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@ska Your privacy is important to them in the same way that your money is important to thieves.

#Rust’s error handling is so much more robust than Python’s approach. It’s so much easier to write software that doesn’t crash… Except for all those interfaces in the stdlib which panic in case of error (especially during allocation failures), because Rust has two, slightly incompatible approaches to error handling.

@dnkl https://github.com/audacious-media-player/audacious/pull/1597

TLDR: audacious removed support for opening directories via a file manager.

Some mis-configured DEs don't configure a default file manager, and use the first program (sorted alphabetically) to open directories, so audacious is used when opening a directory.

Instead of fixing the broken DEs they just dropped support for opening directories in audacious.

The proposed solution is just patch the file yourself, and keep patching it, for the rest of your life.

Is there any music player for Linux/Wayland that has feature-parity with #winamp from 1999?

Please boost for wider reach.

"We removed this feature to work around a bug in another unrelated program. We won't re-introduce this feature, it might be a problem for users who have that other buggy program installed".

@navi @lanodan We _could_ write a brand new man(1) which reads both mdoc(7) and man(7) but has support for links and reflowing. I'll put it at the end of my TODO list, I might have time in 735 years.

@lanodan @navi I wish man(1) would support things like following references.

@lanodan @navi I see, I'd quite misunderstood the situation.

Inspecting the raw man page for rc-update and sway I see that they are slightly different (being mdoc and man respectively). man(1) doesn't care about the difference and renders both without issues.

mdoc(7) is definitely more readable than man(7). The description for man(7) refers to it as "legacy formatting language for manual pages".

@mirabilos @navi @lanodan

Note sure I'd go as far as call it "lovely", but it's readable if you know the meaning of the macros. I do wish we had something closer to markdown/scdoc that still supported all the semantics of mdoc.

@lanodan @navi Indeed, they are mdoc. If I understand correctly, mdoc is a subset of roff with some additional macros. It's the format into which all man pages are compiled.

See: https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc.7

@navi @lanodan The mention on the list was my own: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/public-inbox/%3Ca31b8cd7-079b-4a7f-b6c5-01d90b5bd08f@app.fastmail.com%3E

I tried to produce a patch but failed miserably. A larger refactor is required. If you want to give it a shot, it would be most appreciated!

scdoc is also missing support for Sx, which allows linking to another section in the page (man pagers merely style the link, but HTML renders will insert the appropriate anchors). This one is less important, but nice to have.

What would you use to create high quality man pages?

scdoc and asciidoc don't support cross-references.

I'm kind of starting to see why some authors just write raw troff and commit that, but I'd like something more human-friendly if possible.

@elly But Matrix has VC money and blockchain and all the hype 🚀🚀🚀

Honestly, it's disappointing that so much of the open source community is chasing behind the hype around Matrix.

@martijnbraam Do you really need a full blown toolkit? Can't you use native wayland. Seeing as how that you're already doing the complex part of rendering into a buffer using OpenGL, talking to the compositor directly and creating the toplevel should be much simpler. You only have a few buttons on top of that, right?

@ptrc @lanodan Apparently things changed for offline payments in 2023. Before that, credit cards didn't even work in most non-tourist places. I'm not entirely sure which network they use now. But for online payments, the local bank cards simply don't have a number to use (they have the account's IBAN on it).

@ptrc @lanodan Based on replies, it seems to be a specific Dutch thing. I'm amused that other countries rely purely on the regular Visa / Mastercard credit card network for local payments. Doesn't that result in the transaction fee being charged by an external party?

@lanodan Local bank cards are not usable online in the same way as credit cards. They do not have a 16-digit number that can be used, they are a different network.

It's ridiculous how many EU companies require a credit card to make payments across EU countries.

I have the money already, I can send it NOW from my bank to yours. I don't need to ask for a credit.

These companies expect me to pay an annual fee to obtain a credit card from which I pay them. I then have to deal with the mental overhead of tracking credits that I've taken for these payments.

As a bonus, we pay a small fee to an American company that's behind the whole scheme.

@cas The irony of designing something exclusively for phones and then putting the main controls on the top of the screen.

My reason for using offlineimap is because it supports IMAP IDLE, but its IDLE support has been broken for years, so I use it with IDLE disabled.

#email #askfedi #imap #offlineimap