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Cory Doctorow weighs in (I wonder how many people get the historical reference in the headline): Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead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

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

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 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 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.

RL_Dane, to lacabine
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Do NOT peruse the hashtag if you're on a diet.

You have been warned. ;)

jonyoder, to random
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TIL that is not great for multithreaded applications. sigh

RL_Dane,
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@jonyoder

I could see that being problematic.

jacqueline, to random
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i've hacked google in order to retrieve confidential google io planning documents

yes "AI " | tr -d \n my terminal them fills with "AI"

RL_Dane,
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@jacqueline

Or in ordered list form:

  1. AI
  2. AI
  3. AI
  4. ????
  5. SO MUCH PROFIT, HAH!
RL_Dane,
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@jacqueline

I mean, the fact that people are eager to incinerate the earth to dig up some magic bit coins or to massively parallel poop-process a stupid linguistic statistical neural net because you think you'll make billions, no matter the collateral damage is all I need to know that silicon valley is full of sociopaths and should probably be buried, or something.

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

You'd think GOOG'd finally realize that the "throw spaghetti against the wall" method of product design isn't working too well for them.

Like, if anyone doubts this, I have some further explanation and examples I can send you on Google Talk. I mean Allo. I mean Hangouts. I mean Google Wave. I mean Google Jamboard. I mean Google Notes. Wait...

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

I uuencoded it (after compressing it) to save space (vertical space, especially) without actually tossing the function, in case I want to use it later.

Being silly, mostly. ;)

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

bruces, to random
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*Where have I seen this before? Something something Japan something Detroit something

RL_Dane,
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@nus @glennf @bruces

It's shameful that we're reverting to 1970s hulking monstrosity designs.

Eggfreckles, to random
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It's good to know now all laptop manufacturers are cowards.

RL_Dane,
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@Eggfreckles

Ah, neat.

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.

RL_Dane,
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@daniel

THIS WORKED!!! Thanks!!! :D

cc: @amin

majors, to random

Finally someone else enlightened enough to realize that C is an OO language
https://youtu.be/6Riy9hVIFDE

RL_Dane,
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@majors

Not a serious dev, but I vaguely recall reading ~20 years ago that glibc (or was it GDK??) what designed to be a kind of object-oriented-ish C library.

RL_Dane,
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@majors

Ah, that was it 😁

I didn't realize Glib != glibc 😅

RL_Dane,
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@majors

Yeah, it's pretty conical at tines. 😁

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