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diana_coman: jfw in further yrc nitpicks - does it apply lowercase to incoming nicks or how does it manage to end up with 2 windows for the same nick only based on case-sensitiveness? e.g. /msg NickServ will end up in window NickServ but reply will end up in a new window, nickserv
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jfw: diana_coman: that rings a bell, I'll have a look on this pass. possibly more like not applying a case-mapping where it should. IRC is supposedly case insensitive, unfortunately implementations differ as to what the mapping actually is (Scandinavian origins). still, should at least do one mapping consistently
diana_coman: aha, that sounds sensible
jfw: I'd also like it to show date changes (when there's actually messages there), that'd be nice for the monthly blogolog too
diana_coman: well, the 2 are separate, lol
jfw: I know, I'm pointing out what to me seems a shortcoming in both since the dates are not otherwise displayed.
diana_coman: alright, noted
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diana_coman: tbh for yrc I don't particularly see it as a big thing either way
diana_coman: I can kind of see the use for it more in the blogo-monthly log indeed
jfw: alright, good to know re priorities on those usability issues.
jfw: one can get full unix timestamps from the log files (and I have a script to format these as human dates that'll go in the next patch) but I saw that as a workaround.
diana_coman: aha, I noticed the unix timestamps in the log files, made for a pleasant change from all the various formats/not 2 the same otherwise.
diana_coman: welcome back cruciform
cruciform: diana_coman, thanks! Apologies for the ~month absence - I fell off the wagon a tad :p
jfw: diana_coman: heh, you might not like then that it's centiseconds rather than the more conventional float-seconds or ns or whatever
diana_coman: jfw ahahaha
diana_coman: see, I didn't yet look at it in any detail
diana_coman: cruciform one of those days I'll figure out what's this falling-off-the-wagon fashion all about!
cruciform: diana_coman, in fairness, I guess most people don't have much of a wagon to fall off (not that I have such an excuse)
diana_coman: you are possibly quite right there, indeed, huh.
diana_coman: cruciform how's the move going?
cruciform: at any rate, I'll have a post up tonight about the prior month and the upcoming week; my internet connectivity will be a bit spotty over the next few days - packing stuff and moving to a friend's for a coupla weeks
cruciform: the move's not been terrible so far; just time-consuming
diana_coman: so where to?
cruciform: back to Surrey - had enough of London to last a lifetime!
diana_coman: ah, I thought it was either Bath or York
cruciform: yea, reckon it still will be, but there are some local family issues I need to sort out in the next week or two
diana_coman: ah, so move 2 to follow, lolz
cruciform: I believe one's allowed to actually view properties again, since Monday - didn't wanna move sight-unseen
diana_coman: oh, do they expect one to move now without even visiting?
cruciform: lol, yes - hopefully the moves'll be inductive; and if the first one goes well, so will the rest!
cruciform: I believe that's been the case for the last coupla months, yea - they only allowed "online viewings"
diana_coman: ahahah, that figuring out proof by induction clearly left its mark
jfw: next up, paying rent by posting pictures of cash
diana_coman: lmao; then again, I guess on one hand "wtf all the pretense, they are all ~same anyway" and otoh since it still goes ahead anyway...why not push it further, ofc.
cruciform: jfw, I understand lots of people's "girlfriends" work along the same lines, nowadays
jfw: cruciform: you'd think the reuse possibilities there would be lucrative except the market's well saturated for quite some time now :D
cruciform: lol, I suppose they'd argue it lowers carbon emissions/is a form of recycling, if people don't have to actually meet up
diana_coman: it's safer!
cruciform: diana_coman, I noticed since Monday, far fewer masks; traffic - cars and foot - much closer to pre-hysteria levels
diana_coman: here I barely saw any masks at all at any time; gotta be London the worst, huh.
