Notices by Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz), page 6

Alright, just posted a write-up about the paradox of tolerance. This one will be visible on planet.gnome.org, so there will definitely be some discussion about it.

https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2019/07/21/the-paradox-of-tolerance/

@jackiemoon I'm pretty sure that's Nightwing (Dick Grayson, post-Robin)

@cassidyjames Your posts here are the first I've seen about using a real, full desktop on the Pi 4.

And I've searched — including YouTube too.

Everything else was theoretical or showing something like XFCE with a panel, some lightweight browser, and basically other stuff that looked like it was from the 90s.

How well does the Pi 4 work as a desktop? Would you mind sharing a video at some point? Do you think people could use it full-time?

"Illium" was another name for the city of Troy

"-ad" is a suffix that can be used to mean "the story of"

Therefore "The Illiad" is properly translated as; drumroll please...

Troy Story

We know that our server is sometimes overloaded. Therefore, try this link if the official website doesn't work for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20190717062201/https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

Before I go to bed, I want to talk about what I saw earlier. When I was on the bus, a man tried to get on with a wheelchair. He asked the bus driver if he could use the ramp. The bus driver refused, and said “not if the wheelchair isn’t yours” - likely because the man was standing and not sitting in it. The man said “this is my wheelchair”. He asked multiple times and the driver continued to refuse. So the guy starts loading his items one-by-one onto the bus so he can lift the wheelchair in.

As the guy is loading the items, the bus driver tries pulling away and driving off multiple times. Each time the guy has to grab onto the door or gets in front of the bus. Once he’s finally in the bus he asks for securements so his wheelchair doesn’t roll around. The bus driver doesn’t respond for minutes - and I think he called it in to the police. Eventually he gets to securing the wheelchair.

During the ride the dude is rightly upset, so he talks to the bus driver and says “thank you for doing your job” in a kind of perturbed tone. Then one lady starts screaming at him to “shut the fuck up”, saying “nobody cares about what you’re going through”, things like that.

I was appalled. I didn’t really do much except back him up and say that he had to fight to get his wheelchair on the bus. Finally we ride a few stops and he gets off, apparently before the police could get there. I’m still bewildered that the driver called the cops on a dude who just wanted to get his wheelchair on the bus.

Honestly, I don’t think it should have mattered if the wheelchair was his or not. I don’t see why someone can’t get help transporting a wheelchair. I also know that some people that look fully abled do need wheelchairs. It really pissed me off to see this happen.

@davey I switched to fish a few months ago from using zsh for years.

I swapped an elaborate zsh config system with fish + omf (https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish).

While fish does the heavy lifting out of the box (without any add-ons), omf is nice to sprinkle on top for a few additional things.

Aside from all the autoconfig features turned on by default, and fish_config for minor changes, the blazing fast startup & usage time is much appreciated.

@n8 Oh, yeah, right. That part was awesome.

I'm not aware of any FOSS software that parses email like this. It'd be nifty if Thunderbird, Geary, KMail, Mailpile, and others could do this.

Meanwhile: Kayak.com parses reservation emails you forward to it (can create a rule to do this automatically too) and creates trips out of them. You can access it later on their website, in their apps, and subscribe to an .ics in your calendar. (It's not FOSS, but a proprietary webservice.)

@n8 The best FOSS solutions for location and trip planning are:

- Wikivoyage, the Wikipedia of travel destinations: https://en.m.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page

- Wikipedia geo browsing, supported in its native app (also available on F-Droid) or on the website @ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby

- Maps (fork of Maps.me on F-Droid) https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/

Many pieces are there; someone should mash them up better. The big things lacking are ratings, popularity, and visit time, but hours & descriptions exist.

@n8 Agreed! Google Trips was actually useful. Foursquare used to be useful too (before they pivoted, which made that service into a zombie).

Our thermometer says it's 69% percent humidity and doesn't think it's nice. (It shows a sad face emoji for 69.)

Meanwhile, it's nice out, so what does it know?