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Do any of you have a buttload of RAM sitting around? by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Apply for compute time at a university cluster. It is free and usually easy.

RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I'm a researcher. Nature is good but it still has mistakes. Sometimes they are a tad sloppy but they are still far, far better than what you may know from popular science. In general, some mistakes are normal and expected because science works by finding and fixing mistakes, not by immediately discovering ultimate truth. This applies even in math.

Duke University appears to have lost research grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic material, translational studies and signal transduction by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

They prominently need grants for phd students

Duke University appears to have lost research grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic material, translational studies and signal transduction by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

If at all, this applies only to profs, which is a tiny subset of researchers and insanely hard to get into. Everyone else is paid shit and 80+% depend on grants. Source: am researcher

Apparantly, you can no longer reset the "User" BIOS Password with the "Admin" BIOS Password? Why??? I literally am the Admin lol. by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Is this an LLM?

Dirty Talk by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Missing setuid. You have just bricked your system good job

What's the worst/most embarrassing thing you've done before realizing someone else was in the room? by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

I think that was a reasonable reaction?

Trump lashes out at Israel and Iran: 'They don't know what the f--- they're doing' by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The word fuck should not be censored by anyone. It is an official statement.

What happened to the chapters? There are only two chapters. by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Copyright also applies to freely viewable material

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Take screenshot in linux using dotnet (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to take a screenshot. In Windows, that's a simple Graphics::CopyFromScreen call.

In Linux, I feel a little confused on how to do this. It seems there is a principal and stark distinction between X11 and Wayland, so I have to include both code paths. For either, it seems there is quite a lot of boilerplate code, often tagged as 'may break depending on your configuration, good luck'.

Effectively, what I found is recommended most often is to call ffmpeg to let it handle that. I'm sure that works, but I find it rather unpalatable.

I find this strange. Taking a screenshot is, in my mind at least, supposed to be a straightforward part of a standard library. Perhaps it is, and I just completely missed it? If not, is there a good library that works out-of-the-box on most variants of linux?

Update: Thank you all for the input. I eventually went with calling ImageMagick. It is fast, easy to use, well documented, and supports capturing arbitrary displays with little effort.

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Removed post as "job posting" (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Same post was allowed when the phrasing "... let ffmpeg do the job" is changed to "let ffmpeg handle it". So the removal seems to be purely keyword-based, in a resoundingly stupid fashion.

Why is Germany so prevalent on Lemmy? by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 107 points 2 months ago

One factor is German history with Stasi und ww2 fascism. We like increased independence and privacy, so lemmy rather than Facebook

Credit to Tim Buckley - Ctrl Alt Del by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In Serious Sam there was a secret you could only reach by starting running backwards while the level was still loading. The hint was that you heard a "door closing" sound from behind.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility by Prime in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I use this. It works nicely with gog and steam