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Floppy 💾Mar 3

Maybe I should complain more here, when I complain about tech and genAI.

Floppy 💾Feb 11

Brian Bilston Feb 11

Here’s a poem called ‘Talking Down’.

Floppy 💾Jan 30

When you're trying to make nice web stuff, until the website suddenly shouts

<h1>I'm not a pretzel!</h1>

source

excalidraw/excalidraw-app/App.tsx at master · excalidraw/excalidraw

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams - excalidraw/excalidraw

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Floppy 💾Jan 29

Found in Jitsi's json-based configuration, after a list of key-value pairs:

/* ... */

    // Allow all above example options to include a trailing comma and
    // prevent fear when commenting out the last value.
    // eslint-disable-next-line sort-keys
    makeJsonParserHappy: 'even if last key had a trailing comma'

    // No configuration value should follow this line.
};

jitsi-meet/interface_config.js at master · jitsi/jitsi-meet

Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application. - jitsi/jitsi-meet

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Floppy 💾Jan 28

DAVx⁵

🔄Jan 28

Happy Data Privacy Day everyone :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Privacy_Day

Data Privacy Day - Wikipedia

Floppy 💾Jan 23

@Insy812 https://www.theverge.com/tech/641940/best-printer-2025-just-buy-a-brother-laser-printer-middle-finger-in-the-air

This is both on-topic and somewhat of a tangent. If you decide to go on the tangent too, you may want to check the history of articles by the author as he linked in the introduction. :)

Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear, middle finger in the air

Buying any random Brother laser printer will let you print things without thinking about it too much

The Verge

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Floppy 💾Jan 19

@JustBr0wzing I wonder whether back home he thinks "This is my beautiful house" or not. @fesshole

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Floppy 💾Jan 17

@ploum I think the next line might be closest to what you might be looking for, yet still simple and understandable.

echo "1234" | xargs echo 1+ | bc

Here are some more or less useful or silly alternatives.

X="$(echo "1234")" ; echo "$((X+1))"

echo "$(( $(echo "1234") +1))"

{ echo -n "1234" ; echo "+1" ; } | bc

echo "1234" | sed 's/$/+1/' | bc

echo -n "1234" | cat - <(echo "+1") | bc

echo "1234" | tr -d '\n' | cat - <(echo "+1") | bc

echo "1234" | xargs seq 0 | wc -l

Those work under bash, but I haven't tested on other shells. Note that some lines expect no newline after 1234 (echo -n), which can sometimes be removed sneakily (tr -d '\n'), see line 5 and 6. Line 7 is maybe not perfectly serious. :o)

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Floppy 💾Jan 15

Thank you Midnight Burger for the reference.

Floppy 💾Jan 15

In 1995, Carl Sagan wrote this in The Demon-Haunted World.

That was more than 30 years ago.

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