Thanks. I’ll have a look at some of those approaches.

(edit) I used a feature in the KOMAscript pkg to produce circles that reach the edge of the paper. I also used one of the approaches in your link to create a frame at the point where the /expected/ boundary is, so that if the frame has any missing lines it would indicate where the specs may be wrong. But I must say I don’t trust LaTeX to produce an accurate frame because some lines are closer to the edge than others even though I asked for 4.2mm on all sides.

The staff at the shop I use the most did not know. But the self-service printers are different than the printers used by the staff. They might know for the printers they use, which is naturally more costly.

Creating something with symbols going all the way to edge seems like a good idea. I would not want any spacing between the symbols though, so I guess it would be non-trivial code.

I could flood the page with color, then place a white box on top of that that covers all but 20mm around the border knowing that the unprintable region would not be bigger than that.

What I had in mind was many lines terminating at many positions around the border, each line marked with how much gap it leaves. Then the first line to not go as far as the others would be the penultimate one. Your idea sounds a lot easier. But ideally the ideas could be combined if the doc were to be published for many to use for that purpose.

Art.3 has this definition:

(5)‘audiovisual media services’ means services as defined in point (a) of Article 1(1) of Directive 2010/13/EU;

which leads to:

1. For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply: (a) ‘audiovisual media service’ means: (i) a service as defined by Articles 56 and 57 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which is under the editorial responsibility of a media service provider and the principal purpose of which is the provision of programmes, in order to inform, entertain or educate, to the general public by electronic communications networks within the meaning of point (a) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/21/EC. Such an audiovisual media service is either a television broadcast as defined in point (e) of this paragraph or an on-demand audiovisual media service as defined in point (g) of this paragraph;

(ii) audiovisual commercial communication;

(e) ‘television broadcasting’ or ‘television broadcast’ (i.e. a linear audiovisual media service) means an audiovisual media service provided by a media service provider for simultaneous viewing of programmes on the basis of a programme schedule;

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2010/13/oj/eng

So perhaps not… though strictly speaking audiovisual ≠ ‘audiovisual media service’, so it’s left undefined. Perhaps one could argue that DAB has JPEG album art and therefore delivers both.

Note as well that the spirit of the accessibility law is to push suppliers to provide information and access in multiple different formats so that some impaired demographics are not unnecessarily excluded.

My version is older than 120.

It’s very repeatable, so exit node would not be at issue. I guess the user agent string is being rejected.

I’ve seen it consistently fail using ungoogled chromium over tor. But when I just now tried Firefox over tor, no issue. I know that U/C is fussy about timing, but the response time seems quick when I use firefox, so I don’t think it’s a problem of lagging.

I am not really satisfied with any radio receiver because none of them attach to the LAN as a server. I got a bit spoiled with a terrestrial broadcast TV tuner that attaches to ethernet and is compatible with MythTV, which is an open source DVR. It pulls the schedules from the air (thus requires no Internet), and gives you way to prioritise programs you want recorded. It’s great in particular for unplugged folks. It even cuts out commercials – if there are any… none where I use it.

Radio has nothing comparable. But it is somewhat cool that some DAB radios have an LCD that shows album art and text info like the track and program that is playing, and time and date set automatically by the air waves.

still down for me. Maybe it’s a tor-hostile node. My machine only works over Tor.

Thanks! I would be installing linux instead of MacOS, but it does look like the hardware is compromised by this. The page you link specifically mentions these as having the feature:

• All Mac computers with Apple silicon
• MacBook Pro computers with Touch Bar (2016 and 2017) that contain the Apple T1 Chip

It does not say /all/ macbook pros. So I wonder which MacBook pros do not have that T1 chip.

I also somewhat distrust that /all/ mac computers w/Apple silicon. Surely the really old hardware like G3 wouldn’t?¹

The most interesting would be old 2nd-hand hardware that is free from this secure enclave, but still new enough to run recent MacOS if I want to occasionally boot MacOS for hardware testing purposes. I heard the next couple generations of MacOS will require at least an M1 chip. Guess I need to research where that stands w.r.t secure enclave.

