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The Line between Canada and the US Cuts through the Haskell Free Library
  • It's definitely the first thing I thought of too

  • Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”
  • This is my not-safe-for-Reddit opinion but I thought the S1 Klingons were great, interesting and impressive.

  • A recent study has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for two-thirds of observable climate warming
  • I have a feeling even the bottom 10% of Europeans are still contributing more than the bottom 10% of someone in India or Botswana. This Wikipedia page says that the average EU citizen contributes 117% of the global average carbon emissions (for comparison Canada is 307% and USA is 285%).

  • Is it safe to upgrade to paid version of a distro if I'm dual booting?
  • I agree re: Fedora, especially the atomic varieties. I do think Zorin is good at what it is but it has a pretty specific use case.

    Also, had no idea you were also in this community. Pleasant surprise.

    Had the same thought, it's always nice to encounter a civilized person of distinguished taste and culture out here in the wilds.

    Cheers

  • The Line between Canada and the US Cuts through the Haskell Free Library
  • FTA:

    In response to the closure of the library entrance to Canadians—who represent at least half of the library’s clientele—the Haskell did what libraries do: found a way to serve its community anyway. It opened a back door, allowing all Canadians to continue to access the library via a small storage room, without crossing the border. Haskell also set up a fundraising drive to renovate this entrance and make it more accessible, asking for $100,000. In under two weeks, it raised $170,000 and counting. The library is essential. The community and the country at large are responding.

  • A recent study has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for two-thirds of observable climate warming
  • Yes a very good point, the carbon footprint of the average Canadian is 10x that of the average Albanian.

  • Disappointed in Plebbit : I Really Believed in the Vision, But It Was All Just Talk
  • Turns out good web design skills does not always translate into other skills.

  • Is it safe to upgrade to paid version of a distro if I'm dual booting?
  • Even without costs you will always have some faction of FOSS users who view UIs and user-friendliness to be something that can be optimized away (and will always, always, let you know their feelings on the topic).

  • Is it safe to upgrade to paid version of a distro if I'm dual booting?
  • It's not a scam at all, Zorin is a good distro.

  • The Line between Canada and the US Cuts through the Haskell Free Library
  • FTA:

    In response to the closure of the library entrance to Canadians—who represent at least half of the library’s clientele—the Haskell did what libraries do: found a way to serve its community anyway. It opened a back door, allowing all Canadians to continue to access the library via a small storage room, without crossing the border. Haskell also set up a fundraising drive to renovate this entrance and make it more accessible, asking for $100,000. In under two weeks, it raised $170,000 and counting. The library is essential. The community and the country at large are responding.

  • Usernames using randomized nonsense
  • If an instance has a lot of spam, admins tend to notice and block it. In the future it's likely admins will have more tools too, but for now the system works pretty well.

  • Fedora Atomic is the bomb
  • 10/10 this is the future of Linux

    Totally agree

  • The Myth of Plastic Recycling.
  • I thought npr had 10 times fewer listeners

    If you want to be depressed, Joe Rogan has 10 times that for single episodes.

  • The Myth of Plastic Recycling.
  • fwiw I agree, but it doesn't appear to be considered mainstream by the guy I was replying to.

  • The Myth of Plastic Recycling.
  • Sad that NPR is not considered "mainstream" these days. Maybe Joe Rogan will post something to Facebook about it?

  • That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
  • That is correct and echoes what I said

  • That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
  • The Remote Watch Pass is only needed if neither you nor the server owner have a Plex pass: https://support.plex.tv/articles/requirements-for-remote-playback-of-personal-media/

    When using an affected platform to stream personal video content remotely from a Plex Media Server, then one of the following needs to be true:

    1. The admin account for the Plex Media Server has an active Plex Pass (which also allows remote playback for any other user streaming from that server)
    2. Your account has an active Plex Pass
    3. Your account has an active Remote Watch Pass

    The remote playback restrictions do not apply to streaming music content to Plexamp or photos to our Plex Photos app.

  • Researchers secretly infiltrated /r/changemyview with AI bots
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    Reddit is considering legal action after a group of researchers had AI bots pose as real people without users’ knowledge. The researchers say they will no longer publish their study.

    Researchers secretly infiltrated a popular Reddit forum with AI bots, causing outrage
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    Deep Space Nine season 2 appreciation post
  • I love the moments when it's demonstrated that Ferengi can be actually very astute when it comes to diplomacy/interplanetary relations... their culture just has a completely different set of values.

  • Deep Space Nine season 2 appreciation post

    Been watching DS9 Season two and have been very impressed with the quality. I remembered it being "pretty good" but in my memory it was "the season with "The Circle" trilogy, "Melora", "Rivals" and "The Maquis", episodes and story lines that never really did it for me. I think that made me forget how many really good one-off episodes were also here, to name a few:

    • "Necessary Evil"
    • "Rules of Acquisition"
    • "The Alternate"
    • "Armageddon Game"
    • "Whispers"
    • "Paradise"
    • "Shadowplay"

    All bangers!

    Also I love how this season ever so slowly drip-drops dominion references culminating with the season finale "The Jem Hadar"

    !Wink

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    Best/most seamless eReader for Wallabag compatibility?

    I have an aging Kindle and am looking for a new eReader to both read books and articles I've saved throughout the day. I use Wallabag to save articles. I like it over Pocket because it's better for paywalls because it fetches content directly from the browser.

    I am leaning Kobo because of apps like Wallabako and KoReader (not exactly what that is yet but people seem to like it).

    Anyone else have a similar setup or have any advice?

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    Lemmy mentioned in an r/coolguides post "A cool guide for leaving big tech." - You know what to do

    Note that r/coolguides is a very "normie" subreddit and may require extra handholding. There are a lot of people who don't seem to understand what "open source" means. Some looking for "The Lemmy app" etc. Be patient and helpful!

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    Kirk James R Kirk @startrek.website
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