Make your AppImages launch automatically at startup.
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How to Autostart AppImage Applications in Linux
Want to run an AppImage application automatically at boot time? You could do that with a little effort. Here's step by step process to accomplish it.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
📼 Command line video magic for ARTISTS
A cookbook by @madskjeldgaard for audio and video processing on the command line – with examples!
Includes how to generate a spectrum video from an audio file. How to combine an audio file and an image into a video. Among other things.
And it includes full #bash scripts and examples for for-loops, so you could do this on tons of audio files, if you so fancied 🤠
#ffmpeg #linux #unix #commandline #terminal #cli
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ffmpeg for artists: A cookbook for audio and video processing on the command line – with examples!
A guide to using ffmpeg for artists. ffmpeg is a free tool that allows you to create, convert and manipulate video, really quickly and without opening a heavy GUI-based program.hyaline.systems
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My aunt texted: "Perhaps now is the time for super shameless promotion of Governable Spaces. The audience won't need any handholding to get it."
I don't know if it is true, but see for yourself: ntnsndr.in/govbook
holy crap, I just got round to properly reading this in the last days and it is incredible! I feel like anyone at all interested in politics (anti-feudalism) and technology (internet) should definitely read.
Super glad to finally have a feel for what BBSs and Usenet is/was. And so many useful terms, concepts and stories.
Thank you!
The NAACP recognises that the rollback of DEI initiatives is a direct attack on Black economic progress, civil rights, and the principles of equity and fairness. These actions are part of a broader effort to reverse gains in civil rights and social justice.
Black Consumer Advisory
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We need to maintain a list of who is maintaining DEI and who isn't.
How big companies are abandoning DEI initiatives
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Which companies have wound back their DEI commitments? Here’s a look
Which companies have wound back their DEI commitments?
Here’s a list of companies who have scrapped, altered, or doubled down and reaffirmed their DEI commitments.Jessie Tu (Women's Agenda)
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I suppose most people have seen this: theverge.com/news/612898/amazo…
Follow-up question: Anyone out there with hands-on experience for de-DRM-ing downloaded books on MacOS? There seem to be a few tools out there, all a little on the sketchy side. I could do this on Linux if the tools are better there.
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
Amazon is removing a Kindle feature that allows purchased books to be downloaded to a computer for backup or transfer via USB.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Trading book ownership for corporate library management was always a mistake.
From: @timbray
cosocial.ca/@timbray/114009140…
I suppose most people have seen this: theverge.com/news/612898/amazo…Follow-up question: Anyone out there with hands-on experience for de-DRM-ing downloaded books on MacOS? There seem to be a few tools out there, all a little on the sketchy side. I could do this on Linux if the tools are better there.
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
Amazon is removing a Kindle feature that allows purchased books to be downloaded to a computer for backup or transfer via USB.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
@fm2279 - being married to someone who goes to sleep early and is sensitive to light and page-turning
- taking notes that can easily be transferred to a digital archive
- reading and writing (including large, complex things) on sam object
Sometimes when Sylvester is beating up Simon I like to imagine Simon chuckling and saying in Ralph Wiggum’s voice “I’m in mortal danger!”
it just seems to be part of the joy of life to Simon. #Cats #OrangeCats #CatsOfMastodom #Caturday #usie
On the one hand I fully agree with bringing large companies under control.
On the other I wonder if we should be considering targeting only companies that have dropped DEI and rewarding those who are standing up to the federal government and maintaining it. These are allies.
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Remove gender pronouns, says Deloitte US. How big companies are abandoning DEI initiatives
Major corporations including Google, Amazon, McDonald’s, Boeing and IBM have significantly scaled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, with Deloitte instructing staff working on contracts for the US government to remove pron…FP Explainers (Firstpost)
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - BookWyrm
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.bookwyrm.social
The Three-Body Problem - BookWyrm
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society receives these messages and makes plans to invade Earth.bookwyrm.social
Seeing Like a State - BookWyrm
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.bookwyrm.social
Roadside Picnic - BookWyrm
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around.bookwyrm.social
Braiding Sweetgrass - BookWyrm
bookwyrm.socialAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.
How Long 'Til Black Future Month? - BookWyrm
How Long 'til Black Future Month? is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American novelist N. K. Jemisin. The book was published in November 2018 by Orbit Books, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group.bookwyrm.social
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 - BookWyrm
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City.bookwyrm.social
Darkome - BookWyrm
During the Decade of Plagues, pandemics brought civilization to a standstill. The only way out was the Aspis chip: a wearable mRNA vaccine factory, able to immunize you against new viruses on the fly. But not everyone wanted it.bookwyrm.social
Occult Features of Anarchism - BookWyrm
bookwyrm.socialIn the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various “conspiracy theories” suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself.
Walkaway - BookWyrm
bookwyrm.socialHubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza―known to his friends as Hubert, Etc―was too old to be at that Communist party.
The People's Republic of Walmart - BookWyrm
For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan.bookwyrm.social
Lurking: How a Person Became a User - BookWyrm
bookwyrm.socialA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user
In a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apa…
The Edible Woman - BookWyrm
The Edible Woman is a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance. It is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus.bookwyrm.social
Future Feeling - BookWyrm
**An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse a young man—and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him—in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming debut n…bookwyrm.social
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As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use
The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…Retraction Watch
Comparative genomics provides insights into chromosomal evolution and immunological adaptation in horseshoe bats - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A comparative analysis of bat genomes, including five newly assembled chromosome-scale genomes, provides insights into the diversification of horseshoe bats and reveals molecular adaptations with a potential role in antiviral immune response.Nature
Let us make it clear to the People - this is not cost cutting. This is destruction of American institutions built over decades, this is vandalism, this is revenge firing of skilled employees and expertise.
Real cost cutting requires planning, financial analysis, transparency, dialogue and surgical instruments, not machetes.
This is a hostile takeover of the U.S. govt. by a bunch of wealthy lunatics, who are seeking power and wealth for themselves and no one else.
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What is Doge and why is Musk cutting so many jobs?
US President Donald Trump’s new agency is tasked with slashing costs - but faces opposition.James FitzGerald and Holly Honderich (BBC News)
Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/stea…
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Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter
Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta Client update for February 14th, showing the love to battery life with a little extra juice.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Why settle for ordinary when you can have Hyprland? 🤌
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Customizing Hyprland to Your Liking
Got Hyprland? Let's see how to configure and customize it.Sreenath (It's FOSS)
APOD: 2025 February 15 - Parhelia at Abisko
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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