Programmer Humor
OneDrive deleted my files!
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
memeslapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
That French guy was just trying to butter them up.
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
You jest, but when the moment comes when you notice you suddenly can't (can happen with certain conditions), you pray to all the gods you can think of just to be able to take a leak again.
ich_iellapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
Ah yes, comedy. I knew those three courses of German in upper secondary would come in Handy (ha ha) one day! But else than that, all I can say in German is "Ich bin ein Gemüse".
Lemmy Shitpost
Whatever you do, don't translate 'with' in Latin.
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
Lemmy Shitpost
Ive bought two
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
Oh, I know this one, Estonia is that country next to Italy, right?
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
Running With the Bagpipes: A Kevin Costner Saga.
Funny: Home of the Haha
Cute but feared
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
Me women want me fish. Fear, innit?
WetShaving
Saturday SOTD Thread - July 13th, 2024
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
The "tweak": I read about it on the forums, I don't remember which one. People realized they could use shims to make the razor more aggressive, and not long after someone figured out that they could loosen the handle to the same end without negatively affecting how the razor handled. And no, it doesn't really clog, it usually gets the area I'm targeting with one stroke (YMMV as they say tho). And it flushes out really well, too. Nothing in there when I disassemble to let it dry.
WetShaving
Saturday SOTD Thread - July 13th, 2024
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
- Brush: The Goodfellas' Smile "The Hog" (three years old)
- Razor: Henson V1 Mild Jet Black (two years old)
- Blade: Lord Platinum
- Lather: Cheap, local unscented tallow soap
- Post Shave: Nivea Sensitive Balm
Average shave, had a few bumps as per usual. Around five days' worth of growth which for me results in a thick beard. But my Henson made easy work of it as I tweak it by loosening the handle 1/4 turns to make it from a Mild into a Medium. Cuts down the stubble no problem. For the second pass, I tighten the handle to "factory settings" so I get a milder shave for touch-ups.
The brush I've had for three years, I got it when I started wet shaving. It's been holding up real good (no shedding etc). I've ordered a Yaqi Timberwolf synthetic as an upgrade and a Simpson Bay Rum soap to go with it (I do have other soaps beside the tallow as well, Prorasos being among my favourites).
lapislazuli 2 months ago • 100%
Shit went from Ratthew to Ratstew real quick.
Science Memes
Knowledge is power
lapislazuli 3 months ago • 92%
As they say, knowledge is power, France is bacon.
lapislazuli 3 months ago • 100%
There's Zotero. I haven't used it but seems to have a feature called 'Collect with a click' which should allow adding bookmarks.
Memeslapislazuli 3 months ago • 100%
It's going to be gaymores next.
lapislazuli 3 months ago • 96%
Its. Teacher is a cat, this checks out.
lapislazuli 3 months ago • 100%
Flat to not flat in six panels flat. Nice.
Not The Onion
Diesel the escaped pet donkey found living with elk after five years.
lapislazuli 3 months ago • 100%
TIL. Also, the blog post claims that donkeys can be seen "picking them [coyote] up by the neck and shaking them wildly: possibly causing trauma that can disable or injure". Woah.
Technology
Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Voting
lapislazuli 3 months ago • 100%
lapislazuli 3 months ago • 100%
That's a compliment, really.
People Twitter
Following instructions
lapislazuli 3 months ago • 100%
You better be hiding in your pantry, because the creamy cream-free soup is coming for you.
lapislazuli 4 months ago • 100%
Hard to judge from the photo, but maybe there's no carpets and the cat doesn't like the bare floor (might feel unsafe)? Idk just a guess.
lapislazuli 4 months ago • 100%
Same.
lapislazuli 4 months ago • 100%
Ah, you thought I called myself a low effort potato. I'll have you know that you are not wrong.
lapislazuli 4 months ago • 100%
No, but I admire the people who can memorize, recall and communicate by using the little pictures without the slightest effort. 😔
For you wallpaper geeks, here's a higher resolution: [Potato HD](https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=376174)
lapislazuli 4 months ago • 100%
Why do people add 'rule' after post titles?
Language Learning
How is your language learning going?
lapislazuli 4 months ago • 100%
Greentextlapislazuli 4 months ago • 100%
"Syndrome of delusional companions is the belief that objects (such as soft toys) are sentient beings." Wait so does Calvin have this?
