marv99

@marv99@feddit.de
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They (Mr. Oil, Mr. Coil and Mrs. Nuke) explained to him that they are loosing $87 from your electric bill what will effect their profits and donations to him.

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Thank you good bot, please take my social media profile.

Ahh, I returned to Reddit for the vote just to learn that vote is over :(. If you are interest in the vote's result and do not want to visit Reddit, feel free to open the spoiler

::: spoiler spoiler

Voting has now closed.

Our final tally is as follows:

Return to normal operations: -2,329 votes

Only allow images of John Oliver looking sexy: 37,331 votes

It would seem that the community has spoken! :::

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Let the religious shell wars begin ... again

Only right answer is of course TCSH. Not much documentation and support, ancient but still receives new bugs in 2021 (on Debian), but attackers hate it! (I love it)

My real suggestion is to learn zsh and fish (and bash). Try using them for all your purposes and in the end you will automatically find the one (or more of them) that suits you best and that you like most for your daily tasks.

You can start with The Uber files, which "is a global investigation into a trove of 124,000 confidential documents from the tech company that were leaked to the Guardian."

Summary

Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals

Some examples:

  • The cache of more than 124,000 internal Uber files lays bare the ethically questionable practices through which the company barged its way into new markets, often where existing laws or regulations made its operations illegal, before lobbying aggressively for those same laws or regulations to be altered to accommodate it. Read here
  • Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to prevent police and regulators from accessing sensitive data during raids on its offices in at least six countries. Read here
  • Two of Barack Obama’s most senior presidential campaign advisers, David Plouffe and Jim Messina, discussed helping Uber get to access leaders, officials and diplomats. Read here
  • At least six UK government ministers, including the then chancellor, George Osborne, and the future health secretary Matt Hancock, did not declare secret meetings at which they were lobbied by Uber. Read here
  • The inside story of how Uber used its connections to the Conservative party to lobby Boris Johnson in a rearguard effort to stop Transport for London introducing new regulations. Read here
  • One of Uber’s top executives quit amid questions for the company about whether its European operations were structured in a way that avoided tax. Read here
  • Uber secretly hired a political operative linked to Russian oligarchs allegedly aligned with Vladimir Putin in an attempt to secure its place in the Russian market, despite internal bribery concerns. Read here

[...]

As Bonus some older articles about their overall ethics and practices:

It looks nice and the wallpaper is great. Would you mind sharing a source for it?

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All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
Had to select "Other", but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

The German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.

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In my FF's about:config there is a setting called intl.regional_prefs.use_os_locales, defaulted to false. Maybe this can be used?

I find it good that you doubt and ask.

My answer (like OP's one) is: You do not need to trust (blindly like for closed-source or platforms). The script is FOSS, you can check every step it does, before you use it. One of the biggest benefits of FOSS :)

Looks like a really nice and useful initiative.

::: spoiler Suggestion to the owners of the SFD webpage I would appreciate the SFD initiative even more, if on the SFD webpage you would "live by your own words".

Facebook and the blue bird are by no means free software, also not according to your definitions "free to study [how the program works]", "free to distribute [copies]", "free to modify [the software]", "free to access [the source code]".

So why not at least show the benefits and use FOSS social media alternatives in action?
If you need the momentum of the unfree social media, you still could do this additionally. :::

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Same for me with uBlock Origin, until I have updated to version 1.51.0

I prefer AppImages on my Debian desktops as they normally simply work out of the box (download, start) and I had (many years ago) trouble with snap and flatpak.

I agree (also respectfully), just wanted to add, as I have seen the movie yesterday (and know the book), that the Oasis in Ready Player One is a not really a bad place. So the original OASIS is not what Meta want to have.

IOI (and Meta) want to transform an OASIS into their dystopian metaverse, like shown in the movie when IOI proudly presented their plans: a company's dream of monetarizing every breath you take while exploiting everyone except their shareholders.

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Your question reminded my immediately about one of my favorite 35c3 talks Butterbrotdosen-Smartphone - Mein DIY-Smartphone-Bau from 2018-12-29. It is in German language, but has an English translation, too. Maybe it can give you some good starting ideas?

