Zach777 @Zach777@fosstodon.org

[boosts appreciated]

Hello Fediverse!

I am currently preparing material for my potential bachelor thesis in communication design. I'm looking for info on open source usage or workflow in the design industry (but basically everything none-Adobe). I know of David Revoy's book project and would love to hear about more experiences. If you have any yourself or any material at hand (blogs, videos, papers, etc.) I'd be happy if you could send it my way. 😊 ❤️

#OpenSource #adobe #FollowerPower

I am in need of a reasonably high quality photo printer with a reasonable ink cost to performance ratio.

What'cha got?

Is there an ecotank printer that works well for photos?

THREAD: My frustrated goodbye to @VoiceHQ@twitter.com.

CONTEXT: Today, what was a promising glimpse into the future of content creation and social media, will close its doors.

It will relaunch as an NFT marketplace.

All of our content there will be nuked from existence in a few hours.

@denza252@shitposter.club

CS major programs need to be less vocational

#theWorkshop

This was an adventure and a hassle.

I've just written a tiny C program for Win32 that reports the current 256-color system palette. This is useful for extracting the color palettes of old palette-based programs.

I'm so far out of my wheelhouse it's eerie. I feel like I'm standing in a bog at midnight with a radio receiver, recording the signal of a numbers station. Real what-the-hell-am-I-doing-out-here energy.

Participating in a university debate today about privacy and Big Data. As part of my prep I am revisiting the fantastic talk by Maciej Cegłowski, "Hounted by Data":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk

Text and slides:
https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm

Afterwards, @doctorow@quitter.no 's thread on GAFAM and advertising data:
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/106013038829440675

Both are essential reading.

I've been reading through Richard Feynman's "What Do You Care What Other People Think", where he talks about his experience in the Challenger Disaster commission. I really like his attitude where, if he wanted to know something, he'd listen to the engineers, the actual workers, not the executives' presentations, which turned out to be inaccurate time and time again.

Makes me wonder how many problems with common software (like bloated web) is due to bad management instead of bad programmers.

Enter this #command on your #terminal to get your local weather report 👇
curl wttr.in

#linuxtips #commandline

Are you looking for people to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse?

Click below for a directory of hundreds of recommended follows organised into 45 topics:

➡️ https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows/106132087073327008

(If a category has several pages of follows, click "show older" at the bottom to see the next page.)

This is just a tiny fraction of accounts on here, but hopefully it will give people's timelines a good start.

Please do share this with anyone you think might benefit, for example people new to the Fediverse.

If you're on a big instance with lots of members, you might want to consider moving to a smaller instance.

Smaller instances can give members more personal attention, as the admin has more time to deal with members' feedback. They also tend to have more interesting local timelines if you pick an instance that matches your favourite topic.

Using smaller instances also protects the Fediverse from nasty people or companies, because a spread-out Fediverse is much harder to hack or buy.

#FediTips

Hm... right-click... "save this video"... it's greyed out... hmmmm...

"Inspect element". Find "stream.mux.com" link... feed it to #YoutubeDL... damn thing figures out how to get each of the individual chunks of video from that url and starts stitching them together with ffmpeg, for a url it was never designed for.

VLC can open everything, including a can of beans; youtube-dl can download everything, including a car.

Together, they fight crime.

#gentoo #skiffos #plasmamobile #pinephone

Camden Bruce: "Performance of Gentoo Plasma Mobile on the pinephone using SkiffOS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usueljI-gWg

""use comments please""

by L4Ndoo

My Fediverse timeline is full of people doing cool things in collaboration with others.

My Twitter timeline is full of people competing with one another while performing their bullshit jobs.