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Paul G.
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I live near Detroit, work in IT, and play Dungeons & Dragons.
Paolo MelchiorreI suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚
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Punkrock HistoryThe most famous and creative cover designer in the punk rock scene!!
Raymond Pettibon, between 1980 and 1996 he designed, among other things, the iconic "Four Bars" logo of Black Flag as well as album covers and flyers.
#punk #punks #punkrock #coverart #raymondpettibon #blackflag #sonicyouth #history #punkrockhistory
レイン ~ LainJust got laid off.
The last 8 years were spent mostly in Python/Django, but I also have years of Java and PHP, and can pick up any language/framework quickly.
25 years professional experience in total. Any leads would be appreciated. #getfedihired #fedihired
I'm located in the USA, prefer remote work, but local to Austin TX is good too.
Kolja@tek the story goes on:
https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html
Something super shady is up there
Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕Ishirô Honda's "Godzilla" (GOJIRA) had its wide Japanese release 71 years ago today.
#GodzillaDay #OTD #OnThisDay #Godzilla #Movies #CineMastodon #FilmMastodon #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #cat #Floof
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Chris SiebenmannTIL about Firefox's about:translations, which lets you translate random pieces of text locally, using Firefox's translation support. I think I'm going to be changing some of my standing aliases, because to heck with Google Translate if I have a decent alternative.
Learned from:
https://metasocial.com/@trs/115467075855938295
https://metasocial.com/@trs/115467315916332085
Thomas Sibley (@[email protected])
In my clipboard I had some Korean I wanted to quickly translate to get the gist of it. Alt-tabbed to Firefox and started typing translate.goo… as I thought, "but jeez, Firefox can do this locally. how do I access that outside of a web page?" Ah ha! New tab, type in "data:text/html,<textarea>" instead and hit enter. Paste the Korean into the text box, Ctrl-A, right click, click Translate selection… and presto! Now I'm wondering how to invoke Firefox translations from the command line...
Alt Text Hall of Fame
James Bennett@glyph Minor thing: Wikipedia now has a useful link to the IBM patent application for the 80-column card, which explains that it was just the level of density they could fit on the existing standard-size card by switching to rectangular holes more closely spaced.
Which in turn leads to one of my favorite historical facts: we standardized on 80-column terminals because of the size of US currency. The card size had been set by the 1890 US census, tabulated by Hollerith machines, and the cards were stored in surplus Treasury currency boxes, so they had to be no larger than the banknotes the boxes had been designed for.
Some more info and to-scale pictures of the cards alongside historical banknotes here:
https://columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/census-tabulator.html