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  • Nebula might be the answer for you. A low annual fee means every video you watch gives a portion of that fee to the artist.

  • The Biden administration’s new automatic braking rule is “impractical,” auto industry says
  • These rules are convoluted and near impossible to apply. Specific braking speeds for some objects compared to others? That requires reliable computer vision, which hasn't been demonstrated anywhere yet.

    And those speeds? 92mph is 148kph! Why the fuck are cars even permitted to be capable of that when no road in the country allows it? And why would you want to introduce unpredictable braking scenarios at such speeds?

    What is feasible is a speed limiter based on the posted limit, but that'd be too practical.

  • domains on internal network
  • Thanks for posting this! I have the same router.

  • Wealthy Canadians announce BMW X3 convoy to protest capital gains tax hike
  • I love this. I can just imagine them paying poor people to drive and protest in their place too.

  • VR support for GNOME Wayland is here!
  • Awesome. Perhaps now there will be some renewed focus on screen reader support?

  • Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise
  • Ah yeah, I remember a moment like that in DS9, where Sisko is lamenting the crew's interest in a holosuite program set in the 50s because of how "our people" were treated back then. It always felt out of place for me, though DS9 is still my favourite Star Trek.

  • Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise
  • Can you give some examples of this? Admittedly I didn't much care for Discovery and didn't pay a lot of attention through it as a result, but I'm not picking up what you're laying down ;-)

  • BBC uncovers 6,000 possible illegal sewage spills in one year
  • Can we really call it a "spill" if they dump it deliberately?

  • California socialite Rebecca Grossman sentenced to 15 to life for killing 2 kids in crosswalk
  • I'm not saying that she's blameless, rather that a design of straight roads and traffic lights ensured that this was going to happen. If it wasn't an old lady speeding, it would have been a dumb teen on their phone, or a middle-aged man "trying to catch the yellow". If the road allows for dangerous driving, kids are going to die on it.

  • California socialite Rebecca Grossman sentenced to 15 to life for killing 2 kids in crosswalk
  • Congratulations, you've put an old woman behind bars. Who wants to bet that they haven't fixed the street design in the last 4 years to actually prevent this from happening again? Are we to assume that prison is a deterrent here?

    I mean, sure, she killed two kids, she should go to jail, but any street design that would permit the sort of driving that makes killing those kids accidentally is more at fault than the unlucky idiot behind the wheel.

  • The carbon pricing debate is somehow getting worse
  • Yeah I share your issue with their stance on Nuclear as well (though having worked in the industry for a few years now, I'm coming to realise it's a moot point). I'll push back a bit on your other points though. I've always found their proposals to be well thought out and fully costed.

    The reason I've long supported them (even when the leadership was chaotic) was that they were the only party with a platform that shared my priority: a world not on fire. the Conservatives muzzled climate scientists, the Liberals literally bought a pipeline and the NDP keeps cozying up to oil in Alberta and loggers in BC.

    Sure we've got crystal-clutching anti-nuclear loonies in the Greens, but at least I can trust they actually believe the IPCC enough to want to do something about it.

  • The carbon pricing debate is somehow getting worse
  • What's wrong with the Greens?

  • Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.
  • A lot of places don't have buses and the roads aren't safe for kids to cycle anymore. The assumption is that if you're a parent, you just have to "make time" some-crazy-how.

  • I made a thing: "django-cool-urls"
  • Yeah I thought about the security cases, but decided it wasn't a problem for my situation since I was only archiving links that I'm selecting. If I were to open this to us, yeah that's a real risk. I should probably add something about this in the docs.

    The suggestion of pointing to archive.org was floated to me by someone on Mastodon actually, and I think I'll probably add that option as well. Just not right now. I'm tired 😆

  • I made a thing: "django-cool-urls"
  • Yup. But it only swaps out the link from remote to local if show_local is set to True, which can be done automatically if the remote URL ever 404s.

  • I made a thing: "django-cool-urls"
    danielquinn.org django-cool-urls

    It's taken the better part of six months, working a few hours in the evenings when I can scratch the time together, but my latest …

    django-cool-urls
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    Open Source for Climate Podcast
  • We don't use X, and we don't use Facebook, and I'm not even close to feeling sorry."

    Love it. Subscribed!

  • Open Source for Climate Podcast
  • You may want to promote this in /c/solarpunk.

  • The Onboarding
  • Honestly, this is so much better than those cases when the codebase is an absolute fucking nightmare are the senior dev doesn't see it. Instead they gaslight you into thinking that this is actually best practice.

  • What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

    I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers.

