danielquinn

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

Curious how it never occurs to them to block the driving lane, or you know, park around the corner.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Cambridge checking in. It must be payback for the cows leaving their shit all over the walking path.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

I just went through F-Droid and counted out all the projects I have on my phone. At £5 each I'm looking at an annual bill of about £70/year... Bargain.

Thanks for the idea!

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While it's understandable that you might think so, that's not where this is coming from.

The white poppy comes from the UK originally where they treat Remembrance Day rather differently from the way we do. While in Canada, it's a moment to remember the horrors of war and the millions lost when we embrace industrial scale international violence, the UK really doubles down on the whole "To Our Glorious Dead" thing. They take the day to recognise the sacrifices "for freedom" and other deeply propagandistic ideas.

So in rejection of this, the white poppy came about as a rejection of this messaging. In a way, it's an effort to make Remembrance Day more how Canadians tend to recognise it.

If the white poppy is now appearing in Canada, it might be in answer to how the day is changing culturally.

Source: I was born and raised in Canada. My grandfather fought in our armed forces to liberate the Netherlands and we attended Remembrance Day ceremonies regularly as far back as I can remember. I emigrated to the UK when I was in my 30s, and I will not wear a poppy here. It means something very different.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Monolith has the same problem here. I think the best resolution might be some sort of browser-plugin based solution where you could say "archive this" and have it push the result somewhere.

I wonder if I could combine a dumb plugin with Monolith to do that... A weekend project perhaps.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Monolith can be particularly handy for this. I used it in a recent project to archive the outgoing links from my own site. Coincidentally, if anyone is interested in that, it's called django-cool-urls.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't know why I care so much to try to inform you when you can't even be bothered to google israelis destroy food, but here you go:

Then there's the case where Israel targetted and killed aid workers just trying to deliver food. Again from the BBC: Biden 'outraged' over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza.

Not satisfied with mainstream media that's often biased in favour of genocide? Here is video footage of Israelis straight-up destroying food destined for Gazan children.

You say you've "been there". I assume you mean Israel and not Gaza. Maybe, if you're so confident that Israel are the good guys here, you should go back and help get those aid trucks through the Israeli blockades. Maybe you should try to stop the soldiers from gunning down people trying to collect flour from the few trucks that do get through.

You might be thinking something outlandish like: "It must be Hamas. Some sort of deep-cover thing where they're killing their own people to implicate the Most Moral Army In The World", and honestly, if you're that far gone, there's no helping you. I'm not going to sit here though and let you repeat lies unchallenged. Israel has -- in the words of its own ministers, besieged Gaza. It's so bad that even Biden has demanded that they let aid trucks through.

You are misinformed. I encourage you to learn more about the country you're defending.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You are misinformed. The food trucks are not from Israel. They are being blockaded by Israel and the food destroyed. There's ample evidence for this. They film themselves doing it.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More of this please!

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago

This will make rejoining the EU much more difficult.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

ExFAT is good for portable devices, but if you're working with something internally, there's no reason not to use EXT4 or NTFS.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's not been my experience. Lots of drives I've bought have been FAT32 out of the box.

 

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.

 

[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.

 

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.

 

I'm working on a little program that'll launch different browsers based on the content of the URL passed and I'd like to set it as the default Web app in this list (under Settings → Default Apps). I've written a .desktop file based on the epiphany.desktop file, but it doesn't show up when I hit [Win]+o+p+e and it doesn't show up in the default apps either, so I'm hoping that someone here can explain what I've done wrong.

Here's the contents of the opening.desktop file:

$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/opening.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Opening
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Open links in the right browsers
Keywords=web;browser;internet;opening;
Exec=opening %u
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/daniel/.local/share/applications/opening.png
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;application/xhtml+xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;multipart/related;application/x-mimearchive;message/rfc822;application/x-xpinstall;

Any criticisms are much appreciated!

 

They must get turned into streaks to be eaten somewhere right? It'd be nice if every morning that I have to ride my bike through their wet piles of shit, I can think to myself: "at least I'll get to eat you at ________ in a few months".

 

...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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