Russ Sharek @RussSharek@mastodon.art
I've been described by reliable sources as a zen fool, benevolent super villain, misanthropic community leader, clown father figure and Impish Cabaret Rasputin.
@hoodieak imagine a hacker gained access to ur pc and all they did was leave a text file on the desktop with a really cute message on in it.
You respond by leaving a message in a new text file.
This continues daily until one day, they ask to meet.
Linlap.info REMINDER
*Linux Laptop Wiki [Rebooted]*
The aim of the website is to provide a central wiki to post experiences with Linux on the model of laptop / notebook you're using.
An attempt to 'reboot' the abandoned and spammed linlap dot com which is now unusable.
Please consider participating on building a new "HQ" sending in your model / experiences!
Any help appreciated!
don [at] linlap.info
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#Linlap #Linux #laptops #compatibility #info #wiki #hardware
Just discovered #bat, a drop-in replacement for the Unix `cat` command. It supports automatic paging, line numbers, and syntax highlighting, and it is extensible with custom color schemes.
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/
`cat` `bat`
Had a geek nostalgia moment today.
Ended up looking at the site for Damnsmalllinux.
I was always so impressed with how much actual functionality was packed into those minimalist projects, and I still think their extension system was really clever.
Their extension directory still contains a few packages I created, under an old username.
Live CD distros like this, knoppix, dragonlinux and even microscopic tomsrtbt floppy were among my first tastes of Linux.
~1 million Creative Commons images on 500px.com are dissapearing tomorrow!
If you have the resources please install the Archiveteam's Warrior program and select the 500px project! https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior
irc is #500pieces on efnet
thank you (boosts very appreciated)
Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.
-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel
so the Comcast outage today was related to major fibre cuts?
at least one in North Carolina
"Field Operations dispatched to the estimated failure location and upon arrival was advised by local law enforcement there was a truck that struck a utility pole, which then fell across the street and struck another pole, which then tore down the aerial fiber lines. In addition to the fiber lines being down, live power lines are down as well."
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2018-June/011495.html
I can’t believe Cookie Monster was behind GDPR all along
Nothing like receiving a pleasant reconnecting message from a decades-old friend who randomly spotted one of your messages on Mastodon to make you feel like federation is absolute magic.
On the jewelry piece, here's a close up:
I read Deathbird Stories in its entirety in one night. Only after did I notice the warning at the start of the book not to do this, because it would f*** you up for life.
I just read that Harlan Ellison passed away yesterday.
In another life, I was a jeweler with a penchant for making, amongst other things, fan-related fine art pieces.
For his 65th birthday, his fans commissioned this green lantern ring. I'm told it sat on his writing desk for years after.
His books shaped the dark corners of my warped mind.
in the approximate words of @amsomniac a while ago:
"a business convention is basically just a furry convention where everyone's fursona is a corporation"
@ccolocho
For my follow Friday #FF I'm nominating, @ChrisTalleras and @Curator.
They're the ones who finally got me publishing on #PeerTube @chriswere.
It's #FollowFriday! Here are some #alternatives to follow:
@cloutstream CloutStream: An open source federated alternative to LinkedIn, just launched its new website
@Chocobozzz Chocobozzz: Lead developer of #PeerTube, the ethical alternative to YouTube
@Purism Purism: Makers of privacy-oriented computers and the upcoming Librem5 smartphone
@fdroidorg F-Droid: The open source alternative to Google Play
@krita Krita: Open source painting software aimed at artists and illustrators
Question concerning #Peertube :
I want to take old movies that are currently available on archive.org and make a classic movie Peertube instance.
But I don’t want to seed from scratch.
Since archive.org already seeds these movies, can I add their tracker info to my peertube instance? Share the load with archive.org?
(If there’s a better place to ask this question, than the public fediverse, let me know!”
@eladhen Archive.org will archive it if you submit it to them, but it's ... if it's a shitty website, maybe you don't want that.
http://www.dheinemann.com/2011/archiving-with-wget/
That's how to do it with wget. That'll get pretty much all of it.
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
