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alienghic

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  • the year of the linux desktop

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  • Eeew...

    I had a coworker who's laptop started emitting smoke in a meeting. thankfully this was in the days when you could still remove batteries. That was a nice safety feature.

  • the year of the linux desktop

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  • Yikes!

    What brand was that garbage?

  • the year of the linux desktop

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  • I'm curious why Chrome OS had such a big drop?

  • serverless xmpp over yggdrasil

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  • I remember one of the xmpp devs mentioning one reason the XEP-174 spec became less popular was there's no good way to support OMEMO. This may or may not matter to you especially over a yggdrasil encrypted network, but it's probably worth keeping in mind

  • Flatpak fucking my hard drive with questionable consent Part 2: Electric boogaloo

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  • try "flatpak remove --unused"

  • Easy, it's uuuuuuuuh…

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  • The transcription of D is wrong. It should be:

    sed 's/\([a-zA-Z]\+\)/\n&\n/g; s/\n\(.\)\(.*\)\(.\)\n/\3\2\1/g; s/\n//g' file.txt

    also D is correct, assuming file.txt contains a list of words one per line

  • There are teenagers on the fediverse.

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  • Welcome to the software commune comrade!

  • Old Folks Gaming: Senior Edition

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  • For someone doing solitaire and mahjong, maybe try iagno (reversi), tetravex (tile layout puzzle), or minesweeper.

  • How valid is the claim that people coming or going to blue sky/mastodon/X/Truth Social will cause echo chambers to increase? is it bad?

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  • Being around too many antagonistic people is stressful.

    "The impact of election stress: Is political anxiety harming your health?: Psychological science shows that politics can harm our physical and mental health, but the positive aspects of political engagement can lead to greater well-being"

    "In polarized communities, they found that bonding ties, or bonds between people who are similar (in this case, politically similar), were linked with better physical and mental health (International Political Science Review, Vol. 75, No. 3, 2022). Bridging ties—connections with dissimilar people—were associated with worse overall health for people who were politically isolated."

    https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/10/managing-political-stress

    There's a big difference between analyzing your enemy and letting them shout at you constantly. I can research conservative evangelicals attitudes without having to let one set up a loudspeaker next to my house.

    The conservative troll types are also the ones most likely to try and argue about echo chambers because their style of rage farming doesn't work if everyone avoids them.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/01/owning-the-libs-is-the-only-gop-platform/676692/

  • Where does the music go?

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  • My guess is the music goes into the past, leaving echos in your memories.

  • 73% of Young US Voters Eager to Support Candidates With Bold Climate Agenda

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  • I think it's more fair to compare average income versus average life satisfaction. (using a scale of 1 to 10) (On this scale Finland is the happiest, and Afghanistan is the least happy)

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness

    Average satisfaction for Costa Rica (6.61) or Mexico (6.33) isn't that much lower than the United States (6.89) at roughly 1/4th the GDP.

    South Korea (5.95) doubles Mexico's GDP ($45.5k vs $20.25k) but has a lower life satisfaction.

    Or Hong Kong (5.31, $58k) is close the US ($64k) in GDP but less happy than Russia (5.66, $27.4k).

    Costa Rica is at the 1.5t per capita probably safe emissions and has a life satisfaction of 6.61 compared to the US's 6.89.

    Our world in data also has life satisfaction versus CO2 emissions and central america looks to be doing fairly well for themselves. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-satisfaction-vs-co-emissions-per-capita

  • 73% of Young US Voters Eager to Support Candidates With Bold Climate Agenda

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  • STOP INSTALLING DEBIAN

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  • The xz/ssh back door made it into Debian testing, So I felt I should wipe and reinstall.

    Debian has had a rolling release for ages.

  • Young women are more liberal than they’ve been in decades, a Gallup analysis finds

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  • Take it up with men and current gender stereotypes.

    "The research, conducted with three other colleagues, consisted of seven experiments involving more than 2,000 American and Chinese participants. We showed that there is a psychological link between eco-friendliness and perceptions of femininity. Due to this “green-feminine stereotype,” both men and women judged eco-friendly products, behaviors, and consumers as more feminine than their non-green counterparts. In one experiment, participants of both sexes described an individual who brought a reusable canvas bag to the grocery store as more feminine than someone who used a plastic bag—regardless of whether the shopper was a male or female. In another experiment, participants perceived themselves to be more feminine after recalling a time when they did something good versus bad for the environment."

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/men-resist-green-behavior-as-unmanly/

    It's likely using nature is coded as masculine, while showing you care about nature is coded feminine.

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  • I was gifted an unopened pack of 3.5" floppy disks. What should I do with them? (wrong answers only)

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  • Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.

    (I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)

  • Telegram alternate

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  • I run my own XMPP server. https://joinjabber.org/ has some introductory information Snickket is a all in one service you can host or your can pay them to host https://snikket.org/start/

    XMPP servers and clients are a lot lighter weight than matrix, though I think matrix has more fancy features.

    They're both self hostable and are federated to share the costs of running the network.

    With signal there's a non-profit that needs some pretty steam funding to stay in business. (Though they're popular so maybe they can get it) https://www.pcmag.com/news/want-to-run-an-encrypted-chat-app-youll-need-50-million-signal-says

  • Light Pollution vs Streetlights & Perceived Safety

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  • You're welcome, and good luck with your project