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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Add mediathek-newpipe.softwaregardening… to your Peertube instance list in #NewPipe, and you’ll get everything currently on most public channels in the German-speaking world. Pre-alpha, but pretty usable already! I’m watching SRF content in French rn :) Working on Thumbnail previews.

Table titled "Accounts (broadcaster families), with shows and videos." It lists 10 broadcaster accounts and the number of shows and videos associated with each.

The columns are "account", "shows", and "videos".

Rows:
1. ARD (with its regional stations): 4,065 shows, 361,991 videos
2. ZDF: 1,913 shows, 106,188 videos
3. SRF: 899 shows, 103,388 videos
4. KiKA: 633 shows, 21,279 videos
5. 3Sat: 429 shows, 19,607 videos
6. ORF: 1,477 shows, 19,567 videos
7. PHOENIX: 112 shows, 18,179 videos
8. ARTE.FR / .DE / .ES / .PL / .EN / .IT: 58 / 54 / 31 / 31 / 32 / 29 shows, 16,309 / 15,373 / 2,070 / 1,907 / 1,825 / 1,677 videos
9. DW: 78 shows, 6,885 videos
10. Funk.net: 131 shows, 6,250 videos

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Die Uni Augsburg verlangt einen Microsoft-Account, um sich für die RZ-Kennung initial einen Zweitfaktor erstellen zu können. Es ist alles so zum Mäusemelken. collab.dvb.bayern/spaces/UniARZSER/… #bayern #neuland #augsburg

Login via 'RZ-Kennung'

It is also possible to log in using the 'RZ-Kennung'. Users who do not wish to use the Microsoft infrastructure to log in can use the 'RZ-Kennung' and password - together with a second factor to increase security. To set up this factor initially, a login via Microsoft Account (only once) is required, as it is already secured by two factors.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Jemand, irgendwer, hilf mir Budgetieren. Meine Stadt ist am sterben #augsburg

Ein Nachrichtenartikel mit der Überschrift "Haushaltssperre: Augsburg will 2026 Ausgaben begrenzen". Der darunter stehende Text besagt, dass die Stadt Augsburg aufgrund steigender Belastungen, insbesondere in den Bereichen Soziales, Bau und Personal, mit sofortiger Wirkung eine Haushaltssperre für das laufende Jahr verhängt hat. Laufende Investitionsvorhaben sowie bereits bewilligte oder vertraglich gebundene Leistungen bleiben davon ausgenommen. Der Artikel ist von Bruno Stubenrauch verfasst. Unter dem Text befindet sich ein Foto eines großen, kunstvollen historischen Gebäudes, wahrscheinlich des Augsburger Rathauses, mit zwei markanten grün-gekuppelten Türmen und einem Adlerwappen an der zentralen Fassade. Im Vordergrund sind Tische und Stühle von Straßencafés mit großen weißen Sonnenschirmen zu sehen.

Eine Tabelle mit Haushalts-Einzelposten auf Deutsch. Die erste Spalte listet Kategorien wie "Energiemanagementfonds", "Feldwege Lechhausen", "Finanzierung Theatersanierung" (grün hinterlegt) und "Breitbandausbau" auf. Die zweite Spalte zeigt Zahlen, die zu jeder Kategorie gehören, zum Beispiel 1.294.588 für Energiemanagementfonds und 17.354.388 für Theatersanierung. Die dritte und vierte Spalte enthalten zusätzliche numerische Daten. Zum Beispiel zeigt die Zeile Theatersanierung 19.429.532 und 9.725.083 in diesen Spalten.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Warum müssen hier in #augsburg auf der Bahnhofsstraße Autos parken? Es gibt überall in Laufweite Parkhäuser.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Yo #protonmail can’t even manage a normal support mail address for their clients that doesn’t go through a horrible unauthorized web form:

A screenshot of an email in a white interface with black text. At the top, a small robot icon precedes "This message is automatically generated as a response to a previous message. Learn more." Below this, there's a row of email action icons (envelope, trash can, arrow, tag, filter, three dots), and to the right, three more arrow icons for replying. The main body of the email reads: "Thank you for your support request, but this email address is no longer routinely monitored. In order to receive a response to your support request, please fill in the Proton Mail support form. https://proton.me/support/contact If you have a sensitive inquiry that requires absolute secrecy and which cannot go through our regular support system, you can email us directly and securely at contact@proton.me. However, the response time for this will be longer than if using our support form." The links `https://proton.me/support/contact` and `contact@proton.me` are underlined.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

SolveSpace is the coolest shit I've seen in a long while #SolveSpace

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

So now that #codeberg has decided that it does not want to host code generated with help of LLMs anymore (it’s more nuance than that, but not entirely clear how or when they are gonna start policing this […] [Original post on mastodon.xyz]

A webpage titled "Profpatsch" displays information about a Git repository.

