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Greetings, programs!
Strangely, I'm already awake at this early hour (08:42). I'm sitting in the cottage kitchen drinking coffee that P mercifully already had prepared in a french press. Already 20 C outside and sunny.
Spent some time the evening before yesterday writing my own layout generator for River. It wasn't that much work, really, because I just took contrib/layout.c and added a monocle mode to layout_handle_layout_demand() and commands to switch between tiling and monocle in layout_handle_user_command(). I think I'm on feature parity with rivercarro right now. Next up is supporting a different layout per tag. Don't know when I'll get to that.
Yes, yes. I'll guess I'll push the code somewhere... Don't care much for Github these days. Gitlab? Codeberg? sr.ht? I quite like the Codeberg mission... Maybe I should move my stuff there?
Late edit: Ended up on Codeberg
https://codeberg.org/mchack/mctile
Ok, Ok, I found where you can copy your OMEMO fp in Dino. No need to keep telling me.
Progress on my own XMPP client, too! It's a Go program handling TLS and XMPP and an Emacs Lisp program for the UI. Rather rcirc-like and tracking-mode works. Still not ready to use. I lose offline messages! It's there in the incoming buffer but the parser is not picking them up! Still don't know why.
Of course I don't have OMEMO either. If I can find a Go implementation of OMEMO or at least the Signal double ratchet thing I'll have a go at integrating it but I'm probably not going to implement it myself. We'll see.
Thinking a bit about HTTP File Uploads. I get a straight HTTP URL as a message in this client when I'm sending an image from another client. Would probably be easy to get the image and in a graphical Emacs I could display it!
I've been drooling over the Eizo FlexScan EV2730Q square 1920x1920 screen for a long time. It's a bit on the expensive side so I haven't just ordered it.
Eizo themselves seems to have stopped listing it on their website but here is a nice image of it from Teenage Engineering's page about their nice Mini-ITX case:
If Eizo stopped making it let's hope they replace it with something in the same dimensions but with a higher resolution!
Now the Internet is all up about the new LG Dualup 2560x2880 screen which a) has much higher resolution, and b), is cheaper than the Eizo! It's a bit too tall, though, at 55 cm, but yes, you can rotate it to a much saner 48 cm.
Out of stock in the US site but still listed as available in Sweden. Still on the fence if I'm going to order one. Nice birthday present, no?
On the other hand I have a connection which might just give me an old Radiforce monitor! That would be really nice!
I used to have an X terminal with a 1024x1024 square screen, the NCD 16. Monochrome, of course. That was an awesome piece of technology. Totally quiet and with a very sharp screen.
I think I found the NCD in the attic at work in 1995. It was already old by then as I think it was launched in 1988. I still used it in 2000 when I think it broke down.
Screenshot from NCD 16 with TWM
The NCD had Xremote support in the firmware which actually made it sort of usable over the 9600 b/s modem I had in 1995.
Would totally be interested in using a square screen again or, failing that, perhaps 4:3 or something a bit saner than these really wide screens you see today.
mc,
Setting Orange, the 49 day of Confusion in the YOLD 3188