(edit) The T2 chip page lists:

• MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)

I think the macbook pros that feature non-x86 MacOS would run on were described as having Four Thunderbolt 3 ports, so I guess that rules out macbook pros. IOW, no macbook pro is spychip-free and simultaneously capable of supporting the next MacOS.

¹ I assumed Apple Silicon referred to Motorola chips, but the wikipedia page says Apple Silicon refers to arm chips.

One of the reasons I use no apps but use websites: most of the time there is a way to save the page as something that will work offline.

I suppose by “Apps” you have phone apps in mind. But when I wrote about severe lack of offline apps, I meant in the specific context of communication. E.g. to use Lemmy, we are forced to use a web app. We are often led to think a website is a static document of sorts, but if JavaScript is used, that’s really an app. And it’s a crippled app because JS apps do not generally have a means to access your hard drive. Rightfully so, but it means we cannot read and write Lemmy posts offline and then synchronize as we briefly pass through a hotspot.

Part of the problem is “apps” on phones are simply just browser replacements, which is the worst of both worlds because it’s even more limiting. But a well designed FOSS app can theoretically serve us best by keeping a local DB which is then sync’d, like usenet news was back in the 90s. Short of that, it’s useful to save webpages with something like this:

wget -E -H -k -K -p "$url"

And when I use digital anything, I do my best to not us GAFAM-controled services instead giving my money to smaller & non-US companies.

It’s a good policy. I’ve gone as far as to stop emailing gmail and microsoft recipients. That step certainly causes waves around me. It useful because other people are forced to respect my choice to not have GAFAM in the loop. It forces people to think about their choices.

And the enjoyment of using analog tool too, but that one is really subjective.

I love writing letters with LaTeX. It turns a writing task into a coding task, but then when I print the letters on paper, the end result is analog. It brings me great satisfaction to play with LaTeX. The shame is that this world is lost to most people who can’t see past the perception of inconvenience.

I also made it a rule that, beside messages from my spouse, I will always wait to be back at home to answer a message or to listen to my voice mail (nothing is that urgent that it can’t wait a few hours, or more).

There was a bit of a parallel revolution on that in Australia (IIRC). Masses of people working from home during the pandemic led to bosses expecting staff to be available 24/7. But I would draw a line around 6 hrs day, 5 days/week, and still require the boss to have the luck of reaching me in a home office… not when I’m on the go. I think Australia passed some kind of law giving people a right to be unplugged in their off hours.

I would like to try out Dab, but have not yet managed to find a radio set that offers the same level of comfort than my old FM radio (the same number of quick access buttons to my favorite stations, as I don’t want to use menus). So, I keep using FM which is fine as it should be available at least up 2033, here in France.

I can tune ~25 FM stations. When I bought a DAB radio, it found 75 digital stations, some of which were quite important. Some were a mirror of an FM station, but usually better quality. In one case, the DAB station and identical FM station were both low quality, in which case FM was better because when a DAB signal is weak, it cuts out, which is much worse than a bit of static.

Privacy and ownership is also the reason why we don’t use streaming services anymore. CDs and DVDs are more then enough for us to enjoy music, a movie or a series.

Indeed, streaming is all about tracking. Your smart TV watches you watching it. I’m back to popping into the library for media.

Oh, right! Indeed, I forgot there was a language specifier for the post itself. That fixed it. Thanks!

What a piece of shit software.

thanks for the tip, but it seems to make no difference. I changed it from browser default to english. Is that the right setting? The screenshot does not render for me.

I simply tried to add the word “needed” to the end of the title, and it said “language not allowed”.

Please report any spam you find to the mods by hitting the “create report” flag under the ellipse (“…”), and explain why it is spam (please read the rules and cite the broken rule so the mod does not have to guess). They will remove it if it is non-conformant or irrelevent to the topic.

Indeed minipage would be a decent workaround in this scenario. It’s effectively very similar to what I settled on (paracol). I just updated the OP to reflect this.

With both the minipage approach and the paracol approach, we give up the ability to have text flow from one column to the other. But for the doc I am working on at the moment, it’s perhaps best to control the flow anyway.

