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The world's averagest #climber.
I #make stuff out of wood, metal, fabric, flour, polygons, code and wires.
Part human, part #bicycle.
King of the #whippet army.
Learning by doing with #Linux.
I use, and write free scripts for, #Blender, #DaVinciResolve and other stuff.
PfP: Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm by Nicolas Gayet from Paulo Bonifacio lab, that I animated to look like a Muppet monster popping up from a hole and smiling. Banner is a Blender screen shot of a triceratops animation.

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@louie@pdx.social avatar louie , to random

I don’t care how bad you think you are at HTML (and CSS). A website that you wrote the HTML yourself is infinitely better than any template-based website you pulled from somewhere else.

If you think it’s going to be too much work, I promise you, fiddling with a template-based solution is going to—somehow—be more work, especially to maintain as the framework, template, or font changes without you knowing.

Write it yourself. One of my all-time favorite websites is this: https://vitalesbakery.com

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@vale
Having the hours and address on the first page puts it waaay ahead of most small business websites, and quite a few big ones too.
@louie

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

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    @JessTheUnstill
    The good thing is that unless you're cooking meth, the difference won't matter in the slightest. Source: I measure teaspoons and tablespoons by eyeballing it in the palm of my hand.

    @mattdm@hachyderm.io avatar mattdm , (edited ) to random

    Here is a thing I like about the English language (not just in specific but by example):

    "The Beeping": uh ok

    "The Beepening": oh no

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    @mattdm The beepification will continue until morale improves.
    Also check out my new startup beep.ly

    @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

    Astronauts always be gettin' stranded

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    @TheBreadmonkey
    You bubble headed booby! You clanking collection of condensors! Look what you've done now. We're stranded! Oh the pain, the pain.

    @robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk avatar robpumphrey , to random

    Been wasting more time.

    A badly edited meme of a ginger cat with various labelled linux commands pointing to parts of the cat's body
    ALT
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    @farlukar
    > whereis cat
    > /bin/cat

    @robpumphrey

    @pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar pluralistic , (edited ) to random

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    @pluralistic
    I went to get a copy of the Jeremy Clarkson "Oh no. Anyway ..." meme, but every single one was being used right now.

    @nordacious@aus.social avatar nordacious , to random

    Hey Albo + Wong – up to 300,000 marched across Australia yesterday. Decent Aussies want urgent diplomatic action, not hollow platitudes. Sanction Israel. Weapons embargo. Accountability for genocide. ACT NOW 🇵🇸

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    @aral @nordacious worth noting for the alt text that the old white man depicted is Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia.

    @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

    Google announced the next step in its nuclear energy plans

    The tech giant inked a deal to support a next-generation nuclear energy reactor being built in the shadow of the Manhattan Project.

    https://www.theverge.com/news/761809/nuclear-energy-google-ai-advanced-reactor-kairos-tva-electricity-utility

    Big Tech in the race to destroy everything.

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    @gerrymcgovern
    Hey, nuclear energy is not like it used to be; now we've got AI to run it so nothing can possibly go wrong.

    @elduvelle@neuromatch.social avatar elduvelle , to random

    With the coming end of support of I would like to hear from people who recently (say < 3 years ago) moved from Windows (or MacOS) to Linux:
    .1. which Linux distribution did you settle on?
    .2. which are the main problems that you had "transitioning"?
    .3. are you planning to keep using Linux for now?
    .4. What are you missing in Linux that you had with your former OS?
    .5. If you tried but did not keep using it - why?

    And here's a related poll:
    Have you recently moved to Linux from a different OS? ⬇️

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    @elduvelle
    I work as a video editor, 3D & 2D animator, and motion graphics designer. I went Linux a couple of years ago, after switching my 3D platform from Lightwave, a proprietary Windows & Mac only app, to Blender, and swapping from Adobe Premiere / After Effects to Davinci Resolve / Fusion. Blender and Resolve run on Linux, and there's a noticeable speed difference. There are some downsides for Resolve: installing it involves a bit of faff; manually moving some library files around, and VST audio plugins and web based accounts don't work. They're serious annoyances, but the gain in speed and the freedom of using Linux makes it worthwhile, and I can use Reaper for audio work.
    I still keep the Windows partition, mostly because I work with people who are still trapped in Adobe Land, and also because I need a better image editor than Linux can provide. The Gnu slur-named image editor is cutting edge if it was 2009 but it is not up to the job today. I use Krita for a lot of things, its a great app, and I prefer Inkscape to Illustrator, but if I'm doing something that needs lots of twiddling with pixels I have to fire up Photoshop. I keep hoping that something like Blender will happen for image editing.

    @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

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    Exactly. My attitude is: why spend minutes doing a boring repetitive task when in only an hour or two I can script something that will automate it for me?

    @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social avatar publicdomainrev , to random

    The teenage diaries of Queen Victoria — born in 1819. The excerpts included in the 1912 book span from 1832, when Victoria was 13, to 1840, the same year that she married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at the age of 20: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/queen-victoria-s-teenage-diaries-1912

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    @publicdomainrev We need to normalise calling facial hair under the nose moustachios again.

    @_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

    Dear Fedi friends, I need your help!

    We are working on motion graphics for the Fediverse promotional video... and we would love to do a sequence at the end with a mosaic of people's profile photos. For that, I need your consent.

    If you'd like to have a small cameo in our video, can you let us know if we can use your profile pic?

    Thanks! 🙏

    Can you please boost this?

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    @_elena
    Happy to contribute

    @stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

    This is the first video ever uploaded to , just over 20 years ago:

    “Me at the zoo”

    YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0. It was on April 23, 2005, that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a grainy 19-second video "Me at the zoo"

    YouTube's first video just turned the big 2-0. It was on April 23, 2005, that YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a grainy 19-second video "Me at the zoo"

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    @stux It's, it's a banger. Kinda amazing that the site took off really.

    18+ @coolandnormal@aus.social avatar coolandnormal , to random

    A lot of random podcast guests, comedians, etc have recently said some version of "don't buy stocks, if I had money I'd just get some gold, gold will always be gold".

    It will always be a fantastic colour and satisfyingly heavy. It will always make okay-to-pretty good jewellery.

    You can't eat it though. Everyone knows the gold standard is a human construct. A fairly stable, ongoing, international human construct to be fair.

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    @coolandnormal this but you spelled 🚲 bicycle wrong.
    If I ever got a chance to put one question to a billionaire it would be: what exactly are you saving up for?

    @thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social avatar thelinuxEXP , to random French

    GIMP: makes incredible progress towards being an amazing image editing tool

    People: « the name has a kinky or bad connotation in one language, and there are no screenshots, WTH.»

    Priorities. They’re important.

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    @thelinuxEXP
    You made a typo when you wrote "Makes incredibl[ly slow] progress towards being a [slightly less] amazing[ly bad] image editing tool."
    Seriously; tell us you've never used a professional grade image editor, without telling us etc., etc.