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  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Software subscriptions: you own nothing and you'll be happyEnglish
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    16 小时前

    Same company acquired two very similar apps.

    One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year

    So, why are you using a subscription at all, and not a free and open source app?

    You know what Blender is? It’s the industry standard. Why is it the industry standard? Because it’s free, open-source GPL, it can never be taken away from you, it can never be “acquired”, everybody’s using it, and everybody is contributing towards improving it. Nobody is bitching about how Blender is extracting millions of dollars from its users and reducing its feature set at the same time. (*cough cough* Photoshop *cough*)

    Free and open source software. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. Fuck subscriptions.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Nobody Cares If Music Is Real AnymoreEnglish
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    5 天前

    People want to charge $15-20 for a CD, and if I did that for every album I listened to on Spotify, I would have spent at least a luxury car’s worth of music. I’m not going to ever pay that much again. Concert prices are already bad enough.

    Piracy or streaming, pick one. Because the choices we had before that sucked.

    The real problem is oversaturation, and the general worth of music. Good music is everywhere. People are making it every day and putting it out there, on Spotify, Bandcamp, wherever, and it’s all free or very cheap to listen to. Why should I specifically pay attention to Yee or Lil Shitstain or whatever is the college rock band of the week that got insanely popular?

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Jellyfin assistanceEnglish
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    23 天前

    You can do some wild shit with pipes:

    • head -10 /var/log/syslog - Look at the first ten lines of one of your log files, with timestamps on the front
    • cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 - Splits the lines by a space delimiter (the -d' ' part), and grabs the first “field” (the one with the timestamp, using -f1)
    • cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 - Splits the timestamp at the “T”, and leaves only the date
    • cat /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - Gives you a count of each date
    • grep systemd /var/log/syslog | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -dT -f1 | sort | uniq -c - For only the lines with ‘systemd’ on it, gives you a count of each date

    The standard GNU toolkit has a ton of utilities like that for doing stuff with text files.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Yes, AI will eventually replace some workers. But that day is still a long way offEnglish
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    2 个月前

    Oh, geesh, where have I heard this pattern before with technology? Is it self-driving cars? Remember when the sky was falling because everybody said car transportation was going to change overnight because a bunch of fucking college students figured out how to win a self-driving car race. Where the hell is my fully-autonomous Level 5 self-driving car that was going to replace all of the truck driving jobs? Oh, what’s that? Are all of the jobs still here?

    Technology moves the needle. It does not jam it all the way to the other side. Stop spending trillions of dollars on pipe dreams, only to have to force expectations back to reality ten years later.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Lets contribute to OpenStreetMaps!English
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    2 个月前

    I’m trying, but it’s hard to stay motivated when the information on a lot of local areas I visit are so damn old.

    There are entire areas where it looks like it acquired the data 5-10 years ago from some other mapping software (Google, Bing, something else), and hasn’t updated since. It didn’t have all of my street information for my neighborhood area, so I started there first. I didn’t really mind it too much, because, hey, Google didn’t have it filled in several years ago, either. I started using Vespucci and drew out some of the houses and streets.

    But, as soon as I expand out, there are strip malls with really outdated information. StreetComplete tries to ask me questions about these places that were replaced long ago, and it doesn’t have the tools to allow me to carve out sections of the strip mall, since it only thinks there are two shops, but there’s now 8-10 shops. So, I go back to Vespucci and try to fill it out, but I only have so much time before I’m going to some other location, and I don’t really have the time to draw out even the map details in the place where I’m parked. I feel like I’m the only one that bothers and the entire city is out-of-date. It’s overwhelming.

    If bots somehow got this information back then, then why can’t it pull this data now? Certain sections and entire cities desperately need a refresh.