Lady of Longing @Lady@cat.family

od -t u4 -N 4 /dev/random | sed 's/^[0-9]* *//' | tr -d ' \n' | awk 'BEGIN{chars="0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWXYZ&~@=U"}{d=32^5;r=$0%32^6;printf "%s",substr(chars,r%37,1);while(d>0){printf "%s",substr(chars,int(r/d),1);if(d==32^4)printf "%s","-";r%=d;d=int(d/32)}}'

for some reason gawk thinks that printf should not interpret its arguments the same as printf on the command line so instead you have to pipe to it if you need that bit

what she had:

› awk '$0!~/%/{printf("%s",$0)}/%/{sub("%","0x");printf("\\%04o",$0)}'

the portable awk script:

› awk '$0!~/%/{printf "%s",$0}/%/{sub("%","0x");cmd="xargs printf \"%04o\"";printf "%s","\\";printf "%s",$0|cmd;close(cmd)}'

…do i now hav basically ȣl ðe tools i need to build ðat codex software i wuz thinkiŋ about like five years ago

oh no i’m considering changing my layout radically again

what do you think? that someone writing critical, compassionate fanfic can thrive here? that they will be taken seriously and able to make a difference? this system cares nothing for them and everything for the fanworks they hate

this is not hyperbole; if you care more about the preservation of a mythical fan identity, always figured as constantly under threat, than you do about actual human beings or, dare i say, the interrogation and advancement of the artform—into something more compassionate, more responsible, and more capable of enacting good in the world—then you have lost sight of your own humanity and certainly that of the people around you, and this ⁜is⁜ the founding and driving mythos of the organization of which i speak

it is mildly distressing however that fans see people approaching their art with a mentality that all criticism and interrogation is suspect, that analysing the human costs and effects of a work is misguided and wrong, and that every form of speech, no matter how vile, is equally valuable and worthy of preservation—that fans see these takes brought out again and again and yet expect something other than the same old fascism from the people who make them

i really can’t be bothered to care that an organization which was explicitly established to provide safe harbour for hate speech also thinks genocide is okay and running meetings is hard

apparently an organizational relic of a racist corner of late ’00s internet had a board meeting tonight and for that reason i am still not asleep

Carpe carp!

remember when pokémon made hatsune miku trans

added a keyboard just for common precomposed characters lol

if my post is in NFD it means i am on my phone

honestly they were cowards for not having the dog die

originally my question was going to be whether it is now safe to use control to provide additional levels in a custom keyboard layout, since it doesn’t seem like those conflict with the existing keybindings like they used to

but now i’m also wondering if it is possible anymore to do custom keybindings for a nonstandard macOS keyboard layout at all