It can be done with simple regex of the kind proposed in various answers there iff the html is known to be limited to the subset of html where that sort of thing can easily be made to work. The question does not tell us whether or not that is the case, so everyone is free to make their own assumptions and argue as if they know what’s going on.

Using a regex on html is like eating wild mushrooms that you found in the woods. There are times where it’s appropriate and safe, other times where it’s completely insane and possibly deadly, and it takes considerable experience to know how to tell the difference.

It does not require compromising your free software ideals

By which of course I mean what I think of as free software ideals, which I’ve come to understand in large part through the teachings of Richard Stallman even though I’m not personally such an idealist as he is. He Sometimes he even goes so far as to recommend people to services with non-free software on the server side, so long as it requires only free software on systems that the user controls. Your standards may differ. But anyway, if you had to quit fedi because someone set up a fediverse/telegram bridge I think it would not be a practical way to live. Where you draw the line is of course up to you, but I wouldn’t expect many people to follow you that far from the usual FOSS positions.

I don’t think even RMS himself would refuse to participate in something on the grounds that Telegram users are also able to do so. It does not require compromising your free software ideals. By all means point out to them that you believe them to be doing something wrong, but the method you’ve chosen to try and get them to change their ways seems very likely to be ineffective and also counterproductive. It does further divide the community, even if others have already done even worse.

It looks like you are more of an xmpp advocate than a free software advocate. If you want to join a matrix room and it’s too burdensome to do so through your xmpp client, then use a matrix client for that. Without some much better reasons for doing so, setting up a competing xmpp room is not a reasonable alternative.

Sometimes I wonder what happened to all the food co-ops that used to be around, but since I’m in Canada it’s probably just the same thing that happened to all the small independent grocers: They got squeezed out by the monopoly and monopsony power of the tight little cartel that now controls the whole market.

I’d say it’s pretty obvious that other things being equal, it’s generally better to run things cooperatively, just like it’s stupidly obvious once you stop to think about it that free software is the right way to go. But it’s not the only consideration, it’s no guarantee of success, and the forces opposing it are strong.

Spending time driving garbage trucks monthly in the local waste management Co-op is not going to fly well.

Why not? I’m a member of a local co-op that does exactly that sort of thing. It’s not actually garbage collection but close enough in every way in which it might be relevant here. Members (basically everyone who lives in the area and wants their trash collected) pay a fee. That goes to covering all costs, including hiring one direct employee for the one job (driving the truck) that can’t be filled by volunteers (who handle management, accounting, et cetera.) There is no government bureaucracy involved except in setting basic regulations that the co-op legally needs to observe. No taxation is required. There are no profits. Nobody gets rich off of the arrangement. Anyone can opt out if they’re capable of finding other alternatives, but nobody does because that would be crazy. The co-op has reliably done a good job for decades.

It’s great. I suspect that replacing all municipal services (including e.g. “last mile” telecoms) with co-ops like this would make things better for everyone.

More science facts: Salt water has higher density, so if you put the Pacific Ocean into a cup of tap water, it will sink to the bottom.

Not really. Now they’re old and controversial.

https://alt.pavethe.earth/

It’s the marketing department that should really be worried.

I’ve used Skype. It was not just “mildly” infuriating, and that was before copilot.

Looks like it’s learned that adding “according to Quora” makes it look more authoritative. Maybe with a few more weeks of training it’ll figure out how to make fake citations of sources that are actually trustworthy.

I like the way he captured my eyes.

“The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it’s all learned.” — traditional 20th-century folk wisdom.

As it turns out, it’s just printing that message if more than 510 days have passed since the timestamp in version.h was updated, which it wasn’t when the debian maintainers last applied a patch. So I guess it is taken as given that the program will forever continue to need updates that frequently and that those updates will be forthcoming.

Anyway, in keeping with the author’s wishes I’ll just use xfce4-screensaver instead. It seems fine.

I know, it’s hard to believe. The confidence with which it announced that an update is available suggests that the actual screensaver was checking for updates on its own. So far as the system package manager is concerned there isn’t one.

xfce4-screensaver isn’t packaged for debian stable as of yet, but I’ve built it from source with only minor hacking required to get it to run with the current version of everything else. Problem solved.

I was considering keeping xscreensaver and just blocking any network requests it makes at the firewall, but if jwz is going to be like that I guess it’s enough motivation to actually look for a replacement.

Calling 1048576 bytes an “American megabyte” might be technically wrong, but it’s still slightly less goofy-looking than the more conventional “MiB” notation. I wish you good luck in making it the new standard.