Why is this thing so popular? Do people just love faschtech?

My memory of it is how unnecessarily arcane it is. I had (and still have) a better understanding of assembly than COBOL. COBOL has hundreds of keywords. And while an instruction set can have thousands of instructions, COBOL still felt more difficult.

Also, nearly any executable can be decompiled to assembly. If you understand assembly, it has a plethora of uses. COBOL can make big bank, but it currently has very limited use.

I’d much rather write in assembly than COBOL

Haven’t heard or read about it since it was kicked out of the kernel! Does it still exist?

Ho boy. Don’t ruin the good ol’ memory of the dude. Some things should be left untouched, just like the movies you watched as a child.

While I dislike the look and GNOME’s approach to things (“we know better what the user wants than they do” aka the crApple approach), I do appreciate that they do provide an alternative for crApple users. They also write a lot of libraries and software that are undeniably good and useful. No one is forced to use GNOME so I’m glad they exist.

Of course this blog post only has one view of the issues and I’m not going to spend a morning going down the rabbit hole to make an opinion on it. But if System76 really does have a problem with upstream for whatever reason, they are free to fork their stuff and cut all communication. Since they did write COSMIC, it looks like that’s their goal. Good on them. It may just decrease the drama and make GNOME developers’ lives easier.

If the EU dedicates itself to digital sovereignty before the US starts turning the wheel back away from self-sabotage, we might actually have a chance.

I upped my donation to them this year. They really do deserve it.

Why is that better?

Description lists?

Richtext? Like this or this ?

SVG handling? I’ve never seen a manpage with SVGs nor have I seen a manpage with images, much less image captions.

How should strings be terminated? Should they always be a tuple of length in bytes and data?

Groff is indeed such a crap format to write documentation in. It nearly reads like zalgo.

I can’t wait for the anti markdown people to come out of the woodwork though and complain that it’s “the progressivist agenda” to be more user friendly because devs aren’t users.

“If you can’t write Groff, maybe you dont deserve to read the output”

“The markdown evangelists are so annoying. You can’t just rewrite everything in markdown”

“When will this markdown craze stop??? I can’t hear it anymore!”

Identity politics entered the developer arena.

159 C CVEs released on the same day BTW.

Unpaid and using an MIT license so that the megacorps dont contribute back? Golly, I wonder who that would be!

So what, it’s still a trash language.

I think you’re right. CSS was more understandable to me after reading that it came from the world of print media. It’s how things were laid out there and it was transformed into a language from those with domain knowledge.

But I would be curious if those who studied art also use the same terminology. If so, then it would make sense that it would seem more intuitive to them.

I do not envy the monkey apt at throwing shit. If you find it a useful aptitude, good for you.

Yeah, using trash is definitely a skill issue. You’re right about that.

CSS is trash. Always has been, always will be.

Yeah. Easy. So easy. Text size changes, svg not centered anymore. Add margin (or whatever that inside margin is called), and tada, not centered.