pmk 1d ago • 0%
Didn't they just get like a million dollars from the Sovereign Tech Fund?
pmk 1w ago • 100%
Let's start saying "rajtan-tajtan" as some weird anglicism?
pmk 1w ago • 100%
Assisted Living (aka Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen) by Nikanor Teratologen. It's a very bleak and horrible story about a boy who is in an incestuous relationship with his nazi philosopher grandfather. Together the go around committing murder, rape, and other crimes, while relating everything to obscure authors and texts. The original is written entirely in a swedish dialect which is hard to understand, and it didn't translate that well into other languages I think. Despite all this, it is very well written and has won prizes and been made into a play and radio reading etc.
pmk 1w ago • 100%
Are you able to see the fnords yet?
pmk 1w ago • 100%
Den senaste tidens nyheter har fått mig att skaffa en telefon med GrapheneOS.
pmk 1w ago • 100%
One time I figured out why a strange dependency was needed in a LaTeX book. It's part of the official documentation of a project and the author had opened an issue about it. I dug deep into the package code and figured out why, came up with a fix, and contacted the author about the solution. That was two years ago and they have not replied or fixed it, but just worked on different things. I don't demand anything, but I haven't felt motivated to help out since then in that documentation project.
pmk 1w ago • 75%
This reminds me of Rob Pikes paper from the year 2000.
http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html
pmk 2w ago • 97%
The danish people will maybe say a lot of things about us swedes, but don't believe the lies.
pmk 2w ago • 93%
You can always fork the kernel and develop it in a different way.
pmk 2w ago • 100%
German and swedish is quite similar, I'm guessing this is a regular undersökningshandske?
pmk 2w ago • 100%
Arguably arch has the same problem, but they call it a feature.
pmk 2w ago • 100%
Fedora has the same problem with Timeshift iirc?
pmk 2w ago • 100%
Waste of time for what goal? Don't you ever do things just because you enjoy them? Is it a waste of time to pet a dog or watch a sunset if you enjoy it?
pmk 2w ago • 100%
I saw the original first, and then recently the hollywood version. The first one is better imho, it's like the difference between the book "I am legend" and the 2007 adaptation. When they hollywoodise things like that it just loses the point I think.
pmk 2w ago • 100%
I just lost the game.
pmk 3w ago • 100%
Have you seen Trash Humpers (2009)?
pmk 3w ago • 100%
Have you considered contributing to openstreetmap instead?
pmk 3w ago • 100%
In my work I have followed the process of maybe a hundred people dying of various things that we in everyday language sort of collectively call "dying of old age". Usually there's a couple of serious conditions underlying, and a general physical frailty. This is anecdotal, but my experience is that people make a conscious effort to get up in the morning and eat food and move around in the ways they can, until they enter a downward spiral where they for example eat less than they should, which means they get tired, they then stay more in bed, leading to less eating, etc. Something relatively minor like a cold, an aching tooth, a fall, a UTI, etc, can accelerate this quickly. Until they have shorter time awake and more time drifting in and out of consciousness, if they are in pain they will get something for the pain, which usually makes them even less responsive. Then eventually the body starts shutting down, they stop urinating etc, and some days later they die.
In this overall process, there's a time when making an effort to eat and to be active will prolong life, but it seems so easy for them to just... let go, and soon they will be dead. We (the patient + the health care team) usually talk about this at least once, to know what their wishes are. What surprised me in the beginning was that most old people I've talked to say that they are done, so for example if the heart stops they don't want attempts to save them.
All this together, I think old frail people can "hang in there" for a while if they feel motivated, but of course anything can happen at any time anyways.
pmk 3w ago • 100%
If we want to do something radically different, there's always gopher and gemini browsers.
... what should we do? I guess it all depends on *how* it would be implemented, which is something I have a hard time imagining at this moment. How do you imagine day to day online life in a post-Chat Control EU world? Which ways of communicating would still be private? Is there anything we can do at this point to prepare for the worst outcome?
