John Sullivan @johns@librem.one
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
Right, everyone who currently downloads #NFL games not available on their broadcast television would certainly pay the $300 annually for NFL Sunday Ticket if those downloads were not available. Does anybody really fall for the way these companies calculate their "damages"? Unfortunately, yes.
@vegantacos Yeah.. That might have to be it for the moment -- though maybe just with some emacs commands instead of awk ;)
@ompaul Those are the same instructions I linked to and tried to follow -- works if I type it in, doesn't work if I find+replace.
the race is on to see if I can figure out how to make copy/paste work right in less time than I can just type '0 263 times.
I assume I am doing something wrong, but not sure what. Clearing direct formatting and then reformatting either as text or a number doesn't seem to change anything -- the '0 is still displayed both ways.
#LibreOffice Calc says to preserve a leading 0 in a number, put a single apostrophe in front of it: https://help.libreoffice.org/6.2/en-US/text/scalc/guide/integer_leading_zero.html
If I type that in manually, it indeed works.
If I do find and replace to put a '0 at the start of every number in the column, the ' is displayed in the cell. Same if I paste in the cell contents.
Yeah so Chapel Hill public school Chromebooks disable View Source in the browser.
John Sullivan
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Just used "wea culpa" in a meeting for a group mistake.
Super great that UNC Chapel Hill police are sharing important public safety info -- photo of a suspected shooter at large -- on Twitter and not on their own public alert site.
I so wish I could reply to every SMS OTP I receive with "Dear Company, Thank you. Sincerely, John"
I often don't eat breakfast until I've been up for a couple hours and it's no problem. But tell me I have to fast before a morning doctor's appointment and I'm ravenous as soon as I wake up.
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Hashtags didn't start out as a software feature on Twitter.
@chrismessina proposed their use, and for a long time, they were just a cultural norm.
It was months later that Twitter engineers turned them into links that went to a search result screen.
Same thing with @-addressing. It was a practice for blog comments that came over to Twitter, but there was a long time that there were no affordances in the UI to support them.
Same with retweets. People starting using "RT", and it took off.
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And Their Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid is probably the album I've listened to the most over the last 10 years (even though it's 2 hours long).
RIP Brian McBride
https://pitchfork.com/news/stars-of-the-lids-brian-mcbride-dies-at-53/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSR9gCFKHNE
So sad to learn of Brian McBride's passing -- he was known in the wider world for his music as Stars of the Lid, but I knew him from his amazing work and mentorship in the narrow world of high school and college policy debate. So smart, talented, and kind, and carried himself in a way I always wanted to emulate -- just total genuine coolness.
https://pitchfork.com/news/stars-of-the-lids-brian-mcbride-dies-at-53/
Dear all online publications, when you are writing about someone's death, maybe ditch the usual "You May Also LIke" sidebar.
John Sullivan
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Linux on a Commodore 64 (Via Emulator and Speed up - a real C64 would need a RAM expansion and would take a week to boot): https://github.com/onnokort/semu-c64 #linux #update #release #c64 #commodore
@luis_in_brief Yeah, loved the Chambers series, will definitely read the rest of hers after a little break.
John Sullivan
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I shouldn't have to say this, but what a particular version number refers to shouldn't ever change. If you do a bad release, bump the version. Pull the old version if you are particularly concerned people might get a really bad version, but FFS don't just update what the version points at.
One of my greatest frustrations with contemporary computing is SCROLLING.
Why is this worse than it used to be, and why does it keep getting worse?
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
