Check it out! Tonight there is an extremely rare "Stolen Moon".

I wanna talk about the political movement of the Open Source community. If you spend enough time on fedi, you surely will have heard *plenty* of criticisms of what's going on in Open Source, and rightfully so.

So I'm curious, what do we think the Open Source community *should be doing* in order to achieve important progressive and anti-authoritarian goals? What should the next generation of programmers be thinking of and working on in this space?

A special rule: You're only allowed to say "don't X" if you have at least as many "do Y" recommendations. Preferably, I'd like to see more do's than don't's.

Boosts welcome

#tech #openSource #FOSS #progressive #programming #askFedi

@ai6yr there's a senior prof at work cranking out several books a year that are all produced with a heavy AI hand. Somehow that's seen as useful in annual reviews.

@tsturm @sleepytako complete slept through it in Kyoto😆

@lowqualityfacts

Riiiiiiiiight .. Good luck with that.

Night in Paris 1, Yoon Hyup, Acrylic on canvas, 2020

#art

@robertcadena WOW, that plant looks like it's doing phenomenally well! Which grower.. .mail order?

Coffee plant update. I bought this guy back in 3 months ago from a grower in Santa Barbara. First photo back then. 2nd today. He’s doing well. #plants #bloomscrolling #gardening

@Kishi The docs are very bad. The only positive thing I can say about them is they exist, which is not true of all build systems I have encountered.

NPR: Democrats plan to widen their probes of fatal ICE shootings

https://www.npr.org/2026/11/07/nx-s1-6029659/democrats-investigate-fatal-ice-shootings

#ICE #fascism #uspol

@carnage4life The new congress class photo is gonna look so good over this toot.

#IDIC

@mastodonmigration He did not support, I would not say he opposed. Once they won their primaries, he was 100% behind them. There are a few I would have opposed also because they’re extreme and cannot achieve their extreme agenda. It’s a pipe dream. I appreciate how all the young people and non-voters who voted this time feel like they should be in control, but that’s not how it works. Schumer is more likely to sway 3-4 GOP senators to go along with them than anyone else could.

Papyrix includes a support library (integrated into its fancier text layout) for auto-hyphenating words, finding all the place might be hyphenated. So how does it work?

There's a public API which reformats the results from its auto-hyphenation & exposing the language-setter.

That setter invokes which helper which strips the region off the language-code & converts ISO639-2 into into ISO639-1 codes via lookuptable, to get the appropriate hyphenation data via another lookuptable.

1/?

Meanwhile to compute break offsets Papyrix validates it has a word to process, reformats the text (via a helper in another file) into UTF-32 annotated with UTF-8 offsets, parses off surrounding punctuation & footnotes, locates various forms of hyphens & contiguous latin characters into the tentative results, if data's available iterates over the codepoints sorting & deduplicating results, otherwise defers to a method on the hyphenator or breaks on all chars in centre of the word.

2/?

In the happy path for each char it checks whether we're at the end of the word or at an explicit hyphen & if either of those are the case it hands that segment of text off to the language-specific hyphenator reformatting results.

There's a sourcecode file aiding detecting/processing different charsets, some of which I've mentioned. And I've already discussed the language registry.

Through a layer of indirection Papyrix uses Liang's algorithm, which looks a bit involved so... Tomorrow!

3/3Fin!

@ZLabe

"these packages just keep getting harder and harder to open"

@endrift I would eat the sticker

@futurebird Aaaand domestication begins! 😅