Notices by Fitheach (fitheach@mstdn.io), page 12

@gemlog
The dependencies are quite often flags which you set when you compile an app. When you install a package it has been compiled already, with decisions about those flags made by the package developer.

@vfrmedia
So, are the police flushed with their success?

@gemlog
When you install, e.g. konqueror or most any apps, under distros like Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu etc. you install a package where the developers have already made decisions for you regarding settings and dependencies. Alternatively, you could install the app from source(s) and perhaps avoid some un-needed dependencies.

The depictions of Kim Jung-un with the toy missile and Trump with a Lego wall have clear political references, for me.

Can anyone explain why Boris Johnson is playing with, what looks like, a box of crayons?

#art #MastoArt #politics #BoJo #Trump #JungUn #Edinburgh

@kensanata
As with any art what the artist meant convey and what viewers take from it may be entirely different things. That is as it should be.

For me, this mural is about holding power to account through satire. About countering mainstream media narratives, although, to be fair, those three don't get much positive press in Scotland. Some can affect change through speeches, some through delivering leaflets, others still use art.

@penguin42
I read once that 13 is considered unlucky because Judas Iscariot was (depending how you count them) the 13th disciple. No idea where Friday comes into the superstition. I don't know anything about Tarot.

@gemlog
Yup. I think the thing with KDE is that all the apps are tightly integrated, using an isolated FM doesn't make much sense. The packaged versions of KDE apps don't even allow that possibility. Probably much the same with GNOME or Cinnamon or Mate

@alcinnz

@gemlog
Finding the perfect file manager is like searching for the Holy Grail; the quest is eternal, and never fulfilled.

I have tried emelfm(2), and also Gnome Commander, Tux Commander, Nautilius, ROX, and many others. All of them have nice features, but I'm always looking for more. For years now my mainstay FMs have been Thunar and MC. Pretty happy with those two, although I would like a graphical two-pane FM (I know Dolphin, but KDE...).

@alcinnz

@alcinnz
@gemlog @aral
Ok did some checking. Gnome-VFS was the predecessor of Gvfs and, for example, it was first used in Tux Commander in 2004 (a bit earlier than I thought):
http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/versions.php

@alcinnz
Gosh, it isn't that long ago that file managers added features to allow use of WebDav, FTP and SSH/SCP etc. Libraries like KIO or filesystems like FUSE or GVFS were only added ten years ago, maybe slightly more.

Viewing file contents using FMs has probably been around a bit longer, usually by calling other applications. What seems weird to me is having a FM that is also a web browser (or is it a web browser that is also a FM?).
@gemlog @aral

Q: How do you get the code for the bank vault?
A: You checkout their branch.

Q: Why did the security conscious engineer refuse to pay their dinner bill?
A: Because they could not verify the checksum.

Q: I'm starting a band called HTML Encoder
A: Looking to buy a guitar &

Q: What's the second movie about a database engineer called?
A: The SQL.

These and many other computer related jokes at:
https://github.com/wesbos/dad-jokes
#jokes #DadJokes

My previous post on Bon Scott, AC/DC and bagpipes 😃

https://mstdn.io/@fitheach/101664901945560311

Plans for a Rock and Roll museum in Kirriemuir have taken a step forward, after funding has been secured from the Scottish Government.

The success of the annual BonFest, named after Kirriemuir local and AC/DC frontman Bon Scott, has probably put the Angus town on the Rock map already. The museum would seem to be a natural year-round addition.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/angus-mearns/977401/kirrie-rock-museum-big-winner-as-town-centre-funding-allocated/
#music #Kirriemuir #ACDC

@wrdwoose
No, none of those things. At the lower levels there are fields with sheep and cattle. Above the fields are hills,and fresh air.

@wrdwoose
Well, the water in the burn will be very clean, as is the canal path and surrounding area. I'm not so sure about the canal water. Lots of "pleasure cruisers" use the canal, and I do wonder where their waste goes. I might be wrong, perhaps it is stored on-board.

Artist's impression (Neil Slorance)
of BBC Question Time

#media #cartoon #QuestionTime

@rpcutts
Always hate it when a bathroom wall isn't ploughed. 😉

@Shufei
Haggis with Worcester sauce. Heavens! Haggis is usually quite spicy, or at least peppery. Maybe you haven't had a really good one. MacSweens of Edinburgh make some decent haggis, and theirs are widely available.

Strangely, not much is know about Wallace. I think he would almost certainly have spoken Gaelic and also Scots and English. Some believe that his name signifies that he would have spoken the Brythonic language of south west Scotland, called Cumbric.

Flichtpairc is a good word.