wish there was a term for free/libre/open source software that didn't involve the words "free", "libre" or "open source"

@englebright like: okay, let's shut down bad science with correct science

but there are two pitfalls that strategy overlooks:
• alienating a chunk of your audience by presenting as the condescending Well Actually Guy/Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but also more importantly
• ceding rhetorical ground to the opposition; if all your energy gets spent correcting the record on stuff reactionaries like to talk about (gender, race, shape of the earth), you can't advance your actual ideas

@solderpunk apparently they're based off the Teletype Model-33, and they mean
0x11 (XON) start/resume transmitting on the wire)
0x12 start punching tape
0x13 (XOFF) stop transmitting on the wire
0x14 stop punching tape

also it had an actual physical bell attached, hence 0x7 BEL

extremely cool and good how the windows registry managed to fuck up the definitions of the words "key" and "value"

@vertigo @iona libui https://github.com/andlabs/libui

It wraps gtk on linux and native UI on the other platforms. there's no docs but it's p easy to use and the license is good

is it time for this to come back yet