Lemmy Shitpost
You have been infected
lapislazuli 4 months ago • 100%
But maybe the virus is in the image file? /j
Memeslapislazuli 5 months ago • 66%
Yes, there have been bows that are long, but not like the longbow. As you say, the longbow was used to shoot volleys, while the yumi could also be used on horseback. The longbow had a very heavy draw weight, around 90-120 lbs. That's the weight you have to pull to get it at full draw. The yumi possibly had a a lower draw weight (although Korean and Mongolian and Turkish composite bows had draw weights of around 100 lbs as well, and they were mainly used on horseback). Again, the yumi has a shorter lower limb which meant it could be used on horseback (and it was) while there is no way a longbow could have. So the longbow and the yumi are very different technically.
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 75%
Calvin and Hobbes
2 May 1987
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 100%
That's just evil!
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 100%
Idk what's going on but it's only slow when I'm logged in. I think a similar thing is happening on another website, but just that one other website. I haven't disabled the add-ons in Firefox, but they're not activated (uBlock, Privacy Badger, Consent-o-Matic).
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 80%
Meh, live and let live.
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 100%
Cheers, good to know I'm not just imagining things. As a side note, I'm mainly using Lemmy on desktop, haven't used it on mobile for a while.
Basically what the title says: Sopuli is super slow to load when I'm logged in, taking anywhere from 10 seconds up to a whole minute to load the website. I also just noticed that the Subscribed tab takes considerably longer to load that Local. The only add-on I have enabled on Sopuli is uBlock, but I've disabled that, but no significant effect. Is this a server thing, ie is Sopuli getting heavy traffic or is the mistake more likely to be on my end? Edit: seems to have been fixed as of 29/30 April. Thanks, Mod!
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 87%
US stoners on 4/20: "What if we changed the date format to one that makes sense? Nah that wouldn't work I'm just high"
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 100%
For a second I thought it was the grandfather in the second panel and that everyone else was gone and only grandfather was alive. Then I saw the graveyard.
Ask Lemmylapislazuli 5 months ago • 100%
In Finland, even former presidents are addressed as President so and so.
No Stupid Questions
Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason?
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 75%
If we're talking about English, there were different kinds of English which were spoken (Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English. And no, Old English doesn't just mean English that sounds 'old'. It was an early variety of English that was spoken from the 5th/7th century to 1066). All of them had their own phonology, morphology and syntax. In short, they followed their own linguistic rules and conventions. The way they sounded wasn't just randomly made up. To find out more, look up the varieties of English I mentioned or take a look at this Wikipedia article about Historical linguistics.
Tip Of My Tongue
[Solved] What is this forum type/ template called?
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 100%
Wow, cool! Thanks!! :) Solved.
No particular reason for asking, but I'm about curious the name of this forum template I've been seeing a lot lately (saw it around six months ago the first time). It's basically a linear forum template where there is a timeline on the right side of the site. You can interact with it. 'Template' is probably not the right word, but you get the idea. Examples: [Logseq's forum uses it](https://discuss.logseq.com/t/shortcut-to-delete-a-page/4248) and so does [Anki's forum](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/how-to-get-fields-to-show-up-on-back-of-card/21084).
lapislazuli 5 months ago • 100%
I second that. Fossify also has a whole suite of other apps. It's a fork from Simple Tools which sold out. Fossify Gallery is awesome and also available on Play Store. Other apps are making their way there. NB! Not connected to Fossify, just a fan of what they're doing.
Hello folks. I want to hear your opinions about the advances in AI and how it makes you feel. This is a community about privacy, so I already kind of know that you're against it, at least when AI is implemented in such a way that it violates peoples' privacy. I recently attended a work-related event and the conclusion was that AI will come and change everything in our field. A field which has been generally been dominated by human work, although various software has been used for it. Without revealing too much, the event was for people who with texts. I'm a student, but the event was for people working in the field I plan to work in in the future. The speakers did not talk about privacy concerns (not in detail, at least) or things such as micro work (people who get paid very little to clean illegal content in AI training data, for example). You probably can guess that that I care about privacy: I'm writing this on Lemmy, for a privacy community. I'm a Linux user (the first distro I used was Ubuntu 10.04) and I transitioned to Linux as my daily driver in November last year. I care about the Open Source community (most of the programs I used on Windows were FOSS). I donate to the programs I use. I use a privacy-respecting search engine, use uBlock and Privacy Badger on Firefox. I use a secure instant messenger and detest Facebook. But that's where it ends, because I use a stock Android phone. But at least I care about these things and I'm eager to learn more. When it comes to privacy, I'm pretty woke, for the lack of a better word. But AI is coming, or rather, it's already here. Granted, people who talked at that event were somewhat biased, as they worked in the AI industry, so even if they weren't marketing ChatGPT, they were trying to hype up the industry. But apparently, AI can already help so called knowledge workers. It can help in brainstorming and generating ideas. It can produce translations, it can summarize texts, it can give tips... The bottom line seems to be that I need to start using AI, because either I will use it and keep my job in the future, or I will not use it and risk being made redundant by AI at some point in time. But I want to get other perspectives. What are your views on AI, and has it affected your job, and if so, how? I know some people have said here that AI is just a bunch of algorithms and that it's just hype and that the bubble will burst eventually. But until it does, it seems it'll have a pretty big impact on how things work. Can we choose to ignore it?
