It says something about the current relationship of large corporate apps and users when Slack makes an update - of particular annoyance is that the search bar at the top basically eats the entire border now making it impossible to move the window around unless you make the window sufficiently large - and my immediate thought is “this must have been deliberate in order to make sure Slack takes up as much of my screen as possible.”
It’s hard for me to think of a legitimate reason for how massive that search bar is and why it is so damn close to all the edges at the top making the window virtually immovable unless you greatly expand it.
I am once again considering to write my own window manager
...unless the setup I am thinking of is already possible, let me construct this in your head:
On the top of the screen, there is narrow status bar, which is split into two parts. On the right side of the bar, you have your clock, your battery, your signal strength and so on.
On the left side, there is a clickable tab for every window you have opened. It's like browser tabs: Every window always uses the entire space below the status bar.
On the far left, there could be an icon which opens a searchable list of applications, kind of like #dmenu but vertical. Everything supports mouse input as you would expect.
Does that exist? Should I make it? It would be awesome for smaller screens, like phones.
Edit: I should add that I'm planning to run it on a Nokia N900 with a single 600 MHz CPU core, 256 MB RAM and a resolution of 800×480 pixels. Existing full desktop environments like Xfce4, LXDE, and so on are way to heavy to run.
Unless you wanna write your own window manager (all the power to you!) almost any barebones window manager can pretty much be customised to meet your needs with their scripting APIs.
Oh damn, maybe you might wanna write your own for such a specific use case.
#BookHistory people! Have you ever read a book or article that proposed anything like the communications circuit for manuscripts? Basically a conceptual model of the creation, circulation, and reception of mss books? I would love to know about them for my quals paper!
> A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities.
Something that’s been nagging at me all day: A discussion with a parent about their teen’s belief that history classes are a waste of time—not because the kid isn’t interested in history, but because they believe that they can learn all they need to know about the Roman Empire from YouTube videos far more efficiently than by taking classes.
There’s so much misunderstanding of what history is about baked in there that I don’t even know where to start.
@tkinias I know, right? Exactly what I meant in last post about popular tendency to reduce history to a set of facts rather than an interpretive method and framework (not that there aren't good videos about Antiquity, from Mary Beard to Tom Holland and others).
And on that note, I've made a point of using @AHAHistorians documents in teaching my intro history & methods course: e.g.
@GreenRoc I regularly have “the talk” with my son, who already has a bone to pick with trigger happy cops. Please goddess let his drive for self-preservation overcome unfiltered sharing when his time in front of a gun arrives. 🙏🙏
@btaroli@GreenRoc@actuallyautistic
I was only once in USA and it was in your area and city. No place in the world I felt so constantly tension and unsafe like there. Eg. I accidentally thought it would be a good idea to walk by foot and cross tenderloin to reach union square. After three blocks and seeing police taking people under arrest, people taking openly drugs, running around like zombies I backed out again. Also everywhere this aggression and people knowing no borders.
It’s finally happened. Trump’s business empire is on the verge of total ruin as his decades-long practice of fraudulently inflating his property values led a NY judge to CANCEL the business certificates of the Trump Organization entities.
Kudos to NY Attorney General Letitia James for bringing this all to light and achieving accountability against Trump. He’s a fraud. He’s a rapist. And he’s a clear and present danger to our democracy.
But justice has caught up to him, and it is glorious to see.
@tommyyum@georgetakei@actuallyautistic theyre dragging everything out and hoping he dies before there are repurcussions. There wont ever be actual consequences for him...maybe for his kids, but not for him.
It's taking so long because nobody in charge actually wants to hold him accountable.
Carrey always had ridiculous talent like that, especially during his In Living Color days. The sheer expressive capabilities this dude had were amazing!
Volkskrant en NRC waren wat lauw over de nieuwe roman van Tommy Wieringa. Ik begrijp dat niet. Het si een prachtig boek en het komt ongetwijfeld (terecht) vandaag hoog binnen in de CPNB Top 60. In Vlaanderen alleen lovende recensies en het publiek staat voor Nirwana in de rij.
@JeanMarcvanTol ah, dank! Ik las die recensies ook en was heel verbaasd. Niet dat ik het boek al gelezen heb, maar ik heb van Wieringa gewoon nog nooit een slecht boek gezien. Dank voor de heads up dus (en misschien even nog @ boeken @ a.gup.pe gaan volgen en taggen :)
“Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries.”
This is a must read from the always informative Judd Legum.
Start each #haiku with the same first lines below:
MORNING SUN…
or
SEASHELLS….
Post haiku in comments, as ever enjoy mulling over the first line & considering your options at different points during the evening or day depending on your time zone.
Probably because Rebel News is well known right-wing propaganda outlet run by a racist fuckface with a tenuous grip on reality, when they aren’t just outright lying.