Notices by Alex (avolkov@mastodon.xyz), page 15

@bgcarlisle "Rando Pleroma users" is the new "Well, actually".

@Gargron But it's the same for all social media terms. Terms like te-tweet and favorite by themselves are weird, but everyone is used to them now.

@Jo Never mind, I read the whole thread.

Sorry I wanted to solve the usual problem I have to solve instead of what's required.

@Jo Yes, totally, but one of these can be bought for about $60 -- $110.

I think it's going to be really hard to find something cheaper.

@Jo

You can try captrue whole hdmi output and then extract audio with one of these devices

Try easycap -- http://www.ezcap.com/

It might be overly complicated solution, but a relatively cheap one.

I read an article on David Hockney and the recent auction for Portrait of an Artist.

Of course I went down the link well, which made me notice the inspiration for an album cover -- Geoffroy - Coastline, that haven't been able to pinpont.

I bought a new (used) camera and I'm reading the manual. I'm one of those people.

This particular paragraph entertained me.
In the age of machine learning and surveillance capitalism I shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

How does the camera knows the age of the child? What happens when the picture is taken on child's birthday? Does scene detection stops working? I have so many questions.

@frak No, I'm not helping them. Scammers can go to hell.

How to remember tar flags -- speak to tar with German accent.

tar xzf -- eXtract Ze Files!
tar czf -- Compress Ze Files!

(stolen from https://twitter.com/_tessr)

Beware of Canada Post scammers. They are getting crafty.

They are still don't really understand formal language, an no, adding "We are sorry to say" doesn't make it English (Canada bureaucratic), also email is bogus and the link doesn't direct where the label says it does.

@staticsafe I'm going to write the most predictable comment, not even about using full screen VMs -- why wouldn't you just dual-boot to linux for work and boot into windows for games?