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TerryHancock

@TerryHancock@realsocial.life

Fan of space, film, free/open-source software and free culture. Former pro astronomer. Writer, blogger, editor, visual artist. Occasional free-software developer. (Personal Account)

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dansup, to Pixelfed
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Break. Free.

Instagram Breaks for Ads. Pixelfed Breaks Free from Ads. Discover and share beautiful photos, engage with inspiring collections, and build genuine connections — all without the distraction of ads. Pixelfed is where your content truly shines.

mbt3d, to random
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One thing that posting online over the years has taught me, and is still teaching, is to pause before replying to comments. Often the commentator has missed the point and that the relativly small written piece often dosen't convey the true meaning very clearly.
Still, I often have to take a breath before replying in forehead slapping frustration. Patience Grasshopper! 😂
Still it is better than dealing with people IRL.

bruces, to random
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*That's some kinda "dead media" yarn.

bastardsheep, to random
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Remember that guy who zoomed in to a court hearing about a suspended license, while parking his car?

It was a clerical error. His license wasn't actually suspended.

None of the publications listed here (NYT, WP, NYP, USA Today, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC) have issued corrections or updates.

https://reason.com/2024/06/03/the-viral-story-about-a-defendant-driving-with-a-suspended-license-was-fake-news/

Stolen from the 🦋 place. https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3ku2pzy6z622y

scottsantens, to random
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Stop insisting on work requirements. Just provide cash unconditionally. People will still work.

Stop insisting on targeting the poor. Just provide cash universally. Tax the rich more than the amount. That way we won't exclude anyone in need.

On these core tenets, Unconditional Universal Basic Income exists.

TerryHancock, to random

Uh-oh. Everything was going swimmingly, until I tried to test the desktop application sync!

I suspect this is because the symbolic link never resolves, and Nextcloud lists that folder as forever "Pending".

The folder is quite usable through-the-web, even with the pending "folder".

(I"m not 100% sure this is the problem, but the documentation is not clear, and a search for this exact error message turns up "External Storages are more trouble that they're worth" from some disgruntled user). #

TerryHancock,

Okay, this is interesting. If I delete the symbolic link (owned by root) and replace it with the actual folder (still owned by root), the desktop application goes ahead and syncs, ignoring the folder in question (there's a warning/error message about it, but the rest of the folder is usable and is in fact synced on the filesystem).

🤔

I wonder what happens if I go back to the symlink, but let nextcloud own the symbolic link, while root owns the folder (and doesn't allow nextcloud to read it..?) #

TerryHancock,

I tried changing the ownership of the symlink (a little tricky to do -- I didn't remember this, but you have to use a flag "-h" to get chmod to do that).

Anyway, it doesn't make much difference versus the link being owned by root. It's the ownership of the target folder that matters.

But also, I can't replicate the "HTTP transmission error" in my Nextcloud Desktop.

I get a much less serious error -- just "Error while loading the list of folders from the server", and specifically to the denied folder (so that's basically accurate).

The only really annoying thing now is in the web UI, where the "Size" column for this directory appears as "Pending", and so all of the containing folders do as well.

That's a little annoying, but I'm not sure if it's a show-stopper now.

I wish this was more clear cut.

Also, I'm not sure I can report this as a bug, though IMHO, it still is.

Anyway, the fact that I'm using the YunoHost package makes filling out the bug report kind of weird -- I can't get the results for the configuration report and other details. #

davidrevoy, to random
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Happy 25th anniversary, Krita!

https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/krita-25-years/

rbreich, to random
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TRUMP: If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone.

Yes. If you commit 34 felonies by filing false business records to cover up election interference, you too can be convicted by a jury of your peers via the due process of our criminal justice system.

RIDDLES, to random
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Four times a year, New Yorkers and tourists flock to the streets of Manhattan to witness Manhattanhenge. These days the Sun rises or sets perfectly aligned with the main streets of Manhattan, creating an unmissable spectacle.

MissingThePt, to random
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ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Attention
Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/health-3

setiinstitute, to space
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: To end our week, we look back at this beautiful picture of Titan and Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 22, 2015. Processed using calibrated near-infrared (MT2, CB2) filtered images. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

davidrevoy, to linux
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Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide

CosmicRami, to Astro
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I'm so excited about this find!

Aussie astronomers have used Murriyang (Parkes radio telescope) to confirm the closest millisecond pulsar to the Galactic Centre!

Got to chat with CSIRO astronomer Marcus Lower (Lead Author of the paper) about this exciting new science.

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/millisecond-pulsar-lurking-galactic-centre

#SpaceAustralia #Astrodon #Pulsars #Astrophysics

📸 Heywood et al. 2022 / me

The Parkes radio telescope tilted on its side and slightly upwards. In the foreground are gardens and three poles with three flags upon them.

