Linux
Because of something I did during an anthropology lecture, I learned the hard way to read the "The following packages will be REMOVED" list when upgrading a package to backports in Debian GNU + Linux.
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Okay, here me out, but the other day I accidentally rebased my nvidia Bazzite system to the testing version of the deck image. It would fuzz out before even the bios splash. So yeah, you can still mess it up lol
princessnorah
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Does what it says on the tin, nickname for pit-sniffers.
Games
princessnorah
2 days ago
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Yet they still won't ban gambling ads on TV. When was the last time you saw a cigarette ad on TV?
Creepy Wikipedia
Travis (chimpanzee) - mauled and ate parts of his owner's friend. Wild animals are not pets.
princessnorah
2 days ago
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I can't tell if you're making a joke, but cats are definitely domesticated.
Australia
princessnorah
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I don't ride either anymore, but it's not that hard to just cover the horn while you're around more dicey situations. I loved my CBR500 because it actually sounded like a car horn.
princessnorah
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Yep. Same with saying "a Trans Woman" versus "a Trans".
RPGMemes
princessnorah
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Come on, that's literally just JPEG artefacting because it's a meme and it's been shared a bunch. There are so many fakes of this card out there, it's not that far-fetched and it's likely not a $10k+ card that was destroyed.
princessnorah
5 days ago
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RSS is where podcasts all started.
Showerthoughts
Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.
princessnorah
5 days ago
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Well yes, obviously. The issue with today is that the incumbency of the system makes it hard to change
Showerthoughts
Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.
princessnorah
5 days ago
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I don't think they really existed yet in his era. You've got to remember that Australia, a much younger country, invented the secret ballot. It was known as the "Australian Ballot" for a long time.
princessnorah
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All the people ITT swearing up and down they know heaps about tattooing, that this has to be fake. I'm calling it right now, you'll see her Jan 6, 2025 trying to break into the Capitol.
princessnorah
6 days ago
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why ask for a password.
To give the user an extra second to realise they're doing dumb shit, and should stop?
princessnorah
6 days ago
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I kind of think that's QTs whole deal right? An abstraction layer that allows for devs to not get stuck in the weeds implementing it all manually.
Work Reform
Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees
princessnorah
6 days ago
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Aldi announced that it it looking to hire thousands of new workers, as well as increasing their minimum wage to $18 and $23 an hour.
My read on this, is that they are discussing the minimum for two separate positions. Potentially cashier and team leader. Would make sense as they don't have many employees on shift at a time.
Work Reform
Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees
princessnorah
6 days ago
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We don't have it in Australia either apart from Aldi.
Work Reform
Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees
princessnorah
6 days ago
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It really is. The fact "up to" can mean either a maximum value, or an increase to a value, is stupid.
princessnorah
6 days ago
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How can a window manager position things if the program doesn't communicate with it correctly?
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Piracy advice
princessnorah
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Yeah basically. But part of why no one has tried again is because the judge made it very clear he wasn't going to just roll over and let them pull their BS. Including setting a bond of $600k for them to even try litigating it. Another part of it is that ISPs used to hand out IP addresses and PII in response to requests from media companies. This was found to be in breach of privacy laws and now those companies would have to apply for court orders, proving malfeasance, to get that information.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
'Parasitic' IPTV Piracy is Killing Football, "It's Them or Us" Says Serie A CEO.
princessnorah
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I mean yes, those numbers are fairly low because they're designed to keep the sports sustainable in the Australian market.
Even if the cap were €100 million, that would still be a lot fairer than a free-for-all.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
qBitController has been updated to Material You and released v1.0.0
princessnorah
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Potentially, but that doesn't really matter, as you can match the signatures of the two versions and see that they are the same. You cannot fake that and have one version have different code, it's not possible.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Piracy advice
princessnorah
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Scroll down and there's a section about Australia on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club
Basically, they fucked it up so bad in Aus no one's ever tried again.
Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars
A Trackless Tram...! Also known as a Bus
princessnorah
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This looks a lot more tram than the Brisbane ones to me. Specifically because it's actually double-ended so has the benefit that provides of not needing to turn the bloody thing around.
Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars
A Trackless Tram...! Also known as a Bus
princessnorah
6 days ago
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SMH can tell you've never played geoguesser before, you didn't mention the side of the road!
Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars
A Trackless Tram...! Also known as a Bus
princessnorah
7 days ago
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I would actually love to see Trolley busses in my city (Melbourne). You could have models with battery storage, so they charge up using the overhead tram lines we already have, and then can extend past the ends of them.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
'Parasitic' IPTV Piracy is Killing Football, "It's Them or Us" Says Serie A CEO.
princessnorah
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See then you have the whole thing in the US where the local TV market, including streaming services, won't allow you to catch a game playing at a local stadium. It's called a blackout, I guess to encourage you to go in person. Basically those services only make sense if you don't follow a local team, or you watch a bunch of other games each week.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
'Parasitic' IPTV Piracy is Killing Football, "It's Them or Us" Says Serie A CEO.
princessnorah
7 days ago
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Reddit from 2009 called, it wants it's "pretending to be helpful but actually contributing nothing to the conversation" grammar complaint comment back :)
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
'Parasitic' IPTV Piracy is Killing Football, "It's Them or Us" Says Serie A CEO.
princessnorah
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As an Australian I genuinely find European football salaries obscene and a bit disgusting tbh. Over here both of our major codes of football, NRL (rugby) and AFL (aussie rules) have had salary caps since the late 80s. It's not something implemented per player, but instead for the total roster of a club. The point is to make the competition fairer and well, more interesting, because you don't have all the good players concentrated into a few super clubs. In 2022 it was $13.5m for AFL clubs and $10m for NRL clubs. As well, if you breach it you generally don't get to earn points on the ladder until the following season. If you did it in the past, won a premiership and it's discovered, the title will be stripped.
Selfhosted
Best Music Library with subsonic API?
princessnorah
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It does still have some issues, but it is being heavily worked on and has been for 12-18 months at this point. Has taken huge strides, and if you're in the beta channel you'll see lots of work being done.
Selfhosted
Best Music Library with subsonic API?
princessnorah
1 week ago
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There is, check out the Music Assistant add-on for Home Assistant.
Melbourne
princessnorah
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Oh, if I came across like I was supportive at all, my apologies. It's completely fucked. It just seemed like you were saying they bring out the dogs, specifically, because they need an animal that causes injuries. Horses do that too, I guess people discount that because a) They can't really be made to be violent on their own, and b) because most people who ride horses these days know better than to walk directly up to a human being and then keep going.
The other side of the cops statement about shit being thrown at the horses too is just, how do you know they just didn't miss? lol
princessnorah
1 week ago
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You know the horses also cause serious injuries yeah? Like the whole point of them is so cops can move protestors for fear of being stepped on.
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
Ditch Telegram for Piracy.
princessnorah
1 week ago
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Could I ask what the first time was?
princessnorah
1 week ago
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honeypot. it's clearly a house for a tiny man who will steal your wallet if you pull the alarm...
princessnorah
1 week ago
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I wouldn't be surprise if it were only Germany, due to the whole cultural guilt around WWII...
princessnorah
1 week ago
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The assignment was to create a meme, so are you going to upvote it or do you want OP to get an F??
princessnorah
1 week ago
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It might have literally just been the direction of "and post it to social media" and you needed to prove that with a screenshot/link?
princessnorah
2 weeks ago
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Cheers for saying so, I absolutely agree! I just often get people thinking I'm arguing instead, it feels like it's my autism making me seem a bit intense at times when I'm just info-dumping about a topic I like :)
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So thankful I didn't grow up there, I can't even imagine dealing with that on top of all the other high school angst.
Edit: I should say, you do have to be 18 to serve. But it's still indoctrinating kids into thinking that's all they'll be able to do to survive...
Australian Politics
David Pocock creates AI deepfakes of Albanese and Dutton as warning ahead of election
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Okay, so I have a few points in rebuttal, but I think we're generally on the same page. I would absolutely support a ban on political parties using deepfakes of opponents in attack ads or otherwise broadcasting them. Infact, I would support more than just fines. If it was discovered after the polls, I would support a full recall of the election. I'd suggest deregistration from that election as well, but I'd hope the voting public can show it's distaste for that behaviour. I'd also support some level of required due diligence for news media in ensuring what they're publishing is real. Though there has to be consideration of the suppression of important information. Can you imagine if the Watergate tapes were never released because it couldn't be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were real?
So I guess that brings me to my problem with this petition. It seems to be asking for a general ban on the entire population, and that's just not something I can support. There is, and should be, higher standards of ethics expected of both of these groups. However, I don't think it should be enforced on the average citizen. They just don't have the ability to get that stuff in front of eyeballs without help.
