Can anyone recommend a service to get a 'virtual' US phone number? Something I can put into forms that require a US number. I'm not in the US. Nice to have: voicemail, SMS, receive calls somehow (voip? app?) TIA!
Shout out for “Whisper”, a deliberately simple Pipewire app that Just Works: https://mijorus.it/projects/whisper/
@baldur my local electronics store (wonderful place) maintains two entirely separate websites, the older one a more traditional reproduction of a catalogue, the newer one “e-commerce”
@dougmerritt @nixCraft I’d quite like to see more sites block gmail and find out what happens tbh
Would you argue that Python 3 isn’t Python?
It’s definitely not Python 2, and should not be (IMHO) /usr/bin/python. So it really depends on the context. Python-the-project, python-the-language, python-the-binary, etc.
Similarly it’s no surprise people still stumble over what is referred to by the label “CentOS”.
@edavies @DamonHD @neil I didn't know about paged feeds/RFC 5005, very interesting, thank you. Sadly even if e.g. FreshRSS supported it, FreshRSS's poor behaviour with new feeds (all entries are considered 'new', drowning out the recent timeline) could carry across if it just walked the links. So it's orthogonal to that problem (but I agree useful for the bandwidth problem)
@neil @edavies I was surprised to discover that FreshRSS (I'd wager one of the most popular readers these days) still handles this badly: if I added your feed to my instance, you'd drown out all other feeds in the recent list. I don't know why FreshRSS does this, rather than honour the entry dates; perhaps it's configurable. But if other readers behave similarly, that's one reason to avoid having huge lists of entries in feeds.
This excellent article about clojure programming has got me thinking; is neovim/lua there yet? https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2017-12-29-the-bare-minimum-clojure-mayonnaise
It's BBC 6 Music's T-Shirt day today: I never remember about it, but coincidentally I've got my Bauhaus tee on today
@laxla thanks: I hadn't seen or tried "minted" from those answers, so I'll give it a look!
@laxla Thanks for your input. Most Markdown→PDF workflows round-trip via LaTeX (I'm pretty sure Pandoc does). And I'm not sure they do anything special wrt formatting code -- likely just monospace it. Alas it's too late in my write-up to rework the whole thing in Markdown (or anything else) now. FWIW I've been mostly happy with LaTeX.
@rivets for alignment? or legibility? I've seen convincing arguments both for and against legibility of proportional versus monospaced text. Personally I'm not sure.
@laxla Latex is a pretty natural choice for writing a PhD thesis. What would you suggest instead?
@juliank ah it's ok, I've found someone else has mirrored it. Oh man there's a lot of bootstrap ikiwiki themes
@juliank 👋 do you still have an online copy of your old IkiWiki Bootstrap theme somewhere? T'was on Alioth iirc. TIA!
this is copying the syntax highlighting decisions that my code editor is using, but now I'm wondering, more fundamentally, what do I want to emphasise or de-emphasise? what is important? aargh
