thevoidzero

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If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

And risk wiping the life on that planet? Considering something like that happened to native population in America, I guess people don't care.

We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Rather, it puts you in debt. And now you have even less power. We should normalize everyone being able to live and not force college on everyone. But also make it free/super cheap so people can attend if they want without having to suffer financially

What are the best ways to be part of Open Source Community and the Movement To Grow It? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I was thinking I'd appreciate a website/community where people talk about potential new open source software ideas and interested people can collaborate. Could be small things. And able to filter by category, language, etc.

But I don't know how the logistics would work. But at least minor things that could be fun. But it could be abused. It's just my thoughts when I'm like "I wanna make something this week". Or when I start something and I don't have the skills for all components.

Do better in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. But it's a joke. If we think about the actual implications many of them are not fun, or downright horrifying.

In real life too, someone says something we laugh and we move on. Unless it's really good, or really offensive. If we start analyzing every joke it's not gonna be fun. 😅

Do better in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I mean it was pretty obvious and funny. I'm explaining because I thought you didn't get it, which is ok because there're always new people and new things.

Do better in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Either it's just a new day of classes and teachers is disappointed because last class didn't work. Or it's a new semester/term and teacher is really disappointed because they failed.

Do better in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (7 children)

It says welcome back. So that implies they at least had the class previously.

Heavily compressed you say in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Tiff is for science. Like for actual values that need more than 0-255 level of precision.

For example we use Tiff (or GeoTiff because it has coordinates) for storing elevation, temperature, slope, etc variables of an area for processing. It can also have a lot of bands not just RGB.

For example, satellites record RGB, infrared 1, infrared 2, and many other bands and even if we can't see them it's useful to get that information for processing. That helps for example to recognize river from forest even if both look green to our eyes.

Heavily compressed you say in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Repeat after me:

JPEG is for photos, PNG is for graphics.

Are bots on lemmy? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like nowadays the bots are actually really good in English because of LLMs.

hypothetical rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

units '1 kilodollar' 'dollar' outputs 1000. units is a unit conversion program I use.

Building from source - disadvantages? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Arch also kinda allows that if you write custom PKGBUILD file. It's easy to write for simple stuffs that are based on make/cargo etc.

It's time consuming if some program gives you 100s of lines of code in bash script to install their program though.

Edit:

Another disadvantage of building from source is dependency management. You might accidentally uninstall some dependencies, the standard library versions might change and break your packages, etc.

Using package manager mitigates that.

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How to find small programming related tasks in the USA (lemmy.world)
 

Hi all,

I like programming and do a lot of hobby projects. But I don't really do web development, or android, which seems to be what most work are about.

I like making desktop applications, computational projects, etc. i also like problems where I can solve/automate tasks using programming. I have like 100 projects in GitHub now, and I love contributing to open source community. But it sometimes makes me feel like I could be using that time to do things that could make money instead of working on projects that noone will use.

I'm looking for small jobs, independent tasks I could do for minor income. But if it's in python or rust, I am open to a bit larger projects.

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Looking for Mentor (for a PhD Candidate) that works with open source (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22266569

Looking for Mentor (for a PhD Candidate) that works with open source and Rust

TLDR: Searching for person holding professor position to officially act as a committee member on a US PhD defense

Hi all,

I'm in a non CS field. I'm doing PhD in hydrology and I'm good at Geospatial Analysis, data analysis, visualization, modeling and such. I really like programming and have been making open source programs, contributing to open source programs and such. And have been learning rust for last 2 years.

For my PhD dissertation I'm doing a project where I'll be using Rust to make a program with compiled plugin system that can do generalized river related tasks including data analysis and visualization. I have professors in GIS and hydrology to guide those aspects, but I don't have anyone on software side to ask questions, or to look at my work. I tried emailing some people I have seen with open source projects on GIS+rust, but no response.

I'm ideally looking for someone that holds a professor position for my committee who is good with either rust, GIS related algorithms development, and programming languages. However, it woud also be helpful to just have someone woth knowledge about such things. In either scenario, credit and authorship will be given.

I appreciate any response even telling where i could find someone matching the above description. :)

Edit: I can also provide my previous projects in GitHub, websites and such before you decide in messages.

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[Discussion] Acrobat PDF forms support (lemmy.world)
 

TLDR: I recently found out there is "deprecated" XFA format that acrobat still uses in their programs, and government forms have those for dynamic contents in the form that we cannot fill using other softwares. Looking for solutions.

This has been a problem since a long time. Back in 2020 I had dual boot because I needed acrobat to fill PDF forms, but after finding xournal++ program I nuked windows partition. Windows update messing up grub was one of the reason I decided to nuke windows and looking at the posts recently it's still a huge issue.

So the problem I recently encountered is that even the government issued PDF forms need acrobat reader (which is free software for PDF, but only available in windows and mac). Which I didn't think would be an issue and just filled the form in Firefox.

Turns out that was problematic as the PDF forms has fields that are automatically filled, calculated from other fields, only made available when certain checkboxes are checked, etc. and Firefox doesn't support that. Even trying to install the acrobat reader snap (which uses wine) in a VM and opening the PDF on it didn't work. The UI makes me think it's a really old version of the reader.

So without searching for other devices (and filling a PDF with my sensitive information) what solution is there? Installing windows is a hassle even in a VM, and it will use up precious SSD memory. But that's the only solution I can think of.

I also found masterpdf or something like that which the Arch wiki says has support for that, but it didn't work. It says XFA forms are converted to acro forms, and the dynamic part doesn't work. There are websites that promise to work for such forms, but I'm not going to be putting sensitive info on web apps.

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[Help] How do I word my grant application to keep my software FOSS? (lemmy.world)
 

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping there are people here who work on FOSS and have applied for grants to support their software financially. I am applying for a grant opportunity that is asking for a software from US gov agency.

My requirements:

  • I want to publish it under Open Source Licenses like GPL (not MIT) so other corps can't take this to use on their product,
  • The grant agency will get the source code, they can do whatever as long as the license is held,
  • I will develop the features they want, and request during the duration of grant,
  • I will want to continue development independently after the grant, or apply for more grants from other organizations,
  • To clarify the previous point, I do not want to give them the final product so they own it, and I can no longer do anything on the program.

So, if anyone has done similar things, please give me advice on this. Their requirement says "a web repository" should be provided at the end, so I think I can apply with the intention of giving them the software code while keeping the rights. But I don't want to make a mistake in application/contract and lost the rights to the program, I want to develop a lot further than just the features they want for their use case.

Or at least dual license to protect the Open Source Side while giving the grant organization rights to take the code for their other programs because of the money they spent.

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