LibreSprite or Pixelorama

top contributor to repo: Claude

Texas had to go one better – inverted cloverleafs (stack interchanges) complete with service (frontage) roads

• for most people, use whatever your distro ships with and installs for you
• choosing desktop environments still starts heated discussions – high end, it’s a choice between Gnome and KDE – mid-tier has Xfce, LXQt, Mate, Cinnamon, and more – limited hardware go for IceWM, JWM, FLWM, or similar – want to get your hands dirty? go for a tiling window manager
• X11 is (effectively) abandonware at this point – it’s still getting security patches, but the devs left and started Wayland 17-ish years ago
• XLibre is more political than technical – and I’ll leave it at that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DydIK14AvXI (I think qualifies more as brown noise than white noise)

I’ve had a couple systems that started with nothing more than vi, but rather more that started with nano (don’t think I’ve come across any that started with vim) – that being said, I’ll tolerate vi long enough to get micro installed

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

—Hannah Arendt

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

—Captain G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947)

“A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.”

(now if AppImages would work on musl systems …)

Anthony Bourdain

one of the big things we’re already seeing is the cost asymmetry – F-15E original price was $31M and costs roughly $19K per flight hour – a Shahad-136 drone costs $20K total

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seen Liberty in City

• it gave them an excuse to kill Skype
• they weren’t willing to let Zoom hog the spotlight

• they might turn into communists, they might burn everything down
• Republicans in the US are already fascists, they are already burning everything down

ImageMagick really is a Swiss Army Knife of usefulness …

a more obscure option is exiftool – and documention

• setup an input folder and a destination folder beforehand
• copy photos from phone to input folder
• bonus: decide on separate suffix or initials for each of you

exiftool -progress -d <destination-folder>/%Y%m%d-%H%M%S-<suffix>.%%le "-filename<CreateDate" <input-folder>

    -progress
        verbose and shows an [x/y] progress
    -d <destination-folder>/%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S-<suffix>.%%le
        renames to YYYY-mm-dd-HHMMSS-sfx.ext format
        and lowercases the extension
    "-filename<CreateDate"
        uses the image creation date (from EXIF metadata) for the above naming scheme

“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)

the not ELI5 version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark