Daniel @daniel@campduffel.social

There are basic things that I wish non-techie folks would look into and learn.
1.) Learn your natural rights and who they come from. These rights extend into computing. For computers that you own, YOU should be in control of what they do. Most smart phones and Windows computers are not this.
2.) The Cloud is just someone else's computer(s). Learn how to store and backup your data.
3.) You can do so much for yourself. You don't need to rely on bad actors for services.

What else would you advise?

@atyh I wonder, with modern technology, how quickly we could breed crops for their local environments, not just focusing on yields, but the whole picture. Obviously being able to save seed is desirable, as well as needing less pesticides and herbicides. I'm not really against GMO exactly, but am definitely against the patenting and ownership of a strain. Our food systems need to be robust and not be dependent on, or owned by, a few corporations in a fragile system. Plants are complex though.

@atyh Good ears. Swan Quarter to Ocracoke ferry circa 2001. It's a bit compressed though, which sounds spacey.

Going to sleep with this on loop...
http://fortwalden.com/toot/mech_room.opus

@ned I see him most mornings and my daughter wanted a small one for a night light when she was little.

I’ve been thinking about you folks in Northern Europe with the winter coming and high heating costs. I was just considering my chest freezer and how it might be converted to a heater. I think it can hold around 400 liters of water. As long as you could heat the water(the hotter the better) to at least 10-15 degrees Celsius, you could turn it on and it would be a pretty decent heat pump until the water got too cold. A rocket stove, if you have wood, or solar thermal could do it.

@futzle Yeah, sorry about that, they just immediately reminded me of Dye Hard. It is pretty cool what you're doing. Is that cochineal maybe?

@CedarHammock@mastodon.cloud I've put out produce alongside candy and it always goes first. Sure, some of it's the novelty, but a lot of kids don't even know what real food is.

@futzle
BB gun
.22 caliber
9mm
.45 caliber
.50 caliber

@oldroadside I remember that!

Things that @mike didn't tell us about his ADHD treatment journey...

I figured it out. Had to write something small. The printout of the binary data looks clear and should scan in well. Now, just need to do something for data redundancy like Par2. Not sure how I'm going to get the data out of the scan yet though. The PaperBak program is pretty cool, but doesn't live up to its stated data density by a long shot.

This is such a noob question. I’m trying to make a black and white image representation of a binary file. The PGM format grabs the data in bytes, rather than bits, and makes a nice grayscale image instead. Can I just pad each bit to make a byte so I only have 2 colors? Surely there is a simple command line tool for this, instead of me having to write something?

@Kruselady It is pretty much the only modern English translation in public domain.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_English_Bible

We started at the beginning of the machine and let Heidi watch the process until she realized what it was making. Hot doughnut surprise this morning!

I appreciate folks who have the gift of making things easy to understand and using it. If you’ve ever wondered about heat pumps, this might help.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/06/heat-pumps-work-miracles/

Mesa, master and commander of all livestock.😂