[05:02] schestowitz[05:02] schestowitzToday, my focus will be on IrfanView, a small, elegant image viewer for Windows, which I've been using with delight for decades now. It's got everything one needs, and often more than the competitors, hence this bold foray of using it in Linux despite the fact there are tons of native programs available. But let's proceed slowly and not get too far ahead of ourselves. After me.
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[05:07] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.arduino.cc | Arduino User Groups are back in your maker-hood | Arduino Blog [05:07] schestowitz[05:07] schestowitzLets make this quick, as you probably have a pretty good idea already.
[05:07] schestowitzArduino User Groups are in-person gatherings of makers who use, love and engage with Arduinos products, services, software and online communities. They can be a part of your existing makerspace, club or hackerspace. Or it can be entirely dedicated to the world of Arduino. Thats totally up to the organizers.
Its an extension of our huge online community into the meat space. Its somewhere [05:07] schestowitz people can learn, share and teach others all about Arduino, IoT projects, electronics and more. And Arduino will be there to support AUGs every step of the way.
Most importantly, AUGs are there to represent and spread the open source philosophy upon which Arduino was founded. Its all about sharing, learning and community.
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[07:55] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-.netrc pains | daniel.haxx.se [07:55] schestowitz[07:55] schestowitzThe .netrc file is used to hold user names and passwords for specific host names and allows tools to login to those systems automatically without having to prompt the user for the credentials while avoiding having to use them in command lines. The .netrc file is typically set without group or world read permissions (0600) to reduce the risk of leaking those secrets.
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[09:17] schestowitz[09:17] schestowitzPerhaps it this has something to do with the backlash, not just against me and my work, but against others who use and participate in that work. Its not enough to dislike my programming language, but the skeptics must publicly denounce it and discourage others from using it. Its irresponsible, if not immoral, to design a language without a borrow checker in 2022. SourceHuts email-oriented approach [09:17] schestowitz might not be for everyone, and instead of simply not using it, skeptics must harass any projects that do. This kind of harassment is something I hear about often from many maintainers of projects on SourceHut. It breaks my heart and I feel helpless to do anything about it.
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