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@lyse It’s probably better for them if they’re shy. 😅 But yeah, if they’re used to humans, they won’t run away so easily. At least the ducks won’t – the rails/moorhens do. 🤔
Ahh, I remember those Asperg shots. 😅👍
That whole area with the tunnels and basins is *probably* some sort of “retention basin” (Regenrückhaltebecken), with several levels to reduce the flow. There’s almost never a lot of water in there, though. Not sure if this structure just isn’t used anymore or if it’s too dry. There’s also this “pole”, it’s a bit hard to see, though:
https://movq.de/v/dd71ae14a5/a.jpg
Looks like they’re trying to measure the water height (Pegelstand)? The pole is super high and I doubt that any rainfall will ever reach the top of it. 🤔
@lyse I truly wonder how those shops can survive. 🤔 Even if they offer some more services like copy or printing – how many people do that? 🤔
@lyse I truly wonder how those shops can survive. 🤔 Even if they offer some more services like copy or printing – how many people do that? 🤔
@lyse I truly wonder how those shops can survive. 🤔 Even if they offer some more services like copy or printing – how many people do that? 🤔
There you go, multithreading. 🥳
I tested this in QEMU, which luckily supports throttling disk I/O, so I can make sure that scanning the disk actually takes a while.
https://movq.de/v/f714cfebff/pmdusage.mp4
(Still boggles my mind a bit. When OS/2 2.x came out, DOS was still the norm for us and I didn’t even know what multithreading was. I really didn’t appreciate this operating system enough back then – only now.)
There you go, multithreading. 🥳
I tested this in QEMU, which luckily supports throttling disk I/O, so I can make sure that scanning the disk actually takes a while.
https://movq.de/v/f714cfebff/pmdusage.mp4
(Still boggles my mind a bit. When OS/2 2.x came out, DOS was still the norm for us and I didn’t even know what multithreading was. I really didn’t appreciate this operating system enough back then – only now.)
There you go, multithreading. 🥳
I tested this in QEMU, which luckily supports throttling disk I/O, so I can make sure that scanning the disk actually takes a while.
https://movq.de/v/f714cfebff/pmdusage.mp4
(Still boggles my mind a bit. When OS/2 2.x came out, DOS was still the norm for us and I didn’t even know what multithreading was. I really didn’t appreciate this operating system enough back then – only now.)
@prologic 0.15 to 0.20 USD sounds about right, compared to small VPS’s like those: https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php
It’s an interesting offer/concept, btw. Lots of minimal software doesn’t require lots of “oomph” and I’d be fine if my VPS was smaller. 🤔
@prologic 0.15 to 0.20 USD sounds about right, compared to small VPS’s like those: https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php
It’s an interesting offer/concept, btw. Lots of minimal software doesn’t require lots of “oomph” and I’d be fine if my VPS was smaller. 🤔
@prologic 0.15 to 0.20 USD sounds about right, compared to small VPS’s like those: https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php
It’s an interesting offer/concept, btw. Lots of minimal software doesn’t require lots of “oomph” and I’d be fine if my VPS was smaller. 🤔
@lyse The ducks aren’t too scared of humans. Great story from the first days of Covid in 2020: There were so few humans out and about that the wildlife began to reclaim its place. Those ducks in particular waddled around near the shops – and one of them even went *into* the super market. 😃 Never seen that before or since.
That path leads to a highway, yeah. Or rather under a highway. 😅 The photo with the graffiti shows a short tunnel, the highway is on top of it. It’s usually annoyingly loud, so I don’t go there often.
Found some more older photos of the general area of the last shot: https://movq.de/v/885fb9c57b/
@lyse The ducks aren’t too scared of humans. Great story from the first days of Covid in 2020: There were so few humans out and about that the wildlife began to reclaim its place. Those ducks in particular waddled around near the shops – and one of them even went *into* the super market. 😃 Never seen that before or since.
That path leads to a highway, yeah. Or rather under a highway. 😅 The photo with the graffiti shows a short tunnel, the highway is on top of it. It’s usually annoyingly loud, so I don’t go there often.
