@unixtippse You're thinking about the Apt sources.list files? Yeah, considering the configuration files are in a different format, it is a bit weird.
But the format is simple enough, and should be possible to parse with an email parser, and is used a lot in the dpkg ecosystem, so it makes some sense standardizing on it.
@cstross I can't recommend LibreOffice enough! It's intuitive, reliable, feature-rich and stable. Plus you can import or export in pretty much any document format in existence.
I have had compatibility issues in the past - a job application form which didn't work in LibreOffice because all the input fields were broken, for some inscrutable reason - but it's a rare enough occurrence to not be worth worrying about.
@k I am self-taught at touch-typing. We did have typewriter lessons (!) in school (this was around 1991), and the teacher was annoyed at me because I didn't use the right fingers, but I still typed faster than she did...
The desperate Colonial regime currently engage in genocide, having extra cheers added for their murder-apologia song. Liars, murderers, fascists.....and they want us to accept them and call them masters. They want to control our Reality, our minds, our thoughts, so they don't feel the judgment of our eyes for what they have done.
Cowardly gaslighting the European continent, forcing their twisted view of Humanity into our lives....
SO is still a treasure trove of well-curated content to find answers to problems, though. But you have to be careful to look at the dates (both to avoid old content, and to avoid AI slop).
@oatmeal@dbattistella It is weird. But of course someone voting 20 times for political reasons will always trump my five votes for musical merit (to five different songs).
@oatmeal@dbattistella There's absolutely no reason whatsoever (except for #Eurovision greed) to allow more than a single vote per identifiable entity. And that identifier needs to be better than "credit card" or "phone number".
@crazydutchy When I went to the app, all I needed was to confirm my country and then enter a credit card number to vote 20 times. I guess with multiple cards, I could spoof whatever number of votes I wanted?
I ended up SMS voting instead. But you only need to get a number of pre-paids to do that.
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