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I'm not saying that LibreOffice is perfect by a long shot but they don't have ads in your fucking word processor.
in reply to Trivial Einstein

@Trivial Einstein I have MS Office 365 strictly because it gives me and 5 of my family members 1 TB of backup space. I have tried to force myself to use MS Office (via WUI). It is just to obscure. I prefer LibreOffice and my Open Source Tools.

I have used Gnu/Linux as my Daily Driver for over 30 years so I am used to not relying on MS products. Today I use Fedora 41 on my laptop, Arch on my Workstation and use Rocky 9 on my VPS. I have worked with Windows systems at work, and for friends though Windows is just not reliable enough for day to day use in my opinion.

in reply to Luna

@queerthoughts not that I've been able to spot.

Although on Windows (work pc) it's got this weird thing going on where if you're in dark mode on your pc, it won't correctly render some in-doc elements and some stuff will literally just be invisible. Switching to a light theme manually doesn't fix all of it either and despite following online guides I can't get some of it to go into light mode at all.

No such issues on Linux, where I'm also using a system-wide dark theme.

@Luna
in reply to Luna

@Luna @Trivial Einstein No, it will not force any AI on you and LibreOffice has no intention at this time to add AI support to LibreOffice.

There are community projects that would allow you to use AI if you wanted to. Most importantly locally hosted AI such as Ollama or Llama.cpp so your information is not being shared with a corporation.



#witches #witchcraft #witch

Be careful out there.

wildhunt.org/2025/02/concerns-โ€ฆ

in reply to KentuckyConjurer

Oh yes, those poor misunderstood Christians. Ugh! Let me be honest and say that the struggle is real inside of myself to not hate the whole lot of them and their faith and their god. I'm trying to be better than this but it's hard. Haha. So much suffering for hundreds and thousands of years traced back to this fucking religion. Ugh




in reply to Matt G

Dammit, AI-generated garbage again! Thought we were done with the fake billboard posts from Facebook.
in reply to Nini

@nini
It's not even that it is AI #slop, but that it takes an idea I think most folks here already agree with, and tries to present it with fake bona fides.

The implication is that someone cared enough to pay to put up a billboard on a public place. Social proof.

The message itself could have just been text, posted, even as a big image.

But whoever the original creator was chose to present it this way for more impact.

I'll agree with the point, but not the delivery



I think it's quite problematic on #Linux to start off with regular ol' #Python that came with the system (i.e. /usr/bin/python), and then as you go installing some packages (i.e. on the #AUR if you're on #ArchLinux) which will then install some Python libraries using it, and then you start using something like #Conda or #Miniconda whereby subsequent package installations or updates may be installing these libraries on the Conda environment (i.e. ~/miniconda3/python) and not the system, so there's some overlap there or so? I'm wondering what's the best way of moving forward from this point - esp since sometime ago, it's no longer possible to raw pip install <package> anymore for wtv reason.
in reply to Unus Nemo

wow, this is incredibly detailed and has taught me a lot. I was aware ofc of venv and do use it on a per-project basis, but I wasnโ€™t aware that it could be used this way. I guess, as long as whatโ€™s been installed on the system (python library wise) is found on the (new) environment, all shd be good and I could remove all python/pip libraries installed on the system?
in reply to Mika

@Mika


I don't know how many will enjoy this but I thought I'd share the completion of my entryway closet curtain.
in reply to ryn

Oh this is cool! I'm glad you were able to make this work! The curtain sounds super neat.
in reply to Hell's Kitchen Bitches! ๐Ÿฆฎ๐Ÿ”ฅ

@Pawpower It is so cool. Now when I open my door, my closet belongings won't be what people immediately see. The bedroom one I might need help to hang. It's heavier weight and uses the animal sketch design that I've had for years. I'm placing the loops closer together for It's hooks cuz I think it may need that. I just have to do the hem and the webbing strip for the loops. A good project for this rainy weather to let me procrastinate my rain gear further LOL


Putting this on the instance front page for new users.

#shitpost



Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8Guโ€ฆ
in reply to Technology Connections

@TechConnectify@mas.to kWh: (1000 (J/s))/(3600*s)

kWh is almost as ugly as BTU. Please measure energy in Joules, like most of the world does.

in reply to Technology Connections

youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA&t=772

"But I've been indulging in some of the alternatives, like Mastodon and, lately, BlueSky... "

Glad I found ya!
I was intrigued that, instead of Technology Connections, the handle here was / is "techconnectify"





I just discovered a book I'd pre-ordered last year and sorta forgot about has been released and is on my e-reader! Book 3 of the Emily Wilde fairy scholar series. I really loved the first two books. #Bookstodon #EmilyWilde


I'm tired of the cold making my joints hurt. But most of all I'm sick of Hitler II destroying our country. I'm pulling out with the magical party bus and partying like it's 1999. Picking up @Pawpower, then moving onto get @Skepticat and @PraiseCheese then we're headed East to get @CoachMark.
Hop on since it's a magical bus all is welcome.

