Updated 03-Aug-2025 The global birthrate continues it's ongoing descent. In some countries there has been a dramatic drop due to covid, such as in the Philippines whose annual births in 2019 were 1.5 million, and which dropped to 900,000 and 400,000 in 2020 and 2021, respectively. Thailand Birthrate In 2021 the birthrate of Thailand dipped ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Balena Etcher is software to flash Operating System images to USB drives and SD cards. It works well. Normally it is offered as an AppImage, but it is also possible to add the Balena Etcher github repository and install as a .deb file from there. Installing Balena Etcher on Debian with apt Debian ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Wordle is a popular five letter guessing game, akin to Hangman but guessing five letters at a time. A confusing implementation which shows how things should be worked out on paper first, to save time and frustratoin. More complicated implementation, include creating a word list.
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Make Linux look exactly like Windows XP
Updated 03-Aug-2025 At first glance, Fig seems to be re-inventing the wheel when it comes to autocomplete, but it is actually doing this at the OS level, and not integrating into the shell. Linux is not yet supported (10 April 2022), but coming soon. This means a faster implementation of extending the shell. Bash-it is ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Beneath every window-based Desktop Environment (DE) there is a windows manager. And beneath the windows manager, is a display server protocol such as X.org, Mir, and Wayland. When choosing a Desktop Environment, one can simply choose a windows manager and then add various other utilities such as menus, panels, search interfaces, configuration interfaces, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Previously named Gimp Print, Gutenprint is a high quality package of printer drivers for CUPS on Linux, Macintosh OS X, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. This project also maintains an enhanced Print plug-in for GIMP 2.x from the same code base. Gutenprint includes a large number of printer drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 In Linux, a standard shortcut is to use Alt + F7 and then drag the window back onscreen. Obviously some small bit of the window needs to be visible, but that is almost always the case. This works with Openbox and LXDE.
Updated 03-Aug-2025 In February, the state of California announced it was going to begin measures treating the Covid-19 pandemic as endemic though it did not use that word. The realization that there is no end date is poignant. > There is no end date for Covid-19 Resignation in the face of an Endemic Pandemic In ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Playing internet radio from the command line is quite a thing, especially the excellent Soma FM. Unfortunately there are some problems of late with various clients including: Uscheck, my favorite until this issue in October, 2021 Rocky Madden, who also suffers from the problems of October, 2021 Also see this gist with some ... Read more
Updated 23-Sep-2025 OBS (Open Broadcaster Studio) Studio is a popular, open source multiplatform broadcasting and recording control panel. Note: use of deb-multimedia apt source Currently I prefer to use the excellent 3rd-party apt repository dmo.sources, aka deb-multimedia as follows: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dmo.sources Types: deb URIs: https://www.deb-multimedia.org Suites: trixie Components: main non-free Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/deb-multimedia-keyring.pgp Enabled: yes Types: deb ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Google is a behemoth and has a variety of properties that one may need to use, for example: YouTube - to watch YouTube content, and to create and upload YouTube content YouTube Music - to listen to YouTube Music There are subscriptions available for YouTube Premium as well as YouTube Music Premium. As ... Read more
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Updated 03-Aug-2025 Level 1. Level 2. Level 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbmaFTsRK9c
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Snake games are quite popular. The first widely played snake game is of course snakes and ladders which originated in 2nd century CE India. The game was imported into the UK in the 1890s and made its way to the US as chutes and ladders, snakes apparently too scary for small children. Snake ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 These last a few weeks (or longer), and are a quick alternative to a longer pickling procedure. Ingredients 500g small cucumbers (ideally 9 cucumbers, somewhat skinny bunch of fresh dill 250g water 120g white vinegar 1 tsp salt 2 cloves of garlic (more for spicy) Utensils 2 pint size mason jars Procedures Combine ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Static Site Generator / Server Side Rendering for Svelte Full documentation on Elder.js and
Updated 03-Aug-2025 There are differences in salt. Kosher Salt Kosher Salt generally is only sodium chloride (NaCl), without iodine or other trace minerals or additives, and is coarse grain. It is called kosher salt due to being large grained and suitable for the kosher blood draining process (ensure that kosher salt is certified kosher if ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 I've started on Svelte and Svelte Kit since it seems to produce an excellent product with minimal code. I buy into the basic concepts of the benefits of Svelte (over all other frameworks). There is also Svelte Native. I was reading up on Cloudflare Pages, which apparently has gone full stack, and it ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 https://generated.photos/faces/beautified/young-adult/asian-race/black-hair/long/joy/brown-eyes https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/03/generate-realistic-human-face-using-gan.html https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan3