Nowadays it matters if you use a compression algorithm that can utilize multiple cores for packing/unpacking larger data. For a multiple GB archive that can be the difference between “I’ll grab a coffee until this is ready” or “I’ll go for lunch and hope it is done when I come back”
Had to look that lawyer bit up as it just sounded too much like Gravenreuth - and indeed it was.
Making an exception for one organisation, pressured by politicians, would be harmful. BBC has the following policy about neutral reporting:
We don’t use loaded words like “evil” or “cowardly”. We don’t talk about “terrorists”. And we’re not the only ones to follow this line. Some of the world’s most respected news organisations have exactly the same policy
You still might want to do something like alias pbtar='tar --use-compress-prog=pbzip2 to easily use pbzip2 - unless you have an ancient system that’ll speed things up significantly. And even if you don’t it’d be nice to use it for creation - to utilize more than one core the archive needs to be created for parallel extraction.
For an inkjet printer with paper feed issues pulling it through a few times might actually fix those - the print head should be far enough away from the paper that it will not get damaged, and there shouldn’t be other parts close enough. I’ve prolonged quite a few inkjet printers life in the 90s by just sanding the rollers a bit (in some cases you could even get maintenance kits from the manufacturers - which just would be an overpriced tiny piece of sandpaper).
In a laser printer I’d be worried about some of the internals, though.
You’ll get different results depending on the printer type, though. For example, that kitchen paper would work in a inkjet printer (as in, would get pulled through, but you couldn’t read the result), and work perfectly in a dot matrix printer. I know the latter as I used to print, err, learning aids on paper handkerchiefs with my dot matrix printer in the 90s. A few times teachers were suspecting something, in which case I’d just use it to clean my nose, and toss it. Nobody ever was curious enough to continue their investigation afterwards.
A major difference is how they interact with feedback - the main reason I never did my own mastodon instance is the developers attitude. “We’re not interested in helping you because you didn’t set it up exactly as in the guide” was (and maybe still is) all over the mastodon bug tracker.
That was the first thing I looked for when lemmy became popular - and found they were taking deployment issues to even the most absurd system seriously.
Additionally they treat suggestions seriously - even if they personally think it is stupid - and even implement some of that. Pretty much no chance of anything of that happening with mastodon.
This thing seems to be a mess with huge rightwing dicks trying to find something that sticks, with people from the other side coming up to defend her.
I think as a scientist - and especially someone in her role - sloppiness is not a valid excuse, her stepping down was correct, and nobody should make excuses for that. It also is not OK how the rightwing nutjobs are behaving here, but I’ve lost my faith a long time ago that there are still people who can look at both issues, so that will just be a mud slinging competition from both camps until it is forgotten.
There are a lot of Ukrainians and sympathisers in Russia. A terror campaign wouldn’t be with drones, but strategically placed explosives.
I don’t really care what is was - Russia is fucking lucky that Ukraine was mostly playing nice so far. They could’ve made the chechen activities inside Russia during the chechen wars look like amateur hour if they really wanted to - and if we don’t give them the type of weapons they need to win in the right quantities, with ability and permission to strike airports they use for bombing and supply runs inside of Russia Ukraine eventually might want to.
This all is personal stuff. A lot of us started their pages before things like wikis or blogs existed, so the content often has elements of what you’d later find there - and depending on if it makes sense or not a blog may have been added later on, or not. Or still is not what would be considered a classical blog, but just an easier way of updating regular content.
This is an Xorg thing - for wayland you’d have to implement that kind of functionality yourself.
Just checked, it seems to be still there, and exposed via xrandr, see the --panning option in xrandr manpage. So you should be able to somewhat dynamically resize the virtual desktop used via xrandr nowadays. The maximum virtual desktop size supported is determined by your graphics card - so if you’d want that some infinity thing you’d have to do that yourself and just throw a small part of the screen in the graphics buffer for rendering.
The bit where you have a small view on a large virtual display exists in xorg (I assume it is still there - when I used that it was XFree86).
You’d configure a virtual screen with whatever resolution you want, and your physical resolution generates a view on that which is moving with the mouse focus. I used to run a 1200x1600 desktop on a 640x480 screen until my girlfriend said she got sick watching me and bought me a large screen.
Might be useful if you quickly want to prototype the general idea.
There is news for internal consumption, and news for a global audience. Both is available via internet nowadays - there’s pretty much no local newspaper without internet presence nowadays.
I am actually curious how to read internal Russian news.
Internet?
After my Russian wife was browsing the internal news yesterday to see what level of information is provided over there she mentioned that their solution in the abortion debate is to have everyone give birth, and just give up the kids to be raised by the state if you don’t want them.
Also there seems to be a proposal to exclude women from higher education unless they’ve given birth.
Also hyprland, moved from ion3 about half a year ago.
Do you want screenshots or config? I can’t directly publish stuff - I keep my configs in a git repo that started as CVS in the 90s, and contains lots of stuff that shouldn’t be public - but can extract individual bits.
edit screenshot with (hopefully) everything sensitive removed. Emacs is in a scratchpad (“special workspace” in hyprland). The desktop where emacs is displaying opens stuff like teams, slack, …
Hyprlands way of being able to tie desktops to displays and their numbering works better with keeping the same setup across different devices than with ion3 - with the same setup on my notebook I just have one desktop visible at the same time, but I still get to my terminals with Alt-1, my main browser instance with Alt-2, my chat windows with Alt-4.
The small display on the right is a Wacom Cintiq - useful for random overflow stuff when not in use as tablet. I have stuff like IDEs, virt-manager, waydroid show up on workspaces bound to Alt-`, Alt-[ and Alt-] which go to that display.
I personally prefer bzip2 - but it needs to be packed with pbzip, not the regular bzip to generate archives that can be extracted on multiple cores. Not a good option if you have to think about Windows users, though.