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Transcript of Matrix Live S11E07 - Reflections on Matrix criticism over the last week

(Transcript of the audio of https://youtu.be/OyuqM7RbX5E, thanks to OpenAI's Whisper turbo model and some minor tweaks and fixups)

Hi everyone, and welcome to Matrix Live Season 11 Episode 7 where you are stuck with me, Matthew, Project Lead for Matrix. I guess I'm going to be wearing both Matrix and Element CEO hats in this week's recording and I will try to identify which hat I'm wearing at any given point.

What I wanted to talk about this week is that there is clearly a lot of unhappiness being expressed out there about Matrix and Element this week. I think we've basically seen a blog post a day, sometimes twice, ending up on the front page of Hacker News or Lobste.rs or wherever, where folks are expressing quite reasonable disappointment and irritation at where Matrix and Element are at the moment. And so I basically wanted to try to respond, so was thinking of putting out a blog post to try to articulate this a bi

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

	# Get user's Winget packages directory
	$userProfile = [System.Environment]::GetFolderPath('UserProfile')
	$wingetDir = Join-Path $userProfile "AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages"


	$pathsToAdd = @()

	Get-ChildItem -Path $wingetDir -Directory \| ForEach-Object {
	$packageDir = $_.FullName

	import { resolveRoute } from '$app/paths';
	import type RouteMetadata from '$lib/../../.svelte-kit/types/route_meta_data.json';
	type RouteMetadata = typeof RouteMetadata;

	// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/ban-types
	type Prettify<T> = { [K in keyof T]: T[K] } & {};
	type ParseParam<T extends string> = T extends `...${infer Name}` ? Name : T;

	type ParseParams<T extends string> = T extends `${infer A}[[${infer Param}]]${infer B}`
	? ParseParams<A> & { [K in ParseParam<Param>]?: string } & ParseParams<B>

	I got problems installing Matlab R2022a on Arch. Running the installer throws the following error:

	```
	terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
	what(): Failed to launch web window with error: Unable to launch the MATLABWindow application. The exit code was: 127
	fish: Job 1, 'sudo ./install' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)
	```

	I fixed it by running the following commands.

	/*
	MIT License

	Copyright (c) 2021 Lilly Rose Berner

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

	$: (Dollar Colon) is basically a shorthand version of $LOAD_PATH. $: contains an array of paths that your script will search through when using require.
	$0 (Dollar Zero) contains the name of the ruby program being run. This is typically the script name.
	$* (Dollar Splat) is basically shorthand for ARGV. $* contains the command line arguments that were passed to the script.
	$? (Dollar Question Mark) returns the exit status of the last child process to finish.
	$$ (Dollar Dollar) returns the process number of the program currently being ran.
	$~ (Dollar Tilde) contains the MatchData from the previous successful pattern match.
	$1, $2, $3, $4 etc represent the content of the previous successful pattern match.
	$& (Dollar Ampersand) contains the matched string from the previous successful pattern match.
	$+ (Dollar Plus) contains the last match from the previous successful pattern match.
	$` (Dollar Backtick) contains the string before the actual matched string of the previous successful pattern match.