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@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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4h ago

TOML
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Ephera @lemmy.ml 4h ago
We just document that this is how you write the config file:

ini

[network] bind.host = "127.0.0.1" bind.port = 1234 # etc.
And that seems straightforward enough. Yeah, technically users can opt to use inline tables or raw strings or whatever, but they don't have to.

7h ago

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 7h ago

This one should work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Vs.

8h ago

Linux-Distribution KaOS wirft KDE Plasma raus

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 8h ago

Ich find's vor allem auch wild, dass die KaOS-Entwickler nicht einmal über Usability sprechen. Also irgendwo muss es doch eine Pro/Contra Betrachtung für Systemd+Plasma vs. Dinit+Niri/Noctalia gegeben haben, und es wird mit Sicherheit Einschränkungen von Niri/Noctalia gegenüber Plasma geben, die es vielleicht nicht wert machen von SystemD wegzugehen.

Wobei ich vielleicht dazu sagen sollte, dass ich es ähnlich wie @rumschlumpel@feddit.org sehe, dass das für die Distro insgesamt kein verkehrter Schritt ist.Bisher war's eine KDE-Distro wie die anderen auch, nur mit gewissen Einschränkungen bei der Nutzung von GTK. Wenn man nicht explizit GTK von seinem Heingerät verbannen wollte, gab's nicht so wirklich einen Grund KaOS zu nutzen.Durch Niri/Noctalia und Dinit ändert sich das, weil sie jetzt ein konkreteres Alleinstellungsmerkmal haben.

8h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 8h ago

I can kind of understand it after having to work with an XML file where users encoded data into comments for no good reason. But yeah, it does make JSON awkward for lots of potential use-cases.

8h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 8h ago

I don't feel like it will stray very far from what's dubbed "TOML 0.1" in the meme. Yes, it has inline tables and as of TOML 1.1, they're allowed to span multiple lines, so it's technically not anymore illegal to do what's in the meme. But all things considered, this is still a miniscule change compared to TOML 1.0.

8h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 8h ago

Well, you can still decide how much of the TOML features you actually use in your specific application. For example, I'm currently involved in two projects at $DAYJOB where we read TOML configurations and we don't make use of the inline tables that OP memes about in either of them.

Ultimately, the big advantage of TOML over INI is that it standardizes all kinds of small INI extensions that folks have come up with over the decades. As such, it has a formal specification and in particular only one specification.You can assume that you can read the same TOML file from two different programming languages, which you cannot just assume for INI.

15h ago

Gesucht: Der Sinn im leben

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 15h ago

Für mich taugt es, explizit keinen höheren Sinn zu erwarten.Also ja, irgendwo alles nicht so krass bedeutungsvoll, aber das Gleiche gilt eben auch für die eigenen Sorgen. Gibt keinen krassen Grund zu leben, aber auch keinen krassen Grund es nicht zu tun.

Dadurch versteift man sich auch nicht so darauf diesen Sinn zu suchen, sondern macht eben was man in kleinen Sinne für sinnvoll erachtet. Dann macht man vielleicht mit der Zeit auch noch mehrere solcher sinnvoller Dinge und irgendwann fragt man sich gar nicht mehr, was jetzt der große Sinn ist, weil man so viele kleine Sinne hat.

16h ago

Why do people go out of their way to dodge manhole covers while driving?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 16h ago

I would try to avoid driving over them when safely possible, because they make an annoying noise, which I wanted to spare folks living nearby from. ¯(ツ)_/¯

16h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 16h ago

Well, Wikipedia does say:

The [TOML] project standardizes the implementation of the ubiquitous INI file format (which it has largely supplanted[citation needed]), removing ambiguity from its interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML

16h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 16h ago

Counterpoints:

TOML is intended for configuration, not for data serialization, so you shouldn't be sending it over the wire in all too crazy ways anyways.
Most protocols will have a built-in way of knowing when the whole content has been transferred, typically by putting a content length into the header.
Having to wait until the closing } or ] can also be a disadvantage of JSON, since you cannot stream it, i.e. start processing the fields/elements before the whole thing has arrived. (You probably still don't want to use TOML for that, though. JSONL, CSV or such are a better idea.)

