@hyperreal burying the lede slightly is the “Hugo” project. Moving the website off WML must be a massive undertaking but such a good idea
Rust has an m68k backend which seems somehow related to the Linux m68k community. I wonder if it can build m68k binaries that would execute (even boot) on an Amiga? Sans Linux etc
@jess I’ve seen several hardcore Excel users rubbish Google Sheets but for the level of usage I have (which isn’t “live in the spreadsheet” but it’s still substantial) i actually prefer it. Accessing them on phone though is terrible. Is Excel’s mobile app actually usable?
I think Collabora’s thing is derived from libreoffice but I’ve never tried it
I think Collabora’s thing is derived from libreoffice but I’ve never tried it
@elmiko @anticdent heh :) I don’t write much Java. I contain it, and sometimes hack on the VM, but that’s C++
I’ve used git daily for 15 years and there’s plenty I didn’t know in this excellent post https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/
Today’s coding was like waving a metaphorical machete through thickets of legacy. It felt good
I borrowed my first book from The Internet Archive @internetarchive Today. A late-70s Computer Science academic text
Needing to dust off my cv (not touched in a decade) was a good excuse to take a look at Typst: a modern attempt at TeX. Pretty cool! https://typst.app/
@operand good news! Ikiwiki.info is an SSG which doesn’t (yet) support those markdown preambles (and isn’t too blog centric)
@lispi314 @arh @argv_minus_one @fabiscafe
The programmer was asking for it then.
You're not wrong, but it is non-the-less a huge problem. I work on Java in $dayjob and the long tail of customers who have yet to move off JDK8 (latest we provide is JDK21) for these reasons is massive
@argv_minus_one @arh @fabiscafe that’s a good point. And something I think we could potentially improve in Debian
@lispi314 @arh @argv_minus_one @fabiscafe can confirm. I took over maintenance of an awt-using Java program written in 2001 (it’s a doom-related thing). The original version still works as it did (I’ve added a lot since: https://jmtd.net/wadc/)
@arh @argv_minus_one @fabiscafe so which version of Alpha Centauri is “acceptable” to run on modern Linux: the 25 year old Loki games binary, or the similar-age windows binary under WINE? (Bonus question: guess which is easier!) Or is the correct answer neither: start a project to clone the game from scratch?
@tertle950 @fabiscafe @arh @argv_minus_one Debian is currently behind xscreensaver upstream by one version (6.08 versus 6.09). Jwz’s blog post was 9 years ago. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xscreensaver
I’ve released version 3.20250221 of ikiwiki http://ikiwiki.info/news/version_3.20250221/