lewiscollard

https://gist.github.com/lewiscollard/c6651648d1c20144ed89e16...

Copy that into your "layouts/shortcodes/image.html" and use it as

    {{< image src="my cat.jpg" alt="add a description here" >}}

Hope that helps!

  html {
    filter: invert(1);
  }

  img {
    filter: invert(1);
  }

    javascript:(function(){var s=document.createElement("style");s.innerText="html{filter: invert(1);}img{filter: invert(1);}";document.head.append(s)})()

But, yes, that is the manual page I converted from (actually I grabbed it from the tarballs linked in the README - should be the same thing). My entire experience of troff would fit on the inside of a Rizla packet with some space to spare, but looking at the original I think it was using some special macro package that doesn't exist on modern systems. So I re-wrote it to use `-man` macros as best I could, but also included the original man page source for anyone that thinks they can do a better job in future.

And like, if one's model for maintaining a system depends on having a sensible government in power, _regardless of which particular political party you think is least competent_ you are going to have a rail system being run incompetently at least half the time. That's also what we got with "privatisation", of course; why would we expect any different?

Also, read anything by Robert Graves. He did write a style guide called "The Reader Over Your Shoulder", but that's optional; I learned far more about good writing from "I, Claudius" and "Good-Bye to All That".

I think you've just described converting a high-trust society into a low-trust one, and I am inclined to think that this is not a good development. That might result in some healthy scepticism of authority, but it'll also get you a thousand Alex Jones and two thousand No Plane Theories.

> I believe this is a printing press moment, where truth will be spoken to power once again. I just hope we avoid the bloodshed that that the printing press wrought.

I, too, would like all of the possible good things and none of the possible bad things from any given technological change. Hoping for that won't help much; it might be good, might suck, or somewhere in between and we find some way to muddle through.

Create a transparent layer. Paint on it in a colour of your choice. Set layer mode to "darken only" or "lighten only" depending on your background. "Difference" is fun too.

I've been using GIMP for longer than I care to remember and I am painfully aware of what is not great in its UI, which is something that seems to have gotten _worse_ over time. This isn't one of them; to paraphrase, that's just knowing how to use basic features that GIMP and other programs have had since the 1990s.

I'd call it an artifact of only having 16 colours to work with when SETUP boots. Obviously, most machines at the time had more to work with than that, but VGA - which is to say, 16 colors at 640x480 - was the baseline. And remember that Windows 95 could be installed from _floppies_; looking fancy is good, but you don't want to gratuitously use disk space. No multiple versions of the same image for you!

Let's take this fancy "Mac with some other random shit on a desk" image from Unsplash:

https://unsplash.com/photos/black-and-white-self-balancing-b...

Here's what it looks like with various ways of reducing it to 16 colours:

https://imgz.org/iC7KufjC.jpg

(I know, the images are small on a modern display! Each square is full-size, because we're VGA.)

Top left is the original, obviously. Top right is what happens if you just reduce it to 16 colours; it looks like nothing in particular, and it weighs in at 153K (exported in a modern graphics editor), or more than a tenth of a 3.5" floppy disk. Bottom left is what happens if you do it with dithering; you can make it look like you have more colours than you actually do, but it also weighs 153K.

And bottom right is SETUP.BMP. It only uses _two_ colours from the palette ("0, 0, 255" blue and black). That's 1-bit colour which means my SETUP.BMP when exported to an actual BMP only takes up 38.5 kilobytes.

So the answer to your question, I suppose, is "use as few colours as possible and don't waste disk space" or "dithering" or "the 90s", but often the technical limitations of a period plus time become an aesthetic.

This seems like a lack of imagination, which is not to be confused with any deficiency of the software or its business model. As for me, I think this completely rules.

See, e.g., https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay#new_behaviors

Well I missed this happening. I use the calendar, notes, music player (from F-Droid, so hopefully those versions will stay clean) and I loved them because they do exactly what they need to do.

Thank you for the heads up.

I always liked WordPad better than Word back then. It was faster and did all of the things I needed it to do. AbiWord occupied a similar sweet spot for me for some time after I went to Linux in the early 2000s.

You don't need to worry about negative feedback if you don't have a comments section. I implemented my blog myself with Django, and the reason it doesn't have a comments section is because I didn't write it, because I am lazy. But a side-effect of that is that the minimal effort it takes to open up a mail client and write something to the email address in the footer tends to weed out the lowest-effort shitposts & flames.

