If you are being recommended colonoscopy as a regular-risk person on the basis of age, your health system is not serving you well. Compared to colonoscopies, regular FOBT or FIT testing has an insignificant risk of complications (bowel perforations, death etc) and is easily conducted at home without the unpleasant "preparation" required of a scope. If done every 2-3 years they are at least as (and maybe more) effective at detecting cancer compared to a scope.

Not only were the programmers women, but so were the computers.

I like light themes and agree that they can be done well. Overall my problem with dark themes is they are too low contrast everything melts into everything else. Who doesn't want a distinct border around a window?

in case you don't know, you can discard tabs natively without an extension in FF now by going to URL about:unloads. it's a newish feature in the past year or so. much more rudimentary than Auto Tab Discard but gets the job done with one less extension.

Union organizing and intersectionality can only improve things.

I do not understand the mystique of applications that don't come with a reasonable working config. I don't want to invest hours just to try something and see if it is vaguely suitable. Anyone who wants to delete the default config can easily do so.

I guess people get pulled with sunk costs because by the time you get it working you've spent so much time on it.

why was Google able to find the answer to questions exactly like this 6+ years ago?

curious if there is any way to know for sure if this is the case? is there documentation of vague google searches over time to track their results? sort of seems like a "don't know what you got til it's gone" sort of thing for the average user. but maybe there is some academic work or industry publications to this effect?

We do have a good 10-20 years of every news story intro containing a line like "a google search for 'spatula' returns 2.5million results". remember when journalists and other writers thought that just putting a single search term into a search engine was the way to conduct online research?

otherwise it is really just your recollection how it felt then vs now. i can't comment on @merc@sh.itjust.works's programing skills but the point about changing expectations is a good one. not to mention that the amount of available data has exploded.

I had one of the early generation kindles for a while. There was a straighrtforward jailbreak to make it more sociable. The set it up with Calibre which was smooth once properly set up. There was (likely still is) a cool plugin that would get RSS feeds, generate an ebook and sync automatically over wifi per schedule. So then when I went out I would have everything to read fresh with zero effort. Which at the time was pretty impressive. Phone batteries sucked so they were not really viable for reading unless you could have them plugged in all the time. The kindle was magic in comparison.

Anyone who wants to dive into e readers should go to the E-Book Readers section of MobileRead Forums. There people are very serious about ebooks.

I was thinking of buying another ereader a couple years ago. I sort of assumed there would be some open-ish type options. But I didn't find anything that suited me. I really liked eink and wish it was more widely used. I would love one of the phones with dual ekin/LCD displays.

All this to say I hope there is community uptake and participation in the project. I myself do not have a soldering iron and don't really need an ereader. But I think it's a cool contribution.

@rbn@feddit.ch made a well structured comment using bullet points. It can be read pretty quickly but I guess the tldr is the last line:

There is a lot of uncertainty when using AGPL software in a business context which will - in many cases - lead to the decision not to use the software at all.

if you want to know why you have to spend 20 seconds reading the preceding text.

aside from the subject of the post: the ones I miss when it's not available are git status/ignoring, icons, tree, excellent color coding.

Here I cloned the eza repo and made some random changes.

eza --long -h --no-user --no-time --almost-all --git --sort=date --reverse --icons

Made some more changes and then combine git and tree, something I find is super helpful for overview:

eza --long -h --no-user --no-time --git --sort=date --reverse --icons --tree --level=2 --git-ignore --no-permissions --no-filesize

(weird icons are my fault for not setting up fonts properly in the terminal.)

Colors all over the place are an innovation that has enabled me to use the terminal really at all. I truly struggle when I need to use b&w or less colorful environments. I will almost always install eza on any device even something that needs to be lean. It's not just pretty and splashy but it helps me correctly comprehend the information.

I'd never want to get rid of ls and I don't personally alias it to to eza because I always want to have unimpeded access to the standard tooling. But I appreciate having a few options to do the same task in slightly different ways. And it's so nice to have all the options together in one application rather than needing a bunch of scripts and aliases and configurations. I don't think it does anything that's otherwise impossible but to get on with life it is helpful.

In a conventional set up you have tabs which are collected into windows. When you close a window, all tabs it contains are closed. You can do other things on all the tabs in a window, like reload, unload, bookmark, etc.

Windows can be divided among workspaces arbitrarily or can be on all workspaces. Workspaces can be created or deleted on the fly. Windows which are in a deleted workspace do not close, they just move to an adjacent workspace. Though you could probably script otherwise if you wanted.

From your screenshot am thinking your system is just like having all tabs in a single window in a single workspace?

I freaking hate blue LEDs.

I actively avoid buying anything with a blue LED because they are so obnoxious. So bright. Why do I want to read by the light of my HDD? Does this video explain why they have to be like that?

Maybe if you have a separate wing of the mansion to do computing stuff it is not annoying. But if like a lot of people you have electronics in your living space, these lights are extremely disruptive.

It seems that can't really be dimmed.. I had to give up on a couple of blue backlit alarm clocks because there is no way that the time can be visible without illuminating the whole area around them.

