memes
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blood sucking leeches versus privacy sucking websites …
Ask Lemmy
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- “Self-defense is not violence!”
- “No tolerance for intolerance!”
- you don’t want your place becoming a Nazi bar
theconversation.com
“Okinawa in Japan is one of these [blue] zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.” “Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.”
Mechanical Keyboards
Updated Qazimodo prototypes arrived this week!
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the group buy for a 173% keyboard is still open …
All Things Food and Cooking
What's your go to site/cookbook for Mexican food?
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haven’t watched too much, but I’ve heard really good things about the famous Mexican grandma cooking channel …
Linux
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don’t really have a favorite – started with Thunderbird a long time ago but switched over to webmail fairly early on
now that I’ve started to build a new system, I started to look around at the various options (and maybe getting off webmail or at least having local storage “backup”) – the standard GUI clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, BlueMail, Mailspring) seem to be … fine – but none of them really stand out
recently stumbled across some nice screenshots of aerc and the idea sounds really appealing, but I’ve never had any contact with terminal email programs and found out they’ve followed a completely different evolutionary path than GUI apps (even terminology has diverged between the two) – GUI apps keep trying to be an all-in-one (email, contacts, calendar, tasks, …) whereas terminal programs almost seem to to favor a “balkanization” of effort – aerc looks like it’s grabbed a middle-ground, you can run it as standalone or go all in with a fully customized setup – problem I’m running into is I can find lots of “how” guides, but very little in the “what” or “why” side of things …
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oh, look, the entire California coast where one-percenters like to build McMansions on top of sand cliffs showing visible cracks …
Bicycles
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Solarpunk
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(minor nitpick: change ‘x’ and ‘y’ to what the axes actually are)
HistoryPorn
Yuri Knorozov, Soviet linguist who was instrumental in decoding Mayan script, holding his co-author, Asya, 1980s?
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and both of them are judging you
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(completely in line with Hillary being a disciple of Kissinger)
LibreWolf 
Space
In future when we land on other planets we will need a different calendar, Do you think we need a secular calendar or the current Gregorian one?
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hopefully we’ve already switched to a perennial calendar (preferably something like an ISO week date calendar (a variation of a leap week calendar)) by that point which would make things a lot easier to adapt to a new situation …
Lemmy Be Wholesome
"Look for the helpers"
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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
—G.K. Chesterton paraphrased by Neil Gaiman, “The Red Angel”, Tremendous Trifles (1909)
Communism
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“The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development.”
—Albert Einstein, “Why Socialism”, Monthly Review (1949-05)
Comic Strips
Marvel [Tyler Hendrix]
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Keeping our cultural memory intact
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“Copyright should protect the artist, not the publisher.”
politics
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“‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens”
https://social.hails.org/@hailey/113081760374774478 from the replies: - > “Piracy already has a definition, and I don't have a boat. Now it's just independent archiving.” - [If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing](https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/)
Today I Learned
TIL that Key West, Florida got hit with two Category 5 hurricanes while MTV was filming The Real World there
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- Alpine Linux: Immutable root with atomic upgrades (wiki article, not an official how-to)
- Alpine Linux: Alpine Local Backup (lbu) (run everything in memory)
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nano -m <file> or set mouse in your nanorc
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and sometimes you just need a text editor, not an entire thesaurus
[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=QqzOAyXSJMI) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QqzOAyXSJMI) Arresting Paul Watson: “Wanted for the crime of being a fucking legend.” 🐋 Free Paul Watson: https://www.freepaulwatson.org
solarpunk memes
Gatekeep ideas, not people
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Mark V. Shaney did nothing wrong!
solarpunk memes
Gatekeep ideas, not people
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Besides, what are we going to do, not develop it? Just abandon the whole technology? That’s nonsense.
The tech industry will happily abandon it as soon as the next hype train comes along – we’ve already seen it happen with multiple “innovations” – dotcom, subprime, crypto, NFTs …
solarpunk memes
Gatekeep ideas, not people
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Comic Strips
Labor Day, Smabor Day
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”Labor Day – the day we celebrate all those who can’t afford to take the day off.”
