Eric Chaskes

IT Specialist, Salesforce dev. Interests: Linux, math, languages, data sci, machine learning, and AI. Views my own. Only here for the tech. RT≠endorsement

[Michael Pyrcz🌻 @GeostatsGuy]

Why did I become a professor? Why do I create so much accessible educational content? Why do I give everything away for free?

Because I’m #FirstGen — and my entire path began with a single, unexpected moment at a gas station in Canada. I was a high school kid with no direction when an engineering student struck up a conversation on a freezing evening. They reached out, traced the Carnot cycle PV diagram in the frost on my windshield, and explained engine efficiency right there in the cold.

That simple act — a stranger sharing knowledge freely — changed my life. It lit the spark that set me on the road to becoming an engineer, and eventually a professor.

Education transformed my world, and it’s been my north star ever since. You can read more of my story here: https://t.co/Hy0mKndutE

#WhatStartsHere #FirstGenWeek

[Devuan GNU/Linux @DevuanOrg]

Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Devuan Excalibur 6 as our newest stable release.
https://t.co/sWZBhxNyFh
Many thanks to our team of volunteers for their invaluable community work. Live long & prosper🖖!

[Carl Richell @carlrichell]

Fighting the good fight.

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

Enjoying my 2017 21" iBuntu. Perfect as my Salesforce dev computer for work.

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

@AkJn99 Just bought this last week

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

A fresh install of Fedora 41 KDE uses 2.8 GB of RAM on boot. I mean, that's a lot. I killed Discover and Akonadi services to bring it down under 2 GB, but those services are a big part of using KDE

[DHH @dhh]

If more developers ran Linux on their desktop, maybe they wouldn't be so petrified of running a server by themselves. We are unlearning the basics of the Internet at an alarming rate.

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

Trying Fedora Atomic Desktop for the first time...

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

Put Tumbleweed on my Thinkpad X230, which still has some life in it. Ready to refresh my long unused C/C++ skills, refresh python and javascript, learn rust, and be ready to contribute to @OpenELAorg

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

https://t.co/fBidcFWf1p

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

@scrumtuous War tech in the modern age moves fast. 6 years from invention of congreve to Fort McHenry. Similarly, first Wright Bro flight in 1903. About 10 years later, a mechanism to time machine gun fire to the propeller spin was invented

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

Help Us Honor Prof. Thomas Meixner's Legacy https://t.co/dEv9vgvRcT

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

https://t.co/K6DnRhlZGJ

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

Installing @debian 12 Bookworm. Excited to see 2 accessible versions of the installer:
1) high contrast/large text
2) with speech synthesis

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

Huh, since when is find in an MS Office VBA code editor case sensitive?

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

@tecmint 10

[Carl Richell @carlrichell]

Our all-AMD Pangolin laptop is arriving soon. The 144 Hz display is gorgeous and the keyboard feels great. I’ve been on 14” displays for a while. It’s nice to have extra real-estate on the 15.6”.

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

@frobnosticus That kind of hardware device driver is beyond my experienc, but yeah it's intriguing

[Eric Chaskes @EricChaskes]

@frobnosticus It's not a keyboard, but a special touchpad able to recognize certain areas as numbers. I tried it briefly in win and worked well, but it's one of those oem/msoft partnerships. Maybe linux people will reverse engineer it eventually