I can't believe I've had an original idea in wanting a face system monitor. The face would change, skin color, eye size, ear flapping, mouth screaming, whatever, and the user could configure it how they wanted. Then I could get a quick system overview just by looking at the face in the corner of my screen. I'd code it up myself, but for 2 reasons. I think I'd tire of it quickly, as badly as I want to see it. I don't even know where to start with coding anything more than some bash scripting.

I know this is old, but I still think it's funny. Dark funny.

If you sign up to kill people, and it's not in reaction to an attack on your country, you are by definition just a mercenary. I don't wish death on you, but I don't feel much when you die and I don't think you deserve any special consideration by society for your questionable career choice.

This was posted by [email protected] to [email protected] the other day. If you haven't seen it, and are in any way against the capitalist society and mindset, I highly recommend watching this.

Every time I read or hear someone say that, I picture this old meme:

The American Prospect reported that several Democrats in closely contested districts would be voting for the ICE appropriation. “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement,” an unnamed source told the liberal magazine. “They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”

I've never had to organize much in the way of videos/photos, until now. I'm going on a trip for a month or two and want to organize the pictures and videos I will be taking. I'm interested in datestamps and tags more than anything. Does anyone have a workflow that works for them? Any apps that make this easier that I haven't heard of?

EDIT: I'm wondering about things like, downloading media from my camera and having something sort it all in a schema of my choosing. Maybe other things that I don't know enough to even wonder. Or, maybe there is no there there.

For fall 2024, UC San Diego revamped its remedial math course to address middle school math gaps and introduced an additional remedial course to cover high school math. In fall 2025, 921 students enrolled in one of these two courses—11.8 percent of the incoming class.

Saw this video posted over at Mildly [email protected] and thought it should be in this community, just for posterities sake.

I was looking for a compendium of Kirk's beliefs and this was the closest I've found. Let me know if you know of a better source.

-Gay people should be stoned to death

-Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane

-Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband

-No one should be allowed to retire

-Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states

-British Colonialism was what “made the world decent"

-The guy who assaulted the Pelosi's should be bailed out

-Multiple black politicians “stole white people's spots"

-MLK Jr was “an awful person”

-The Great Replacement Theory is reality

-Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID

-Vaccine requirements are “medical apartheid”

-Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment

-Women's natural place is under their husband's control

-Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control

-George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't

-The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a “huge mistake”

-Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates

-Mamdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11

-Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization

-Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK

Buddy of mine sent me what he describes as a disturbing video from his hometown. It's a threads link. I generally use yt-dlp or just straight mpv from the CLI and most things work. I can't see this, on my computer, or my crap phone. Does anyone know a trick or something for accessing this content. No I won't make a threads account. Here's the link, for what it's worth:

https://www.threads.com/@billcampa/post/DOmkRA5gJxn?xmt=AQF05a-9rVm073pIwFedabBAw7fz3fZOCtCTn46Tvl6IAg&slof=1

My mom has this plant in her coastal Southern California yard. She cuts it back to just about nothing every year and it grows back super healthy looking.

Here's a picture of its leaves and flower.

Just thought I'd throw these out there, somebody might like them. There are a lot of different ways of getting the same result.

Screenshot (I shortcut it to F6):

maim --select | xclip -selection primary -t image/png

One key and then I just select the screen shot and middle-click to paste the image where I want it.

OCR a screenshot (I shortcut it to ctrl-F6)

TMPFILE=$(mktemp);maim --select $TMPFILE.png ; tesseract $TMPFILE.png $TMPFILE ; xclip -sel primary $TMPFILE.txt

This may be a little messy as a forced one-liner. This way I can select text from an image on screen, and have the OCR'd text available with, again, my middle click.

Should go without saying it uses maim and tesseract, both should be available with your package manager of choice, and there are alternatives to both of those utilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyt5FNDx9IY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g83z7G9tVMA

Six years old, but more pertinent than ever. I don't think the ghouls at Davos liked the message.

I can't seem to figure this out. I've been trying out different news aggregator sites to use as a home page. Right now I'm using skimfeed. I like it, but the links all have skimfeed baggage tacked on. Like this: https://skimfeed.com/r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F

Well, the source looks like this:

<span class='boxtitles'><h2><a class='siteurls ts33' href='/news/xkcd.html'>XKCD</a> <a class='siteurls atat' href='http://xkcd.com' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>+</a></h2></span>

<ul><li class='nl1 bd33'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15649995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3006%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='Demons'>Demons</a> </li><li class='nl2 bd75'><a href='r.php?q=1148&l=15642742&u=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F3005%2F' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' </li></ul></div>

Which, to be honest, is Greek to me. I'd like to rewrite the links so that they just look like https://xkcd.com/3006/ I don't really care what the link looks like, per se, the encoded bits. I just don't like the extra skimfeed stuff. Aesthetically.

