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Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages

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Post by qb45 »

stock_toaster wrote: post #54
DominikD wrote: post #50

This patch is a prime example of why I understand OpenBSD devs' frustration with newcomers. It takes several hours of lurking to get the general idea of what OpenBSD culture[1] is. And yet about once or twice a week there's someone new coming with some demand, backward idea or GPL evangelism, who gets aggressive when challenged. I'd flip the table every single time if I were one of the contributors. [1] as long as yo…

> And yet about once or twice a week there's someone new > coming with some demand, backward idea or GPL evangelism, > who gets aggressive when challenged. You forgot to mention the people who try to spam the lists with propaganda for their own rando OpenBSD fork or derivative. As a regular reader of openbsd-misc, considering the relatively low volume of the list, the frequency with which people just storm in with ba…

You are in a maze of gpio pins, all alike, all undocumented, and a few are wired to bombs.

Is this theo.c what it appears to be?

Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages

#62

Post by philovivero »

logicrook wrote: post #11

I have a script that do most installations and configurations that I run after each Linux install. It contains the following lines: ### fix font issues sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/comic* sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Comic* So no comic sans cancer for me (except when people are perverse enough to put it into images, or worse, meatspace...)

Look into "find -iname '...' -print0 | xargs -0"

Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages

#63

Post by nickysielicki »

stock_toaster wrote: post #54
DominikD wrote: post #50

This patch is a prime example of why I understand OpenBSD devs' frustration with newcomers. It takes several hours of lurking to get the general idea of what OpenBSD culture[1] is. And yet about once or twice a week there's someone new coming with some demand, backward idea or GPL evangelism, who gets aggressive when challenged. I'd flip the table every single time if I were one of the contributors. [1] as long as yo…

> And yet about once or twice a week there's someone new > coming with some demand, backward idea or GPL evangelism, > who gets aggressive when challenged. You forgot to mention the people who try to spam the lists with propaganda for their own rando OpenBSD fork or derivative. As a regular reader of openbsd-misc, considering the relatively low volume of the list, the frequency with which people just storm in with ba…

The shame of it is that misc posts asking for help are frequently ignored while any troll can pop up asking about LibertyBSD or the GPL and fresh replies roll in for a week or more.

Misc needs more self-restraint.

Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages

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Post by exolymph »

alice_Alice wrote: post #22
gpvos wrote: post #12

> "sans-serif; }\n” Note the incorrect, "smart" quote at the end of the line. I'm not sure if that's intentional, but this is going to be interesting.

Must.. Control.. Fist... ...of Death!

I don't understand why this was downvoted?

Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages

#65

Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

protomyth wrote: post #57
stock_toaster wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't their weaponization of Comic Sans start with LibreSSL?

Beck describes it in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU [edit: slide at ~ 47 minutes]

Link to specific time (exactly 49:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU&t=49m

Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

kmm wrote: post #29
gpvos wrote: post #12

> "sans-serif; }\n” Note the incorrect, "smart" quote at the end of the line. I'm not sure if that's intentional, but this is going to be interesting.

Interestingly, my browser detects the page as Windows-1252 and displays that quote as ”

That's because marc.info doesn't supply a Content-Type header (or equivalent tag) to specify encoding, so the browser must assume it's using some 8-bit one. On most computers in Western Europe, the US and so on, it'll assume Windows-1252.

You have to explicitly specify you want UTF-8 to get it. This would seem to be strange since it's The Encoding now, but assuming 8-bit is necessary for backwards-compatibility, I'm guessing.

Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages

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Post by DominikD »

nickysielicki wrote: post #63
stock_toaster wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And yet about once or twice a week there's someone new > coming with some demand, backward idea or GPL evangelism, > who gets aggressive when challenged. You forgot to mention the people who try to spam the lists with propaganda for their own rando OpenBSD fork or derivative. As a regular reader of openbsd-misc, considering the relatively low volume of the list, the frequency with which people just storm in with ba…

The shame of it is that misc posts asking for help are frequently ignored while any troll can pop up asking about LibertyBSD or the GPL and fresh replies roll in for a week or more. Misc needs more self-restraint.

Most of the questions that aren't answered in manuals do get attention. Manuals exist for a reason and reading them is one of the core requirements for using OpenBSD and asking questions on various lists.

Theo once said (quoting him sounds super preachy, I know) that "if you can't study the world around you, you will remain ignorant", and this perfectly reflect what is truly important about OpenBSD lists.

This and understanding that some of the questions get answered off the list (I know people who got their answers like this and I know I did help once or twice in this fashion). ;)

Re: No comic sans in httpd status pages

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Post by Navarr »

snuxoll wrote: post #33
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #26

https://web.archive.org/web/20140625075722/http://www.libres... > This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags All the OpenBSD presentations I've read have been in Comic Sans. They really like that font :)

I think they do it to make a point, they don't care about stuff being pretty, they care about it being sane and secure. If the only thing you complain about is a typeface then maybe they're doing their job right :)

You could say that - but since the font is such a large "nuisance" it serves as a distraction vector.
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