Michael Rommel
@michaelrommel.bsky.social
Engineer and tinkerer, various interests: photography, design, typography, sports, but most of all – creating things.
You know the original? (But it resonates with me, nonetheless...)
October 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
You know the original? (But it resonates with me, nonetheless...)
That's the thing. I never objected to paying for SW. I just don't like subscription models. I have spent thousands of EUR on SW and I even give regularly to projects I enjoy. Wezterm, KiCAD, fonts, just to name a few. And I am not sorry.
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
That's the thing. I never objected to paying for SW. I just don't like subscription models. I have spent thousands of EUR on SW and I even give regularly to projects I enjoy. Wezterm, KiCAD, fonts, just to name a few. And I am not sorry.
undortunately again a subscription model... no-go.
October 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
undortunately again a subscription model... no-go.
Anyhow, would the rc-zip crate allow me to set a toc entry to "dos" even when running on linux? Python does not support writing ZIP files, so I had to spawn "zip" and that always sets the entry's OS flag to the OS it is running on. So messy, I am considering writing the whole program again in Rust.
February 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Anyhow, would the rc-zip crate allow me to set a toc entry to "dos" even when running on linux? Python does not support writing ZIP files, so I had to spawn "zip" and that always sets the entry's OS flag to the OS it is running on. So messy, I am considering writing the whole program again in Rust.
Hi Amos, great video, will have to watch it at least 8 times until I get all the details... I was intrigued, because I recently faced a lot of problems dealing with Win Zip Files in Python on Linux. I wrote a small article about that here: michaelrommel.com/create/2022-...
Malformed ZIP Archives created on Windows | Michael Rommel
Exploration of ZIP files with invalid filesystem structures and their processing on Linux.
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February 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Hi Amos, great video, will have to watch it at least 8 times until I get all the details... I was intrigued, because I recently faced a lot of problems dealing with Win Zip Files in Python on Linux. I wrote a small article about that here: michaelrommel.com/create/2022-...