manxu

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[–] manxu@piefed.social 5 points 21 hours ago

it might have looked bad as if she was a sore loser

Honestly, not being a sore loser is what ended her political career. She got nothing out of conceding quickly, especially because Biden and Harris both painted a Trump presidency as a cataclysm for democracy.

If Trump is so bad (spoiler alert: he is), then you can't just throw in the towel because CBS projects Trump to win Florida. You ultimately become complicit in his victory. And that's really hard to forgive.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

Still being one of the luckiest people in aviation accident history, he may just have opened the door and stood there, and when the plane hit the ground been thrown by chance in the direction out.

Thinking about it, this is probably the best option, statistically. Timing the jump has virtually no chance of succeeding, but if you stand by the door you have an almost 25% chance of being thrown out the right way.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you look at Pelican? I share the frustration with much of Hugo's infrastructure: the template language is buggy and inscrutable, and the plugin architecture wanting.

I ended up with Hugo, but I considered Pelican. It uses standard Jinja templates, which I find much more rational (but it might just be me) and I recall there were plugins for a lot of things, including different source formats. The code is written in Python, so that even if there isn't a plugin for a format you need, there probably is a Python library for it and it should be relatively easy to make it a plugin.

Crap, now I want to switch to Pelican...

[–] manxu@piefed.social 41 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Forty percent of voters have a favorable opinion of President Trump, while 53 percent have an unfavorable opinion of him, and 4 percent haven't heard enough about him.

WHO are these people that haven't heard enough about him? And WHY isn't there "I have heard way too much about him" option in the poll?

[–] manxu@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hugo watch mode (both server and build) does not produce accurate sites on change and is really meant for development. I find after a developing for a while, I have to kill the process and restart it and then things are "fresh"

From reading the documentation, I strongly have the impression that hugo focuses on being fast on re-render and that the idea is to build and deploy to public site each time there is a change. The big difference is probably whether to render locally and push the generated content, or to push the source markdown and render remotely (which I chose).

[–] manxu@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

SSH hasn't had the signing functionality for long, and git support for SSH signatures is even younger. I'd say if you are starting from scratch, SSH signing is simpler and potentially more secure. PGP works, though, and if you have an existing setup, there is no compelling reason to change right now.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I ended up with Hugo, a git repository, and a cron job for the build. I write an article, check it in, the server picks up the git change and rebuilds the site. What I like about the setup is that the server only has the binaries hugo and git, and a shell script for the rebuild. Also, I write in Markdown, add media to the git repository, and articles are published soon after I check in without any remoting on my part.

I did look at WriteFreely after the setup, though. I find the minimalist design very beautiful. Didn't switch to it, but may look at it again for another project. https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely

[–] manxu@piefed.social 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trump got what he wanted. You can be certain that right-wing media will spin this as, "the only reason the troops were idle is that the President's quick action quelled the protests."

[–] manxu@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

If you've been following what's been going on in the US, you might have noticed that a judge has been incarcerated there simply for not cooperating with immigration enforcement enthusiastically enough.

Fucked up describes the situation pretty accurately, I'd say, ICC or not.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 27 points 5 days ago

Oh, look, a political prisoner! We haven't had one of those in a while. Next, we'll find out he had an abortion while wearing drag and smuggling fentanyl across the border. /s

[–] manxu@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago

Sigh, I so wish you were wrong...

[–] manxu@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It was really hard to watch. SCOTUS created this monster executive with unlimited and almost unchecked powers, Biden declared that Trump was a danger to democracy itself, and then... crickets. It was heart-breaking that he didn't even try to curb the limits of power of the Presidency by doing something SCOTUS was going to rule against, handing the next administration everything.

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