry

How it started / How it's going

A cut-off pak choi base with a tiny green leaf poking out in the middle.
The same plant now has three big leaves that are around 10 centimeters long, and more additional smaller ones.
blinry

The Git learning game @bleeptrack@twitter.com and I are building is progressing nicely! \o/

We've been experimenting with a "time travel" theme for the introductory levels this week, and early feedback by our playtesters has been encouraging! #screenshotsaturday #godotengine

blinry

Finally! After all those years of using VLC illegally, I have now obtained an official license! \o/ #FOSDEM

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madonius

@blinry glad you came to the light side of opensource πŸ‘

davidak

@blinry actually, people should consider donating to the projects they care about so they will be actively maintained in the future.

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