AngryHippy

@AngryHippy@slrpnk.net

Second assistant rock lifter at an almost off-grid permaculture commune-ish in Asturias.

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AngryHippy,

We both work in very precarious fields, so we aim at 12 months of expenses plus cash on hand equal to the single largest machine/system in the house (maybe it’s the heat pump, air conditioner, etc for you). I’m happier when we have 18 months in reserve.

AngryHippy,

I sort of got the feeling that self-promotion was generally discouraged on Lemmy.

AngryHippy,

Same for non fiction writing. If people can see how you might make a living from what you make, they love to downvote it to oblivion. Guess we’re all suppposed to have office wage jobs all day and write fanfic for free at night. It definitely keeps me from ever posting about my writing.

AngryHippy,

I’m tearing down a plaster and lath ceiling hung from beams to replace with sawn boards sitting on top of the beams. Not only are board and beam ceilings nicer to look at, I gain an attic floor. The boards are sawn from trees cut from the communal forest two years ago.

Thimeo Stereo Tool Alternatives - Preferably FOSS (www.thimeo.com)

Okay, so this isn’t a production software question, but I don’t know where else to ask. I am looking for a replacement for Thimeo SteroTool. I LOVE this VST processor, but at €385 with the declipper, delossifier, and dynamic EQ options, it’s a real serious dent in my budget....

AngryHippy,

I would use a commercial concrete cleaner to remove any bad oil stains and then a solid sealer. Sika should make both of them and be available at the big DIY stores in the masonry section.

A well-sealed concrete countertop is a great work surface in a kitchen, though you might have to reseal it every year.

AngryHippy,

Maybe find a marble and stone dealer who does kitchen installs and ask them?

Do you still write notes with pen and paper?

With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...

AngryHippy,
  1. a notebook and pencil in my shirt pocket are faster to open than a phone app
  2. handwriting is faster than thumb typing
  3. I can sketch an electrical diagram on paper way faster than anyone can with a stylus on some janky phone screen.

3.1) Even if there was a stylus/screen combination with the same haptics, fidelity, and input recognition speed as pencil on paper, it wouldn’t be 0.78€

  1. I can toss the notebook and diagrams to anyone working on a project with me with zero worry that they’ll drop it, forget it, or look around in the rest of it
  2. I can tear out a page and hand it to anyone instantly, instead of finding out what messaging app we have in common, copying (or screenshotting) the note and pasting it in an app
  3. I can insert a note into a physical book, stick it to the inside of a toolbox lid, a wall next to an electrical junction, inside a breaker box, or any other surface, and always have location-aware reminders waiting for me when I need them.
  4. With minimal environmental control, my notes are effectively immortal. I have notebooks of measurements and diagrams of most rooms, wall cavities, pipe runs, electrical runs, cable pulls, and dimensions of various equipment that have outlasted hard drives, backup tapes, and a few cloud storage companies.
AngryHippy,

You might need another muffin. You’re a little hangry.

AngryHippy,

These products (have been determined to) have environmental, economical, and health risks.

There isn’t really a word in common usage in English that means “with respect to the matter of ones health” that can be used in that construction,so you end up with passive voice statements.

AngryHippy,

People are fixated on common usage because it’s common, and therefore, by definition, most likely to be unambiguously understood by the largest number of speakers.

The rest of this is in the spirit of modern linguistic nerdiness:

If there is a common word, it should be preferred over uncommon words simply for ease of communication. It is much more common in the English speaking world to say “a tour bus” for a bus that goes around a city near the sights to be seen, and while “a touristic bus” might be a perfectly acceptable synonym, it is less common.

The same holds for “salubrious”. While by dictionary standards it might be the best option, it isn’t that common, and most people would say “healthiness” or “wholesomeness” for salubridad and “sanitariness” or “healthfulness” for sanidad.

Source: USian immigrant to Spain married to a filología inglesa / translator

AngryHippy,

Another reason that English speakers talk about common usage is the ridiculous number of words in the language:

The RAE contains something like 93k words, including all the americanismos.

