Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Can anyone recommend me an *offline* horizontal timeline-making tool?

I'm looking for something akin to TimelineJS or Tiki Toki (pictured), to visualise some periods of my life, but given the current state of internet scraping, I don't particularly want to upload a bunch of personal info to someone else's server.

I'm not after Gantt charts or vertical-scrolling timelines.

(Open source would be ideal, but I'm willing to buy a product if it's good enough.)

“The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s - The New York Times”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/magazine/parkinsons-smell-disease-detection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ck4.qfQL.LUj1Izb7kVzU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

This is amazing

#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.

She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.

#WomenInSTEM

@tshirtman @quietmarc @SallyStrange There was a meta data paper where someone studied all the papers on archeological digs as a whole and worked out that something was wrong because something like 80% of all bodies were “male” which obviously isn’t right. So they went back and reexamined findings and basically because gender from physical remains was somewhat guesswork they based gender also on grave goods which, of course, was a circular argument. Now they are better at it (not perfect) so we now have female roman gladiators found in London, Shield Maidens found in the north of England, and a Galli follower of Cybele (trans woman) also in Northern England.

edit: i meant compsize

what was the name of the command line tool again, that shows how much the filesystem compression compressed the files in a directory? i always forget the name… (i think it starts with ch)
#askFedi #linux #unix

Finally resumed work on my "booleans as a service" platform for enterprise.

In the free edition of the API, a `GET` to `~/Values/True` will return `1`. Rate limits apply.

In the professional tier, you get the features of the free edition, but also, a `GET` to `~/Values/False` will return `0`, plus, rate limits are higher.

In the enterprise edition there are endpoints such as `~/And/1/1` (which returns `1`!), and many more endpoints. All of these, of course, depend on an LLM.

If you support folks on Patreon, make sure you start your subscription on the website rather than via the Patreon app, since in-app payments are subject to extra payment processing fees (it’s *especially* bad on iOS but Android does it too).

Better yet, don’t use dedicated apps for things that should be websites, and also consider using support platforms that care more about actually supporting folks, like ko-fi. Patreon ultimately only cares about how much money comes into Patreon.

Very specific tip, that took me ages to work out so I should post it /somewhere/ at least.

Want to get a sketch from Fusion 360 onto a Silhouette vinyl cutter?

Fusion: export sketch as DXF file

Inskape:
Open DXF File (with the right boxes ticked to get it in mm)
Save as DXF 12 file

Silhouette studio:
Change units to mm (seriously what defaults to inches in 2024‽)
Close and reopen silhouette studio
Open inkscape’s DXF file
Zoom waaaay out and drag the design onto the cutting board
Cut

So there's a car on my street that's been dumped as far as I can tell (or for sure cannot be moved - because the tires are flat for ages - see pic)

I contacted the Ordnungsamt

You can leave a car as long as you like on the street providing it is not of danger to anyone or not blocking anything 🤷‍♂️

found two parts where one is NDA'd and the other isn't, but they're suspiciously identical in function and specs, and I suspect one is just marketed for a specific industry vertical.

the vendor publishes IBIS and S2P models for both parts, without NDA, and they're byte-for-byte identical lol

datasheet NDAs are so ridiculous

Your child may not feel any form of attraction to other people now or ever. Your child may never feel romantic or sexual attraction to others as they grow up. Your child may fluctuate in their attraction to others, if they feel attracted at all. Your child may feel attraction to others, but in a very limited or restricted way.

This is okay. This is normal. Not everyone grows up to be what society expects us to be. Do not assume that your child will feel attraction, and make sure they understand that not feeling attracted to others is a valid option, despite the heteronormative pressure of society that says otherwise.

#Asexual #Graysexual #ASpec #LGBTQ #Queer

We're pleased to announce the official release of #Lix 2.91 "Dragon's Breath"

This release contains several convenience features and bug fixes.

Some highlights include:
- a multi-line logging output mode that shows everything that's building
- failing fixed-output derivation builds now show the URL
- nix flake show also displays descriptions of flake outputs
- nix flake metadata shows the time last updated
- several bugs have been gently taken outside the code

https://lix.systems/blog/2024-08-12-lix-2.91-release/

- get a new acsm. again.
- get the actual encrypted epub from google play
- dedrm stack traces while trying to decrypt it; key handling is wrong
- rewrite part of dedrm to do key handling more correctly???
- finally, decrypt the epub
- whee, it's usable

which is better?
impossible to say

illegally downloading a book for my e-readers from Anna's:
- download book
- use it

downloading a book legit from Google Play Books:
- buy the book, pay money
- get an acsm. install adobe digital editions.
-by the time the install is done and activated, the acsm's expired
- get a new acsm
- editions crashes and won't let me transfer it to an e-reader
- get the deacsm and dedrm pugins for caibre.
- fix the ACSM plugin's dependency; its version-parsing regex assumes versions all match \d\.\d\.\d

After the whole Logitech "subscription mouse" junk I decided to see if there was an open hardware thumb trackball, and there is! I just built a Ploopy Thumb trackball, and the hardest part was soldering on the sensor. I even printed out my own orange buttons. I will mess with the firmware (QMK!) later this week.

Edit: link to kit: https://ploopy.co/shop/thumb-trackball-full-kit/

fedi I am curious: if I say: "a wizard, a pirate and a catgirl walk into a bar" - did you perceive it as

My point is that you are explicitly taught why you need spare capacity in an MBA so people with MBAs have no excuse for not understanding what getting rid of all the spare capacity will do.