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draeath

@draeath@social.sdf.org

Systems Engineer / Solutions Architect. Musician. Gamer. Amateur radio operator. Open Source advocate.

SDF ARPA member, former MetaARPA.

I really couldn't care less about CW standards. I also find the whole concept of rules around following/boosting/replying to be incredibly stupid. If you don't like something I did, just block or mute me.

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kde, (edited ) to kde
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You heard . Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

  • Krita is your new design/painting app
  • Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
  • glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
  • digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

  • Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
  • Scribus - layout like a pro
  • GIMP - need we say more
  • Blender - ditto

@kde

draeath,
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@kde @kde Don't forget Darktable to fill-in for Lightroom!

whitequark, to random
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VIS / LWIR

so pretty

image/jpeg

draeath,
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@whitequark how much did that run you?

I'm a little jealous.

clive, to random
@clive@saturation.social avatar

How to make Google more usable with this One Weird Trick

By @ernie: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

draeath,
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@swope @clive @ernie for now...

mcc, to random
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OMG just got a CAPTCHA with an honest to goodness Treachery of Images "is this a pipe" problem

draeath,
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@deerfairy @mcc what is a "deep fried" image?

StillIRise1963, to random
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"The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to 'build huge camps to detain people,' and 'to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.’ "

"How many people? ‘Millions’ writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.”

https://www.rawstory.com/hartmann-trump/

draeath,
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@StillIRise1963 it is so hard to keep from saying shit about this motherfucker that'd put me on a watchlist :/

scy, to Catroventos
@scy@chaos.social avatar

A question for native speakers of #English:

In German, when estimating (or charging for) the time a certain business project takes, we often use the units "Personenstunde" (PS, "person hour") and especially "Personentag" (PT, "person day"). This differs from calendar days in that you can do 5 PT of work in one day if five people are working on it.

Is there an equivalent term in English? Does it have an acronym? Is the gendered "man-day" still the default?

#business #AskFedi

draeath,
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@scy the closest I think is man-hours. We generally don't do it by day, I think?

anathema_device, to random
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Listened to more of the Steve Jobs podcast thing. He really was a complete and irredeemable shit.

And they aren’t done telling the story!

draeath,
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@anathema_device B2B?

That was an eye-opening listen.

sundogplanets, to random
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Watch this satellite obliterate the Kuiper Belt object moving through this set of images.

The dumb satellite is so bright that our auto-detect software threw out the whole stack, because it destroyed the average brightness.

It pisses me off to no end that my taxpayer-funded telescope time is now less and less effective because of one for-profit private company.

(P.S. software dudes: please don't try to mansplain workarounds, believe me, a LOT of astronomers are working hard on this)

A gif of a Kuiper Belt object slowly moving across a set of images. It just looks like a fuzzy dot. Toward the end of the sequence, there's a super bright diagonal line that covers up the moving dot - that was a satellite.

draeath,
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@sundogplanets what sort of wavelengths is this a problem for?

Like is it screwing up every type of terrestrial observation, or just specific areas like the visible spectrum and infrared?

draeath,
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@sundogplanets jeez! I could understand reflections, but if they're also spewing signal noise too, now that's just... ugh.

I was hoping your reply would make me a little less angry about the situation, but that seems to have backfired :(

btp, to random
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Do better, Fediverse.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity

draeath,
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@btp that was really strange. My first try hitting that link, it wanted to download a .bin file instead of serving a site. Second try it loaded correctly.

Craigp, to random
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OK, let's talk boat interiors, since that's my next step here.

Nearly all the boats in my game will have to have actual interiors with doors, because you generally don't want to be on deck while boating across a literal boiling river.

However, interior blueprints for boats are a little hard to find, unless I just don't know the magic word. Lotsa yachts.

