Polymaths.social

#Silly #toot:

You are given the Scepter of the Knights of Who Say "Ni!" to hold for one day.

It gives you the right to make a single decree that will be law on the entire Earth for one year.

What law will you decree?

SILLY ANSWERS, ONLY. This is to have fun, not bring up heavy and disheartening topics.

Here's mine:

"From henceforth and forevermore (or 365.25 days from the commencement of the decree, whichever is shorter), any persons caught speaking a sentence out loud containing the phrase "however comma" shall be held in stocks for 24 hours, lashed 39 times upon their left buttock with wet fettucine, and forced to speak in sentences comprised completely of 'Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!' for not less than one calendar month!"

memes are a Meme, but not all memes are Memes.

Conversely, not all Memes are memes.

See also: before was was was, was was is.

I 💔 #GTK

Ok, this is a solid #AprilFools troll.

#YerbaMate #YT #Shorts

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ugcwA13bRlA

#bzip3 continues to amaze me:

-rw-r--r-- 1 ~~~ ~~~ 100M Apr  1  2025 outbox.json
$ simplify $(bzip3 < outbox.json |wc -c)
4.57 MiB
$ simplify $(xz -9e < outbox.json |wc -c)
4.69 MiB
$ simplify $(zstd --ultra -22 < outbox.json |wc -c)
5.06 MiB

(I didn't time it, but it was much faster than the other two)

Also, just in case anyone's curious, simplify (poor name pick, but I couldn't think of anything better) is just a bash function for converting byte counts to an SI unit:

function simplify { #Reduces a big bytes count down to megabytes or whatnot
    local steps num
    [ $1 ] || ( warn "simplify() called without parameters\n  (requires a number of bytes with no unit name)"; return 1 )
    steps=0
    num=$1
    while [[ $(echo "$num > 1024" |bc) == 1 ]]  #bc has to be used because num is a float
    do
        let steps++
        num=$(echo "$num/1024" |bc -l)
    done
    #Cut off after two decimal place:
    num=$(echo "$num" |sed 's/\(\.[0-9][0-9]\)[0-9]*$/\1/')
    printf "$num "
    case $steps in
        0)  echo b;;
        1)  echo KiB;;
        2)  echo MiB;;
        3)  echo GiB;;
        4)  echo TiB;;
        5)  echo PiB;;
        6)  echo EiB;;
        7)  echo ZiB;;
        8)  echo YiB;;
        *)  echo "1024 ^ $steps bytes";;
    esac
}

#Poll: When you buy movie tickets, where do you like to sit?

Does anyone have an $LS_COLORS variable set-up for a light (#000000 on #FFFFFF) terminal?

Kinda tired of squinting at light green text on white.

#iNeedToGetANewEyeglassesRx

#tootlog script is working again. Had to just remove #fosstodon from the accounts that toot was logged into, as toot whoami doesn't seem to work anymore once your account is migrated out :'(

I think I will update the script to give a sum for each account, as well as a total. I probably won't present that level of details in my toots, though.

Anyone else noticed that you have to update yt-dlp a lot more frequently than before for it to work?

It used to be that updating it every couple of weeks would be good enough (IIRC), and that when it needed an update, it would work, but just be flaky.

Now it seems to break every few days, and break completely.

Seems the war with #Google is really heating up. :'(

#Youtube #ytDLP #enpoopification #privacy

Just curious, does anybody use #KDE #Kmail?

I'm just toying around with the idea of switching my work machine from Debian to KDE Neon to get super-up-to-date KDE programs, and I wonder how usable KMail would be as an alternative to #Thunderbird (which I still really like).