@yazmoorish@robertsepehr@BullBoss5 You have a point in the summer โย but winter heating by "heat pumps" (=AC) is several times more energy efficient than directly burning fuel/electricity.
"... Support from readers makes my life literally livable by ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ, yes, but also ..." โย Maria Popova, emphasis mine
@HSVSphere@esrtweet imho the best aspect of _assuming_ ANSI+ with zero sniffing is not libraries/AI/complexityโbut algebraic composability of outputs. Over the years a growing "portable enough" set of escapes can be piped/concatenated/saved/transferred/replayed as _passive_ data ๐ (w/o asciinema)
From inside Iran, connected through Starlink, I can tell you it has never been more vital โ nor more dangerous.
The Islamic regimeโs layered โloyalty internetโ gives special access only to approved businesses, while regular people remain cut off from the world. Expensive VPNs? Theyโre not just costly โ theyโre fully watched. Iโm getting direct reports: people receiving official warnings like โYour rebellious content has been noted. Authorities informed. Action will be taken.โ
Others message me in panic just to contact family abroad or for students to find real sources.
Yet owning a Starlink dish right now can get you arrested, beaten, even killed. We had confirmed reports of a father who was beaten to death simply for having one.
They know what Starlink represents: real connection, uncensored truth, and coordination.
Beyond arming Iranians, we desperately need this free network. Weapons without coordination make us sitting ducks. Starlink is the lifeline that lets us organize, share, and resist in real time.
Iranians are risking everything for these dishes. Theyโre hiding them, protecting them, dying for them.
This is how the regime falls โ one connected Iranian at a time.
Keep the dishes alive. Keep the signal strong and the Lion and Sun will rise again.
#DigitalBlackOutIranโ
#IranMassacreโ
#KingRezaPahlaviโForIran
Unlike most of my posts, this one is personal.
Iโm in my 30s with a PhD. Iโve lived an active, driven life. In any Western country, someone with my background, work ethic, and education would already be a millionaire. But Iโm Iranian. From the age of 16 I saw the truth: the Islamic Republic is a leech sucking our nation dry, feeding its few greedy loyalists while the rest of us fight for scraps.
I watched bright souls tortured, raped, and dragged to the gallows or riddled with bullets. I count myself lucky I wasnโt one of them.
My old dreams of wealth and personal success died long ago. They were shattered and reforged into something harder: vengeance. Toppling this regime in fire. Freeing Iran from the hostage-takers โ the IRGC and the Mullahs who have held 90 million of us captive for 47 years.
Nothing else matters anymore. I donโt live for myself. I live for this fight alone.
And yes โ itโs okay to ask for help sometimes. The Iranian people are in desperate need of it. Thatโs why many have pleaded with President Trump. But know this: whoever extends a hand will not be forgotten. Iranians are ready to repay โ with loyalty, with courage, and with a free Iran that will stand tall once again and never forget its friends
The Lion and Sun will rise.
#KingRezaPahlaviโForIran
#IranMassacreโ
#IranRevolution2026โ
@esrtweet Back in high school my friend boasted how superior TurboC <conio.h> was, and as an arrogant unix wannabe I "challange accepted" and ...spent months studying ncurses sources. Took me years to realize I picked a cursed starting point, but boy did I learn :-]
@TheAdolphJose@esrtweet I expect years of statically-linked userspace assumes it's there and does not deserve to break? Well, you could trim it to realistic TERM values. I see base Alpine ships 0, `ncurses-terminfo-base` adds just 40 /etc/terminfo/; `ncurses-terminfo` adds 1821 /usr/share/terminfo/.
@pavel_bazant@alexobenauer Also (paywalled) https://t.co/4NX4f0HI8S on his custom language for building views: resembles React + some explicit reactive syntax + thoughts on itemizing the code itself
@pavel_bazant random associations: Linda tuplespaces; Dynamicland (& https://t.co/oKokmemurn) Wish/When primitives; Apple Newton "soup"; https://t.co/f3e4nYF2Bl discussed architecture where UI is driven from SQL queries; @alexobenauer's item store https://t.co/WXdQ89R5ZQ & views (LN 006โ010)
@TeamSunbird Yay! My family loved it, now we can play on Androids ๐.
Tiny bug: the tutorial shows ABXY buttons by location, does not match physical layout (AYANEO Pocket Air Mini, runs android 11). Dunno if Android lets you know actual layout, if not maybe teach by button names?
@_trish_xD Chrome's print preview alone (e.g. showing you the actual page range you select) is better than most software! But recently discovered pdfarranger, which is pure gold for all kind of print preparation.
@zweilicht1985@dkhalifa As an Israeli i can't deny these interests, but here's how the region can defuse them: Other countries should speak up and act to protect the Druze, the Kurds and other minorities in Syria! Bring tolerance, safety and actual unity.
@KameronLoe@forallcurious Tons of low-orbit sats are totally collecting periodic imagery e.g. https://t.co/QEew2L6ARJ, but for a really pretty live view, I like the geo-stationary full-disk feeds e.g. Himawari or https://t.co/PtJ85TpWeg
@Dzigi34764930@sheeki03 ะธ U+0438 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I
ั U+0456 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I
yeah confusing cause cyrillic alphabet family is used differently by language https://t.co/RmjxaTHbkP; using say `ะฐ U+0430 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A
` in the examples could be clearer.