1999
Prince

youtu.be/rblt2EtFfC4?si=YiyxfUโ€ฆ

#PartyBus
#CoffeeDance
#Mar

in reply to Mar :๐ŸŒป

๐Ÿ˜ถโ€๐ŸŒซ๏ธ Quick peek into the bus from my ER Ambulance Bay. I'm chilling in the ER today. Pick me up on the way back.๐Ÿ‘‹
@mooseandriosmom @Pawpower @PraiseCheese @CoachMark


Amazon has started its warehouse shutdown as it exits Quรฉbec :flagqc:.

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/0โ€ฆ
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Amazon a entamรฉ la fermeture de ses entrepรดts afin de quitter le Quรฉbec :flagqc:

lapresse.ca/affaires/entreprisโ€ฆ

#Quรฉbec #Amazon

in reply to Edwin G.

The Amazon workersโ€™ union is trying to overturn the decision to close their warehouses in the Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) and get one year salary as compensation.

toronto.citynews.ca/2025/02/21โ€ฆ
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Le syndicat des travailleurs dโ€™Amaxon essaie de faire annuler la dรฉcision de fermer leurs entrepรดts devant le Tribunal administratif du Travail (TAT) et dโ€™obtenir un an de salaire en guise de compensation.

lapresse.ca/affaires/entreprisโ€ฆ

#Quรฉbec #Amazon

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in reply to Edwin G.

The first day of hearings in the Amazon warehouse closure case in front of Quรฉbecโ€™s :flagqc: Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) was today.

thecanadianpressnews.ca/quebecโ€ฆ
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La premiรจre journรฉe des audiences dans lโ€™affaire de la fermeture des entrepรดts dโ€™Amazon a eu lieu aujourdโ€™hui devant le Tribunal administratif du Travail (TAT) du Quรฉbec :flagqc:

lapresse.ca/affaires/entreprisโ€ฆ

#Quรฉbec #Amazon




JavaScript is awesome. You can do so much with it, from adding interactivity and animations to a website, to writing programs and scripts with Node. It's pretty easy to learn (in the scheme of programming languages) and very powerful.

People love to hate on JS. It can be used to track people around the web. It has some technical idiosyncracies (that's gotten a lot better in the last 20 years though). It can make websites slower in some circumstances. For the most part, these are problems caused by bad development practices, which you do not necessarily have to follow.

By no means do you need JS to make great websites, but it absolutely can take them to the next level. Add this powerful tool to your toolbox and learn JavaScript!

in reply to Senna ๐ŸŒท

@Senna ๐ŸŒท When JavaScript started out it was a little more than a few event handlers to add some bells and whistles to your site, and perhaps avoid some round trips to the server by validating forms. It has grown up into a full fledged programming language. I have always enjoyed JavaScript. The few things I wish we had held onto is. No Cross Domain Scripting. This may seem like a huge limitation though it really is not. Cross Domain Scripting is at the heart of what most people hate about the web. Personally, I will not even use a CDN. I simply have no reason to.

Node does make it great, that you can use the same language frontend and backend. Helps in the learning curve for lots of developers. There is a reason why JavaScript is the most popular language in world today. Unfortunately it seems some developers have taken to just gluing together some frameworks and libraries and not bother to learn how to program at all. They have no idea what they are missing.

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in reply to Senna ๐ŸŒท

I want to learn! Do you have any good resources to learn from where I can set up a good foundation for a variety of projects?

I have experience in intermediate C# programming, and have dipped my toes into JS on at least 10 separate occasions. It seems like every javascript library has some sort of idomatic way of doing things and enough syntactic sugar to make it almost a derivative of the lanugage. Typescript is its own can of worms but many of the open source projects I'd like to contribue to use it. I've been told "vanilla javascript" can make it all seem more approachable but practically every project that I want to work on seems to use a library of some kind.

It all seems very mystifying ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

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in reply to Felix ๐ŸŠ

@Felix ๐ŸŠ @Senna ๐ŸŒท Definitely everything that @Senna ๐ŸŒท mentioned and I would also recommend JavaScript The Good Part by Douglas Crockford. It is an older book though still relevant and not at all that expensive.

JavaScript The Good Parts @ Thrift Books

JavaScript The Good Parts @ Amazon

JavaScript The Definitive Guide 7th Edition @ Amazon



well, kid turned into an adult legally yesterday. He likes his birthday present. newegg.ca/p/N82E16883360568?Itโ€ฆ
in reply to Brian Moore

Well happy birthday kid who is no longer a kid. Also that present is fancy AF! Wow! You get mega dad points.



in reply to Ken Gahagan

@Ken Gahagan - Money rules this country, ideally earned in a cut-throat way, just like the good old times.


