john_lemmy

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Two men found guilty of cutting down famous Sycamore Gap tree in c/treehuggers@slrpnk.net
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

This is stupidly sad. And they took a trophy.

It's a pin job in c/luigimangione@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Not chiming in on whether or not he is the guy, but the police making mistakes should be considered standard procedure. They're only "competent" in movies and TV shows, so we shouldn't assume they fucking up as evidence for anything besides it being a Monday.

UN Ditches Google for Taking Form Submissions, Opts for an Open Source Solution Instead in c/opensource@programming.dev
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago

It is a bit confusing at first, but with the adoption of more onlyoffice tools I think it will make it easier on folks to use it.

Japan says its $1 trillion in US Treasuries is among tools for trade talks in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I don't grasp basic economics. Can someone help me understand what Japan selling these US Treasuries would mean? Doesn't someone else have to buy them?

Temp check on an Anarchism reading group in c/anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just as a fun side note, in one collection of her short stories (the wind's twelve quarters), she has a story about the beginnings the Odonians. In her author notes regarding that short story she says:

this story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas

I think reading both short stories back to back helped me contextualize better what Omelas means to me and, possibly, to her.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Not money, but time. In my experience, finding a local mutual aid group or place is a great place to start doing meaningful work and also a great way to meet awesome people.

KDE Gear ⚙️ 25.04 is out with new exciting features and improvements landing in Dolphin, Kdenlive, Okular, Itinerary, KDE Connect, Tokodon and many, many more. in c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

The amount of high quality tools that "just" ship with KDE is bonkers. I hope they are getting enough donations :)

*Permanently Deleted* in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And still not enough to curb the amount of trash being produced, shipped around the world and then trashed locally when it doesn't match the expectations of the buyer / rips after putting it on.

Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification in c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 month ago (11 children)

The popularity of this tool is bonkers. Even conferences sometimes "create a discord".

*Permanently Deleted* in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

A bit off-topic, sorry, but the difference between the answers to similar questions in this community (Lemmy) and others is quite staggering. Here we have people talking openly about non monogamous approaches in healthy and mature ways. Love it!

"Violence is never the answer" in c/libertyhub@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the pic, added to the collage. We need to keep sharing this shit

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wish that more people had attended those classes and learned the lesson

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Music library manager recommendation (slrpnk.net)
 

Hey folks!

I have a music library that has grown over time that I stream using navidrome. The issue is, some of the files have little to no metadata, I have duplicates of the same album, some artist names are misspelled, etc. An it is large enough that doing this completely manually would take a while.

I'm assuming (hoping) that I am not alone in this.

Does anyone have a recommendation of a tool (either standalone or part of a self-hostable media app) to basically assist in cleaning this up? It doesn't need to automate a lot of the process, but, for instance, querying metadata from an online source based on the file name / artist name, detecting misspelled artist names would already be interesting. Similar to Calibre's "retrieve metadata" for ebooks.

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Kitchen scales recommendations [EU brands] (slrpnk.net)
 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18128718

My current digital kitchen scales (Brabantia) go through batteries faster than I would like. I use rechargeable batteries, but still.

I was looking for long-lasting mechanical kitchen scales or at least one of those kinetic energy scales (turn the knob to power it) to use in the kitchen. Any model that can measure in the ~1g to 5kg range with a tare function is more than enough.

Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with these types of scales (knob or mechanical)? E.g., does the knob thing break easily?

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Kitchen scales recommendations (slrpnk.net)
 

My current digital kitchen scales (Brabantia) go through batteries faster than I would like. I use rechargeable batteries, but still.

I was looking for long-lasting mechanical kitchen scales or at least one of those kinetic energy scales (turn the knob to power it) to use in the kitchen. Any model that can measure in the ~1g to 5kg range with a tare function is more than enough.

Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with these types of scales (knob or mechanical)? E.g., does the knob thing break easily?

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Recommendation for a EDC (slrpnk.net)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by john_lemmy@slrpnk.net to c/pocketknife@lemmy.world
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My partner asked me for a recommendation for a EDC because I own and care for my kitchen knives. But I know nothing about pocket knives, so I'm hoping you all can recommend something lest they walk out with a 8 inch chef's knive peeking from their pocket.

I had a look here, but I just got lost in all those choices.

It doesn't need to be super durable as I should be able to sharpen it for them, but it should be easy to handle. The purported usage is self defense, but I think it will mostly be used to do chore related tasks.

Any solid choices there?

EDIT: after the replies pushing back on using this type of tool for self defense, I've had a talk with my partner and went through the arguments here. They didn't take much convincing that it was a bad idea. Thank you all for pointing it out!

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