Dear friends of #friendship,
I sometimes enjoy watching common sense. I am glad for the voices that install hope and well being as a direction to move towards …
https://youtu.be/W_tpbVZNWco
I'm not sure which social media this came from, but it feels like a good reminder for the Year of the Dragon.
Especially THIS Year of the Dragon. The actual hoarders are making me far too angry.
Dear Friends of One,
It must be time for 11's which is duodecimal X 2 for elevenses.
As we know Atheists (the well known self programmed #absences) like to dismiss extreme lateral thinking, all #deities including the #monotheist or absent gods ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking
#Fortunately some of us are made of more #flexible thought processes or more accurately their unthinkable absence.
So how does the #Non-God, or #Unknowable manifest?
Well if it can be said, it can be #contradicted. Seen, dismissed as fantasy. #Known only to be neti-neti (not this, not that)
Have a great day. Be #Kind. Do do, before DoDo time ...
#LibreOffice 24.2 is our new big update, with many new features, including highlighting for the active row and column in Calc. Find out more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/01/31/libreoffice-24-2/ #foss #opensource
Automated translation services have improved quite a bit the last ten years or so. Before, you could use them creatively as in a whispering game, translating back and forth between different languages, and gradually the share of nonsense would increase because of unfortunate choices along the way. Now, it seems, while this process still introduces some slippages of meaning, the translations remain quite close to the original for several stages. Translations across languages of the indo-european and east asian groups, or other unrelated language groups, is probably the best way to introduce creative errors.
Also, starting from a nonsensical text, the translation process gradually stabilises on something that makes more and more sense, perhaps because more conventional phrases are selected at each turn.
Exhibit A
The purpose of making them work-shy is not to actually keep them idle. Instead, the goal is to create highly realistic models, where the focus is not on making them avoid work, but rather on achieving a high level of authenticity in their representation. This means that the intention is not to promote laziness, but rather to ensure that the models are as convincing and true to life as possible.
Exhibit B
Le but de les rendre timides au travail n’est pas de les garder inactifs. Au lieu de cela, l’objectif est de créer des modèles très réalistes, où l’accent n’est pas mis sur leur éviter le travail, mais plutôt sur la réalisation d’un haut niveau d’authenticité dans leur représentation. Cela signifie que l’intention n’est pas de promouvoir la paresse, mais plutôt de s’assurer que les modèles sont aussi convaincants et fidèles à la vie que possible.
The original of this quote was created by using the search-and-replace function and replacing words and expressions with something completely unrelated. This causes the text to retain a certain coherence through all its whimsical nonsense.
For those of you who have trouble remembering things when you need to, whether it's ADHD, TBI, or just aging, what are tricks you've developed to cope with this? What are ways you've changed your routines to help you remember & keep track of things you otherwise have some difficulty with? #Memory #ADHD #TBI #Aging #Disability
In 5 months Israel extracted 2 hostages through bombing Gaza while killing 30,000 Palestinians.
Meanwhile diplomatic negotiations during the temporary ceasefire led to the release of 136 hostages & 0 Palestinians killed.
Yes diplomacy. No killing. Stop this atrocity.
#CeasefireNOW
Masza telling us to hurry up to see all the wonders hiding further down the road.
Dear #Linux before breakfast friends,
Why use, not use or amuse #Penguin #empowered hardware?
Here is my #stirring #story from Windows to Linux user, be interested in 'earing yours?
I am #familiar with many #versions of Linux. The first one I tried was #Slackware which I installed from an already out dated #CD. It took me 5 weeks to sort of get a browser (#Netscape I seem to remember) on half the screen. I was #curious and my computer friends looked at this rather pathetic display with pity and #incomprehension. What madness was this?
I continued, getting Linux Magazine and realising I could barely understand 5% of what was being discussed.
I was a beginner again. So began #distro #hopping with very condescending 'help' from the penguinated.
However ...
One pre alpha distro was able to provide me with advice on my numerous #questions. Eventually I settled on using this distro, once I got it working at speed. Puppy Linux.
#Puppy was small, VERY fast and continually different. As far as I was concerned if a distro was slow, why not use Windows or Apple?
I still distro hopped but worked very hard for much of the required donkey work for Puppy. I was #fascinated by programming languages but not much of a programmer. So it was mainly #Wiki, #forums and helping #noobs, which is were Puppy became much friendlier and usable. 🤣
After many #experiences, too many to go into I am now using a rolling release, #Manjaro, #Raspbian for my #Raspberry Pi's and one olde computer with Puppy. Barry Kauler who created Puppy is now working on #EasyOS. However I am retired from new experimental distros. Now I prefer my Windows free #choice as I move towards #FOSS. Free and Open Source Software.
Quite a ride ... How is yours going?
@mastodonmigration @snarfed.org @snarfed
Or, you could just block his domains. https://fedi.tips/blocking-and-muting-on-the-fediverse/
3 months ago I couldn’t raise the difference between my income & the money I need to… I guess stay alive.
I know, dramatic. But I’ve run out of credit cards to put the $1k/mo gap on.
And I HAVE to pay it
- no chemo meds means untreated stage 4 cancer & dying in ~ 6 months.
I’m $2k short of what I need at this point in the month.
If you can donate, thank you.
https://account.venmo.com/u/TinuWrites
#MutualAidRequest @mutualaid
If not pls share!
Did you know that a famous math reference – most physicists of a certain age have a copy – is the result of a New Deal project to employ scientists and mathematicians?
Mathematician Irene Stegun was born #OTD in 1919. A major contributor to the Works Progress Administration’s Mathematical Tables Project, she’s probably best known as co-author of the classic “A Handbook of Mathematical Functions” — usually referred to as “Abramowitz and Stegun.”
super bowl Jesus ad funded by billionaire evangelical bigots, everybody drink https://skepchick.org/2023/02/whos-behind-those-jesus-ads-youre-gonna-see-during-the-big-game/
Last one for #SuperbOwl Sunday. Owls (and other Arctic Predators, avian and mammal) use rises and hummocks to scan for prey, using the same spots year after year. Their waste and remains of prey fertilize the spot and the plants grow taller there than the surrounding tundra. Here a juvenile Snowy peers at me from such a spot. #Nunavut #Arctic #WildlifePhotography #Birding
Dear Friends of Anser Anser,
These are greylag geese on Wandsworth common pond I snapped this morning. They are the wild ancestors of domestic geese.
"Homosexual pairs are common (14 to 20% of the pairs may be ganders, depending on flock), and share the characteristics of heterosexual pairs with the exceptions that the bonds appear to be closer, based on the intensity of their displays."
Dear Friends of Health and #Vitality,
How do you increase yours?
We:
- Went for a two hour #stroll yesterday
- Minimum snacking
- Home cooking
- Turn off computer, phone
- Don't watch 'news'
- Enjoy #wildlife
- #Grow #plants
- Talk to the #animals
Must be time for my breakfast, done my #meditation.
#Peace and #Blessings One and All
#Heretical #Buddhist, a wer-lobster living in #London. Main practice at the #moment is finding a working mind …
Glad to be here or anywhere …
#Truth #Integrity #Kindness #Understanding #Wisdom #Calming #Environment #Nature #Trees #Solutions #Urban #Change #Witches #Contemplation
#FLOSS #Linux #Peace #Zen #Humor #Freedom
#Yogini #Daka #Dakini #Metta #Voluntary #Simplicity #CombatTaiChi #Being #Well #TrueNature #NewBuddhist #AugmentedReality #NeoAlchemy
#Mind #Body
cructacean on Jami
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