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Leigh

@ SemioticStandard @beehaw.org

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#horror #writer. Stories in the British Fantasy Society, 2022 HWA Poetry Showcase, Flame Tree Press, Crystal Lake Publishing, others. Codex, HWA.

Chief architect. Co-founder of Rocky Linux and the RESF.

New England.

https://semioticstandard.com/

  • So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem.

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  • Love and use them for Photo, Publisher, and Designer, but there's no alternative for Lightroom. And honestly, I like Lightroom. It truly is the best at what it does. Simple, easy to use, great features, thoughtful design.

  • Map of American National state foods according to TasteAtlas

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  • Moxie

  • What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace?

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  • Yeah I've been seeing this reasoning for many years now, but as someone who lives in Word and Excel for office work, it's actually been a really long time since I couldn't use Pages/Numbers/LibreOffice in place of Office just as effectively.

  • What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it?

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  • macOS is just a great OS. It's polished, and thoughtfully designed with care, as are many of the apps available for it. I like that it integrates very well with my other Apple devices. Because of its BSD underpinnings, a lot of Linux-y things work very well with it. I use the Terminal (actually Warp, but same idea) on a daily basis for different things. A lot of the tools that I know and use on my Linux servers work here as well. I can write automation for it, and apps like Raycast and Alfred make building workflows and scripts, and tying those together, really easy. It's much more secure than Windows. I also don't have to worry about stupid shit like literal fucking advertising being built into the OS, as you have with Windows.

    As for Rocky Linux, well, I'm a co-founder of it (and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation) and helped build it, so my biases there are obvious.

  • What is your favorite operating system and what do you like about it?

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  • macOS for personal use, Rocky Linux or Ubuntu for my servers

  • Technology @lemmy.ml
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough

    www.nytimes.com /2023/07/27/opinion/lindsey-graham-elizabeth-warren-big-tech-regulation.html

  • Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again

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  • Public transport in a LOT of US cities is poor, or non-existent. Even where it's good, getting to the city, when you live outside of it, is often not an option without your own transportation.

    I appreciate your enthusiasm, really, and in fact I share much of it. But you are oversimplifying and dismissing the reality for many people in the US.

  • Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again

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  • Except NOTHING is being accomplished by targeting individuals like this. You're not winning people over, you're not changing minds, you're not effecting change. You're protesting the wrong people. I, as an example, am a huge supporter of education and change regarding climate change. But I still have to live and work within the very system I am protesting. You're not doing anything by attacking allies like me. Instead, you need to go after corporations, and politicians. Those are the entities that are responsible for and have the ability to influence real action.

  • Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again

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  • but I would hope the activists can decide between a polished up city-only SUV and an actual working-vehicle and act accordingly.

    People like the guy I replied to don't, though. See the other reply to my comment as evidence.

  • Hamburg: Climate activists let air out of tyres of 33 cars (mainly SUVs!) again

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  • I drive a large truck because I truly need and use the bed on a weekly basis. I wouldn't be able to get by without it, being more than a convenience thing, as I have tried (and failed) for years to use my wife's minivan. There are a lot of things that you straight up cannot do without a truck. I live on 7 acres of mostly heavily wooded land. That kind of property has a lot of maintenance needs that you really need a truck for.

    But when I go to the city, I almost never go with anything in the bed. First, I think it can be unsightly to have my bed loaded up with rotting construction material or large bulky items that need to be taken to the transfer station.

    Second, it can be dangerous, depending on what I'm hauling. The load needs to be secured. I'm more likely to get into an accident in the city, so if that happens, now in addition to whatever comes off from either vehicle, now whatever else that I was hauling is going to be all over the place, impeding traffic even further.

    If my load is heavy, as it often is (think: maybe 1,000 lbs of cord wood), that has a pretty big impact on my gas mileage.

    And if it rains? Whatever is in my bed is going to get wet and soggy and nasty.

