Notices by Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (neal@social.gompa.me)

@richardfontana @bkuhn @jbqueru The Sᴍᴀʟʟ Cᴀᴘs style is also how Cyrillic is always written. They don't have true diminutive forms like most Latin letterforms have.

@bkuhn @richardfontana @jbqueru Sure, I can read it. It's weird but intelligible. For the most part, it works like you'd expect.

@bkuhn @richardfontana @jbqueru I think Emoji is generally the way to go these days...

@bkuhn @richardfontana I don't think that's so strange. Pictograms of all kinds have contextual meanings, and emoticons have been the same. Contemporary emoji have different meanings on contexts, groups, age brackets, and societies.

That said, I'm not particularly aware of "computer geek" interpretations.

TIL English was capitalizing nouns also around the same time that German started doing it in the 17th century as a trick for creating emphasis in text. It apparently didn't take hold in English and mostly went away (except for title case) by the 19th century. What made it stick in German but not English?

@bkuhn @richardfontana You might be on to something. German never went through the change that English and Dutch went through where compounding fell out of favor. So the word salad that is German benefits more from the emphasis than English did.

As for the ſʒ thing, I'm happy that it's gone in English. I wish it had gone away in German too. The ß glyph is confusing.

@BrodieOnLinux Hah, you're talking about *Ubunchu!*? I remember when it was being produced. I followed along as it was being made. 😃

@BrodieOnLinux @technobaboo Back when I worked for a big Zoom customer, I was able to push them into a corner to get them to support portal-based screenshare. And that took nearly two years of concentrated effort to get that done.

Unfortunately, I no longer have the power to do anything about Zoom.

Nobody has any power to do anything about Discord.

@BrodieOnLinux @technobaboo Yes, it was implemented in GNOME 48. But we've gone so long without it that the incentive to use it has dropped precipitously.

@BrodieOnLinux @technobaboo Worse yet, nobody wanted to even try to implement it because only KDE Plasma implemented it. KDE was the *first* to implement the Global Shortcuts portal over three years ago, and yet nobody cared.

@dalias @ariadne @whitequark I know that Weston, KWin, and Miriway all support running as an X11 window. I think Sway does too, as wlroots has code for doing this, though the compositor built on the wlroots library needs it plumbed up.

@BrodieOnLinux Why don't you have at least an email address alias that uses your domain? It'd be shorter...

@BrodieOnLinux That's weird to me... I'm pretty sure I've streamed from KDE Plasma Wayland before.

Wait what, without OBS? What do you use to stream instead?

@BrodieOnLinux And an expansion of how I think we can look at the problem: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/156324/101

@BrodieOnLinux My response: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/156324/62

The new @fedora project leader has been anointed! #flocktofedora2025

Welcome @jspaleta (back) to Fedora!

@codonell @dalias I suppose it depends on whether you consider POSIX a good specification? Or whether the scope and capability of the C standard library is at the right level. I could see how you could view it as a weakness depending on how you answer those questions.

@codonell @dalias On the other hand, a lot of people consider POSIX a pretty weak foundation to build upon in the first place. The fact that divergent and incompatible C standard library implementations exist while equally conforming to POSIX is somewhat indicative of this.

Whether it is open source, technology, trees, spectrum, human rights, healthcare, broadband, and everything in between, this is always true...

@ariadne @BrodieOnLinux ... which I didn't do because after a decade of being an infrastructure engineer, I don't currently find being a sysadmin very fun anymore.

I paid for @mastohost. Since I previously was a patron of @fosstodon, I basically transferred that budget to this.