Paul Sutton

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CD Ripping

I recently tried to use a program called RipperX to rip a music cd and encode in to mp3 or ogg vorbis.

The use of this software failed, as it was unable to connect to the cddb information database URL provided, and was also unable to connect to another database, which I found.

I set about looking for an alternative in the Linuxmint Repositories and found a program called Asander.

Asander

This works really well, and actually connects correctly to the database and pulls in the track information. The default file format is ogg,vorbis (.ogg) which is fine, if you want .mp3, you need to install other software.

Meta and human rights abuses in Ethiopia

This was posted to the Fediverse today New 74-page Amnesty International report on Meta’s contributions to human rights abuses in Northern Ethiopia

Should make interesting reading, If I understand things, Meta have already been accused over human rights abuses in Myanmar.

For some reason we are going to trust our safety and privacy when it comes to AI to big tech, who clearly can't be trusted to police their own platforms properly.

#Meta,#AmnestyInternational,#HumanRights,#Abuses,#Ethiopia

Biochemistry of Enceladus

Observations of Elemental Composition of Enceladus Consistent with Generalized Models of Theoretical Ecosystems | bioRxiv

Paper on BiorXiv on the chemistry found on Enceladus. You can read this here

I found a link to this on the Fediverse and the original post can also be found here

This can also be discussed on Science Forums

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#Science,#Chemistry,#BioChemistry,#Space,#Moon,#Enceladus

Gaza War – Article

Joy on Israeli offensive: Bombings are funded using our tax dollars. We should ask some questions

This article on the ReidOut is excellent, well researched, well presented and makes a good few excellent point.

If you need to re-read the Bible Reference it is here

3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’” [1]
  1. 1 Samuel 15:3

LibreOffice Documentation 04/11/2023

November is Month of LibreOffice

Documentation update(s)

LibreOffice 7.6 guides (Published)

Writer 7.6 Impress 7.6 Draw 7.6

LibreOffice 7.5 guides (Published)

  • Draw 7.5
  • Getting Started 7.5
  • Writer 7.5
  • Calc 7.5
  • Math 7.5
  • Impress 7.5
  • Designing with LibreOffice

REFERENCES

1 LibreOffice 2 LibreOffice Bookshelf 2a LibreOffice Documentation * LibreOffice shortcut keys 3 Free Software Foundation 4 Free Software Foundation Europe 5 LibreOffice Conference 7. Udemy LibreOffice Training

TAGS

#LibreOffice,#Office,#Writer,#Calc,#Base,#Impress #Draw,#GettingStarted,#Documentation,#Libreoffice

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Code Club 4/11/2023 WriteUp

We had a busy code club today. Lots of fixing netbooks, installing operating systems, troubleshooting and of course some coding.

We also had attendees working on their own projects, including a Pokemon related projects.

I also assisted another attendee with an electronics project.

So we now have several netbooks, that are fully working and managed to transfer keyboards over so they also had full keyboards. Replaced a missing key on some other keyboards, which is quite a delicate takes that requires a good degree of patience.

What we need now is to find STEM ambassador help us make a multi boot usb stick so all the installers can be on a single usb stick which will free up the others. I know this can be done, just not sure how to do it, or how to fix things if it doesn't work.

Next Code Club

The next code club is on 18/11/2023 Next week 11th November is the STEM group meeting.

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#CodeClub,#Python,#HourOfCode,#Scratch,#Minecraft,#Themes, #Java,#Programmng

LibreOffice Documentation 01/11/2023

November is Month of LibreOffice

Documentation update(s)

LibreOffice 7.6 guides (Published)

Writer 7.6 Impress 7.6

LibreOffice 7.5 guides (Published)

  • Draw 7.5
  • Getting Started 7.5
  • Writer 7.5
  • Calc 7.5
  • Math 7.5
  • Impress 7.5
  • Designing with LibreOffice

REFERENCES

1 LibreOffice 2 LibreOffice Bookshelf 2a LibreOffice Documentation * LibreOffice shortcut keys 3 Free Software Foundation 4 Free Software Foundation Europe 5 LibreOffice Conference 7. Udemy LibreOffice Training

TAGS

#LibreOffice,#Office,#Writer,#Calc,#Base,#Impress #Draw,#GettingStarted,#Documentation,#Libreoffice

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The Beatles: Final song

Now And Then was released today, you can view the video here

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#Music,#Beatles,#Song.#Release,#PaulMcCartney,#JohnLennon, #RingoStarr,#GeorgeHarrison,#NowAndThen

NFL 2023 week 9

NFL week 9 fixtures can be found here

Links

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#Football,#NFL,#Week9

The Beatles : Now and Then

A collaboration between Peter Jackson, Paul and Ringo, and a bit of AI has resulted in a brand new song by the Beatles. Using an old demo tape that belonged to John Lennon.

Due for release today 2/11/2023

More details on the Beatles' website.