Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@social.cleverlibre.org

It is good practice to set the document #language, e.g. via `lang` metadata field on the command line
pandoc -M lang=de-DE
This allows for proper hyphenation and other improvements; e.g. headers in #TeXLaTeX PDFs will be localized, with translations for "Figure", "Table of Contents" and similar labels.
Or put it directly into the doc; e.g. in #Markdown one can use a YAML block
---
lang: es
---
and in #Orgmode
#+language: fr

#pandoc #l10n

Is “Jim Bridger Story” by Leon Payne (Czech cover by Wabi Danek https://youtu.be/1MMbGB70sLs) influenced by “Ghost Riders in the Sky” by Stan Jones (great version by Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash https://youtu.be/-zol906ltPU)?

I thought the song by Wabi would be a cover of the riders, but no “Yippie-yi-o, yippie-yi-yay” and only then I found out it's two songs!

Okay since it’s the new rules and it’s #Caturday: fediverse, please meet Nox, smartest person in the house (though he did lose that game)

And a new solo track: "What Worlds Are For":

Free to stream and download on SoundCloud.

"Take it from me
The world always falls apart
When will you learn
That’s what worlds are for"

https://soundcloud.com/transitsofmars/what-worlds-are-for

Two new tracks!

The latest from the @CalmRads@twitter.com "Summer of '87" series: free to stream and download.

"My plan to put my arm around you
Seems as detailed as putting men on the moon
How can this be so hard?
You are so close and yet you’re still so far"

https://soundcloud.com/theca.../multiplex-summer-of-87-part4

Almost forgot that it's #caturday

Here's felis catus in its natural habitat...

In many ways I'm still very much a man of the 20th C. When I refer to the 'turn of the century' I still mean the turn from the 19th to the 20th. A romantic part of me is still waiting for the (by now broken) promises of the 20th C to be fulfilled. We once so keenly believed in the idea of a utopian future. When I was a child, I'd try to imagine the technological/ social advancements we might make by the year 2000. Where are they? Where did the future go, and why did we abandon it?
#hauntology

New Blog Post: What the Eff is Gemini?

The web started as something to share knowledge, and quickly became a platform for surveillance and exploitation.

Gemini was designed with the knowledge of how the promise of the web was stolen from us, and designed to be something apart from that, and immune to the ways the first web failed. It isn’t a replacement for the modern web, it’s just a small weird corner where we can make things and tell stories and find a community.

https://ajroach42.com/what-the-eff-is-gemini/

Pandoc's #Markdown supports attributes on headings, code, spans, etc. Attributes are enclosed by curly braces and follow this syntax:

{#identifier-value .class-one .class-two some-key="a value"}

Attributes can define an internal cross-ref target and carry a variety of additional information about the element, e.g. language or styling.

peace: [שָׁלוֹם]{lang="he" dir="rtl"}

We are hiring again, but now with hashtags! We are looking for new Assistant Professors in the areas of multimodal communication, social media, human-computer interaction, or conversational interfaces! #hiring #jobs #rug #hci #chatbots #academic

https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009P2P

7th #Swiss #MechanicalKeyboard #Meetup in #Zurich on 4th of December 2022 at #RedHat offices near #Zürich HB: https://swissmk.ch/doku.php?id=meetup-2022

Come, see and discover keyboards, meet and discuss with other enthusiasts, try and test hot new (or old) stuff! Don't be shy and bring as many keyboards as you wish to show them to others. If you don't have any, no prob, you're more than welcome.

Expect:
• plenty of mech keebs (modern, vintage, custom, …)
• keebs for sale (vintage+others)
• mech keeb enthusiasts