Why is a C++ project being distributed on PyPi at all?

Probably for the same reason other binaries are distributed by npm: lack of cross platform general package managers and registries

Also for cases where a python project needs to depend on it.

Kinda weird to have the language toolchain wrap the build system, should be the other way around.

Yes, but I mean... this is Python we're talking about. There are several build systems / coordinators written in Python (scons, colcon, etc) not to mention Python packages that themselves contain compiled bits written in other languages.

I know nowadays we have formalized, cross-platform ways to build bindings (scikit-build-core, etc), but that is a relatively recent development; for a long ass time it was pretty common place to have a setup.py full of shell-outs to native toolchains and build tools. It's not hard to imagine a person in that headspace feeling like being able to pull that stuff directly from pypi would be an upgrade over trying to detect it missing and instruct the user to install it before trying again.

Or lack of a tool like Goreleaser in the language ecosystem that handles that

You may be interested in this discussion: https://discuss.python.org/t/use-of-pypi-as-a-generic-storag...

You need to bundle a supply chain attack with it. /s

The verb I've most commonly heard for this activity in English is "forage". What's the equivalent German word?

"Mushroom hunting" is a fairly common phrase in English, too. It appears to have the top-level title for the page about that activity, on Wikipedia, even (mushroom foraging, mushroom picking, and mushrooming are all given as alternative terms)

Plus it's the title of a song on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, so it has that going for it.

Sadly a missed opportunity for calling it mushroom pilfering.

Or mushroom requisitioning. Or mushroom commandeering. Or mushroom pillaging.

Thank you for clarifying!

The German term is "Pilze sammeln" which literally translates to: collect mushrooms.

There are many dialects of the German language - where I'm from, we would use "Schwammerl suchen" ("Schwammerl" as another term for "Pilz(e)"). This literally translates to: searching for mushrooms.

"sammeln" can have multiple translations. "Collect" would be more like "einsammeln". In the context of "Pilze sammeln", you'd use "forage". You forage for food.

and "Schwammerl" is even a term people use for other people

Making each one implement input handling was also a dazzlingly bizarre design choice.

Are they not just using libinput and that's it?

The Australians have some incredible anti-war music. Redgum's /I was only 19/ is brutal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UYDKxxQ50o

And the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security definitely gave the literal thousands of submissions due consultation before recommending the original, un-split bill pass.

Nobody. Nobody at all could have seen it. Microsoft is cool now, haven't you seen VSCode? They do Open Source, they run Linux, they've joined the fold, the tiger shed its stripes.

Ironically they are enshitifying vscode too. Even products them make themselves can’t survive long.

More like a wolf in sheep clothing

You might have some luck applying isohybrid(1) to the period-correct .iso image, making it bootable by other means: https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/syslinux-utils/isohybrid...

So are your guides, by the way. Thank you for writing them.

That's not the intention, but how do you stop it from being the effect?

The command to load a program in TI BASIC was actually "OLD <DEVICE>". Probably because they already had "NEW".

https://www.ninerpedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A_system_usage#Loadin...

My 40 year old memories are indeed faulty. Thanks for the correction!

FWIW, I probably confused it with Commodore Basic, since part of me wanted to put a ",1" at the end of the load command.

The reason it had the OLD command is because the original version of BASIC, Dartmouth BASIC, had the OLD command.

Microsoft BASICS didn't have it.