As for me, I started one (link in bio, as the kids say these days) thinking that it might become a tech blog, because tech is what I do all week, and probably what I know most about. And then it actually became me mostly writing occasionally about my car projects, because that is what I love. Don't worry too much about staying on topic, is what I'm getting at. "Be yourself" is a silly cliche (arguably not really a meaningful concept, either), but like, be yourself; regardless of the topic I can always read someone who writes about the things they are really passionate for.

* that Windows 95 was the first GUI I used for any extended period of time and that I will naturally think it's the best one for this reason, for the same reason people tend to think things they liked when they were teenagers peaked when they were teenagers; and

* that Windows 95 really did rule - to repurpose Hoare, "not only an improvement on its predecessors but also on nearly all its successors"

...and those two could fight each other all day.

Taking off the rose-tinted glasses, I might miss the UI, but I definitely don't miss how unstable it was. 25 years on I can still rattle off a Windows 95 product key off the top of my head as a consequence of reinstalling it so often.

I suspect it has a large market share in the "started as a trivial PHP program, grew to large application, too committed to MySQL to migrate to something else" market, too. There's that one website with the blue F logo that went this path, but there's probably thousands more.

That's not the same thing as anyone actually preferring it, but that's two possible reasons why there's an awful lot of MySQL deployments out there.

[0] https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Alternative_Databases

    GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i $KEYFILE -o IdentitiesOnly=yes" git "$@"

Oh well. There's still HTTPS!

Oh, it was - I'm sure there's a lot of people who are being bitten by this, and nothing I said above should be seen as saying that your post was not useful. :)

EDIT: this alias has a bug that means it doesn't work as intended, see below, don't use it

If you're that worried, I threw this shitty Bash function together in five minutes just now; stick this in your bashrc and then `anongit ...` instead of `git`:

  anongit () {
    mkdir -p ~/.random-ssh-keys
    KEYNAME=$(openssl rand -hex 12)
    KEYFILE=~/.random-ssh-keys/$KEYNAME
    ssh-keygen -q -C $KEYNAME -N "" -f $KEYFILE
    GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -i $KEYFILE" git "$@"
  }

...or you could clone over HTTPS instead :)

The change in question does not. It only requires that you clone over SSH or HTTPS, not over git://. I don't see why anyone would want to use the latter today.

Given how trivial it is to self-host your own Git repositories on any random Unix box, I am not worried about GitHub attempting lock-in even if they tried.

You are also right to some extent as well; I wonder how much mIRC scripting has been underestimated as the gateway drug to programming for thousands.

(Rose-tinted/me-tinted disclaimer: the first non-trivial program I wrote was an IRC quote bot, in Visual Basic. I later rewrote it into Python, because I wanted to learn Python, which eventually led to my day job today...)

You freely chose to post the insult, so you are not.

> In 2021 everyone expects history and other things.

I should hope I am included in "everyone" and I do not expect that. I think IRC rules and I think chats are better when they are ephemeral. I know people disagree with me; that is the point of discussing it. It's strange (a cheap rhetorical trick, really) to point out the expectations of a group of people in the current year as if that was an inevitability and that is how things always shall be unto the ages.

Why does my text editor think that, e.g., a function call should be blue and keyword arguments to it should be bright orange, but a comment should blend in to the background? Have them be bright green or something! If something merits a comment, it should be the most visually important thing in that block. At least that'll make bad (pointless, redundant, or outdated) comments stand out enough to annoy people.

If anyone knows how to make Sublime Text do this I'll give them a big virtual hug. :)

Good job AussieWog93, and all the best to your business!

...such as one of those "totally-GDPR-compliant" accept-cookies-please modals maybe? :) I am 100% certain this is how a large number of sites bypass autoplay restrictions.

The only people I see unironically talking about "the year of the Linux desktop" are people that talk about _other people_ supposedly proclaiming the year of the Linux desktop. "This recurring discussion reminds me of a decades-old strawman/dead meme" is not a good way to introduce any straight-faced argument.

> Nobody wants to register on some random weird site, and figure that sites navigation, let alone their privacy/data policies. Discord/Reddit/Slack/etc... are easy to use.

Why do you speak of Discord and Slack as if they were eternal, and that we were all taught to use them as surely as we learned our ABCs and cut up our food? At one time Discord and Slack were that "random weird site", and I'll note that for vast numbers of people outside of nerd and tech communities they still are. As for me, given a choice (and outside of work I do have one), I'd touch neither because I find them both to be terrible software.