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Convo about piracy with my friend in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Book recommendation on "actual piracy": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541876.Villains_of_All_Nations

What old person thing did you think wasn't going to affect you until it does? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

Memory problems can occur after getting Covid, maybe that's a factor as well?

How do you deal with depression about climate change? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I am grieving hard, and grief includes a lot of different feelings and experiences. Yes, there is depression, but there is also anger and reflection and the chance to find joy amidst the horror. My priorities have changed. I used to want to leave a legacy for the next generation; now I want to live in defiance of the evils that have ravaged our beautiful planet. Fuck billionaires, politicians, and cowardly centrist news outlets. Fuck them in perpetuity, until they rot away in their apocalypse bunkers. I will burn bright and hot to the end--that will be my legacy.

Team earth is best in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

And as usual, Belters aren't even listed 😤

Mitochondria is the power house of the cell in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

"Christopher Columbus discovered America" (hopefully they're not still teaching this)

A cool guide to Royal Dansk cookies in c/coolguides@lemmy.ca

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

I'm noticing a crispy, buttery theme

Probably, yeah in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

Downvoting is neat; I wish it were an option here

`Paged Out!` is a free experimental technical magazine in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Just read "The Story of Mel" for the first time (Issue #4, page 22); feel like I've been inducted into a programmer secret society

Are you a 'tankie' in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 19 points 3 months ago

Found the tankie! ☝️

Windows XP in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

Recall snapshots back to 2003, damn that's crazy

Why is predictive text so hard to disable? in c/programming@beehaw.org

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you! This makes sense to me

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Why is predictive text so hard to disable? (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 months ago by friendly_ghost@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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Does anyone know, or can anyone guess, the business case for predictive text? On phone apps, it is often incredibly difficult to turn off. Why is that, do you think? (The examples I have recent experience with are Facebook and Outlook mobile apps.)

I would have thought that, for AI training purposes, they would want humans typing things and not just regurgitating canned responses. But apparently not?

What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

Give Srsly Wrong a shot! The Wrong Boys are funny and earnest and I always learn something from them.

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Text-to-speech options? (beehaw.org)

submitted 6 months ago by friendly_ghost@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I'm setting up a laptop with Mint (Cinnamon) for a person who needs text-to-speech software. It seems like most of the nice-sounding ones are proprietary. Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives? And any ideas why this is an underdeveloped area for open source?

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Finding projects that need user testing? (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by friendly_ghost@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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I'm digging into the world of #FOSS #opensource and would like to help with existing projects. My programming chops are not sharp yet, but I'm a detail-oriented communicator who knows a bit about user testing.

How do I find projects on GitHub, GitLab, or other sites that need this kind of help? The machines I would be testing on are a potato desktop running Pop_OS Linux and an Android phone. Thanks in advance!

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Can I email or text myself through Python or bash? (beehaw.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by friendly_ghost@beehaw.org to c/programming@beehaw.org

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EDIT: Thanks y'all! I got this working by installing mutt and configuring it with my Gmail info. Please note the warning from u/jherazob below--if this were something mission critical I would not want to rely on this solution.

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Noob question incoming, thanks in advance for any help with this!

I have a specific use case in which I want to send an automated email or text to myself once a day (the message is different each time--otherwise I would just set an alarm, lol!). I'm running Pop_OS on an old desktop computer. Where I'm stuck is getting an email to successfully send from the command line. I'm looking for easy-to-follow instructions that would help me do that, and none of the articles or videos I've come across thus far have helped.

I'm aware of Twilio and other services that send SMS messages, but I'm looking for something free. Especially since I only need to text one person (myself), and infrequently at that.

Below is my attempt to send an email with the telnet command. Nothing ever came through...

XXXXXXXX@pop-os:~$ telnet localhost smtp
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 pop-os ESMTP Exim 4.95 Ubuntu Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:12:28 -0500
HELO gmail.com
250 pop-os Hello localhost [::1]
mail from: XXXXXXXX@gmail.com
250 OK
rcpt to: XXXXXXXX@gmail.com
250 Accepted
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
Subject: Test
Body: Is this working?
.
250 OK id=1rMZW4-0002dj-Uy
quit