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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-12-13 at 13:54

[#]FOSS/#Unix problem solved: if I use a for loop to iterate over files instead of printing multiple files in one command, they all come out double-sided—this works:

even though 

results in all files after the first printing single-sided

🤷🏽

https://historians.social/@tkinias/113641834292673809

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-12-12 at 20:52

[#]FOSS friends: I’ve got a weird printing thing where, on Debian, when I batch print PDFs with lpr, only the first obeys my default two-sided printing setting and the rest of the PDFs get printed single-sided. This sucks, because I have dozens of student papers I need to print this time of year.

Ideas?

(It’s a HPLJ, driverless printing via CUPS)

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-30 at 21:44

No, dear students, “citizen” is not a synonym for “inhabitant.” #AmGrading

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-30 at 16:40

Referring to the Cromwellian Commonwealth as “the New Republic” #AmGrading

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-30 at 02:18

Experimental vegan cooking:

Tried cooking mix dal with coconut milk and Thai lime leaves. Base was onion, garlic, ginger & chiles w/hing & turmeric, then seasoned with flat cinnamon, cloves, green cardamom, black pepper, coriander & star anise (all ground together). Served with basmati rice, tortillas & fresh lime.

I’d call it a success! (my spouse liked it, which is, y’know, key)

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-29 at 01:36

Yes, it’s really more like 24% helium and 2% other, but the principle holds.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-29 at 01:36

“Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions.”

(from Katy’s Shit Cartoons on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/cartoons.katymontgomerie.com)

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-29 at 00:15

Who was I talking to about tea on here the other day?

I just encountered a plastic teabag in the wild! It’s a very posh herbal tea from a sampler set we received as a gift some time ago, that had been lurking in the back of the tea cupboard...

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-27 at 22:33

McSweeny’s: “Something about President-Elect Nyarlathotep’s Unholy Rebirth Feels Weird, Right?” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/something-about-president-elect-nyarlathoteps-unholy-rebirth-feels-weird-right

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-26 at 20:18

Any of my #histodons here know some good recent work on the U.S... ahem ‘involvement’ in Nicaragua in the 1980s?

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-26 at 14:46

I have to say, though, that I really dislike using the term ‘crackdown’ to describe xenophobic legislation and mob violence.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-26 at 14:45

Greg Rosalsky at NPR: “The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown” https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2024/11/26/g-s1-35805/chinese-expulsion-act-railroads-immigration-crackdown

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-24 at 16:38

NPR: “A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s” https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2024/11/22/g-s1-28093/photos-from-el-salvador-civil-war

CW: images of death

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-23 at 22:22

Next up: We open a University of Saxony in rural Bavaria.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-23 at 22:08

It kinda does my head in that Midwestern State University is, in fact, in Texas.

It’s even more confusing that the university is in a town called Wichita Falls.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-23 at 00:09

I don’t understand people, № 239847:

Somebody on my train is watching a video—with sound on!—of a screaming baby.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-22 at 19:47

what I meant to type: “you rock!”

what autocorrect turned it into: “you suck!”

wallahi, my phone is trying to end me

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-22 at 17:10

Apparently the university decided to close all the coffee locations on campus today.

This, to put it mildly, does not please me.

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-22 at 15:16

TIL that there is a band called “Sultan VI. Mehmed.”

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Written by Thanasis Kinias on 2024-11-21 at 20:37

You know what’s weird?

I have had an IP address stuck in my head for decades. I know it’s from the university where I was on the IT staff around the turn of the millenium, but I have no recollection now of what that address belonged to.

What IP address would I have been typing often enough that it still sticks in my brain all these years later?

My guess is it was something I used to ping for network tests, but that’s just a guess...

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