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✍︎ cynicusrex.com: a sentient stack of stardust pondering nothing and everything.

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brunus, (edited ) to random French
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Pour skaters ! Une super série de docu "Skate le monde".
Je viens de voir celui sur le Japon, c'est top pour en savoir plus sur le skate au Japon mais surtout sur la culture du pays...où on aime pas du tout le skate...parce que ça fait du bruit, et qu'il commence à y avoir des filles qui en font au lieu de se marier à 21 ans, faire deux gosses et rester au foyer.

[EDIT] Mince, j'avais mis l'url de l'épisode mais il a été basculé dans les url pour abonnés uniquement

stardust,
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@brunus “Page introuvable
Oups! La page demandée n'existe pas ou a été retirée. Vérifiez l'adresse URL et essayez à nouveau, ou retournez à l’accueil pour voir nos autres émissions.”

keepassxc, to random
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Debian Users - Be aware the maintainer of the KeePassXC package for Debian has unilaterally decided to remove ALL features from it. You will need to switch to keepassxc-full to maintain capabilities once this lands outside of testing/sid.

stardust,
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“Stable release users should read the release notes.”

No they shouldn't. That's exactly why they use stable: so things don't break unexpectedly and they can work on problems that they want/need to work on.

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@juliank @tuxwise @keepassxc

mike, to random
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Is sleeping on the floor good for your back. I'm not a scientist or anything, but I've slept on the floor many times since I first had children, and not once has it ever made my back feel BETTER.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-sleeping-on-the-floor-good-for-your-back/

stardust,
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“Another difference is that ancient people got more physical activity throughout the day, a lifestyle that may have helped prevent pain despite ground sleeping.”

This is the crux. I've been sleeping on a 1.5 cm thick yoga mat for over a month. I feel more in tune with my body, incentivised to exercise and not sit. Being a skateboarder most people assume it is unhealthy and causes injuries. False. All my back injuries happened because of sitting too much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOJLx4Du3vU

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jon, (edited ) to random
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I have been using Thinkpads for years and been using Trackpoints. I love the technology, but we getting a bit of strain in my fingers, so wanted to try something else, so using a laptop with a touchpad instead. Finding that I kept clicking things by mistake. Thought there was something wrong with my laptop, but then found there was a setting for clicking things my mistake and it was called "Tap to click" and a similar one for right clicking. Both were on by default.

I guess I am one of those that prefers to click when I want to click and not have a slight touch of the touchpad register as a click. The touchpad has to differentiate between clicking, scrolling, moving, etc., so having everything with the same level of pressure seems likely to lead to mistakes.

What about you? Do you enable tap to click?

stardust,
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@jon isn't there an option that disables the touchpad while typing? Best of both worlds.

mike, to random
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Our corporate password policy just updated requiring our passwords to be minimum 15 characters long. Yea, this is going to end well.

stardust,
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@mike you not worried your overlords will read your messages here?

stardust, to academia
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“The moment you put people into big institutions the goal shifts from knowledge discovery to moneymaking.” —Sabine Hossenfelder, My dream died, and now I'm here

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LKiBlGDfRU8

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stardust,
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@fatboy Cool, now we are seven;

Vivaldi, to tech
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Love working with tabs? Then you’ll love this: a Memory Saver that automatically puts your inactive tabs to sleep, so you can experience faster and smoother browsing!⚡

Our built-in Feed Reader now lets you follow feeds on sites like Reddit and GitHub. You can now curate your very own news feed with your preferred content. 📰

There’s more: a new option to create Workspaces with fewer clicks, export of passwords and feeds, and a window split screen view for apps on Mac.

Read on to know more, and upgrade your browser to its latest version👇

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-7

stardust,
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@ZaffreHue @Vivaldi They're definitely anti crypto which I love them for too, but not necessarily anti AI I think. They're just against adding it in a browser without asking and without any apparent added benefit. Not to mention the copyright issues.

smallcircles, to DuckDuckGo
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Typing "frozen" just now in gives zero indication it might have anything to do with water going below zero degrees Celsius.

