fievel

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[–] fievel@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Reading Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu. For now, I find it a bit less good than the Remembrance of the Earth's past trilogy I read before.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Ces livreurs payés à la livraison c'est pénible au possible... Vu qu'ils sont rémunérés au nombre de colis, ils sont près à n'importe quoi sur la route et en matière d'arrêt afin de maximiser le nombre de colis qu'ils livrent... Il y'a quelques jours, la femme d'un collègue s'est fait renverser par la camionnette d'un livreur qui n'avait rien trouvé de mieux que de faire marche arrière sur des centaines de mètre, histoire d'éviter de faire demi-tour et ainsi gagner quelques minutes...

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just finished Death's End, by Cixin Liu which is the last volume of Remembrance of Earth's past trilogy (better known from the title of the first book The three body problem). I enjoyed very much the 3 novels, great Sci-fi and I also learned many things about Chinese culture through translator notes. (note: I've not seen the Netflix show before reading it, because I hate watching movies about novels I have not read, it block too much the mental image I do reading the book, therefore limiting the amazement of reading).

Next, I decided not to read the fan fiction sequel but rather what is presented as a prequel: Ball Lightning, by Cixin Liu.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] fievel@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So simple, no images, no videos, no bullshit this just works... Now mainly out of habits and because I have some friends on it... Also some nostalgia about the time internet was more than http and so on

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Using a self-hosted thelounge too and, as alternative if my home connection drop or so, I have irssi in termux.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Of course, it's the best proto for chat, I use it actively everyday since 1997.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Indeed with myopia glasses, I see the red in front like being out of the screen and feeling I can grab it

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

As with all those illusion it depends on how the brain interpret things... Perhaps your brain is clever than mine to see the image how it really is

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3D illusion (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by fievel@lemm.ee to c/opticalillusions@feddit.nl
 

While this is just a static 2d image, it looks like blue is above the screen (for me, for some others it's below, or red is above).

Thanks to comments, here some explanations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis

Edited: added Wikipedia link

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, I always prefer reading novels before any movie/show because otherwise it disturbs the way I imagine the characters.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Just finished The dark forest, by Cixin Liu. As far as I read this sci-fi trilogy, I think I enjoy it very much. Now starting the last novel in the series, Death's End, by Cixin Liu.

[–] fievel@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As of now, I backup stuff (mainly pictures) from my phone to a linux file server using rsync in termux (launched through the tasker plugin and automate). I search a replacement to get rid of the automate application that I need only for that, is not Foss and require to run in background in order to use it. Do you think Syncthing can deserve my use case ? Of course I can RTFM but...

 

Thought that if we are so easily bored in our modern society, much more than were our grandparents for example, it's because of technology that simplify all our daily activities. When it was necessary to do the laundry in a basin, it took a lot more time than just pushing on a button to launch the washing machine, then there was no time for boredom. What do you think?

 

As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently "follow" their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I'm thinking about a personalized rss feed, or a e-mail, or any way. For the moment, I just look from time to time to their website or social media page but the issues I have are:

  • I look when I think about it (it would be better to be somehow notified)
  • It's time consuming and inefficient
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by fievel@lemm.ee to c/photon@lemdro.id
 

Based on the awesome job of WFH@lemm.ee documenting the stuff and applying it to solarized, I tried to do the same with my vim favorite theme: everforest. It's far from perfect (I'm not at all a designer), feel free to improve your way (and share updates in comments). The zinc theme is probably more refined because I use only this one, I tried to make slate match the palette but as I'm not using it it's more difficult.

A screenshot:

{
  "other":   {
    "white": "#FDF6E3",
    "black": "#002b36"
  },
  "primary": {
    "100":   "#A7C080",
    "900":   "#8DA101"
  },
  "zinc":    {
    "50":    "#D3C6AA", 
    "100":   "#A7C080",
    "200":   "#DBBC7F",
    "300":   "#D3C6AA",
    "400":   "#D3C6AA",
    "500":   "#D3C6AA",
    "600":   "#4F585E",
    "700":   "#4F585E",
    "800":   "#425047",
    "900":   "#232A2E",
    "925":   "#2D353B",
    "950":   "#2D353B"
  },
  "slate":   {
    "25":    "#FDF6E3",
    "50":    "#FDF6E3",
    "100":   "#EFEBD4",
    "200":   "#E0DCC7",
    "300":   "#E0DCC7",
    "400":   "#D3C6AA",
    "500":   "#5C6A72",
    "600":   "#5C6A72",
    "700":   "#5C6A72",
    "800":   "#5C6A72",
    "900":   "#8DA101",
    "950":   "#8DA101"
  }
}
 

Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.

However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.

I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...

Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by fievel@lemm.ee to c/homeautomation@lemmy.world
 

I want to get started with home automation, probably based on a raspberry pi (or as of now with my banana pi which is my home server) and either openHAB or home assistant. My goal is, first, to put some temperature/humidity sensors in varous rooms and leak detector in my basement where I had some issues with the main drain. I wonder if you have some recomendations for a usb dongle for zigbee and/or z-wave compatible with linux, not too expensive but good enough if I want to extend the network later. I read about SONOFF-ZB USB Dongle Plus Zigbee 3.0 available on Chinese websites. What do you think?

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2712042

Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.

 

I made a script based on plemmy and LemmyHttp API to be able to backup the list of registered communities and user profile (for now, that's just the biography). It output in human-readable format on console and have an option to output in a json file. The next step will be to provide also a script to restore such json backup to another lemmy instance or user.

I decided to do this small development following the sudden disappearance of vlemmy.net instance which resulted in the lost of all my subscribed communities.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/973445

Hello, do you know about a script or app or so that can backup data from a Lemmy instance as an end-user? At least the list of subscribed communities, settings, profile (bio) should be nice. I've been on VLemmy and lost one full evening trying to figure out what my subscription were (well not completely lost my time I also discovered new communities), but I want to avoid that in the future. If this doesn't exist yet I may develop it but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone and someone did it already...

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