Inaccurate tweets about Ukraine got community noted. Musk is now changing the system.

State media does its thing. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-helโ€ฆ

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I was literally joking about the Netherlands offering to make New York into New Amsterdam again last week.

My wish has come true!

Well done @EUCommission ๐Ÿ‘

#USpol #NLpol #EUpol #funny #YesPlease

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in reply to David August โŒ๐Ÿ‘‘

"Trump tower will become a red light district, making it less sleazy than it is now" took me out ๐Ÿคฃ


โ€œHitler's Enabling Act (1933) let his cabinet bypass parliamentโ€ฆto โ€˜save democracy.โ€™ Yesterday's Executive Order lets White House control all independent agenciesโ€ฆto โ€˜restore democracy.โ€™ Seeโ€ฆcomparison below between yesterday's EO & The Enabling Act.โ€ via @pardonmycrumbs@threads.net #USpol #coup


#WompWomp

"Joe Rogan has lost his crown of having the #1 podcastโ€”and his fans are not happy about it.

The Joe Rogan Experience was knocked from its top spot by anti-Trump show The MeidasTouch Podcast, outpacing Rogan by downloads and views last month, according to Podscribe, a podcast ranker."

thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-reโ€ฆ

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Slept way better last night, thankfully. Still got a hellish sore throat and general lurgi this morning. A blend of paracetamol, ibuprofen, and lemon, ginger, and honey drink seems appropriate!

#MedicalScienceAndNaturalRemediesAreNotEnemies!




Me: โ€œActually, advertising doesnโ€™t work on me! Iโ€™m immune to that nonsense!โ€

(Sees a gif of E.T. lifting his glowing finger)

Me: (Somehow already driving to the grocery store to buy Reeseโ€™s Pieces.)



"The Gainesville Intermediate School was aware Carranza was being bullied and mocked by students who told the young girl she would be left alone when her parents got deported. It had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified."

latintimes.com/11-year-old-texโ€ฆ

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in reply to James Bazรกn

Yes I agree that those are the primary places where adults teach youth that bigotry and oppressive behavior is acceptable.
Other school workers and administrators almost certainly knew this was happening and are probably the ones who set her up with counselor services in the first place, so it wasn't "on" the counselor to "tell" them. (This is, in part, an illustration of how abuse is "erased" by reframing it as a "mental health issue" of the victim.)
Yes every adult in the school failed her. I simply don't see "telling the victim's parents without the victim's consent" as something that could have fixed this.
(What could the parents have done? Anything the parents could have done about the bullies, other adults *also* could have done about the bullies. Other adults in the school could also have a conversation with her about why it might be a good idea to tell her parents - while ultimately trusting her to make that call as the person who knew her family/living situation best.)
in reply to sal

@sal at one point it was part of my job to intervene in cases of harassment: peer to peer or up or down gradients of hierarchy. There was no wiggle room. It was intervene or assume legal liability and moral responsibility.
It was a complex job, but nothing got to me like cases of harassment: usually sexual harassment, but a few were rooted in gender, race, and ethnicity
I can still see the eyes of every single victim who came ito my office thinking they were alone and powerless.
@sal


Either I picked the wrong year to reread Parable of the Sower, or Octavia Butler is reminding me to hoard seeds and map the back roads to Canada. #Bookstadon

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Last year I found myself needing to have some 10000 pictures automatically tagged.

I found that all existing software either cost a silly amount of money, required a subscription, and/or was cloud based.

So I decided to write an #opensource App running on the local machine, free for everyone to use. Here it is.

github.com/DIVISIO-AI/stag

:boost_requested:

It works like a charm with #darktable ๐Ÿ˜Š

(divis.io is the company I work for and has kindly supported me in this endeavour)

#photography

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MathJax is installed


Mathjax: $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$

Produces: $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$





"Since getting re-elected in Nov., Trump has repeatedly called for Canada to join the US as the 51st state but has said he wants to use economic, not military force, to make that happen"

โ€œAfter we destroy their economy their will to resist will erode. We will then march in unopposed & deliver Canada to its rightful place as a territory of the U.S. with no political representation.โ€
-- US right-wing influencer Tim Pool, on X, in a post that got 2.2 mill. views.

The Tyee:
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/12/Onlโ€ฆ

in reply to Deborah Preuss, pcc ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Goodness this man and his ilk make me embarrassed to live in this country and be from here! I understand why Canadians are angry and the only thing I can do is apologize and tell you that this was not my choice and I will continue to protest as much as I can. This is such shit.
in reply to Hell's Kitchen Bitches! ๐Ÿฆฎ๐Ÿ”ฅ

@Pawpower ๐Ÿ™thank you.

And we'll try to be angry at your electeds, not you. โค Hang in there.

Send good vibes for our upcoming elections ๐Ÿ˜€ ๐Ÿคž

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