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Does anyone consume scene music?
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Does anyone consume scene music?
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Does anyone consume scene music?
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no need for piracy – largest collection of scene music, freely available for over 28 years now
EDIT: and another twenty thousand OG scene tracks
EDIT: yet another OG collection still going strong and still collecting music
Memes
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meanwhile in capitalism: “Get back to work, you can’t afford a lunch break!”
Vegan
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turmeric is another common “anti gas” ingredient
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as others have mentioned, a window manager is one component of a desktop environment – under ideal conditions, a desktop environment collects and integrates a whole set of packages (both primary and supporting), unifying functional aspects as well as look-and-feel – whereas people starting with a window manager add in tools where working for them takes priority over working with other tools
- minimizing your desktop environment
- Gnome and KDE
- Xfce
- LXDE and LXQt
- tiling extensions to existing desktops
- Pop Shell, Tiling Shell, PaperWM for Gnome
- (I know KDE has an equivalent, don’t know what it’s called)
- can get simple half- and quarter-tiling in Xfce just through hotkeys
- switching out window managers in existing desktop environments
- LXDE typically used Openbox
- LXQt is pretty much window manager agnostic – distros commonly add Openbox, KWin or Xfwm – Tsujan seems favorable towards LabWC
- Regolith packages a Gnome desktop with either i3 (Xorg) or Sway (Wayland) as the window manager
- starting with a window manager
- can either start straight from tty or rely on a desktop manager
- supporting apps usually handled by whatever autostart feature the window manager provides
- stacking/floating – most traditional choice is often Openbox (Xorg) but looks like LabWC (Wayland) is continuing its legacy
- tiling
- tiling window managers tend to rely a LOT more on keyboard hotkeys and less on mouse usage
- Xorg – HUGE selection, all down to how much work you want to put in and how large a community there is to help you out
- Wayland – currently at the top are Sway (continuing i3’s tradition) and River (trying to grab the Awesome fans)
- getting a window manager up and running is only one part of the equation
- obvious next steps include choosing a file manager, an image viewer, a document reader, a video player, a web browser
- less obvious is the behind-the-scenes apps – seat management, policy kit, clipboard handling, notifications, app launchers, desktop manager
- can either start straight from tty or rely on a desktop manager
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such a weird dichotomy in Windows – secure kernel space and privacy-nightmare user space … “we’re the only ones allowed to steal your data”
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Firefox *might* be *thinking* about bringing back webapps: How can Firefox create the best support for web apps on the desktop?
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another vote for Lua – lua5.4 is available for all 8 Alpine architectures, tiny installed size (120–200 kB) (and Alpine package only installs two files)
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just point it out to Vance
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“douche”
Minecraft
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Progressive Politics
Watchdog Warns Mpox Vaccine Maker 'May Be Exploiting the Latest Global Health Crisis'
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a pharmaceutical company profiteering off a health crisis? nah …
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(I have now spent more time scrolling through fonts than I have on the new system that the final choice will be used on … )
There’s a lot of detailed information if you’re dealing with running a git server (/srv/git) or dealing with development (follow your company’s policies), reams of information about how to organize files inside a repository, and some apps will handle their own repository location (chezmoi), but not much about just keeping your personal git repositories organized without cluttering up your home folder: - a lot of Youtube videos are just grabbing a couple files so end up cloning into ~/Downloads and cleaning up later - GitHub and GitLab tutorials just mention clone into the folder of your choice - Codeberg’s “Your First Repository” has you cloning into ~/repositories - so, what have you found to be the cleanest/simplest/most comfortable? - “top-level” folder like ~/repositories or ~/repos ? - move down a level like ~/Documents/repos ? - (make use of an unused XDG folder like ~/Public ? (doesn’t seem likely)) - something else that everyone adopted ages ago ?
