[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 74 points 10 months ago

Oh "great", more crap between Ctrl and Alt.

[Grumpy grandpa] In my times, the space row only had five keys! And we did more than those youngsters do with eight, now nine keys!

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 90 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Misleading name, on the same level as calling water "non-explosive hydrogen". That said the material looks promising, as a glass replacement for some applications (the text mentions a few of them, like armoured windows).

(It is not a metal; it's a ceramic, mostly oxygen with bits and bobs of aluminium and nitrogen. Interesting nonetheless, even if I'm picking on the name.)

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 74 points 11 months ago
[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 87 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Here's an example. Let's say that you don't know how open source works, and I told you the following:

Why are you in Lemmy? It's open source so any hacker can screw with it, and infect your computer with viruses. You'll never know, right?

That's FUD: fear, uncertainty, and doubt. It's a disingenuous tactic to convince you to not do something, based on the following:

  • You fear a certain outcome. In this case, a computer virus.
  • That fear is vaguely associated with something that is uncertain for you. In this case, how a hacker could use Lemmy to inject viruses into your computer.
  • The odds of that outcome happening are doubtful; it may happen, it may not, otherwise you could call me out for not happening. In this case, even if you don't get a virus from using Lemmy, I can still say "well, some people get it, some don't, but let's play it safe and avoid Lemmy."

This shitty strategy is fairly used in the tech industry because most people are clueless about tech, but they know that it has a big impact on their lives. However you'll also see this in politics, religious debate (Pascal's Wager is FUD), and others.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 year ago

It's mostly Mastodon. The text doesn't even mention Lemmy or Kbin.

I'm glad that Mozilla is doing this. It benefits both sides (Mozilla and the Fediverse), in a transparent way. Hopefully we get some Fediverse companion for Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml

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submitted 1 year ago by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml

Summary: Reddit warns mods that it's ending its crypto program, before it warns the other users. What could go wrong? /s

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml

Aka The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of the Mountain of Rust

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I often switch between phones and speakers, but I'm too lazy to do it through the sound preferences window. So I came up with this script*, and I'm sharing it here as others might find it useful.

You'll need to tweak it a bit to work in your machine, but once you do it you can run it from a launcher or a keyboard shortcut, it's really comfy.

Okay, here's the code:


#!/bin/bash

# You'll need to swap those four values with the ones that work in your machine.
# Check the rest of the post for further info.
mainCard="pci-0000_06_00.1"
mainProfile="hdmi-stereo-extra1"
altCard="pci-0000_00_09.2"
altProfile="analog-stereo"

# If the current default source is main, your new source is alt. Else, your new is main.
if [[ $(pactl get-default-source) == "alsa_output.$mainCard.$mainProfile.monitor" ]]
then declare -g newCard="$altCard" newProfile="$altProfile"
else declare -g newCard="$mainCard" newProfile="$mainProfile"
fi

# Tells PulseAudio to shift the card profile and default sink to the new.
pactl set-card-profile "alsa_card.${newCard}" "output:${newProfile}"
pacmd set-default-sink "alsa_output.${newCard}.${newProfile}" &> /dev/null\

# Tells PulseAudio to shift the currently running programs to use the new output.
for i in $(pacmd list-sink-inputs | grep index | awk '{print $2}')
do pacmd move-sink-input "$i" "alsa_output.${newCard}.${newProfile}" &> /dev/null
done

# Optional text notification.
if [[ $(pactl get-default-source) == "alsa_output.$mainCard.$mainProfile.monitor" ]]
then notify-send -t 500 "Main sound output on!"
elif [[ $(pactl get-default-source) == "alsa_output.$altCard.$altProfile.monitor" ]]
then notify-send -t 500 "Alt sound output on!"
else notify-send -t 2000 "Something weird happened."
fi

# Optional audio notification. It runs VLC but it's easy to adapt or remove if you want.
cvlc --play-and-exit /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/message-new-instant.oga


Check the first four lines of code. You'll need to replace that "pci.blahblah" and "audio.stereo.whatever" junk with the ones from your machine. To know them, run pacmd list-sources | grep name: in a terminal. The output will look like this:

name: ⟨alsa_output.pci-0000_06_00.1.hdmi-stereo-extra1.monitor⟩
name: ⟨alsa_output.pci-0000_00_09.2.analog-stereo.monitor⟩

Ignore ⟨alsa_output and monitor⟩. The second-to-last chunk (e.g. hdmi-stereo-extra1) is the profile. The rest (e.g. pci-0000_06_00.1) is the card. Now replace those in the script.

*credits: this script is partially inspired on this AskUbuntu comment.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/anime@lemmy.ml

Also known as wataoshi or I'm in Love with the Villainess.