From what I can glean from the non-yachts, ship interiors are extremely basic. Like, here's a box with a door.

draeath,
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@Craigp any chance you can get someone to show you around a ship or two, sorts like a tour? There's nothing like getting your eyes on something, and I've found people who are proud of something they have or work with tend to react positively to someone who's looking to make sure their art does a good job representing that thing.

drcaberry, (edited ) to Engineering
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#EngineeringProfessorQuiz Lab Practical Edition
@BlkInEngineerng #BlackInEngineering #BlackSTEM #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #Engineering #EngineeringProfessor #NoireSTEMinist
I need to measure a resistor, what should I use?

draeath,
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@drcaberry do I get extra credit if I say you should be able to use any one of these if you have a known power supply?

draeath,
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@drcaberry ohm's law - if you know any two terms, you can compute the missing one. Couple with P = V * I, this also lets you do so with wattage in this case.

elb, to random
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Things you don't want to see from your NAS: volume is degraded

draeath,
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@elb

mitchw, to random
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I don’t know why the new generation of productivity apps hates folders, but I’m sure enshittification has something to do with it.

draeath,
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@mitchw people growing up with mobile devices seem to not "get" filesystems. Wonder if that's related.

rysiek, to climate
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I remember when as a kid I learned about yeast.

You put yeast in an environment with some sugars, and it will eat the sugars and excrete alcohol until either sugar runs out or alcohol concentration is enough to kill it.

I remember thinking to my 11 or 12 year old self: "wow, yeast is dumb!"

Anyway, completely unrelated:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #AMOC

draeath,
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@rysiek oh it's even worse, because unlike the yeast... "we" know we're doing it and "we" know more or less how it will end if we don't change course.

schwa, to random
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    draeath,
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    @bmp @schwa using any random configuration management tool allows you to do this trick, too (think Ansible).

    dancinyogi, to random
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    After posting my last poll on knowing your spouse or significant other's cell phone number, I think we should all take a minute to memorize the number. After all, you never know when we may have an epic-level system meltdown and be reduced to using the few available landlines to contact them!

    draeath,
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    @dancinyogi I suspect if things go sufficiently nasty that we would need to rely on memorized numbers, it's likely the phone systems will be significantly impaired if operable at all.

    forteller, to random
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    Why aren't there any crazy Christians out there trying to have as many abortions as possible to produce as many happy souls in heaven for all eternity as possible?

    draeath,
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    @forteller I thought the ones that got all upset about abortions thought the unbaptized/unborn go to limbo or something?

    draeath,
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    @forteller I think it has to do with "original sin" or something.

    Not sure, certainly not my cup of tea.

    cs, to random
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    Hmm. #Lubuntu repeatedly tells me to check my connection, but connection is fine. Firefox works fine. Finally gave up and updated with apt. Not sure why gui updater doesn’t think I have a connection to the Internet.

    draeath,
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    @cs one of your configured repos returning an error? Did you catch anything interesting in apt-cache update?

    Whatever's wrong there may not have been wrong enough to entirely break your update process.

    tantramar, to random
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    Muting “Maine” for a week. I have close friends there. I just can’t.

    A week won’t likely be enough; then again, maybe it will.

    draeath,
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    @tantramar I hope those you care for up there come out of this as OK as they can.

    system76, to random
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    Answer in the comments!

    draeath,
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    @system76 a skeleton key, of course!

    TechConnectify, to random
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    Genuinely fascinated by the number of people who didn't notice the Williams logo and are commenting on the "Motorola-branded" relays throughout the machine.

    Like, yeah, those logos are really similar... but the text on the relays is also upside down.

    Four relays within the machine with their paper wrappers featuring an upside-down Williams. The numbers on the relays are also upside down.

    draeath,
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    @TechConnectify for some reason I always think that logo is westinghouse.

    Brains are funny things.

    ned, to random

    I love it when I get my errors delivered in this way. An error displaying an error. Doubly errored.

    draeath,
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    @ned not really, no. If it was meant to be processed for human viewing then it's absence would be a problem, but this sort of response body is meant for API use or as data directly.

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