TLDR; I spent nearly two hours troubleshooting my broken system, because I installed a Windows spell checker for my LibreOffice. 1. Install the .oxt file for your Linux LibreOffice installation 2. Don't realize it was for Windows only because it installed fine on Linux 3. Freeze your system completely for 15 seconds, after which it's business as normal 4. LibreOffice works okay, so don't notice anything else 5. Install additional spellers from Synaptic because the first one didn't work 6. Realize Linux Mint Software Center GUI is broken and most of the flatpacks aren't displayed 7. Perform two system resets using Timeshift, nothing changed 8. Realize the speller you installed was Windows-only, purge all LibreOffice components, problem solved, reinstall LO 9. Also realize you had to install a system package version of LibreOffice (instead of Flatpack) for the speller from Synaptic to work 10. Feel like a noob 🫣 EDIT: It happened again. I think this time I figured it out for good. I installed the spell checker through Synaptic, but either it was the wrong version or it didn't install all the necessary packages. I found the right package in Software Center itself and installed it. Everything has been working okay, the Software Center hasn't bugged out yet. EDIT 2: Okay, now I've got it. It was a icon theme that I installed from Cinnamon Looks called FairyWren which hid half of my installed apps, and created all sorts of GUI bugs and made Software Center hang and freeze. I'm going to write to the author of the theme.
I have a Oneplus phone which has a beta version of Android installed. I side-loaded it a couple of years ago from the official source (Oneplus website). I don't remember if it received any further updates, I think it didn't. I don't know how to revert back to a stable release. It has been working without any problems. I now want to give the phone away, so I need to factory reset it. Are there any risks to resetting a phone that runs a beta version of Android? Can resetting brick it? Thanks for any and all advice!
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Garden_of_earthly_delights.jpg In public domain in the U.S.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Brueghel_the_Younger_-_the_Fight_Between_Carnival_and_Lent_-_copy_sold_by_Christie%27s,_December_6th,_2011.jpg?uselang=de Copyright: In public domain in the U.S.
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Hello guys. I hope it's okay to post a question in this community. I'm basically looking for a Youtube and Google Drive alternative for video sharing. I've looked at Peertube, Dtube and Odyssee, but frankly, I don't like them because there is some questionable content on those sites. That said, I don't want to get into personal views and stuff, I just want to find an alternative to Big Tech. I want to upload videos and be able to share them with friends online. 'I upload and they stream' is what I'm looking for. Proton Drive offers video preview, but it's limited to a 100 MB file and my videos are going to be longer. TIA for any and all suggestions. EDIT: I'm looking for a service. EDIT 2: Thanks everyone with your input. As storage, I'll be using Proton Drive, which has a 100 MB video preview limit. That means I have to decrease the file size, which can be done in different ways. First, I can shoot the video in 1080p 30 fps, which takes less space than 60 fps and/or higher video resolution. I can also decrease the video size by getting rid of sound, which I don't need. For that, I'll use either [LosslessCut](https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut), which is an awesome software because you can cut and disable sound without having to re-encode the video. It literally takes seconds to output an edited video. I can also use [Handbrake](https://handbrake.fr/) to decrease the quality of the video. The end result will render the video relatively low quality, so it might not be usable for you, but for me it's good enough.
Are there any FOSS phone apps/ private alternatives for Google Translate for translating text from images? Or maybe a privacy-friendly alternative front-end for GT? The ability to translate from images (such as product labels in a store) is the main feature I'm looking for. TIA for any and all tips.
