Lol did it solve anything though? If you actually watch the full episode, the timeline of events is: Someone rents a new house and finds a skeleton in the marsh behind it. It's a ~30 year old woman who died in the winter and was bludgeoned and stabbed repeatedly. They send away for DNA sequencing but the lab doesn't get back to them for like a year and half. In the meantime they look at missing persons cases (over 100 in North Carolina they state, though presumably ~half that once you filter for skeletal women) They determine that this woman's case seems most likely based on all the other details about her case. The forensic tech who's oddly interested in how much pain people feel as they die is interested in using "impose an image of a skull on a face technique" to see if it matches. She reaches out to a skateboarding computer science professor who uses gimp to paste a semi transparent layer of the skull on top of a picture of that victim's face and thinks it probably maybe matches. They get fed up with the DNA lab and send it to a second one that responds in three weeks confirming it was who they thought. They talk to the victim's friends who point out what party she was at the night she disappeared. The people at the party say that she was hanging out with this one big truck driver after everyone else. His story has been that she walked home after everyone else left, in January, for 7 miles. They interview him a few times and he eventually says that they had sex that night and she belittled him for not getting it up and he pushed her and she he hit her head on the nightstand and he left and she was fine when he left. He's convicted of murder and dumping her body because that's an obvious crock of shit. Kinda feels like the whole GIMP escapade was just a waste of everyone's time and all it took to solve the case was basic police work in terms of interviewing people who saw her last. By the time they tried GIMP they already had a prime missing person that they thought it was, and they wouldn't have had to try gimp if they just went to a second / competent DNA lab immediately. The way they present it is a little unclear, but it sounds like they didn't even pull the suspect in for further interviewing until they finally got the DNA confirmation for who it was.

I've bounced between a bunch of different ones. Each time I switched and moved the directory over the formatting and linking tended to break. In the end, I settled on just a raw hierarchical directory structure using raw markdown (using a basic text editor) for typed notes and whatever other relevant media (pictures, pdfs, whatever), and GoodNotes for handwritten notebooks with PDF backups saved to directory on my Nextcloud. I don't know, maybe my needs are odd but I've just never found a single application that could handle all of my note-taking and documentation needs. Everything is close, but frustratingly annoying in one missing feature or another. And all of them seemed damned slow compared to just opening up a file browser or a terminaland doing what I needed. As for file syncing, Logseq was pretty easy to handle syncing for. I just put the logseq notes directory on my Nextcloud and Bob's you're uncle. Access on my desktop, laptop and mobile devices. Don't have to use Nextcloud though, just something that would allow you to sync the directory between devices. Syncthing would probably work. Just don't bounce between devices too fast. Causes conflicts you have to correct manually.

Hmmm, I'm trying to like it but apparently there's something wrong going on with their delivery pipeline. The last release is dated 2025-05-01. By that time there were already issues with subtitles and currently in that release version no subtitles load at all. The tracker to that issue is this one which marks as "solved" yet that certainly is not the case. At the very bottom they say you have to go to "nightly" - that is go to Github actions and select one among those labelled "build" and download the desired artifact. Meaning, a fix has not actually been released. However I've visited six different runs of nightlies under "Build" and they do show the artifacts, but they are just a table of text, with no links or uploads. So, 1.- How is one able to download such artifacts? 2.- Why is the issue marked as "solved"?

This seems like a potentially clever defense against scrapers...which probably spoof the referrer field to be the base domain anyways.

I also think it's important to point out separately that this software can be modified down into an easy to use software package that allows one to input relevant taxable financial data into it; and then when it comes time to file your taxes; you print out a long report; take it to your tax professional, who is now easily able to read that report, and use the information to appropriately file taxes. Heck; that report might even make it drop dead simple to fill out your own tax forms; should you decide that's what you'd like to do; and you could feed the software the relevant tax forms in and it would fill them out to the best of it's ability using the data provided to it.

It doesn't have to be sinister to be wrong, or, to violate the ethos standards that the FOSS community at large is supposed to stand for.

When it's explained simply; it seems to make more sense to emotive thinking. An example: "[Manufacturer] is [telling you that/acting like] you cannot choose apps outside of their [store/collection/catalog]; even if you, as an adult, would trust that app or need it to save your own sanity, health or life." When I tell an Apple user that; they suck their teeth and try to make [noises/excuses] but in the end they do relent and admit that does suck. Not only can they not refute it logically, they cannot refute it emotionally. When I show them how I've riced out the experience of my Android Smartphone and how I can use my phone rapidly without encumbrance because I have everything at my fingertips in a workflow that comes native to me....they get jealous! Sadly where I lose them, is where I tell them all the work I put in to achieve it. I have to break the news to them that going to the store and buying a phone with freedoms just like mine isn't possible. Perhaps that's where we need to attack these things. Basically; we need to make freedom look sexy. There will invariably be things we can do with our freed devices and software systems that they cannot hope to achieve. We have to endeavor to make that difference as pronounced and noticeable as possible. When we do; that's when FLOSS communities swell and grow. When Linux got good at gaming with Proton; the numbers swelled. Linux became "sexy" because it could game. If we give users something they can have over their peers who don't seek freedom respecting software, they will flock to it in droves...and the companies will be driven into the poorhouse for failing to meet the user demands.

It is the overarching theme in every aspect of life nowadays. PLEASE LOOK AT THIS ARTIFICIALLY BLOWN UP DETAIL While literally every other point will show you the opposite is true. Its how capitalism works in general. Foss is a huge thorn in their side too. One reason why google seems to destroy aosp slowly.

i just use Wick editor for mindmaps https://www.wickeditor.com/

I asked Jerry about everything. Here is the interview: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/clarifying_costs_of_running_the_fediverse_with_jerry_from_infosec.exchange

This is a central philosophy of RDKit. You can take it with you from lab to lab and job to job.

no need to create an account mobile-friendly web app I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure WebKit for iOS heavily restricts the capabilities of webapps, finding an application that meets any or all of this criteria for iOS users is unlikely in my opinion. I assumed you already considered Jami and Jitsi Meet but maybe you can consider Signal? It's not as mainstream as WhatsApp but it's still pretty popular. Depending on where you live and the type of people you're talking to, I'd say there's like a 5-20% chance some people you'll meet already have it.

I commend this guy for sticking by his principles. I remember feeling shocked and let down when walking into my uni's computer department for the first time and finding out that the main lab was the Windows lab, with the Linux lab being smaller and hidden away. He must have tried the patience of his professors though, with his refusal to even use non-free JavaScript - for instance he wouldn't use the Zoom video conferencing web client. Given that you don't have to install anything on your machine and JS is heavily sandboxed, that does seem a bit too idealistic! But hopefully he made his professors think a little and maybe they'll even opt for true FOSS solutions in future. Like this Jitsi Meet that I'd never heard of before - I'm looking forward to trying it instead of Google Meet next chance I get.

Oh heck, thanks so much! We'll give it a looksee sometime soon Awh, thanks for the offer of help, much appreciated!

Wow can't believe pocket is ending after all this time! I'm also thinking about trying wallabag

Öffi has been a joy, it took some time, but I now like the idea of a special app for public transport a lot