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Eufalconimorph,

Or color spasecs other than sRGB (8 bits/channel). I’ve a camera that takes 10 bits/channel photos, a monitor that displays 10 bits/channel, etc. But GIMP will just distort the colors because they hard-coded the color space! Can’t edit for print either, no CMYK. GIMP is an image editor for the noughties, not the 2020s.

Then again, we’re talking about MS Paint here. If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

Eufalconimorph,

“As you once did for the vacuous Rom, Grant us eyes! Grant us eyes.”

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It’s not that you can feel individual features, but rather that a repeating pattern of that size can be distinguished from a smoother surface.

Eufalconimorph,

Same, I’ve tiny hands and a Note 9. Works fine.

Eufalconimorph,

USB Power Delivery (fast charge) doesn’t require USB 3.0 speeds, just USB-C connectors.

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Mini-USB wasn’t very common. Micro-USB was common.

Eufalconimorph,

If GitHub’s UI isn’t saying “infinity files changed” you’re not trying hard enough.

Eufalconimorph,

Because AIs are (partly) trained by making AI detectors. If an AI can be distinguished from a natural intelligence, it’s not good enough at emulating intelligence. If an AI detector can reliably distinguish AI from humans, the AI companies will use that detector to train their next AI.

Eufalconimorph,

I use wireless headphones. However, I like to have non-distracting background music at work (open-plan office), and I won’t put my personal files (music) on a company-owned laptop. So I run a wire from my phone’s headphone jack to the laptop line-in, and can thus play music without any mixing of data.

Eufalconimorph,

“Middle of the iceberg” layer.

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This poem by Jef Raskin includes several dozen exceptions:

“I before E
Except after C,
Unless pronounced A
As in ‘neighbor’ or ‘weigh’”
Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!
Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools!
Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions
Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:
We were seized by a feeling
For fleeing on the ceiling
To a leisurely meal
With Keith, Sheila, and Neil
We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins
Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines
Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins
Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes
Wherein we’re canoeing to a new sovereign state
While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate
And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king
Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring.
Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick
Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic
And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch
We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch.
So I before E
Except after C
Unless pronounced A?
False decreeing, I say!

Eufalconimorph,

It isn’t that hard.

A soft-G gif believer! Heretic!

A Whiff of Genius: Simple Fragrance Method Boosts Cognitive Capacity by 226% (scitechdaily.com)

Sweet Smell of Success: Simple Fragrance Method Produces Major Memory Boost When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. In fact, participants in this study by neuroscientists from the University of California, Irvine (

Eufalconimorph,

Study paid for by the owners of Febreeze. Unreasonably large effect size. Very suspicious.

Eufalconimorph,

Defederation means you don’t see their posts. It does NOT mean they can’t see your posts.

I still don’t think federating with them is a good idea, but defederating won’t preserve privacy. It’ll just cut down on the “influencer” BS Meta promotes.

Eufalconimorph,

Tasha Yar dies due to the Exxon Valdez.

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IANAL, but I’d say yes. Conviction should be required, if it weren’t politicians could just accuse their opponents to disqualify them.

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He’s not yet been convicted. If he gets on some ballots, wins those states’ Republican primaries, and then gets convicted (and thus disqualified) the party will have to decide who of the other candidates gets their nomination. If different candidates came in second in different states, that could get interesting.

Eufalconimorph,

I’m hoping some, but not all, states disqualify him.

What's up with all these immutable distributions? What are the benefits and disadvantages of them?

For once I feel a little out of touch after I took a bit of a break from following the news to focus on studying, and suddenly everyone is talking about immutable distributions. What are they exactly? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of immutable systems?

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They also separate concerns better than classical distros. Executable binaries & libraries are separate from configuration which is separate from data. It makes backups much simpler, makes configuring new machines easier than something like Ansible, etc.

ashishlotake, to linux
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@linux @programmerhumor !programmerhumor

Eufalconimorph,

i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk =-1

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Omnipotence!

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I can’t remember a particular first game. Nethack, various MUDs, Descent 1, Starcraft, and Unreal Tournament (1999) were all reasonably early.

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Sysco provides the food to both in many cases.

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Knot Tying. Sure, there’s an International Guild of Knot Tyers, but it’s a rather small group.

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    PC.

