farstrider

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nixCraft, to random
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PSA: Stop calling these: () brackets!

These () are parentheses

These [] are brackets

These {} are curly braces

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

farstrider,

@nixCraft

Reminds me of a Robbie Burns quote (allegedly) about, "There goes a bow legged man." to which Burns replied saying, "No there goes a man with his balls in parentheses."

nixCraft, to random
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Google's AI-powered bard can now generate images based on simple prompts.

Another image with Linux Tux poster created by Google's AI.

farstrider,
nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: what terminal emulator do you use on your or machine?

farstrider,

@nixCraft

Tilix

nixCraft, to random
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code review in progress

Senior Developer: WTF? What is this? Are you on drugs?

Me: You and I both know that this job does not pay enough for me to have a drug problem.

Senior Developer: Surprised Pikachu face

farstrider,
wonderofscience, to random
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The astonishing scale of supermassive black holes, with masses ranging from 100,000 to over 60 billion times our Sun's. This visualization compares the sizes of black hole shadows to solar system objects, featuring giants like Sagittarius A* in the Milky Way and the colossal TON 618.

Animation credit: NASA Goddard
Source and further details: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14335

A slow zoom-out begins with our Sun, then extends far beyond the size of the solar system, showing representations of various supermassive black holes at progressively larger sizes.

farstrider,

@wonderofscience

Absolutely mind blowing!

nixCraft, to random
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To all my followers and everyone celebrating worldwide, I wish you and your families a joyous, peaceful holiday season. Merry Christmas! 🎄Stay safe. Stay warm. 🌤️

farstrider,

@nixCraft

And a Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Best Regards from the southern tip of Africa. (Cape Town, SA)

nixCraft, to random
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Linux users, when they need to run a command in the terminal:
⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ Ah, here it is!

farstrider,

@nixCraft

I'll just leave this here again. 😀

farstrider,

@petsoi

"Varia supports some basic functionality you'd expect, such as resuming incomplete downloads upon relaunch, but right now doesn't support saving files outside of your default download directory. I want to change this in the future while still having a minimal set of permissions with Flatpak."
giantpinkrobots on github

Big game changer for me is that it doesn't support saving files outside of the default download directory. Anything to do with 'Flatpak' is of a concern to me as well.

farstrider,

@redimk

I'm an Arch user, so before I come across as disingenuous, I need to clarify that I just like to stick with 'pacman' as much as possible so that my install stays as "clean" as possible. Most of the time If I can't find something in pacman I can get it in the AUR. "Varia" isn't found in the AUR yet and in such cases I'll go to github and install it from there.

https://github.com/GCJMackenzie/Varia

farstrider,

@petsoi @redimk

As far as my understanding goes, regarding Ubuntu, is that they are going to ditch Snap completely with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Naughty Nightingale.

Canonical has decided to abandon the Snap project and remove it completely in the upcoming release of 24.04 code-named, Naughty Nightingale.

farstrider,

@juli

Fair enough, I guess each to his own. If you use a distro of your choice and apply a methodology that works for you, then far be it from me to tell you how to do it. Enjoy.

nixCraft, to random
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The entire day, I was looking for a word that describes self-realization. I knew the word, but I couldn’t remember it. I asked Google. I asked AI. I didn’t get any suggestions correctly. It was driving me crazy. A few hours later, my brain made enough neuron connections to correct part of the hippocampus to recall the word I sought. How amazing is that? The word I was looking for was “epiphany.”

farstrider,

@nixCraft

So what was it?
"The manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi." or "A moment of sudden and great revelation or realisation."

Just a bit grammar Nazism, if the quoted words end with a full stop, then the full stop goes inside the quotation marks. If the quoted words do not end with a full stop, then the full stop goes outside the quotation marks. 😂 😂

farstrider,

@Guenther_Amanita @petsoi

I'm on Arch and also use a few extensions namely:

❤️ Freon: Displaying the temperature of your CPU, hard disk, solid state, and video card (NVIDIA, Catalyst, and Bumblebee supported), as well as power supply voltage, and fan speed.

OpenWeather is my other main one, but this is unfortunately broken for Gnome 45. 😪

Other minor ones all working:
Arch Linux Updates Indicator
Applications Menu
Places Status Indicator
ArcMenu [Bit of overkill I know, but I like it] 😀

rbreich, to random
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Since 2010, the 10 executives who served as CEO of Ford, GM, and Stellantis raked in more than $1 billion in compensation.

Don't tell me these companies can't afford to give auto workers better wages and benefits.

farstrider,

@rbreich

It's actually beyond comprehension, I don't know what else to say... That 90% of the worlds population is enslaved by a handful of people and banks, (with control of 99% of the worlds capital) it's just not sustainable for much longer or is it? My numbers are a thumb-suck perhaps someone here can help me out. 😀

nixCraft, to random
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Mac OS. Do you remember it?