The first section provides instructions to clone the full history:
"Clone the full history (Profpatsch.bundle, a git bundle, 4.6 MiB):
curl -O https://sources.profpatsch.de/Profpatsch.bundle
git clone Profpatsch.bundle Profpatsch
The clone keeps the bundle as its origin; replace the file and git fetch to update."

Below this is a directory listing with file names, sizes, and last modified times:
- .claude/ 27.1 KiB • 8 files (8 months ago)
- machines/profpatsch/ 463.5 KiB • 9 files (3 hours ago)
- nix/ 380.3 KiB • 60 dirs, 90 files (3 hours ago)
- third_party/ 136.2 KiB • 39 dirs, 67 files (4 months ago)
- users/Profpatsch/ 4.7 MiB • 148 dirs, 641 files (15 minutes ago)
- .gitignore 203 B (4 months ago)
- CLAUDE.md 6.9 KiB (1 month ago)
- LICENSE 1.1 KiB (9 months ago)
- README.md 1.3 KiB (9 months ago)
- default.nix 2.8 KiB (9 months ago)
- flake.lock 5.3 KiB (2 months ago)
- flake.nix 5.0 KiB (23 hours ago)
- go.work 1.3 KiB (23 hours ago)
- go.work.sum 7.3 KiB (23 hours ago)
- opencode.json 143 B (2 months ago)
- shell.nix 3.4 KiB (55 minutes ago)

The last section, also titled "Profpatsch," states: "This is Profpatsch's personal monorepo (home-repo), extracted from the TVL depot using git-filter-repo to contain only the users/Profpatsch subtree and its dependencies."

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

Looks like most of the #nixos #nixpkgs eval time is now spent in the by-name attrset binaryMerges %)

A 20–30ms slice of an evaluation trace that shows lots of calls to binaryMerge from by-name-overlay.nix

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

*somehow* it knows to display a 20 word warning that it will just silently ignore any hashtags if I post Quiet Public, but nobody thought “oh maybe we can give them a quick way to do that, maybe even a single button or a setting”

a toot mockup that has #abc in it, with a blue warning above that says “This post won’t be listed under any hashtag as it is not public. Only public posts can be searched by hashtag..

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

Gosh I love that I have to hit 4(!) click targets that are all over my screen to change my mastodon posts to Public #mastodon #irony #ux

A mastodon pake with the “Visibility and Interaction” modal opened and an illustration how you have to click four times to change visibility

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

TIL that #firefox does not actually include a profiler anymore, instead it redirects you to profiler.firefox.com … so you can’t create profiles in Firefox without depending on an online service hosted by a company … wtf Mozilla

An example of a stacktrace in the FF profiler, with the browser bar showing “profiler.firefox.com”

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

Looks like Element is gonna find out about hosting of illegal content on your servers the hard way. I’m afraid a lot of instance admins are gonna find out, too, once someone starts automating reporting. #fediverse #matrix #federation

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still find it concerning that the reports got to the stage of fully blocking access to the pages.

It looks like Cloudflare may have changed their policies in the last week or so. We're trying to understand more to educate them not to knife entire domains due to a single reported URL featuring content pulled in from other servers.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

For languages with lots of regular improvements to best practices, LLMs tend to generate code that represents outdated ways to do things (simply because most code ”out there” will not be refactored yet). So the go team proactively introduced static analysis […] [Original post on mastodon.xyz]

Modernizers¶

The introduction of generics in Go 1.18 marked the end of an era of very few changes to the language spec and the start of a period of more rapid—though still careful—change, especially in the libraries. Many of the trivial loops that Go programmers routinely write, such as to gather the keys of a map into a slice, can now be conveniently expressed as a call to a generic function such as maps.Keys. Consequently these new features create many opportunities to simplify existing code.

In December 2024, during the frenzied adoption of LLM coding assistants, we became aware that such tools tended—unsurprisingly—to produce Go code in a style similar to the mass of Go code used during training, even when there were newer, better ways to express the same idea. Less obviously, the same tools often refused to use the newer ways even when directed to do so in general terms such as “always use the latest idioms of Go 1.25.” In some cases, even when explicitly told to use a feature, the model would deny that it existed. (See my 2025 GopherCon talk for more exasperating details.) To ensure that future models are trained on the latest idioms, we need to ensure that these idioms are reflected in the training data, which is to say the global corpus of open-source Go code.

