Holger @schaueho@functional.cafe

Requesting open source help

I'm currently working on the documentation for my programming language, KAP. Specifically, I'm writing a tutorial for beginners.

As part of this documentation, I need explain how multi-dimensional work. Ideally, one would start with a 1-dimensional array that everybody understands (just a horizontal serial of boxes with numbers in them).

Then, this could be extended two two dimensions which looks like a table. Taking this to three dimensions implies stacking 2-dimensional tables on top of eachother.

I guess 4-dimensional arrays can be represented by multiple stacks, or something like that.

At some point in the description, it also makes sense to introduce zero-dimensional arrays, i.e. scalar values. That's pretty easy to draw though: It's just a box with a number in it.

Given the above description, if anyone is willing to try to render this as a vector diagram, possibly in SVG form, I'd be happy to provide some monetary compensation for this.

The result with be open sourced of course, as part of the project itself, which is MIT licensed.

Als wir staatlich geförderte Hotspots verlangt haben, hatten wir eigentlich W-LAN gemeint.

The things you remember from your youth.

Emacs Conf in a few minutes!
https://emacsconf.org/2021
#emacs

I just want you guys to know that the multiple *years* I've had my music on Spotify and iTunes have still made me less money than the first two weeks of the same albums on Bandcamp.

Please support artists directly if you can.

Public money, public code: Das Bekenntnis zu Open Source - eine unserer zentralen Forderungen an eine couragierte Digitalpolitik - im #Koalitionsvertrag begrüßen wir ausserordentlich. #Opensource #publicmoneypubliccode

@stevenroose @dachary @fedeproxy

#ForgeFriends allows one instance of #gitea to seamlessly interoperate with another instance via proxies.

@gitea is the first #forge that's adding #ActivityPub support. When in a later stage #Gitlab or #SourceHut join, then from your own Gitea account you participate in a gitlab repo. You don't need to leave your own environment, and the barrier to contribute elsewhere is significantly lower.

Note that this starts with issue tracking but can be much extended.

updated my finger client to support finger:// URIs

https://git.alexwennerberg.com/misc/tree/finger.rs

going to email the author of this draft spec, which was written 26 years ago. together, I believe we can get it finalized and continue the #finger revival

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-uri-url-finger-02.txt

@schaueho hilft das?

What do I view as being toxic?

* Insist everyone must want to put time into customizing their computers.

* Insist every Linux user (or worse computer user) needs to understand how computers work.

People may have other things to do!

* Villify software projects you don't like; You don't have to use them! systemd haters can have their own distros!

Often a fossbro will villify a project for hiding configuration options...

* Telling others "just fork it" and/or villifying subsequent forks.

3/4

@libreleah I now wrote a reply to the article: https://www.draketo.de/software/gpl-or-later

Because I learned the hard way that a comment written somewhere usually gets lost in noise.

Please use the “or any later” option of the GPL. There is already considerable damage from GPLv2-only licensing.

We once spent enormous effort in a process that took several years to move Mercurial from GPLv2-only to GPLv2-or-later to enable compatibility with the Apache license. Such problems will come again if you use GPLv3-only.