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Seat too low


For far too long, shit has only come out of the asshole. Until today, nobody was daring enough to ask, what if shit went into the asshole too? What if the asshole could function in duplex?


It was the official typeface of the US state department before Marco Rubio decided it was woke and switched back to Times New Roman. Some typefaces are imbued with evil. Calibri embodies the vibe of a large corporate human resources department. Cheltenham carries the aura of breathlessly justifying the slaughter of maternity wards. Tannenberg, well, if you read anything printed in Tannenberg there’s a good chance it was written by Joseph Goebbels himself.


Check out this dope bear ass


The slop must flow


I don’t know if it will help your test scores, but I found the 3Blue1Brown Youtube channel to be incredibly helpful in learning fundamental linear algebra and calculus. My interest in learning this was for 3D game development in Godot, but math is math I suppose. Around the same time I hit up my local library and checked out an “outdated” college textbook on calculus (which was also great, but I had to return it too soon).
I generally prefer literature over video content, but these video series have absolutely fantastic visual representations of the concepts being explained. I think they are a great place to start before dipping into more rigorous literature. You must consider that the traditional way of teaching mathematics is on a chalk board, which is ultimately a visual medium.


Drones are sexy, but don’t underestimate the capabilities of a large slingshot and incendiary projectiles. These things are supposed to be several square miles in size. You literally cannot miss them. It is not necessary to do the Luke Skywalker fire the torpedo into the barely torpedo-sized hole thing Hezbollah is doing to Zionist armor.
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.


My dad always told me boats are a money pit.


This is why I ride 27" rims. So I can’t have anything nice.


I’m trying to get back in but struggling about being a perfectionist about my first city.


I’m not so enthusiastic about this. If you get rid of distribution maintainers what you’re going to end up with is NPM: the Operating System. This separation of application developers and distribution package maintainers is the greatest mechanism of quality control we have.


That’s Anubis. It’s a countermeasure against AI scraper bots. It’s a separate piece of software which can be placed in front of Lemmy (or various other web applications).


It sounds like the interim repository you chose wasn’t exactly a mirror. It might have been a repository for a different distribution or something. In the future, it might be a safer option to leave the default mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list and list 3rd party mirrors after it, as alternatives (but it is still essential to make sure the repositories are actually compatible). Also, you should never need to add keys to your APT keyring for mirrors (if you do, they are not mirrors. It makes sense to do this for third party repositories, but not something which is supposed to be an exact copy of the distribution repository).
The way APT (and most other package managers) work is by keeping track of a list of software which is has been installed explicitly. Some of these are marked (APT terminology) as “manual” by the distribution maintainers. These are installed when you install the OS. Every time you install a package via apt-get / apt / synaptic / gnome-sofware etc. these are also marked as “manual.” When software is installed or updated, the real goal is to satisfy the dependencies of these manual-marked packages. Everything else is installed as needed (marked as “auto”), and discarded as soon as no manual-marked packages depend on them any longer.
By the sound of it, these relationships got cooked somewhere along the way. A lot of the software which was installed automatically as dependencies suddenly had no dependents, (because the package definitions changed and they probably depended on newer / older / different versions) and so they vanished. It’s actually impressive that enough vital things survived to recover this.
Anyway, deep-frying a Linux box now and then is how you learn. 


I am just guessing. I don’t know a single word of Farsi.
I’m just thinking that while ‘file’ is clearly a poor translation, it is probably a literal translation of whatever term they originally used. In English we call the rows and columns on the board ranks and files, but these definitions are used pretty much exclusively either for Chess or infantry formations. Farsi might not have have a specific term for column in the context of a board game, or might use the terms more interchangeably.
I just think like, in Spanish they call traffic lights semaphores (semaforo), which in English is technically correct, but most English speakers would have no idea what the hell you’re talking about if you said “turn right at the semaphore.” In English this word is used sometimes when talking about railroads, but mostly when talking about access control signaling in much more abstract situations like in computer science. It is probably a situation like that.


Could also be (translated from) a Chess term roughly synonymous with lane or column.


Shadow of Mordor





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