Shit, is that being considered?

That doesn’t look like a cybertruck. It’s got curves.

Yeah, and the magnet was not to blame for this incident despite how the title of this article reads. Given all the (alleged, I guess) facts of the case, I’m pretty sure sure the cops showed up in a clown car that played Yackety Sax when the horn was pressed.

st

Simple

for Wayland

minimal dependencies

Scrollback

in AUR

Yeah, this is kindof ticking all my checkboxes for what I’d want in a terminal emulator. I’m an st user currently, but I might have to give wayst a try. It’s not often a piece of software comes along and entices me like this one.

(And yeah, I see the notice about it being alpha quality, but I suspect I’ll be able to get a feel for it even if I can’t really make it my daily driver yet.)

Also, I didn’t list the terminal image protocol thing among what attracts me about it. But I’ve never had that before. Who knows. Maybe wayst will convince me that’s a must-have feature in terminal emulators.

It’s said that “Google pays Silicon Valley’s legal bills.” (And by that, it’s meant that Google ends up in court a lot and often in groundbreaking, no-existing-precedent situations. As a result, there is a lot of case law that’s already decided when some smaller company comes up behind wondering whether they can get away with such-and-such business model intellectual-property-wise. Google has already “paid the (legal) bills” required to get a more-or-less definative-ish answer on the question.)

It feels weird to me to see a headline like “Google wins such-and-such lawsuit” and be like “fuck yeah, good job Google”. I guess it only feels weird because Google is a big evil company. But I guess I have to admit a not-small number of Google IP cases found in Google’s favor have had a net positive effect. I guess I’m glad Perfect 10 v. Google (2007), in which a purveyor (or rather “perv-eyer”, amirite?) of nude model photos sued Google for serving Perfect 10’s images on the Google image results page, was found in Google’s favor. And in Author’s Guild v. Google (2013), Google’s ability to provide to the public relatively significant snippets/previews of commercially-available books was protected by the courts as well. And while I’m at it, Google v. Oracle (2021) decided that Google was allowed to copy the Java standard library API (the interface bits, not the implementation so much) was protected fair use, which also seems like a net good thing.

And I’m not familiar with any Google cases that I’m glad or I wish Google had lost.

At work, I used to use a Mac, and when they switched me to the model with the touch bar (because of a recall around potential battery explosions), I had a terrible issue with hitting that fucking Siri button just barely north of where my backspace key was all the time when I was trying to hit backspace. This would be similar.

I do this sometimes, and I hate when I catch myself doing it.

First off, MS Gothic is a monospace font. (Meaning all characters have the same width and move the cursor by the same horizontal distance. Ok, that’s a slight oversimplification. Especially when you’re dealing with asian characters, there’s a possibility of “double-width” characters which are twice the width of “single-width” characters and move the cursor twice as far.) In sites like Lemmy, there are usually ways to tell Lemmy to switch into “monospace” like you did with the first cat art you posted in the body of your post. And that ensures consistency in the output. With non-monospace fonts, it’s more of a crapshoot. Arial’s “m” might be a different width than Comic Sans’, for instance. Typically, sites like Lemmy (or 4chan or Reddit or Facebook or whathaveyou) won’t have ways to specify a particular font (different Lemmy clients are also free to use different fonts), so if you composed ASCII art with a non-monospace font and pasted it into a Lemmy post/comment, even if it looks right to you in Lemmy, it may not look right to other viewers of your post. And that’s why monospace is popular for these things.

How to make these? I honestly don’t know if there are specialized tools for that. Probably just a standard text editor. The examples you posted have some asian characters in them, so a way to input such characters. I’m on a Linux machine and have fcitx set up for Japanese text input. If you’re on another OS, I’d expect the way to set up input for asian characters would be different. Alternatively, there are probably unicode character explorers/apps that can be used and don’t require quite the learning curve.

As for how to manage these, no idea. I can think roughly about how I might go about writing a program that migth manage these, but I’m not sure if any exist out there currently.

“Thrice” is a somewhat obscure word that otherwise fits.

“Adventitious” is a good one. It means “non-inherent” or “acquired” (as opposed to inherent.)