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  • tychotoOpenBSD•Output of file(1)
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    2 years ago

    Yes it looks like utf8 is a first-class citizen but really it is ASCII which is 100% supported. From the FAQ:

    The OpenBSD base system fully supports the ASCII character set and encoding, and partially supports the UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set.

  • tychotounixporn•UNIX Deskshots!English
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    2 years ago

    Well thank you! I’ve been using JWM for a while and it is dead simple. I’ve explored my share of tiling WMs and historical WMs (twm, vtwm, GNUstep, fvwm) but I’m really stuck on this JWM. Maybe I’m tired of change or maybe it is just plain good :^)

    To be clear I use JWM + sxhkd + bemenu (dmenu like programming, having a searchable program launcher is a must).

  • tychotoCool Guides@lemmy.ca•Film Popularity over the YearsEnglish
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    2 years ago

    With this technology lens, would Dune still be considered sci-fi? They have different technology sure but in many ways worse than what we have now (except for space travel), they don’t have computers and rely on hand to hand combat, their spies cannot hide mics so they hide in walls for days!

    It’s another hyper militarized universe like what the Cold War has brought but with religion and drugs :^)

  • tychotoCool Guides@lemmy.ca•Film Popularity over the YearsEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I wanted to say that it’s hard to define exactly what is or isn’t sci-fi. Really I’m just a sci-fi enjoyer and am not qualified to say what is or isn’t sci-fi :D

    Kryptonite for me is clearly a magic rock but in the movie it is in the realm of their science. Also there was a movie where the existence of superman led to a lot of questioning on its implications in defense politics so it could fit some part of your definition I guess?

    So like superman is science-based and X-Men is also you’re right and it does clearly ask what it means to be human when there are augmented humans now. So clearly more sci-fi than superman.

    But films can be both sci-fi and fantasy. It feels like a sliding rule depending on the amount the universe is based on hardcore science. On the DNA subject, Gattaca is not fantasy but X-Men is.

    To me it feels similar to the debate about “hard magic” universes like Eragon (where every spell has a physical toll on the user, or other book series where the magic is really detailed in-universe and only mastered by experts who have to study their whole life for even a basic spell) and “soft magic” like Harry Potter where everyone can cast crucifixion spells at the speed of an automatic rifle (I’m slightly exaggerating).

  • tychotoOpenBSD•Output of file(1)
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    2 years ago

    I explored the source of file(1) and the part to determine file types of text file seems to be in text.c: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/usr.bin/file/text.c?rev=1.3&content-type=text/plain

    And especially this part:

    static int
text_try_test(const void *base, size_t size, int (*f)(u_char))
{
	const u_char	*data = base;
	size_t		 offset;

	for (offset = 0; offset < size; offset++) {
		if (!f(data[offset]))
			return (0);
	}
	return (1);
}

const char *
text_get_type(const void *base, size_t size)
{
	if (text_try_test(base, size, text_is_ascii))
		return ("ASCII");
	if (text_try_test(base, size, text_is_latin1))
		return ("ISO-8859");
	if (text_try_test(base, size, text_is_extended))
		return ("Non-ISO extended-ASCII");
	return (NULL);
}

    So file(1) is not capable of saying if a file is UTF-8 right now. There is some other file (/etc/magic) which can help to determine if a text file is UTF-7 or UTF-8-EBCDIC because those need a BOM but as you said UTF-8 does not need a BOM. So it looks like we are stuck here :)