cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/61503899

I needed to forcibly place some origami fold marks in absolute locations on the page. This seemed like a useful pkg for at least some of the objects:

\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}

The problem is that it clobbers/ignores the ocg environment. E.g.

\textblockorigin{-18pt}{0mm}
\setlength{\TPHorizModule}{1mm}\setlength{\TPVertModule}{1mm}
\begin{ocg}{region boundaries}{rb}{on}
\begin{textblock*}{0pt}(0mm,0.5\paperheight) {\color{green}\rule[0.5ex]{\hmgn}{1pt}} \end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{0pt}(\paperwidth-\hmgn,0.5\paperheight) {\color{green}\rule[0.5ex]{0.5\paperwidth-0.25\paperheight}{1pt}} \end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{0pt}(\paperwidth-\hmgn,0.5\paperheight) {\color{green}\rule{1pt}{0.5\paperheight-\hmgn}} \end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{0pt}(\hmgn,\hmgn) {\color{green}\rule{1pt}{0.5\paperheight-\hmgn}} \end{textblock*}
\end{ocg}

It would probably work if a \begin{ocg}… were nested inside of every single \begin{textblock*}, but fuck that.

The textpos docs mention that care is taken to put the objects into the background and that the overlay option can be used to put the stuff on top. I thought that might be a hack to get it to respect the ocg environment, but no. It does not work.

I needed to forcibly place some origami fold marks in absolute locations on the page. This seemed like a useful pkg for at least some of the objects:

\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}

The problem is that it clobbers/ignores the ocg environment. E.g.

\textblockorigin{-18pt}{0mm}
\setlength{\TPHorizModule}{1mm}\setlength{\TPVertModule}{1mm}
\begin{ocg}{region boundaries}{rb}{on}
\begin{textblock*}{0pt}(0mm,0.5\paperheight) {\color{green}\rule[0.5ex]{\hmgn}{1pt}} \end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{0pt}(\paperwidth-\hmgn,0.5\paperheight) {\color{green}\rule[0.5ex]{0.5\paperwidth-0.25\paperheight}{1pt}} \end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{0pt}(\paperwidth-\hmgn,0.5\paperheight) {\color{green}\rule{1pt}{0.5\paperheight-\hmgn}} \end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{0pt}(\hmgn,\hmgn) {\color{green}\rule{1pt}{0.5\paperheight-\hmgn}} \end{textblock*}
\end{ocg}

It would probably work if a \begin{ocg}… were nested inside of every single \begin{textblock*}, but fuck that.

The textpos docs mention that care is taken to put the objects into the background and that the overlay option can be used to put the stuff on top. I thought that might be a hack to get it to respect the ocg environment, but no. It does not work.

I sometimes get:

Ksh…Ksh…Ksh…Ksh…Ksh…Ksh…

About ½ second spacing. Would not expect this on DAB radio. Surely it must be some kind of interference in an analog signal before digital encoding. I’ve heard it in the past but quite a lot today. Not sure if it’s different stations or just the one. Guess I’ll have to track that.

This is another consideration as one EU nation after another decides to cancel FM.. DAB has its own issues and yet still does not relieve us of static.

I naturally upvote myself when I post, because naturally I agree 100% with every single thing I say -- without exception. Lemmy devs know this, so the client is coded to automatically upvote my own posts.

Now most of my upvotes for myself are gone. Interestingly, they are not 100% gone. A minority of them seem to have persisted, as well as my upvotes for others. I have no idea what extent the voting data was lost, or if my votes on content of other SDF locals was lost.

I wrote this post and linked to this (now non-existent) comment:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52446618/26894334

The post that the comment falls under is still there, but the link to the comment is broken.

Querying the sitewide modlog on myself is not interesting. Just shows some unrelated nutty shit with a slrpnk.net mod. The thread looks like just a conversation with myself, effectively thinking out loud as I dig more. If the comment were by me and deleted by myself, there would be a trace left of it. Or even if it were someone else’s comment, a placeholder would be left.

My best theory is that SDF had some data loss or disaster, and they rebuilt the DB in a way that caused comments to get a new primary key. But wouldn’t the post have gotten a new number as well?

I think I linked to the comment that is now:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/52446618/24104545

but strangely, that id number is smaller than the comment that was written before it.

I recall there was an IRC channel during the US election in past years where an IRC bot printed results as they came in. And throughout the election night you could query the bot for stats in a given state.

I tried /msg alis list *election* and got nothing interesting. Is this just done on the 4-year POTUS elections?

I often use a command like this:

$ pdfjam --a4paper -o "$pdf" "$png"

The input png file is 105kb and the resulting pdf is 97kb. The beauty and strength of pdfjam is that it uses pdfpages to simply insert images as they are without manipulation (whereas most other tools such as ImageMagick insist on transcoding images).

So what explains the fact that the output is smaller? If some kind of non-lossy compression is used within the PDF container, the PNG should not be that significantly compressable, I would think. Otherwise that would imply a notable inefficiency in the png algorithm.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/61287283

I posted this thread, without issues. A year later, I finally got a really insightful reply that wholly answered my question well:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/39819472/25666072

Now it is “Removed by mod”. But I am the mod.. the only mod (wtf?). No, I do not have multiple personality disorder as the modlog shows.

