underscore_

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1y ago

I envision a wonderful future with this happening.
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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 1y ago
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin

1y ago

Images to animated GIF offline and FLOSS ( Linux )

Op this is the guide you need! I’ll leave my link up as comparison in quality of the guide a knowledgable human produces vs that predicted by an ml model

1y ago

Images to animated GIF offline and FLOSS ( Linux )

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 1y ago

ffmpeg is my go to for things like this but I can never remember the necessary incantation on the command line. Fortunately ChatGPT tends to get you most of the way there a lot of the time, I would normally asks something like the following and start from there:

How to convert a folder of png images into a gif using ffmpeg?

1y ago

The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 1y ago

Well written piece, worth taking the time to read it in full.

2y ago

Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 2y ago

Last I checked ~18:00BST

    
Party     Seats    Votes       %
Lab        412   9,725,117   33.8
Con        121   6,824,610   23.7
Reform       5   4,103,727   14.3
Lib Dem     71   3,501,004   12.2
Green        4   1,941,220    6.8
Indep.       7     841,835    2.9
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I am personally glad that the next government is not going to be stuffed full with bigoted nationalists from Reform. I can’t help but marvel though at how wonky the system of voting is that let the Lib Dem’s get an order of magnitude more seats than Reform with 600k fewer votes. Reform got just under half Labour’s vote share and only slightly over 1% of their seats.

2y ago

How to write Hello World

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 2y ago

It’s a the right shift assignment operator so x >>= 4 right shifts x by 4 and assigns the result back to x. The code editor is displaying single double wide symbol (ligature) instead of the three character long operator >>=, I discovered today these are in fact well loved by some coders.

2y ago

How to write Hello World

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 2y ago

That’s neat, so TIL ligature in code do actually have a strong following

2y ago

How to write Hello World

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 2y ago

LGTM. Though do people really code with ligatures turned on?

Edit: Ok so there are some big advocates of ligatures, I’m going to have to give them a second chance. I’ll try for a week, and either way that Fira Code font looks great.

2y ago

Stonehenge sprayed with paint by environmental protesters

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 2y ago

Maybe it’s that this is a better a metaphor for the destruction of the common cultural heritage of the environment? Not many people can relate to or are inconvenienced by a very expensive private boat sinking.

2y ago

Up-to-date, FOSS, Linux-ready alternative for avidemux/VirtualDub

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 2y ago

One great use I have found for ChatGPT and family is helping me divine command line one-liners for standard shell programs. Generating commands for tools like ffmpeg are also reasonably successful and saves a lot of time digging through man files

2y ago

Is Open University (UK) a decent option for an online-only Master's in Education degree?

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underscore_ @sopuli.xyz 2y ago

The OU has always had strong distance learning teaching, I have a family member who pivoted to a new career thanks largely to getting a degree with the OU. Also completing a degree through a remote program from and provider is a great indicator of your resolve and tenacity and can easily be a great selling point to future jobs etc.