raubarno

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A devastated Software Systems student, libre software promoter. Sometimes I draw pixel art. Very fond of classical Computer Science and Touhou project.

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raubarno,

I see marketing via AI tools and bots unethical. Many things can be done via conventional marketing.

  1. Contact content creators (especially oriented towards Linux and Free software, like TheLinuxExperiment or DistroTube, or some gaming channels, as well) to create communities of their channels on Lemmy.
  2. Somehow reduce content about world news and politics. Many people go to the Internet to step aside from the real world events.

Also, majority of Reddit users are teenagers. The older generation of Reddit has fled away. We must think twice what target audience we want to bring in. I don’t want Lemmy to become a place where alt-wing anti-establishment political leaders bait naïve teenagers and take them into the rabbit hole (aka scenario described in The Social Dilemma).

raubarno,

I see Chinese hieroglyphs down there, thus I’ve become Chinese.

raubarno,

See what happens if you press “Yes”

knock knock knock FBI! OPEN UP!

raubarno,

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!!

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3fe7f007-4f62-4575-aaca-23f7f1e9bed8.png

raubarno,

My dark side: I feel disengaged in my duties, I tend to flee away from teamwork and skip deadlines, especially when the workflow is stressful. Of course, mates hate me for that :(

Others’ inconsistencies I see: tendency to make careless decisions without thinking twice, or miscommunication (incorrect wording) of intended actions, especially in programming and/or designing things. Also, not admitting an expectation to get some sort of reward/compensation when giving things for free.

Example:

  • A: You gave me this, thank you! What can I do/buy to you in return?
  • B: No need, thank you.
  • (one year later)
  • B: I gave you that, so I want you to do something in return.
  • A: You told me I’m not obliged to repay you!
  • B: You should’ve understood it by yourself!
  • A: …(Reimu mode activated)

Jokes aside, I am generous but this unspoken liability pisses me off.

raubarno,

Okay. I declare tomorrow to be International throw imperial units day.

raubarno,

Unfortunately, Linux manuals are pretty scattered around. I’ll try to find something for you:

  • If you want to learn the very basics of Linux command line, here’s what I found on the web: www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ ;
  • For on how to use GNU user-land tools (Bash, cat, less, grep, sed, etc.), I recommend the GNU manuals which are very well-written: www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html (example: Bash manual);
    • GNU manuals are also downloaded for offline read by default. These manuals are provided with info.
  • For GUI desktop, it depends on what Desktop Environment (DE) you use:
    • KDE wiki with tutorials: userbase.kde.org/Tutorials
    • GNOME app overview with documentation: apps.gnome.org
    • If you don’t know what DE you use, KDE uses sharp edges for windows and GNOME uses round edges ( 👁️👄👁️ ).
  • For system, as @Terumo pointed out, for system-specific stuff, there’s ArchWiki that has topics about everything.
  • If you want to understand what are the /usr, /usr/local, /etc, /dev, etc. filesystem directories, you want to look at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/…/index.html
  • There is also a free training course for Linux: …linuxfoundation.org/…/introduction-to-linux/
  • If you’re a developer and want to find out how deep the rabbit hole is, you may want to look at an online book Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces: pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

EDIT: Forgot this important material:

  • If you need to know command-line argument specifics for a particular program, use manpages (For example, to find brief information about grep, type man grep in your shell, and info grep if you need a complete manual).
raubarno,

Watch ElectroBOOM videos. He provides good comedy with scientific knowledge.

raubarno,

You can try to enroll into Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin course. It is quite a respectable certification. Try to have some practice every day as well.

raubarno,

It will deadlock in the center because the car lanes are used for two directions. Unless you upgrade those unidirectional lanes into bi-directional pairs of lanes.

And it will still deadlock, so you have to put a round-robin semaphore in the middle.

raubarno,

based.cooking

raubarno,

If a person with protanopia/deuteranopia looks at a red flag, one sees green-ish flag.

raubarno,

Well, if it counts, we have a homemade potato grating machine from the Soviet times my grandfather has made because he was a genius and partly because of Soviet Union. It draws a lot of energy, emits a lot of noise (seriously). To turn on, it has two buttons, one for capacitor or something, another for the motor itself and, nowadays, I have no clue which one I should turn on first, left or right… It stands on three legs and weighs around 10 kg (old transformers were heavy). It produces good results, though, despite looking odd.

raubarno,

Browser: Firefox because I can download its source code, use it, inspect, modify and share. All of these 4 freedoms make Firefox free, as in freedom. Brave is non-free (closed source and not contributing to software freedom).

I use Qwant (unfortunately, it only works in the EU) and site-local search (Wikipedia, ArchWiki, etc.)

All web search engines are crap, honestly. Maybe Kagi makes better, idk.

EDIT: Brave is free, apparently.

raubarno,

It depends on non-free Google Play Services for push notifications, which puts you into a requirement to use an unmodified Google Android, which is potentially dangerous for a privacy app like this.

Anyways, when it comes to E2EE IMs, Matrix ecosystem is much better.

raubarno, (edited )

Any company that engages in vendor lock-in, abuses copyright of creators through generative AI for profit, tracks users for profit/advertising, or censors content and people on their platform that suggest alternative platforms.

Microsoft takes all 3 points. It has created a very terrible operating system that gets preinstalled on most PCs through unfair competition, makes it harder and harder to customize it, has created GitHub Copilot that infringes copyright for GPL-licensed software and adds mandatory telemetry and Microsoft account. Additionally, Constructively criticizing Microsoft products publicly is dangerous.

EDIT: removed Medium link

raubarno,

Pussy Riot

raubarno, (edited )

Real telephone users use wired connection

raubarno,
  • Ivan Chai
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  • Valerian
  • Tieguanyin
  • Sencha
raubarno,

Add a user agent checker to your website and add tag: ‘Your browser, Google Chrome, is not supported. Please open this website on Firefox.’

