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Hitler personally disliked Fraktur and gave a speech against it in 1934. It continued to be used as ‘the true German script’ until 1941, when the party did a 180 and banned it under the pretext that it wasn’t Fraktur, but Schwabacher, a similar blackletter script, which they called ‘Jewish letters’.

Moreover, it was banned so hard that cursive scripts Kurrent and Sütterlin were forbidden as well. As a result, people educated after 1941 often couldn’t read handwritten letters and notes of their ancestors.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world

Inspired by the analogous subreddit.

The helpfully named site AlternativeTo is good for such questions. It’s populated by users and served me well over the years.

IFTTT and Zapier are the primary non-self-hosted alternatives, both have been around for ages and have lots of available integrations.

Node-RED and Huginn are the self-hosted alternatives. Huginn is older than both n8n and Node-RED, afaik, and seems to be primarily focused on online queries like updates to a webpage.

In the end I haven’t used any of the self-hosted ones, since I’m more of a code guy, so can’t say if one is better than another for anything.

This question, asked by Jim Jefferies in his bit about guide dogs, ruined my wiping experience. When I was younger, my ass smaller and and my shits smoother, it was enough to give a single wipe and go on with my day. Then Jefferies asked the question of how blind people see the poop on the paper, and the next time I had to look at the paper and do a control wipe to see that it’s clean. But now that I’m fatter and my shits messier, I have to do like six wipes to get a clean one. Curse you Jim Jefferies.

“Are you in Hamas?”

Moderation of foreign users is much easier for Russian platforms than for Western ones.

My motivation to use Ansible is fueled by disdain for manual non-scriptable configuration. I’ve had to use Windows for a couple years lately, and the absence of programmatic access to many things annoyed me to no end.

Now, I get up in the morning and look to the east. I salute the sun and thank the fate for the chance to do proper configuration again. I don’t wade through dialogs for hours anymore. I don’t lose track of things that I’ve changed somewhere sometime. I’ll learn what the hell the difference between dconf and gsettings is, just to use one of them for all my desktop settings forever. I will have this config for years to come, and I will put more things in it bit by bit.

Now, if Ansible’s config language wasn’t a naive reinvention of Lisp, that would be great.

I mean, I thought it was long dead. It’s twenty-five years old, and the web has changed quite a bit in that time. No one uses Perl anymore, for starters. I used Open Web Analytics, Webalizer, or somesuch by 2008 or so. I remember Webalizer being snappy as heck.

I tinkered with log analysis myself back then, peeping into the source of AWStats and others. Learned that a humongous regexp with like two hundred alternative matches for the user-agent string was way faster than trying to match them individually — which of course makes sense seeing as regexps work as state-machines in a sort of a very specialized VM. My first attempts, in comparison, were laughably naive and slow. Ah, what a time.

Sure enough, working on a high-traffic site taught me that it’s way more efficient to prepare data for reading at the moment of change instead of when it’s being read — which translates to analyzing visits on the fly and writing to an optimized database like ElasticSearch.

Awstats

I thought I recognized it. Hell of a blast from the past, haven’t seen it in fifteen years at least.

Use Ansible or some such solution like Puppet, Salt or Chef, just like the big boys do. If you don’t have a unified editable config for your machines, you don’t really have a homelab, you just have a pile of hardware instead.

Yeah, carnivores basically have herbivores use the four stomachs to digest tons of low-nutrition grass for them, and then scoop all the good parts by eating the herbivores.

Stories like that circulated on Reddit before AI. The latest one was about a lion or a tiger being friends with the goat brought for them to eat. Iirc the animals had to be separated after a while, because they started squabbling.

Recommendations are actually great if you skim through them on a video you liked and save promising videos to ‘watch later’. Personally I have a dozen ‘watch later’ playlists by topic, with dozens videos in each — so I could live off these playlists for a year.

There are river dolphins, even.

Obligatory: ‘Rules for Rulers’ is a very condensed summary of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s ‘The Dictator’s Handbook’.