friendly_ghost

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Hell rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] friendly_ghost 6 points 1 day ago

Oh sure I'll refill your iced tea more times than I can count for a dollar tip

i need it, soz in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] friendly_ghost 11 points 3 days ago

I half expected this comment to end with "in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table"

dosu saves the world in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] friendly_ghost 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The seemingly random bold letters are sending me

Mass surveillance is not normal in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] friendly_ghost 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I find this argument compelling:

"We have a physiological need for privacy. Mammals in particular respond poorly to surveillance. We consider it a threat because animals in the wild are tracked by predators, and it makes us feel like prey."

Taken from this TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/jVeqAemtC6w Quoted bit starts at 5:45

Infinity in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] friendly_ghost 15 points 6 days ago

"Every week" but there are only 46 suns in the image. I will never trust strangers on the internet again

Inadmissible in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] friendly_ghost 15 points 1 week ago

I'm so proud of Jaclyn. She found all those neutrinos in the ice water. Nobody else could find 'em but Jaclyn sure could

efficient game design rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] friendly_ghost 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Opens with: Notepad

Does it, though?

Chemistry in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] friendly_ghost 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Little Johnny has gone to H
He'll be with us no more
For what he thought was H~2~O
Was H~2~SO~4~

MY BODY IS READY in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] friendly_ghost 5 points 1 week ago

Great but what about your abstract

MY BODY IS READY in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] friendly_ghost 1 points 1 week ago

Needs a few more ampersands and it's exactly that

Database of company names + websites? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] friendly_ghost 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for this suggestion, I had never heard of it! I was able to access it via my library, and easily searched up companies with websites, but then it made me manually click which results to download (wouldn't let me export the results as one large file). Keeping it bookmarked though, seems like a great resource for other use cases.

Database of company names + websites? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] friendly_ghost 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for recommending kaggle! I found just what I needed there (actually way more data than I needed!). Here's what I went with, if it's useful to anyone else: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mfrye0/bigpicture-company-dataset

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Database of company names + websites? (self.programming)
 

I realize this is an absolutely unhinged thing to ask for: Can anyone direct me to a large database of company names with websites (just those two columns), ideally 100K rows or more, that I can access for free? Basically this database if it had another column with the company name: https://github.com/cygenta/top10million (but doesn't need to be anywhere near 10 million)

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Moneyless Harvest Moon-type game? (self.gaming)
submitted 3 weeks ago by friendly_ghost to c/gaming
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I have such a love/hate relationship with Stardew Valley, slightly less so with My Time At Portia (the developers seem to have at least considered wrist strain in the button layout and mechanics). I long for a moneyless, classless game in this genre where the incentives are community thriving, trust, pleasure, and all the other aspects that make life worth worth living outside of capitalism. Does that game exist?

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I'll be in Europe during the Stanley Cup Finals. Is there a way to see the games? (self.hockey)
 

Specifically Paris and London. There are U.S. sports-themed bars in both cities, but with the time difference, the bars will be closed by the times the games start. I'm willing to pay, get a VPN, and/or go to a sketchy streaming site. Any suggestions? Thanks hockey fam!

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Why is predictive text so hard to disable? (self.programming)
submitted 4 months ago by friendly_ghost to c/programming
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Does anyone know, or can anyone guess, the business case for predictive text? On phone apps, it is often incredibly difficult to turn off. Why is that, do you think? (The examples I have recent experience with are Facebook and Outlook mobile apps.)

I would have thought that, for AI training purposes, they would want humans typing things and not just regurgitating canned responses. But apparently not?

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For a game that turns 40 years old next month, it's unreal what we are learning about Tetris (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago by friendly_ghost to c/gaming
8 comments fedilink
 

This video documents the recent feats of 15-year-old Tetris master Alex T, and the discoveries players make by pushing the game farther than it has any right to go

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Petition to allow local announcers to call playoff games (www.change.org)
 

Petitions are annoying, but I'm hoping some of us will want to sign this one! The goal is simple: Have the National Hockey League create a solution where the local broadcast announcers of the home team handle the broadcast for every nationally-televised game, such as the Stanley Cup playoffs.

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Text-to-speech options? (self.foss)
submitted 6 months ago by friendly_ghost to c/foss
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I'm setting up a laptop with Mint (Cinnamon) for a person who needs text-to-speech software. It seems like most of the nice-sounding ones are proprietary. Any recommendations for FOSS alternatives? And any ideas why this is an underdeveloped area for open source?

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What can we do for friends and loved ones drawn in by reactionary conspiracy theories? (self.politics)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by friendly_ghost to c/politics
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Someone I am very close to has become increasingly isolated. She doesn't want to do anything except watch "documentaries" like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfzupXBlrIU She doesn't want to socialize, because "no one understands what's really going on." She mentioned recently that she has a Telegram account, so I'm assuming that's where at least some of this garbage is coming from. I'm worried about her. Her life is already hard, and this stuff is making her paranoid and more isolated than she already was.

Is there anything that helps bring people out of this?? I have my own radical ideas, but they are about the need to abolish capital and the State. This person has never really responded to leftist politics when I've brought it up, but maybe I need to try again. Any help or advice? I really worry about her.

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Finding projects that need user testing? (self.programming)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by friendly_ghost to c/programming
1 comments fedilink
 

I'm digging into the world of #FOSS #opensource and would like to help with existing projects. My programming chops are not sharp yet, but I'm a detail-oriented communicator who knows a bit about user testing.

How do I find projects on GitHub, GitLab, or other sites that need this kind of help? The machines I would be testing on are a potato desktop running Pop_OS Linux and an Android phone. Thanks in advance!

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Can I email or text myself through Python or bash? (self.programming)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by friendly_ghost to c/programming
29 comments fedilink
 

EDIT: Thanks y'all! I got this working by installing mutt and configuring it with my Gmail info. Please note the warning from u/jherazob below--if this were something mission critical I would not want to rely on this solution.

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Noob question incoming, thanks in advance for any help with this!

I have a specific use case in which I want to send an automated email or text to myself once a day (the message is different each time--otherwise I would just set an alarm, lol!). I'm running Pop_OS on an old desktop computer. Where I'm stuck is getting an email to successfully send from the command line. I'm looking for easy-to-follow instructions that would help me do that, and none of the articles or videos I've come across thus far have helped.

I'm aware of Twilio and other services that send SMS messages, but I'm looking for something free. Especially since I only need to text one person (myself), and infrequently at that.

Below is my attempt to send an email with the telnet command. Nothing ever came through...

XXXXXXXX@pop-os:~$ telnet localhost smtp
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 pop-os ESMTP Exim 4.95 Ubuntu Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:12:28 -0500
HELO gmail.com
250 pop-os Hello localhost [::1]
mail from: XXXXXXXX@gmail.com
250 OK
rcpt to: XXXXXXXX@gmail.com
250 Accepted
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
Subject: Test
Body: Is this working?
.
250 OK id=1rMZW4-0002dj-Uy
quit
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Rule of Sheep (beehaw.org)
 
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