The other side of this (I know we'd basically be pissing into the wind with how small we are) is that regulations targeting the companies themselves needs to be a part of this. You should never be able to type in the name of a notable figure (or anyone, really) into a generative AI and get it to spit out an image/video of that person. It's being used to make porn of celebrities which is incredibly damaging, but there's now been cases of students creating it of other students by feeding it pictures. If AI companies won't create safeguards, we need to make them. As it stands, it requires an immense amount of power to train picture/video-generating AIs that can fool people. So targeting larger actors makes the most sense.
princessnorah
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Like, I do get you're trying to make a joke, but this is actually true in my opinion? Especially enlisted service members. It's literally a crime for them to not do what they're told, and what they're told to do often is murder people. Officers have a lot more control but they're also required to follow orders. The people ultimately in charge are politicians, and I'd say most of the ones sending armies to war are bad people.
Inb4 someone says "why join up then?":
- Conscription exists.
- It's often the only choice to lift yourself and family* out of poverty for some people.
- In the US they literally have army recruiters in high schools. 🤢
I was banned from lemmy.world for “personal attacks” for 3 days because of calling someone a “piece of shit” after they called me a “cunt”. The comment calling me a cunt wasn’t removed and the user hasn’t been punished at all by the lemmy.world admins. The comments in question:  Lemmy.world modlog:   In the interest of full disclosure, this is my other comment that was removed:  And here’s the comment of that user I was referencing, in the Blahaj modlog after it was removed:  This feels like an overreach, especially when the admin clearly didn’t feel it was important to punish their own user for “personal attacks” in the same thread.
please don’t start shit in the comments, i’m too disabled to care
Hey friends, I see you just pushed another test flight build, cheers for all the new updates. However, I just tried changing the App Icon and it doesn’t work at all, just stays on the default one. I tried a bunch to see if it was just one of them glitching out, but none of them work.
It’s just an instance of reposting reddit links. These showed up in my All feed sorted by Hot even though there’s zero interaction. It just feels like spam.
I’m on an instance that has downvotes disabled, and I’m wondering if we could add an option to hide the downvote button from the UI when the signed in instance has it disabled. I’ve changed the swipe so it doesn’t have the downvote, but it still shows up in the feed. As well it could be nice to have a setting for an alternate to the downvote swipe so that auto-changes depending on instance as well.
       [@DroneRights@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/u/DroneRights) I’m a chaser and came on to you? Despite telling you I had a partner in the same message? I’m sorry, but you’re just not that interesting. It was a joke because you had a PM_ME username. But yeah, now you’ve accused a trans person of being a chaser. What next? I’m glad the 196 mods saw through your application, yikes. [@HardlightCereal@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/HardlightCereal) [@HardlightCereal@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/u/HardlightCereal) [@PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES) [@clueless_stoner@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/clueless_stoner) [@poVoq@slrpnk.net](https://slrpnk.net/u/poVoq) You all need to sort this out because I am **livid** at being accused of being a bloody chaser by some troll when I’m a trans woman, then getting a permanent ban from lemmy.world for trying to alert the admin of a third instance. Clueless Stoner? You sure are, you make us other stoners look switched on by comparison.
I’m on a server that has downvotes disabled. I’m wondering if we can get an update that hides the downvote button/slide when it’s disabled? I accidentally press it 2-3 times per day and the error dialogue can be frustrating. I was thinking there could be an option for what to replace the ‘slide right to downvote’ shortcut with when it’s hidden. Such as share or copy link.
www.neowin.net
[Here's a link to the Github Repo.](https://github.com/id-Software/quake2-rerelease-dll)
So at the moment, when you share a post, you get a link to the post on the instance the communities on. Obviously, you aren’t always sharing links with people that are also on your instance, so this behaviour is usually fine. But I have a few friends on my local instance, so it would be nice to be able to link them directly. Maybe having the options be Local/Remote/Ask, with a little options list each time if people want that.
