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cerement, 7 days ago

“Socialist papers have often a tendency to become mere annals of complaints about existing conditions. The oppression of the laborers in the mine, the factory, and the field is related; the misery and sufferings of the workers during strikes are told in vivid pictures; their helplessness in the struggle against employers is insisted upon: and this succession of hopeless efforts, related in the paper, exercises a most depressing influence upon the reader. To counterbalance that effect, the editor has to rely chiefly upon burning words by means of which he tries to inspire his readers with energy and faith. I thought, on the contrary, that a revolutionary paper must be, above all, a record of those symptoms which everywhere announce the coming of a new era, the germination of new forms of social life, the growing revolt against antiquated institutions. These symptoms should be watched, brought together in their intimate connection, and so grouped as to show to the hesitating minds of the greater number the invisible and often unconscious support which advanced ideas find everywhere, when a revival of thought takes place in society. To make one feel sympathy with the throbbing of the human heart all over the world, with its revolt against age-long injustice, with its attempts at working out new forms of life,—this should be the chief duty of a revolutionary paper. It is hope, not despair, which makes successful revolutions.” [emphasis added]

—Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)

cerement, 7 days ago

just how long have Toyota technicals been around?

cerement, 7 days ago

“It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?”

cerement, 7 days ago

people asking for those recommendations are newcomers to Linux and Ubuntu and Mint (especially) are both very newcomer friendly with large support communities when any questions come up

once they become more familiar with their system, they can turn to the Arch Wiki and the Gentoo Handbook as they fine-tune things

but neither Mint nor Ubuntu are going to hit you with any big surprises – unsupervised access to AUR in Arch, long compilation times in Gentoo, obscure (and semi-documented) programming language in Nix, or dealing with commands that are a little bit different in BusyBox, musl, or OpenRC systems …

cerement, 7 days ago

not so much as Mint being the “best way”, but Mint being a safe, friendly starting point – once you get your feet wet, you can start looking around at the other options (which can be pretty overwhelming initially) – and just as a lot of people use Mint as a jumping off point, a lot of people also stay with Mint

and yes, despite distro-hopping being a running joke, it exists because Linux distros make it relatively easy to do

the biggest change to keep an eye on is the development of atomic (“immutable”) distros – anything that makes it harder to bork your system and easier to recover afterwards (including recovering all of your configurations and customizations) is getting a lot of attention

cerement, 7 days ago

from the same people who think the brain drain of their state is a good thing and not foreshadowing …

cerement, 7 days ago

• phone cameras generally default to auto white balance which is good for snapshots, not so good for color accuracy
• trying to get raw files out of phone cameras is not completely impossible, but the images are almost always processed into JPEGs
  • the main camera is going to boost saturation and contrast (make your image “pop”)
  • selfie camera is going to focus on “flesh tones”, so less saturation boost (or you look sunburnt) and less contrast boost (smooth out wrinkles and acne)
• if you really want to focus on color accuracy over perceptual color, get hold of a gray card or color checker and plan on doing post-processing in something like Lightroom, Darktable, digiKam, RawTherapee or the like

cerement, 7 days ago

“502 Bad Gateway”

cerement, 8 days ago

stand for Windows95man

cerement, 8 days ago

missing a black sharpie “nope”

cerement, 8 days ago

he’s not taking you to the prom

cerement, 8 days ago

tank puppy

cerement, 8 days ago

“Hacker folklore that pays homage to ‘wizards’ and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.”

—The Jargon File

cerement, 8 days ago

(on the Linux side, I »think« only tiling window managers have really experimented with and taking advantage of this sort of thing)

cerement, 9 days ago

there are other ways to modify a cave

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/aefde3ba-e00d-4559-9aed-882ddbba0143.webp

cerement, 9 days ago

Eagle’s Nest (sinkhole) in Florida

cerement, 9 days ago

77B on the TTC

cerement, 9 days ago

if you’re in an old apartment or old building, look for a little slot in the back of the medicine cabinet – that’s where everyone before you has been dumping used razor blades

cerement, 9 days ago

that’s how bad things are, the city built on top of a lake is facing a water crisis …

cerement, 9 days ago

need to update the school flags as well

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/781da099-a7ad-43ad-8ed9-131e64fe6f12.webp

cerement, 9 days ago

• “State department also says not enough concrete evidence to link specific US-supplied weapons to violations”
• U.S. Files Serial Numbers Off Missiles Sent To Israel

cerement, 9 days ago

they really did, when you click on “Explore the data by country” and choose United States …

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/a4b94862-aa17-4bd0-b6e1-29dfd8431449.webp

cerement, 9 days ago

not too far off from the real world – modern gun control laws started with Ronald Reagan in California trying to keep guns out of the hands of blacks …

cerement, 9 days ago

(I deal with vendors that still use yahoo.com emails …)