squashkin

seemed like a top "free speech" instance, but was there too much NSFW content?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/139012

The Classic Typewriter Page: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/index.html

Reddit Typewriters Wiki: https://www.typewriter.wiki/index.php/Main_Page

note: I haven't figured out proper crossposting yet so am trying to do so manually to test federation

edit: fixed YSK in title; why YSK: interesting piece of technology you could continue to make use of today or get ideas on for developing new technology, etc.

The Classic Typewriter Page: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/index.html

Reddit Typewriters Wiki: https://www.typewriter.wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I just see login button turn in to an animated circle and it never logs in, anyone had this issue?

I've seen in programming that apparently naming things like variables or files is hard (?). So that could be a topic of discussion. I'm not sure if it's felt that hard, to me.

I have encountered a lot of problems with downloading files with irregular filenames, and then I can't find them, though. I'm guessing maybe that's on me to manually put the filename in whenever I download these things, but I guess sometimes I might just click "save" and the name of the file is not like a description of the file and it makes it difficult to find them when searching for them.

Now on the other hand, sometimes people don't want the files labeled so that people find them easily, so that's another issue too.

I've also wondered if a motion could be made to get more websites to automatically update certain filenames with titles of the page; for example, say a book on archive.org is gibberish, and you could select an option to automatically set that filename to the title of the page which would presumably be the name of the book.

Has anyone encountered either of these issues of trying to figure out how to name files, or of downloading files with lots of random names that might have a tendency to get lost without them being labeled as they are downloaded?

feels bad man

the memes that could have been

[Flag Day] commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that day in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.[1] The United States Army also celebrates the Army Birthday on this date; Congress adopted "the American continental army" after reaching a consensus position in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/92012

Video games are a ubiquitous part of almost all children’s and adolescents’ lives, with 97% playing for at least one hour per day in the United States.

I was kind of amazed by this statistic... are kids really playing this much? Is it too much? Implications?

I saw a vid pop up about how this distro could be the "end of distro hopping", by which I think they have a simple installer and can run lots of software

(Ubuntu based currently, moving to Debian eventually as a base)

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/88520

I've heard of this idea before, but it popped up on the radar again, it's a "common military exercise" since ancient times, and a good form of exercise for lots of people: https://infogalactic.com/info/Loaded_march

Walking is thought to be a good cardio exercise for just about anybody; all this does it add a backpack with some weight to the equation, which turns it in to a lifting exercise and increases the amount of exercise you get per step versus walking with no backpack.

Any thoughts on rucking, or backpacking, or such related exercises?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/84384

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/september/now-everyone-can-build-battery-free-electronic-devices/

Example implementing principles: ENGAGE - the battery-free gaming console https://github.com/tudssl/engage