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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 12:49:34 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   • GNU Too

   @GNU Too Weird. I thought maybe I might have cleaned the extraneous parameters too hard, but no, when I click the link I get the tumblr post with the map image.

   mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/pos…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 06:55:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     "Scramble for Europe – Map of Europe if it was colonized by Africa"

     mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/pos…

   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 14:36:17 EDT lnxw48a1

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     • GNU Too
     @clacke It may be the client that @gnu2 is using. Friendica and Mastodon truncate the display of links, and some clients use that (instead of the embedded hyperlink) to make clicky links.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 20:09:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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     • lnxw48a1
     • GNU Too

     @GNU Too How about this shorl.com/bidigokidriste

     @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Thanks re: nu.federati.net/notice/3436245

2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 23:50:58 EDT lnxw48a1
   #AI research indicates that intra-person fingerprints are similar enough to be detected. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240110120225.htm [www sciencedaily com]
3. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 22:01:33 EDT lnxw48a1
   Weird feeling for me: In a few of these #DataCamp courses, I'm now feeling lost when I'm doing the exercises. I think I need to spin up a separate data analysis project using #R-Lang, or #Python + #numpy + #pandas or #SQL ... or maybe do the same project three ways.
   
   With SQL, at least, it seems to be an artifact of the way their hands-on code runner works (Displays a short `head` of the relevant tables ... so when you're working on queries, you may not have a direct way to see whether your query does specifically what you expected and intended.)
   
   With R-Lang, it is just that it isn't always apparent what the language will do. Some things are inexplicably backwards compared to most other languages I've seen, so mentally I tend to go with the wrong choice. Also, the practice question set is too small. I've reached the point where some of the practice exercises are familiar enough that I know which answer to choose immediately without having any understanding of why that is the correct choice.
   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 22:55:17 EDT lnxw48a1

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     I have used joins and subqueries (in the where clause) in the past. But when I look at many of the exercises, there's a partially-written #SQL query that uses these features and CTEs and it is difficult to reason about the query and its pieces. Normally, that's when I'd write some exploratory queries to understand how to go from a set of tables to a specific result set (itself a table).
     
     But the table rows seen in the preview may not be easily visible in the query results, which makes it more difficult to see whether one is on the right track.
   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 23:14:12 EDT lnxw48a1

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     It reminds me of when I did my Master's Degree. I was doing Microsoft #SQL_Server through their GUI interface while also taking some MySQL courses through the local community college.
     
     Using the GUI, I'd be in the process of constructing a query and need to look at some information ... for example the structure of a table ... in order to complete the query. In the GUI, everything was modal dialog boxes, so it was *back out of everything* then look for needed data, then go through the steps to get back where I previously was, and enter the query with the acquired information.
     
     Using the mysql commandline, it was ... enter a query to view the table and / or database schema, write your query. If necessary, open a 2nd window and use one for writing long queries and the other for exploration which helps write those queries.
     
     Yes, our web dev instruction was corporation centered, so we used Java Servlets and JSPs in Apache #Tomcat on #Windows ... and SQL Server as the database. I think we used #Apache HTTP Server(also on Windows), but it is possible we did do something with Microsoft #IIS.
4. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 10:01:48 EDT Ji Fu

   For anyone who claims the USSR wasn't state capitalimism "Taylorism, which was a scheme to improve workers' efficiency and break up workers' solidarity." "We must organise in Russia the study and teaching of the Taylor system and systematically try it out and adapt it to our own ends. At the same time, in working to raise the productivity of labour

   
   

   ♲ @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social: #OtD 20 Mar 1856 Frederick Taylor was born. He founded Taylorism, a management technique for increasing workers' output and breaking up solidarity. It was adopted widely across the West and the Soviet Union but resisted by workers everywhere t.co/HnFMhrAq3u stories.workingclasshistory.co…
   

   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 13:41:44 EDT lnxw48a1

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     @fu I think that is evidence that the USSR's state-based Communism wasn't all that different from industrial revolutionary capitalism or even prior mercantile systems. In all three cases, someone manipulates rulers and their laws / enforcement actions in order to enslave and repress those whose labor enabled their prosperity.
5. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 23:50:39 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   My usual lunch partners are not joining today. The perfect day for it really, the weather is wonderful for a long walk.

   Haven't seen clear skies like this in months.
6. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 15:47:22 EDT Brian Ó

   https://youtu.be/tXLoP9iSU5Y

   #otyken #siberian #music
7. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 14:07:28 EDT Michael Vogel
   Heute gab es Idja, das ist ein jemenitisches Kartoffelomelette.
   https://pirati.ca/photo/155425698265f9d22ade95c565682150-0.jpeg
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   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 15:26:35 EDT Michael Vogel
     Magst Du Ingwer?
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 15:30:40 EDT Michael Vogel
     AH okay. Das empfinden ja viele auch als seifig.
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 15:33:42 EDT Michael Vogel
     Ich mache mir gerne mal Ingwer ins Müsli.
8. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 12:56:21 EDT Michael Vogel

   Dinge, die mir in der Küche fehlen:
   - EIne Kartoffelreibe

   (Was man erst feststellt, während man gerade ein Rezept vorbereitet, das man gleich kochen möchte)
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 03:30:15 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   "mushrooms are vegan, not because they aren't sapient, but because they know what they did"

   -- random person on another network
10. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 03:14:03 EDT Michael Vogel
    Tim Traveller hat sich auf die Suche nach Easter Eggs in der Stockholmer U-Bahn begeben. Kennt ihr Easter-Eggs in eurem ÖPNV? Kennt z.B. jemand welche bei der #Hochbahn in #Hamburg?
    The Cheeky Hidden Features On Stockholm's Metro Trains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZMraUchIS4
11. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 12:37:22 EDT Michael Vogel
    Von Feuer und Lava geht eine unheimliche Faszination aus.
    https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/182636798365f86c9e7872a755503143
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 12:47:19 EDT Michael Vogel

      Von wann war der Ausbruch? Ich hatte zuletzt den Eindruck, dass sie mittlerweile recht gut vorhersagen können, wann ein Ausbruch bevorsteht.

      Das mit plötzlichen Austreten der Lava habe ich in dem Video gesehen, was ich vorhin geteilt habe.

    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 02:54:06 EDT Michael Vogel

      • (((Matze D.)))
      Bin ich schon. Das ist einfach nur von einer Island-Webcam, wie dieser hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
12. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 16:49:06 EDT Ji Fu

    • lnxw48a1
    @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} my wife got a new Windows 11 machine and it's been running Seamonkey just fine for me.
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    • Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 16:47:31 EDT Ji Fu

      • gunnar@diasp.org
      • Keith Bowes

      @gunnar @Keith Bowes really?
      

      more lines of code than operating systems.

      
      That's crazy!

    • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 14:23:21 EDT lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      @fu That's good news.
      
      One thing I dislike about #Win11 is the extra step added to the start menu. First is the pinned programs and recommendations with a little "all programs" button. Click that and the regular start menu appears.
      
      Seems bizarre that the primary UI improvement that made #Win95 such a revelation is repeatedly erased or subverted in subsequent #Microsoft operating systems. I remember #Win3.1 and MacOS having program icons and folders containg such icons scattered all over the desktop. The start menu was a huuuuge improvement.
    • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 02:21:28 EDT lnxw48a1

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      • lnxw48a1
      I am sure that the current trend of changes to #Firefox and the resulting rewrite of #Thunderbird will necessarily affect #SeaMonkey. Essentially, I think SM lacks independent development resources, so if the divergence is quick enough or large enough, SM will have to write a separate mail component or give up.
      
      This reminds me of a Matrix client I was using. The developers of what was then called Riot changed frameworks or something and the downstream client I used ended development.
13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 00:08:16 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    What is that absolute banger of a song in the latest #LastWeekTonight end credits? I'm searching for the lyrics and coming up empty.

    Like yeah we're done playing games boy
    If you want it come and get it I'm right here boy
    I-I'm feeling like I wanna come and get it boy
    Come and get it boy
    Come and get it boy
14. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 13:03:47 EDT Brian Ó

    https://youtu.be/GyxSvZOby54

    #hocuspocus #focus #music
15. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 11:18:55 EDT Michael Vogel
    Auf Island gibt es ja derzeit den vierten Vulkanausbruch in vier Monaten. Dadurch, dass das Gebiet recht mit mit Webcams überwacht wird, gibt es sogar ein Video vom Beginn des Ausbruchs.
    Iceland Volcano Updates | 4th Eruption in 4 Months! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjKvD4nS2qQ
16. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 04:32:09 EDT Tobias

    Guten Morgen vom zweiten der Chemnitzer Linuxtage 😀 lasst uns doch mal versuchen das ganze Fediverse um 12 Uhr beim Stand der FSFE zu einem spontanen Feditreff zu versammeln.

    #feditreff #CLT #CLT24 #fediverse

    • Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 06:53:27 EDT Tobias

      • txt.file
      @txt.file @Thomas R. :leberkassemme: schade, nächstes Mal dann - gibt bestimmt noch weitere spontane Feditreffs :)
17. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 15:32:33 EDT Tobias

    • Chemnitzer Linux-Tage

    Müde und voller Vorfreude auf die nächsten Chemnitzer Linuxtage 🤩 Danke für das tolle Wochenende @Chemnitzer Linux-Tage

    #clt #clt24
18. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 14:48:38 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
    "The I in LLM stands for intelligence" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/ #llm #ml #ai
19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 13:16:50 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Oh no, I caught up with Resident Alien.
20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 02:22:30 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Someone is making yet another attempt to appreciate Dune.

    Me: Ok, how about this time we try the mini series? It's a bit less artistic, more linear and explicit, shouldn't need so much background explanation to be possible to follow.
    Them: Ok, sure.
    *20 minutes later*
    Them: Yeah I'm still gonna need a diagram.
    Me: I'll just jot down the basic facts and relations.
    *several minutes of writing names, titles and motivations, and drawing arrows*
    *I've filled an A5 paper*
    Them: I'm taking this home for study.