FWIW, showing recent changes is a very common wiki feature.

Here's the page for my local makerspace's wiki, which runs on mediawiki:

https://bloominglabs.org/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&li...

A terse diff like that, on a separate page, is probably not what they were referring to.

Every frontend offers only a small subset of ffmpeg's total features, making them usable only for specific tasks.

Unfortunately. As an example, so many people recommend Handbrake, which doesn’t even have the option to simply copy the audio stream.

But now I have to wait several seconds before I can even start to process the webpage! It's like the internet suddenly became slow again overnight.

Yeah, well, bad actors harm everyone. Such is the nature of things.

But how does playing pac-man make especial sense in text?

Well, in the context of the discussion, you can "teach" Emacs to play Pacman. Imagine sending left/right/up/down commands to a Pac-Man emulator or whatever. The emulator itself may not "understand" these commands in pure text, accepting some digital form of them, but whatever format it accepts, it probably can be reduced to sequences of alphanumerical characters.

Similarly, when the emulator broadcasts current coordinates for pieces, or sprites of them - they still can be reduced to plain text.

As a matter of fact, if you want to play Pacman in Emacs... you can just play Pacman in Emacs: https://github.com/emacsmirror/pacmacs

You beat me to it !

I'm sorry. I'll try not doing it again :) I just caught a cold, lost sleep and overall have been feeling pretty lame. I don't typically lurk around the orange site, eagerly waiting for someone to mention Emacs.

Its fine mate ;) you were just quicker !

Any decent battery system measures the current that goes into the battery, and the current that goes out. Off-the-shelf ICs "learn" the battery's initial capacity and its state-of-charge to voltage curve, and thereon can observe degredation below those initial measurements, as well as fairly accurately reporting how much energy is in the battery at any given moment.

The wikipedia article has links to the official websites, and not to the scams: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY

This is helpful (and something I've used wikipedia for myself) but it's far from ideal since it wouldn't be too hard for someone to edit that page to point to a malicious domain. Not sure if that's happened before, but I can see it as something that could go unnoticed for a quite a while as long as the target site looks legit enough.

That’s the outdated looking website I found that didn’t have mac version. I’m guessing I’m supposed to use the Unix version there?

The website I was sketched out by (but tried it anyway, then got the scary error) was puttygen.com which had me install homebrew (whatever that is) and then do “sudo brew install putty”

"Use PuTTY" is more or less advice just for Windows users.

I think the main reason you couldn't find a mac version to download is that there is none.

The closest I saw was a .tr.gz file (i.e. a gzipped Tape ARchive) of Unix source code, but A) I don't know of their definition of "Unix" includes OS X / MacOS; and B) judging from your comments here, you don't seem like the type who would want to install software by downloading, decompressing, and compiling source code.

I'm thinking the people who told you to use PuTTY were assuming that you are a Windows user.

Homebrew is a reputable package manager (a.k.a. software installer, for Unix applications on the Mac). That said, I'm pretty sure the version of ssh shipping with the Mac could do the key generation for you so you wouldn't need putty.

Debian (and many other distributors of compiled binaries) uses "i386" to refer to all 32-bit x86 processors, including the Pentium 3.

I have AMD Geode hardware circa 2007 (18 years old) that only has partial support for i686. Requires a true 3/4/586 kernel.

Not sure why you are downvoted, I guess people don't believe this is true. To confirm: The AMD Geode LX was a <5W 32-bit x86 processor which did not support SSE instructions, and is therefore not fully i686 compatible. According to Wikipedia, it was produced until 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amd_geode#AMD_Geode

It was used in the OLPC XO-1. The Cisco ASA line of firewalls also used Geode processors at least at some point in its lifetime.

I fear magnets inside the connector would draw ferrous debris into the connector. I'd really rather that not happen!

Oh, that is a good point. Springs it is, then.

It's not that weather is difficult for markets to provide. It's that it's worthwhile for the government to make it freely available to everyone.