Thic could attract masses.

raubarno,

ROG? Or maybe ROC? 🇹🇼

raubarno,

Literally me 7 hours ago

raubarno,

Can be a combination of certain traits:

  1. The game is a complex AND continuous/incremental puzzle;
  2. Doesn’t have a boring/idle part;
  3. Emulates real world. (optional);
  4. Player can produce creative output. (optional).

Games that I like: SimCity4 (2003), Europa Universalis 4 (2010s), Touhou series (1997-now), Taisei (2012-now), Minetest and many Tycoon games that used to be popular in 2000s.

Programming and math satisfies all 4 traits :) When I started programming 10 years ago, I became less interested in games.

raubarno,

Touhou 4 arrange ~ BAD APPLE!!

Just because I can, LOL.

raubarno,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7234f744-741a-41dd-a5de-833ec6fb355a.png

raubarno,

The true solution is… build from source.

raubarno, (edited )

Then reject it.

EDIT: I accidentally thought it was written on another thread.

raubarno,

Windows 11 installation requirements in Crown English:

  • 27 bloats of free space in the hard disk drive;
  • 1⅔ bloats of RAM;
  • Processor with at least of 60 milliard beats per minute clock rate;
  • …
raubarno,

I want SimCity 4 that wouldn’t crash. Even better if it was libre.

raubarno,

…in a galaxy far away…

raubarno,

I don’t like animations, smooth transitions, smooth scrolling, rounded boxes and needless notification on the corner (unless it’s a chatting app).

There can be inner shadows/colour gradients. It depends.

I liked how clean was Windows 9x design. Embossed buttons, same font family for design everywhere… Pop-ups didn’t have to ‘fade in’, just instantly appeared on the screen instead.

raubarno,

V A P O U R W A V E ! ! !

raubarno,

IDK, I used to have a dedicated software for playing with CUDA. Most of the image-specific AI stuff from the internet require 8 GB of VRAM or more, though.

Nowadays, I don’t feel the need for GPU-accelerated computing, though. If I needed, I would write Vulkan compute shaders for that thing.

raubarno,

I used to use Arch Linux. It’s really good, honestly, especially if you want to know how the OS components work from inside or make something custom. For anything else, I would recommend Debian and its non-snap-based derivatives (Linux Mint Debian Edition or Tuxedo OS, or KDE Neon).

raubarno,

Sleeping over alarms? That’s easy to fix. One should attach an electrode to his body and charge the capacitor on the other end of the wire. The capacitor is powered by a battery on one side, just to keep the capacitor charged. Then, in the middle of the wire, there’s a relay/transistor that passes current at 3AM, the control signal is sent by an Arduino or something else with a clock. It will pass through the body a short electrostatic discharge needed to shock the body that would be painful but not causing any injury.

Not an electrician. This may be useful, but without warranty.

raubarno,

Open Document Standard (.odt) for all documents. In all public institutions (it’s already a NATO standard for documents).

Because the Microsoft Word ones (.doc, .docx) are unusable outside the Microsoft Office ecosystem. I feel outraged every time I need to edit .docx file because it breaks the layout easily. And some older .doc files cannot even work with Microsoft Word.

Actually, IMHO, there should be some better alternative to .odt as well. Something more out of a declarative/scripted fashion like LaTeX but still WYSIWYG. LaTeX (and XeTeX, for my use cases) is too messy for me to work with, especially when a package is Byzantine. And it can be non-reproducible if I share/reuse the same document somewhere else.

Something has to be made with document files.

raubarno,

Markdown, CommonMark, .rst formats are good for printing basic rich text for technical documentation and so on, when text styling is made by an external application and you don’t care about reproducible layout.

But you also want to make custom styles (font size, text alignment, colours), page layout (paper format, margin size, etc.) and make sure your document is reproducible across multiple processing applications, that the layout doesn’t break, authoring tools, maybe even some version control, etc. This is when it strikes you bad.

raubarno,

Yes, but only if everyone adhere to CommonMark version of Markdown.

raubarno,

Gzip is slower and outputs larger compression ratio. Zstandard, on the other hand, is terribly faster than any of the existing standards in means of compression speed, this is its killer feature. Also, it provides a bit better compression ratio than gzip ^citation_needed^.

raubarno,

There are programs (LyX, TexMacs) that implement WYSIWYG for LaTeX, TexMacs is exceptionally good. I don’t know about the standards, though.

Another problem with LaTeX and most of the other document formats is that they are so bloated and depend on many other tasks that it is hardly possible to embed the tool into a larger document. That’s a bit of criticism for UNIX design philosophy, as well. And LaTeX code is especially hard to make portable.

There used to be a similar situation with PDFs, it was really hard to display a PDF embedded in application. Finally, Firefox pdf.js came in and solved that issue.

The only embedded and easy-to-implement standard that describes a ‘document’ is HTML, for now (with Javascript for scripting). Only that it’s not aware of page layout. If only there’s an extension standard that could make a HTML page into a document…

raubarno,

I wanna watch Mr Bean now

raubarno,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/bc9d9a60-b86d-40a3-8f48-67baa34ceb08.png

Looks very similar. Sauce

raubarno,

The appearance of facial expression in the wall is similar to that.

raubarno,

Damn. You go me first. I will complement:

“Lįsti į akis” (to get into eyes): To annoy other person.

“Arabus pūsti” (to blow Arabs): To tell fairy tales (to lie).

raubarno,

I grab my slide rule from my bag, because I am (mentally) a million years old.

EDIT: if I need precision, I use bc.

raubarno,

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