What are you looking to track? Also, don’t worry if you don’t know how to self host, that’s what the community is for 🙂

mpv, imv, zathura, ffmpeg, imagemagick, pandoc, yt-dlp, yazi/ranger, curl/wget

I realize many of this don’t strictly conform to the suckless philosophy. (which is meme imo). They more loosly follow the UNIX principle: Do one thing and do it well. I would have added emacs, but why emacs follows the unix principle is an argument for another time

God damnit. I was looking for a cat in the picture…

So is the EFF and the FSF, but take your comfort where you find it.

If it’s going to be as useful as possible, yes.

Politics is what happens whenever more than 2 people make a decision

Equally upsetting. The site is truthsocial.com not truth.social

Is illinois bird shit?

Small spaces are underrated. If you live in a place thst big you have to walk far to do anything.

Really? I’d rather talk on the phone. I’ll sooner call a restaurant for takeout than use an app.

“Can” works fine of you are asking if you are able rather than for permission. But, words don’t exist anyway.

I saw the headlineand thought, bet this is the one where I live… Correct

Instead of ‘american’ or USian or others, why not Yankee? It has historical significance to the united states, originated a a pejorative, and the south hates it. Perfect

Instead of ‘american’ or others,

Rather than ‘american’ or others, Yankee? It has historical s

It’s not a matter of the tools or the times. It’s a matter of teachers not engaging students in a way where learning is organic. Natural. Fun. When I was in school, we didn’t have ai, but when I was asked a question on an exam “what is Jane Eyre’s aunt’s maiden name” I lost all respect for the teacher and shut off.

A truly good teacher not only has a mastery of the material, they have a compelling and creative way of delivering the content. Class becomes a page turner. I want to keep reading to find out what’s next.

Such people are rare, but they share similarities. First, they form meaningful relationships with students. Beyond surface level things like “what’s your pet’s name”. Relationships where students come to the teacher for life advice. Teachers who also do things like go to student events and cheer for them. Like a tennis match or a piano recital.

Good course design is critical. Grades can not be a punishment or something which causes students stress. Grades are the number one reason students cheat. And why wouldn’t they? I hate this thing, and I need straight A’s to get into that prestigious school (where I will continue to cheat). Perhaps we should just rid of grades all together.

Now, when I say its matter of teachers not doing X, I’m not blaming them. But ai is on the doorstep, and short of turning schools into more of police states, the only way to change is for teachers to change. And it works. There are those of us who have shaped ourselves this way since before ai was an issue.

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We spend so much time and effort trying to disuade the people with “negative behavior” who we have discarded from our “civil society”

Where I live the grocery stores have carts whose wheels lock if you try to take them too far from the store. As if anyone trying to do that would know until they couldn’t push them anymore. Thing is the store doesn’t unlock them. Somehow they make it back and then they end up to front carts. People will try to use them until they realize they can’t be moved. Some do get unlock, but the wheels aren’t round anymore. People dragged them flattening out part of the wheel. If there are no other carts, which happens often because there are so many with locked wheels, you get to click and clack through the store with everyone looking at you like you are some kind of asshole.

There are literally hundreds of cameras. Including ones raised high on trailers in the parking lot. The same pole has blinking blue lights to simulate a police cruiser and a loud speaker reminding you the parking lot is being monitored. Back in the store as you walk in there is an electric gate and a camera and monitor. On which is writing which also reminds you you are being monitored. You have to wait to let them get a picture of you before the gate will open.

But the best of all of this. After you finish checking out your groceries as if you work there, you have to keep your reciept handy before your cart is checked by armed guards. Body armor. A gun. Not the police (as if that would make it better, but at least their job is to “protect and serve” the public) As you walk up they are usually shooting the shit with each other, and they maintain that pleasantness while they check your receipt (as if they actually are). You are at complete ease until you realize you went through a security checkpoint with a riot squad.

All of this. All. Of. This. Because our society sees it as acceptable to punish the entire public for lack of empathy for those who need it most and to prevent petty crime.

It’s worse than that. Amtrak gets government subsidies. Conservatives take that to be Communism, so even the “capitalist” solution, the only train we have, is constantly under threat.