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Sometimes old projects are back. Made some updates for my utility, which is used to control brightness of a display, connected to the #Thinkpad X220/X230 via the AGAN X230 board (from AliExpress):
- Since I'm using Awesome WM and don't want to write a logic to change brightness on the Lua, I added the --increase-brightness / --decrease-brightness options to change it by one step.
- Add option --percent to display current brightness level not as internal value from board, but as percentage.
- Update man page, add ChangeLog.
For now it is tested under #FreeBSD 14.1-14.3.
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@leogaggl Hey, Leo. Demilitarization of Palestine has been one of the demands of Israeli negotiators since Oslo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_peace_process
The US Senate is currently considering a bill to recognize a "demilitarized Palestine":
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-resolution/410/text
The Trump Gaza plan also specifies that Gaza will be demilitarized:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan
I don't think it's naive to ask if people think Palestine should be demilitarized.
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@evan I do enjoy your polls normally. But this one is incredibly naive. To put it mildly.
If you would have said 'Should the Middle East be demilitarised?' - that would have been reasonable.
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@stags ah, ok, helpful!
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@evan The gist is: the Hebrew-speaking community on X is very 'social' and focused on the language and culture more than on particular topics or hashtags.
This means that one would need to individually track down and follow each Hebrew speaker in that community to maintain the connection.
So when X became really bad, most Hebrew-speaking migrants moved to the only Hebrew-speaking server at the time. Which functionally killed it. - It had to scale up to expensive IT to handle the new load.
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@alttexthalloffame @ChasMusic I’m not certain but this may have been a result of the new CSS theme tokens work, rather than a standalone change. I can ask the team tomorrow.
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Retrotechtacular: The $550K Video Conferencing System Used to Make Bee Movie
The modern office environment has shifted in recent years. Employees are routinely asked to collaborate with co-workers half way around the globe and be camera ready, or whatever passes for webcam ready, in order to telecommute when they are out of office. Every office laptop, tablet, or cell phone these days comes equipped with some sort of camera sensor capable of recording at HD resolution. Twenty years ago, that was not the case. Though tech conglomerates like HP had a different idea of teleconferencing to sell back in 2005 dubbed the Halo Collaboration Studio.
The Halo Studio was a collaboration between HP and Dreamworks that was used during the production of Bee Movie. Studio heads at Dreamworks thought it necessary to install the HP teleconferencing solution inside the New York office of Jerry Seinfeld, the writer of the film, as to allow him to avoid long trips to Dreamworks production offices in Los Angeles. According to the HP Halo Collaboration Studio brochure, “Halo actually pays for itself, not only by reducing travel costs, but also by encouraging higher productivity and stronger employee loyalty.” Certainly Dreamworks believed in that sales pitch for Bee Movie, because the upfront asking price left a bit of a sting.
Less of a singular machine, more of an entire dedicated room, the Halo Studio had a $550,000 asking price. It utilized three 1280×960 resolution plasma screens each fitted with a 720p broadcast camera and even included an “executive” table for six. The room lighting solution was also part of the package as the intent was to have all participants appear true to life size on the monitors. The system ran on a dedicated T3 fiber optic connection rated at 45 Mbps that connected to the proprietary Halo Video Exchange Network that gave customers access to 24×7 tech support for the small sum of $30,000 a month.
For more Retrotechtacular stories, check out Dan’s post on the Surveyor 1 documentary. It’s out of this world.
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@lcruggeri non trovo più lo screenshot, una volta Linux me l'ha mostrato senza ritegno 🤣
