What exactly do you want it to do? You can implement TOTP with a 10 line python script and I probably have a few of those kicking around. I’ve ended up doing that at least a couple of times.

Use a medic alert bracelet if you need something like that. EMTs are trained to look for it. They aren’t going to derp around looking at your phone.

I set up ZNC and got it working but it was a pain in the neck, took some trial and error, and the docs were confusing. Once I got it going I basically left it alone rather than try to clean up the situation.

It’s something of a “14 competing standards” situation, but uv seems to be the nerd favourite these days.

This is about installing on a Nexus 5 which is from 2013. Sounds painful.

Does gnu bc have outstanding bug reports? If not, it doesn’t need updates. Its spec was frozen 30 years ago, more or less. Rather than unmaintained, I’d call it maintenance-free. BIFL software as it were. Sounds great to me.

Seems like a whine, bc is an interactive tool and it’s unusual to use it for anything where its response isn’t instant.

GNU bc is one of the oldest GNU tools and it uses an MP library that RMS banged out in an afternoon or two, I think. It could probably be adapted to use GMP which is very high performance.

Preferring GPL to other licenses seems fine with me, unless I want to work for Amazon without getting paid.

I use autotools and don’t remember having such issues.

We have supercomputers in our phones. They can handle it.

Gnus.el

Contacts and dialer should maybe be merged. It’s nice to be able to call someone and make notes in that person’s contact page during the call.

Is there some obstacle to writing them? Special SDK privileges or anything like that? Seems like a good thing to degoogle if possible.

I’ve been fairly happy with K9 but if they are about to Mozillify it, I will check out FairEmail.

IDK what Arkenfox is but I’m also noticing problems, hmm. Does duckduckgo.com work for you? Did your reboot help?

1. is it on F-droid? 2) Material You sounds awfully trendy, should I worry? 3) Does Swift anything to do with Apple?

I’m pretty happy with the ordinary text editor except I wish it had a one-tap way to insert the current date and time.

It sounds like he uses Rust and has some issues with it. IDK about green threads but Ada has had tasks (implemented in gnat with posix threads) from the beginning. If you pin a CPU core to a task and don’t use gc in it, that can handle your realtime stuff. Or these days, it’s becoming more common to use an fpga for cycle level timing control.

Note that traditional Forth cooperative multitaskers used a few hundred bytes of code or even less. This stuff doesn’t have to be bloaty.

Added: I’ve also seen a Boehm-style conservative GC in a few hundred lines of Forth. Using something like that in Rust could work nicely for lots of things.

Anyway, you can have a soft realtime gc with pauses in the low milliseconds (Erlang has that). That’s OOMs lower than most internet ping times, so plenty fast enough for web servers. Which are all full of JS bloat now regardless.

Yeah I had thought that C# was basically Microsoft’s version of Java, GC’d throughout. But it’s fine, I’m not particularly more excited by it now than I was before (i.e. unexcited). I’m not even excited by Rust, but maybe I’m missing something. I think it’s fine to use GC for most things, and program carefully in a non-allocating style when you have to, using verification tools as well.

A classic: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html

I’ll see if I can re-read your original post in the next day or so.

It’s not official or semi-official, it was just someone (a well known Haskell guru if that matters) speculating in a blog post.

https://chrisdone.com/posts/rust/

That is interesting and I didn’t know C# had anything like that. I saw another article recently saying at some point we were likely to see Rust get garbage collection.