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zero_gravitas ,

I think it’s worth emphasising here: Don’t put it off!

There are millions who can tell you from experience that good intentions count for nothing when it comes to backups.

I’d recommend going and setting up Timeshift right now: github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

It’s easy to set up, it takes literally 10 minutes, and if you decide later you want to use something else, you can just uninstall Timeshift and delete its backups. But in the meantime you’ll be protected with backups.

It’s literally the first thing I install on a new system and it’s saved me multiple times from having to do a complete reinstall.

zero_gravitas ,

People have already given direct answers, and the indirect answer of ‘set up regular automated backups’ (which everyone should set up right now if they haven’t already), but for the sake of throwing another option out there, people could take a look at ‘trash-cli’: github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli

(P.S. I know OP might not have actually deleted the files with ‘rm’, but this addresses a broadly similar issue.)

zero_gravitas ,

Is that unusual?

U.S. officially bars UNRWA funding through March 2025 (www.haaretz.com)

The bipartisan bill, which Biden signed into law, also cuts funding to the United Nations Human Rights Council unless the administration can certify that it is taking ‘significant steps to remove Israel as a permanent agenda item,’ and banning funding for the UN Commission of Inquiry on Israel

zero_gravitas ,

Unpaywalled: archive.is/BlYeM

zero_gravitas ,

The Football Association’s (FA) rules state teams must wear colours that distinguish them from each other.

(from: www.bbc.com/sport/football/68579553)

zero_gravitas OP ,

Sorry to hear about your gravitas situation, times are tough for many of us 😆

zero_gravitas ,

If you ask for cooking or cleaning advice and it hallucinates you’re still at square zero regardless.

Unless it tells you to mix bleach and ammonia 😆

zero_gravitas OP ,

Same 😆

zero_gravitas ,

Void - voidlinux.org

zero_gravitas ,

HP, as well as being hostile to its customers, is also complicit in the Israeli occupation, and is a major target of the BDS movement: bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp

Don’t buy HP products.

zero_gravitas ,

“Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce ‘Linux’ as ‘Linux’.”

zero_gravitas ,

“Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce ‘Linux’ as ‘Linux’.”

zero_gravitas ,

“Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce ‘Linux’ as ‘Linux’.”

So yeah, he pronounces ‘Linus’ like ‘LEE-noose’, and ‘Linux’ like ‘LEE-nooks’. (Roughly, anyway. It should get the point across for most English speakers, I’m not at a computer to do a more-correct IPA transcription right now.)

zero_gravitas , (edited )

Ruby:

a || b

(no return as last line is returned implicitly, no semicolon)

EDIT: As pointed out in the comments, this is not strictly equivalent, as it will return b if a is false as well as if it’s nil (these are the only two falsy values in Ruby).

zero_gravitas ,

Yeah, you’re quite correct, it’s not exactly equivalent, I just went on auto-pilot because it’s used so much for that purpose 🤖

It’s much closer to being a true null-coalescing operator than ‘OR’ operators in other languages though, because there’s only two values that are falsy in Ruby: nil and false. Some other languages treat 0 and “” (and no doubt other things), as falsy. So this is probably the reason Ruby has never added a true null-coalescing operator, there’s just much fewer cases where there’s a difference.

It’s going to drive me mad now I’ve seen it, though 😆 That’s usually the case with language features, though, you don’t know what you’re missing until you see it in some other language!

zero_gravitas ,

There’s a nice list of this feature by language on the Wikipedia page for anyone interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_coalescing_operator#Ex…

zero_gravitas ,

Yeah, I’m surprised it hasn’t been deleted for being against the rules.

Here’s a recent article from an actual news organisation: euronews.com/…/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies…

And their MBFC page: mediabiasfactcheck.com/euronews/

zero_gravitas ,

There are new claims being published.

Recent article: euronews.com/…/israel-stealing-organs-from-bodies…

(Euronews MBFC page: mediabiasfactcheck.com/euronews/)

zero_gravitas ,

It plans to open 900 new stores in the U.S. and 1,900 in some of its bigger international markets like Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia. The company said it plans another 7,000 stores in other international markets; more than half of those would be in China.

zero_gravitas ,

It seems like it’s being grown in a lot of places now. Many people in this thread have mentioned Oregon (USA), and I know it’s also being grown in Tasmania (Australia).

You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?

You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

zero_gravitas ,

You could probably memorise how to identify the right fungus and isolate penicillin, right?

zero_gravitas , (edited )

Yeah, antibiotics is a big one. Plus, some of my skills might actually still be useful in the 40s.

