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Have you tried https://mike-fabian.github.io/ibus-typing-booster/ ?
I have not, but I think it does what you’re looking for.
The demo video emphasizes its use as an emoji picker but it was originally created for typing Indic languages.
Can a country “choose” the ambassador of another country? That’s counterintuitive to me
Countries choose their own ambassador to another country. The nominee this article is about is from the US.
Separately however, countries can choose to accept or reject the ambassadors other countries send to them. It’s very uncommon to reject them, but actually South Africa’s ambassador to the US was expelled earlier this month. I wouldn’t be surprised if South Africa doesn’t accept Bozell.
if that is the case I choose upper-left of the political compass for you (:
i’m curious, where do you place yourself on that compass? if you’ve got 20 minutes I highly recommend this video about it.
They’ll fight against Border Patrol, and even plot to kill them sometimes, but only when they think they aren’t doing enough.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48029360
https://time.com/6141322/border-vigilantes-militias-us-mexico-immigrants/
https://www.wired.com/story/border-militias-immigrants-trump/
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/07/border-el-paso-fbi-investigation/
At first i thought, wow, cool they’re still developing that? Doing a release or two a year, i see.
I used to use it long ago, and was pretty happy with it.
The only three CVEs in their changelog are from 2007, 2010, and 2014, and none are specific to claws.
Does that mean they haven’t had any exploitable bugs? That seems extremely unlikely for a program written in C with the complexity that being an email client requires.
All of the recent changelog entries which sound like possibly-security-relevant bugs have seven-digit numbers prefixed with “CID”, whereas the other bugs have four-digit bug numbers corresponding to entries in their bugzilla.
After a few minutes of searching, I have failed to figure out what “CID” means, or indeed to find any reference to these numbers outside of claws commit messages and release announcements. In any case, from the types of bugs which have these numbers instead of bugzilla entries, it seems to be the designation they are using for security bugs.
The effect of failing to register CVEs and issue security advisories is that downstream distributors of claws (such as the Linux distributions which the project’s website recommends installing it from) do not patch these issues.
For instance, claws is included in Debian stable and three currently-supported LTS releases of Ubuntu - which are places where users could be receiving security updates if the project registered CVEs, but are not since they don’t.
Even if you get claws from a rolling release distro, or build the latest release yourself, it looks like you’d still be lagging substantially on likely-security-relevant updates: there have actually been numerous commits containing CID numbers in the month since the last release.
If the claws developers happen to read this: thanks for writing free software, but: please update your FAQ to explain these CID numbers, and start issuing security advisories and/or registering CVEs when appropriate so that your distributors will ship security updates to your users!
Nope.
Nope, it is.
It allows someone to use code without sharing the changes of that code. It enables non-free software creators like Microsoft to take the code, use it however they like, and not have to share back.
This is correct; it is a permissive license.
This is what Free Software prevents.
No, that is what copyleft (aims to) prevent.
Tired of people calling things like MIT and *BSD true libre/Free Software.
The no True Scotsman fallacy requires a lack of authority about what what constitutes “true” - but in the case of Free/Libre software, we have one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition
If you look at this license list (maintained by the Free Software Foundation’s Licensing and Compliance Lab) you’ll see that they classify many non-copyleft licenses as “permissive free software licenses”.
They’re basically one step away from no license at all.
Under the Berne Convention of 1886, everything is copyrighted by default, so “no license at all” means that nobody has permission to redistribute it :)
The differences between permissive free software licenses and CC0 or a simple declaration that something is “dedicated to the public domain” are subtle and it’s easy to see them as irrelevant, but the choice of license does have consequences.
The FSF recommends that people who want to use a permissive license choose Apache 2.0 “for substantial programs” because of its clause which “prevents patent treachery”, while noting that that clause makes it incompatible with GPLv2. For “simple programs” when the author wants a permissive license, FSF recommends the Expat license (aka the MIT license).
It is noteworthy that the latter is compatible with GPLv2; MIT-licensed programs can be included in a GPLv2-only work (like the Linux kernel) while Apache 2.0-licensed programs cannot. (GPLv3 is more accommodating and allows patent-related additional restrictions to be applied, so it is compatible with Apache 2.0.)
What is a U.S.-sanctioned place? Why does the U.S. government think this is a bad thing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_sanctions
🎉 sometimes US sanctions actually do lead to positive outcomes :)
I often see Rust mentioned at the same time as MIT-type licenses. Is it just a cultural thing that people who write Rust dislike Libre licenses?
The word “libre” in the context of licensing exists to clarify the ambiguity of the word “free”, to emphasize that it means “free as in freedom” rather than “free as in beer” (aka no cost, or gratis) as the FSF explains here.
The MIT license is a “libre” license, because it does meet the Free Software Definition.
I think the word you are looking for here is copyleft: the MIT license is a permissive license, meaning it is not a copyleft license.
I don’t know enough about the Rust community to say why, but from a distance my impression is that yes they do appear to have a cultural preference for permissive licenses.
fyi: GNU coreutils are licensed GPL, not AGPL.
there is so much other confusion in this thread, i can’t even 🤦
Apple makes the source code to all their core utilities available
Apple makes the source code for many open source things they distribute available, but often only long after they have shipped binaries. And many parts of their OS which they developed in-house which could also be called “core utilities” are not open source at all.
Every Linux distro uses CUPS for printing. Apple wrote that and gave it away as free software.
It was was created by Michael R. Sweet in 1997, and was GPL-licensed and used on Linux distros before Mac OS X existed. Apple didn’t want to be bound by the GPL so they purchased a different license for it in 2002.
