For years I've been using DejaVu fonts, but in the last years I had the feeling that this project had been abandoned. And indeed it has.

Does anyone know of good open-source alternatives?

I've heard of GNU Unifont, which seems still alive, but it isn't the kind of font one would use for, say, slides or websites.

Liberation and Kurinto were interesting (though not au par with DejaVu, in my opinion), but seem to have been abandoned as well.

I'm tired of Google and personally am not interested in fonts commissioned by them.

You can find it at /c/typography@lemmy.ca or !typography@lemmy.ca.

I was looking for such a kind of community to post a question, but a search in https://browse.feddit.de/ showed that no such community seems to exist as yet in the Fediverse. So why not creating one.

I'm often seeing links to posts on Mastodon and, when I click on them, they open in a Mastodon instance different from mine (I mean from the one where I have my account). This means that I cannot reply, boost, etc, that post.

The very roundaboundaboundabout way to solve this is to go to your instance and search/"explore" for that post.

Is there a smoother way to address this problem?

I found 1001 "beginner's guides for Mastodon" online and after reading 3 without finding any solution, I decided to ask here.

A similar problem existed with communities (and still exists with posts) in different Lemmy instances, but luckily tools like the Lemmy Instance Assistant solve this rather smoothly with a click.

PS: sorry if this sounds like a rant – it isn't. Just asking for info. I'm sure problems like this will eventually be solved in the Fediverse :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916492

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916423

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1916423

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it's undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.

I have read the FAQ of KDE Neon: it is well made and answers ground questions like "Is it a distro?" or "Can I turn Kubuntu into KDE Neon?"

...And yet I'm confused, because I'm just a newbie in the Linux world. For instance, when they say "on top of a stable base" I don't know what's meant as a "base".

I think I understand that it isn't a distro, but it fascinates me that it's meant to be installed from an ISO or similar, just like a distro.

I wonder if any of you can explain:

• What is it, in different words?
• Why is it "implemented" as it is?
• Are there any other "quasi-distros" like KDE Neon out there?
• Do you use it? how has your experience with it been?

Cheers!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1721793

The article introduces a dynamic cosmological constant in the current ΛCDM cosmological model to account for some data from the James Webb telescope. The new model would have the age of the universe at ~27 billion years.

This is interesting. Unfortunately some popular science magazines are already presenting it as a fact...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1721793

The article introduces a dynamic cosmological constant in the current ΛCDM cosmological model to account for some data from the James Webb telescope. The new model would have the age of the universe at ~27 billion years.

This is interesting. Unfortunately some popular science magazines are already presenting it as a fact...

!english@lemmy.ca A community to discuss and ask questions about English usage and grammar.

Surprisingly I haven't found a community like this in the Fediverse, except for !english_esl@lemmy.ml, which has a somewhat different purpose.

Additional links:

• lemmy.ca/c/english
• https://kbin.social/m/english@lemmy.ca

Well the title says it all.

As a second question: anyone knows of a benchmarking program for DNS services that doesn't need Wine?

This looks interesting...

The year is 2222. It has been years since Tears of the New Moon, a mysterious rain, poured and wiped out almost the entire human race. The poisonous rain gave birth to deformed creatures devouring humans, and humanity fled from the danger. As means for survival, the humans then build an underground haven; Amasia. In this newly built dystopian city, in a pursuit of maintaining their existence, they run into an Artificial Intelligence named Magus. Not knowing how things will work between them, the story of how Humans and AI coinciding and trying to find their truths begin.