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chakspak commented on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project · Posted by u/_rkcg
Its hilarious. Americans dont realise they are being played. All this BS from the MAGA people and trump are just shift attention away from the conversation to tax billionaires. You guys had been going in the right direction when it came to having the rich pay their fair share. Now look at what you are all talking about?
Your fighting each other. What a shitshow.
I really dont think America will recover from this and while the world will suffer as a result, I think in the long term, things will work out. There will be some major suffering but thats the way the world works. WW2 happened, a lot of suffering then peace. We had peace for too long, people forgot about suffering and now look at the world. Thanks America, you played yourself and are now bringing the rest of the world down with you. Rather than focusing on the right things, you are being played to argue with each other.
Trump got a plurality of the popular vote, not a majority. There are lots of people who didn't vote for this. Many people are now doing whatever they can to limit the damage, but it's an uphill battle and plenty damage will be done in the meantime. It's been very hard to watch this unfold.
chakspak commented on Akaunting is free, open-source online accounting software for small businesses akaunting.com... · Posted by u/excsn
BSL is not an Open Source license, as it does not meet the requirements of the Open Source Definition.
https://opensource.org/osd
The footer at that page says the site uses MkDocs [1]. Has anyone used it and knows how it compares to Sphinx and MyST-Parsee [2]?
[2]: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/markdown.html
Sphinx is powerful and hard to beat if you're looking to generate documentation from code in multiple languages or export to multiple document formats, but it's slow and creaky and hard to hack on.
MkDocs by itself is okay, but Material for MkDocs is life-changing:
https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
If it does everything you need it to do, it'll make creating and editing sites much faster and with fewer opportunities to break things.
Holy wow, it never occurred to me that there were enough organizations launching satellites to warrant creating a managed service to support it.
A bit off-topic but why does PDF export sometimes produce these incredibly, seemingly gratuitously fugly font renderings? The size and spacing of the letters seems to be random. Like, here's a giant d in the middle of a word for no reason.
PDF rendering is the bane of my existence. I've found it stunningly difficult to generate an acceptable output from a source format like Markdown, and the process usually requires massive dependencies and fiddly configuration to get something close to what you want. Don't even try to produce numbered headings or a cover page unless you're willing to write the whole thing in LaTeX from start to finish, but who knows if you'll ever get the table to appear in the right spot on the page. :D
But I still make time for writing by hand. I find it to be very valuable, because it forces me to think differently about things and sit with ideas longer. I also find journaling almost impossible to do on a computer but very accessible in a notebook.
Writing by hand is also portable and adaptable. You can write on paper, surfaces, and signs. You can write when there's no power. No subscription is required, it doesn't require firmware updates, and it never has connectivity problems.
I can understand why some people would be willing to say goodbye to handwriting, but it's a skill that I'm extremely grateful for and I would be very sad to see it disappear from the world.