dakkar / is on Nostr

Software tinkerer, anime watcher, boardgame player, lego builder, &c &c

Also, I help write [Sharkey](https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey ) 🦈

Website: https://www.thenautilus.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dakkar
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dakkarinsta/
GitHub: https://github.com/dakkar
CPAN: https://metacpan.org/author/DAKKAR

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2024-09-03 13:10:58

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&c
(`&` originated as a ligature for "et", meaning "and" in Latin)

2024-08-29 21:23:37

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for the people following at home, you accidentally `chown`ed the `sudo` binary, so it went from "set-user-id root" to "set-user-id leah", making it significantly less useful 😜
(there is no "sudo user")

2024-08-28 08:46:14

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it was apparently added in Unicode 11, 2018-05-21

2024-08-26 19:09:53

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notice that not all email servers understand that. Gmail does, but I'm not sure about outlook/hotmail/live, for example
(Also a lot of validation logic is wrong and doesn't think that `+` is a valid character in email addresses…)

2024-08-16 11:48:39

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random thought: that headphone jack might be connected (via a DAC) to the HDMI audio channel
yes, that would be weird and slightly evil
it's still a possibility

2024-08-15 18:59:13

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I thought that what I wrote was exactly "a custom modal with async return"… what did I miss?

2024-08-15 17:38:59

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here, have a near-replacement! (needs styling, and proper "modal" display, but it works)
instead of `const response = window.confirm(message)` you do `const response = await confirm(message)` (extending this to `prompt` is left as an exercise for the reader)
https://s.thenautilus.net/files/d47c88c3-d7c0-4408-a902-617bdd69d69b

2024-08-11 10:14:27

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"login" works fine in Italian 😁

2024-08-01 15:23:16

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at work, deployment images are stored in the tarballs 😜

2024-08-01 14:47:59

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first of all, don't 😁
second, auto-upgrade from a random host is a security nightmare, please don't
third… git over http exists https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol