Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

Utkarsh talking about his contribution to #debian at #debconf 19, #Curitiba, #Brazil

#FreeSoftware

https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2019/DebConf19/a-newbie-s-perspective-towards-debian.webm

Fossil Versus Git at https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/4azi260u5d #freepost

Did you know that you don't need X-Windows for graphics on Linux? Here's a few console programs that can display graphics using the framebuffer:

- fbi
Display and manage images directly from the command line.

- links2
A simple web browser without CSS and JS, can display inline images when switched to graphics mode with the -g param: 'links2 -g'

- mplayer
Play videos straight from the console! Can be a little tricky.

(And yes, I used a 5:4 monitor the screenshots.)

Hey, I have a blind friend who might want to join us on the Fediverse. Does anyone have a guide to accessibility etc that might be more useful than me just sending her a link to an instance?

@polaris
Remember when Google Hangouts removed XMPP support?

Just like that.

I was talking to my mom this weekend about scholarly publishing and she told me when she was academia-adjacent (before I was born!) she wrote 2 papers & the process for publishing was awful in so many ways that she never did it again.

I looked for her work and I found one.... and it's open access 🔓🖤 In the Journal of Applied Meteorology!!

"Sky-Cover Correlation within a Sky Dome" -- https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0450-30.7.1037

Good thing to do for friends: remove the utm_source from the URL before you share it with them.

Remember: in 1968 NYC garbagemen struck and within a week, the city's mayor was on his knees begging for mercy. It lasted all of 8 days.

Then, two years later in Ireland, bankers went on strike for *6 months* and the economy kept on growing and history has largely forgotten it even happened.

Capitalists need you more than you need them.

Lately I've been using this awesome #Firefox addon named Temporary Containers.

You can set it on automatic and every time you open a link or a new tab it creates a fresh container for you, then destroys it when your done. This way the fact that every damn site wants to put a cookie on your system doesn't matter anymore.

With sites I want to keep login cookies for, like Mastodon, I just create dedicated containers and have the site always load in them.

Great addon.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/

Move fast and break planets

If you ever want to scare someone, remind them that Venus is inside the Sun's habitable zone. It's the hottest planet in the solar system entirely because of carbon dioxide

It used to be more like Earth. If it had had a technological civilization, we would never know because all artifacts would have long ago completely melted.

In fact, solar prices, even with associated storage, continually defy projections. Solar is already the cheapest energy source there is, and it keeps getting cheaper. We're on track for $0.03/kWh LCOE by 2020. At that price point, hydrogen from electrolysis is cheaper than natural gas derived hydrogen, and desalinated water becomes cheaper than many existing sources of fresh water. Think about that.

Black holes are the most efficient way, aside from antimatter, to convert mass to energy. A non-rotating black hole converts 6% of the mass of infalling matter to energy, compared to 0.7% for fusion. A rotating black hole can convert up to 42%.

And that's ignoring evaporation. If you use a small enough black hole and feed it just enough matter that its intake rate matches its evapration rate, it converts 100% of infalling mass to energy.

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the second issue of the fediverse tribune is out now!! ​

https://bune.city/2019/08/the-fediverse-tribune-issue-2/

Are you at #Wikimania ? Then join us tomorrow Sunday 2pm at Szymborska (A5137) and learn how you can set up a Wikipedia hotspot with 4 clicks and a #RaspberryPi !

For every one weird trick successful people do, there are millions of unsuccessful people who also did that one weird trick.

Santhosh Thottingal wins the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019

Santhosh Thottingal has won the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India. This is in recognition of his substantial contribution in the field of Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the substantial contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi, Pali and Classical

https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/

When people talk about autonomous vehicles, the prospect of ride sharing is inevitably brought up.

Have these people ever owned a car? Most people keep all sorts of things in their car.

A car is not only a means of transportation, but a closet on wheels. If you have a family or enjoy outdoor recreation, you come to appreciate the convenience of keeping certain items in the car at all times.

A car is also a quiet personal space.

Ride sharing isn't as appealing as the tech utopians think.

The call for proposals for DebUtsav Goa 2019 is now open. You can submit proposals for talks or workshops at

https://events.fsci.org.in/conference/debutsavgoa2019

The event will be held on the 14th and 15th of September 2019 in Goa College of Engineering, Veling, Goa.
More details can be found at
https://debutsav.in/

#debutsav #debian #debutsavGoa