    I've got the usual forgetting the . in lines like this:

    $ rm -rf ./bin

    As well as a bunch of other fun stories like that one time I mounted my Linux home folder into my Windows machine, forgot I did that, then deleted a parent folder.

    You know, the war stories.

    Tell me yours. I wanna share your mistakes so that they can learn from them.

    Fun (?) side note: somehow, my entire ${HOME}/projects folder has been deleted like... just now, and I have no idea how it happened. I may have a terrible new story to add if I figure it out.

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    I'm having serious problems with Omega

    I've got a very simple Kodi setup:

    • Arch Linux on a laptop behind the TV
    • Media files on a server upstairs, shared over NFS

    I've been running Kodi quite successfully on this machine for years, but with the Omega update, videos play without audio for about 10seconds, then freeze. Sometimes if I wait a while, I see subtitles for the episode while the video is frozen. Music doesn't play either. The interface freezes too, to the point where I have to kill -9 it. Switching from Wayland to Xorg hasn't had an effect.

    I tried deleting ~/.kodi and restarting, but nothing changes.

    Has anyone else run into this?

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    Some dude 3D printed a little house for his local frog
    mastodon.social Maaike (@MaaikeV@mastodon.social)

    Attached: 1 video Makers rule! Meet Frodrick and the evolution of his house Trust me, it’s worth it, it’ll make you smile #maker #frodrick #3DPrinting

    Maaike (@MaaikeV@mastodon.social)

    A break from the usual in this community, but I trust it'll be appreciated. I think this is very solarpunk: using technology to improve the lives of all creatures.

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    I lost days of play time to a stream cloud sync error

    I've been playing a lot of Fallout 4 over the holidays. I started and finished the Nuka World DLC (killed all the baddies), made it to level 90, etc.

    Today I was playing on my Deck as the battery got a little low (11%) so I saved my game, exited the game, and went to shut down.

    As it was shutting down, the Deck displayed a message, something like "Syncing to Steam Cloud" as the logo was spinning.

    A few hours later, on a full charge, I booted it back up, started Fallout 4 again and... some of my old saves are there, but only about 30% of them, and critically not the most recent ones.

    Has this ever happened to anyone else? Is this a known issue? Can I fix it, or report it? I've basically lost interest in finishing the game now.

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    9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI
    hachyderm.io Paul Biggar (@paulbiggar@hachyderm.io)

    Attached: 1 image Actions have consequences, and that's ok

    Paul Biggar (@paulbiggar@hachyderm.io)

    His original post , titled I can't sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.

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    A giant, muscular penguin roaring in a comic book style

    I needed something for a presentation I'm doing on advanced Linux, so I thought something like this might be appropriate.

    Annoyingly, I can't seem to get Bing to generate an image that isn't square.

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    Ash Vs Bash

    [For reference, I'm talking about Ash in Alpine Linux here, which is part of BusyBox.]

    I thought I knew the big differences, but it turns out I've had false assumptions for years. Ash does support [[ double square brackets ]] and (as best I can tell) all of Bash's logical trickery inside them. It also supports ${VARIABLE_SUBSTRINGS:5:12}` which was another surprise.

    At this stage, the only things I've found that Bash can do that Ash can't are:

    • Arrays, which Bash doesn't seem to do well anyway
    • Brace expansion, which is awesome but I can live without it.

    What else is there? Did Ash used to be more limited? The double square bracket thing really surprised me.

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    I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier
    gitlab.com Daniel Quinn / video-bypass · GitLab

    Watch YouTube videos locally by clicking a button

    Daniel Quinn / video-bypass · GitLab

    The other day someone was complaining about the new ad blocker-blocker on YouTube and I mentioned that it might be fun to write a Firefox extension that would just load up yt-dlp and play the video through mpv.

    It turns out, writing a Firefox extension is easy and tricking Firefox into launching yt-dlp isn't much harder (though it does require some annoying configuration on the user's end).

    Anyway, if you're a Linux user, feel free to try it out. I don't know how much I'm going to pour into this, but as an exercise of "can this be done", it was pretty good for a few hours on a Friday night.

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    I like the *idea* of solarpunk...

    ...but I think I'd probably be miserable there.

    I'm violently allergic to pollen, am terrified of bees, wasps, and grasshoppers, and generally despise bugs and dirt. My ideal world would see everything paved in marble. No cars, (obviously) with a quiet, sustainable, walkable communiy, but green, as beautiful as it is, causes me a great deal of pain.

    It's there any place for me in a solarpunk world?

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    danielquinn Daniel Quinn @lemmy.ca

    Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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