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Dr. Quadragon ❌

time to post again the best user interface i've ever seen

youtube video screenshot, closeup of a shiny clean white control panel with two large buttons marked with up and down arrows and labeled "SPEED". A finger is pressing the down button. Next to that is an LED display showing 108.6 and labeled "ONIONS PER MINUTE".
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Kraz

@Ranjit This would make an excellent reaction image when people mistake something from The Onion as true.

Suitably ballyhooed

@ranjit turning a big dial taht says "Onions per minute" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

Peter Drake (he/him)

@ranjit "Onions per minute" is a good metric of how weird the news is: how often does it generate a real headline that looks like it came from The Onion.

Dr. Quadragon ❌

Backing us on Patreon can be the equivalent of buying us a coffee each month. But it’s much more than that: Your support makes sure that we can continue creating free comics and bring laughter into the world.

patreon.com/warandpeas

Dr. Quadragon ❌

🎁 HAPPY BIRTHDAY OpenStreetMap! You've come a long way in the last 20 years. 😍

Here's @gravitystorm at the rear of server racks in UCL after a long work session in 2009 extending our rack depth and re-organising our servers.

More about OSM's 20th Birthday (which is today): birthday20.openstreetmap.org/

#20YearsOfOSM #OpenData #OpenStreetMap #OSM

a white man with ginger hair, in a server room, looking at some server cables
Dr. Quadragon ❌

Fun fact: I don't work for free.

Someone ordered my send-in service, sent me a machine to flash and I'm done (Libreboot and Debian installed), but:

* They did not pay! I emailed them and won't send until I'm paid.

* They sent it seemingly straight from ebay, with broken hinge, touchpad, screen and fan - I replaced these, since it costs me nothing.

I fixed it up good. I have great work ethic and work pride, but I ask:

If someone sends me machines to work on, pay me.

Also don't send trash :D

Ray Glittersoft

@libreleah@mas.to Oh the joys of self employment ​:ajsmug:​

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@rf ну чего, народ, кто пойдет на Регулярки сегодня?

Жду людей и темы!

ChibyX :fedowa:

@drq @rf можно упомянуть про то, как Маск решил судиться с рекламодателями, бойкотирующими X

Тр3тий Сергеевич

@drq Про Дум писал, про Ютуб и так все в курсе... Что ещё? Есть что по Олимпиаде?
@rf

Dr. Quadragon ❌

Те, кто злоупотребляет каннабисом, подвержены большему риску рака головы и шеи. К таким выводам пришли американские ученые, которые проанализировали данные 64 организаций здравоохранения за 20 лет. Риск повышался во всех возрастных группах как в целом, так и для отдельных локализаций опухолей.

Dr. Quadragon ❌

В статье Владислава Кириченко "Кто такие монстры в компьютерных играх?" выделены несколько ключевых и интересных моментов:

Теоретические подходы: Рассмотрены различные теории монструозности, от возвышенного до сдержанного монстра, а также концепция "абджекта" Юлии Кристевой.

Историческое развитие: Анализируется эволюция монстров в играх, начиная с классических антагонистов до современных сложных и многогранных существ.

Монстрореализм: Понятие "монстрореализма" как особой формы визуальности, заимствованной из природы и других медиа.

Современные тенденции: Новые тренды в отношении к монстрам, включая проявление симпатии, бесформенность и бестелесность монстров.

Интересные примеры: Примеры игр, которые подрывают традиционную модель "игрок против окружения", такие как "Shadow of the Colossus" и "Undertale".

В статье Владислава Кириченко "Кто такие монстры в компьютерных играх?" выделены несколько ключевых и интересных моментов:

Теоретические подходы: Рассмотрены различные теории монструозности, от возвышенного до сдержанного монстра, а также концепция "абджекта" Юлии Кристевой.

Историческое развитие: Анализируется эволюция монстров в играх, начиная с классических антагонистов до современных сложных и многогранных существ.

Монстрореализм: Понятие "монстрореализма" как особой формы визуальности, заимствованной...

Dr. Quadragon ❌

Однажды @skobkin решил позвать @drq записать подкаст и у него отвалилась жопа.

#log #Fediverse #people #podcast

Me watching my main display and the TV on the wall.
On the TV I can see Jitsi Meet running with avatar of Dr.Q. being shown.
On the main display Reaper window is being shown in the process of recording with 6 hours and 11 minutes of audio on the timeline.
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@drq yeah. I like how Drew DeVault put it:

> "If I understand correctly, what you are arguing for is a passive freedom, which is the absence of obligations; I am arguing for a positive freedom, which is the guarantee of rights."