18+ mcc, to random
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I am typing this on a phone in a laundromat and reserve the right to come back and edit it to correct legal wording.

Think about this real hard: The candidate who's spent four years claiming the elections are rigged has been convicted for rigging an election. Yeah, the charge is falsifying business records. But that's only a NY felony if a second crime is committed, & the 2nd crime was paying to kill news stories without following campaign finance laws.

18+ mcc,
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So like let's compare the other most significant Presidential candidacy by a felon: Eugene Debs.

Debs was convicted and jailed twice, the first in 1894 for alleged violation of a court order banning railway workers from striking, the second time for giving a speech protesting World War I. During his second imprisonment he ran for President and got 3.4% of the vote.

What can we take away from this? Trump didn't even commit felonies you can be proud of.

kims, to random
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[With a hat tip to Jericho Brown]

To the Republicans suddenly obsessed with the sheer unfairness of Trump (potentially) not being allowed to vote for himself in November:

PLEASE RUSH LEGISLATION TO RESTORE VOTING RIGHTS FOR ALL FELONS

msbellows, (edited ) to random
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I'm gonna share some completely anticlimactic TMI for the benefit of other middle-aged men:

The day before yesterday, I was very stressed and anxious for a variety of reasons, and we were moving some furniture out of a storage locker, and I was feeling lethargic and a little lightheaded and generally out of it, and then I began feeling nausea and indigestion and my jaw was tight and then my left arm and hand started feeling a little numb. Nothing terrible! Just: feeling meh, and those minor symptoms.

And then guess what crazy thing we did?

We went to the nearby emergency room.

Yep.

And they were very nice to me, and quickly administered an EKG and blood tests, and guess what?

I wasn't having a heart attack.

I was just stressed and tired and anxious. That's all.

But if I had been having a heart attack, going to the E.R. could have saved my life. And even though I wasn't, they were very nice to me. No one made fun of me. No one called me a whiner or a hypochondriac. My wife expressed gratitude that I took my survival seriously. And I was home again in less than two hours.

So this is for my fellow typical men, who are inclined to ignore health issues because: John Wayne or something, and fear of embarrassment:

Don't ignore stuff. Don't wait until you're sure. Be willing to overreact. Be willing to waste everyone's time. It's okay! The world won't end! (And you may even get to take a nap under a warm blanket, like I did!)

freetechproject, to random
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"This attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean." Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack: https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/28/internet-archive-and-the-wayback-machine-under-ddos-cyber-attack/

GuerillaOntologist, to Unions
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Via the wonderful Just Seeds website!
https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/

RIDDLES, to random
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knittingknots2, to random
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The public thinks America is in recession

https://thehill.com/opinion/4688422-matthews-why-the-public-thinks-the-country-is-in-recession/

kathimmel, to art
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: he was horror’s adonis with a wicked wit; a ‘muppet show’ favourite, a culinary whiz & an artist. alice cooper’s ‘welcome to my nightmare’ wouldn’t have achieved such iconic heights had it not included vincent price’s 'black widow' soliloquy. but his dramatic socio-political conclusion to the radio programme, ‘the saint’, which aired on 30 july, 1950,may come as a surprise to anyone who thought of him as merely a panto character.

digital ink illustration of horror legend, vincent price. in 3/4 profile, his right arm folded over his left, vincent casts a keen eye at something unseen by us. his eyebrow is raised in a rather bemused fashion. above him, the shadow of a bat floats, wings outstretched. colours are light cold blue & various shades of cold grey.
digital ink illustration of horror legend, vincent price. in 3/4 profile, his right arm folded over his left, vincent casts a keen eye at something unseen by us. his eyebrow is raised in a rather bemused fashion. above him, the shadow of a bat floats, wings outstretched. colours are french blue, pink, violet, palest sage & indigo.
digital ink illustration of horror legend, vincent price. in 3/4 profile, his right arm folded over his left, vincent casts a keen eye at something unseen by us. his eyebrow is raised in a rather bemused fashion. above him, the shadow of a bat floats, wings outstretched. the text, 'poison doesn't always come in bottles' is displayed across the width of the bat. colours are coral, cream & various shades of blue spruce.

kathimmel,
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in honour of vincent’s birth #otd in 1911, i’m leaving this part of the text:

‘ladies & gentlemen, poison doesn’t always come in bottles. & it isn’t always marked with the skull and crossbones of danger. poison can take the form of words & phrases & acts: the venom of racial & religious hatred. here in the United States, perhaps more than ever before, we must learn to recognise the poison of prejudice & to discover the antidote to its dangerous effects.’

vin, your words still ring true.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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(via. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/hnknnw/now_its_our_cone_of_shame/)

"Now it's OUR cone of shame."

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