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sbird

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Hi, I'm sbird! I like programming and am interested in Physics. I also have a hobby of photography.

previous scheep on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/u/scheep

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    Which operating system should I choose?

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  • Debian is great and is the backbone of my self-hosting setup too! :D

    Yunohost, as others have said, seems like a pretty good option too, but I couldn’t get it to boot, so I used Debian instead.

  • Which fly came first?

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  • I meant the insect you would call a fly (the annoying ones that buzz in your ears) vs the word used to describe things in flight (flying bird, flying insect, etc.).

  • Revolt became Stoat

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  • I like things named after animals!

  • How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?

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  • That doesn't explain the AI-generated models on the thumbnails holding up a small hand-sized globe (which is a geography thing, mind you!)

  • How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?

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  • The AI-generated videos helpfully have a big red border (or rather, unhelpfully, as it draws more attention to them)

  • How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics?

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  • Interetingly, most of the AI-generated videos I see are from "Physics Frontier" and "Profiles in Politics"(which isn't about politics at all, weird).

  • Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?

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  • Smuggling was a thing back then, right? Paying someone to help you navigate the not so hospitable and easy-to-get-lost-in deserts and forests.

  • Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?

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  • Yes, to keep the invaders out. That's border control, no? To control the flow of people between borders, military or otherwise, is border control. To control borders.

  • What are you all using for a 2FA token manager?

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  • Aegis seems like a pretty good 2FA app on Android from what I’ve heard. Personally, I use Ente Auth as sync is very helpful when I don’t have my phone nearby (you can either use the desktop app or use your browser, both work). Don’t think you can self-host sync, though I might be wrong. Ente Auth also works without sync, so there’s that.

    I would not suggest using a password manager’s 2FA integration (e.g. Bitwarden, I think Proton Pass has one if you use that?) as it kind of defeats the point of 2FA, since if someone got access to your password manager, they would also get the 2FA codes.

  • Pithon

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  • Do racists not like watermelon?

  • Pithon

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  • Wait, there’s a WATERMELON racist stereotype? What’s wrong with liking watermelon? Everyone likes watermelon, right?

  • Did Border Control exist in previous eras? (Say, like 500+ years ago or more) Can people go to other places? If so, what does the procedure look like? Just walk across a border?

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  • May I introduce to you the wall? There’s a whole wonder of the world that’s a wall: a Great one in China.

    Also, there used to be people on those walls with pokey things that hurt. People outside the empire/nation/whatever they called it back then didn’t want to go near it when they weren’t supposed to, since they didn’t want to be poked by the pokey things.

    With the invention of firearms, you can shoot a tiny pokey thing really fast! Pokey things have really advanced over the years, for the better or worse.

  • Why aren't there that many forks of VS Code that isn't AI-related?

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  • Yep, that’s it. I’ll look at that soon, thanks!

  • Why aren't there that many forks of VS Code that isn't AI-related?

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  • If I ever get a new computer, I might have to try a distro based on KDE…I’m not bothered to switch DE on my current computer

  • Why aren't there that many forks of VS Code that isn't AI-related?

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  • Yes, I am able to change the window colour scheme from light to dark. Just the file open dialogue is a bright white which is weird…

    Also, thanks for answering my questions, that was really helpful :D

  • Why aren't there that many forks of VS Code that isn't AI-related?

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  • I’ve installed Kate and it seems pretty good. It’s quite customisable in terms of the layout and such(similar to VSCodium), and it seems to have most of the things I need. I’ll have to try both of them out and decide on which I like better.

    Two things about Kate I don’t like though: there’s no everforest theme (fortunately I found Tokyo Night to be pretty good), and the file picket window doesn’t follow my GNOME theme and is a bright white box. I guess that’s because Kate doesn’t support GTK themes?

    Also, what’s the difference between what looks like three different folder tree buttons (Document seems to only show one file, and then Project and File Browser plugin both show the full tree of the folder you have opened)? And is there an equivalent for the “Code Runner” plugin? If not, I guess I could always just run “python filename.py”, but a play/run button would be nice.

  • Which fly came first?

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  • Wait a minute, do microorganisms that tracel in the air count as “flying”? Are there any microorganisms with mini “wings” that flap through the air? I remember a video where mayflies (I think that’s the name?) basically swim through the air, so I wonder how a microorganism will do…

    Even if microbes don’t flap little wings, I would argue it still counts as flying as kites are described as flying and they don’t have any wings at all. You also fly in a hot air balloon, and that definitely doesn’t have any wings, it’s effectively floating in air, but we still call it flying. Therefore, microbes are the first flying thing (?)

  • Why aren't there that many forks of VS Code that isn't AI-related?

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  • Looking at their main page, it seems incredibly AI-related…it explicitly states that it will “build software solutions for you”

  • Which fly came first?

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  • I meant fly as in the insect you would call a fly (the name, not the act of flying itself). Very cool that insects were the first flying thing though!