En triant le bois je suis tombée sur ce bonhomme rigolo #smiley #FunnyWood #paréidolie

Wenn sich im #Fediverse Instanzen über das Protokoll #ActivityPub unterhalten, wird als Zeichenkodierung #Unicode in der Form UTF-8 genutzt. Unicode definiert über einhunderttausend verschiedene Zeichen, so daß neben den Sprachen des Planeten #Erde auch Symbole oder Emojis darstellbar sind: Neben den üblichen Sonderzeichen europäischer Sprachen (#Stichwort #Umlaut) also auch etwa Japanisch.

Beim Thema #Emoji & Co. stehen den fediversalen Beitragsverfassenden also jede Menge #Emojis zur Verfügung, die über Unicode definiert sind. Wie man so ein Emoji (japanisch 絵文字) in einen Beitrag hineingefummelt bekommt, hängt vom Endgerät und der genutzten #Software ab. Es kann ein Menüpunkt sein oder auch eine Sonderfunktionen auf einer Bildschirmtastatur (Stichwort #Smartphone).

Gibt es Haken bei der Sache? Natürlich, wie üblich.

Zu beachten wären zumindest einmal folgende Punkte:

* Nicht jedes Gerät unterstützt alle aktuell definierten Unicode-Zeichen. Es kommen im Laufe der Zeit neue Zeichen hinzu. Je nach genutztem #Betriebssystem und dessen Version können daher Zeichen unbekannt sein. Dann fehlen diese Zeichen in der Anzeige bzw. werden durch Platzhalter ersetzt. So kennt etwa ein älteres #Android weniger Unicode-Zeichen als ein aktueller #Linux-#Desktop.

* Das genaue Aussehen von Symbolen und Emojis variiert. Unicode gibt etwa "Gesicht mit Schutzmaske" (FACE WITH MEDICAL MASK, U+1F637 (128567), ) vor, aber nicht die exakte grafische Umsetzung. Daher kann das Emoji auf empfangender Seite anders aussehen (bzw. dargestellt werden) als auf absendender Seite.

* Das Verhalten von Vorlese-#Software (auch "#Screenreader" nach dem englischen "#screen #reader") ist unbestimmt. Ob und wie grafische Unicode-Zeichen in Sprache umgesetzt werden, ist also eher als ungewiß zu betrachten.

Und jetzt einen Daumen hoch und ein cooler sonnenbebrillter #Smiley:

Zum Schmökern ins Thema bietet sich etwa die #Wikipedia als Einstieg an:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Transformation_Format
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicodeblock_Smileys

#AlecGuinness portrayed #GeorgeSmiley in a twelve-part tv series of the first and third books of #JohnLeCarre 's great #Karla trilogy. As they say of other spies, nobody does him better. I've re-watched this television a dozen times, and re-read all three books so many times I've lost count.

The #BBC decided not to film the second book, #TheHonourableSchoolboy. Budget was tight. A good deal of THB is set in China and South-East Asia, prohibitively expensive for the BBC in the 70s. Indeed they re-located the short Hong Kong section of #TinkerTailorSoldierSpy to Portugal in the first series for the same reason. An effective and meaningful transfer, and it didn't affect the plot.

In my most recent re-watching, I noticed hints of what might have been. #Smiley visits Jerry Westerby, played by #JossAckland, in a bar near Fleet Street, to find out what he had heard in Czechoslovakia at the time that Jim Prideaux was shot and caught. This is a scene of great intelligence and sensitivity.

Jerry behaves like a bumbling alcoholic English journo, glad-handing George and suggesting that all that he heard was rumour and not to be taken seriously. Jerry reveals what he knows; and particularly, when he reported the Russian manoeuvres to Toby Esterhazy, how Toby called him back to slap him down and warn him off. Jerry says of Toby: 'Rum chap. But good!' As if to brush away this strange encounter as a social mix-up.

But Jerry knows George is out of the Circus, and immediately realises that he's on the cold trail of something important, clearly not on Circus instructions. This isn't stated explicitly. He's exquisitely sensitive to George's enigmatic smiles and hints.

Jerry never tells anyone at the Circus that he was approached by George in the hunt for the mole. If he had - say, to buy his way back into service with Toby - then George would have been blown and Karla would have continued to destroy the Circus. None of this is explicitly stated in either the book or the tv series.

In THB, George recollects Jerry's discretion and realises that he's someone he can trust - and exploit. He puts him on the trail of another mole planted by Karla, this time in China.