So somewhere, someone booted that user. That had a ripple effect of destroying all that user’s content. So then I found a “restore content” button, used it, and had to give a reason. I thought I would just be sending myself a useless alert, but it actually restored the content.

So it’s fixed to some extent. But I would like to understand more about what happened. I cannot tell from that user’s modlog who banned them, or even which instance did the banishment. It may be true that it was an anti-spam control, and perhaps rightful, but it’s a bit fucked up how it killed all that user’s content when obviously some of it was useful.

I have seen this before in communities I moderate where a comment is gone because a user is banned. I never looked further. But now it’S clear this is not optimum. It was only in the case at hand that a user’s comment was useful enough that I remembered it, and it happened to be recent.

Clearly this is a bug: I am given the option to “restore comment” but I cannot review the comment before clicking that. So how can I first give a reason for restoring the comment if I am restoring it just to see if it should be restored?

To be clear, there are many bugs:

1. Banishment should give the banisher 3 options: ① remove all content ② remove no content ③ remove posts selectively.
2. The modlog should not hide who did the ban.
3. Mods should /always/ have a view of deleted content for which they have power to undelete.
4. Mods should (if they want) receive a notice when a bulk removal affects comments under their purview. There should be a view by which they can easily see on a timeline all bulk removed content that may be worth undeleting.
5. (edit) The msg “Removed by mod” is false. Since I am the mod where that happened, it could have only been an admin banning a user from the whole system.

I posted this thread, without issues. A year later, I finally got a really insightful reply that wholly answered my question well:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/39819472/25666072

Now it is “Removed by mod”. But I am the mod.. the only mod (wtf?). No, I do not have multiple personality disorder as the modlog shows.

So somewhere, someone booted that user. That had a ripple effect of destroying all that user’s content. So then I found a “restore content” button, used it, and had to give a reason. I thought I would just be sending myself a useless alert, but it actually restored the content.

So it’s fixed to some extent. But I would like to understand more about what happened. I cannot tell from that user’s modlog who banned them, or even which instance did the banishment. It may be true that it was an anti-spam control, and perhaps rightful, but it’s a bit fucked up how it killed all that user’s content when obviously some of it was useful.

I have seen this before in communities I moderate where a comment is gone because a user is banned. I never looked further. But now it’S clear this is not optimum. It was only in the case at hand that a user’s comment was useful enough that I remembered it, and it happened to be recent.

Clearly this is a bug: I am given the option to “restore comment” but I cannot review the comment before clicking that. So how can I first give a reason for restoring the comment if I am restoring it just to see if it should be restored?

The page onion.debian.org lists onion services for the Debian project. There are a lot of them, but nothing for:

• bugs.debian.org
• reportbug.debian.org

Part of the problem arises from an unhealthy attitude that bug reporting is a service that benefits the tester. That it is okay to make testers go through cumbersome hoops. Testers are actually contributors. The project should be doing all that it can to make it as easy as possible to submit bug reports because bug reports are inherently labor intensive. Bug reports improve the software for everyone. The tester may or may not even be a stakeholder. They are making a charitable contribution.

The Debian project is unapologetically telling testers to switch to clearnet and mainstream browsers when the bug services discriminate against users based on the network or browser version they use. Yikes. I hate to see Debian go in this direction.

Snikket servers made a recent change that broke Profanity (the text-based XMPP client). And no one noticed.

Both Profanity and Snikket have joined Microsoft’s exclusive walled-garden (github) which means a bug will only be reported by someone who is in the intersection of profanity users with an account on a snikket server, and who is not in Microsoft’s excluded group.

Searching the #profanity hashtage yields extremely sparse results. So who is in that tiny segment of an intersection of 3 tiny groups to report the bug?

I am writing a new package that does not use tikz but uses the standard latex2e picture environment. I am pleased that I could get the needed graphics without tikz. This means when the general public uses the package, it will not impose a tikz dependency on them (which is big and can have side-effects).

The problem is that objects need to be placed in absolute positions independant from other text on the page and without affecting other objects, like fold marks on a letter.

A similar question was answered:

https://overflow.ocus.top/exchange/tex/questions/386324/place-image-in-absolute-position-independently-from-text

It’s not a great answer because it relies on importing an external package (tikzpagenodes). We should not have to pull in the whole tikz infrastructure just to (for example) place a fold mark on a page. This is my starting attempt:

  \setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}
  \begin{ocg}{foldmarks}{fm}{on}\color{red}
    \noindent\hspace{\dimexpr(-\oddsidemargin-1in)}\begin{picture}(0,0)
      \put(0,0){hello, this is the origin!}
    \end{picture}
  \end{ocg}

The “h” in “hello” is rightfully against the far left edge of the paper. It’s ugly that I had to subtract off a left margin and an arbitrary 1 inch (which is hard-coded into the page layout), but it works for the horizontal. Doing the same with a negative \vspace{} (e.g. \vspace{\dimexpr(-\footskip-1in)}) has no effect, so a bottom margin or footer is forced.

How can this be overcome without using tikz?