danielquinn

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago

Woah woah there friend. We're on the same side here. I cycle my kid to school and then onto work nearly every day and I'm regularly on the receiving end of some seriously scary and dangerous assholes behind the wheel. They feel entitled to the whole damned road, and I'm sure they fantasise about running us over. I've been tailgated, screamed at, nearly clipped multiple times by people "just wanting to catch the light" or some nonsense. They are dangerous assholes and should be banned from the city.

I'm just saying that if you're going to pretend that everyone behind the wheel of a car is fully aware that they're pushing two tonnes of steel and glass around at high speeds, then you're not working with facts. Cars are literally designed to stoke the illusion of comfort and immobility, that you're just "on the road" without a Giant Metal Cage around you. You take a human and put them in that situation they will inevitably drive like fucking psychopaths. That doesn't mean that he shouldn't go to prison forever, but it's important to understand where this coming from.

The problem is the normalisation of a dangerous pattern.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

I have been in precisely this position. The pain is real.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Politicians here have been stoking this anger for years now. Drivers feel entitled to do shit like this all the time (I speak from many personal experiences). He probably didn't mean to kill the guy, but likely felt totally justified in jumping the curb and "trying to scare him". They forget they're driving fucking tanks around and justify their aggression with platitudes like "well I'm bigger, he should get out of the way".

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

While it's perfectly reasonable to defend the importance of lawyers and a defendant's right to a representation and a fair trial, arguing that he "might have lost control" isn't a defence, it's a lie. Telling a liar to get fucked is a reasonable position to take.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

I honestly love that name. The thing about the Nebula business model is that the creators are paid by who watches their stuff, so if they were to add a mountain of "numb" videos, it shouldn't cut into the revenue for the existing creators, but could bolster the total subscriber base. I have no idea why they don't do what you suggest.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I can recommend Nebula as an alternative. It's all real humans creating high quality videos.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Honestly, this has really turned me around on them. The Co-op is far less convenient than the alternatives for us, but news like this is enough to get me to commit to going as often as possible.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Teamsters, fuck yeah!

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Exactly. It's stuff like this that's convinced me to join a tech union myself. If you're in the UK, you might consider the one I joined.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Cory Doctorow just posted something very much related to this. It's an excellent read.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love this so much. Thank you!

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not asking them to parrot talking points, but ignoring reality doesn't do anyone any favours. It's like writing from a perspective that the world is flat and talking like only fools would think that a spherical planet worldview is rational. Their perspective is demonstrably flawed, but rather than approaching the issue on the facts, they've just blasted this project from a ideological perspective. It's a bad article and the Globe & Mail should feel bad about publishing it.

 

I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers.

I've got the usual forgetting the . in lines like this:

$ rm -rf ./bin

As well as a bunch of other fun stories like that one time I mounted my Linux home folder into my Windows machine, forgot I did that, then deleted a parent folder.

You know, the war stories.

Tell me yours. I wanna share your mistakes so that they can learn from them.

Fun (?) side note: somehow, my entire ${HOME}/projects folder has been deleted like... just now, and I have no idea how it happened. I may have a terrible new story to add if I figure it out.

 

I've got a very simple Kodi setup:

  • Arch Linux on a laptop behind the TV
  • Media files on a server upstairs, shared over NFS

I've been running Kodi quite successfully on this machine for years, but with the Omega update, videos play without audio for about 10seconds, then freeze. Sometimes if I wait a while, I see subtitles for the episode while the video is frozen. Music doesn't play either. The interface freezes too, to the point where I have to kill -9 it. Switching from Wayland to Xorg hasn't had an effect.

I tried deleting ~/.kodi and restarting, but nothing changes.

Has anyone else run into this?

 

A break from the usual in this community, but I trust it'll be appreciated. I think this is very solarpunk: using technology to improve the lives of all creatures.

 

I've been playing a lot of Fallout 4 over the holidays. I started and finished the Nuka World DLC (killed all the baddies), made it to level 90, etc.

Today I was playing on my Deck as the battery got a little low (11%) so I saved my game, exited the game, and went to shut down.

As it was shutting down, the Deck displayed a message, something like "Syncing to Steam Cloud" as the logo was spinning.

A few hours later, on a full charge, I booted it back up, started Fallout 4 again and... some of my old saves are there, but only about 30% of them, and critically not the most recent ones.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is this a known issue? Can I fix it, or report it? I've basically lost interest in finishing the game now.

 

His original post , titled I can't sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.

 

[For reference, I'm talking about Ash in Alpine Linux here, which is part of BusyBox.]

I thought I knew the big differences, but it turns out I've had false assumptions for years. Ash does support [[ double square brackets ]] and (as best I can tell) all of Bash's logical trickery inside them. It also supports ${VARIABLE_SUBSTRINGS:5:12}` which was another surprise.

At this stage, the only things I've found that Bash can do that Ash can't are:

  • Arrays, which Bash doesn't seem to do well anyway
  • Brace expansion, which is awesome but I can live without it.

What else is there? Did Ash used to be more limited? The double square bracket thing really surprised me.

 

The other day someone was complaining about the new ad blocker-blocker on YouTube and I mentioned that it might be fun to write a Firefox extension that would just load up yt-dlp and play the video through mpv.

It turns out, writing a Firefox extension is easy and tricking Firefox into launching yt-dlp isn't much harder (though it does require some annoying configuration on the user's end).

Anyway, if you're a Linux user, feel free to try it out. I don't know how much I'm going to pour into this, but as an exercise of "can this be done", it was pretty good for a few hours on a Friday night.

 

I'm working on a little program that'll launch different browsers based on the content of the URL passed and I'd like to set it as the default Web app in this list (under Settings → Default Apps). I've written a .desktop file based on the epiphany.desktop file, but it doesn't show up when I hit [Win]+o+p+e and it doesn't show up in the default apps either, so I'm hoping that someone here can explain what I've done wrong.

Here's the contents of the opening.desktop file:

$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/opening.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Opening
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Open links in the right browsers
Keywords=web;browser;internet;opening;
Exec=opening %u
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/daniel/.local/share/applications/opening.png
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;application/xhtml+xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;multipart/related;application/x-mimearchive;message/rfc822;application/x-xpinstall;

Any criticisms are much appreciated!

 

They must get turned into streaks to be eaten somewhere right? It'd be nice if every morning that I have to ride my bike through their wet piles of shit, I can think to myself: "at least I'll get to eat you at ________ in a few months".

 

There was a reasonably active community on Reddit, but now that I'm not there anymore, I miss it.

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