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Meta: Mood on bots? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm curious how the (non-bot!) subscribers to this community feel about the bot posts here.

Personally, I'm not entirely comfortable with posts to pictures that give me no real sense of who created the image or how.

What do the rest of you think? Are there rules we should make explicit?

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Fantastic weather, three days in a row (lemmy.world)
 

I'm rigged up and ready to go on a weekend where I got in three consecutive days of sailing -- first time ever. Next acquisition: tiller extension. It is now clearly in the must-have category.

Looking for a good Sci Fi Novel available on Project Gutenberg in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter books are public domain. They've got those on Project Gutenberg, but they may be too much "stock characters" for you.

Would some of the Lewis Carroll stuff scratch the "science fiction" itch?

It's a bit of a stretch, but Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court at least has the character development. And, strictly speaking, it is time travel. ;)

Finally, if quasi-fantasy and mythopeia do anything for you, there are things like George Macdonald's Phantastes and G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday. Both those authors were influences on C. S. Lewis. But we're really straying away from anything that's strictly science fiction there.

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Meta: What to do with bot accounts? (lemmy.world)
 

For those who've wandered in here, you may have noticed the recent spat of bot postings. What's your take on that? Just can the postings and ban the user?

I think I'll probably do that preemptively right now, but I'm curious what experience or thoughts the rest of you have.

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Trouble seeing posts in some local communities (lemmy.world)
 

I've noticed I am not seeing posts for some local communities I subscribed to.

For instance, in the list of communities I see two posts on !Linux, but no posts when I click on the community. (And I've even commented on one post but can't get to it any more.)

I see something similar for !Games. The lists says nine posts and I see one.

What am I doing wrong? Under settings I made sure my language is "Undetermined." Anything else I should be checking?

What was your first distribution? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

RedHat here in the late 90s, back when you could still find yourself writing a "modeline."

Then Debian in the early 00s when apt was still a major discriminator. Finally, Ubuntu around 2008 just so I was running the same thing I was recommending to family members for ease of use. (At the time, Ubuntu sported the same ease of installation and hardware detection I'd found with Knoppix.)

Now on Xubuntu, but seriously eyeing a return to Debian.

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Field tools: what are the options? (lemmy.world)
 

I'm curious if anyone else has experience with tools for editing and collecting data in the field.

I'm vaguely aware of QField for QGIS. I believe ESRI has their own tools for that context, but I don't know what they are.

I'm also familiar with some tools for a specific industry: namely inspection and data collection for utilities. Some of the ones I know are probably best described as "long in the tooth."

What are the options these days? Where do you go for users that need to collect data in the field, whether it's inspection data, correcting existing GIS data, or collecting new data?

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QGIS Plugin Update May 2023 (blog.qgis.org)
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How To Save A Transparent PNG with Inkscape (www.youtube.com)
 

If you don't know Logos by Nick on YouTube, you want to check out what he does. I'm not associated with the creator, but I've learned more about Inkscape from the tutorials there than anyplace else.