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@wasamasa

1) A frosted donut with bites slowly being taken out of it. When it's eaten, another one appears.
2) Flying Toasters (I miss those guys).
3) You already did the Nyan Cat so I'm extremely grateful for that one already.👍
4) An old school pacman screen
5) Raindrops falling into a puddle
6) A really nice aquarium
7) Flying pigs or flying pink elephants
8) The screen slowly filling up with coloured marbles. When it fills up, it starts again. Physics bouncing would be good (if possible)
9) A slowly growing forest with trees and bushes appearing. When it's full, it starts again.

I hope you find some inspiration in these. 😀

Follow-up question: What kind of zone (AKA screensaver) programs would you like to see in #Emacs? The existing options:

- Built-in stuff (most of which scramble the existing buffer text or otherwise mess with it)
- Two Matrix™ ones
- Rainbow colors
- A steam locomotive (clone of the `sl` command)
- A nyancat animation written by yours truly

Most screensaver ideas seem to be about graphics rather than text, but graphics are of course still possible. One thing I've considered is game cut scenes, much like the "attract mode" of arcade machines (or maybe just add a whole game and relax the screen saver rules a bit).

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@Tilopa@convo.casa @MrShoggoth

While Trump may be more at risk of heart attack or stroke this is due to his health, weight and known factors that lead to that. So dying as a result of health won't really solve wider issues.

While it may avoid trial by treason, surely this will send a message to younger, healthier supporters that you can do what you want without judicial consequence.

By putting Trump on trial for treason, you send a clear message to others NOT to follow what he has done, so even a 25-35 year old president or politician will know that they can be hauled before a judge and put on trial.

It also sends a message tha regardless of your health you can also expect the same.

Justice must be SEEN to be served.

NASA Goddard put out an animation showing the size of the largest black holes we know of. And it's gigantic. It's pretty much incomprehensible to the human mind. You can't actually imagine it. You /think/ you might, but you can't.

YouTube: NASA Animation Sizes Up the Biggest Black Holes
youtube.com/watch?v=jU1DsipURc

It's a bad time for Musk, because he's an idiot:

Phys.org: Environmental groups sue FAA over SpaceX Texas rocket launch
phys.org/news/2023-05-environm

Phys.org: SpaceX Starship effectively grounded by FAA after in-flight explosion
phys.org/news/2023-05-spacex-s

All of which, I might add, was repeatedly predicted years ago by The Common Sense Skeptic on their channel which debunks bullshit of many stripes. Musk features prominently in their videos for this very reason.

youtube.com/@commonsenseskepti

A lot of my French friends don't understand the level of intellectual collapse going on in America right now. I show them videos like the following (linked below), and they really can't wrap their heads around the fact that literally tens of millions of people in America believe this bullshit. It's so hard for them to fathom. It's not that we don't have conspiracy theorists here in France and in Europe in general, it's that they are not so entrenched in society on this level of insanity.

BoingBoing: QAnon follower explains that Trump is the shadow President and James Woods is playing Joe Biden, who died
boingboing.net/2023/05/01/qano

It's beautiful outside and will get warmer later today.
A little morning music:
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, "Morning Mood" / Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony
youtube.com/watch?v=aMs0rNtBZJ

According to researchers, text based #AI models are trained on (among others) Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Not sure if this is ironic.

theregister.com/2023/05/03/ope

@matt @swasserstrom I still think that Mastodon will suffer greatly from it's lack of a real search. Maybe it's by design, but it's not a good thing.

NPR: Elon Musk threatens to re-assign @NPR on Twitter to 'another company'
npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/

What is there to really say? I wish him penury and tears before his tortured departure.

@daviwil Ah. Nope. Never used it. I use Hugo and it works fine with a built-in RSS generator.

Does anyone actually use `ox-rss.el` the way it's intended? It expects one monolithic Org file containing all posts, all of which are top-level headings.

If you want your posts to be individual Org files, it seems like you have to generate a special sitemap file (separate from the one used to display the post listing) just to give `ox-rss` the list of posts in the format it expects.

Not impossible, but definitely not streamlined.

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