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akosma, 18 hours ago to random

"Luckily we have the Wayback Machine"

Just a week after publishing this, the @internetarchive is down.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/20/webpages_vanish_decade/

akosma, 18 hours ago to random

What noise does an electron make when it falls to the ground?

PLANCK

And what noise does it make when it burps?

BOOOHR

gazebo_c, 1 day ago to random German

About yesterday: some walkies along the beautifully blue Rhine (Schaffhausen area 🇨🇭). Perfect time to recharge (also city was too full of people for my taste 🙈).

#itsTheLittleThings

akosma, 3 days ago to random

TIL The Belleville Three is not exactly the same thing as Les Triplettes de Belleville. Not at all.

akosma, 4 days ago to random

Some ideas https://akos.ma/blog/running-programming-workshops/

Sburlot, 4 days ago to random

I’ve been using Prowl (https://www.prowlapp.com/) to programmatically send push notifications to my phone since 2009. No fancy tricks, just works. It does one thing, and it does it well.

That’s how most services should work IMHO. No need to add shiny thing, just do the basic things you’re designed to do and provide a simple API (use it via curl or use the available librairies available in most programming languages)

anderseknert, 5 days ago to DuckDuckGo

#DuckDuckGo has been down all morning. First time I've seen that, from what I remember. Hugs to whoever is working on getting search back right now.

akosma, 5 days ago to random

Just learned about the passing of Gordon Bell, computer engineer legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell

fj, 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random French

Quelqu'un d'autre a remarqué que #Mixtral a tendance à répondre en anglais à des questions formulées en Français?

Vous avez des solutions pour faire répondre le modèle français dans la langue de Molière?

akosma, 6 days ago to random

TIL that Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/IMG files. No need to format the disk over and over, just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many image files at a time, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI supported. MBR and GPT partition style supported. OS supported: Win/Linux/Unix/ChromeOS/Vmware/Xen. 1200+ ISO files tested.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

akosma, 6 days ago to random

“One of my preferred restaurants was “Carlitos”, in the corner of Vergara and Libertador, whose owner and cook was exactly the same Carlos Ciuffardi from Villa Gesell. Once a month my mum took me to the Pumper Nic in the corner of Yrigoyen and Libertador to have a “Mobur” (a sandwich with ham and a fried egg) with “Frenys” (French fries).”

https://akos.ma/blog/thirty-years/

akosma, 8 days ago to random

"Tax policy groups have been lobbying to close this loophole for years, and Congress nearly did it in 2022, but Senator Kyrsten Sinema took $2 million from the private equity industry (aka Owners) and saved their $14 billion loophole. It’s well known that our leaders are whores. What’s more surprising, and disappointing, is what cheap whores they are ($2 million for $14 billion)."

https://www.profgalloway.com/earners-vs-owners/

akosma, 9 days ago to random

20 years ago, Steve Ballmer loved his iPod more than he liked to admit.

(BTW: Ruffle and the Internet Archive make a great team.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20050206093642/http://www.macboy.com/cartoons/ballmer/

santiago, 9 days ago to random

The latest KDE neon with Plasma 6 looks pretty useable nowadays. My Linux Desktop is still secondary and serves mostly as server and TV display. It either shows videos or a huge 40” full screen terminal above my Mac workstation.

It runs Pop-OS now which is also based on Ubuntu so switching would be possible (but it’s work). I’ll keep KDE Neon in mind if I ever manage to fully drop Mac OS.

akosma, 10 days ago to random

there’s clearly a thread here @hisham_hm @santiago

jcfischer, 10 days ago to random

Memories of #reboot7

(also the place I'll be spending the next few nights, dancing Tango)

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