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Way too many services in Mexico only work from Mexican IPs, from paying your electricity or internet bills to topping up highway toll accounts and even ordering food from a supermarket

Indeed, "the West stopped imagining better futures". But authoritarian capitalism isn't the only alternative out there. Millions of indigenous people around the world are living in many "alternative" societies, many of them very functional and delivering happiness and prosperity. It may be wise to check them out

Lawn mowing seems like such a useless thing. I mean domestic lawns themselves, especially in a crisis of biodiversity loss, are such a waste of possibility. I had to stop the video when I saw the mower was going for a patch of clovers, thus reducing plant diversity to a single boring, useless species

Thanks dang and everyone for the better title and for clarifying this further

Quote from the paper: "the continents are now the leading contributor (44%) to mass-driven GMSL rise". As regards to non-mass-driven rise, another article[0] states, "Ice-mass loss—predominantly from glaciers—has caused twice as much sea-level rise since 1900 as has thermal expansion". I think the findings about sea level rise are as interesting as the ones about fresh water disappearance.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2591-3

My father set up a Ventura Publisher-based publishing shop in the 80s and it was great. I got to use a laser printer for the first time, retouch photos with Corel Paint and play around with GEM, which I remember had an extremely smooth mouse pointer. All in glorious high resolution (720x348) gray scale.

Regular internet on ships is a flat rate for the ship owner (except for Inmarsat, which is hugely expensive and only used if nothing else works) and the big issue is sharing limited bandwidth with all users. Before Starlink this meant blocking all streaming for our ≈35 people crew, unless you used a VPN, which allowed you to bypass blockage and would get you banned if caught. It's a huge cat and mouse game that burned too much of my time. But then, cruise companies are sleazy as fuck and totally deserve this.

Source: I was a radio operator on Greenpeace ships for nearly 20 years

I made a version[0] of this years ago inspired by something similar in MailChimp using a pasted spreadsheet. Mine converts to Markdown and simpler text. I used it to send table data as plain text emails

[0] http://mirrodriguezlombardo.com/Tablas-simples/

The "enhanced" image looks a lot like those retouched Russian photos from the Stalinist era

I made a readable passphrase generator[0] (in Spanish) with a UI that lets you configure the sentence structure. It's all generated in the client and code is open[1]. According to my primitive calculations I get up to 9x bits of entropy

[0] http://mirrodriguezlombardo.com/passphrase/

[1] https://github.com/mir123/readablePassphraseJS-ES

I opened a JSON created with the Obsidian canvas thing and renamed the long ids with human readable names and it keeps working without re-renaming. So they or whoever uses this format could maybe come up with a way of using some form of human-readable ids[0] to make it easier to modify the JSON by hand

[0] https://pypi.org/project/hrid/

"All land is stolen" is a very lazy statement. Lots of land in this planet is occupied peacefully. It's just that Europeans have been doing it to each other and the rest of the world

Protomaps is a hugely important development in mapping. I switched from spending time and cash managing and hosting a Geoserver to putting all my map layers in a cheap shared web hosting with literally zero maintenance

Primary source here:

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.2...

We had unprecedented social upheaval last year in Panama to free ourselves from a big Canadian copper mine and to push for nature and forests as our primary source of wealth. Zambia has of course not benefited from mining[0] (surely with the exception of big politicians), serving as just another third world source of raw materials with the usual consequences for the locals and the environment.

About time more people in the global South reject this arragement.

[0] https://dailynationzambia.com/2023/04/mingomba-mine-a-wester...

Extremely happy as well. I did put 64gb on it and use it all day for GIS and design on Ubuntu, plugged to a Dell dock and two 4k monitors for a triple head set up

About 40k people were displaced after building the Canal, not necessarily because they were in the way[0]. We like it there and I'd rather have fresh water than have the canal

0. https://www.amazon.com/Erased-Untold-Story-Panama-Canal/dp/0...

Panamanian here. The forest in the Canal watershed is pretty well conserved. The issue now is related to climate change and reduced rainfall. The new locks demand more water, though I can't say if not having those would make a difference in the current situation.

The Canal authority wants to dam more rivers and displace 10k people to make sure there is enough water to keep the thing running. Tens of thousands were forced out of their homes to build the Canal originally. It's fair to question how far Panama should go to keep being a canal country

Do consider travelling to Mexico. There are many first rate dentists at a fraction of the cost in the US

According to this tweet[0] citing a (locked) article, the arrested publisher was asked by police "Do you support president Macron? Have you participated in the recent demonstrations in France? What books will soon be published by La Fabrique?". Scary stuff

[0] https://twitter.com/Mathieu2jean/status/1648394577449984014

After reading about it in The Guardian[0] I signed up for the "Six Pack Revolution"[1] 75 day program and I've been on it for 4 weeks now. Workouts last 30 minutes max, which I do at home while listening to a podcast. You do need to buy a battle rope. It comes with a high protein (non keto, with meat and vegetarian options) diet for which they supply a recipe book and I make my own version of things. Every day it's push ups and glute exercises, every other day abs and special challenges with the battle rope two times a week.

You do need to use Facebook so you can get the exercises and get followed up (they say they will have an app later in the year), send pictures every week and filter out a bunch of feel good gobbledygook. But the discipline and the ready made routines have been great. I'm almost 50 and bored shitless by exercise in general but this one is working for me.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/31/exercis...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/TheSixPackRevolution

I don't understand why there isn't a "home" link somewhere in most pages of his website, the only way to see more of his stuff is to manually edit the URL. I really like his content and respect his skill, so there should be a good reason right?

GIMP has been extremely useful over the years for all sorts of image processing tasks. Krita on the other hand, is the best for image composition (combining several layers) due to its non destructive filters. Imagemagick is great for scripted and complex workflows and large images. All my image needs are fulfilled by these three and it's great to have different tools

Video summary:

https://www.summarize.tech/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1JBAfV4...

I wish I hadn't followed the link to turducken. I can't unsee it now

>you can create more virtual monitors than you have actual monitors

Only on Windows, but you can trick Immersed on Linux to create virtual monitors for you by using an HDMI dummy dongle

It basically depends on how accurate you want to be. I looked into this so I could generate lunar calendars for friends. I got the phases of the moon predictions from the BSD Games program pom by Keith E. Brandt[0], which is itself based on 'Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator'[1] by Peter Duffett-Smith. Lunar eclipse predictions came from the Basic Lunar Eclipse and Phase Calculator by Xavier Jubier[2]. These work well for the near future and with a reasonable amount of precision for regular people. You can get much more accurate using Astronomy Engine[3], but that was already a lot more complex than I wanted to get into

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/bsdgames/pom.6.en.html

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/practical-astronomy-wit...

[2] http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/LunarEclipseCalculator....

[3] https://github.com/cosinekitty/astronomy

I use it, but the requirement to be online in order to add or update entries is quite annoying

Considering an apartheid state synonymous with Judaism is incredibly anti Semitic and promotes antisemitism

"The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow, a radical take on human deep history. Extremely thought-provoking so far, though I'm not finished yet (it's massive)