But life did suck in a lot of places for a lot of people in the 40s. WW2, the devastation left behind by WW2, and horrible social attitudes. Good luck in ‘the west’ if you’re not a straight white cis man.

zero_gravitas ,

Where, the U.S.? Seems like there’s gotta be other times and places that were more woman- and queer-friendly, right?

zero_gravitas ,

I think it’s just the two feelings, but in quick succession. Like an emotional dipthong. Or maybe even just simultaneously? Doesn’t have to be a unified thing.

But I guess, ‘tragicomic’, or ‘funny with pathos’.

zero_gravitas ,

Pretty decent, although the inclusion of the last paragraph without the following paragraphpointing out that this incident shows that’s not true is a little misleading if you’re not paying attention.

zero_gravitas ,

That is so much better 👍

if i make static qr codes, no one can redirect them later right?

ive just heard of an incident where students redirected their books codes to p**n. can i make sure that doesnt happen? also, im using google to generate them, is there a foss alternative as im scared of tracking. lastly, can i make the qr code redirect to a specific page of a pdf as i want people to be able to scan them and...

zero_gravitas ,

Yeah, #page={n) works, e.g. dagrs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/…/sample.pdf#pag…

zero_gravitas ,

ive just heard of an incident where students redirected their books codes to p**n. can i make sure that doesnt happen?

This is kind of confusing, or at least leaves a lot of detail out 😆 Did the domain lapse? Did their short-URL account get hacked? In any case, your QR code will just be encoding a URL. Ultimately, any URL can be redirected by someone out there; so it’s just a matter of trusting that whoever has that access won’t act maliciously, and that malicious actors can’t gain access.

also, im using google to generate them, is there a foss alternative as im scared of tracking.

There absolutely are, just search and you should find plenty. Again, though, the QR code is just encoding a URL. Does Google use their own short-URL service for their generated QR codes? Just scan the QR code and look at the URL it encodes. If it’s only the URL you want - not some Google short-URL that then redirects to the URL you entered - then there can’t be any tracking done on it by Google.

lastly, can i make the qr code redirect to a specific page of a pdf

Covered by another commenter already, but for completeness: yes, you just add #page={n) at the end of the URL, e.g. dagrs.berkeley.edu/sites/default/…/sample.pdf#pag…

zero_gravitas ,

Ain’t nothin’ but a heartache

zero_gravitas ,

Title is missing a word or two. Should be ‘Likelihood that average global temperature to will rise …’ or something.

zero_gravitas ,

Portlandia - ‘911 Beets Emergency’ (feat. Jeff Goldbum)

zero_gravitas ,

ROCK ‘N’ STONE, BROTHER!

zero_gravitas ,

What the fuck is this article about? 😆😆😆

zero_gravitas , (edited )

It’s open source, so you could just go find that answer in the code, right?

Also, now I think of it, couldn’t you just do this with one account?

I don’t mean to ruin the fun or anything 😆

zero_gravitas ,

Test

(figured I may as well, while I’m here, haha)

zero_gravitas ,

Btw, you can edit the text of your post to say ‘current bottom-level’ (instead of ‘top level’) which is what you mean.

zero_gravitas ,

I already did a ‘Test’ in reply to your ‘Test’.

EDIT: Oh, I see I was beaten to it and hadn’t refreshed. In any case, I’m just replying to your post with my comment above, not doing the test.

20 killed & tens injured in a back-to-back Israeli massacre as jetfighters strike Gaza school sheltering displaced Palestinians (NSFL Video) (english.ahram.org.eg)

An Israeli airstrike on the Osama bin Zaid School in the Al-Saftawi neighbourhood in north Gaza City killed at least 20 and wounded 30 in the second massacre against civilians in less than five hours on Friday....

zero_gravitas ,

You should probably put this warning in the body text of the post and/or a [NSFL] in the title

zero_gravitas ,

Not AI, but there’s a crowd-sourced extension for skipping sponsored sections called ‘SponsorBlock’: sponsor.ajay.app

zero_gravitas ,

The NSW Police commissioner has backed his officers’ use of strip searches, saying there should be “a little bit of fear” of law enforcement.

Source: www.sbs.com.au/news/article/…/xh4yhd2qg

zero_gravitas , (edited )

As Hyperreality says, the article is a source.

But if you would like more sources, you should check out Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

EDIT: You can also have a scroll through these image search results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=

zero_gravitas ,

“Cool! What are they for?”

zero_gravitas ,

I think they’ve combined politics with the circus. Now even people who think they’re paying attention are really just watching a show.

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