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vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.

https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/

A screenshot of the "Convert Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps" tool.

you have to sort of have to admire the horror of late stage capitalism: create the conditions for environmental collapse, profit from the people needing to escape the environmental collapse, profit from the clean up AND convince people that doing anything any other way is communism.

It’s Wednesday and this is a wildebeest so this must be . Not a thing? Alrighty then I’ll get the ball rolling.

I learned an alternative name for the wildebeest: the gnu. Of course that should be gnu/linux!

A large and somewhat leery wildebeest looking back at the camera. In the background is mostly sandy grasslands with a few trees and bushes. Photographed in Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana

Remember, "I don't know, I lack sufficient information on this topic" is NEVER an acceptable answer.

Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.

I'm working on an expansion card for the Sharp computer and the best technical reference for it is the book Outside X68000. It's in Japanese and while there's a site that has a translation, it's low res and doesn't show the English in the page context. After trying some translation tools the best result by far is Google Translate's image translation. It's tedious uploading every page image individually but the translation is very good. Here's the IO section: https://picog.us/docs/x68k/outside-x68000-translated/

Two book pages side by side. The original Japanese version is on the left, and the English translated version is on the right. There's a waveform diagram at the bottom of each page.

ah the age old computer question: why isn't any of my shit working

Screenshot of a gig work app asking how you plan to get to jobs. I'm pretty sure it is illegal for employers to ask if you have a car, but tech companies can because the law doesn't apply to them?

Libreboot 20241008 released!

https://libreboot.org/news/libreboot20241008.html

Highlights:

* Sony PlayStation support (PCSX-Redux Open BIOS). Works on emulators and real hardware
* New Dell Latitude boards added by Nicholas Chin: E6220, E6320, E6330, E6230, E4300
* Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro support, courtesy Make Kukri @mkukri - Intel Boot Guard disabled by his deguard utility
* Dell OptiPlex 7010/9010 SFF support, courtesy of 3mdeb's work
* Improvements in the build system resulting from Libreboot Build System Audit 6

Can't do show tonight :-( - shit crazy. See you next week! <3

On LLMs and the climate crisis

my briefing 10 minute recorded episode.
Hypothetically 000UTC https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
Alternate: https://toobnix.org/w/oxM8mRGMyArKESkKvHpRy9

No music, fun, friendship or poetry. It's not that sort of topic.

re: libreoffice

my opinion is that the problem lies with WSIWYG, not with any particular word processor

@jalefkowit This is why I want to write my own word processing tools. LibreOffice, along with its entire lineage (e.g., StarOffice, etc.), has been nothing but a well-hidden roaring dumpster fire for the last 20+ years with no end in sight.

Drawing of a mech

no spam here.

hello all,

sorry for the inactivity. i have been very very sick. the stomach pain i was suffering even necessitated going to the hospital emergency department.

i have recovered, and i think i have figured out what is going on. it has taken about 18 months, though.

look after yourselves, comrades.

vidak.

For my Australian folks: Hello,

I am selling a BrailleSense 6 that has recently undergone servicing and cleaning. It comes in its original box, but please note that you will need to find a charger for it. I am selling it because it no longer meets my needs and I do not use most of its functions.

I am asking for $2000 or the nearest offer. I am willing to ship Australia-wide.

Please feel free to contact me here if you have any questions.

CW: Names of Palestinians killed by Israel



Al Jazeera have uploaded a long video containing the names of killed in Israels genocide in Gaza. The list of names scrolls too fast to properly read the names and it is still over 59 minutes long. This Israeli-led, US-backed terror campaign and genocide need to stop.

https://youtu.be/poHGZW-mg_M

What is it that made Shakespeare so popular? And by that I mean, what makes him in particular so popular? He's both a prolific and good writer but I'm sure there were other people that were also prolific and good, so there has to be some sociological or economic thing that let him in particular rise to prominence

*SM64 penguin sounds*


Reisepass für Wonderland – Passport for Wonderland

Eine Hand hält einem sehr großen Eichhörnche-Beamten einn Reisepass entgegen. Das Nagetier stempelt ihn ab, während es den Einreisenden durch seinen Kneifer betrachtet. Über ihm schwebt ein von Elfen getragenes Banner mit der Aufschrift „Welcome to Wonderland!“.
A hand holds out a passport to a very tall squirrel official. The rodent stamps him while looking at the entrant through its pincers. Above him hovers a banner carried by elves with the inscription "Welcome to Wonderland!".

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