Over the past year, we have built dozens of analyzers to identify opportunities for modernization. Here are three examples of the fixes they suggest:

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

I will not be able to participate in Matrix channels from end of this month it looks like. I’m happy Matrix is making itself irrelevant, good riddance I say. element.io/blog/verifying-your-devi… #matrix

Verifying your devices is becoming mandatory
November 19, 2025
Security

Act now: continue sending & receiving encrypted messages

In April 2026, we will be rolling out a significant update to strengthen the security of your conversations: unverified devices will no longer be able to send and receive end-to-end encrypted messages via Element. This change follows the Matrix specification update that was announced at the Matrix 2025 conference on October, 17 and benefits everyone by enhancing security, but may require an action from you to continue sending & receiving encrypted messages on your existing devices.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

I’m adding alt text to all images on www.qualle-augsburg.de, I asked claude to put everything into an sqlite db, then generate a python server with web interface, and spawn subagents to pre-populate the alt text for all images. Now I can use the web […] [Original post on mastodon.xyz]

Screenshot of a self-built alt text review tool for qualle-augsburg.de: photos from the Quallenfest 2023 street festival are shown as full-width cards, each with a thumbnail, a proposed German image description in an editable text field, and Save / Approve buttons.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Did you know git forges send their notifications with some X-github-* headers? forgejo (#Codeberg) as well.

A table:

Forge notifications — 132 repos
Repository Last activity Messages
NixOS/nixpkgs Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:19 3319
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:19 14414
flohmarkt/flohmarkt Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:19 850
ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:34 172

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

Sorry, but requiring requests to public activitypub objects to be signed is completely whack, merveilles.town #activitypub #mastodon

$xh --follow "https://mastodon.xyz/@wim_v12e@merveilles.town/110180070993695741" Accept:application/activity+json HTTP/2.0 401 Unauthorized cache-control: private, no-store content-security-policy: base-uri 'none'; default-src 'none'; frame-ancestors 'none'; font-src 'self' https://merveilles.town; img-src 'self' https: data: blob: https://merveilles.town; style-src 'self' https://merveilles.town 'nonce-ci8BJ2XVV+iqIEWK976Ifg=='; media-src 'self' https: data: https://merveilles.town; frame-src 'self' https:; manifest-src 'self' https://merveilles.town; form-action 'self'; child-src 'self' blob: https://merveilles.town; worker-src 'self' blob: https://merveilles.town; connect-src 'self' data: blob: https://merveilles.town https://assets.merveilles.town wss://merveilles.town; script-src 'self' https://merveilles.town 'wasm-unsafe-eval' content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8 date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:34:57 GMT referrer-policy: same-origin server: Mastodon strict-transport-security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains vary: Accept, Accept-Language, Cookie, Signature x-content-type-options: nosniff x-frame-options: DENY x-request-id: 62037fec-a978-4640-b772-f61cca1b432a x-runtime: 0.009568 x-xss-protection: 0 { "error": "Request not signed" }$

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

Don’t you just love that Mastodon has a Preferences subpage, with a Preferences menu item, that unfolds into a hidden preferences submenu when you click on it, with among other things an “Other” entry inside … #mastodon #uxfails

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

You can now use a fediverse profile URL anywhere you need to refer to a fedi account, in addition to a handle on #flohmarkt Tested with #Mastodon, #Akkoma, #Pixelfed, #Peertube

A dialog sayigg “Select the authentication method you used when registering: Fediverse Account (Mastodon, Pixelfed, …); Verify your identity by sending us a message from your Fediverse account.

And in the handle input field, it says https://mastodon.xyz/@Profpatsch with a big “verify my identity” button

Screenshot of a "Block User" UI in Flohmarkt. A text input contains "https://mastodon.xyz/@Profpatsch" with a green "Block User" button. Below it, a blue
info box shows "Already blocked user https://mastodon.xyz/@Profpatsch as
Profpatsch@mastodon.xyz". A "Blocked Users" section lists three entries:
midzer@chaos.social, marc_uwe_kling@tube.funfacts.de, and Profpatsch@mastodon.xyz, each with a green "Unblock" button.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

😍 thanks to @RosaCtrl the Spanish translation of #flohmarkt is quickly approaching 100%!!

