Notices by Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)

Do I know someone (or someone who knows someone) who is a #Pandoc contributor or developer?

Pandoc is smashingly good. If you've ever done something for Pandoc, you rock. Thank you.

Here's an #accessibility question for you.

If you are left-handed, do you have any issues with the combinations Ctrl-C (copy) and Ctrl-V (paste) on your keyboard, if you semi-simultaneously need to use your mouse?

That is, while you are operating your mouse with the left hand (presumably), is it difficult for you to type Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V with your right?

Please comment only if you are left-handed (or ambidextrous) yourself. Thank you!

Boosts for reach much appreciated!

— "Can you believe how stupid and primitive the ancient Greeks were? When they didn't know something, they asked an oracle, and they believed whatever it said!"
— "That's nuts. Where was this oracle?"
— "No idea. Let's go ask ChatGPT."

A train delay kept me from catching this @isotopp talk live — @c3voc to the rescue. 'Tis a good talk!
https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3238-50_years_in_filesystems

#froscon20

— "Please don't run near the pool."
— "I wasn't!"
— "I didn't say you were, I said don't."

Feel free to add this to your parenting (or, by allegory, management) repertoire.

Just misread "idiomatic YAML" as "idiotic YAML" and I don't think that counts as a mistake

If you're a manager (especially one who manages other managers), you may want to keep this in mind.

@gumnos Exactly. Hence the question. Checking stuff out of the inventory must be as easy as swiping it across a scanner as someone takes it out of the fridge or pantry. Swipe ONCE, that is, and hear a beep. And that must be the entirety of the interaction. If it's not as simple as what the cashier at the store does in approximately 100 milliseconds, it's too complicated.

@silverwizard

@silverwizard Wait... what? Over here (EU), pretty much any grocery item you buy anywhere (except maybe produce you buy at the farmers market) has its barcode on the packaging, usually in multiple spots... is that not the case in Canada?

Have any of you built a check-in/check-out station in your kitchen for scanning your grocery items and adding and removing them from/to your #Grocy inventory? Presumably involving a laser barcode scanner and not a phone/tablet camera (which is rather slow)?

If so, sound off below.

Boosts appreciated too, of course!

Do you want a truly useless fact? Here goes: Adolphe Sax, namesake (and inventor) of the saxophone, and John Philip Sousa, namesake (though not inventor) of the sousaphone, shared the same birthday (November 6). They were born exactly 40 years apart, in 1814 and 1854.

@baconandcoconut That would be Oskar der Griesgram. @mahryekuh

@mahryekuh Excuse me WHAT @baconandcoconut

@baconandcoconut You'll find this a little difficult to pronounce but Viennese has "Grantscheabm" (literally "shard of grouch").

There is also the less localised "Griesgram".

@mahryekuh

My prediction is that the next German loanword to become a staple of the English language (after schadenfreude, weltanschauung, and recently verkehrsverbund) will be gleichschaltung.

Anyone who says "I've never struggled with addiction" should pause for a moment and think about sugar.

Here's a question which we'd have called a #LazyWeb post before search engine results turned to crap; now I'd prefer to use #ExpertWeb instead.

I hope a PoliSci person reads this: are there studies exploring the prevalence of political groups employing a strategy (covert or overt) of pushing people on the opposite of the political spectrum to splinter groups unlikely to meet the electoral threshold, in party-list proportional representation systems?

(Boosts would be great, thanks!)

That's one proposal submitted for @pycon⁠🇮🇹. The CFP still runs until 2025-01-06 AoE.
https://2025.pycon.it/call-for-proposals

#PyConIT2025

You know all those pesky "your year in review" notifications that you're getting from a million apps?

The technical term for that is "annual recrap". Write it down, kids, and tell your friends.

Anyone got a Pinebook Pro with an ISO (en-UK) keyboard layout that you're no longer using and looking to rehome? I'd love to relieve you of it.

(They're not making them anymore. Boosts much appreciated.)

#PinebookPro