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Travel

I have to go on a trip in like 4 hours for visa reasons and this is how im feeling right now T_T

Will still draw my daily comics but itll be on my iPad with procreate and im not very good at that so the quality will be lower sadly

Don't mind me, just teaching AI how to git gud at using Commodore VIC20 computers.

(Slides show the work in progress and learning confirmation.)

I could have split hairs and had it replace the word "delete" with "scratch", but I used the word "delete" in my prompt, so I'll let it slide. :P

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Once again, Business As Usual has produced exactly what we have come to expect β€” another month of record-breaking heat.
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Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU's climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heat waves. Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said.

"This is more than a statistical oddity and it highlights a large and continuing shift in our climate," said the service director, Carlo Buontempo.

This was "inevitable" as long as humanity kept adding heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, he said.

Scorching heat has blanketed swathes of the world from India to Saudi Arabia, the United States and Mexico in the first half of this year.

Relentless rain, a phenomena scientists have also linked to a warmer planet, caused extensive flooding in Kenya, China, Brazil, Afghanistan, Russia and France.

Wildfires have torched land in Greece and Canada and last week, Hurricane Beryl became the earliest category five Atlantic hurricane on record as it barrelled across several Caribbean islands.
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FULL STORY -- phys.org/news/2024-07-june-hot

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

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technicallywewrite.com/2024/07

WordPerfect was a powerful desktop word processor that ruled offices throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Here's a fond look back at WordPerfect for DOS, including some sample laser printer output.

I admit as I wrote this article, I forgot how much power was in WordPerfect's styles.

When you've remade your bed with fresh linen, is the reward to take a nap in it right after?

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@tillybridges
I've been asked in the past if I'm an LGBTQIA+ ally, and I always say it's not for me to apply that designator- all I can do is show I am an ally by words and actions, as far too many "allies" are anything but.
@timo21

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I'm not gonna jump in on that thread about 'all men' but I am gonna say this:

While it's true that not all men do X, it is absolutely more true that patriarchy socializes ALL MEN to accept or be blind to certain truths about their position, importance, and relevance in the world.

Almost everything all men think of as 'natural' about their status in the world is not, in fact, true.
It was crafted through oppression, suppression, and violence.

It is also true that it takes an enormous amount of deliberate de-conditioning to throw off patriarchal thinking and praxis.

Those for whom 'not all men' truly apply (which is a small enough number to be sad and pitiful) know this to be true.

And so do the rest of us.

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I have said repeatedly: by all means, Israel should go arrest and prosecute Hamas members for acts of terror. But that doesn't require destroying entire cities or blowing families to bits. That's how cowards and murderers do things. You know, like Hamas.

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a super important bit from this week’s trans tuesday you may have missed

y’know this amazing speech about the impossible standards women are held to?

all of it applies to trans women too, but when we can’t meet them we get punished even *more* for it

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqlDWHk

There's also a Windows version included on the installation CD. 😍

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New to my little physical retro computing collection and love of word processors/productivity suites: Appleworks 6.

This was my main productivity software throughout most of the early 2000s. Such rich features and a wide OS/cpu architecture support spread across classic MacOS through OS X, PPC and Intel.

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From IETF RFC 1392
hacker (n):
A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular. The term is often misused in a pejorative context, where "cracker" would be the correct term.

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There's no reason for digital books or **any** other digital media to have the limitations of physical media arbitrarily imposed on them. Digital "lending" is a solved problem: u.fsf.org/3eg #DayAgainstDRM #Libraries #ebooks

Is anybody as geek-old as me to remember how we kept BBSes free so we could call them more often by writing BEL flood messages (full of ASCII code 7s) so that when users opened them their computer would start beeping madly and they had no choice but to hang up?

What about hiding files from one’s parents by creating folders with ASCII 255 white space characters as names?

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Am I crying? I think I’m crying. Or drooling. Maybe horny. I’m very confused.

youtu.be/JfsNc1VzzWU?si=Msui0c

Every Apple product, most boxed, plus posters, plus plus plus gaaaaaaaah.

Is it caffeine or love of warm drinks that while sipping the bottom half of a cup of fresh I begin brewing ? Happy cozy fall season! XD *twitch twitch*

There was a partial eclipse in my area. I don't have a filter to photograph it properly, but I caught it in a lense flare. :D A nice accident.

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