Later, in 2007 they bought the source code and hired msweet to continue its development, and at some point the license of the FOSS version was changed to “GNU General Public License (“GPL”) and GNU Library General Public License (“LGPL”), Version 2, with an exception for Apple operating systems.”
As others have said, it depends on the city but probably yes.
For example, in San Mateo, California, it would be an offense under title 11 of the Municipal Code:
11.12.050 EXCESSIVE ACCELERATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
It is unlawful for any person operating a motor vehicle within the City to so accelerate the same as to cause audible noise by tire friction on pavement or to cause the tires of said vehicle to leave skid marks upon the pavement, except when such acceleration is reasonably necessary to avoid a collision. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a public offense.
for example, on a linux distro, we could modify the desktop environment and make it waaaaay lighter by getting rid of jpg or png icons and just using pure svg on it.
this has largely happened; if you’re on a dpkg-based distro try running this command:
dpkg -S svg | grep svg$ | sort
…and you’ll see that your distro includes thousands of SVG files :)
dpkg -S svg
- this searches for files installed by the package manager which contain “svg” in their pathgrep svg$
- this filters the output to only show paths which end with svg; that is, the actual svg files. the argument to grep is a regular expression, where
means “end of line”. you can invert the match (to see the paths dpkg -S svg
found which only contain “svg” in the middle of the path) by writing grep -v svg$
instead.sort
command does what it says on the tin, and makes the output easier to readyou can run man dpkg
, man grep
, and man sort
to read more about each of these commands.
No, SVG files are not HTML.
Please change this post title (currently “today i learned: svg files are literally just html code”), to avoid spreading this incorrect factoid!
I suggest you change it to “today i learned: svg files are just text in an html-like language” or something like that. edit: thanks OP
XML and HTML have many similarities, because they both are descendants of SGML. But, as others have noted in this thread, HTML is also not XML. (Except for when it’s XHTML…)
Like HTML, SVG also can use CSS, and, in some environments (eg, in browsers, but not in Inkscape) also JavaScript. But, the styles you can specify with CSS in SVG are quite different than those you can specify with CSS in HTML.
Lastly, you can embed SVG in HTML and it will work in (modern) browsers. You cannot embed HTML in SVG, however.
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A ctrl-d does nothing on a non-empty line.
ctrl-d actually is flushing the buffer regardless of if the line is empty or not.
See my other comment for how you can observe it.
Note: for readers who aren’t aware, the notation ^X
means hold down the ctrl key and type x (without shift).
ctrl-a though ctrl-z will send ASCII characters 1 through 26, which are called control characters (because they’re for controling things, and also because you can type them by holding down the control key).
^D is the EOF character.
$ stty -a | grep eof intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; $ man stty |grep -A1 eof |head -n2 eof CHAR CHAR will send an end of file (terminate the input)
Nope, Chuck Testa: there is no EOF character. Or, one could also say there is an EOF character, but which character it is can be configured on a per-tty basis, and by default it is configured to be ^D
- which (since “D” is the fourth letter of the alphabet) is ASCII character 4, which (as you can see in man ascii
) is called EOT or “end of transmission”.
What that stty
output means is that ^D
is the character specified to trigger eof
. That means this character is intercepted (by the kernel’s tty driver) and, instead of sending the character to the process reading standard input, the tty “will send an end of file (terminate the input)”.
By default eof
is ^D
(EOT), a control character, but it can be set to any character.
For instance: run stty eof x
and now, in that terminal, “x” (by itself, without the control key) will be the EOF character and will behave exactly as ^D
did before. (The rest of this comment assumes you are still in a normal default terminal where you have not done that.)
But “send an end of file” does not mean sending EOT or any other character to the reading process: as the blog post explains, it actually (counterintuitively) means flushing the buffer - meaning, causing the read
syscall to return with whatever is in the buffer currently.
It is confusing that this functionality is called eof
, and the stty
man page description of it is even more so, given that it (really!) does actually flush the contents of the buffer to read
- even if the line buffer is not empty, in which case it is not actually indicating end-of-file!
You can confirm this is happening by running cat
and typing a few characters and then hitting ^D
, and then typing more, and hitting ^D
again. (Each time you flush the buffer, cat
will immediately echo the latest characters that had been buffered, even though you have not hit enter yet.)
Or, you can pipe cat
into pv
and see that ^D
also causes pv
to receive the buffer contents prior to hitting enter.
I guess unix calls this eof
because this function is most often used to flush an empty buffer, which is how you “send an end of file” to the reader.
The empty-read
-means-EOF semantics are documented, among other places, in the man page for the read()
syscall (man read
):
RETURN VALUE
On success, the number of bytes read is returned (zero indicates end of
file), and the file position is advanced by this number.
If you want to send an actual ^D
(EOT) character through to the process reading standard input, you can escape it using the confusingly-named lnext
function, which by default is bound to the ^V
control character (aka SYN, “synchronous idle”, ASCII character 22):
$ man stty|grep lnext -A1
* lnext CHAR
CHAR will enter the next character quoted
$ stty -a|grep lnext
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
Try it: you can type echo "
and then ctrl-V and ctrl-D and then "|xxd
(and then enter) and you will see that this is sending ascii character 4.
You can also send it with echo -e '\x04'
. Note that the EOT character does not terminate bash:
$ echo -e '\x04\necho see?'|xxd
00000000: 040a 6563 686f 2073 6565 3f0a ..echo see?.
$ echo -e '\x04\necho see?'|bash
bash: line 1: $'\004': command not found
see?
As you can see, it instead interprets it as a command.
$ echo -e '#!/bin/bash\necho lmao' > ~/.local/bin/$(echo -en '\x04')
$ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/$(echo -en '\x04')
$ echo -e '\x04\necho see?'|bash
lmao
see?
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