**slowly** putting together a new system – I didn’t plan on it being a lightweight system, it’s just kinda ended up that way (and probably won’t be by the time I finish) – actually finding it kinda fun building up piece-by-piece - Alpine Linux - labwc (straight from tty, no DM yet) - foot terminal - Fira Sans and Fira Mono fonts - [fog_forest_alt_1](https://github.com/Apeiros-46B/everforest-walls/tree/main/nature) from Everforest Walls - [gruvbox-material-dark-blocks](https://github.com/nathanielevan/gruvbox-material-openbox) Openbox theme - [gruvbox-dark](https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/src/branch/master/themes) foot theme
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11931430 > https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ultrakill-dev-says-its-fine-to-pirate-his-game-if-you-dont-have-money-to-spare-culture-shouldnt-exist-only-for-those-who-can-afford-it/
> **Media coverage largely sucked** > > When I just looked at my phone, the headlines were about an unfolding Microsoft global IT outage. My first thought, ransomware. So I logged in and started looking around at what was happening — I’m a CrowdStrike customer — and quickly realised two different, separate things had happened: > > - Microsoft Azure had an outage earlier in the day. This was resolved before I got up. Azure has frequent outages (don’t kill me, Microsoft) — this isn’t abnormal. > - CrowdStrike had made a boo-boo and pushed out a channel update that had borked a decent percentage of customers. > > The media connected these two events together and conflated them. They weren’t connected.
> “One thing Myspace had going for it: it was exuberantly ugly. The decision to let users with no design training loose on a highly customizable user-interface led to a proliferation of Myspace pages that vibrated with personality.” > “The most febrile, deeply weird and authentic prompts of the most excluded outsiders produce images that feel the same as the corporate AI illustrations that project the illusion of personality from the immortal, transhuman colony organism that is the limited liability corporation.”
https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/112782702007709408 > The Trump campaign aims to use today's shooting as a sort of Reichstag fire to incite his supporters to step up street violence while calling for more state repression targeting his enemies of choice. > > The Biden campaign has already paused all outbound communications and withdrawn their television advertisements, ceding the entire field of narrative to Donald Trump, who will have no compunction about using his status as a victim to advance his efforts to victimize others. > > One of the classic mechanics of totalitarianism is that protecting the safety of the leader becomes a justification for violence against large swathes of the population. > > As centrists join the far right in paving the way for totalitarian rule under Trump, we have to organize to defend our communities. If you have been in denial about the challenges ahead of us, this should be a wake-up call to find each other and prepare for them.
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[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=xisVS_DKpJg) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xisVS_DKpJg) originally broadcast in 2009: *Bergensbanen – minutt for minutt* was a full recording of the 7 hour train trip from Bergen to Oslo and became the showpiece for [slow television](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_television)
theconversation.com
> Bullshitters, as philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote in his 1986 essay “On Bullshit,” don’t care whether what they are saying is factually correct or not. Instead, bullshit is characterized by a “lack of connection to a concern with truth [and] indifference to how things really are.” Frankfurt explains that a bullshitter “does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17078489 > The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
www.youtube.com
[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=r5M7Oq1PCz4) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=r5M7Oq1PCz4)
https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2024/06/07
www.engadget.com
- Mekanisk Klippe case in Ultramarine - [cinereus he PCB](https://codeberg.org/cerement/cinereus/src/branch/main/he) with assembly by JLC - FR4 plate in JLC Blue (missing Ultramarine’s hint of green) - Gateron Melodic switches - MTNU Susu keycaps - running Vial firmware - a BIG thanks to Noah Kiser’s PCB design videos and JLC’s PCB fab and assembly services
yewtu.be
[Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCphS4_Rp3w) / [Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=QCphS4_Rp3w) > “Authorized by the Chosen One”
piped.video
[Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aESqrP3hfi8) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aESqrP3hfi8)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15540059 > cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/32260463 > > > Rio album cover - Patrick Nagel (1982) > > > > _- From [Muddy Colours](https://www.muddycolors.com/2020/11/artist-of-the-month-patrick-nagel/)_ > > > > "It’s easy to dismiss the technical prowess of Nagel’s work, as his style is easily replicated digitally nowadays. But keep in mind that all of his images were actual paintings, typically acrylic paint on stretched canvas. In total, he left behind a body of work of more than 400 paintings. But more importantly, he created a style that truly defined, and influenced an entire decade. The ‘Nagel’ style is now synonymous with the look of the ’80’s’. > > > > Patrick Nagel died tragically at the young age of 38. During a 15-minute celebrity “Aeroba-thon” to raise funds for the American Heart Association, he suffered a fatal heart attack due to a congenital heart defect that went un-identified his entire life."
