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  • The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now

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  • Uh, we historically had some rather repressive regimes, and some countries were ruled by dictators until the 90s. People like Franco and Ceausescu and Tito weren't that long ago.

    But it's generally been pretty good in the millennial lifetime.

  • Why disable ssh login with root on a server if I only log in with keys, not password?

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  • If ssh has a security issue and you permit root logins then hostiles likely have an easier time getting access to root on the machine than if they only get access to your user account—then they need multiple exploits.

    Generally you also want to be root as little as possible. Hence sudo, run0, etc.

  • 'We're all dead': GOP senator reacts to Trump tariffs

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  • Really, the only difference is how much blood you want to see. Result's pretty much the same.

    Considering modern US history you could put them in high school, I guess?

  • 'We're all dead': GOP senator reacts to Trump tariffs

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  • Depends on your country. In countries with proportional representation you can vote for the party you like. If you're voting tactically you're down to the coalition you like.

    E.g. here in Norway we get minority coalitions all the time. It's fine. They have to (gasp) cooperate with others to get anywhere.

  • EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech

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  • Yeah, let's have a go with the ACI (anti-coercion instrument) and see if we can't make their patents free game. Playing to Trump's tune is unlikely to work out well

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • Yes I'm being sarcastic, but I also think utf-8 is plaintext these days. I really can't spell my name in US ASCII. Like the other commenter here went into more detail on, it has its history, but isn't suited for today's international computer users.

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • It's also some surprise internal representation as utf-16; that's at least still in the realm of Unicode. Would also expect there's utf-32 still floating around somewhere, but I couldn't tell you where.

    And is mysql still doing that thing with utf8 as a noob trap and utf8_for_real_we_mean_it_this_time_honest or whatever they called it as normal utf8?

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • Yes, I am joking. We probably could do something like the old iso-646 or whatever it was that swapped letters depending on locale (or equivalent), but it's not something we want to return to.

    It's also not something we're entirely free of: Even though it's mostly gone, apparently Bulgarian locales do something interesting with Cyrillic characters. cf https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • To unjerk, as it were, it was a thing. So on old systems they'd do stuff like represent æøå with the same code points as {|}. Curly brace languages must have looked pretty weird back then:)

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • Jess. Ai'm still lukking får the ekvivalent åv /r/JuropijenSpelling her ån lemmi. Fæntæstikk søbreddit vitsj æbsolutli nids lemmi representeysjen.

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • No, I'm pretty sure the weird o with the leg is in basic ASCII. It's also missing Latin characters like Æ. It's a very weird standard.

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • Q. P is a common character across languages. But Q is mostly unused, at least outside the romance languages who appear to spell K that way. But that can be solved by letting the characters have the same code point, and rendering it as K in most regions, and Q in France. I can't imagine any problems arising from that. :)

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • I'm not entirely sure here, but you are aware you're in a humour community, yeah?

  • I'm an Emacs developer

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  • Neovim developer got sidetracked configuring their reply plugin

  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • It's a joke because it includes useless letters nobody needs, like that weird o with the leg, and a rich set of field and record separating characters that are almost completely forgotten, etc, but not normal letters used in everyday language >:(

  • European Jeans

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  • The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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  • With ASCII æs the åriginal sin. Can't even spell my name with that joke of an encoding >:(

  • If you have to pick only one Desktop Environment and use it till your computer breaks, what would you choose?

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  • I used Ratpoison for well over a decade, and only replaced it with sway once I had a new machine and figured it was time to try Wayland. Apparently that's some 4-5 years ago already.

  • nvim-dap 0.10.0 released

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  • DAP stands for Debugger Adapter Protocol or something close to that. My impression is it's pretty much the debugger variant of the Language Server Protocol (LSP).