For whatever reason, red is the best one. I would prefer another color aesthetically. For whatever reason, red is the only color that does what it has to do and nothing more.

I am not one of these people who's constantly surveilling RAM. But I look at it occasionally and I don't really see anything unexpected in your screenshot. Maybe you could load up comparable non open source applications doing the same task and show the comparison? How does Safari or Edge do if you create a comparable session?

Right now on my linux computer, Firefox is using 1 GB of RAM. I have lots of tabs open so that's typical. Sometimes it is higher. You are using logsec, zotero and libreoffice which suggests you are conducting research and writing. So I will guess you also have lots of tabs. And maybe browser extensions? The zotero web clipper that looks at every page you load to see if it is scrapeable? Maybe a markdown clipper doing same thing?... And there is a good chance those other applications are working with a lot of data like your whole citation database, whatever you are writing etc. Do you have any of those zotero extensions that do all kinds of fancy stuff to the items you add? Not to mention Thunderbird and whatsapp. It is a lot of stuff for the computer to do.

In firefox (and presumably librewolf) you can go to about:processes to see exactly what is going on. This page with your thread is using 59 MB. Also you can go to about:unloads which has a rudimentary method to remove background tabs from memory. With only 8gb of RAM you should make a habit of this. You can also get extensions with more sophisticated unloading methods and that might be worthwhile for you.

All that said, I think an 8GB RAM machine is likely under-powered for your task. To be fair I am making assumptions based on the applications you have open. because when I have those sorts of applications open, I am typically being quite demanding of the computer. Opening documents, converting filetypes, scraping metadata, OCR, passing information between applications, interacting with databases, drafting documents, searching email archives... and lots of tabs.

I am really surprised that Apple would sell a laptop-type device with only 8gb in the modern era. I always think of them as expensive but good hardware (if you are using them the way Apple intends). If my assumptions about your work are correct, life will improve if you can scrape up some more RAM.

Codeberg us really new, i think like 2 years. Since covid for sure.

so if you click documentation on the session website it brings you to this page https://docs.oxen.io/oxen-docs/products-built-on-oxen/session

I am seeing the words "blockchain", "economics", "token", "instant transactions".... And one click to NFT crypto stuff.

I remember hearing that blockchain tech could be used for stuff other than scams but it is used for scams a lot and this app seems to be related to scam-type activity.

Can someone provide any insight?

Well you can't make a hiring decision on that basis in most places unless you have a reason. What constitutes "a reason" being variable. Generally if you are prohibited from making a decision on a certain factor, you may not ask about it during an interview.

Sex discrimination can be constituted by various things. For example asking about maritial status, children, plans for pregnancy, soliciting sexual favors, etc. Also in some places, if you thought someone might be trans, you could not ask them about that.

https://getsession.org/ their website is an incredible abuse of mouseover omg...

I guess it would be too much to get a set of metronomes eh.

I agree the debian website is exremely confusing. I was wandering around for ages with a dozen tabs open trying to find the actual download link I need.

i know but you have to do it every time.

I think maybe if there are license issues the distros have different policies? You might need to do some kind of extra step to include certain drivers.

its intuitive enough you don’t even notice

a bit much

COMPUTERS ARE FUN AGAIN

agreed

Careful where you point that thing. I unintentionally disrupted someone's life by introducing them to ventoy. Now they have been distrohopping like crazy because of how easy it is.

I think it depends on the project. Some maintainers really only want extremely comprehensive bug reports that realistically only another dev could produce. All kinds of logs, sometimes requiring special packages installed to produce them.

Which makes sense because someone just saying "it crashes sometimes" doesnt provide much to go on.

the person who wrote this post is so full of hate and contempt. I find myself quite disinterested in reading.

I dont know how to code but i have made contribs on repos. For documentation and stuff.

Some repos are very complex and some are simple. It is typically roughly corrolated to size: larger projects = more complex. And then it depends on the language/platform/toolchain being used. Some of them can be very ellaborate. If you dont typically work on that kind of project the set up can be very difficult as you are starting from scratch with dependencies, might need dev versions, can be a whole thing.

Also there are some things which are organizational choices made by the maintainers. A couple of times i was unable to contribute to docs because they werent seperated from the rest of the project and just to edit markdown files you had to install a whole dev toolchain and who knows what. I gave up before getting anywhere. Whereas others have different components segregated nicely.

Then there is quality control stuff having to do with testing, formating and such. You might only find out about that once you've got through everything else and time comes to make a PR.

Start out by using git and github or alternative for yourself to learn the basics. Then pick a smaller, explicitly beginer friendly project to make some minor contributions. Something with a few maintainers and regular contributions from others is generally a good balance. Look for an updated CONTRIBUTING file or equivilant section in the documentation.

I think making a few markdown contribs first is probably advisable even for programers because most of the time it is more simple.

