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sellorm

@sellorm@mastodon.social

Technologist & toolsmith | Canada's greatest stuntman | open-source | open-data | small-tech | stupid jokes | TV, film & video games | he/him #rstats #opensource #raspberrypi

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philpem, to random
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I've been playing Tempest and Asteroids and my wrists hurt. I probably deserve this.

sellorm,
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@philpem I had a go on an Asteroids Deluxe machine today, great stuff!

sellorm, to random
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IBM buying Hashicorp truly is the final nail in that coffin.
for the win, I guess!
It does make me wonder if all this will have a chilling effect on new open-source adoption where projects are not affiliated with an umbrella like the Linux Foundation or the Apache Foundation or whoever.

sellorm,
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A great related article from @geerlingguy - Corporate Open-Source is Dead - https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead

popey, to random
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A very short thread. ๐Ÿงต

This is a complex problem and a question that may have no helpful answer.
I'm putting it out there to see if people have ideas. ๐Ÿค”

Note: I am deliberately not identifying anyone specific in this thread. I'd appreciate it if everyone else did the same.

This thread aims to find solutions, not point fingers or speak negatively of individuals or groups.

sellorm,
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@popey do the YouTube speed controls make any difference to how you perceive the videos? Just wondering if slightly faster/slower would have any impact.

peter, to random
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An unusual car stopped at the local garage filling up as I was walking to the pub.

No idea on what make it is.

sellorm,
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@peter I think Iโ€™m remembering rightly that it can only be driven legally in the UK if the driver wears a helmet due to the tiny windscreen.

kev, to random
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I really hate how Mac Mail bundles โ€œconversationsโ€together. It does it only by the subject line. So if more than 1 person emails me in response to a post, that shows as a conversation, even though the 2 emails are unrelated and each person wasnโ€™t included on the other mail.

What a shitty system. Anyone know how to turn it off?

sellorm,
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@kev I know itโ€™s probably just me, but Iโ€™ve never seen a conversation view that didnโ€™t make my brain hurt. Always the first thing I turn off.

sellorm, to random
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Is there a more stupid statement in all of GitHub than โ€œThis issue has been automatically closed due to inactivity.โ€?

Just tell the truth. โ€œWeโ€™re trying to keep the number of issues down and this issue isnโ€™t that importantโ€, or, โ€œnobody caresโ€, or, โ€œWe canโ€™t fix thisโ€.

hfrick, to random
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What makes an album the greatest of all time?

The pudding has a visual essay exploring the Rolling Stone rankings of the "500 greatest albums of all time" from 2003, 2012, and 2020.

https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/

sellorm,
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@hfrick justice for Troutmask replica!

sellorm,
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@hfrick outrageous!

Alice, to random
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The weather is gloomy and I have a tent set up on my bed with a projector ready to go.

Any recommendations for things to binge watch?

Disclaimer: I watch a LOT of movies and TV shows and I've pretty much seen everything, but Iโ€™m hoping that by crowdsourcing I can find out about something I somehow missed.

sellorm,
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@Alice Mr and Mrs Smith and Deadwater Fell, both on Prime.

hrbrmstr, to random
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Like everything else Microsoft shills, GitHub is woefully insecure and dangerous. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/github-besieged-by-millions-of-malicious-repositories-in-ongoing-attack/

sellorm,
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@hrbrmstr a friend was recently in a webinar with folks from GH and was apparently told (with a straight face no less) that GH is no longer a repo hosting company but an AI company that also hosts repos ๐Ÿคฎ

bearloga, to random
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[watching Netflixโ€™s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender with my wife]
Her: I wish sky bison were real
Me: no you donโ€™t
Her: ohโ€ฆbecause of the poop

sellorm,
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@bearloga how did you find it? Weโ€™re huge fans of the original and only watched the first episode but my kids were not impressed. Iโ€™m reserving judgement.

sellorm,
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@hrbrmstr thanks both, Iโ€™ll stick with it (even though I suspect the kids wonโ€™t ๐Ÿคฃ)

grimalkina, to random
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Nothing is more humbling than how quickly ggplot knowledge falls out of my head.

sellorm,
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@grimalkina I use it so infrequently that I always resort to esquisse first and then tweak from there.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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Hello friends! I'm still testing out my personal ActivityPub server - and I need your help ๐Ÿ™‚

If you click this link โ†’ @example โ†

Do you see the user's account or a page of JSON code?

If you do see the code, could you please let me know which platform / app you're using?

THANKS GANG!

sellorm,
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@Edent JSON - safari on iOS

Edent, to 3DPrinting
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Do I know anyone in the UK who makes / sells https://ploopy.co/ devices?

The shipping costs from Canadaland are ๐Ÿ˜ญ

(No, I don't have a 3D printer. Yes, I know it is a weird name for a product.)

sellorm,
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@Edent the shipping only increases modestly when the order quantity goes up. Perhaps we should pool a few orders from folks and combine into a single order?

molly0xfff, to web3

Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

sellorm,
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@molly0xfff it mustโ€™ve taken him a while to write this, most of the snake oil folks have moved on to the โ€œYou really need AIโ€ shtick now!

sellorm, to linux
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Really nice to see Damn Small Linux make a comeback after all these years.
https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

sellorm, to Ergonomics
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In sci-fi shows when the captain says to the second in command, โ€œyou have the bridgeโ€, thereโ€™s never an uncomfortable period of chair adjustment. ๐Ÿค”

mxtthxw, to random
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    sellorm,
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    @mxtthxw Iโ€™m more of a touch โ€˜nโ€™ fresh sort of person - https://youtu.be/F0QIX70g1LE

    lkanies, to random
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    Ugh. I still hate how @ivory shows โ€œboostโ€ and โ€œshow boostsโ€ when I click the boost button.

    I never want to see the boosts. But now I see them like 50% of the time, because the stupid menu randomly orders, and my fingers move faster than my brain.

    This should require clicking through on the post, imo.

    Yuck. Least favorite feature.

    sellorm,
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    @lkanies @ivory I feel like the order of these two options keeps changing for me too, making in doubly annoying.

    sellorm, to 3DPrinting
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    I need to be on my lab network to check on progress of 3D prints. Itโ€™s always been a pain to remember to start the VPN before I start the OctoPod app, but I just realised I could write a shortcut to do it for meโ€ฆ

    scheidegger, to random
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    Any horror stories from folks who've updated to macOS Sonoma? How bad is it looking out there?

    sellorm,
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    @scheidegger I wish I had a horror story now, but alas, all went flawlessly!

    CatherineFlick, to random
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    Can someone explain to me the smart meter Albert Einstein ad? Why Albert Einstein?

    sellorm,
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    @CatherineFlick Einstein was smart and the meters are โ€œsmartโ€? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ
    No clue. Thereโ€™s a dominoโ€™s pizza advert doing the rounds where the pizzas are so expensive that nobody orders enough and then they fight over them. Advertising is weird!

    sellorm, to scifi
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    The 12yo starts the day off asking why, in all science fiction, the gravity on planets is always 1g.
    Picking at the very core of my belief system here.

    sellorm,
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    @peter @edross I didnโ€™t know about the Elaysians and I forgot about the Belters. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ
    Taki taki beratna!

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