pretentious7 @pretentious7@mathstodon.xyz

Someone I know wants to try out Mastodon, but he doesn't know English. Is there:

A) A way to look for users speaking a particular language?

B) A Polish instance that's well moderated (no bigotry allowed on there)?

Please boost, even if you don't know 😓

#mastodon #help

Few weeks away from my PhD defence, git decided that some objects are corrupt and that no operation can be performed.
This tweet is sponsored by "Back up everything. Twice"

I could really use some neighborly help from someone who has a clue about ZFS.

Boot disk won't mount b/c I have 3 pools with the same name (the 2 dupes are from previous installs). I can import the correct one by ID from my initramfs shell. How can I destroy the other two?

Status and list commands don't help me because they only show things successfully imported.

Boosts appreciated! I've spent all last weekend on this. :'-(

>instead of moving to pre-existing federated solutions conservatwitter is moving to yet another closed corporate hegemony
Some men must truly desire to be slaves.

Study: We have passed the point-of-no-return for global warming, even if we reduce all greehouse gas emissions to zero.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75481-z?error=cookies_not_supported&code=4c9fe5f0-ab1f-49ba-b0ff-ae90a2b20447

Procedurally Generated Retrocomputer Emulators

[Marquis de Geek] has a profound love of old systems. Tired of writing new emulators from scratch for each project, his newest project EMF generates the emulator for him. An XML document describes the layou… https://hackaday.com/2020/11/06/procedurally-generated-retrocomputer-emulators/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1324961382014590976

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I am thinking of changing the default DPI in rsvg-convert from 90 (historical default) to 96 (CSS preferred). Would this break your usage?

(How to know: run "rsvg-convert -d 96 ..." and see if that breaks your expected results horribly.)

Please boost.

Source: https://twitter.com/tenkichi1212/status/1324277637544439810/photo/3

🦃 Extinct birds:
London: Hutchinson & Co. . ., 1907.
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43677410

A libre replacement for duolingo:)

https://librelingo.app/course/spanish-from-english/

Currently only Spanish, no signup required but preferred if you want to track your progress

#language #learning #education #libre #foss #duolingo #alternative

My free online text on differential equations and linear algebra is almost done: https://www.d.umn.edu/~mhampton/ODELA/

Photo by: Raj [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rajthesnapper/3492531390/

Oh. This could be “fun”.

Today I will start working on the next tarot card. 41 cards are done. 37 cards still need to be painted until the deck is complete. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Three-of-Coins-827171686
#art #illustration #mastoart #tarot

devs really be like "why do we have to give valve a 30% cut on every sale" and then turn around and be like "valve, please make us a tool that will let people play our windows games on linux without doing any work"