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I'm not the only one who uses and customizes xterm. I am absolutely delighted. :3

confession 

@softgoat They're supposed to help with multitasking in the brain sense by organizing windows into separate piles. I don't know how useful or effective it is because it's been an age since I tried one.

After hand-patching and creating a new diff comes getting it to compile in clang.

Because absolutely NOTHING I do to the Imakefile is creating Makefiles with "CC = gcc" in them. No matter what, they're all "CC = cc", which is clang's C compiler.

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The patch file is a unified diff that contains at least one unified diff nested within.

I sure hope patch processes files in lines from first to last, because that's how I'm making and skipping the hand-editing. :/

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be sure to check your genderfluid regularly and change if needed to avoid build-up of toxic masculinity

@thefishcrow@cybre.space 2038: I hate that computers think their time travel to 1901 worked.

WPA2, nonce, lewd 

If we're going to reuse nonces in WPA2, then we need a way to better verify their integrity. Thankfully, my favorite rag, Hacking Gibsons, was on it four years ago. :V
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@MissMacSee Please consider a trans friendly instance before swearing off Mastodon. Your story is not the first I've heard about the dot-social instance.
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@kibi Qwerty is so inefficient your layout is almost guaranteed to be at least a little better.

xcalpr.c:89:21: error: initializer element is not constant
static FILE *fout = stdout;

Everything I'm reading says that hasn't been valid C since before ANSI standardization way back in the '80s.

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Oh, duh. The Debian package page has a diff file downloaded separately, and some of them are patches to the C files fixing the compiler error I'm getting. Guess I should read it, edit the source, and re-diff them.

The latest date in xcal's CHANGES file is 1995-09-13.

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@ticky Ruby's decisions about how to encode strings and when the default encodings are overridden mystify me. The String and Encoding class docs barely help me at all.

a mediocre coder who writes well is twice as valuable and ten times as teachable as a great coder who can't string words together

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computer science programs should spend a LOT more time and effort teaching students how to do effective technical writing

Programming which requires cussing: 

If a native HDBF VM exists and GCC is ported to it, then it's all over.

Chromium on Wayland on Linux on Brainfuck.

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