I was only able to make sense of this after looking at the Hexbear crosspost and following the comment thread. It’s a parody of a similar map of China.

xkcd 624?

Usually you do this with venv. I’m sure there’s a cool kids way to automate everything but it’s not that hard to just download 3.10 (or whatever version you need), compile it, install it into a 3.10 directory, and point your path at it.

I don’t like Gnome either. I’ve been using MATE which is pretty straightforward, and looks like old-fashioned Windows. Not saying that’s a good thing, but at least for me it had very little learning curve.

If that project requires Python 3.10 and won’t work with 3.13, that may be a problem in its own right.

If you’re unfamiliar with PostScript or basic linear algebra, I would start by reading a book or tutorial on PostScript. Not to know how to produce PostScript output, but rather to understand how it handles coordinate transformations. So your drawing program can have nested objects with a transformation for each object, and the transformations compose through the nesting levels. Then you can rotate and scale complicated figures by just changing a single transformation, which is a 2x3 matrix. It’s really 3x3 but in “homogenous coordinates” so you only have to store 6 of the numbers.

Obviously, also play with other drawing programs to get ideas for what you want yours to do.

There are also tons of books on computer graphics, though maybe not specifically about drawing programs. The ones I’ve looked at are way old by now though.

Brodie

Thinking Forth was a great book! I’m surprised it came up here though.

“Challange”?

I set up Debian MATE for my mom and didn’t tell her it wasn’t Windows, and she never noticed any difference.

I’ve been using Debian for a decade or so and it’s been fine for me. Fedora had its own drama a while back because of Red Hat. I don’t know its situation now. I think the cool kids these days use Guix. IDK what the attraction of Mint is supposed to be.

C++ [](){} looks nice.

That’s the idea, minix was a 1980s thing that still has some legacy support.

This FS should probably be moved to user space.

Why is this programmer humor? Also, the site is in Spanish so I can’t read it easily.

Aha thanks.

Thanks. Yes, fully web based is much better for new users. That means not p2p though, right?

I’ll look at it some more when I can.

I’m glad people are doing stuff like this. Some technical description of how it works would be great to have. I see there’s an android app written in Java and a server side wrapper for Tauri(?) in Rust. Also a wasm directory. I only looked for a minute or so though.

Is this much different from Jami or Jitsi? I don’t use Whatsapp or know what it does.

One always has to worry. Also there’s lots of surrounding crap like react native. I wonder if that’s included.

Is react still important anyway? I figured something else would be the current hotness by now.

I don’t understand what you’re asking: you want some kind of graphical display of the file structure? Grep per se doesn’t do that, but maybe you could match the output against “tree” output? I generally just use M-x grep in Emacs which doesn’t make a tree-like display, but lets me navigate to matched lines by clicking on them.

Amazing how RMS is now on the traditional end of traditional to disruptive.

I don’t see where the humor is, but I have an idle server so might let it run for a few days to compress a half minute of audio at .00017x. But are you sure it isn’t just stuck?

The old fashioned belt pagers that copier technicians used to wear. You could call a phone number and send a numeric or sometimes text message to the person’s pager. They were one-way, receive only, so the message would normally be your phone number and the person would go to a landline phone and call you. That was before everyone had mobile phones.

You can still get those pagers and the privacy attraction is that they don’t send anything like your location back to the phone carrier. Instead they are basically broadcast receivers, and the message is broadcast to your whole reception zone, typically the size of a city but potentially bigger on the fancier plans.

Service appears to start around $15/month per a quick search I just did. That’s more than I pay for unlimited voice and text plus a GB of data on my crappy MVNO cellular plan. So they aren’t that good a value for most of us in this day and age. But they do still exist.

More info available by web search.