Leif Samuelsson
@leffe@social.linux.pizza
(What's so funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding Former Silicon Valley code monkey. 46 years with *nix, GUI, etc. Unix 1979, Sun, Ubuntu. Emacs 1977, Java Swing/FX until 2016. Now free of big tech, big oil, etc. Social media: from Usenet to Mastodon with no commercial sites in between. # EV 2014 # Humanism # Science # Antitheism # DEI # ProportionalRepresentation # OpenStandards # RadioParadise # ItsTheClimateStupid # VoteGreen # KärnkraftNejTack # noai # nobot # nobridge
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Leif Samuelsson
@leffe@social.linux.pizza
(What's so funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding Former Silicon Valley code monkey. 46 years with *nix, GUI, etc. Unix 1979, Sun, Ubuntu. Emacs 1977, Java Swing/FX until 2016. Now free of big tech, big oil, etc. Social media: from Usenet to Mastodon with no commercial sites in between. # EV 2014 # Humanism # Science # Antitheism # DEI # ProportionalRepresentation # OpenStandards # RadioParadise # ItsTheClimateStupid # VoteGreen # KärnkraftNejTack # noai # nobot # nobridge
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@leffe@social.linux.pizza
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Feb 23, 2026
I found this reply that I made in 1984 to Dennis Ritchie in the net.followup newsgroup. I was at the time lobbying Sun to add 8-bit character set support to the firmware, but they wanted to hold out for a 16-bit system, like the as yet unnamed Unicode. There was eventually an interim solution but my memory of that is a bit foggy.
#Usenet #DennisRitchie #C #Pascal #emacs #VT100 #charactersets #languages #Swedish #programming #unicode #SunMicrosystems #Värmland
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Nerd, social scientist, dad and punk rocker living in Sweden 🇸🇪. I Toot in swedish and english. I’ve got an PhD in social sciences and 4 kids up my sleeve. Interested in politics but not too impressed with politicians. In love with a librarian, music & books. Pronomen: he/him Satanist: does not equal devil worshiper OS: mostly Win but I prefer Ubuntu whenever possible Superpower: fast misspellings courtesy of Apple inc.
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$: Iam_jfnklstrm
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza
Nerd, social scientist, dad and punk rocker living in Sweden 🇸🇪. I Toot in swedish and english. I’ve got an PhD in social sciences and 4 kids up my sleeve. Interested in politics but not too impressed with politicians. In love with a librarian, music & books. Pronomen: he/him Satanist: does not equal devil worshiper OS: mostly Win but I prefer Ubuntu whenever possible Superpower: fast misspellings courtesy of Apple inc.
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