Reading Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu. For now, I find it a bit less good than the Remembrance of the Earth's past trilogy I read before.
Ces livreurs payés à la livraison c'est pénible au possible... Vu qu'ils sont rémunérés au nombre de colis, ils sont près à n'importe quoi sur la route et en matière d'arrêt afin de maximiser le nombre de colis qu'ils livrent... Il y'a quelques jours, la femme d'un collègue s'est fait renverser par la camionnette d'un livreur qui n'avait rien trouvé de mieux que de faire marche arrière sur des centaines de mètre, histoire d'éviter de faire demi-tour et ainsi gagner quelques minutes...
Just finished Death's End, by Cixin Liu which is the last volume of Remembrance of Earth's past trilogy (better known from the title of the first book The three body problem). I enjoyed very much the 3 novels, great Sci-fi and I also learned many things about Chinese culture through translator notes. (note: I've not seen the Netflix show before reading it, because I hate watching movies about novels I have not read, it block too much the mental image I do reading the book, therefore limiting the amazement of reading).
Next, I decided not to read the fan fiction sequel but rather what is presented as a prequel: Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu.
So simple, no images, no videos, no bullshit this just works... Now mainly out of habits and because I have some friends on it... Also some nostalgia about the time internet was more than http and so on
Using a self-hosted thelounge too and, as alternative if my home connection drop or so, I have irssi in termux.
Of course, it's the best proto for chat, I use it actively everyday since 1997.
Indeed with myopia glasses, I see the red in front like being out of the screen and feeling I can grab it
As with all those illusion it depends on how the brain interpret things... Perhaps your brain is clever than mine to see the image how it really is
While this is just a static 2d image, it looks like blue is above the screen (for me, for some others it's below, or red is above).
Thanks to comments, here some explanations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis
Edited: added Wikipedia link
No, I always prefer reading novels before any movie/show because otherwise it disturbs the way I imagine the characters.
Just finished The dark forest, by Cixin Liu. As far as I read this sci-fi trilogy, I think I enjoy it very much. Now starting the last novel in the series, Death's End, by Cixin Liu.
As of now, I backup stuff (mainly pictures) from my phone to a linux file server using rsync in termux (launched through the tasker plugin and automate). I search a replacement to get rid of the automate application that I need only for that, is not Foss and require to run in background in order to use it. Do you think Syncthing can deserve my use case ? Of course I can RTFM but...
I think this is inaccurate. Belgium is shown as not having it implemented but that's wrong, almost all GLASS bottles (beer, water, soda) are sold with a deposit fee.
For info the score has now been updated to 10 in original post, nice work :)
Not the best but an honorable score for photon
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18159531
> UPDATE! Fewer than 15% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately
>
> > Updated! Updates are shown in quote text like this.
>
> # An Apps Experiment
>
> ## Introduction
>
> This is an experiment I performed out of curiosity, and I have a few big disclaimers at the bottom. Basically, I've seen a lot of comments recently about one app or another not displaying something right. Lemmy has been around for a while now and can no longer be considered an experimental platform.
>
> Lemmy and the apps that people use to access the platform have become an important part of people’s lives. Whether you are checking the app weekly or daily, and whether you use it to stay up on the news or to stay connected to your hobby, it’s important that it works. I hope that this helps people to see the extent of the challenge, and encourages developers to improve their apps, too.
>
> ## How I did it
>
> I wanted to investigate objectively how accurately each app displays text of posts and comments using the standard Lemmy markdown. Markdown is a standard part of the Lemmy platform, but not all apps handle it the same. It is basically what gives text useful formatting.
>
> I used the latest release of each app, but did not include pre-releases. I only included apps that have released an update in the last 6 months, which should include most apps in active development. I was unable to test iOS-exclusive apps, so they are not included either. In all, 16 apps met the inclusion criteria.
>
> > I also added Eternity, which is in active development, although it has not had a recent update. I was able to include several iOS apps thanks to testing from @jordanlund@lemmy.world – Thanks, Jordan! This made for 21 apps that were tested.
