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I've been trying it on and off for months now and its been amazing to watch its progress. Since the fork a few things have been feeling a bit buggier, especially text input as I type this comment (on macOS), but I guess those are normal forking pains ;)
Looking forward to what the future brings for this project, especially with the loosening of the NIH rule.
But I agree with the main point, will wait for FUTO Keyboard to support multiple simultaneous languages before I try it.
Also I think the convention over configuration mantra belongs in the Ruby on Rails world rather than Ruby itself. Ruby as a language is far less opinionated about how you do things, especially for small shell scripts.
1: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
That said, I think there are legal issues around licensing with doing such a thing, which is why most distros avoid including them in the first place.
Bank transfers are instant and I don't need to fill in any forms (other than the receiving bank account info) or justify anything, and I get cashbacks both in form of cash and points that I can use at the konbini, etc.
I also don't need to give out any papers showing where I live, instead they send a kind of sealed postcard to my stated address to verify it.
I don't know much about 3-D secure, is that like MFA? If so I guess I have that too, but you're probably taking about something else.
Bank transfers are not free though and I don't get one-time use credit card numbers, mainly because my bank doesn't include a credit card to begin with, but services like Revolut are available here too (just maybe not very popular).
I do agree financial services are generally behind the times here, just maybe not in all the ways some may think.
One example is the On Your Mark [1] music video, which is possibly the only time he went into cyberpunk, and despite being a few minutes long and having no dialog it has amazing world-building and storytelling.
Future Boy Conan (Mirai Shōnen Konan) [2] is a great TV series by him that doesn't get mentioned enough IMO.
Did you mean to say your partner doesn't speak your native language, or how does that work?
This is what textbooks often say, but it's kind of a soft lie. Besides the typical する and 来る (which are strongly irregular), there's:
ある → ない (negative form)
行く → 行って instead of expected 行いて
くれる → くれ (imperative form) instead of expected くれろ
And a number of others.
UI-wise, yes, but GMail was also the first mainstream "AJAX" [1] app. Before it the expectation was that clicking on almost anything on the page would cause a full page refresh. GMail was in part revolutionary because of how snappy it felt for a webmail client.
Were those ever open to manufacturing by companies other than Iomega?
I don't know much about the history of Iomega Zip Drives, but I find it interesting that in Japan MO Drives [1] were the winning format for that storage capacity bracket, and MO disks and drives were manufactured by a number of companies, much like floppy disks, not just one. I wonder why the same didn't happen in the West.
What I would really love to see is a version of the rough stone but with only two opposite faces polished, so that you can see through it like he did at the beginning of the video with the oil, but keeping all other surfaces rough.
Which ones? AFAIK government has stated intent to sell around 40 state-owned companies (expressed in a massive bill that got rejected by congress), but I don't know that any have been sold yet.
Also YPF (state-owned oil company), the company your linked article is talking about, was removed from the list of companies to be sold even before the new legislation got rejected [1] (your article mentions this fact too). But also it seems your linked article is mainly talking about YPF selling assets, not the company being sold.
1: https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/Ley-omnibus-Milei-s...
One thing to note is that Kdenlive and Shotcut both use the MLT video editing framework [2] under the hood, so their capabilities and constraints are very close to each other's. That said, their UIs are their own and some things may be easier to do in one over the other, may be a matter of personal preference. AFAIK Shotcut is developed by the same people who built MLT, but I don't think that gives it any particular advantage. Also both of these apps have the largest ready-made effects toolbox out of the four apps I mentioned at the top.
Blender's VSE (video sequence editor) is great if you need fine-tuned 2D animations of elements because you can use all the same awesome keyframing tools you'd use for 3D animation, but it's severely lacking in other aspects, especially in the effects dept (you can crop, blur, mask, but not much else). For some reason you can't use Blender's compositor node system with video, which would enable many more capabilities if possible. There's also a steeper learning curve if you've never used Blender before because its UI breaks many conventions.
Olive is a newcomer that doesn't get enough attention, but IMHO it was at one point the most promising OSS video editor out there. Sadly the developer works on it on his free time, and he's recently said that he's pausing development because he doesn't have the resources to work on it any more. I'm really hoping a miracle happens.
There's two versions of Olive, 0.1 and 0.2 which is a complete rewrite. Both versions are good, but they work pretty differently. What got me excited about 0.2 is that its effects are node-based (unlike MLT-based editors which are stack-based), which enables far more advanced editing, although you probably wouldn't need that unless you're working on something quite ambitious.
That covers a lot, but the wording makes it sound like all those things are of similar proportions per sighting, in reality I'm fairly sure mundane things (like drones and balloons, but also Starlink satellites) are far more commonly the case than anything as exciting as top-secret or spy aircraft.
The episode I'm releasing is 1h40m long, which sounds like it couldn't possibly fit in 1.44MB, but there's an obscure but free codec mostly used by digital HAM radio enthusiasts called Codec2 [1] which can encode human voice in as low as 700bit/s (315KB/hr). At that quality setting it sounds like complete garbage, although still barely intelligible, and there are no readily available media players for it (there's not even an established file format) so I'm having to include complicated ffmpeg instructions in a README to get people to play it, but I think it all adds to the charm.
Funnily enough after searching for days for how to fit the original episode in a floppy (tried low-bitrate MP3, Opus and AAC, all of which fail at the task), and after discovering Codec2 almost by chance, I only then came across an article titled "Codec2: a whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk" [2] which I probably would've found if I had started by searching "podcast in a floppy".
1: https://github.com/drowe67/codec2
2: https://auphonic.com/blog/2018/06/01/codec2-podcast-on-flopp...
I personally thought Sprite Fright was a fun watch (10m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cMxraX_5RE
That's a name I've not heard in a long time. I had no idea they were still in business, I may give it a try.