Bot-kun didn't update for fall [NH] / spring [SH] and I couldn't find a thread about this series, so here I am.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

EDIT: I was able to solve this by going into the "change password" screen, right-clicking the "old password" field, clicking "inspect", and changing maxlength="60" minlength="10" to maxlength="60" minlength="1", thanks to the tip provided by Dandroid in the comments.


When I try to login, the following message appears: "Please use at least 10 characters (you are currently using # characters)." Ditto when I try to change my password.

This issue affects me when trying to log in from Firefox and Chromium, in Linux. When trying to log in from Firefox in Android, I can't but no message is given. It does not affect Jerboa or Voyager, but I can't change my password from either.

Any idea on how to solve this? When I created this account 2y ago I was just checking Lemmy out, so I didn't bother with a strong password back then, but this has become a ticking bomb. I'm currently able to access Lemmy from Firefox due to saved credentials, but I'm worried about them eventually expiring.

Pictures showing the issue:


(My actual password isn't 6 chars long, but the error message is the same.)

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submitted 1 year ago by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml

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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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submitted 1 year ago by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/cat@lemmy.world

The name of the game is Six Cats Under. It can be played online, and it's rather quick to play.

Backstory: you're the ghost of a recently deceased crazy cat lady. Your job is to free your cats from your home, because now you can't feed them, and you don't want them to starve.

All cats have their own personalities and names. For example Baroness is grumpy, Fredrick only cares about food, Mr. Spock likes to scratch furniture, etc. (Source: click on the cat and the ghost will say it.) This is relevant for gameplay because you need to make her cats interact in a certain way to open the door.

I'll provide the solution of the puzzle in the comments, but please try the game before using it. Otherwise you'll lose all those nice tidbits of narration from the ghost.

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submitted 1 year ago by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/linguistics@lemmy.ml

This video offers a nice introduction on the comparative method, used to reconstruct languages without direct attestation, and then talks a bit about the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. It's full of examples and rather accessible, even for people not well-versed in Historical Linguistics (or even Linguistics).

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submitted 1 year ago by lvxferre@lemmy.ml to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml

The outcome was predicted by plenty users in this community, but now the news are noticing it.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know what, enough is enough. Snaps run like shit in my system (IDK/DC why), I hate companies forcing their shit down my throat, and I was planning a clean reinstall anyway from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. Might as well use the opportunity to go back to Debian. Or Mint. Or Mint Debian Edition. Who knows.

Next on the news, Ubuntu ("humanity") gets renamed to Amasimba ("shit"). /s

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 74 points 1 year ago

I'm not asking anything because I'm a potato when it comes to software. I just wanted to drop by and say: thank you both for Lemmy. The platform is amazing, and it's clear that you guys are pouring some heavy love (and labour hours) in it, as it's improving at an amazing pace.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 80 points 1 year ago

It didn't, I agree. Lemmy for example was really slow; the type of site that you'd check once a few days. Nowadays however you can pretty much lurk nonstop here, and you know that you'll see more stuff that you want to see. Same deal with other sites.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 77 points 1 year ago

Lemmy removes EXIF data from pictures, since it includes potentially private information such as phone model, where IRL the pic is from, date, time, etc. But as a side effect, it also removes a tidbit of info that says "rotate this pic when showing it".

The way that I usually solve this* is by editing the picture in Kolourpaint. Either cropping it or resizing it.

*by coincidence to post cat pictures. Yours is making such a silly face :3 love it!

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 88 points 1 year ago

Ultimately, what went wrong is that most Reddit users were screeching at individual leaves littering their garden, without noticing the tree creating those leaves on first place. They failed to connect the dots between: arbitrary bans, subreddit suspensions, user-on-user harassment, the idiotic way that rules are enforced, the presence of powermods, then Reddit trying to get rid of the powermods, the 3PA being killed... while focusing too much on a braindead clown called Steve Huffman.

It's all about profits. You can't enforce any demand if you don't make Reddit lose money. Blackouts and John Oliver posting only go so far, you need to migrate out of the platform. And if you're staying in the platform you need to transform it into an advertiser-hostile shithole. But for that you need more coordination than just "HURR DURR WE WRITE FUCK SPEZ IN PLACE LOL LMAO".

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like that they were able to coordinate enough to make "fuck spez" so visible (plus the "spez ist ein H*rensohn" = "spez is a son of a b*tch"). I just wish that they focused on the big picture - Spez himself is just a tool (in both senses) for Reddit Inc., and it's the whole corporation that should be screwed over.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 76 points 1 year ago

Me, five minutes ago: "who's this Empress?"

Me, now: "I need to follow her, it's free popcorn!"

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