www.youtube.com
It's a personal mash-up of the Agender, Intersex and Transgender symbols, and a little bit of inspiration from dog desexing tattoos. I'd been questioning since late puberty if I might be Intersex, I never grew an Adam's apple and hardly any body hair despite family genetics. I came out as trans femme non-binary in my early 20s, but it wasn't until the third doctor I saw for hormones that questioned if I might have an intersex condition. The first doctor I saw never questioned that my T was well below the male range because I wanted to start HRT anyway. But he also still put me on T-blockers which have some awful side-effects, including dropping my T to completely zero. Thankfully I'm off those these days and estrogen alone keeps my T where it needs to be. The last test that she ran was for sterility, so the day I got that result was when I got my official diagnosis. I'd never really wanted kids of my own, and didn't worry when starting HRT, but it still really shook me to learn that I'm not able too. Hence, I dropped into my local tattoo parlour with a rough sketch, because the adrenaline and pain from that helped me deal with my emotions in a more healthy way. Anyway, hi, I'm Norah and that's my story :)
> A documentary about the first Mardi Gras parade in Sydney, Australia. I found a copy of this earlier in the year and posted it on archive.org. **Content Warning for police brutality.** cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1330288 I'm cross-posting this here as I thought this community might find it interesting as well. I think the [way I procured it](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/1493336) also leads to a bigger discussion about the preservation of queer film & media. I think it's important, now more than ever, for younger and freshly realised queer people to see that we've been here and fighting for our rights for a really long. Videos like this one feel like they evoke a more visceral connection to that past.
So the how-to I promised in my last post: 1. Install the `neonmodem` package under your default WSL distro. I'm using Debian. You've got to move the executable to your /bin/ folder. 2. Go to your Windows Terminal settings and click on 'Add a new profile'. Duplicate your default profile. 3. Rename the profile to 'Neon Modem Overdrive'. You can download the favicon from https://neonmodem.com/favicon.png 4. Under 'Command line' you want to change it to show as below. This will launch it within it's own tab, and will close out when you quit NMO. ``` C:\Windows\system32\wsl.exe ~ --shell-type login neonmodem ``` 5. Under 'Additional settings' at the bottom, click on 'Appearance'. 6. I'm using the 'Vintage' colour scheme, and have the 'Retro terminal effects' setting enabled for those crispy old scanline vibes.
I spent this evening playing with [Neon Modem Overdrive](https://neonmodem.com/) and ended up getting it set up as it's own profile in Windows Terminal. That way I could give it it's own profile, including the retro screen effect. Will comment tomorrow with a guide :)
I’m not sure if my feedback in my last post made a huge difference, but thank you for implementing stuff like the small red dot for inbox and changing things up. I like the new inbox icon a lot, and thank you for the setting to toggle off the username. Just updated to the latest build and the avatar in the tab bar looks great!
archive.org
A documentary about the first Mardi Gras parade in Sydney, Australia. I found a copy of this earlier in the year and posted it on archive.org. Content Warning for police brutality.
> Its 4am and you sit at your computer, illuminated by its soft glow. You take a sip of your tea as you stare at the incomprehensible error message on your terminal. you tab back over to the .config file and scan it for errors for the fifth time - or was it the sixth? you google the error message again, only this time you spot something that could help. A community of like-minded hackers -- and one of them has had the same problem you're having! The replies are all non judgemental and one of them links to a page on the community wiki with something that could help. > > You add the line to your .config file and run the command again. Your pitch black room is illuminated as your smart bulbs come to life. You can finally go to bed. We hope you drop back in again after you get some sleep. > > - - - > > Welcome to QHDN - a queer space for hobbyist hackers interested in programming, local system administration, and other related topics. It aims to be a friendly community and repository for learning and sharing how to run and maintain your own services, be it for smart home, data storage, media storage, or anything else. We're glad you're here. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1215209 art by my lovely partner [@Collective@lemmy.blahaj.zone](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/Collective) come join us at [!qhdn@lemmy.blahaj.zone](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/qhdn)
forgejo.org
Federated repository hosting feels like a perfect use of the technology. Microsoft have been training their closed-source AI on the open source code they host on GitHub. Moving to a private instance of a software like Gitea means you're disconnected from the wider community, and the benefits of others working on your code. I'm excited to see this feature released, we may even decide to host an instance for the community.
Is it just me or do they all of a sudden look…I dunno, chintzy? I miss the Traverse icon too…
I was getting timeout errors.
I found a decent safari extension for iOS for redirecting links to privacy focused frontends: [Privacy Redirect](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/privacy-redirect/id1578144015) If you're self-hosting a private instance that's not secure you'll need to put http:// at the start of the URLs specifically.
sfba.social
Okay so, I hadn’t actually stuck my head up and checked out what’s been going on over at Twitter. But I just found this lovely post on Mastodon explaining the situation. Basically, Musk decreed that there would be a rate limit to the website if you’re not logged in. Except, when you hit that rate limit, the website loaded in your browser still tries to send out GET requests constantly and the backend server has to reject them. So, the outage is because they’re self-DDOSing themselves 😂