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RL_Dane

@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org

Involuntary time-traveler, recipient of offensive grace. Quasi-technical Linux and FOSS enthusiast. Armchair privacy advocate

Profile pic courtesy NeoFetch.

Header image courtesy of NASA: https://unsplash.com/photos/Q1p7bh3SHj8

My #interests:

#StarWars
#StarTrek
#Linux
#UNIX
#BSD
#OpenBSD
#Bible
#Christianity
#Jesus
#AmateurRadio
#Bash
#Dallas
#Writing
#Poetry
#Space
#KSP
#Tea
#FountainPens
#Journaling
#TabletopRPG
#RetroComputing
#ClassicMac
#uxn

#fedi22

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SolusSpider, to random
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I just cried sopping big tears watching the end of the penultimate episode of Young Sheldon.

RL_Dane,
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@SolusSpider

Seems like a neat show

RL_Dane,
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@SolusSpider

I've only seen little bits of it.

I'm really interested in his parents' faith journey story arc.

I'll have to stream it sometime.

BrideOfLinux, to random
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Google "strikes back" eh? Getting a little melodramatic, are we not?: Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/google-strikes-back-at-openai-with-project-astra-ai-agent-prototype/

RL_Dane,
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@BrideOfLinux

"Clash of the Douchebags" 😝

joel, (edited ) to Miyoo
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    RL_Dane,
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    @joel

    What's the most recent device it can emulate?

    RL_Dane,
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    @joel

    Oh, that's neat! What about the FOSS alternative, TIC-80?

    RL_Dane,
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    @joel N64?

    RL_Dane,
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    @joel

    Ooooooooooo!

    RL_Dane,
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    @joel

    Ah, ok. Still, there are some sweet PSX games.

    Takes me back to the PSOne I had in 2001-2 with its 5" optional LCD, which I also used as a TV 😝

    BrideOfLinux, to random
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    Cory Doctorow weighs in (I wonder how many people get the historical reference in the headline): Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead

    RL_Dane,
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    @BrideOfLinux

    I'm afraid I'm not getting the reference, but I'm very curious. :D

    RL_Dane,
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    @BrideOfLinux

    Wow, ok. Just a wee bit before my time. 😁

    SolusSpider, to linux
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    This old dog has learned a new trick keyboarding for .
    There are many types of Apostrophe, & even the descriptions are confusing.
    In the screenshot we see that the apostrophe on your keyboard is coded as U+0027, but the note says that U+2019 is preferred for apostrophe.
    On my system running , to type U+2019 I use the Compose key:
    <Multi_key> <greater> <apostrophe> : "?" U2019 # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
    Mine is set to Right Alt on my US Keyboard.

    RL_Dane,
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    @SolusSpider

    I remember when one of the touted features of good word processors was called "smart quotes" where straight quotes ('…' and "…") were automatically replaced with curved quotes (‘…’ and “…”)

    RL_Dane,
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    @SolusSpider

    Pretty sure I can cook up some kind of sed script to auto-correct straight quotes to curly in text files if that would be helpful.

    Actually, that would be a trivial and perfect use of sed.

    RL_Dane,
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    @SolusSpider @royal

    Thank God for Unicode.

    I remember needing special software and special fonts to display other languages, especially right-to-left languages

    Nickiquote, to random
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    Airport design is my passion.

    RL_Dane,
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    @Nickiquote

    That's like a physical manifestation of,
    "Want to contact us? Check out our Facebook and Discord!" 🙄

    RL_Dane, to debian
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    @amin, have you gotten scli to work in ?

    I gave up because pipx refuses to install urwid, and I think Debian's version is drumroll way too old. ;)
    I wish pipx just had scli. There's an scli package in PyPI, but it's literally an empty placeholder for nothing.
    Infuriating.

    RL_Dane, to random
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    apologists are the equivalent of "it works on my box."

    RL_Dane, to bluesky
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    "Blockchain Rasputin over here is mad that moderation exists." — @jwz

    https://mastodon.social/@jwz/112419816161276351

    "These guys only care about their assumed right to force people who aren't interested to listen. "Free speech" is when they can say awful stuff and you can't answer back. When Dorsey calls Twitter -- Twitter! -- "freedom technology," that's the freedom he means. They can't live without unwilling ears to bash."

    #BlueSky #Nazis #FreezePeach

    thor, (edited ) to ADHD
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    The Norway #ADHD group on FB strikes me as people who are always looking for stuff. Drugs, treatment, easy ways out. They're not looking for key solutions, such as collaboration. I'm also not seeing much interest in a weekly ADHD conference call. Some of the paradox is that you're short-sighted, and thus unable to work with people on the long term.

    RL_Dane,
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    @thor

    That sucks. That's a caricature of every bad and slanderous depiction of #Neurodivergent folk. Very unfortunate. :(

    RL_Dane,
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    @thor

    Totally agreed. What I loved about the youtube ADHD "community" was the realistic depictions of what ADHD is actually like, and techniques for overcoming it, not mere recommendations for drugs.

    It's a bummer that the community you found isn't more healthy.

    osi, to opensource
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    The Open Source Initiative (OSI) invites the Python community to participate global in the conversation to find the definition of Open Source AI. https://opensource.org/events/open-source-ai-definition-workshop-at-pycon-us

    RL_Dane,
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    @osi

    I sincerely hope you guys are covering the need for attribution, the respect of licenses of data that's trained on, and the environmental impact of "A.I." in this workshop, because without ethics, there is no "Open Source."

    Pax.

    peterkotrcka, to random
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    I want to learn Dutch. Sounds so nice.

    RL_Dane,
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    @peterkotrcka

    "Dutch is not a serious language"
    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/english-to-dutch-translations

    Silly memes aside, dutch sounds to me like what American English would sound like to those who never heard English before. ;)

    RL_Dane,
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    @peterkotrcka

    If you liked DXing, you should try listening to distant WSPR beacons with JTDX or JS8Call and a cheap RTL-SDR. :D

    It's amazing how distant you can pick up with a cheap SDR, some "rabbit ear" indoor antennas, and the WSPR beacons.

    BrideOfLinux, to random
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    From where I sit, this looks like Google and HP working together to convince us that their version of Zoom is something new and unique: Google partners with HP to commercialize Project Starline for realistic virtual meetings https://betanews.com/2024/05/13/google-hp-commercialize-project-starline/

    RL_Dane,
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    @BrideOfLinux

    Oh, of course, the biggest flop of all. G+

    Also, iGoogle, and there was something else very similar to Google Wave that had just as much fanfare and died just as quietly. I can't remember what it was called, but the name was very similar, and it was either a better gmail than gmail, or the predecessor of gdrive's live interactive features.

    Yes, Picasa was the pre-google-photos google photos. I loved it back whe.

    RL_Dane, to random
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    This script is getting slightly out of hand XD

    RL_Dane,
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    @gershman

    Yeah, I remember thinking it was pretty wizard in 1992.

    Much later, I found out it's basically just base64. XD

    RL_Dane, to random
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    Half my kingdom for a Signal client that works on ARM (and no, I'm hella not going to compile electron on my pinebook, get outta here, lol)

    I've tried Axolotl via flatpak, but it just crashes on start with some kind of (oh gee) electron error.

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    @daniel

    THIS WORKED!!! Thanks!!! :D

    cc: @amin

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