1. where does it say its open source? I do not see this anywhere. what is the stated license?
2. assuming it does say this somewhere, have you attempted to contact the developer to request the source code? for example here https://app.macoou.com/inquiry What was the result?

if yes to the above and no resolution:

• could try reporting via whatever google's mechanism is; "flag as inappropriate" i guess
• could contact the SFC https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/ they are the only org I am aware of that does this kind of thing as a general activity; I doubt they would be interested in this little hobby project-looking dev
• if the dev is using FLOSS code, for example which was published under GPL, and they are not complying with the license in redistribution, then you could notify the devs of the GPL code
• if you wish to pursue the matter independently you will need to find about about the dev's local jurisdiction and how to carry out a legal action there. looks like that would be japan.

1. In another comment I ran iperf3 Laptop (wifi) ---> Desktop (ethernet) which was about 80-90MBits/s. Whereas Desktop ---> OtherDesktop was in the 900-950 MBits/s range. So I think I can say the networking is fine enough when it's all ethernet. Is there some other kind of benchmarking to do?

2. Just posted a more detailed description of the desktops in this comment (4th paragraph). It's not ideal but for now its what I have. I did actually take the time (gnome-disks benchmarking) to test different cables, ports, etc to find the best possible configuration. While there is an upper limit, if you are forced to use USB, this makes a big difference.

3. Other people suggested ZeroTier or VPNs generally. I don't really understand the role this component would be playing? I have a LAN and I really only want local access. Why the VPN?

4. Ya, I have tried using syncthing for this before and it involves deleting stuff all the time then re-syncing it when you need it again. And you need to be careful not to accidentally delete while synced, which could destroy all files.

5. Resilio I used it a long time ago. Didn't realize it was still around! IIRC it was somewhat based on bittorrent with the idea of peers providing data to one another.

Does SimpleX have the ability to share the conversation history across devices?

But where do you start to look? Most distros have their config published in two places: /boot/config-, for any installed kernel, or /proc/config.gz (cat /proc/config.gz | gunzip to read), for your running kernel.

Thanks for understanding the question and providing a concrete answer of a place to look! I will do this. :)

That's what I'm thinking!

I am asking a really basic question here. How do I find out about the drivers in the distro?

this place isn't what it used to be

familarize yourself with everything first

dry humor i hope

@15liam20@lemmy.world shared a great link for FIT. From the same website: FOBT = Fecal Occult Blood Test

• FIT/FOBT: low-cost, low-barrier, easy and 100% safe test done by the patient themselves at home

• Colonoscopy: expensive, resource-intensive, onerous, invasive, time-consuming and while usually safe there are complications up to and including death

Even though an individual colonoscopy is more sensitive than an individual FOBT/FIT, regular use of FOBT/FIT is probably more effective overall on the population level. Unlike a colonoscopy, it is reasonable to repeat the FOBT/FIT every 1-2 years. Screening colonoscopies are usually done at intervals of 10 years. So imagine if you start doing colon cancer screening in 2023. In 2024, you start to develop cancer. If you are screening by colonoscopy, you will have to wait until 2033 to find it, unless you have symptoms in which case you are in trouble! (The whole idea of screening is you don't wait for symptoms.) Also it is important to remember that in the real world, people hate colonoscopies, health care is not always perfectly accessible, life gets in the way etc so it could be even more delayed. But if you are doing your FIT/FOBT every 1-2 years you will likely detect it fairly quickly. People are much more likely to actually go through with FIT/FOBT testing compared to colonoscopies. Then when you get the positive FIT/FOBT result, you'd be sent for a colonoscopy (or some other equivalent) for the confirming diagnosis.

It doesn't matter if no one ends up with the same configuration. No one ends up with the same configurations on KDE or Gnome either. Having a reasonable starting place is courteous and doesn't diminish the experience for those who wish to delete it immediately.

But I guess it does serve some emotional needs for their communities. So I'm glad it's there for those who need it.

I've tried it a couple times and can work in some contexts but becomes overly-complex in others. Example, if your fileset is not easily constrained by a single git repo. e.g. if there are multiple repos already existing. Or there are submodules. Or there are repos that have ignore files, but you want to include the files in the changes. Or there are a lot of files that choke git.

Plus it doesn't really facilitate showing the changes that easily. I guess then you immediately go look at it with a diff tool and try to ascertain if it is screwed up or not? The kate component is nice because it shows you a list of changed files by filename/location, which you can expand to lines, and which you can easily open the whole file. Highlights the matches. Very quickly flick though everything for manual error checking. I haven't been able to find any diff tool that is as easy to use. (Would love to learn of one.)

And it still doesn't address the whole concept of saving the query.. I guess if you would write an individual bash script for every query? Then have a directory of those to somehow riffle through when needed?

All this sounds like something a computer would be great at managing but I am shit at managing.

I think thats called taxes!

There should be more government funding for floss. Both by prioritizing floss projects to use and direct funding to projects that arent useful to govts.

Some of the distros actually just included an alias from exa to eza when the project forked. I didn't even realize I was using eza for a long time!

I tried the ones I found but they choke on these complicated tables

Unless there is a signature option i asssume doing it by hand also. Its like 3x retro.