    2TiB NVME, 1GiB EFI boot, the rest split between NTFS for Windows and ZFS for NixOS.

    Second 2TiB NVME.

    8TB HDD for bulk storage

    24TB NAS (4x 8TB HDDs in a RAID-5) for storing raw photo backups.

    Eufalconimorph,

    If they make Mute prevent the other user sending DMs it’d be compliant.

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    The US military, CIA, and NSA are all officially forbidden from such operations inside the US, or targeting US citizens. Officially.

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    You finish the pasta by cooking it in the sauce. They have to cook together! You bring shame to all of Italy.

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    I use a Turquoise Turtle knot. My shoes don’t come untied by accident.

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    Mastodon “block” is one-way, Twitter is two-way (it blocks the other person seeing your posts if they’re logged in).

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    But the orange portal is moving. The game code works more like A (it bugs out and the object bounces off the portal surface, but it uses a world-fixed coordinate frame that would match A for behavior). A (Newtonian) relativistic coordinate system would match B. For everything with non-moving portals A & B are equivalent.

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    Another violation is that they conserve speed, not velocity. Put 2 portals 90° apart. Travel into the first perpendicular to the surface. You’ll exit the second perpendicular to its surface. That means you accelerated to change direction, which takes energy. Portals don’t conserve momentum or energy.

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    Tney forgot to use the “$” to allow variable expansion.

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    They were pushing that line before the civil war. Claimed that forcing Christianity on them made up for the slavery.

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    It’s especially funny because systemd isn’t one program any more than GNU is. It’s a project. systemd-initd handles init. systemd-journald handles journal logs. systemd-resolved handles DNS resolution. Etc. Each systemd daemon has one area of responsibility!

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    Yip. Everything is always going to shit, but manure makes good fertilizer.

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    Terok Nand had better data storage.

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    Asafoetida. When uncooked, the smell fits the hype of the various names from around the world: stinking gum, devil’s dirt, devil shit, satan’s shit, etc. Cooked, it tastes and smells like a very umami cross between garlic & leeks. Common in Indian cuisine, particularly vegetarian dishes.

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    I’ll add Matiz’s “Flor de Garum” to the list of good fish sauces. The herbs used give it some extra flavor. It’s a lot pricier in the US though!

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    Football hooliganism is also based around accurate throwing of objects.

    What's a 'dirty word' that you hate hearing when it's used to describe something or someone?

    I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...

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    Too much room for confusion with ACAB.

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    Don’t forget the chocolate-flavored food grade wax.

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    Depends on how it’s pronounced IMO. Hard “t” American style it’s a very rude word. With a stop instead of the “t” like the British & Australians use it it’s far less offensive, sort of becomes their all-purpose casual company pronoun.

    Eufalconimorph,

    Also Photoshop, along with DxO PureRaw.

    My camera supports 10 bit/channel color. My monitor does too. GIMP only supports sRGB, so 8-bit color. It’s unsuitable for editing, and even worse for printing.

    Eufalconimorph,

    KeePass + Syncthing is pretty convenient.

    Buttercup looks to be using AES-CBC with PBKDF2 and no authentication, but I only took a very brief look so I may have missed important details. That’s not secure if an attacker can alter the vault file, and PBKDF2 isn’t a great KDF to use. If you use this, you definitely need a 128-bit or higher entropy passphrase (10 Diceware words). You usually want that anyway, but using a weaker string for your master password will be less secure than you expect compared to something using a modern KDF.

    When the fuck did a mobile hotspot become something you have to pay extra for?

    It’s my goddamn motherfucking mobile data and MY PHONE. I should be able to use it however I want. My wifi went down because the greedy, cunt-faced shitbags at Comcast stole taxpayer subsidies to enrich themselves instead of actually providing the service we’re paying for. I tried to switch to a mobile hotspot and my phone...

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    This is only the case if you buy a phone from your carrier (that they’ve customized to disable hotspot without you paying extra) instead of from a phone manufacturer directly. Carriers doing that isn’t as common outside the US, but it’s not an inherently location-based thing. I’m in the US and (due to buying phones from the manufacturer) I can use mobile hotspot without paying any extra even though my carrier would normally require that.

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    ZFS pools do checksumming, snapshotting, etc.

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    Yes, or if you override something you’ll compile that thing and anything depending on it. If you override glibc, you’ll recompile pretty much the entire system!

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