Many folks don't know that the Unicode standard is actually much older then they think. Here's the spec as of 1889 


"Unicode", 1889: The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-book. A Code of Cypher Words for Commercial ... : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.archive.org
Hach, das war damals das erste Meme dem ich im Web über den Weg gelaufen bin. Schön, dass Archive.org daran arbeitet Flash-Animationen auch für künftige Generationen zu erhalten! #MakeTheWebWeirdAgain

All your base are belong to us : The Laziest Men on Mars, Bad_CRC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
All your base are belong to us is a popular Internet meme based on a phrase found in the opening cutscene of the European release of the 1992 Mega...archive.org
Started looking into gemini space. Love how it feels - it's like the web ca. mid-90s. UI is back under your control and you can focus on reading the content instead of getting the site to work (because either you have issues with noscript turned on and sites requiring JS to display text or you have it disabled and have to click through modal windows informing you of cookie settings, sign up for that newsletter, etc. to get to the content).
I'm using Castor and wanted to merry it to my Gnome desktop, so clicking links in Firefox/Chromium opens them in Castor. Oh, and I got a gopher client for free with it as well. Was bummed when Firefox dropped gopher support. Here's how to register the gemini protocol in Gnome (and build castor):
I'm using Castor and wanted to merry it to my Gnome desktop, so clicking links in Firefox/Chromium opens them in Castor. Oh, and I got a gopher client for free with it as well. Was bummed when Firefox dropped gopher support. Here's how to register the gemini protocol in Gnome (and build castor):
While grep and sed are commoly used, awk fills a valuable niche when processing structured text, avoiding multiple pipes or more complicated regex extractions. Here is a handy flowchart to pick the ideal tool for your text processing task:

A plaintext chart and a simple example making use of several awk features can be found here:

A plaintext chart and a simple example making use of several awk features can be found here:
Small tools to use as (non-sharable) sketchpads - if you need a quick spreadsheet calculation or text editor and are to lazy to open a terminal. Good example of #minimalism and very #privacy minded.
Maybe a concept we could evaluate for use in our fediverse software as well:
This forms a relative reputation system. As uncomfortable as it may be, one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and different jurisdictions have different laws - and it’s not up to the Matrix.org Foundation to play God and adjudicate. Each user/moderator/admin should be free to make up their own mind and decide which reputation feeds to align themselves with.
Everything you always wanted to know about punch card data encoding, but were afraid to ask:
@Retrocomputing Forum #RetroComputing

@Retrocomputing Forum #RetroComputing

What did code on punch cards do with the other six bits per column?
In the fifties and sixties, program source code was typically stored on punch cards, one card per line.retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
The most common card format was the IBM 80 column by 12 row. For source code, this was commonly
#RetroComputing @Retrocomputing Forum

Atari Portfolio address file reader
Little command line reader application for the Atari Portfolio address file format. While intended to store addresses, it is a neat little key/value database and can be used to store all kinds of information. Many Portfolio users stored other things in it, for example command references, notes or task lists.github.com
Falls Du einen hast und das Display noch funktioniert - Quietscht Deiner auch so, beim Aufklappen? Bei meinem habe ich deswegen versucht das Scharnier etwas zu ölen, aber es ist immer noch recht laut. Auch habe ich den Bolzen wie im PoFo-Wiki beschrieben bearbeitet, um hoffentlich die Lebensdauer des Bildschirmkabels etwas zu verlängern.
Ich habe das Teil seit Jahren nicht mehr benutzt. Ich kann mich noch daran erinnern, wie ich 1999 damit an einem meiner Romane an Bord eines Flugzeugs auf dem Weg in die USA getippt habe.
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Das Gerät (32620) hinter dem Zahlensender
Having fun learning how to use flex box CSS rules by playing this tower defense game:


Flexbox Defense
Your job is to stop the incoming enemies from getting pastwww.flexboxdefense.com
your defenses. Unlike other tower defense games, you must
position your towers using CSS!
Für mein erstes Projekt in Rust suche ich noch eine geeignete freie Lizenz. Da es sich um einen Dienst handelt, welcher hauptsächlich als Webseite genutzt wird, hatte ich an die AGPL gedacht. Mir fiel aber auf, das die meisten darin verwendeten Bibliotheken MIT und Apache lizenziert sind, was ich eher von Software kenne, die auch kommerziell genutzt werden soll. Für Empfehlungen die für oder gegen eine der genannten Lizenzen sprechen bin ich dankbar. #FollowerPower
RT @Esquiring - Sufficiently advanced data recovery is indistinguishable from dark cybernetic ritual:

