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Well, to be fair, then it's precisely a theoretical concern about hardware sovereignty.

How curious! So am I, and that is the project that I am the closest to regretting open sourcing. I made the mistake of also implementing keyboard and mouse monitoring---you know, s…

I don't speak Farsi, but some Arabic, and the Farsi alphabet is related. The letters are completely different in pronunciation: with one dot, it's like the English letter B, and wi…

I, personally, think you can have nice things like this and they will not get abused. If the right to forage mushrooms on a non-industrial scale, or to walk along the shore next to…

I read the article twice, because the link title made me think that I as an open source contributor and publisher liable for complaints. My reading of the text is that the one actu…

Yeah, I was hoping the `clap` macros would perform some unthinkable magic there... I will have to update the help with a listing. In the mean time, have a look here[1] for the poss…

The main application is actually a thin wrapper around a library that does exactly that, so the best way would be to not perform the final step of turning the data structure into a…

A kind soul contributed an update to the README---basically the output of `cargo run --bin maze-maker -- --help. I guess today's lesson is: do promote your personal project even wh…

No, you'll have to exercise your own CPU I'm afraid!

This, I presume, it's the perfect opportunity to promote my own maze generator[1], which incidentally is a Real Application that you can run on your own computer, and the output of…

Ah, this brings back memories! A long time ago I maintained a fascination with this, during which I made an application to interactively explore a labyrinth using animated auto-ste…

My favourite part of the article, hailing from a part of the world _sans raton laveur_, was the explanation of "Raccoon trouble" for purchasing a lot of potatoes. What's with racco…

it is not missing: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3210/compiz-windows-e... . My eldest son has it running on his account, and I predict that later today those wobbly window…

And of you would consider it taboo, would you still if the same generic sequence were found in another species?

I find it curious that somebody so invested in recreating a medieval mead does not put in the extra effort of procuring long pepper and grains of paradise---those are certainly spi…

I think supply is not the only thing to consider. I suffered a SARS-CoV-2 infection around Easter, and received my first vaccine dose a week ago. The days after that I felt much wo…

A friend of mine aliased `git status` `git statsu`; I, being lazier, chose `git st`. Any time saved I lost by not copying his other alias, `c = commit -amSTUFF`...

What about gettext _N? I have used a library with a similar interface, and we didn't even get complaints for Slavic languages with very complex pluralisation rules.

I think that the reasoning against shipping apples across the globe is that consumers do not pay the full price; one might argue that the transportation is subsidised by our extrac…

Thank you :-) I have been silently reading linked articles and comments here for a couple of years; apparently I needed a reason to push my own semi dormant project as well as an a…

I have had that as a low-intensive side project for the last three years. It's amazing how responsive a virtual touchpad you can create using touch events + HTML 5 + websockets!