Mac OS. Do you remember it?

farstrider,

@nixCraft

It was released 40 years ago, the original Macintosh on January 24, 1984 . So if anyone here answering the question was, say 10 years old when they first used it, they'd be in their fifties now. A bunch of old farts here, on Mastodon. By the looks of things anyway. 😉

mikecarter, to random
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farstrider, (edited )

@mikecarter

I try to follow this sort of advice, but don't always succeed, I'm a bit like Eeyore.
(╯︵╰,)
Lovely artwork BTW.

farstrider,

@Shady_Shiroe

Open GIMP
Go to "File" > "Open" and select your GIF.
Select the "Crop Tool" from the toolbox.
Adjust the crop area to your desired size.
Click the "Crop" button.
Go to "File" > "Export As" and choose GIF as the format. Save your cropped GIF.

FFmpeg
Use the following command to crop the GIF, replacing input.gif with your GIF's filename and specifying the crop dimensions:

ffmpeg -i input.gif -vf "crop=w:h:x:y" output.gif

Eddietg42, to random

Pick 1 album and discuss.

If you don’t recognize any of these, listen to at least 2 first. I will add music 🎶 links in the comments.

#Alsmusiccafe
Episode 203
9 10 23

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNaGSpZnzltCCDPYNVd_HcWCHFQEdXy1E&si=ilaATNSJBrOWC72X

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nrWDTVc119SmGtJikSfr6pnBo8LasacVw&si=HoqTl2w40xcRjYh0

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farstrider,

@Tweetfiction @Eddietg42

Agree about "Man of War", brilliant addition.

"Drift all you like
From ocean to ocean
Search the whole world
But drunken confessions
And hijacked affairs
Will just make you more alone"

farstrider,

@Tweetfiction @Eddietg42

As a matter of fact I did not. That's a pretty cool factoid indeed. I've read that songs like "Man of War" and "I Promise" didn’t make the main album because it didn't quite fit the album narrative/theme. "Man of War", as far as I know, wasn’t quite finished, during the time that the "OK Computer" sessions were happening, but I never knew about the reason you mentioned that Thom Yorke gave.

wonderofscience, to random
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Incredible footage of a Kingfisher dive captured in slow motion.

Kingfishers compensate for the reflection and refraction of water to pinpoint the depth and position of prey underwater.

Video credit: RTÉ
Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CsyenHROSE

video/mp4

farstrider,

@wonderofscience

Magnificent! Perfect projectile! (Almost alliteration? 😉 )

compositor, to random

Wayland.social has long recommended people migrate from X.com.

Now, Wayland.social also recommends that you move from Fosstodon.

https://oliphant.social/@SpaceAce/110935361201711781

#fosstodon

farstrider,

@compositor

All 29 of you.

wonderofscience, to random
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What happens when galaxies collide? A billion year gravitational waltz.

This computer simulation includes images from Hubble of actual galactic collisions at different stages.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers
Source: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=30686

video/mp4

farstrider,

@wonderofscience

A short version of what you posted with audio.

Excellent post, thanks.

https://youtube.com/shorts/2xhaHWl_q6I?feature=share

Credit: @ScienceExplainedOfficial

nixCraft, to debian
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farstrider,

@nixCraft

I've been using Arch for at least 17 years and it's never [sic] "crashed" on me. The only time it's ever broken was when I did something (most often against my better judgement, knowing full well that it was going to cause problems.) or that I neglected to do something! As for the others, I've only ever used Ubuntu for any real length of time. Other distros, basically a cursory glance, not much more.

libreoffice, to foss
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In July, #LibreOffice's #QA community worked on 500+ issues, making big improvements to the software: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2023/08/10/qa-dev-report-july-2023/ #foss #opensource #development

farstrider,

@libreoffice
Not that many replies, so I'll just add this: To everyone involved, "Keep up the good work, and thanks for an outstanding Office suite." Cheers

omglinux, to random
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If this new NES themed mechanical keyboard from 8BitDo was compatible with Linux it'd be chefs kiss for my Raspberry Pi 4 setup (which lives in a NES style case with swappable SSDs in NES cart enclosures).

Programmable keys and only $99 - mmm, total sweet spot!

https://shop.8bitdo.com/products/8bitdo-retro-mechanical-keyboard

farstrider,

@omglinux

Love it. As cool as a cucumber.

At $99 pretty reasonable but in my money (SA Rand) almost R1800.00 this amount before the importer slaps his mark-up on the item. I could only dream. 😢

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