Technology Holy Wars are Coordination Problems
Flamewars over platforms & upgrades are so bitter not because people are jerks but because the choice will influence entire ecosystems, benefiting one platform through network effects & avoiding 'bitrot' while subtly sabotaging the rest through 'bitc…www.gwern.net
Duff's device (ca. 1984)
Via jargon file, Kommentar von Tom Duff
register n = (count + 7) / 8; /* count > 0 assumed */
switch (count % 8)
{
case 0: do { *to = *from++;
case 7: *to = *from++;
case 6: *to = *from++;
case 5: *to = *from++;
case 4: *to = *from++;
case 3: *to = *from++;
case 2: *to = *from++;
case 1: *to = *from++;
} while (--n > 0);
}
Via jargon file, Kommentar von Tom Duff
Oh, cool: Wenn man die Nachricht vom Enigma Coin aus dem Open Enigma for dummies Handbuch entschlüsselt, stösst man auf ein Geocache-Rätsel in der Schweiz. Ich bin dann mal Beschäftigt.
@ripper: "Ortsnamen fangen immer mit Buchstaben an." https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%99s-Hertogenbosch
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Zwar von Google, aber enthält sehr interessante Informationen: https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
Zeigt eindrucksvoll was man aus den Metadaten alles rauslesen kann, wenn man Zugriff auf all das hat.

Zeigt eindrucksvoll was man aus den Metadaten alles rauslesen kann, wenn man Zugriff auf all das hat.

COVID-19 Community Mobility Report
See how your community is moving around differently due to COVID-19www.google.com
PrivateBin v1.3.4 released - Fixing HTML entities, custom expiration, pasting into password field
https://privatebin.info/news/v1.3.4-release.html
https://privatebin.info/news/v1.3.4-release.html
Neue Services:
- https://test.dssr.ch/ - Infos zur eigenen Verbindung mit dem Webserver auf (IP, Verschlüsselung, etc.)
- https://meet.dssr.ch/ - video meetings, etherpad, screensharing
Hinweise und Verbesserungsvorschläge sind herzlich willkommen!
- https://test.dssr.ch/ - Infos zur eigenen Verbindung mit dem Webserver auf (IP, Verschlüsselung, etc.)
- https://meet.dssr.ch/ - video meetings, etherpad, screensharing
Hinweise und Verbesserungsvorschläge sind herzlich willkommen!
Nachtrag: Jitsi Wasserzeichen entfernt. Das Etherpad kann man auch direkt nutzen ohne meeting unter https://meet.dssr.ch/etherpad/
Question to PrivateBin users - Should we change the term "paste" to something else?
https://www.systemli.org/poll/#/poll/WO1PEAFQ5K/participation?encryptionKey=hEbthZLaLJupBHwsAKJoUIVLMWzSF6ozcHSDb2yl
#followerpower #poll
https://www.systemli.org/poll/#/poll/WO1PEAFQ5K/participation?encryptionKey=hEbthZLaLJupBHwsAKJoUIVLMWzSF6ozcHSDb2yl
#followerpower #poll
PrivateBin v1.3.3 & v1.2.3 - Fixing HTML entity double encoding issues introduced in 1.3.2 & 1.2.2 https://privatebin.info/news/v1.3.3-v1.2.3-release.html
PrivateBin 1.3.2 & 1.2.2 released - Fix for persistent XSS vulnerability in filenames of attached files
https://privatebin.info/news/v1.3.2-v1.2.2-release.html
https://privatebin.info/news/v1.3.2-v1.2.2-release.html
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#PSA #TIL When saving passwords in Chrome or Android, these aren't just stored locally, but may get automatically copied to the cloud. Check https://passwords.google.com/ if it did so and disable it, if this isn't wanted.
I discovered it had stored over 150 accounts from a work related device more then 5 years ago, when I must have signed in with a google account, that I only created to be able to use an Android back then. Fortunately most accounts got their passwords changed since then, but I deleted them all nonetheless and will have to change passwords on some of them.
I do use a password manager integrated in Firefox (Passman), but store those in my nextcloud instance at home, where I can physically pull the plug if necessary. The fact that the Google browsers did this without my consent or even telling me that this was part of what the Google account did is really bad UX design, to say the least. Firefox was always very transparent about its synchronization feature and back in the day you could synch it with your own server instead of the Mozilla provided one. At least I can choose to use Firefox without signing in and with different, self-hosted synchronization solutions.
I do use a password manager integrated in Firefox (Passman), but store those in my nextcloud instance at home, where I can physically pull the plug if necessary. The fact that the Google browsers did this without my consent or even telling me that this was part of what the Google account did is really bad UX design, to say the least. Firefox was always very transparent about its synchronization feature and back in the day you could synch it with your own server instead of the Mozilla provided one. At least I can choose to use Firefox without signing in and with different, self-hosted synchronization solutions.
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Didn't remember how awkward it is to get disconnected from the net. Now having to use my backup SIM card in the notebook for internet over GPRS/WWAN - to rant on social media about not having internet.