Dr Colin Jacobs

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Data Scientist, astronomer@Swinburne. Co-founder, PoliQ.
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I've written up this #Android bug in more detail at:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/is-android-unicode-yet/

I'd really appreciate you sharing it with anyone you may know at Google, AOSP, or Noto.

Thanks!

Is Android Unicode Yet?

Google's Android platform has dreadful support for Unicode. Even the most recent Android versions are missing out on languages, characters, and symbols which were added to Unicode in the last decade. Back in 2013, Google created the "Noto" project. Its aim? To include "all the world's languages". They wanted to banish "tofu" - the little […]

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Some say your environment is everything, change your environment and you change your life. In that case, the latest VHS release is life changing as you can now alter your environment in your VHS tape files.

Could demos get any easier? 🎥
https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/releases/tag/v0.8.0

Release v0.8.0 · charmbracelet/vhs

Environmental friendliness Ever want to alter the environment in your .tape files? Now you can with the ENV directive: Env HELLO "WORLD" Type "echo $HELLO" Enter Sleep 1s Bonus: change the prompt...

GitHub

The continued enshittification of Dropbox.

Is $150/yr not enough for you @dropbox ??

A new old take on the home page - out with the HTML, in with the BBS. @decryption might get the nostalgia - ssh to coljac.info or try it on the web.
#Linux or #unix Permission just gives more trouble. Let us fix it. 🤣
What an age we live in where your development tool has an existential crisis right in front of you. 2024 problems
GPT-4o is crazy fast. OpenAI are still the ones to beat. As try as I might to be a skeptic, I'm very impressed. My own productivity is really soaring.#openai #chatgpt