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Nathan Osman

5:55 AM

Microsoft thinking of buying GitHub.

Wat.

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Rinzwind

7:22 AM

@NathanOsman sorry?!

for 5b I would sell it and make a new github :X

David Foerster

7:48 AM

@NathanOsman If that happens I'm moving to Gitlab. I don't distrust Microsoft inherently any more but I prefer an independent service in this instance.

dessert

8:11 AM

@DavidFoerster who owns github currently?

David Foerster

8:56 AM

@dessert A bunch of shareholders and investors. It has no parent company.

dessert

in a communal application I can specify my own “intended purpose” for the bank transfer – now I’m tempted…

David Foerster

@dessert Don't get too happy about it. There's a restricted character set for SEPA transfer fields and everything else is stripped out.

dessert

@DavidFoerster at the bank, sure – but my commune may not be so competent :P

Videonauth

9:48 AM

@DavidFoerster agreed i will then hots my own git, microsoft is just bad. Wasnt it enough that they bought themselfes a platinum linux memmbership card

David Foerster

10:14 AM

@Videonauth I actually welcome Microsoft's Linux efforts. Their strategy towards Linux shifted a few years ago and their actions so far make their words sound genuine.

Videonauth

@DavidFoerster Hey Alice, don'T trust the rabbit ;)

David Foerster

Since the strategy change I noticed no action that threatens or endangers Linux or its ecosystem.

Videonauth

IMHO the only thing they did getting a foot in the door on a level where linuxes fate is decided

David Foerster

They were all either neutral of favourable for Linux as far as I can tell.

…and not in a way that can later be turned against Linux.

user136984

@Fabby: Once more (after 4 years of being Veggie/Vegan) I am a meat-eater again (although that raw fish I had yesterday was a little hard on my stomach considering that I am never actually had it before)! :D

user136984

10:16 AM

This is for health reasons.

user136984

Some people can cope with a Veggie diet, but I am built for meat.

user136984

And how are you? :)

Videonauth

The fact that Microsoft in the late years pushed more and more towards data collection makes me distrust them

The might have genuine intentions on the Linux Foundadtion, but that will the years to come show. If i might change my opinion about Microsoft

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Ubuntu Questions on U&L

11:48 AM

Q: I can't find module "core" in perl dir on ubuntu 18.x

I'm trying compile nginx ... configure seems ok, then when I type make I get following error: make make -f objs/Makefile make[1]: Entering directory '/home/paul/src/ngxbuild/nginx-1.14.0' cc -o objs/ngx_http_perl_module.so \ objs/src/http/modules/perl/ngx_http_perl_module.o \ objs/ngx_http_perl_...

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

12:39 PM

Q: Grub2 package failed installed on dual boot with windows 10

I have a problem when I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as secondary OS. I used windows 10 before and I want to make dual boot with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I already create 30GB free space on the disk and I already make USB boot too. I followed the steps to install Ubuntu and make one partition as swap and ...

ubuntu windows dual-boot

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Fabby

3:06 PM

@ParanoidPanda It's Saturday!!!

I'm doing good...

RobotHumans

TGIS

dessert

3:31 PM

Q: I saw something in chat I don't understand

What are some of the common chat items? I want to understand what people who are more familiar with other chat clients are trying to say to me.

discussion chat

@RobotHumans nope, “TGIS” is not valid

terdon

3:47 PM

Presumably, Thank God It's Saturday

TGIF is the more common version :)

RobotHumans

4:09 PM

Heh. Yeah. TGIO (thank god it's obvious)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

4:22 PM

Q: Error while installing amd drivers on ubuntu 16.04

I have a Dell Precision 7720 laptop and my gpu is Radeon™ Pro WX 7100. After following the instructions here: https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx I have run the script amdgpu-pro-install: https://pastebin.com/JtPjR1TM And I noticed the error: Error! Bad r...

ubuntu amd

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dessert

7:20 PM

Is there an Ubuntu flavour using GNOME 2? MATE maybe?

Fabby

Mare AFAIK

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Nathan Osman

10:06 PM

Question - would you recommend something like this (see below) or sticking with a GoPro?

amazon.ca/YI-Action-Camera-Night-Black/dp/B01CW4BZQY

(Heh, onebox is broken I guess.)

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

10:22 PM

Q: Why hasn't tty been set up when `~/.profile` is executed

On Lubuntu 18.04, I added a sudo command in ~/.profile, but got the error: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified I know the solution is to make the command command NOPASSWD in /etc/suoders. I just wonder why tty hasn't been set up when ~/.profile is executed (in Lubuntu)? T...

ubuntu tty profile

David Foerster

11:04 PM

@NathanOsman A videographer and good friend of mine with lots of personal and professional acquaintances in the field did a lot of online research for her own small camera like that:

you can find many cheap "copy-cat" products with reasonably good technical specs (i. e. image and lens quality) if you don't expect too much of it and don't care much for extras or niceties beyond the basic functionality. You still need to read online reviews to find models that are both cheap and not crappy.

Nathan Osman

Ah, okay.

I did some more digging and discovered the Hero (2018) has HDMI out.

That is especially useful to me since I have an HDMI capture card.

David Foerster

One common feature set that these cheap cameras lack is (the processing power for) integrated post-processing. If you don't mind to take care of that yourself on your desktop computer, that's certainly a feature you can omit.

Just don't expect to shoot any footage that looks properly filtered and post-processed in a way that looks great when you upload it straight from your camera to Youtube or Vimeo or whatever.

Some people want or need that because that's how they want to shoot and publish videos.

I can try to look up her action camera model as well as some of the videos she shot with it if you want a frame of reference for what I just said.

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