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Having recently picked up woodworking after building my own office desk, this hit rather close to home.

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I feel like there was a missed opportunity to use some of the spare computing power on the desk to add some helpful navigational autonomy. Like using a backward facing web camera for lane assist, obstacle avoidance, route following, etc. Could leverage something open source like Autoware.org to get most of the way there.

Source video by Joel Creates:
https://youtu.be/mDndd_EzkgA

 

Have you ever wondered how NASA updates Voyager's software from 15 billion miles away? Or how Voyager's memories are stored? In this video, we dive deeper into the incredible story of how a small team of engineers managed to keep Voyager alive, as well as how NASA could perform a software update on a computer that's been cruising through space for almost half a century.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have you tried multiple virtual desktops, or do you prefer to have a single alt-tab stack of windows? I love using a 3x3 grid of desktops, as the special zoning helps me to organize, separate, and spread out my multiple work tasks.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What about a semi transparent terminal window? When I started out learning linux command line interfaces, it helped having the docs just behind my shell session for reference when all I had was a tiny old laptop. But now I don't bother ricing up my DE anymore. I just want some default window tilling keybindings that work out of the box, and I'm good to go.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Can you imagine the eye strain one would get programming on a translucent screen every day? One where your always having to keep your eyes focused on semi transparent text and graphical interfaces in the foreground, and not the distracting and ever changing background, continuously shifting in parallax as you adjust your head and viewing angle. Not having my display buttressed up against a wall, or having to deal with glare and screen reflections, or even low contrast monitors in general are all things I find infuriating already.

But I guess the Sci-Fi future of ergonomics is holograms. *You must have your migraines, and you must enjoy them.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks so much for your hard work and the terrific beta release!
Here's to the success of Lemmy, Sync for Lemmy, and the rest of the Fediverse,
Cheers! 🍻

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Hello world!
~ from S4L!

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 17 points 2 years ago

Could go the other way though. Ask them nicely if they'd be willing to free up their heap of inventory, and if they return you a cart overflow, you know you've stumbled upon the ultimate zero day coupon.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Ex. An NBA or Sports instance containing /c/NBA /c/NFL /c/NHL and all the related teams.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I've recently been looking into using Backblaze with their S3 object storage for hosting Lemmy, but it looks like they also have personal PC backup cloud offerings. Perhaps you could use them to do both?

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

The video player in Lemmy-UI really needs the loop feature in the playback settings. At least I'm not seeing the option via Chrome or Firefox for Android.

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

For anybody wondering what the Mastodon security issue is - CVE-2023-36460, you can send a toot which makes a webshell on instances that process said toot. #CVE202336460 #TootRoot

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I thought this presentations humor was timely with recent events, given how for-profit ventures have been corralling open protocols and FOSS platforms, and may still be a reference that many old programmers would remember.

For a more serious discussion:

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Don't quote me, but I recall reading on GitHub that there are a few things to be refactored before Lemmy can support horizontal scaling approaches.

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