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[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not directly related, but do you use an actual APL keyboard or use something with an APL input method, like emacs?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 42 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

To be fair, the actual article text was "adolescents", and someone can be going through puberty at twelve, so the body text is correct. Might have been that a different party writes the headline, and considered it to be a mechanical shortening, as the terms are generally used kinda interchangably.

Good catch, though.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 57 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (9 children)

If your readers don’t accept this policy, then they should please feel free to fly with other airlines, who may operate a more lax minors travel policy.

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

The company has at times been criticised for its...tendency to intentionally generate controversy in order to gain publicity.[31][32][33]

"Let's be honest," the RyanAir spokesman continued. "If your readers aren't willing to even fly with their children, can it really be said that they even love them?"

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Leave the console visible on an attached monitor. I don't recall if Debian out-of-box has Ctrl-Alt-F1 disabled, but if not, that'll put you on the first console. If the kernel panics, it'll display something there.

If you can't do that


no spare monitor


you can set up a serial port console to another machine. I don't know off the top of my head how to have the kernel emit errors there by default if it's not the default, but I'm quite sure that it's possible; I've debugged machines with kernel stack traces on serial port consoles. Sending a BREAK was equivalent to Magic Sysrq, as I recall.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 19 points 1 month ago

I just pick AGPLv3 to maximize freedom and leverage. I'm more radical than Stallman in this area. Stallman believes in and relies on copyright. I don't...My aversion to intellectual property is one of the reasons why.

I mean, the GPL fundamentally relies on copyright to function.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 19 points 1 month ago

Found the ed user.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Still a limited selection of vim webservers though. Have to bump that library size up.

https://iloveemacs.wordpress.com/2016/02/27/writing-web-apps-in-emacs-lisp/

There are several solutions for running a webserver in Emacs like Elnode from Nic Ferrier, httpd.el from Joe Schafer, simple-httpd from Christopher Wellons or Emacs Web Server from Eric Schulte.

And then there's the browser side!

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html#Top

EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser, is a web browser for GNU Emacs that provides a simple, no-frills experience that focuses on readability.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That website is also pretty snappy for me as a user, but it could be that it's because each webpage looks like it was hand-written rather than having content slog its way towards the user through a sea of Javascript frameworks.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I don't know if they do, but I've used a service before that provides similar functionality, a "temporary proxy credit card", which also permits one to not even provide one's real name and address to a vendor.

But it's more work to set one up than it is to do a PayPal transaction. Like, I could do it if a vendor doesn't permit for PayPal payments and I really really want what the vendor is selling, but PayPal does the big "the vendor doesn't get your credentials" security fix and avoids creating extra hurdles for a purchaser to jump through.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 66 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I mean, I don't want to keep funds in PayPal, but they make a good proxy for a credit card.

Credit card POS systems permit for me to do (reasonably, lack a trusted display or input mechanism) secure transactions. But I can't do that with my computer


I don't have a way to use a smartcard reader and purchase things online. I have to send my actual credentials to a vendor and trust that they're treating them securely.

But if you use PayPal to pay at a vendor and then send that payment to a credit card, you avoid the security problems inherent to direct personal use of credit cards.

I'm not comfortable sending credit card data to sketchy-looking sites. With PayPal, worst case they don't send me whatever I paid for.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Based on the screenshot someone else posted, they do have some kind of payment/currency system of their own, Steam Wallet.

I guess you could buy a physical Steam gift card in a store via any mechanism the store accepts, including cash, and then transfer it to that.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"In early July 2025, PayPal notified Valve that their acquiring bank for payment transactions in certain currencies was immediately terminating the processing of any transactions related to Steam. This affects Steam purchases using PayPal in currencies other than EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD and USD," the message states.

"We hope to offer PayPal as an option for these currencies in the future but the timeline is uncertain.

There are currency conversion services all over the world that manage to do this. How hard can it possibly be to partner with an existing service to do the conversion as part of a transaction?

EDIT: I guess it's possible to do the conversion yourself and have a bank account in one of those currencies to use to do PayPal, so the practical impact is probably limited, but still. PayPal's whole point is to facilitate moving funds from Point A to Point B. You've got one job here, guys.

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