Prompt Word: Heroine “I’m just a person, like any other,” she said uncomfortably. “You are a heroine, like in the stories,” said the young man. “You are mistaken, I’m afraid. What I did is I showed up, I took a long time to assess how I might actually be of help, and then I did the bare minimum to make sure this didn’t become a disaster. Anybody would do that,” she said....
Mastodon and the Wandering Shop So, there’s a social network called Mastodon. It’s basically the only one that I’m active on these days. Mastodon is a federated social network, which means that individuals and groups of folks get together to build and pay for a server that runs the Mastodon software. Each server is called an instance. The Mastodon instance that I joined is a server that is loosely organized with members who are interested in Science Fiction and Fantasy....
TL;DR Is there a way to support display of U+X? How many character blocks will it take to display U+X? Will U+X be displayed in independent multicolor? Introduction I’ve been on a bit of a research kick in Unicode lately, and I’ve long been a C language user, since before UTF-8 became the “winning” encoding for Unicode. I’ve also long been a bit of an enthusiast for Virtual Terminals, especially as I started programming before fully integrated development environments for every language were the default....
Corporate Use Restrictions There seems to be a growing trend in Open Source software of adding Terms of Use of a download service to exclude use by businesses (usually defining this as some number of employees, some amount of revenue or both), so that the software itself remains free and open source, but making sure that businesses must pay for the privilage of using the product. These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...