What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages? by apoisel in c/programming@programming.dev
Best Email Client by apoisel in c/linux@lemmy.ml
What email client are you guys using? by apoisel in c/linux@lemmy.ml
Unicode by apoisel in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[-] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 6 months ago

Can't confirm that. In the 90s encodings were a nightmare. ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, CP1252, IBM850, ... If you tried to build a website with an upload form, you'd get the most bizarre encodings and there was no way to reliably distinguish them. I'm not an English native, my world is full of umlauts and s-z ligatures. Things got A LOT better in the last years, thanks to Unicode encodings.

Unicode by apoisel in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[-] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 125 points 6 months ago

These errors were much more common before Unicode encodings were in broad use. Unicode pretty much solved this.

Colorized photo of Guardia Civil in Fascist Spain, 1963 by apoisel in c/historyporn@lemmy.world
[-] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) 
I'm not partial to the martial
Or the plutocrats, in their beaver hats
And the fascists have the outfits
But I don't care for the outfits
What I care about is music
And the communists have the music
Good text-based calendars for Linux? by apoisel in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[-] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

You are welcome. I started using remind in 2005 and it has been my dependable and powerful companion ever since. This software is a piece of art. The same is true for wyrd, which is rock solid and blazing fast.

Good text-based calendars for Linux? by apoisel in c/linux@lemmy.ml
How do you use RSS? by apoisel in c/foss@beehaw.org
[-] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I use RSS to watch YouTube videos. I collect the ULRs of the videos I want to watch in a text file using my feed reader (Newsboat). In the evening a script transfers the file to my TV computer and fetches the videos with yt-dlp.

To play the videos I use another script, which plays and then trashes the video files in a loop.

Pros: no ads, no buffering videos during playback, plays videos without interaction (like TV), can collect video URLs over day, don't have to bother with YouTube's user interface, cookies etc.

apoisel

joined 1 year ago