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The original Raspberry Pi was awesome because it ran cool. You could just set it up and forget about it, literally for decades. But now they require fans, they're just like any other computer. They've added a definite point of failure, given enough time. Well done, chaps.




Samsung unveils the $649+ Galaxy S24 FE, a "Fan Edition" value-focused version of the S24 with a 6.7" display, Exynos 2400e, and 8GB of RAM, in five colors (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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When one of the "car accident that wasn't your fault" scammers used to call my house, I told them I was driving a DeLorean and was being chased by guys in a VW campervan. I'm amazed I got as far as telling them I need help finding Dr Brown in 1955 before they hung up.


Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review: lighter and comfortable with improved ANC and transparency, but underwhelming Gemini Live and no high-quality Bluetooth codecs (Chris Welch/The Verge)

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A man walked in to a bar with some asphalt on his arm. He said “Two beers please, one for me and one for the road.”


How To Efficiently Search Linux Manual Pages with the man -k Command linuxtoday.com/developer/how-t…


CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

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Roku unveils the $100 Roku Ultra, which is 30% faster than its other streaming players and has Wi-Fi 6, HDMI 2.1, Dolby Atmos, the Voice Remote Pro, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)

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Ivan Bartoš ve vládě končí, Fiala navrhne jeho odvolání lupa.cz/aktuality/ivan-bartos-…



“I’m going to buy him a copy of the Mythical Man Month. Actually I’m going to buy him two copies so he can read it twice as fast.”

— Unknown

#Q4TD #Quote #Quotes q4td.blogspot.com/2024/09/im-g…




How do you make a water bed more bouncy. You use Spring Water


I saw an ad in a shop window, "Television for sale, $1, volume stuck on full", I thought, "I can't turn that down".



@matrix ARe there any recordings of day 1 of the conference? The videos at:
2024.matrix.org/watch/

Only seem to show Saturdays talks, not Fridays.

Would be even more awesome to see them on #Peertube.

in reply to Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

All the session videos will be online in the next ~week or so, and one of our speakers will be generously mirroring them on PeerTube here: video.innovationhub-act.org/c/…

And we look forward to rolling out our own official PeerTube channel before MatrixConf 2025!

in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

That is AWESOME news, and a strong demonstration of decentralization by example.

Thankyou for the ceaseless work towards progress with #Matrix / #Element / #Synapse / #Peertube.



US online passport renewal is now fully open for business - The Verge’s Sean Hollister picking up his new passport at ... - theverge.com/2024/9/19/2424941…
in reply to IT News

we laugh, but the UK's only had it for 7 or 8 years or so


Thank you to LWN.net for their recent article: Attracting and retaining Debian contributors, which highlights one of the ways that our project grows. lwn.net/Articles/987548/ #debian



beautiful women named "Let's Encrypt certificate expiration notice for domain" keeps messaging me


How do you make holy water? You boil the hell out of it.


I dreamed about drowning in an ocean made out of orange soda last night. It took me a while to work out it was just a Fanta sea.



Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free.
-- David Graeber

#anarchism #quote #bot

in reply to Anarchist Quotes

A billionaire dumping waste in the river: "This is just the way I act when I'm free to do as I choose. Others are free not to drink from the river or to get into a shoot out with my private army."

An all white town lynching the only black family: "This is just the way we act when we're free to do as we choose. They're free to buy more guns to defend themselves against us."

A small town refusing service to the only trans person: "They're free to move somewhere else."

in reply to raccoona_nongrata

“A billionaire dumping waste in the river” is enabled by the coercive state.

“An all white town lynching the only black family” is enabled by the coercive state.

“A small town refusing service to the only trans person” is enabled by the coercive state.

It’s easy to imagine people already powerful in our society acting with impunity, because they already do right now, under the status quo of the coercive state. This is the antithesis of what anarchists are talking about when we discuss and advocate for freedom, which includes the freedom to resist these depredations.



Which would you rather do if you could go back to the past? #Poll #Polls #MastoMonday

  • meet a famous figure from history (0 votes)
  • witness the Big Bang (0 votes)
Poll end: 2 months ago

in reply to Poll Bot

I mean… you cannot technically witness the Big Bang because there was no time before it apparently, and the space was condensed into a tiniest dot, so you wouldn't survive. Unless you believe in the Wheel of the Time, which is a hepothesis not worse than others.


Chrome on the Mac uses less battery than Safari

It's one of the most pervasive common wisdoms shared all over the web, no matter where you go - it's one of those things everybody seems to universally agree on: Chrome will absolutely devastate your battery life on the Mac, and you should really be using Safari, because Apple's special integration magic pixie dust sprinkles ensures Safari sip

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#macOS

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From 2015 to 2019 I was a sex addict, sleeping with 5 to 10 men a week. I discovered a lot about myself. But I mainly discovered that single men of any age mostly live like teenagers, in squalid flats full of dirty washing-up, massive televisions, and random guitars/drum-kits.


NPR: In an effort to address its shrinking population and aging work force, over 15 years, China will raise the retirement age for men to 63, and for women to 55 or 58 years depending on their jobs.#news #NPR npr.org/2024/09/13/g-s1-22510/…
#News #NPR



[Full-time] Executive Director — GNOME Foundation at GNOME Foundation fossjobs.net/job/11451/executi…


Mluví jako popírači holokaustu, tentokrát už se za Česko neschová, říká vnučka Ferdinanda Peroutky. Zemanova slova vyvrací i historici.

Tón: mierne negatívny
#czechia #gdelt #ferdinandPeroutka #milošZeman #žaloba
l.rockosbasilisk.com/4xk3h

in reply to O Česku

Ten zlodědek bude škodit do poslední minuty života.


I justify my pirating of TV and movies by writing plot summaries on Wikipedia. I think it's fair to steal from studios if I'm providing a service to fans


Just discovered that @thunderbird mail filters won't actually filter anything on any folder other than Inbox (even subfolders inside Inbox).

So all my "Delete after 1 week/month/year" rules weren't deleting anything, causing my mail to balloon out of control.

Does anyone know a way to get #Thunderbird to filter stuff in folders? I see old threads about extensions and arcane about:config settings, but nothing that seems to apply to current TB.

1000 fedipoints for the first correct answer!

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

It might be able to help with moving emails to the trash, but what I'm really after is not just automatic deleting of emails.

I'm after being able to use mail filters in my folders.

That would let me do many, many things beyond just deleting. For me personally, I set up filters to change tags, to forward when they're marked todo without being done for a certain length of time, to mark read/unread and more.

Filters are/were the #1 feature of #Thunderbird over webmail for me.



A team of scientists and bakers in the Pacific Northwest is searching for ways to make whole wheat bread resilient to a warming world — and more delicious.
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#KUOW #News