>
> Each app was rated in 5 categories: Text, Format, Spoilers, Links, and Images. I chose these mostly based on the wonderful Markdown Guide from @marvin@sffa.community, which was posted about a year ago in !meta@sffa.community (here).
>
> I checked whether each app correctly displayed each category, then took the overall average. Each category was weighted equally. Text includes italic, bold, strong, strikethrough, superscript, and subscript. Format includes block quotes, lists, code (block and inline), tables, and dividers. Spoilers includes display of hidden, expandable spoilers. Links includes external links, username links, and community links. Images included embedded images, image references, and inline images.
>
> > Thanks to input from others, I also added a test to see if lemmy hyperlinks opened in-app. There was a problem with using the SFFA Community Guide that caused some apps to be essentially penalized twice because there was formatting inside formatting, so I created this TEST POST to more clearly and fairly measure each app.
>
> In each case, I checked whether the display was correct based on the rules for Lemmy Markdown, and consistent with the author’s intent. In cases where the app recognized the tag correctly but did not display it accurately, that was treated as a fail.
>
> ## Results
>
> Out of a possible perfect 10, only 3 apps displayed all markdown correctly:
>
> ### Jerboa (Official Android client) - 10.0
> ### Alexandrite - 10.0
> ### Voyager - 10.0
> ### Summit - 9.7
> ### Photon - 9.3
> ### Arctic - 9.3 (pending)
> ### Interstellar - 9.1
> ### Lemmy-UI - 9.0
> ### Thunder - 8.9
> ### Tesseract - 8.6
> ### Quiblr - 8.1
> ### mlmym - 8.0
> ### Lemmios - 8.0 (pending)
> ### Mlem - 7.5 (pending)
> ### Boost - 7.3
> ### Eternity - 7.0
> ### Sync - 6.9
> ### Connect - 6.7
> ### Lemmynade - 6.1
> ### Avelon - 5.7 (pending)
>
> More details of testing here
>
>
> ::: spoiler Disclaimers
>
> ## Disclaimers
>
> ### I Love Lemmy Apps (and their devs)
>
> Lemmy apps devs work very hard, and invest a lot in the platform. Lemmy is better because they are doing the work that they do. Like, a LOT better. Everyone who uses the platform has to access it through one app or another. Apps are the face of the entire platform. Whether an app is a FOSS passion project, underwritten by a grant, or generating income through sales or ads, no one is getting rich by making their app. It is for the benefit of the community.
>
> This is not meant to be a rating of the quality or functionality of any app. An app may have a high rating here but be missing other features that users want, or users may love an app that has a lower rating. This is just about how well apps handle markdown.
>
> ### This is pretty unscientific
>
> You’ll see my methodology above. I’m not a scientist. There is probably a much better way to do this, and I probably have biases in terms of how I went about it. I think it’s interesting and probably has some valuable information. If you think it’s interesting, let me know. If you think of a better way, PM me and I’d be happy to share what I have so you don’t have to start from scratch.
>
> ### My only goal is to help the community
>
> I do think that accurately displaying markdown should be a standard expectation of a finished app. I hope that devs use this as an opportunity to shore up the areas that are lagging, and that they have a set of standards to aim for.
>
> I don’t have any Apple things
>
> Sorry. This is just Android and Web review. If someone would like to see how iOS apps are doing, please reach out and I’ll share how we can work together to include them.
>
> :::
Je vote Andalouse, puis samouraï
Not sure, people outside IT world, at least in my country, still speak about the "Microsoft crash" and don't know at all about Crowdstrike. Now that make me think that MS will probably try to sue them for the "ravages" to their corporate image.
Thought that if we are so easily bored in our modern society, much more than were our grandparents for example, it's because of technology that simplify all our daily activities. When it was necessary to do the laundry in a basin, it took a lot more time than just pushing on a button to launch the washing machine, then there was no time for boredom. What do you think?