    And then there's the winter. I live in New England. You may have heard about the snow we get here. My driveway is 1/4 mile long, and REALLY steep. I use my truck to keep it plowed. There's no other way we're leaving our property when the snow falls. But obviously I don't have my plow attached in the off-season, so it wouldn't be obvious to you that I also use it for that.

    So for many reasons, I need a truck. It is almost never loaded when I have to go into the city. It's not lifted, I don't have obnoxious wheels, but it's a big truck (they don't seem to make them any other way these days). Now I have to also worry about people with attitudes like yours taking their misguided vigilante justice out on my vehicle because you're not thinking beyond your nose? Do you really think that's fair?

  • The internet has become soulless and i hate it

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  • The personalized, colorful web pages became streamlined, conforming to modern design standards and sacrificing individuality for uniformity.

    There are some pretty big advantages to 'modern design standards.' For one, they make the Internet a less hostile place to users with accessibility needs. I don't have problems viewing clashing colors, flying gifs, jumbled pages with no sanity, etc, but a hell of a lot of people with various disabilities sure do. I don't want to even think about how screen readers try to deal with pages like that. Web1.0 offered absolutely nothing for those users who needed accessibility.

  • Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

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  • There's no need to be so nasty, friend. I'm removing your comment because this isn't the in line with our community value of 'be(e) nice'

  • Finance @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    Goldman Sachs wants out from Apple Card partnership

    appleinsider.com /articles/23/07/25/how-the-apple-goldman-sachs-relationship-became-an-unhappy-marriage
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    Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X

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  • LOL @ Star Wars kid comment. Gave me a good chuckle. But, that’s not fair to the real Star Wars kid, my brother was just enjoying being him, living his best life! You do him dirty by debasing him to Musk’s level 😂

  • RIP Twitter’s iconic bird logo

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  • It’s not even enshittification. If it were that at least would be understandable through a capitalistic lens, a natural part of an investor-owned process. It’s the actions and thinking of a man-child with all the brilliance of a 40 watt bulb. No logic is to be had here.

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    If you like @technology you gotta check out Posy.

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  • I'm removing this post because I don't think it really fits /c/technology, and it does seem rather low effort and somewhat spammy.

  • Artists across the US grapple with an unforgiving housing market

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  • Join the club. Everyone is struggling, not just the artists.

  • Corsair acquires mechanical keyboard specialist Drop

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  • Sad there isn’t an alternative to it :/

  • Chat @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    Which actors are serial killers?

  • Science @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

    nautil.us /a-third-of-north-americas-birds-have-vanished-340007/
  • Science @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

    nautil.us /a-third-of-north-americas-birds-have-vanished-340007/

  • How sex workers are fighting back against online deplatforming

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  • I agree with this. I don’t have a problem with porn, but allowing it on your platform instantiates one HELL of a burden on you.

    Let them go to places dedicated to it, like PornHub. PH now has verification requirements, I believe, to protect people. I can’t be bothered to find the article right now, but in the last few weeks I recall reading something about a ton of child porn being traded on Facebook.

  • Nature and Gardening @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    Check out this snakey boi friend I found in my yard!

  • Bear 2 is a terrific notes app — and it only took forever to build

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  • I really love Bear, and I’m immensely relieved they’re not trying to bake AI garbage into it.

  • Macron's call to 'cut off' social media during riots sparks backlash in France

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  • I don’t follow French politics too closely, but from everything I’ve seen, this guy is absolutely DESPISED by the people. Is he not worried about getting voted out or something? Why does he seem to want to stick his finger in the eyes of the French citizens?

  • Technology @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    Does anyone use Shortcuts on your Apple device? If so, what are you using?

  • Finance @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    WSJ: Goldman Sachs wants to bail on Apple Card partnership after $1B loss, in talks with Amex

    9to5mac.com /2023/06/30/amex-apple-card-goldman-sachs/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    What search engine do you use?

  • Chat @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    Anyone else enjoying the Internet better, now that they’re off Reddit?

  • Technology @beehaw.org
    Leigh @beehaw.org

    Texas will require parental consent for kids to use social media

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2023/06/texas-will-require-parental-consent-for-kids-to-use-social-media/