(vintage Apple geekery) [ Apple Monitor Call, Peek, Poke](https://web.archive.org/web/20090315100335/http://www.skepticfiles.org/cowtext/apple/memorytx.htm)
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and the OG – [Isao Sasaki: Uchuu Senkan Yamato](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gHORDBZuOA)
[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=lrTzjaXskUU) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lrTzjaXskUU) [yes, we got a new Andrewism video for Labour Day!] > “Anarchism - a political philosophy and practice that opposes ALL hierarchies along with their ‘justifying’ dogmas and proposes the unending pursuit of anarchy, where free association, self determination, and mutual aid form the basis of our society.”
https://magicalgametime.com/post/50477274875
image from [Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3479545088733500&set=a.149419611746081) [Workers’ Memorial Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Memorial_Day) – “an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured, or made unwell by their work.”
open source, [files on Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/cerement/tuk_tuk/) this was a big learning experience, first time doing a proper PCB instead of using yet another Pro Micro equivalent – this would not have been possible without Noah Kiser’s [tutorials on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@noahkiser), all the work that went into QMK and Vial, and the ease of JLC’s assembly service (no way I was ever going to solder an RP2040) shocked and giddy with how easy the whole process was – plugged in the fresh PCB and it went straight into bootloader mode – uploaded the \*.uf2 and it worked first time! - symmetric split-ergo style layout (6 × 3 + 3) - katana stagger - personally find this works really nicely and keeps the feel of an ortho or columnar board - fits into Minivan case (12.75u × 4u) - attempt to use as many existing mounting holes as possible (6/7) - main issue was maintaining symmetric layout with two mounting points in bottom row - personally find the resulting odd gap to be uncomfortable - if I do an update, I would remove the awkward spacing and slide the whole bottom row to the left a smidge (resulting in [an uncomfortably-asymmetric symmetric layout](http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/gists/0d0bba279e1861de7200c0436c7611b6)) - learning to use JLC’s PCB assembly instead of a Pro Micro equivalent - providing a proper Vial firmware - (default layout is based off Reviung41 layout) []()
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[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=3uCXnMeYepo) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3uCXnMeYepo) Wikipedia: [Bella ciao](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao) Astronautalis - *Bella Ciao* - [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0h83AAZog) / [Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=8S0h83AAZog) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8S0h83AAZog) Chia Madani - *Bella Ciao* - [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxfiy8S-XLM) / [Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=vxfiy8S-XLM) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vxfiy8S-XLM) (and yes, I have an irrational dislike of the La Casa de Papel version)
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[Piped](https://piped.video/watch?v=QFLC7GRXmM0) / [Invidious](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QFLC7GRXmM0)
> “It's the same reason that Boomers can’t leave Facebook.” > > “The people who are stranded on social media platforms shouldn’t be mistaken for uncool, aging technophobes. They’re not stubborn, they’re *stranded*. Like the elders who can’t afford to leave a dying town after the factory shuts down and the young people move away, these people are locked in. They need help evacuating – a place to go and a path to get there.”
www.youtube.com
[Piped link](https://piped.video/watch?v=lFloLGmPKl0) / [Invidious link](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lFloLGmPKl0) > > > “Days after launch, you’re sitting at a red light. The novelty is gone and you’re not any happier. Maybe it’s your imagination, but the gaps in the door look off. You think you saw a car full of teens laughing at you earlier. You are now $100,000 in debt for a meme, and you feel … nothing.” > >
via [sunnyside up](https://solar-sunnyside-up.tumblr.com/post/741961317218500608) on Tumblr Image description – two lines written on a painted metal post – first line written in blue marker “I have” – second line written in black marker “2 Pens”