Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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If physicists can expand quantum field theory to account for fractons, they predict that new clues toward a viable quantum gravity theory could follow.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/fractons-the-weirdest-matter-could-yield-quantum-clues-20210726/
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50th Anniversary of the First Use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle - July 31, 1971
(Credit: NASA) https://twitter.com/universal_sci/status/1421516083476017154/photo/1
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@hntooter Good job the whole shipment didn't go up then, so this raises the question - where is the rest? and where and how is that stored?
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FBI probe shows nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of shipment
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fbi-probe-shows-amount-chemicals-beirut-blast-was-fraction-original-shipment-2021-07-30/
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Hello, fediverse! We are Tenacity, one of the most prominent forks of Audacity for the time being.
I'm not sure what I'll do with this account yet, but you're more than free to follow it and find out for yourself. :)
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In LibreOffice 7.2, due in August, Calc can filter by color in Autofilter (both cell background color and text color). Importing from and exporting to OOXML is also supported. Feature implemented by Samuel Mehbrodt at Allotropia – https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2
If there is anything useful here happy for you to use:-
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Today (last Friday of July) is the System Administrator Appreciation Day. Don't forget your backups, and show your appreciation to your local #sysadmin :-) If you want to know more about DSA, the Debian System Administrator team, you can have a look at their webpage https://dsa.debian.org/ - Thanks DSA for taking care of the Debian infrastructure!
dmesg should show something surely, what does lsusb show up?
I think dmesg | tail 10 will show the last 10 dmesg entries
@zstark It is quite a simple editor compared to say emacs however it is what I started wit h on Linux.
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🚨Urgent Indigenous Autistic Need 🚨
Zach is a medically complex autistic Ojibwe and Ponca youth, he depends heavily on his phone for communication and engagement with the world around him. His phone is broken, and his mother (also autistic, disabled and Deaf) has no way to obtain one. $300 will get him what he needs, refurbished and unlocked. Any boosts or assistance are beyond appreciated!
@mutualaid #mutualaid #indigenous
PP: vivacious1313@gmail.com
Venmo: SuzEQ13
Cashapp: $WCAFARMPAY
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An in-depth article by Nature on what we know about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and what makes the Delta variant so much more infectious.
"What has emerged from 19 months of work, backed by decades of coronavirus research, is a blow-by-blow account of how SARS-CoV-2 invades human cells"
@archillect@high.cat Looks like the tunnel leading in to Mordor via shelob (giant spider)
as in Spooky
@zstark iI generally use the joe text editor ot geany for development, not that I do a significant amount of development just the odd program or shell script from time to time..
@gerowen ok cool thanks
@zstark I agree, this is what worris me about running my own nextclloud server, no problem getting it working, just worried about the security side of running a server
@Nujtag The @fsf are trying to address some of the issues for beginners to FOSS
Next meeting
Understanding encryption / Mobile phone freedom
https://www.fsf.org/events/freedomladder-20210729-irc
if anyone would like to join the conversation.
@trysdyn I agree with what you are saying here, well said.
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In the past 48 hours I've seen "If you use a tiling window manager you're probably a racist toxic fossbro", "if you support FOSS you're likely a liberal or a toxic fossbro", "If you use emacs you're part of the problem" and uh...
Can we just stop putting people in bins based on what tools they use and, more likely, what they had available to them when they first learned how to interact with tech?
Y'all stressing me out because I've seen these funny little takes go viral and become zeitgeist material.
Can we just stop putting people in bins based on what tools they use and, more likely, what they had available to them when they first learned how to interact with tech?
Y'all stressing me out because I've seen these funny little takes go viral and become zeitgeist material.
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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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