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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 26 07:48:04 2025
    Been watching this clip <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6aVvunbfU> and noticed, at 8:01, a screenshot of an interesting computer desktop.

    First of all, note the “K” symbol for the application menu at the bottom left: that’s a KDE Plasma desktop, probably from a few years ago. A little
    to the right of that, in the taskbar, is an array of 2 rows of 3
    rectangles, denoting that the user has 6 virtual desktops configured (the default 4 obviously not being enough).

    The top left is a Jupyter notebook window, with some lines of Python code
    (and output therefrom) in it. The big window at the right might be a text editor; can anybody identify it more precisely? And also the image viewer
    below the notebook window?

    Clip with direct link to time offset, in case it works for you: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6aVvunbfU?t=481>

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jan 26 08:24:02 2025
    On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 07:48:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
    <[email protected]d> wrote in <vn4pbk$3i5k4$[email protected]>:

    Been watching this clip <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6aVvunbfU>
    and noticed, at 8:01, a screenshot of an interesting computer desktop.

    First of all, note the “K” symbol for the application menu at the bottom left: that’s a KDE Plasma desktop, probably from a few years ago. A
    little to the right of that, in the taskbar, is an array of 2 rows of 3 rectangles, denoting that the user has 6 virtual desktops configured
    (the default 4 obviously not being enough).

    The top left is a Jupyter notebook window, with some lines of Python
    code (and output therefrom) in it. The big window at the right might be
    a text editor; can anybody identify it more precisely? And also the
    image viewer below the notebook window?

    Clip with direct link to time offset, in case it works for you: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6aVvunbfU?t=481>

    Take a look at vim.gtk3 -g -- might be it, but with bigger
    icons.

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Jan 26 11:54:32 2025
    On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 07:48:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:


    First of all, note the “K” symbol


    Yikes! Distro lackeys in the highest echelon!


    A little
    to the right of that, in the taskbar, is an array of 2 rows of 3
    rectangles, denoting that the user has 6 virtual desktops configured (the default 4 obviously not being enough).


    More yikes!

    My arms would get exhausted having to change desktops using those
    awkward keyboard combinations. Hoooo!

    Someone should tell these dudes about FVWM3, but then they'd have
    to install it themselves which would immediately kill the idea.


    The big window at the right might be a text
    editor; can anybody identify it more precisely? And also the image viewer below the notebook window?


    Holy moley! It looks like Microslop Winblows, complete with
    the "floppy disk" icon and the bottom tool bar! It's gotta make
    these lackeys feel right at home.

    I don't think that is an image viewer. It's more like a pop-up
    window showing a graph from the underlying software, the scroll
    bar of which is visible at the right.

    Python? Jupyter? Gotta keep buying more powerful hardware just
    to keep that junk moving faster than a snail's pace.





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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Jan 26 10:52:56 2025
    On 1/26/2025 2:48 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    at 8:01, a screenshot of an interesting computer desktop.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6aVvunbfU?t=481>


    You found one. It's extremely rare for a scientist to use Linux on
    their desktop.

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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Joel on Sun Jan 26 20:54:54 2025
    On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:20:58 -0500, Joel <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>:

    DFS <[email protected]ca> wrote:
    On 1/26/2025 2:48 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    at 8:01, a screenshot of an interesting computer desktop.

    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6aVvunbfU?t=481>

    You found one. It's extremely rare for a scientist to use Linux on
    their desktop.


    Scientists are like anyone, they use what they know, that's the only
    reason Linux lags in user base, people don't even try it.

    "Extremely rare"? As if DFS would have any idea.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to DFS on Sun Jan 26 21:57:10 2025
    On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:52:56 -0500, DFS wrote:

    It's extremely rare for a scientist to use Linux on
    their desktop.

    Hint: there is a distro called “Scientific Linux”. (One of many science- oriented distros popular at CERN and other important scientific
    institutions.)

    Is there a product from Microsoft called “Scientific Windows”?

    No.

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to vallor on Sun Jan 26 16:48:47 2025
    vallor wrote:

    Joel wrote:

    some dumb fsck wrote:

    You found one. It's extremely rare for a scientist to use Linux on
    their desktop.

    Scientists are like anyone, they use what they know, that's the only
    reason Linux lags in user base, people don't even try it.

    "Extremely rare"? As if DFS would have any idea.

    That dumb fsck lives in an up-is-down, lies-are-truth world.

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    and closed-source app developers." - DumFSck, lying shamelessly

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to Physfitfreak on Mon Jan 27 08:23:25 2025
    On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:59:41 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:


    I've seen and worked around more scientists using Unix and Solaris than
    the number of lice on "DFS"s ex-boyfriend (a Boko-Haram Mandingo).


    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Excellent! There is much truth in humor.

    That poor white trash never made it to science. The pinnacle
    of his, and his homo buddy Tyrone's, "intellectual" accomplishment
    was populating a drop down list in Access.



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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Lyin' Larry Pietraskiewicz on Tue Jan 28 22:37:14 2025
    On 1/27/2025 3:23 AM, Lyin' Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:

    On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:59:41 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:


    I've seen and worked around more scientists using Unix and Solaris than
    the number of lice on "DFS"s ex-boyfriend (a Boko-Haram Mandingo).


    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Excellent! There is much truth in humor.

    That poor white trash never made it to science. The pinnacle
    of his, and his homo buddy Tyrone's, "intellectual" accomplishment
    was populating a drop down list in Access.


    How come you never had an accomplishment? You've failed at pretty much everything you've done since college. No career in programming or
    science or tech or academia. No woman. No house. No money. No life
    of your own apart from Mom.

    And as we've seen on cola, you have way too many demons.

    You need an exorcism.

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to PhysFatFuck on Tue Jan 28 22:33:32 2025
    On 1/27/2025 4:22 PM, PhysFatFuck wrote:

    He's afraid to disclose his education level.


    I've disclosed it several times to cola.

    But no more spoonfeeding a hairy, brokedown trailer-chimp, so you'll
    have to find it yourself in the Usenet archives.

    Option 1: Google Groups. They quit archiving new posts last year, but
    the existing archive is there and searchable.

    Option 2: learn Python, the Python DB-API, the Python nntplib, a
    relational database like SQLite or MariaDB, SQL, and the NNTP protocol/commands. Download Usenet posts to a local database and query
    it. This is what I did.

    Option 3: setup your own leafnode server and figure out how to extract
    the information from there. vallor I believe did this.

    Option 4: remain useless like that other incel asshole Feeb.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIE@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 1 10:13:18 2025
    Le 26-01-2025, Farley Flud <[email protected]> a écrit :

    My arms would get exhausted having to change desktops using those
    awkward keyboard combinations. Hoooo!

    As you are only using your mouse, you wouldn't be impacted.

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