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The final question on Exam 1 in my physical science class is always "Name an actual living scientist. The scientist can't be fictional, dead, or your professor." (For 0 points)

I was glad to see that many of my students wrote their own names.

have you ever noticed that someone post a screenshot of text without providing an image description, preventing you from being able to read it? or maybe they posted a huge amount of text that just can't possibly be described with the image description feature?

simply tag @OCRbot in a direct reply to the image. it will download the image and scan it using tesseract OCR to output the text contained in the image!

because OCRbot runs on fedi.lynnesbian.space, it has a character limit of 65535, so even the longest images should work OK!

check the reply to this image to see it parsing the attached screenshot!

Trekked out to the mountains and picked up this beautiful creature today 😊 #spinning

TIL – Using conditional entries in .gitconfig to automatically manage #git identities based on the working directory. Nice!

https://dev.to/maxlmator/maintaining-different-git-identities

Here they are!

This is cracking me up.

Text:

me at hotel: *pushing all the continental breakfast tables together*

hotel security: miss why are you-

me: PANGEA BREAKFAST

Do you like sci-fi? Do you write your own stories for fun or profit? Why not join us in a low pressure semi-collaborative journey among the stars:

https://cosmic.voyage

Cosmic Voyage is a public access unix system focused on storytelling. Practice some command line skills while you write and get motivated from your peers.

Visit us on irc.tilde.chat in the #cosmic room as well.

#Mozilla's #Firefox #AntiTracking Policy

"Parties not wishing to be blocked by this policy should stop tracking Firefox users across websites."

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/01/28/defining-the-tracking-practices-that-will-be-blocked-in-firefox/

Right, I’ll tell you what we’re going to do. We’re going to organise a conference in Europe for people working on ethical alternatives to surveillance capitalism that isn’t sponsored by surveillance capitalism. For people who aren’t afraid to pick a side.

Because I’ve had it with this bullshit and we need non-bullshit alternatives.

Watch this space.

Putting my bins out in the standard #Australian configuration, with recycling and kangaroos separated from general waste.

an absolute angel

I think this cat thinks it's died and gone to heaven

Welp, it’s time to close down the fediverse. I just found the coolest replacement.

https://github.com/buckket/twtxt

I’ll see you guys on the other side!