> Most succinct rebuttal I've come up with yet to those who view permissive licenses as more free than copyleft

fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/112

Dr. Quadragon ❌

Most of you know me here for my AI stuff, but I have also been drawing most of my life. I wasn't the best of artists but I enjoyed what I made just as I enjoy AI art, which I am still not the best at but that's ok because I enjoy it all the same. Express your creativity however you want :)

#art #drawing #aiart #generativeAI

Dr. Quadragon ❌

A nice compact explanation for permissive vs. copyleft licensing I found:

Both models provide freedom and protection at the expense of the developer;
Permissive model provides more freedom and protection for your *immediate downstream user* at the expense of the end user;
Copyleft model provides more freedom and protection for your *end user* at the expense of the intermediate users.

It's pretty context-dependent which way you wanna go, but personally, in a toss-up, I'm gonna side with the end user. Because that's what actually matters in the end: the ability to actually use the software freely.

At the end of the day, if I have to use a proprietary, locked-down system that spies on me, doesn't let me modify it, or even look at its insides, and generally treats me, the user, like crap, it doesn't make a nick of difference to me that it has a BSD kernel inside, or MIT-licensed coreutils, right?

A nice compact explanation for permissive vs. copyleft licensing I found:

Both models provide freedom and protection at the expense of the developer;
Permissive model provides more freedom and protection for your *immediate downstream user* at the expense of the end user;
Copyleft model provides more freedom and protection for your *end user* at the expense of the intermediate users.

Dr. Quadragon ❌

Why have I brought this up at all?

Well,

github.com/uutils/coreutils

It's a nice project, I quite like it. But the license choice kinda irks me.

The author states that its goal is not to fight the GNU project. While that might not be the intention, in my opinion, this is actually one third of the way to the EEE scenario.

MIT license means it's easy for corporations who choose to make proprietary software to adopt it for their projects. So the "Embrace" step is basically done, voluntarily.

The next step is to Extend it, to make it on par or better than GNU Coreutils. Which has not been achieved yet, but this is the goal.

If this has the potential to be better than GNU coreutils (and it does, being written in a more modern language, and by that virtue having more potential for modernization), then why use GNU coreutils at all? That will be the Extinguish part.

Why have I brought this up at all?

Well,

github.com/uutils/coreutils

It's a nice project, I quite like it. But the license choice kinda irks me.

The author states that its goal is not to fight the GNU project. While that might not be the intention, in my opinion, this is actually one third of the way to the EEE scenario.

uis

@drq permissive provides right, copyleft provides freedom. Right of one ends where right of another begins, but freedom of one is freedom of another.

FC (Fay) 🏳️‍🌈

@drq yeah. I like how Drew DeVault put it:

> "If I understand correctly, what you are arguing for is a passive freedom, which is the absence of obligations; I am arguing for a positive freedom, which is the guarantee of rights."

> Most succinct rebuttal I've come up with yet to those who view permissive licenses as more free than copyleft

fosstodon.org/@drewdevault/112

Dr. Quadragon ❌

I downloaded a program for macOS. The OS absolutely refuses to let me run it, falsely claiming that it's "damaged." It is not damaged, Apple just cares more about extracting profit from developer licenses and collecting data through App Store downloads.

There's a dark pattern where you can right click and select "Open," which behaves differently than double-clicking the same thing. This does not work for this program.

I had to run: `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ProgramName.app` to make it work.

Despicable, hostile, anti-user, anti-competitive behavior from Apple.

#buglog

I downloaded a program for macOS. The OS absolutely refuses to let me run it, falsely claiming that it's "damaged." It is not damaged, Apple just cares more about extracting profit from developer licenses and collecting data through App Store downloads.

There's a dark pattern where you can right click and select "Open," which behaves differently than double-clicking the same thing. This does not work for this program.

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Amber

@ieure@retro.social yeah I find apple’s quarantine to be annoying

Jakob

@ieure actually that’s a thing I wanted to know before - thx for the advice

Dr. Quadragon ❌

Я не знаю, где Док их нашёл, но девушки по прежнему разносят:
youtu.be/KBqJAQpUVHM

Dr. Quadragon ❌

Today, thousands of anti-fascists assembled around the UK to face down racist rallies. Most of the rallies never materialized.

Whenever fascists strike a blow, if we respond quickly and boldly, it offers an opportunity to draw more people into the struggle against capitalism, white supremacy, and the state. We must not let anyone imagine that the police will deal with fascists for us—on the contrary, they are a much greater threat to freedom than any group of ordinary racists.

freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/07/

Today, thousands of anti-fascists assembled around the UK to face down racist rallies. Most of the rallies never materialized.

Whenever fascists strike a blow, if we respond quickly and boldly, it offers an opportunity to draw more people into the struggle against capitalism, white supremacy, and the state. We must not let anyone imagine that the police will deal with fascists for us—on the contrary, they are a much greater threat to freedom than any group of ordinary racists.

A woman holding a sign reading "The enemy arrives by limousine not by small boats"!
Masked anti-fascists holding signs reading "Smash fascism" and "Fascist scum out of Brum"
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