I hope this is not considered a low-effort post, but I wanted to ask if using stock Android without signing in to your Google account/ using Play Store is worth it. It should be more private, right? I'm planning on buying the cheapest Samsung phone there is (probably the A14). I currently have a stock Android Oneplus phone. I bought it before I had my "privacy epiphany". I knew that you shouldn't use Huawei phones as those "definitely" were spying on you; I read that Oneplus phones are safe because they use Western hardware, but they can still gather your data via the software, right? But I digress. The reason I'm planning on buying a cheap (Samsung) phone is because I realized I don't need a fancy phone (for me "fancy" is a 400 local currency mid-ranger). I considered getting a dumb phone as they are definitely private, but the utter lack of features is depressing. The main reason is I can't give up the camera. So I'm willing to go with the cheapest smartphone, because it's still miles better than the best dumb phone. As I understand it, most cheap phones are not supported by GrapheneOS and besides I'm worried I might brick the phone. I'm willing to use APKs (from official sources and I only need a few apps). To return to my question, is stock Android without a Google account/ Play Store better than using an account/ Play Store? EDIT: Thanks all for the useful replies. I'm still not sure what I'll end up doing or what my current financial situation will allow me to do, but I'm pretty sure I'll be moving away from Google anyway. Thanks again!
- Pre-shave: Face wash w/ hot water & soap - Razor: Henson Mild v1 - Blade: Gilltte 7 O'clock (yellow, 1) - Brush: The Goodfellas “The Hog” - Soap: Local shaving soap with lanolin (wool fat) - Post-shave: Alum, Nivea Men Sensitive AS Six day's growth. A good, smooth shave, even though the blade is supposed to be on the sharp side. It wasn't harsh at all and I'm beginning to think that it was just the Astra SPs that don't agree with my skin. YMMV as they say.
- Pre-shave: Face wash w/ hot water & soap - Razor: Henson Mild v1 - Blade: Astra Super Stainless (1) - Brush: The Goodfellas “The Hog” - Soap: Local shaving soap with lanolin (wool fat) - Post-shave: Alum, Hega AS (Citrus & Cedar) This was my first time using the Astra Super Stainless. They were milder than the Super Platinum, which I could feel scraping my face. The first pass was cleaner than with the Lords. All in all, a good blade and a relatively good shave, save for the big red spot (nick or razor burn?) on my neck. Maybe I just over-hydrated the lather, resulting in less cushioning and protection.
- Pre-shave: Face wash w/ hot water & soap - Razor: Henson Mild v1 - Blade: Lord Platinum - Brush: The Goodfellas “The Hog” - Soap: The Goodfellas Smile "Abysso" - Post-shave: Alum, Nivea Men Sensitive
Are there any products that are currently on your wish-list? For me, these are the things I'm planning on getting: - Mühle triple pack (marketed as Trio) of vegan, hard-puck soaps (sea buckthorn, sandalwood and aloe vera) - TFS witch hazel - Yaqi brush (Night Emerald 26mm or Yaqi Ocean 28mm) - Yaqi shaving bowl I hope threads like this are allowed, I'm not advertising anything.
- Pre-shave: Face wash w/ hot water & soap - Razor: Henson Mild v1 - Blade: Lord Platinum - Brush: The Goodfellas "The Hog" - Soap: TFS Ciotola Rossa - Bowl: Old dog bowl (clean) - Post-shave: Alum, Nivea Men Sensitive
- Pre-shave: hot water + soap - Razor: Henson Mild (v1) - Brush: Goodfellas Smile "The Hog" boar brush - Soap: Proraso White - Blade: Lord Platinum blades - Aftershave: Nivea Men Sensitive AS Balm (No Alcohol) Had an average shave, nothing special, no surprises. Tried to face lather, but didn't soak the brush long enough so it wasn't co-operating (didn't produce a good enough lather). Ended up bowl lathering instead. I must say the scent of the Proraso White is growing on me. As for the brush, I'm looking to upgrade it with a Yaqi Night Emerald synthetic brush (softer and no need to soak). The Goodfellas brush is about as cheap as brushes get, it came with my shaving set. Music: Nouvelle Vague "I Could Be Happy" ([album](https://songwhip.com/nouvelle-vague/i-could-be-happy)). Nouvelle Vague is a cover band, but I quite enjoy their versions.
From left to right: random Chinese razor that I got from my local shaving store (+ Asco Super Stainless blades), Mühle R89 (+ Lord Platinum blades) + Henson Mild (v1 + Astra Superior Platinums). The Chinese razor is a bit more aggressive than the Mühle. I use the Henson the most, but would love to try out a Medium one. I don't use the Astra's too much, they feel kinda harsh. Ascos and Lords are both made by the same company (Lord), and are pretty much identical, although the Lords are marketed as a bit sharper. SOTDs to follow soon (tho I don't have much gear, I'm a simple man).