Florian Haas

@xahteiwi
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Humanism, open source, some music, art, and nonsense.

Account is locked; a significant fraction of what I post is followers-only. Got a blank or nonsensical avatar, no visible activity, no pointers to your identity? I'll ignore your follow request. I might choose not to accept it for other reasons, too. 🙂

Sometimes I ask questions here. When I do, I would ask you to please reply with your own thoughts, not an LLM's.

Tröts auf Deutsch derzeit unter @xahteiwi.

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Native pronunciation[flo:ʁian ha:s]
Web sitehttps://xahteiwi.eu

Have you ever seen good outcomes from a development organisation (or organisational unit) that loudly touted developer freedom, specifically, as part of its appeal?

(Possibly controversial question, I know. But not a rhetorical one.)

Happy birthday to Jeff Beck, who would have been 82 today and would probably have celebrated on a stage somewhere, being the absolute greatest.

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

Jeff Beck - Wikipedia

As sports personalities go, Gary Lineker isn't a bad bloke is he? Seems like he lands firmly in the "solid chaps" column.
Every time I touch another laptop, I am reminded how good the keyboard on the #PinebookPro is.

I love tox and I use it daily, but it stands to reason that its maintainers are unfamiliar with #xkcd1172.

By the time you're at version .56 of your current major release, the behaviour you changed in .0 is no longer "incorrect"; it's a default that has changed compared to a legacy version.

https://tox.wiki/en/latest/changelog.html#bug-fixes-4-56-0

Release History - tox

Is the UK worse off because of Brexit? | BBC News

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Kiddo bought a Samsung "Smart" (har har) TV a few years ago that's running Tizen 5.0. As far as I know there's no vendor-supported way to upgrade those to a later Tizen version. Are there hacks to make this happen, or is the only chance to give it some new life hooking it up to a Kodi box via HDMI?

#AskFedi #Tizen #Samsung

One of the weirdest German terms — which has somewhat fallen into disuse, although it was still very much used when I was a teenager — is Schlachtenbummler, literally "battle stroller", which refers to a travelling football supporter.

#UselessFacts #TheMoreYouKnow

British English: advertisement
North American English: commercial
FIFA English: hydration

Football: mixed martial acting.

#ARGAUT