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A video from openSUSE Conference 2024 about using distrobox on openSUSE Aeon.
I've been trying to navigate the differences and limitations in practice between the Arduino Nano ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Pico, and I'm at a point where I just want to get one of them and start experimenting. Possibly some other brand ESP32. My goal is to learn micropython and hopefully make some simple projects. My question is: is there a big difference for a beginner which I get in terms of online resources and ease of use, any pitfalls to be aware of or useful tips?
Turns out a misaligned mirror made the laser hit the lens in a weird way, and then bouncing off something on the way out to produce this double line. Probably. What kind of strange troubleshooting have you done and what was the reason/fix?
So, I'm just assuming we've all seen the discussions about the bear. Personally I feel that this is an opportunity for everyone to stop and think a little about it. The knee-jerk reaction from many men seems to be something along the lines of "You would choose a dangerous animal over me? That makes me feel bad about myself." which results in endless comments of the "Akchully... according to Bayes theorem you are much more likely to..." kind. It should be clear by now that it doesn't lead to good places. Maybe, and I'm open to being wrong, but maybe the real message is women saying: "We are scared of unknown men." Then, *if* that is the message intended, what do we do next? Maybe the best thing is just to listen. To ask questions. What have you experienced to make you feel that way? I firmly believe that the empathy we give lays a foundation for other people being willing to have empathy for the things we try to communicate. It doesn't mean we should feel bad about ourselves, but just to recognize that someone is trying to say something, and it's not a technical discussion about bears. What do you think?
Congratulations to Andreas! It seems like he has lots of ideas for how to improve things in packaging, and for communicating with other distros. Debian is a big ship to steer, and I personally hope the leader can facilitate people working together to reach our goals.
For example, I'm using Debian, and I think we could learn a thing or two from Mint about how to make it "friendlier" for new users. I often see Mint recommended to new users, but rarely Debian, which has a goal to be "the universal operating system". I also think we could learn website design from.. *looks at notes* ..everyone else.
What do you think of the platforms? https://www.debian.org/vote/2024/platforms/tille https://www.debian.org/vote/2024/platforms/srud
The download page leads to install75.img, but the front page still says 7.4.
I made this during a time I felt very lonely. Now I don't feel lonely anymore, I feel great (for reasons unrelated to crafting, but still).
 
Took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize that `\directlua` is first expanded before it goes into the lua interpreter, and that `\%` is defined through `\chardef` (in plain), which means that it's *not* expandable. Luckily LuaTeX has the `\csstring` primitive. Is anyone else doing any fun things with `\directlua`?
I was thinking about copyright and licenses today. If I understand correctly, if you create a work you automatically have copyright of that work. Someone created, say, the Zero-clause BSD license, which ought to mean that that person has copyright for the actual license text. Does that mean that we are not allowed to copy the license text without the license authors approval? The license refers to other works, but not itself. It would need to reference itself, or create some kind of infinite regress turtles all the way down kind of situation?
Hypothetically, if one cross-stitched a version of a picture that's licenced under the GPL, is this considered a "derivative work", and, what would be the practicalities of including the source and the license itself for redistributing? I mean the actual physical cross-stitched item. Has anyone done this before?
Whiteboard pen on random workplace whiteboard.
Felt tip pen on printer paper.
I'm not proposing anything here, I'm curious what you all think of the future. What is your vision for what you want Linux to be? I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc. A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it's now your desktop computer. That's one vision. ChromeOS has its "everything is in the cloud" vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it's free software. If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?
How long does it usually take for you to unhibernate after a ZZZ? I timed my laptop where it stops at the "unhibernating @ block xxxxxx length xxxMB", and these are my times: length 65MB: 1m 47s length 285MB: 3m 29s Are these normal times? Setting vm.swapencrypt.enable=0 makes no difference, and according to dmesg "acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5".