I figured it was time to write a weblog post breaking down the political and illogical farce of Trudeau's executive actions on firearms these last few years.

You probably won't see many posts like this from the far left, but as the saying goes: "When you go far enough left, you get your guns back."

Oh yeah, I should put a link instead of spending all of my time writing an alt-text on that free Tornado spud-gun advert that doesn't even link anywhere.

https://superhighwayman.com/2025/canadas-gun-bans/

#Canada #Guns #CanPoli #Politics #Firearms #SKS #I #Bet #Twitter #Has #More #AR15 #Hashtags #than #Mastodon #NFA #PeePee #polievre #Trudeau #Carney #BigBills #Blog #Tornado #Comic #Potato #TooManyHashtags #AI #Assisted #Weblog #NobodyReadsTheseAnyway #RamRanch #FreedumbConvoy #TimBitTaliban (I haven't used those for ages, I will stop now)

#TheGremlinZoo #Firefighting #NFA

From WTOPNews.com: Concerns over the abrupt cancellation of National Fire Academy trainings

https://wtop.com/frederick-county/2025/03/concerns-over-the-abrupt-cancellation-of-national-fire-academy-trainings/

#housing #profiteers #corruption Not that I'd suggest any impropriety but..... (I am a former tenant of LBH / Social Housing), I went on one of my trampy adventures to return to find my tenancy had been sold on, the rent increased, I was considered a 'defaulter' ('they' had changed the terms) and was then #NFA (No Fixed Abode). F'ing #capitalist bar_stewards. A bas l'eetat
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/09/uk-housing-associations-accused-of-mis-selling-affordable-homes-as-service-charges-soar-by-up-to-400?CMP=share_btn_url

When you move, for example your software from Github to Codeberg, you should install a Nachsendeantrag (forwarding request).

Not the least because the old version persists in search engine results.

I now did so on Github leading to my NFA/DFA software for Java: https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa

Which was previously hosted on #github: https://github.com/HaraldKi/monqjfa

#monqjfa, my #nfa/#dfa, #regex library for #Java got some cleanup in the way finite automata are built. They do not only have the accepting states, but a state may also store a value. The values can be used for special tricks during state traversal. Historically the only "trick" was that this was an accepting state.

The latest refactoring made it clearer that more can be done and how states with values and accepting states are related.

https://harald.codeberg.page/monqjfa/

Feedback welcome.

#monqjfa, my #nfa/#dfa, #regex library for #Java has a grep-like program as an example of the use of the library. This got a new feature resembling grep's --color option to show matches with colors, using ANSI escape sequences

ooo r='RuleParser->{c:#44ff11}'

Yes, the program is called "ooo" Why? ... Why not?

There are more things possible within the braces, the simplest one is

'...->{c}' as a shortcut for '...->{:red}

to get the match in red.

https://harald.codeberg.page/monqjfa/javadoc/monq/Oooo.html

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#monqjfa, my finite automaton library for #Java got

Capturing Parenthesis

Wait, WHAT? This is impossible with a deterministic finite automaton!

Yes it is, in full generality. But in a limited fashion it is possible, and I am not at the end of the road of this experiment.

https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa#dfa-versus-capturing-parentheses

#monqjfa, my #nfa/#dfa, #regex library for #Java has a grep-like program as an example of the use of the library. This got a new feature resembling grep's -l option to only list file names with matches, not the matches themselves. Example

ooo r='import.*map' names=only src

Yes, the program is called "ooo" Why? ... Why not?

The names=only is the new feature. As soon as a match is found, the file name is printed and the program moves on to the next file.

https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa

@steek_hutzee

Dai noi è come se esistesse una sorta di equivalente della #NFA statunitense (#NationalRifleAssociation) solo che qui nessuno li conosce e li vede, sono lobbysti invisibili, ma purtroppo potentissimi

Sad, sad news. Steve Silberman has passed away. A wonderful and brilliant man. #NFA

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/113046412549920878

You sure have wondered what practical use the intersection of two regular languages has. It is not live changing, but hey, at least interesting. (To a certain tribe.)

Here it is: https://miamao.de/blog/2024-08/18.A_Practical_Use_for_Regular_Language_Intersection.html
#cs #computerscience #informatik #endlicheautomaten #finiteautomata #nfa #dfa #monqjfa

#monqjfa, my #nfa/#dfa, #regex library for #Java got its first new feature during current modernization. The last operation of finite automata/regular languages which was missing: intersection
You can now write a regular expression "some.*stuff&(END)^" which means

Match strings which match
- some.*stuff
- AND (the &) at the same time
- any string NOT CONTAINING (the ^) END

Allows to use .* but avoids a match across a hard end, e.g. the string "END".

https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa

My #Java package #monqjfa for (non)deterministic finite automata (#nfa, #dfa) got an update: Following the advice "eat your own dogfood", I wrote a small application somewhat resembling grep or sed, more to show how the library could be used than pretending to be better than sed/grep/awk. Though it has some coolness in the defaults used .

https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa#example-application

#informatikEdu
#informatik
#endlicheautomaten
#finiteautomata

My #Java package for (non)deterministic finite automata (#nfa, #dfa) updated.

This refactoring/rewrite provides a cleaner API to creating an NFA and compiling a DFA from it.

https://harald.codeberg.page/monqjfa/javadoc/monq/jfa/NfaBuilder.html

Computer science courses may visualize NFA and DFA via the included FaToDot. I think Thompson's Construction in the code is quite readable.

https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa

#informatikEdu
#informatik
#endlicheautomaten
#finiteautomata

My #Java package for (non)deterministic finite automata (#nfa, #dfa) updated.

You can create massive regular expressions with tons of stop states. Each stop state has a value, so a match is effectively a lookup. Like a hash table where the keys are regular expressions.

Computer science courses may visualize NFA and DFA via the included FaToDot. I think Thompson's Construction in the code is quite readable.

https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa

I finished another round of modernizing my (Non)deterministic Finite Automata (#nfa, #dfa) #Java library.

Now with #Javadoc on the #Codeberg pages for the project. The link is at the top of the README.

https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa

After years I looked again at a #Java library I once wrote to create (Non)deterministic Finite Automata (#nfa, #dfa). I removed a lot of stuff to trim it to the real core. Now I will slowly add features again.

In contrast to builtin regular expression in Java, this one does DFAs and also allows to visualize them (see FaToDot). Javadoc and tutorial are not up, but source code is on #codeberg .

The name prefix, monq, was not invented by a native french speaker.

https://codeberg.org/harald/monqjfa