Is there any #linux tool to create a .desktop file from an AppImage file?

Today in hired car news: very weird behaviour on the Toyota we took to the Mornington Peninsula. The car would detect speed limits from streetsigns. Strangely, it would both beep loudy if I ever went even 1 km/h over the limit and offer to press a button to set the cruise control to 5 km/h over […]

Moved to #australia to learn to make steamed dumplings and use chopsticks.

OH, fun, another kernel update that broke touchpad and wifi #ubuntu

"Our next speaker requires no introduction.." *Proceeds with a minute-long introduction* #academicchatter

Them: oh, you've got a PhD, you must be really smart. Me: I forgot my poster at the airport. #academicchatter

Today I give a presentation on a bash tool for #hpc but the HPC cluster is down for maintenance. So guess who had to set up a local PBS installation on their laptop.

Well, after spending two days trying to work around that cocking netcdfd + sf + quarto issue (1) , it seems the solution is to kick #quartodev to the curb and go back to good old rmarkdown. #rstats 1. https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/13634

Fuck working in #hpcs. Everything is weird. Everything is entirely custom. Nothing is reproducible outside the environment, not even the bugs you want to report. 😭

Lovely ride to Jells Park and back. Got to see a juvenile Magpie begging for food like a 30 year-old teenager staying with their parents, and bees! Very sunny, though. Good I didn't forget to wear sunscreen and a long sleeve shirt. #melbourne

This guy is not fixing a bike. This guy is falling in love.

When will we get R 4.5.2 (Taylor's version)? https://fosstodon.org/@R_Foundation/115468147312171230

Trying o use #rstats on the gadi HPC is such a trashfire. Trying to figure out which compiler and compiler flags to use for each bloody package and R version.

Does anyone have experiences to share about creating Zenodo communities for their institution or research groups? I'm thinking of proposing to create one for mine, but I'd like to know more about any benefits if any. #academicchatter

It is so frustrating that there is no a siingle overall good PDF viewer for linux. Forget about editing, even viewing a PDF with comments can be a total PITA. 😭

In more car rental news, the windshield projected HUDs in some cars are fantastic. I drove one on a trip last week and having the relevant info right there in front of me was so convenient. I can't believe all cars don't have that; it's such a simple solution, just a bright screen pointing up.

I rented a car for a trip this weekend. At one point when it was raining and I couldn't see through the back windshield, I tried in vain to turn the windshield wiper on. Later that day I noticed that the car *didn't have back windshield wipers*. Then I looked around and I felt in the Twilight […]

On back from vacation we stopped at the only open coffee shop in Leongatha at 5pm... they had turned the coffee machine off. #australia

Moción para llamar "Cangallo" a la Generala. Es un kenning porteño.

How many doors you need to go through when you wake up at night and want to pee. @weirdestate

I think I've figured a relatively painless and automatic workflow to sync files with a zenodo repository to make sure that all the data required to run an analysis is shared. I'm relatively happy about it, although some parts feel a bit clunky. Will keep iterating.. #rstats

ICE plans to hire private contractors for round-the-clock social media surveillance to track immigrants and activists. Nearly 30 contractors sift through posts, photos, and messages—to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests. The police state is here.

I'm part of multiple teams/communities that use multiple messaging services, so at one time I need to have open a several of slacks, a couple of discord servers and two discourse forums; also whatsapp. I know there are several tools that try to integrate all of them into a single window (life […]

Does anyone have experiences with a more interactive peer review system in which you sit down with the author/s for a chat about a paper so you can have an actual conversation instead of reading the manuscript by yourself? #academicchatter

En esta versión de San Ictícola de los Peces, Rabinovich mete la mano en el acordeón de Nuñez y grita "Me mordió la oruga". Alguien me contró que este chiste no funcionaba en #España porque a diferencia del español rioplatense de #Argentina, el pretérito […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hey, #rstats parallel users. Does this idiom make sense to run stuff in parallel from a data.table? ``` dt[, .(new_stuff = list(future(make_stuff(column1, column2))), by = .(group1, group2)] dt[, new_stuff := value(new_stuff)] ```

Fireworks in #melbourne. What's going on?

My girlfriend comes in the bedroom as I'm making "aaaww" noises. "Are you watching cat videos?" she asks.

TIL that the origin of the phrase "beat around the bush" is very innocent, referring to people who literally beat around bushes to scare birds away so hunters could then get them. My dirty mind always though it had a very different origin.

When you spend a lot of time looking at #cat pictures and they are all cute cats and then you realise that all cats are cute.

Some dumb fuck (past me) decided that it would be a good idea to point the renv global cache to the scratch directory. The HPC cleanup crew came in today and wrecked all my packages. When will I fucking learn.

Except when you need to do simple floating point math. https://mastodon.social/@p3ter/115068614587147411

I love this article defending psalms 137:9. "The bible is not talking about massacring babies, don't worry. It's just advocating for total genocide!"

#rstats Dev Diary - Glitched 3D rendering of a signed distance field This should be a stack of spheres. But it isn't. And I love it!!!!

#rstats folks using Positron and #quartodev draft publications, how are you dealing with plot sizing? In RStudio, plots rendered in the document would respect fig-width and fig-height variables so you could mostly see the plot exactly as it would render in the final document. Positron can't do […]

Happy PTV forgets all your favourites day to all who celebrate. #melbourne #australia

Total Recall (1990) might be the perfectest movie ever made.

Wow this sucks so bad. a person posted on /r/datahoarder that they have created an archive of the Epstein files with added metadata like mentioned people and etc. But everything is LLM-generated.... Including the "full text" of the documents. Rather than […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

Hot take: email signatures should be considered harmful. This is the second time I try to search for an email and the search results are littered with unrelated emails that use similar words in their signature.

🌌🚀 En octubre se publicará en castellano "A city on Mars". 🗞️ Hoy El País entrevista a una de sus autoras: Kelly Weinersmith. Más que recomendable! elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

When the proportion of people who don't identify as men or women and are attracted to all gender increases dramatically... is that a panthemic? #badumtss

Some time we will learn to schedule meetings across timezones. Today is not the day.

Quarto crashes if in my code opens an netcdf file and then calls coord_sf() even though the code runs fine in the console. I'm in hell.

I love when I go to cite a publication from before I was born and that looks like this. #academicchatter

Any #quartodev user had this issue? My document knits correctly and outputs the md file but then things fail with "malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected". #rstats

To make the greek pantheon more efficient, I think Sisyphus should've been cursed to turn into an eagle and eat Prometheus, who regenerates every day.

["AI" schadenfreude, reddit screenshot] "What if someone uses an LLM to rip off my app that I ripped off with an LLM????"

I've been trying air for #rstats formatting and I'm now turning it off. It's constantly obliterating my code chunks.

Have you heard about the country with no men or women? Being non-binary is enthemic.

This article citing Acupuncturists in a piece about ear seeding is too much. A bunch of scammers debunking a scam. The way acupuncture has become mainstream despite no evidence and no basis in reality is depressing […]