Video: 1080p

::: spoiler Story, Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

I would like to show you how I built a smartphone from a Raspberry PI. The problems and difficulties I encountered and the solutions I found. The project is not yet finished, there are still a few small things missing. Nevertheless, I want to show you my smartphone in the practical sandwich box and tell you how it came about.

I had no idea that building a smartphone could be so complicated. Raspberry Pi + touch display is not all there is to think about in this project. At the moment, the smartphone project lives in a sandwich box and attracts attention on the subway. If the power bank can passthrough, that's an advantage, I've found. Setting up the X and Y axes on the touch display so that you can also use the on-screen keyboard was not so easy. And I had to realize that Landscape is not the right size to work smoothly. Most Linux programs are not directly touch-compatible or require too much memory. Then there were also big challenges! Learning to solder was one of them. First learning how to solder, then learning how to desolder, and then daring to use the PI. I would like to tell you these and other stories about building my smartphone. :::

:D sorry, of course the coal guy, not the one with the fancy hairstyle.

If you are unhappy with suggested XSane, but only want an OSS solution, I do not know a good alternative.

::: spoiler Possible non-OSS solution Although I am an open source enthusiast, there are few application where I use commercial, even non-OSS solutions on Linux. One of this exceptions is for scanning.

Background: I "administrate" some legacy Epson scanners used with my family's Linux boxes and got them all to run with a software called VueScan, with the following restrictions:

  • Perfection 3490 worked out of the box, no drivers required
  • Perfection 3170 requires Epson drivers (iscan_2.10.0-2_i386.deb, iscan-plugin-gt-9400_1.0.0-2_i386.deb), but only runs on 32bit Linux
  • Perfection V30 requires Epson drivers (scan-gt-f720-bundle-2.30.4.x64.deb.tar.gz) and simply works on 64bit Debian

As you see, it might be a bit of luck, if a device works out of the box or not.

Unfortunately your Epson Stylus SX435W seems not to be listed under the supported Epson devices (click red button "All drivers" to see all supported Epson scanners).

If you happen to find no solution, I suggest to use the trial version of VueScan and check if your Epson simply runs or not.

EDIT: sorry, I forgot to mention. that the VueScan GUI has plenty of those processing options you are searching for. :::

Thanks for clarifying. Unfortunately I do not know a FOSS alternative for this purpose.

Thanks for sharing , this is a nice script :)

Thank you very much =)

Definitely dislike MS, generations of my workstations have small, yellow "Microsoft Free Workstation" stickers on their monitors, but VSCodium (in my case) is not really bad.

Also I really like the Xbox360 console and (as a hacker and maker) still love the first Kinnect. The Kinnect is an excellent piece of sensor-hardware, was rather cheap when purchased in used condition and it works very well with Linux.

Came here to mention "Pi", too.

Felt in love with the wallpaper, can you please tell me where you got this from @hellfire103@sopuli.xyz ?

Is google pay similar to PayPal?

For micro-transactions I stumbled over the GNU Taler project a while ago.

Wikipedia article

Project page

Last time I checked it was not production ready, but maybe it is worth a look?

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please see this comment above

Thank you for your detailed explanation and the wiki link 🙂. Good to hear that this (side-) topic is on the agenda.

As mentioned, I really appreciate your work around education and awareness of FOSS principles and chances
and I wish you a nice (remaining) Software Freedom Day.

Thanks for the clarification, I will check this server out :)

Puzzle

  • Rocks'n'Diamonds - Digging for diamonds while avoiding boulders and enemies
  • Enigma | github - Marble puzzles (and much more) inspired by the classic game Oxyd
  • GNU Robbo - Solve rooms (puzzles) with your robot

Space

  • Oolite | github - an open-world space opera (inspired by classic game Elite)
  • Kobo Deluxe - 2D scrolling space shooter, destroy star bases with your ship
  • Open Tyrian - Arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter

Ah I get it, thanks for explaining. And sorry for my misunderstanding. I have thought the mods of /r/startrek have created kind of "official substitute" on Lemmy.

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Parse JWT token which is base64 (alias is CSH syntax), usage: tokenparse filename

alias tokenparse "cat "\""\$1"\"" | jq -R 'split("\""."\"") | .[0],.[1] | @base64d | fromjson'"

Is /c/startrek@lemmy.ml the corresponding community in Lemmy?

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