THB is a great and epic tragedy for Jerry and the Ko brothers, who are cynically martyred for the fate of the Circus. It is completely different in mood from Tinker Tailor or #SmileysPeople. In the tv series, the nearest portrayal of this tragedy is the fate of #BerylReid 's Russia-watcher Connie Sachs, a dying and betrayed Circus researcher. Her tragedy spans the three books. For Connie, THB is an Indian summer: George drafts her back to spar with her China-watcher counterpart, Doc di Salis. She animates the imagination and creativity of the Circus during its ordeal. But Jerry's story in THB is an attempt at redemption, ended with his death at the hands of the man he trusted, and who trusted him, in a pub in Fleet Street.

I know, watching this single scene, how agonising it must have been for the BBC to leave out THB. Joss Ackland and Alec Guinness were perfectly matched - so different, so sympathetic, so sensitive to the plot, theme and mood of their single scene together. Ackland would have been an unforgettable honourable schoolboy. Jerry is a character who lives in my head, and who Ackland personifies, even if only in my imagination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq61jstTApk&list=PLyNzc9cbF4EWeXnVOQhXG6_wGdlssG22y&index=3

living in the world

Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway is a brilliant Smiley continuation novel - revisiting the amoral universe of a spymaster haunted by memories of a botched operation behind the Iron Curtain. #johnlecarre #spies #fiction #books #literature #Smiley #georgesmiley

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1/2: I am working on an update to the #jc303 #opensource #tb303 #plugin by #midilab. Specifically, I've added #sequencer and #distortion controls.
I would like to ask you #musician (s), #musicproducer (s) and #linuxaudio users if you would like to have the nostalgic element of the old #ui, the #acid #smiley, re-introduced in this #update.
See the following post for images...

While browsing through Netflix to find some more Spanish series to watch, I stumbled upon Smiley, and it was such a good find! It’s a miniseries (8 episodes) and I’d describe it as LGBTQ+ romcom, with all the classic romcom tropes. It was fun but also emotional from time to time. Great cast, too.

Hey! The last comic from #Fodongo Issue 9 is now up on the site for everyone to read! It is the latest Everybody Loves Smiley.

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/10/14/issue-9-everybody-loves-smiley-5-by-jectoons/

(the SSL seems to have expired somehow, but I am working on it getting repaired. Page is safe, despite what your browser might tell you! A ticket has been filed)

You can get the full issu 9 from GeeseGoose for free or by supporting the project for $3 if you want!

https://geesegoose.ca/product/fodongo-a-free-culture-comics-zine-issue-9-download/

Thanks for reading and supporting independent artists and free culture!

#Équation d'un #cercle particulier : x²+y² = 25
Équation d'un #sourire particulier : x²+(4y+12-x²)² = 9
Équation d'un #smiley particulier : ( (x-2)²+(y-2)² - 1 ) ( (x+2)²+(y-2)² - 1 ) ( x²+(4y+12-x²)² - 9 ) ( x²+y² - 25 ) = 0

À essayer dans #GeoGebra !

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:

:-(

https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/

Hey all! The fourth part of "Everybody Loves Smiley" is now available for everyone to read!

https://fodongo.jectoons.net/2024/09/16/issue-8-everybody-loves-smiley-4-by-jectoons/

That means that Issue 8 of Fodongo is now freely accessible from both the GeeseGoose store and the Internet Archive:

https://geesegoose.ca/product/fodongo-a-free-culture-comics-zine-issue-8-download/ (Suggested price $3, but you can put in $0 and download it!)

https://archive.org/details/fodongo-issue-8

Thanks for reading and supporting independent artists and free-culture.

The Complete Smiley - a collection of all the BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels. I like how Smiley is basically just a detective, in the first and second episodes he’s solving a couple of murders. Anyway these are well put together and here on The Internet Archive for your listening pleasure. Well recommended. #smiley #john_le_carré #AudioDrama #audio

https://archive.org/details/DotCompleteBBCr4

Watch 60 seconds of the recent #BENEFIT #CONCERT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=634Kb-VTooM

THIS TIME the Initiative Thelemann Savoniuk collected for another Initiative supported by WE AID:

#BerlinOdessaExpress became FINALISTS in the LEGENDARY #SMILEY #CHARITY #FILM #AWARDS

This 10th #humanitarianaid transport is this time esp. aimed at helping children who got traumatized by the conflict.