That would work if dates are not reused. But if you have a block of \DTMsavedate variables in the preamble and then refer to those dates throughout the doc by the variable name you assign, the spreadsheet would be more trouble than it’s worth because you would have to copy-paste all the dates into the spreadsheet, choose the new format, copy them back, and risk the update anomaly in the event that you revise a date in the preamble. Could be useful for some situations though. But I guess I would still rather replicate \DTMsetdatestyle{default}\DTMsetup{datesep=/} in every cell that needs it.

Ah, right, I think I meant elinks. It has been a while, but I recall that JS support was essential. I first heard of it working for someone else which inspired me to try it. And it worked for me. I don’t recall the extent of my tests (it was a while ago). If reg and login are a problem, you could perhaps do those things with cURL or something and hand off the logged in cookie to elinks.

All hacks aside, emacs is likely the best option since the pkg was designed specifically for using Lemmy. But that’s speculative since i have not tried it.

I have no idea about X11, which I assume is what you meant by X. GIMP crashes Wayland. Or Wayland crashes GIMP and takes itself down with it. GIMP can launch on wayland and carry out /some/ tasks, but some functions and windows in GIMP are sure to trigger a crash. Usually GIMP alone goes down, but sometimes the whole wayland session goes down with it.

(edit) I should also mention that GIMP probably has no Wayland support. It’s most likely using Xwayland in my case. Xwayland is an attempt to give Wayland the x11 hooks that older software rely on (as x11 is a dying technology IIRC). The Libreoffice suite of tools have the same problem and crash on Wayland, but there is an obscure hack that fixes Libreoffice.

I double-checked, and yes: A table can span an infinite amount of pages.

That’s useful. It also just occurred to me that I probably want 1 table per paragraph anyway to keep the alignment. If my collaborator turns out not to be LaTeX-literate, I will try libreoffice w/tables.

May I ask you: You don’t seem to use a GUI at all, and it seems like you have never seen a GUI. I only know one other person who lives like that, and they are 100% blind. Is that the case with you? If you are using Lemmy without a GUI, how?! I’d like them to be able to browse Lemmy!

I am not blind. I just have a strong bias for TUIs, for scripting, control, and performance on old hardware (as I don’t do spy chips, which are post-2008 intel CPUs or post-2013 AMD CPUs). I created the !text_ui@lemmy.sdf.org community because of this preference.

I still today use a GUI browser for Lemmy. But I have investigated and there are options:

• NeonModemOverdrive is a TUI app for Lemmy but at least for me it was too buggy to be useable.
• Someone wrote an emacs app. I would like to install that but ATM it demands a newer version of emacs than I have.
• The Links text browser (not to be confused with lynx) has some JavaScript support and it works with the Lemmy stock client. I don’t recall off the top of my head why I did not make regular use of that. It’s obviously a hack to get a TUI but the Lemmy UI was not designed for it so it’s not as fast in the ergonomical sense as we expect a well designed TUI to be. Perhaps it would be practical for your friend. OTOH, the emacs option is probably better.

I don’t go out of my way to send email to Gmail accounts.

Does that mean you allow Google to block you? Or that Google is permissive for you and does not require a CAPTCHA?

I personally will not go out of my way in the slightest. Running a mail server from a residential IP with no spf/dmarc/dkim ensures that MS always refuses my email and Google refuses it /most/ of the time. And I am fine with that. To be clear, I am not asking to change that. My question is political. I want to know what MS is putting small email operators through, when they are willing to send to MS recipients.

I would like to hear from a server admin who has had to solve a CAPTCHA in order to get mail from their server accepted.

Right, but the effort is in the manual entry. I am starting with a document coded in LaTeX which produces a 2-column PDF. So using latex2rtf will be my attempt at an automatic conversion but I imagine it will be a disaster. So from there, alternatively, I have a lot of copying and pasting to do. A table does not feel right, but I guess the first thing I have to look into is whether a table can span many pages. If each page must have a separate table, then what happens as the table grows? I anticipate a lot of pain, but nonetheless I’ll see what I can do.

Journals and newspapers commonly do multiple columns though not for different languages, so the right column is a continuation of the left. I suppose a table might be a hack around that, assuming L/O even supports 2 columns of text in the traditional sense in the first place.