About 1/3 in The three-body problem, by Cixin Liu. Enjoying it so far, the only drawback is that I'm a bit lost between characters names but that's not so rare for me. I think I'll read the trilogy this summer.
I take note of The Passage for future, as an amateur of S. King stuff I might enjoy it, thanks.
As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently "follow" their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I'm thinking about a personalized rss feed, or a e-mail, or any way. For the moment, I just look from time to time to their website or social media page but the issues I have are:
- I look when I think about it (it would be better to be somehow notified)
- It's time consuming and inefficient
Based on the awesome job of WFH@lemm.ee documenting the stuff and applying it to solarized, I tried to do the same with my vim favorite theme: everforest. It's far from perfect (I'm not at all a designer), feel free to improve your way (and share updates in comments). The zinc theme is probably more refined because I use only this one, I tried to make slate match the palette but as I'm not using it it's more difficult.
{ "other": { "white": "#FDF6E3", "black": "#002b36" }, "primary": { "100": "#A7C080", "900": "#8DA101" }, "zinc": { "50": "#D3C6AA", "100": "#A7C080", "200": "#DBBC7F", "300": "#D3C6AA", "400": "#D3C6AA", "500": "#D3C6AA", "600": "#4F585E", "700": "#4F585E", "800": "#425047", "900": "#232A2E", "925": "#2D353B", "950": "#2D353B" }, "slate": { "25": "#FDF6E3", "50": "#FDF6E3", "100": "#EFEBD4", "200": "#E0DCC7", "300": "#E0DCC7", "400": "#D3C6AA", "500": "#5C6A72", "600": "#5C6A72", "700": "#5C6A72", "800": "#5C6A72", "900": "#8DA101", "950": "#8DA101" } }
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/25160716 >Pretty interesting video ...
Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.
However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.
I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.
For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...
Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.
Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.
The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
I want to get started with home automation, probably based on a raspberry pi (or as of now with my banana pi which is my home server) and either openHAB or home assistant. My goal is, first, to put some temperature/humidity sensors in varous rooms and leak detector in my basement where I had some issues with the main drain. I wonder if you have some recomendations for a usb dongle for zigbee and/or z-wave compatible with linux, not too expensive but good enough if I want to extend the network later. I read about SONOFF-ZB USB Dongle Plus Zigbee 3.0 available on Chinese websites. What do you think?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3804525
> Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users: > - lemmy.world: 19516 > - lemm.ee: 3779 > - lemmy.ml: 2970 > - sh.itjust.works: 2355 > - feddit.de: 2293 > > Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73 >
In a profound loss to the world of computing and software development, Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042
> Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.
In a profound loss to the world of computing and software development, Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042
> Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.
In a profound loss to the world of computing and software development, Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042
> Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.
Do you know if the IRM-RMI (meteo.be) have a public API to provide forecast data ?
I seen that some open source application provide data from meteo-france for France which provides much more accurate forecast locally than the global worldwide models. It would be nice to be able to submit a PR with focus on Belgium.
As I'm not using it actively for months and want to stop using it, I want to delete my Twitter account. However I still have one use-case that prevents me doing that. My city local police is sending some traffic related news only on Twitter and I use the notification functionality of Twitter official client to be informed as soon as they post something.
I have tested some open source Twitter client which works pretty well for looking at content in my opinion but none of them have the capacity to push a notification when a post is done in a specific followed account.
Do you have some recommendations (it would be best if it's open source but I'm not completely closed to "free as in free beer" alternatives) ?
Thanks.
A script to backup/restore from one lemmy instance - GitHub - fievel/lemmy_backup: A script to backup/restore from one lemmy instance
I made a script based on plemmy and LemmyHttp API to be able to backup the list of registered communities and user profile (for now, that's just the biography). It output in human-readable format on console and have an option to output in a json file. The next step will be to provide also a script to restore such json backup to another lemmy instance or user.
I decided to do this small development following the sudden disappearance of vlemmy.net instance which resulted in the lost of all my subscribed communities.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/973445
> Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? > At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. > I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. > If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...
Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...
C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books. Was fievel@vlemmy.net