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Wise words
My sincere condolences. As you wrote, you can’t prepare for this and it will take a long time to process. IMO it’s best to let people help out if possible and focus on the rest of your family.
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Writing•For those of you that use version control, what do you use to edit your documents?
2·1 年前Interesting thoughts. Thanks for sharing them. I assumed that you would want to have file versioning out of the way and focus on the writing. What about keeping a sort of change log (diary, if you want) as part of the document itself, like an appendix? That way you could maybe separate raw document history from the creative process.
Git is a technical tool intended for versioning sharing, manipulating and comparing pieces of code. I’m not sure that you need all those aspects for literary work. I imagine that writing a poem is more linear in the sense that you won’t merge a poem branch back to the “main” version of the poem. At least not in the way you would do it with code. You will also probably not submit or accept patches to the poem. So maybe the commit messages are not necessarily the best place to keep “creative metadata” about the content.
Just some random thoughts. I guess that you’ll have to try and see what method fits your creative process best (the natural trend you mentioned). Good luck!
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Writing•For those of you that use version control, what do you use to edit your documents?
2·1 年前You could set up a script to automatically commit changes (if present) every X minutes. That way you would generate automatic document history without having to care the commit comments. Git is mighty versatile, but you don’t have to use all of its features.
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Technology•Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
4·1 年前Works (again?) for me.
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Gaming•Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore.
1·1 年前I used to love playing Netstorm and Darwinia.
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Free and Open Source Software•FOSS for people who download music: MusicBrainz Picard
5·1 年前Picard uses audio fingerprinting and the musicbrainz DB to match the items. If the items are in the DB, then it will find them. If they aren’t, then they can be added.
There are other similar tools (although they might not have graphical UIs) which also use additional metadata backends and allow complex manipulation of audio files. I personally use beets which can be configured to use Musicbrainz, Spotify, Deezer, Discogs and Bandcamp for metadata (it will also help with file manipulation, audio normalization, fetch cover art and many other things). It seems that there is a plugin called ‘ytimport’ which integrates with SoundCloud and YouTube. That might help with your specific question, though I did not test it.
Beware that the latest release of beets (2.5.x at the time of writing) is quite fresh and might break some plugins. I personally will stick with 2.4.x for a while.
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Music•[October 2025] Today is Bandcamp Friday. Did you buy anything?
1·1 年前- Tales from Beyond the Firmament from The Freak Folk of Mangrovia
- Temple of the Second Moon from The Freak Folk of Mangrovia
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Method to save your favorite Linux apps for reinstall
1·1 年前I’m not advocating for anything, but if I remember correctly, flatpaks are typically installed in user home directory. If that’s the case, then it’s just a matter of copying a directory and installing flatpak. I might be wrong though.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC
3·1 年前Calling people idiots is not helping them, it’s insulting them.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Gosuki: a privacy friendly, real time, multi-browser, extension-free bookmark manager
1·1 年前Does it detect browsers installed through flatpak?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash
1·1 年前Ok, my mistake. I didn’t express myself correctly. I wasn’t referring to the article but to the communication between developers.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•New Linux Kernel Drama: Torvalds Drops Bcachefs Support After Clash
10·1 年前I don’t see any drama. It’s just people working together, having different priorities yet still getting things done. Some friction is to be expected.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Daily driver work-from-home on Bazzite? Or something more mainstream (Debian?) and install Steam/proton?
1·1 年前Would it be possible to use a “thin” Windows VM as “client” for One Drive? Meaning that the client would be responsible for synchronization of mounted directories which are actually used on the host machine.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•An interview with Liberux about their made-in-EU OSHW Linux Phone
9·1 年前We’ll go with bare-metal Linux—no Halium, no libhybris. We want to stay as close to mainline as possible and actively contribute upstream.
We’ll develop everything openly. Our policy is to publish code, collaborate with the community, and be transparent. Free software, for us, is a matter of principle—not just legal compliance.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes
9·1 年前IIRC that’s not accurate. You only need that “pro feature” if you want to be able to
applyactivate kernel updates without rebooting. Unless you have that requirement and an armada of devices matching that profile you don’t need to pay anything.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Which program is the one that surprised you most that it is available on Linux?
1·1 年前You’re right. But I’d rather have limited Linux options than no option at all.
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World News•In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data
2·1 年前On the other side, if you don’t want to sell it, then gathering private data can theoretically be seen as theft, which in turn could protect your privacy. Generally, it would be nicer if ownership of such data would not be transferable.


It can also be run locally in a docker container.