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@chjara@mk.absturztau.be Based and misoprostoled.

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.hg Okay, let's talk about blockcodes!

I have a usecase for blockcodes.

They will be displayed on screens (printed much less commonly if at all) and scanned by phones (or other form factors of computers). They will usually encode ~192 bytes of binary data (but should be fairly scalable, just in case that grows significantly in the future).

I care about:
1. Sparsity (they'll frequently be rendered in one phone and scanned by another, so they should be able to encode those ~192 bytes without becoming too dense)
2. Resilience (an important part of any bitcode)
3. Free standards (everything about the encoding should be public, not behind a paywall or encumbered by a patent)
bonus 4. Ease of decoding by paw (see mst3k.interlinked.me/@moonbolt )

I don't care about:
* Conformity (the overall system design can be altered to accommodate; implementors will be told they should support whatever encoding I choose; compatibility with other systems is not a requirement)

Suggestions?

@moonbolt Wait, what? QR codes are nonfree?

Skimmed the Wikipedia article and it might not be the case anymore? The explanation there is confusing. :/

@wetsocks @chjara@mk.absturztau.be I put it on repeat if I really need to get some stuff done over a couple of hours.

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- Click "Download PDF"
- IEEE: Pay $30 first!
- Open the paper via Sci-Hub
- "This paper is U.S. Government work, not protected by U.S. copyright."

#TIL Fun fact: some papers on Sci-Hub is 100% legal.

@fibonacci_reminder @moonbolt "The Element Animals" seems *too* direct to me, names rarely contain a direct description of the people they are naming, usually at most some of their properties. But maybe it's just because I really like the aesthetic of "The Astrally Forged", implying effort in creation and somehow great power.

In the end it's about aesthetic preferences – direct, simple, minimal (and clearly plural) vs immensely powerful magic item creation vibe, ambiguity, cosmos (and perhaps a suggestion of either connecting multiples into one or splitting one into multiples). The parenthesed things might be important, since they influence how your identity might be perceived?

@chjara@mk.absturztau.be It's not a *personality* cult if you are an actual incarnation of a goddess, right?

coronavirus ---, mh ---, sui ideation 

@moonbolt Aa, please don't, I'm so scared for y'all right now and I'm just a random Masto follower. If y'all need someone to talk to (Matrix/jitsi/whatever) or have some other idea how I might help please let me know.

Virtual hugs, for what they are worth.

@mathias Thanks a lot for the explanation, my curiosity is satisfied. :>

I'll ask a friend who uses emacs with polish diacritics how he works with that. Don't expect much though, the most popular polish keyboard layout is just the US one with AltGr added, so the problem might be much less severe.

@mathias Thanks for the link, I'm still confused, but it clarified a bit.

Do I understand correctly that the problem is you cannot refer to AltGr in emacs config? Or is AltGr always interpreted as Alt?

Yuri's response from that thread seems reasonable -- switching keyboard layouts should probably happen at the DM level, so the problem would be rather be that emacs is not suited to working with non-US keyboard layouts, right?

How do you work with this in vim? Do you just always keep one keyboard layout and everything works, or do you switch them?

@mathias Huh, that makes me very confused. I know quite a bit of polish people who use the setup you describe, and I would expect this to come up in some conversation, since AltGr is crucial for writing common diacritics.

What do you mean by "no support for a key"?

Note that I never used emacs, so I have no idea what I'm talking about. Just confusion.

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also looking for CP437 fonts reminded me that i made a 16-seg-like font for dwarf fortress once
it's beautifully ugly
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Great article just hit talking about SafePKT, an EU funded research project with myself, @sh4l and our excellent colleagues, advancing the art of automatic software verification for Rust code in the PKT ecosystem! 🎉

crowdfundinsider.com/2021/08/1

@chjara Could we do something to make polonium more common in Poland? 🤔

@Sasukecoochieha Are you actually sure about the first one? Afaik dogs are omnivores, and I was under the impression that they can live nicely on a well-balanced vegan diet.

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Problem: The actual receptors in the retina are on the back so light has to pass through the blood vessels and other support infrastructure to reach them.
Smart solution: Move receptors to front side.
Evolution solution: Fix it in software.

@seachdamh @jaczad @kmic Jeśli tak jest to czytacz by był dość dokładnym analogonem czcionki z wizualnej wersji tego problemu.

@jaczad Pierwszy raz słyszę o takim pomyśle, więc jeśli nawet się zdarza to na pewno nie jest popularny.

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