16h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 16h ago

Well, TOML is essentially just an extension of the INI format (which helped its adoption quite a bit, since you could just fork INI parsers for all kinds of programming languages).

And then, yeah, flattening everything is kind of baked into INI, where it arguably made more sense.Although, I do also feel like non-techies fare better with flat files, since they don't have to understand where into the structure they have to insert the value. They just need find the right "heading" to put the line under, which is something they're familiar with.

16h ago

TOML

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 16h ago

They serve largely different use-cases. JSON is good for serializing data. TOML is good for configuration.

16h ago

Theo Müller unterliegt vor Gericht gegen Campact

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 16h ago

Find's wertvoll, dass das öffentlich ausgetragen wird. Viele Kapitalisten sind maximal opportunistisch unterwegs und behalten sich vor mit Nazis zu kooperieren, sobald es finanziell vorteilhaft wird.

Mag sein, dass die Klage dafür gedacht war, Campact mundtot zu machen, aber schon die Klage selbst hat erfordert, dass sich Theo Müller dazu hinreißen lässt, explizit zu sagen, dass er nicht die AfD unterstützt.

Egal wie dicke er mit Alice Weidel ist, so eine Aussage kommt bei der Basis der AfD erstmal wie sie gesagt wurde an.Und naja, mal schauen, vielleicht bricht es ja auch das ewige Schweigen der Kapitalisten.

17h ago

Different Grips

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 17h ago

(too hard for me)

1d ago

Feels more polite for sure.

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

It's kind of bad for scripts, where it can be either annoying or genuinely problematic, when your script hangs on a password prompt. You typically do want it to just fail right away, because if you have monitoring, then you'll be able to spot it failing.

These days, it is (largely reliably) possible to detect whether a command is being run interactively or as part of an unattended script, so you do see some commands that trigger a sudo password prompt only for interactive use, for example systemctl does this. But this adds quite a bit of complexity to each individual program, so it isn't really something that's going to be implemented universally.

I also have to say that systemctl kind of gets on my tits when it does that, because it throws up a GUI dialog for grabbing the password, which is quite jarring.

2d ago

Liste Möglicher Amazon Alternativen

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Habe mehrere Minuten damit zugebracht, einen Produktbegriff zu finden, wo es keinen "...24.de"-Shop dazu gibt, weil ich weder Werbung für einen Betrüger-Shop machen will, noch einen legitimen Shop durch den Kakao ziehen will. 😅

2d ago

Liste Möglicher Amazon Alternativen

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Finde ich cool, gerade auch weil's so ein bisschen schon kuratiert ist, einfach nur weil die Leute nicht jeden Schrottladen eintragen.

Wenn man halt in eine Suchmaschine "knalltüte online-shop" eintippt, dann kommen teilweise die üblichen Verdächtigen, teilweise dann aber auch knalltüten24.de, wo man sich einfach nur denkt, Leute, ihr könnt mir nicht erzählen, dass ihr nur Knalltüten verkauft und sich das rechnet.

Die mittelgroßen/regionalen Online-Shops findet man leider oft nur mit Glück, oder indem man bei den üblichen Verdächtigen schaut, wer deren Vertriebspartner ist.

2d ago

ich🧉iel

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Der nude Ossi

2d ago

What are some examples where the more you know about the world, the better it seems?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Yeah, I was gonna specifically pick out biology. Feels like the more you know about it, the cooler it gets to just head outside and look at critters. Kind of like Pokémon, but real.

2d ago

Would it be possible to hack a smoke detector to make it play a little jingle?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

I would guess that the units used in smoke alarms and microwaves generally have integrated drivers that only operate at a single frequency.

Yeah, you could more easily create a rhythm than a full melody. If you get a few devices, which beep at different frequencies each, you could do a lot more by having them beep in succession and in intervals.

Of course, this requires that they're roughly in tune, which may not be the case at all. 🥴