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A pretty Little Grebe on the lake yesterday in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] There's something very special about this photo, it's almost like a painting. It's beautiful.

Are you going to listen to Microsoft or are you going to download Vivaldi? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

@[email protected] Microsoft learned nothing from the Explorer / Netscape antitrust case, or are they now brazen, secure in the knowledge of having bought the courts and the politicians?

The field of Medicine is oustanding today, heavily regulated and with gate-keeping via certified training programs. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

@BearOfaTime Demonstrable evidence falling into trained ears that can understand statistics, math, physics, chemistry – at least at an entry level.

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The field of Medicine is oustanding today, heavily regulated and with gate-keeping via certified training programs. (fedia.io)
 

The field of Medicine is oustanding today, heavily regulated and with gate-keeping via certified training programs.

Here is a look at how the field looked like when there weren’t any regulations, with the specific example of the United States in the 19th-century. It’s not pretty – to say the least.

Is that were the “we’ve had enough of experts” (and of regulatory agencies) crowd would like to go back to?

#history #HistoryOfMedicine #medicine

Countercover, with a summary highlighting the negative impact and abuse of the poor and any minorities.

In @Vivaldi, we provide a set of search engine choices. It differs a bit from country to country, but generally we have a nice set of search engines to choose from. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you. Another one would be to search directly into the wayback machine of the webarchive.

In @Vivaldi, we provide a set of search engine choices. It differs a bit from country to country, but generally we have a nice set of search engines to choose from. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Searching directly on wikipedia is surprisingly effective at getting at information – as opposed to content farms cashing in from showing ads.

Nobody can claim that we do not love adding features at Vivaldi. There is a lot of them. Some things, however, we have chosen to ignore. Here is one example: in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] The clarity of communication here about what LLMs are and why they have no place in the browser is commendable. Having found the Vivaldi source code as available is reassuring. Vivaldi is building a credible replacement for Firefox. Does it implement addons (or build in) like ublock-origin? The web with ads is unbearable.

What is your favorite browser? Feel free to share why. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] Hands down Lynx. No javascript, no images, no self-playing movies.

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Down memory lane: "Spy vs Spy: the island caper" – a video game I first played on a Phillips MSX back in ... 1985? Now you can play it in your web browser: (mathstodon.xyz)
 

Down memory lane: "Spy vs Spy: the island caper" – a video game I first played on a Phillips MSX back in ... 1985? Now you can play it in your web browser:

https://classicreload.com/c64-spy-vs-spy-the-island-caper.html

#VideoGames #SpyVsSpy

#PCGaming

If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this: in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That said: Ubuntu 24.04.1 works very well. Feels faster than the prior long-term stable release (22.04.3) in the same laptop; perhaps it's the graphics which seem snappier.

#ubuntu #ubuntu24

If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this: in c/[email protected]
If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this: in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@[email protected] Oh I did choose the suggested OS, but lsb_release -a says "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" ...

If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this: in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

@[email protected] Having installed Debian bookworm in a raspberry pi recently, the stable Debian release isn't without its warts unfortunately.

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If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this: (mathstodon.xyz)
 

If you update a laptop from Ubuntu 22.04.3 to 24.04.1 and the screen is blank with an 'x' cursor after login, do this:

  1. control+alt+F1 to go to a tty and login, then:
  2. sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-session

Further, if #thunderbird doesn't launch, remove the snap installation and install de deb package directly from mozilla (he --purge is so that it doesn't generate adn store a ~4 GB copy of the install). First, do:

$ sudo snap remove --purge thunderbird
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
$ sudo apt update

Then paste this below into a file ( /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillateamppa-thunderbird ) to tell the apt system that you prefer mozilla's over any other package:

Package: thunderbird*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 1001

... and install:
$ sudo apt install thunderbird

The same can be done for firefox if you'd rather skip the snap package.

#ubuntu #mozilla #thunderbird #firefox #linux

<<“bug” in this sense actually goes back to the late nineteenth century. The Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary’s fourth definition of the noun “bug” reads “a defect or fault in a machine, in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@[email protected] A very well read friend!

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<<“bug” in this sense actually goes back to the late nineteenth century. The Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary’s fourth definition of the noun “bug” reads “a defect or fault in a machine, (mathstodon.xyz)
 

<<“bug” in this sense actually goes back to the late nineteenth century. The Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary’s fourth definition of the noun “bug” reads “a defect or fault in a machine, plan, or the like.” >>

<<Computer people adopted a term in use for more than half a century and brought it into the digital world. The wording in the Harvard log book—“first actual case of a bug being found”—suggests the computer programmers and engineers there were already quite familiar with the time-honored usage and were remarking on the novelty of finding an actual insect bugging up the computer.>>

https://daily.jstor.org/the-bug-in-the-computer-bug-story/

#history #ComputerHistory #bug

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