suckless conference 2019, Bad Liebenzell, Germany
Friday, 2019-10-04
(14:00-18:00) Arrival at the venue
(18:00) Dinner
(20:00) suckless.org e.V. general assembly meeting
Saturday, 2019-10-05
(08:00-09:00) Breakfast
(11:00-12:00) Talk sessions
OpenBSD supremacy, Laslo Hunhold
A look at recent developments in OpenBSD and a discussion about how to include these advances in suckless tools.
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(12:00-13:00) Lunch
(13:00-18:00) Talk sessions
Machine Translation, Manu Raster
The topic I would like to present is "Machine Translation" and it is in the spirit of Douglas Hofstadters destructive critique¹ and my own critique of Franz-Josef Ochs² concepts of translation from a history of science point of view. In comparison to the early beginnings (Bar-Hillel 1960 "The Present Status of Automatic Translation of Languages") little progress has been made. In particular I will explain
- why engineers use intermediate languages (IL) and why they suck
- analogies between code generation and literature translation - keywords: philologists and barbarians, the babelfish-device, binary-size sanity
- how translation fails on IL-level and surface level (destination language)
- what a good computer assisted translation tool for advanced users can achieve such as an Acme-based tool³
and present reproducable examples where Google Translate™ and its epigones fail systematically.
[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-shallowness-of-google-translate/551570/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xnr-ST6ITo&t=294s [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rThQedY-H4Q http://sylvester.bth.rwth-aachen.de/dissertationen/2003/059/03_059.pdf [3]: Nichols, E., Matsumoto, Y. 2007. Acme as an Interactive Translation Environment. in: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Plan 9, pp. 35–45, Murray Hill, USA, December 3-4, 2007
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The Static Web, Laslo Hunhold
A presentation of the concept of the 'static web', an approach to web development using static websites and special approaches to data integration.
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Acme changed my life, Marc Chantreux
Acme is the editor of choice in plan9. I don't use it but when trying it, I realized that vim is much more than an editor: it's an open window to my whole digital world: A perfect multipurpose UI. Let me show you ...
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(18:00-19:00) Dinner
(19:00-) Evening program
Sunday, 2019-10-06
(08:00-09:00) Breakfast
(09:00-10:00) Hacking
(10:00-12:00) Talk sessions
Blind demonstration, Mattias Andrée
A demonstration of the blind video editor.
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Reflections on Unicode, Laslo Hunhold
Dealing with Unicode is a difficult balancing between correctness and complexity. This talk presents recent results of the author with regard to suckless Unicode handling in C at the level of grapheme clusters.
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