cruciform: I did a coupla informal counts over the last few weeks - it was always >50%; since Monday, ~33%
diana_coman: but yeah, at the weekend it was absolutely packed in and around the chiltern hills area
cruciform: sounds lovely! have you been to Hughenden Manor
diana_coman: I have to admit though that I find the orderly queues quite funny to watch - from a distance, lol
cruciform: ikr! I should've taken pics - some of the bank queues were 100 yards long
diana_coman: no, is that anything special? I tried to get to the hills, proper hills, god-damned it but I still ended up with mainly walking-on-the-flat-near-the-river
diana_coman: bank queues ? ahahah ; so far I saw only supermarket and shop queues
diana_coman: so next time I guess I'll just get a boat to start with, makes more sense anyway
cruciform: yea; people snaking back in 2metre increments
diana_coman: so 1980's!
cruciform: Hughenden is great - especially if you like redbrick; it's on a hill, though nothing mountainous!
diana_coman: funnily enough, trying to find a "village" we ended up walking all the way to ..."the town"; apparently we failed to register the 3 houses as village or something.
diana_coman: but anyway, from what I saw the "distancing" idea is that people get out of the way simply so honestly, I don't mind it at all.
cruciform: same, though I am in need of the services of a tailor/barber/gym-operator
diana_coman: cruciform bwahaha, redbrick is a never-ending-complaint in my house
diana_coman: but yeah, redbrick is expected too; the surprise is if it is something else, really.
cruciform: diana_coman, lol, I used to be the same, but it grew on me
diana_coman: now a tailor/barber/gym-operator in one like that might be even rarer than not-redbrick, lol
cruciform: lol, National Trust is missing a beat!
cruciform: isn't it odd how the narrative has changed - virtually overnight - from the flu to the riots? And no one seems to care/notice - as long as they have something to be hysterical about
diana_coman: cruciform what exactly would you class as "care/notice"? as in where & how can that even happen exactly?
diana_coman: it's not hysterical, it's just ...with a purpose, ok?
diana_coman: verschlimbesserung (thank you for the term, bvt!)
cruciform: I suppose I mean, the mainstream media goes from 110% Covid doom to 110% blacklivematterTM doom, and people just shift their focus of worry
cruciform: but without thinking, "oh, I suppose that last thing couldn't have been so bad, afterall" - just straight to the next worst-thing-ever
diana_coman: eh, common; it's like expecting people at latest film to *still* worry about the previous film's action, lol
cruciform: how come everything is a Fast and Furious 11/Avengers-universe/Harry Hobbit thing nowadays, then?
diana_coman: fashion really; but what difference exactly do you think it makes ?
cruciform: well, it seems people can fanatically follow a narrative within a fictional universe... oh, lol; it's the same with the media
cruciform: at least the movies have special effects!
diana_coman: well, they are trying! it's called PPE!
cruciform: Personal Protective Equipment? Politics, Philosophy & Economics?
diana_coman: now recalling the village-life discussion - have you ever seen sheep as in more than "look, there's some sheep over there"?
cruciform: I've seen 'em in a petting zoo
diana_coman shall not spoil the PPE mystery and allow readers to enjoy it!
diana_coman: cruciform ah, no, that won't do anything, hm
diana_coman: literally to see for a couple of days how sheep behave; the bland "they follow one another" fails utterly to capture any of it really
cruciform: ah, no - I've only seen 'em in passing; though the way people've reacted to the virus...
diana_coman: that they follow blindly is one thing; more at the root though, I'd say it's the fact that they will desperately push into the flock, it's at times a very vivid illustration of what I can only call - the desire to not-be-individual
diana_coman: it's that the one thing that trumps everything else, the total terror, nothing else.
diana_coman: but anyway, I doubt there's any way I can somehow express that just through description as such.
cruciform: I'm recalling Patrick Bateman's "I want to fit in!"
cruciform: diana_coman, isn't it strange, the trope of everyone being a unique special snowflake, given the above?
diana_coman: cruciform, lol, I'm only vaguely aware of it as a reference; I rarely (very rarely) watch films at all
diana_coman: not all that strange if you think of *why* is it so all-important, heh
diana_coman: especially so all-important to affirm it, not to ..be it
cruciform: thanks for the insight; like any good ruminant, I'll have to chew it over - meanwhile, I'd better get back to boxing - be back tomorrow!
diana_coman: in the enduring words of a frustrated classmate: "I only *say* crazy stuff and everyone says I'm nuts but *you DO even crazier stuff* and nobody says anything!!"
diana_coman: laters
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