Notices by Joaquim Homrighausen (joho@mastodon.online)

It'd be interesting to track US prices for 50-100 items from January 1 2025 to December 31 2025; like smartphones, US made cars, imported cars, laptops, US made beer, imported beer, general groceries, gasoline and diesel 🧐

At the same time also tracking US unemployment and the stock exchange.

I mean, we all know these numbers will look great! It'll probably be the best numbers we've ever seen. Because. You know ... 😑

#usa #us #uspolitics #tariffs #tradewar #trump #uslife #prices #consumer

I need a translation, from "Engrish" to "English", please ... 🤔🥸 It's like a never ending stream of sewage, of horseshit ... I'm thinking this is some sort of strategy ... talk rubbish for as long as possible so that people just fall asleep.

I can't wait for the fact check on this one 😑

https://www.youtube.com/live/7DoW68U2ZNk?si=lfVZgPQ3YnmIy6QF

#donaldtrump #usa #uspol #uspolitics #economy #inflation #recession #tariffs #language

@nafmo That may be an insult, to the toddler ... 🤔

@GossiTheDog "Mastodon" really needs to get cracking on full data portability, IMHO.

It's a shame this hasn't been pushed higher up on the list of things to do.

I think many people have invested quite a bit of time and effort into their posts and profiles, and moving all that data, or somehow managing a switch-over doesn't seem to be that simple, if at all possible.

#mastodon #portability #dataportability #fediverse

Reading this really makes me realize how important education is. For everyone 🤔🧐 And it's not just the comment about "illegal border crossings". I'm not all that surprised that there are, shall we say, "issues".

"Remarks by President Trump before Cabinet Meeting"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/2025/02/remarks-by-president-trump-before-cabinet-meeting/

#uspolitics #uspol #usa #donaldtrump #politics #whitehouse #education

How to show the world that you can no longer be trusted. For real. This is way beyond "bad behavior" 🤬

"Abruptly Blocking Intel, The U.S. Prevents Ukraine’s HIMARS From Firing For Maximum Effect"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/05/abruptly-blocking-intel-the-us-prevents-ukraines-himars-from-firing-for-maximum-effect/

#ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #uspol #uspolitics #donaldtrump #usa

@pixelfed

I think you should look up "FidoNet" 😊

Granted, it was "distributed" and not "Federated", but if you compare technologies available at the time, I think you'll find similarities there too.

Regardless, we're moving in a good direction!

@evan

#fidonet #fediverse

@heiglandreas I didn't do that part, I'm just looking at the output, which is what I need to be correct.

But @thanius and @lpwaterhouse may be onto something here.

Maybe I'll just stick to transliteration then. I'm probably overworking the code, but I hate to leave thing to "chance" when I develop.

@heiglandreas

The data is stored in an SQL database. I've started to encrypt the (sensitive parts of) data at rest. So I need to do in-memory comparisons and sorting.

Normally, I would compare w/all umlauts, etc, but in this particular case, I want to get a match on "vårsol" when I'm searching for "vårsol" or "varsol". And this matching is, after decryption, done in the application layer.

(And I don't want to use specific database functionality to handle all this.)

@thanius @lpwaterhouse

@heiglandreas

Yes, transliteration is the way to go in this case, which is what I'm doing now.

Thanks for all the advice, and pointers in the right direction.

@thanius @lpwaterhouse
@nafmo

Why does this PHP construct:

normalizer_normalize( $search_string, \Normalizer::FORM_D );

Convert ÖÖÖ to OOO, but keeps ÅÅÅ as ÅÅÅ ... WTF?! 🤔

#programming #php #wtf #utf #utf8

@tomjennings I think everyone doing "coding" (not assembling and pulling copies of repos into their stuff) these days would benefit from a two week course, where they get to hang out with some "old-timer" and do some actual coding!

@tomjennings Doesn't ftsc.org work?

@tomjennings Hmm... I should create a Github repo for these, or mirror them on defsol.com 🤔

I'm not done yet, but it's a start. I can't be bother to automate it for this one-off 😉

FidoNet Technical Standards Committee documents

https://defsol.com/f_ftsc

#fidonet #ftsc #document #techdoc #documentation #retro #mirror #archive

So, FrontDoor 24.01 (DOS) and FrontDoor 24.01 (OS/2) are now available 🙃😊🐶🚪

https://defsol.com/downloads/definite-solutions/frontdoor-re-boot

#frontdoor #ftn #fidonet #retrocomputing #reboot #programming #programmer

Well, what do you know, you *can* revive the old days 😉

https://defsol.com/downloads/definite-solutions/frontdoor-re-boot

#fidonet #retrocomputing #retro #geek #frontdoor #xmodem #zmodem #lotech #hitech #lol #becauseican

Why is Microsoft making hundreds of millions of PCs obsolete with Windows 11? 🤔😑 🇪🇺

https://www.joho.se/2024/12/11/why-is-microsoft-making-hundreds-of-millions-of-pcs-obsolete-with-windows-11

#microsoft #antitrust #eu #windows #windows11 #hardware #pc #windows10

I've always said that "IT" (whatever that means to you) follows an interesting cyclic sinus-like wave. Some people who see the beginning of a curve and then experience a shift away from trends, quite often also see a "return to base" of sorts.

The Fediverse reminds me quite a bit about what we did in FidoNet "back in the days", but using the Internet as a bearer, which obviously opens up possibilities.

#fediverse #bbs #fidonet #online #internet

Finally, maybe, it seems like the EU is waking up ... 🤔🇪🇺🐧

Sovereign OS "EU Linux"

https://lab.abilian.com/Tech/Linux/Sovereign%20OS%20-%20%22EU%20Linux%22

#linux #opensource #foss #oss #eu #europe