Three language translations, Russian, Spanish and Swedish, with Russian at 18% and Spanish at 57%

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

The Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Commission today. #StandWithUkraine

The front of the commission, on the wall a large banner saying “UNITED for our FUTURE 2024–2029”, in the foreground three flags in the wind, the outer ones European and the inner Ukrainian

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

We have so many #flohmarkt instances that advertise their location now! codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wi… Here’s a map:

map of mainland europe & the UK with a good amount of flohmarkt instances spread over it

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

Browser language: Russian Instance language: Galician Fallback language: English #flohmarkt #i18n #fediverse

An input form which has some labels in Russian, some in Galician, some descriptions in English

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

Rewriting the nixos systemd unit generator from bash loops to a simple go script that does the same thing brings the build time down from nearly 3 seconds to 50 milliseconds: #nixos

User Units:
- Bash: 236ms
- Go: 6.2ms
- Speedup: ~38x faster
System Units:
- Bash: 2,803ms (2.8 seconds)
- Go: 46.9ms
- Speedup: ~60x faster

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

I realized why I always thought `placeholder` was a weird primitive in the nix language: It breaks referential transparency! #nixos #nix

$> cat example.nix with import <nixpkgs> {}; let inner = txt: writeText "inner" txt; in runCommand "outer" {} '' (echo -n "placeholder result: "; cat ${inner (placeholder "out")}) \ > $out <End of example.nix> > cat (nix-build example.nix) placeholder result: /nix/store/bnns37m7b4kiyqskxnfzka2jsj9byf9y-inner⏎$

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

We also have a nice map of instances now! If your #flohmarkt instance includes its location (in the admin settings), we can plot it on the map!

map of flohmarkt instances with markers all over Germany, Austria and Denmark

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

Come to Europe, we have the hottest tech sovereignty! #DIDay

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

#flohmarkt admins: please enable the new FediAuth feature when updating to 0.15! It’s benign and will allow users to log in via their existing Fediverse accounts, no extra password needed! Also we’d like some feedback if possible! I know there’s still things […] [Original post on mastodon.xyz]

The Administration page of flohmarkt, with the new FediAuth section underneath the Username/Password section and an “enabled” checkbox

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025

The difference is you don’t ride a motorcycle to get somewhere. You ride a motorcycle to be on the #motorcycle

Bar chart titled “Motorcycles are the deadliest.” It shows passenger deaths per 1 billion passenger miles from 2000 to 2009. Motorcycles have the highest fatality rate at 212.57 deaths, followed by cars (7.28), ferries (3.17), trains (0.43), subways (0.24), buses (0.11), and planes (0.07). Source: Ian Savage, Northwestern University.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

The reason is the increasing effect of compound interest on wealth redistribution from working class to the rich & super-rich → increasing rent in cities → raising the prices of labor and goods by more than the actual value-creation of society #micDrop

Main post by Econo ad absurdam (@econoadabsurdam):
"Does she even want to try to figure out whether alcohol excise is six bucks out of that eleven or not
What if it's something else, like rent, staff costs, licensing rules and venue regulations"
Quoted post by Dr Monique Ryan MP (@Mon4Kooyong) from Nov 2:
"This week I'll move an amendment to freeze beer excise indexation. A schooner shouldn't cost $11 in Melbourne when it's $5 in Tokyo.
The amendment will help consumers and back in the 300+ Australian breweries who are doing it tough against Kirin, Asahi, and their outlets."
Image description:
A photograph taken inside a craft brewery or bar showing two people smiling at the camera. A man with dark hair and beard wearing a gray t-shirt holds up a glass of beer, standing next to a woman with curly dark hair wearing a black "Dave Graney" t-shirt. Behind them are wooden shelves displaying various bottles of spirits, beer taps, hanging glasses, and brewery equipment. The setting has a warm, rustic aesthetic with wooden walls and professional bar fixtures.

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

Coming soon to #flohmarkt: FediAuth for any kind of #ActivityPub users. Simply send a DM to a flohmarkt instance you want to login to, and you will be able to create a user and upload small/classified ads.

A dark-themed webpage titled “Authenticate on Mastodon.” At the top, in orange text, it says “Development mode active.” Below that, a large gray box displays “Your authentication PIN:” followed by a bold, centered four-digit PIN “7626.” A small line of text underneath reads “Expires in: 9m 42s.”

Beneath the PIN, there is an orange dashed box labeled “DEBUG MODE: Share message:” showing the text “FediAuth login PIN: 7626 for Fluffy’s flohmarkt on example.org.” Under that, there is a gray expandable button labeled “(Debug) All Platform Share URLs (16 platforms).”

Next, a line with an orange rocket emoji and link text “Open Pre-filled DM (mastodon)” appears, followed by a small instruction: “Make sure only the recipient can see this message.” Below it, there is a circular loading animation with the text “Waiting for your message...”

The bottom section, in a gray box, is titled “How to complete authentication:” in bold white text. It lists four steps:

Click the button above to open a pre-filled compose window.

Set visibility so only @auth@example.org

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Beady Belle Fanchannel @profpatsch.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

claude-last-position is a simple varlink user service that saves the file (and line) that Claude last edited with a simple user hook, and will open the file in $EDITOR […] [Original post on mastodon.xyz]

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