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New free agent Derrick Lewis would be insane to not go after Francis Ngannou in PFL in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I would love to see him make the move. Anything that weakens the UFC's power is a good thing.

Heat wave puts over two-thirds of U.S. population under heat alerts in c/news

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

It’s such an uncomfortable truth!

Some might even call it an Inconvenient Truth!

People whose original language isn't English, which dialect did you try to imitate while learning? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a weird rule, but of course this is the internet. Nobody said you had to tell the truth. Take it from me, living in Chagos.

Donald Trump unleashed a war against the U.S. government — and now he can't control it in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Then came Ronald Reagan and the dark times.

That about sums up the situation.

What habits do you have to protect your privacy? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I configured the newsboat rss reader for my youtube subscriptions, but you may want to configure another reader that allows you to download/watch videos. An alternative to @[email protected]'s javascript code, you can go onto the homepage of a youtube channel, open up the page source and search for "rssurl". That will give you the rss feed for the channel.

A lot of readers can do this automatically. It really is nice to watch videos without any of the suggestions or ads. Also, if you use mpv to watch the videos, you can install a sponsorblock script that does away with the paid promotions in the video.

UFO hearings: whistleblower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites – as it happened in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The Republican party has led the initial charge, with a series of claims about extraterrestrial life that, until recently, would have been seen as career-ending.

LOL, more distraction from one party's inability to do their freaking job. It's funny that 1) alien visitors cross unfathomable distances using what must be technology far, far, in advance of anything we have, yet "crash" and 2) These "crashes" only happen in the US, or the US quickly swoops in to take all evidence of this from foreign countries.

tl;dr Americans are so self-centered and narcissistic it's painful at times.

Michael Bisping believes Jon Jones can’t ‘hold a candle’ to Tom Aspinall: "I think Tom will do the same thing to Jon Jones as what he did to Marcin Tybura. I don’t think there’s anyone that can sto... in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bisping is such a homer. Put any UK fighter in the discussion and he just starts gushing.

How to **remove** (not extract) all attachment from a pdf on linux with some open source software? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

pdfimages is what you want, I believe. It's in the poppler-utils package in Debian.

I Compiled the Linux Kernel myself for the first time in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

That just brings me back to starting the compile, getting something to eat, doing chores, and whatever else. Then when it was finally done, booting it up only for it to not boot because I forgot some checkbox. Repeat a couple of times. Nights getting the thing working. And then on the next kernel release, trying to make sure I remembered all the checks because it didn't let you export the current config back then.

Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

They have almost 100% renewable. They'll be fine.

Anyone know of a web frontend that allows for instance blocking? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I installed this userscript and it worked for blocking lemmy.ml.

I had ChatGPT write a userscript that lets you block posts using keywords in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is annoying. Still didn't work for me. But I uninstalled violentmonkey (not sure why I picked that one years ago, but I hadn't had any issues before. I installed tampermonkey and it seems to be working for me. Thanks!

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Falling into tight places (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/parrots

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My Grey has taken to "falling" into tight places and it's kind of freaking me out. Clothes hamper, newly emptied trash can, behind the couch, etc. I've had the thing for 25+ years and this is new behavior. Although to be honest, like most of what he does, it's kind of funny.

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So frustrating (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to set up ledger. I have three accounts from my bank. I exported the transaction history, massaged it a bit, and it seems to work fine. I can't for the life of me figure out how to set initial balances without causing more noise.

I guess I'm just doing this for fun and because I generally like text-based utilities over GUIs. Not sure if I will keep trying. Seems like all the docs, even the get started docs, are for intermediate to advanced users. I can't even get past the "set my fucking balances so they are correct" stage. shit.just.doesn't.work for me.

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Using at command (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of people haven't heard of the at command, and I just figured I'd post up a little bit about it. I use it as a semi-alarm clock type reminder.

Structure of command the way I use it:

echo "notify-send -u critical -t 0 'YOUR URGENT MESSAGE'" | at "2pm Jun 18"

I actually wrote a tiny function so that I don't have to remember the -u critical -t 0 part. That is to keep the notification box from timing out. Now tomorrow (June 18th) at 2pm, a message box will pop up with the text "YOUR URGENT MESSAGE".

There are options for running commands (like cron, but you don't have to edit, then delete your edit after running). It is great if you don't want to mess with cron, or another utility for a quick reminder.

My quick little function looks like this:

notify_me ()
{
    if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
        echo 'Usage:  notify_me "message" time/date' 1>&2;
        echo '                   make sure to enclose message in quotes' 1>&2;
        echo "                   also enclose date if it's more than just a time" 1>&2;
        return;
    fi;
    echo "notify-send -u critical -t 0 '$1'" | at "$2"
}

So say I have to remind myself to call the wife when the work day is over. I'll do something like:

notify_me "Check with the ol' ball and chain" "4:45pm"

I'm sure if you wanted to, you could make a very quick zenity (or whatever you like) gui for it, if that's the way you roll. Now I'll get a nice little pop-up 15 minutes before I check out. Tiny little things like this are why I enjoy the command line so much.

For more uses, check out the man page, or the tldr. It's not complicated and I find it useful.

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