thevoidzero

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[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

That's what I think about so many home/traditional cure. Maybe it works for those people due to placebo effect, and I've lost that magic because I'm too critical of everything.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

On this topic it's also good at finding you a acronym full form that can spell out a specific thing you want. Like you want your software to spell your name/some fun world but actually have full form related to what it does , AI can be useful.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

It also has a team mode when you walk around with your friends, it gives different tasks to different people in the group. Haven't used it myself but I've been thinking of trying that with my clubs.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I feel like YouTube one can lead into another. Because it's hard to get people to follow you in GitHub. But having another platform where you can advertise your programs means a lot. Even if you write something useful people are not going to discover you without something else doing the outreach.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I use emacs, and it can change font size and font face similar to the font color during syntax highlights. Like in markdown or LaTeX headings are larger font, math formula have their system where superscript and subscript have higher/lower baseline. In org mode it can even convert the whole latex snippet into formula and display as image, or show inline images. And in rust it has type hints and other information overlayed along side the code you wrote, it even adds little buttons on tests you can click to run them.

So I think what you want can probably be made easily if you have a solid grasp of what you want. Emacs is basically extensible using a programming language (elisp) so technically there's nothing you can't do logic wise, there might be some limitations on displaying things though.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You could always write your own program that runs before the compiler. Simple character replace for those unicodes to ascii

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So IDE with syntax highlights? Those blocks things are also pretty much shown in most IDE, what do you use to code?

I even have prettifying turned on so the keywords like in, lambda, etc are prettified.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Git works through ssh. So you need the same system as sshing into your machine. You just make a user group git and then let git and ssh handle things. And if you don't need people to push to your repo, then it's a lot easier as it's now similar to hosting a website/file server.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

If they care enough about how I think they'd give cash. Or no gifts at all, because the concept of "I have to give a gift for ..." Just makes me accumulate more things that I won't use, coz most things I use I buy.

I do appreciate greatly when someone asks what I want and I can give them a list of things that need at the moment, or something I'd like to have bit feels like too much money to spend for the low amount of use I'd get. Buying random things when I can't think of things has never worked in my favor.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yup gift cards are like money but with limited use. And sometimes expiration dates.

I think there's significant portions if it that don't get used at all, which is free money (profit) to the company. Or maybe they don't count it as profit because people may use it, idk.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Problem with MS word is you can't really put vector images in it externally without it being weird. I think that's why people are used to drawing it in the software.

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Let's name it CVE-2025, no id, just year so that we can recognize it immediately. The vulnerability of the vulnerability database being like this.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22266569

Looking for Mentor (for a PhD Candidate) that works with open source and Rust

TLDR: Searching for person holding professor position to officially act as a committee member on a US PhD defense

Hi all,

I'm in a non CS field. I'm doing PhD in hydrology and I'm good at Geospatial Analysis, data analysis, visualization, modeling and such. I really like programming and have been making open source programs, contributing to open source programs and such. And have been learning rust for last 2 years.

For my PhD dissertation I'm doing a project where I'll be using Rust to make a program with compiled plugin system that can do generalized river related tasks including data analysis and visualization. I have professors in GIS and hydrology to guide those aspects, but I don't have anyone on software side to ask questions, or to look at my work. I tried emailing some people I have seen with open source projects on GIS+rust, but no response.

I'm ideally looking for someone that holds a professor position for my committee who is good with either rust, GIS related algorithms development, and programming languages. However, it woud also be helpful to just have someone woth knowledge about such things. In either scenario, credit and authorship will be given.

I appreciate any response even telling where i could find someone matching the above description. :)

Edit: I can also provide my previous projects in GitHub, websites and such before you decide in messages.

 

TLDR: I recently found out there is "deprecated" XFA format that acrobat still uses in their programs, and government forms have those for dynamic contents in the form that we cannot fill using other softwares. Looking for solutions.


This has been a problem since a long time. Back in 2020 I had dual boot because I needed acrobat to fill PDF forms, but after finding xournal++ program I nuked windows partition. Windows update messing up grub was one of the reason I decided to nuke windows and looking at the posts recently it's still a huge issue.

So the problem I recently encountered is that even the government issued PDF forms need acrobat reader (which is free software for PDF, but only available in windows and mac). Which I didn't think would be an issue and just filled the form in Firefox.

Turns out that was problematic as the PDF forms has fields that are automatically filled, calculated from other fields, only made available when certain checkboxes are checked, etc. and Firefox doesn't support that. Even trying to install the acrobat reader snap (which uses wine) in a VM and opening the PDF on it didn't work. The UI makes me think it's a really old version of the reader.

So without searching for other devices (and filling a PDF with my sensitive information) what solution is there? Installing windows is a hassle even in a VM, and it will use up precious SSD memory. But that's the only solution I can think of.

I also found masterpdf or something like that which the Arch wiki says has support for that, but it didn't work. It says XFA forms are converted to acro forms, and the dynamic part doesn't work. There are websites that promise to work for such forms, but I'm not going to be putting sensitive info on web apps.

 

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping there are people here who work on FOSS and have applied for grants to support their software financially. I am applying for a grant opportunity that is asking for a software from US gov agency.

My requirements:

  • I want to publish it under Open Source Licenses like GPL (not MIT) so other corps can't take this to use on their product,
  • The grant agency will get the source code, they can do whatever as long as the license is held,
  • I will develop the features they want, and request during the duration of grant,
  • I will want to continue development independently after the grant, or apply for more grants from other organizations,
  • To clarify the previous point, I do not want to give them the final product so they own it, and I can no longer do anything on the program.

So, if anyone has done similar things, please give me advice on this. Their requirement says "a web repository" should be provided at the end, so I think I can apply with the intention of giving them the software code while keeping the rights. But I don't want to make a mistake in application/contract and lost the rights to the program, I want to develop a lot further than just the features they want for their use case.

Or at least dual license to protect the Open Source Side while giving the grant organization rights to take the code for their other programs because of the money they spent.

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