Sad!

stardust,
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@smallcircles While I'm completely against hypercapitalism, your example is a bit specious (anecdotal fallacy) because the wrong term is used:

vwbusguy, to linux
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Fun fact for the history books: The guy who discovered the xz openssh backdoor and really saved 's bacon this week is a engineer.

stardust,
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@vwbusguy Microsoft is malware, so in a sense “It takes one to know one.”

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to Canada
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When urban renewal goes wrong: Inside a dead mall frozen in 1990.

Very interesting short film by Bright Sun Films. Along with the usual urban exploration bits, he gives a good history of how and why it failed.

The shopping centre was supposed to revitalise downtown Hamilton, Ontario.

But within six years, it had just a 40% occupancy rate.

A decade after opening, it sold for only CAN$3.6 million — just 5% of what it originally cost to build.

https://youtu.be/NV_c_c_RZdE?si=4fNO5BJAoWzcx_bw

@urbanism

stardust,
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@ajsadauskas @urbanism Could make for an incredible skatepark.

stardust,
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@jadero Thanks, but don't want to spend money on that for now.

stardust,
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@jadero Thanks, but don't want to spend money on that for now.

mike, to random
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I'm personally offended by my IT class having a section titled "Command Line Network Utilities" with a thumbnail showing a hard drive with the cover removed exposing the platters and "chkdsk" above it followed by green text saying "Error Fixed".

Two things.

  1. chkdsk isn't a network utility.
  2. You can run chkdsk until the stars burn out, but it's never going to fix a hard drive with the platters open to the world. Just isn't going to happen.
stardust,
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@mike Did you know a carrier pigeon takes longer to fly 100 km compared to 10 km?

stardust,
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@Empricorn @silence7 In case you're not being ironic I dare you to get hit by a car that's moving at 32.19 km/h.

stardust,
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@Empricorn @silence7 Also, “the murder limit of 0 is so low that many will probably start ignoring all manslaughter prohibitions, making society more dangerous and enforcement difficult.”

stardust, to random
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The massive amount of open sourcerers is inspiring.

mike, to random
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I returned to college last fall after ~30 years and sometimes it's super strange. Also, there's something about a 20 something telling me about the introduction of PS/2 ports in the "olden days" that aggravates me. Get off my lawn whippersnapper!

stardust,
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@mike Got a blog post documenting the experience/process of attending college later in life?

shawnhooper, to ai
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“OpenAI quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology for military purposes from its usage policy, which seeks to dictate how powerful and immensely popular tools like ChatGPT can be used.”

This is fine. Nothing could possibly go wrong. https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai-military-ban-chatgpt/

stardust,
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@shawnhooper War is okay, friendship is not :(

fatboy, to random
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Borgir

video/mp4

stardust,
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@fatboy I can keep watching this indefinitely, it's magic.

Vivaldi, (edited ) to windows
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poll!

There are different aspects of Vivaldi that can catch the user's eye. 👀

Which one is more important to you? What made you stay? 😊

stardust,
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@Vivaldi
In a void Vivaldi's strength is obviously the features/customization [customization is a feature], but ultimately, if Vivaldi's ethical stronghold were to succumb, I wouldn't hesitate to forego on the by now indispensable features, however hard it may be.

stardust,
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@Vivaldi I'm not worried, that's the beauty of trust.

rolle, (edited ) to internet
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It’s approximately one year since the peak of the enshittification of Twitter and the big Mastodon influx. Let’s ask again: What is your main microblogging platform? Boosts welcome.

#X

stardust,
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@rolle Asking this on Mastodon will produce skewed, unreliable results.

shawnhooper, to random
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Watched BEEF on Netflix last night. The whole series, in one sitting. Not the silly comedy I was expecting at all. Highly recommended.

stardust,
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@shawnhooper So glad I haphazardly came across your post. Finally, something real. Thanks.

fatboy, (edited ) to firefox
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Do you use the No Script extension?
Or do you use the uMatrix extension?

stardust,
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@fatboy uBlock Origin → “no-scripting: * true”

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