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invalidusernamelol [he/him]

@ invalidusernamelol @hexbear.net

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  • How long can China play the "rare earths card"?

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  • We have a 10 mile stretch of highway in my town that was approved to be expanded in 1998. They got a $2B funding allocation. It's now 2025 and they're only 60% complete and $5B over budget.

  • I love this type of camera position

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  • I straight up thought that first one was a screenshot from the new Disco game or something

  • PSA: Do not participate in any NixOS official community spaces

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  • Fedora is alright, I like the atomics and the dnf package manager

    For those who don't know, the silverblue distro is a containerized OS that keeps your root filesystem read only and requires you to declaratively layer packages. So if a package breaks your system, it'll auto-rollback to the last working state.

    SteamOS and Bazzite are both based on it. With the upshot of using atomic being that you can rebase your whole OS to a different atomic distro with one command, so you can do rpm-ostree rebase bazzite to have your next boot load you into Bazzite, then rpm-ostree rebase silverblue to boot back into silverblue

  • Palmer Luckey’s Anduril launches EagleEye military helmet with help from buddy Zuck

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  • Now you can have them containerized in a declarative package manager!

  • Palmer Luckey’s Anduril launches EagleEye military helmet with help from buddy Zuck

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  • Deterministic, replicatable, atomic warcrimes

  • Palmer Luckey’s Anduril launches EagleEye military helmet with help from buddy Zuck

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  • Oh no, I fell in some mud and now my helmet doesn't work

  • Excellent

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  • He's the embodiment of

  • The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market

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  • Book Reader runs Linux. So does ReMarkable (which is insanely overpriced, but actually nice if you can find a used one for ~ $150). The ReMarkable even includes instructions on connecting to the device via SSH and you can pretty easily run whatever you want on it. Including just making the rootfs a git repo.

  • he just wanted to be popular with the zionist crowd.

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  • It's a different way of saying I Have a Black Friend ™

  • Sending a message: Beijing issues documents without Word format amid US tensions

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  • The only think keeping us on it right now is the fact that it's got a nicer drafting program draped over top. Which is what we use it for.

    The software is such a pile of garbage now, anytime you actually want to use it hidden behind 15 menus, the license model just randomly changes every quarter, they keep adding new features and not fixing literally critical regressions (you can't split at a vertex when the map reference differs from the feature reference in 3.4-3.6 because they messed up something in the new data model. This has taken a backseat to adding an AI agent to the tool search bar).

    I use primarily arcpy in my work to interact with the design database and source data, but to get that into a usable state required me writing 3 wrapper libraries and becoming the #1 question answerer on their developer forums because apparently it's just trash and no one cares. I'll make recommendations with sample code and find out that they just straight up copy pasted my example into the codebase the following quarter.

    I have loved my interactions with shapely and gdal systems though. Planning on modifying my libraries to use them as a fallback so I can try and have a unified interface for both systems.

  • Sending a message: Beijing issues documents without Word format amid US tensions

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  • It would also be nice if ESRI/ArcGIS could be replaced with a better open format for government stuff. I know the reason is because ESRI cuts sweet deals with governments and has the "unified system" approach that's lacking from the GDAL wild west, but it's a pain having to constantly translate between proprietary and open formats.

    At least ESRI has basically stolen GDAL code meaning that they have a lot of functionality overlap, but the proprietary formats are hard to audit and always have some weird caveat that makes them incompatible with open formats without a bunch of wrangling.

    Basically, made the GDB and SHP formats open standards and if you're gonna push Arcade as an interface layer for geodata, at least publish the language spec instead of just randomly changing major language features with the only release note being "bugfixes". Get fucked Jack Dangermond.

  • Sending a message: Beijing issues documents without Word format amid US tensions

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  • It's open at least, but so is doc. The only non-open ones I can think of are those weird encrypted epubs that require a license though.

    Turns out people don't want to use your format if only your tools can open it.

  • Sending a message: Beijing issues documents without Word format amid US tensions

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  • I can understand not choosing ODT since they can be opened by Windows now. If the message was to make it so they needed to use non-Microsoft software using this makes sense.

    But yeah, still prefer a GPL licensed format

  • We have been owned in the free marketplace of ideas

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  • Is this one of those Prager U rags?

  • Why Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

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  • Laid off is a job title right?

  • Folks I made a huge mistake.

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  • I love dropping a diatribe in the comments, then muting notifications and never looking again

  • Ya know, in all my years here, my contribution to Hexbear that I'm most proud of is this:

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  • I've got

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    Got bored during covid lockdowns and was playing with GIMP lol

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad?

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  • I've disassembled and reassembled my LG washing machine like 8 times now replacing different parts every time.

    Even the "complex" ones really aren't that complex, you just need to know how to order parts and put them in. Each re-assembly added 2 years to the life of the washing machine and none of them took more than 45 minutes with the most home gamer tools from harbour freight

  • What's a show you've never watched and never will because people keep telling you. "You HAVE to watch it!"

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  • I just have a couple friends who are way too into Shane Gillis lol