The Oxford English Dictionary contains roughly 470k words, and estimates that only 170k of those are in common current usage. So there are VASTLY more words in the English dictionary than most English speakers have ever even heard, much less could use properly. I didn’t know that the word touristic existed in English until I i moved to Spain, for instance.

So for English speakers, getting down to the 100k or so most used words means ignoring 80% of our dictionary. So when we say something isn’t common usage we really mean something between “no one has used that word in 60 years” and “I had to go look up if that even WAS an English word”.

AngryHippy,

It’s the way they’re doing it that is the problem. There are already existing anonymous contactless payment systems that could be doing this in stores (from a consumer pov). The difference is that they don’t track you so they’re of limited interest to surveillance capitalism corps.

I just left a music festival where literally everything was controlled via RFID wallet chips on a bracelet. It’s fast and excellent. Festival entrance, area access (lounges, vip, backstage, etc…), food and beverage purchases, shuttle bus access, vendor purchases, even some taxis in the area, all paid from a virtual wallet I loaded with currency and not linked to my bank accounts or social media, or store profiles. Presumably they made a profile of my purchase and travel patterns during the week to optimize their routes and services in future, but since they have no way to tie that to ME, they can’t really sell off my data.

Rambling yes, but the point is whether or not the new low-friction payment systems operate as a cash analog (quick, anonymous, portable, loosely coupled to financial networks) or as a credit analog (non-anonymous, tightly coupled to financial systems, non-portable, etc)

AngryHippy,

Not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that the frictionless payment system doesn’t have to be a privacy invasion in order to exist.

What songs from foreign languages are most successful among English speakers?

I thought of a few examples, but want some more. Don’t count songs with nonsense lyrics or instrumentals without lyrics. Don’t count bilingual songs (unless neither of them is English, or if the English portions are commonly omitted). Don’t count songs primarily popular among immigrant populations or others fluent in that...

AngryHippy,

Rock Me Amadeus - Falco

La Bamba - Los Lobos

Macarena - Los Del Rio

Despacito - Luis Fonsi / Daddy Yankee

99 Luftballons - Nena

Sadeness, part 1 - Enigma

Volaré - Domenico Modungo

AngryHippy,

Why? Specifically, with numbers.

AngryHippy,

github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

AngryHippy,

Currently reading The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Excellent both as ethnography and as multivalent critique of capitalism.

What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace?

For me its honestly a ton of my work software (digital forensics), shit is too niche to be replaced by good FOSS options. Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, etc. Autopsy is great and free and has a linux version but it simply cannot get the same level of data without a pretty nutty level of custom code....

AngryHippy,

Photography software in general.

Photo Mechanic, On1 plugins, and Capture One - there isn’t a single piece of FOSS photography software that is remotely useful for my use cases.

High volume tethered shooting with automatic application of edits and adjustments in separate layers is basically impossible.

Fast culling of hundreds or thousands of images along with applying metadata with templates is also not really possible.

Darktable and Digikam are okay Lightroom replacements, but they don’t come close to touching what is available in the proprietary world. Rawtherapee doesn’t do tethering at all, and isn’t very good at what it does do compared to On1 Photo Raw or Capture One.

Connect 1.0.120 Released

Hi, past couple days have seen a influx of new users so welcome everybody! This release is aimed at improving customization options and some requested improvements. The secondary buttons on post cards can now be customized, added a ‘Hide above’ option which will hide all posts above the selected post, and the upvote colour...

AngryHippy,

That’s what the “Frontpage” is

AngryHippy,

For extra credit, read any comprehensive critical break down of that national epic as well. Few things are as instructive as seeing national myths for the myths that they are.

AngryHippy,

It would have to be The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow, even if he is currently so far out of fashion as to be essentially forgotten.

AngryHippy,

Isn’t that just a pergola with new marketing?

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