Is there an extension or something that will help me with this? The couple I've looked at are either too complicated for my caveman brain, or site specific (i.e., remove google tracking). If I'm just being a little too retentive, feel free to let me know that too.

I don't know if anyone could use these, but I thought I'd share two commands I use sometimes while trying out different terminals. In my .bash_aliases file I have:

alias whatterm="ps -o 'cmd=' -p $(ps -o 'ppid=' -p $$)"

example:

$  whatterm
alacritty

and I have the following script saved in my local bin directory as testterm. I don't know how great of a test it is, but it shows the capabilities of different terminals and I like the pretty colors.

#!/bin/sh

echo "# 24-bit (true-color)"
# based on: https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
term_cols="$(tput cols || echo 80)"
cols=$(echo "2^((l($term_cols)/l(2))-1)" | bc -l 2> /dev/null)
rows=$(( cols / 2 ))
awk -v cols="$cols" -v rows="$rows" 'BEGIN{
    s="  ";
        m=cols+rows;
        for (row = 0; row<rows; row++) {
          for (col = 0; col<cols; col++) {
                    i = row+col;
                    r = 255-(i*255/m);
                    g = (i*510/m);
                    b = (i*255/m);
                    if (g>255) g = 510-g;
                                printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b;
                                          printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b;
                                          printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,(col+row)%2+1,1);
                                                }
                                                    printf "\n";
                                                        }
                                                          printf "\n\n";
}'

echo "# text decorations"
echo '\e[1mbold\e[22m'
echo '\e[2mdim\e[22m'
echo '\e[3mitalic\e[23m'
echo '\e[4munderline\e[24m'
echo '\e[4:1mthis is also underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[21mdouble underline\e[24m'
echo '\e[4:2mthis is also double underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[4:3mcurly underline\e[4:0m'
echo '\e[58;5;10;4mcolored underline\e[59;4:0m'
echo '\e[5mblink\e[25m'
echo '\e[7mreverse\e[27m'
echo '\e[8minvisible\e[28m <- invisible (but copy-pasteable)'
echo '\e[9mstrikethrough\e[29m'
echo '\e[53moverline\e[55m'
echo

echo "# magic string (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Web)"
echo "é Δ Й ק م ๗ あ 叶 葉 말"
echo

echo "# emojis"
echo "😃😱😵"
echo

echo "# right-to-left ('w' symbol should be at right side)"
echo "שרה"
echo

echo "# sixel graphics"
printf '\eP0;0;0q"1;1;64;64#0;2;0;0;0#1;2;100;100;100#1~{wo_!11?@FN^!34~^NB
                                                    @?_ow{~$#0?BFN^!11~}wo_!34?_o{}~^NFB-#1!5~}{o_!12?BF^!25~^NB@??ow{!6~$#0!5?
                                                  @BN^!12~{w_!25?_o{}~~NFB-#1!10~}w_!12?@BN^!15~^NFB@?_w{}!10~$#0!10?@F^!12~}
                                                  {o_!15?_ow{}~^FB@-#1!14~}{o_!11?@BF^!7~^FB??_ow}!15~$#0!14?@BN^!11~}{w_!7?_
                                                  w{~~^NF@-#1!18~}{wo!11?_r^FB@??ow}!20~$#0!18?@BFN!11~^K_w{}~~NF@-#1!23~M!4?
                                                _oWMF@!6?BN^!21~$#0!23?p!4~^Nfpw}!6~{o_-#1!18~^NB@?_ow{}~wo!12?@BFN!17~$#0!
                                              18?_o{}~^NFB@?FN!12~}{wo-#1!13~^NB@??_w{}!9~}{w_!12?BFN^!12~$#0!13?_o{}~~^F
                                            B@!9?@BF^!12~{wo_-#1!8~^NFB@?_w{}!19~{wo_!11?@BN^!8~$#0!8?_ow{}~^FB@!19?BFN
                                          ^!11~}{o_-#1!4~^NB@?_ow{!28~}{o_!12?BF^!4~$#0!4?_o{}~^NFB!28?@BN^!12~{w_-#1
                                        NB@???GM!38NMG!13?@BN$#0?KMNNNF@!38?@F!13NMK-\e\'

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