danielquinn

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

That was fantastically insightful.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Why would you re-post the same misinformation three times and then keep all three posts up after you've been corrected twice? The Star is not owned by Post Media.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Suggesting that multiculturalism has always been harmful to Québéc is a bit rich when you consider that it was adopted as a policy largely as a reflection of the multicultural nature of the French culture within a majority-English Canada.

Québéc has its own language, history, food, and culture, sure, but they also have their own legal system and a massive political party that advocates for their own political and cultural interests.

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

Well presumably there are at least some performance and safety benefits to using these new alternatives. Otherwise it's just a blatant license dodge.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. Tailscale is surprisingly simple.

# systemctl start tailscale
# tailscale up
[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Debian should fork it and re-license it under the GPL.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In addition to the excellent examples posted here that refute this, I want to add "Last Exile", "Wonderful Days", and "Chrono Crusade".

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

If a cyclist is going to take the lane (and we have every right to) it's very dangerous to leave any room for drivers to pass because they inevitably try this sort of shit.

Ride out into the middle of the lane. Make them recognise you as someone taking the lane. They'll still want to kill you for daring to be a cyclist, but they won't want to damage their car.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 weeks ago

Because your reading comprehension skills have grasped the last line: "but of course that's not where we're directing our efforts"? The vast vast majority of AI effort and funding is being poured into agents, the focus of the post.

Or maybe because you're curious?

Or bored?

You do you guy/girl.

As for parsing the waste stream, some sites do this in a limited capacity to filter out typical recyclables, but not for things like nickel, copper, gold, and other metals. I believe that tools like AI can and should be applied to going through decades of landfill to extract minerals that would otherwise have to be conventionally mined.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sadly, it's not that simple.

They're not cramming AI into products to appease clueless investors. They're cramming into everything to see where it has traction because AI is very valuable... to them.

If a company can insert itself between you and your daily behaviour:

  • buying groceries
  • reading news
  • browsing Lemmy
  • writing reports/stories/software/music

...then it can control that experience:

  • choose who you buy from
  • choose what news you read, with the bias they want you to have
  • control what sorts of stories/software/music you create
  • set the price for that creation

This isn't idiocy, it's very profitable and fucking evil.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Dropping environmental concerns from a pension profile has got to be the worst sort of irony. What good is retiring with slightly more money if the world you're retiring into is literally on fire?

 

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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