I knew what this was before even clicking on it. :-)

• [email protected] is VERY unique both in content and in what gets posted.
• Almost everyone running Linux (or at least it seems like it 😉)

I believe that the unix_surrealism guy is a BSD person.

My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.

I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.

For ANC, Sony’s WH-1000XM6. I’ve had people complain that I occasionally sound muffled when using it as a headset, though. The only other circumaural ANC headphones I’ve used are Sennheiser Momentum 4s, which have a lot of problems and I wasn’t happy with for other reasons. No complaints about being muffled, though. Other than that, all my ANC experiences have been on various earbuds, not headphones.

For non-ANC, just a passive closed-back circumaural, my favorite so far is a Beyerdynamic DT 770. It’s an old design, first got one back maybe in 2000, but it’s been comfortable and durable, and has decent passive isolation. I picked up another pair a year or two back, and that’s what I typically use at home, where I don’t need ANC, if I’m seated at my computer. It doesn’t have a detachable cord, but that’s really the only thing I’d complain about.

Can’t exactly use the DT 770 as an example of technology advancing, though, given context of the discussion here. :-)

I can see that. I don’t like how they make the music sound though and much prefer open room speakers or open back headphones.

I get that and I do have some open back headphones too. That’s fine for a quiet environment. But if you’re wanting to listen to something in a noisy environment, your options are basically some form of isolation or trying to drown out everything else.

Biometrics are irrevocable. If you’re worried about stolen personal data, they are not what I would be moving to.

Virtual keyboards have never been great

I’m actually surprised that nobody ever fundamentally reinvented text input for touchscreens in a way that caught on.

I’d like to be able to get touchpads with physical buttons on laptops. Very few manufacturers do them, especially if you want three.

I once had dinner with a Stanford professor, years back, who was talking about the fact that he liked teaching in Python because he spent way less time teaching the language and more the higher level stuff that he was actually trying to get across than when he was using C++. Lower barrier to entry for new users. I’d guess that probably in the intervening years, a lot of classes have decided to use it for similar reasons. If you want to teach, I dunno, signal processing and your students maybe don’t have a great handle on the language yet, you want to be spending time on the signal processing stuff, not on language concepts.

My impression from what code I’ve looked at is that little computation is done by the Python code itself, so there’s little by way of gains to be had by trying to use something higher-performance, which eliminates a lot of the reason one would use some other languages.

Python’s cross-platform, albeit with a Unix heritage, so it doesn’t create barriers there. It’s already widely-used, a mature language that isn’t going anywhere and with a lot of people who know it.

It’s got an ecosystem for distributing libraries over the network, and there’s a lot of new code going out and being distributed rapidly.

Python isn’t statically-typed. Static typing can help write more-robust code. If you’re writing, say, the next big webserver, I’d want to have that checking. But for code that may often be running internally in a research project — and this is an area with a lot of people doing research — a failure just isn’t that big a deal. So, again, some of the reasons that one might use another language aren’t there.

And I imagine that there’s also inertia. Easier to default to use what others would use.

If you have another language in mind, you might mention that, see if there might be more-specific things. I could come up with more meaty plausible guesses if what you were wondering is something like “why isn’t everyone using SmallTalk?” or something.

You might as well follow Ronald McDonald himself on X.com.

Apparently, Ronald McDonald has mostly been phased out of the McDonalds brand over the past decade.

On the upside, anchovies on pizza got a lot more acceptable. I’ve had some more-mild anchovy pizzas that I’ve really liked, and can generally at least tolerate them. As a kid, I could never understand how adults could manage them.

I’m pretty impressed with where active noise cancellation on headphones has gotten.

Duck Duck Go’s AI suggestion is:

To enable the double space period feature on the Samsung keyboard, go to Settings > General Management > Language and input > On-screen keyboard > Samsung Keyboard > Smart typing, and ensure that the “Auto spacing” option is turned on. If the feature is not working, you may need to reset the keyboard settings to default or clear the keyboard’s cache.

EDIT: This (presumably) human, about older versions of the Galaxy:

https://www.techbone.net/samsung/user-manual/auto-punctuate

Tap on Settings

Tap on General management

Tap on Samsung Keyboard settings

Tap on More typing options

Enable or disable Double tap space bar to add period

I believe that YouTube pays video creators better than other websites do textual content creators.

If this is Android, you might investigate Settings->Display & brightness->Font and try sliding the Font size slider there.

DDR4 RAM is presently cheaper than DDR5, but it has also increased dramatically in price recently.

https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

DDR4:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/ed889201-f9e6-46ec-81a8-832f6bfc63ed.jpeg

DDR5:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/35d03746-8d9c-443f-808f-8c88f2914b73.jpeg

I’ve never heard of OP’s convention. But if I had to guess, it’s this:

• It’s slow to input text on an onscreen keyboard compared to a physical one.

• Mobile vendors try to reduce the number of keystrokes via predictive text and other tweaks in their onscreen keyboard software.

• One common optimization (which I do not like and have off) is to try to reduce the effort to terminate a a sentence.

• On iOS’s keyboard, tapping space twice inserts a period, then space. This is an easy action to perform.

• I would assume that many iOS users are thus trained to only terminate sentences this way, and not to explicitly use periods. A trailing period requires extra effort and an unusual keystroke.

• As a result, iOS users tend not to put in the extra effort, and so their sentences tend not to have a trailing period if not followed by a subsequent sentence.

• For these users, the norm then becomes to omit a period on the final sentence, and so explicitly adding it looks like the user has gone out of their way to specially add punctuation. The trailing period then acquires semantic value, meaning.

I expect that the whole thing stemmed from some random engineer at Apple just banging away trying to get average typing speed up, not spending a lot of time thinking about any linguistic or social impact.

It could also be that Microsoft or Google do that by default — but I don’t use their default onscreen keyboards, and the descriptions I can find online of their default behavior sounds like they don’t.

Different punctuation mark, though it’s also a variant on the question mark.