Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@b0rk I was switching between operating systems a lot and wanted a text editor that would be the same everywhere. And I tend to gravitate towards simple+foss+available in my package manager on Linux.
@mavica_again This is the loop I saw one using:
for f in *.bdf; do
if grep -Fq 'FAMILY_NAME "' "$f" 2>/dev/null; then
family_name="$(grep -F 'FAMILY_NAME "' "$f")"
family_name="${family_name%\"}"
family_name_otb="$family_name (OTB)"
sed -i "s/$family_name/$family_name_otb/" "$f"
fi
fonttosfnt -b -c -g 2 -m 2 -o "${f/bdf/otb}" "$f"
done
@mavica_again The way most the AUR packages seem to do it is by downloading BDF fonts and using a program to convert them. The one in my screenshot is in xfonts-75dpi.
@mavica_again Seems squished in some places. I was hoping it would use the bitmaps that I was pretty sure were in Arial, but I guess not.
@mavica_again Would this be acceptable? I can't tell how it looks because I'm on a high DPI screen and it's really tiny.
@mavica_again Apparently, yes https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fonts#Bitmap but it seems like the ones listed that still work (otb) are all fixed width.
AI rant
Guys, the new magic language generating machine is producing a grammatical, well-formed, but factually incorrect English response to an arbitrary question I asked it, also in English. And it's a question my complex biological brain that evolved for language processing could have correctly answered after a mere 4 years of training. I have no idea how the machine works, nor does anyone really, but I expected perfect accuracy and am shocked that it does not work better.
Resolves to never make an official build outside of a CI process again
Esme Povirk
boosted
@mcc Whenever I am coaching new engineers who are trying to figure out what to do now that they built something and it doesn't work, I tell them this;
"Verify that everything you think is true, actually *is* true. For anything that isn't or is unexpected, find out *why*."
At the end of that exercise they will nearly always know what the problem is.
@giomasce Kind of? It seems to require consistency still, and I'm sure there's a lot of other stuff that matters, but increasing scheduled rest time from 8 hours to 9 did seemingly pay for itself in my case, once my body got used to it.
What I lack in sleep quality I make up in sleep quantity.
@transfaeries now that you mention it, I seem to remember something about a server running out of disk space?
@transfaeries I can't see it. Oddly, the image link is a 403.
stream announcement
Streaming random pattern mode in HyperRogue. https://twitch.tv/madewokherd
Nice! I use plex for my music. I like making playlists of categories.
After a year of working on this, I have made a new release branch and new release of Mono.
Didn't put it in the commit message but did put it in the release notes today. https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono/-/releases/mono-6.14.0
Esme Povirk
boosted
something I wish I had learned much earlier in life is that if you are weird, trying to be buttoned-down and normal in spaces that aren't for being weird in might feel safe, but being fully weird signals to other people that you are safe for them to be weird around, which is more important
Joined Aug 2018
