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paspro

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Interests:
#Science, #Physics, #Technology, #Engineering, #Aerospace, #Computing, #Programming, #HPC, #SciFi, #Humanism, #Atheism, #CriticalThinking, #Philosophy, #Photography.

Work:
Research and development in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (#CFD), #Hypersonics, Compressible Flows, High Order Schemes. Physical modelling and Numerical Algorithms.

Education:
Diploma of Mechanical Engineering.
M.Sc., D.I.C., Ph.D. Dept. of Aeronautics, Imperial College, London.

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itsfoss, to linux
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Uh-oh, do we have a prediction here?

https://news.itsfoss.com/google-ubuntu-flutter/

paspro,
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@itsfoss it is clear that they are going to move development to countries with low wages to increase their profits. Typical. This means that the quality of the product will go down.

Rusty, to ubuntu
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Wait, there's no built-in UI to install .deb files on Ubuntu? Really??? :neocat_shocked:

I know Canonical really wants to push their stupid walled garden with Snaps, but c'mon. That's just insane. :blobfoxlaughsweat: Snaps are the reason I'll generally not recommend Ubuntu anymore. It's too much to explain to a Linux newbie why Firefox boots slowly and Steam crashes.

paspro,
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@Rusty the gdebi application is what you are looking for.

paspro, to politics
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paspro, to random
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arstechnica, to random
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William Gibson’s Neuromancer will become an Apple TV+ show

The novel will finally make it to the screen after decades of false starts.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/02/william-gibsons-neuromancer-will-become-an-apple-tv-show/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

paspro,
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@arstechnica hopefully, it will follow the book and not turn into an abomination like the Foundation series.

janriemer, to rust

Hm...I'm getting the impression that is increasingly met with a refusal by some people (it's an almost hateful attitude sometimes).

I wonder why. Of course there are a lot of layers to it, but one is definitely that Rust has gotten a lot more exposure to people and so there are just a lot more potential matches that lead to Err(()) and that's Ok(()) (sorry, pun intended).

But I wonder, if there's more to it than what meets the eye (feeling excluded/alienated/left behind?).

paspro,
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@janriemer personally an issue that I have with Rust is lack of readability. C-like code with the additional complexity of lifetimes and borrowing semantics.

itsfoss, to random
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will feature a Snap version of Thunderbird!

https://news.itsfoss.com/thunderbird-snap/

paspro,
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@itsfoss is this for good?

paspro, to Stoicism
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dimillian, to random
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Now that Ice Cubes is in great shape, this is now my main social network. Thanks all.

paspro,
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@dimillian What I would like to see as a new feature is this: when showing a reply on the timeline also display the post which the reply refers to. Mona does that and it makes the timeline more readable. Keep up the good work and thank you for this superb client!

paspro, to space
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NASA+ Available Now!

https://plus.nasa.gov/video/nasa_plus/

rolle, to bluesky
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Hot take: Mastodon has far better content when compared to Bluesky. And I say this based on thousands of people I follow.

paspro,
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@rolle @tchambers Mastodon has many more people than Bluesky which is still closed and invitation only.

paspro, to random
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I just finished watching "The Fall of the House of Usher" and it is a superb mini-series on Netflix. Don’t miss it!

unnameduser, to space French
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    paspro,
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    @unnameduser what is the problem with Ariane 6?

    popsci, to random

    Google Calendar now lets everyone line up their schedules perfectly https://t.co/nufS7s5poL

    paspro,
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    @popsci Google cannot be trusted.

    feditips, to random
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    In case you missed it, the official Mastodon Android app has been updated to include hashtag following and Mastodon's Lists feature! 🎉

    The latest version of the app is v2.2.0.

    Also, a reminder that you don't need to use the official app at all, you can get most features a lot sooner on third-party apps (e.g. Tusky, Fedilab, Megalodon, Subway Tooter etc).

    Third-party apps for all platforms are listed on Mastodon's official site at https://joinmastodon.org/apps (scroll down past the official app).

    paspro,
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    @feditips the official app is being developed at a very slow pace.

    davidbures, to random
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    My girlfriend’s apartment has a router that does absolutely no load balancing. If there’s a computer that’s downloading at top bandwidth, no other device gets any bandwidth at all.

    So you can have one computer downloading at 100 megs, while no other device gets internet.

    Guess what I’m getting her for Christmas

    paspro,
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    @davidbures A wedding ring?

    IceCubesApp, to random
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    An hotfix was released for the new media viewer. How are you all enjoying it?

    paspro,
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    @IceCubesApp It would be great if this app displayed a context when showing replies to posts rather than just the reply in the timeline feed. Mona and Trunks do this by also showing the original post above the reply and in this way the timeline is more readable.

    stancarey, to SF

    Among the gems in this interview with Ursula K. Le Guin in 2004 is her withering assessment of J. K. Rowling's writing style

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/feb/09/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.ursulakleguin

    paspro,
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    @stancarey I couldn’t agree more. I never understood what people liked so much.

    paspro, to random
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    @MonaApp I am having a problem with the macOS version of Mona. If I increase the size of the text fonts then this causes an increase of size of the fonts used for the pop-down window menus as well, as shown in the attached image. These fonts should always have the system font size.

    paspro, (edited )
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    @MonaApp This does not look good on a Mac because all the other drop down window menus of the application use the system’s font and font size. So, the menus within the application, such as the one shown in the picture, should also follow the same font and font size. Only the text of the content in the timeline should be affected, unless one has separate text size options for the UI and the content. Other Mastodon clients I have seen on macOS like Ice Cubes, Wooly and Ivory behave as I suggested.

    omgubuntu, to linux
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    Still using 18.04? It hits end of life this month https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/ubuntu-18-04-end-of-support

    paspro,
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    @omgubuntu This is a great opportunity for users to upgrade to Fedora 38.

    simonbs, to random
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    Found a pretty good way to quote posts with Ivory, Re: Toot, and Shortcuts 😃 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c24cfa5cb6e84aa9a4c93270cb648d18

    Screen recording of user sharing an app in Ivory and selecting the “Quote Mastodon Post” shortcut. This triggers the following flow: 1. A notification is shown saying that an image was copied to the clipboard. 2. The user pastes this image in a new post in Ivory. 3. A notification is shown saying that the alt text was copied to the clipboard. 4. The user pastes the alt text as description of the image posted earlier. 5. A notification is shown saying that the attribution was copied to the clipboard. 6. The user pastes the attribution into the post. 7. The user finishes the post and posts it.

    paspro,
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    @atomicpoet @simonbs @IceCubesApp Same goes for Mona

    willoremus, to random
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    For years Google has been dominant in both AI and search. Now it's threatened in both—and so are its professed values.

    I wrote about how AI chatbots could disrupt Google search--not by being better, per se, but by generating just enough interest and hype to force it to respond, potentially in ways that degrade its own core product. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/19/google-bard-pichai-60-minutes-ai/

    paspro,
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    @willoremus Google is all about selling ads, the most useless and annoying thing in Internet. Nothing more.

    paspro, to atheism
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