Found some more older photos of the general area of the last shot: https://movq.de/v/885fb9c57b/
@lyse The ducks aren’t too scared of humans. Great story from the first days of Covid in 2020: There were so few humans out and about that the wildlife began to reclaim its place. Those ducks in particular waddled around near the shops – and one of them even went *into* the super market. 😃 Never seen that before or since.
That path leads to a highway, yeah. Or rather under a highway. 😅 The photo with the graffiti shows a short tunnel, the highway is on top of it. It’s usually annoyingly loud, so I don’t go there often.
Found some more older photos of the general area of the last shot: https://movq.de/v/885fb9c57b/
@lyse I’m surprised as well. It’s one of those big, clunky laser printers:
https://movq.de/v/8a3495c3c2/
But it’s not “industrial grade”, it was a normal consumer printer and cost about 370€. I changed the black toner once and nothing else. Admittedly, the color toners are “worn out” and don’t give great results anymore, but I can’t be bothered as I hardly print anything in color these days. It might be worth buying replacements *now*, though, before they go out of production. 🤔 It’s already impossible to buy original ones, but there are still 3rd party toners. (Wtf? Was this a super popular model?! 😂)
@lyse I’m surprised as well. It’s one of those big, clunky laser printers:
https://movq.de/v/8a3495c3c2/
But it’s not “industrial grade”, it was a normal consumer printer and cost about 370€. I changed the black toner once and nothing else. Admittedly, the color toners are “worn out” and don’t give great results anymore, but I can’t be bothered as I hardly print anything in color these days. It might be worth buying replacements *now*, though, before they go out of production. 🤔 It’s already impossible to buy original ones, but there are still 3rd party toners. (Wtf? Was this a super popular model?! 😂)
@lyse I’m surprised as well. It’s one of those big, clunky laser printers:
https://movq.de/v/8a3495c3c2/
But it’s not “industrial grade”, it was a normal consumer printer and cost about 370€. I changed the black toner once and nothing else. Admittedly, the color toners are “worn out” and don’t give great results anymore, but I can’t be bothered as I hardly print anything in color these days. It might be worth buying replacements *now*, though, before they go out of production. 🤔 It’s already impossible to buy original ones, but there are still 3rd party toners. (Wtf? Was this a super popular model?! 😂)
@prologic Oh, I see. God, how annoying – the place where you live abolished DST but the place where you work didn’t. 😂
@prologic Oh, I see. God, how annoying – the place where you live abolished DST but the place where you work didn’t. 😂
@prologic Oh, I see. God, how annoying – the place where you live abolished DST but the place where you work didn’t. 😂
@mckinley Ahh, right, nethogs, iftop, stuff like that. I forgot about those. 🥴 If I’m quick enough to open them, they’re pretty useful as well. (I’m just too slow most of the time and the thing hogging the net is already gone. 😅)
@mckinley Ahh, right, nethogs, iftop, stuff like that. I forgot about those. 🥴 If I’m quick enough to open them, they’re pretty useful as well. (I’m just too slow most of the time and the thing hogging the net is already gone. 😅)
@mckinley Ahh, right, nethogs, iftop, stuff like that. I forgot about those. 🥴 If I’m quick enough to open them, they’re pretty useful as well. (I’m just too slow most of the time and the thing hogging the net is already gone. 😅)
My printer will turn 18 years in a couple of months and will thus be allowed to drive a car.
My printer will turn 18 years in a couple of months and will thus be allowed to drive a car.
My printer will turn 18 years in a couple of months and will thus be allowed to drive a car.
@lyse Yeah, okay, it’s not as steep as stairs, but still quite the climb. 😅
Now I wish there was Google Street View of that area. 😅 I’d love to go around and explore that area a bit. Oh well.
@lyse Yeah, okay, it’s not as steep as stairs, but still quite the climb. 😅
Now I wish there was Google Street View of that area. 😅 I’d love to go around and explore that area a bit. Oh well.
@lyse Yeah, okay, it’s not as steep as stairs, but still quite the climb. 😅
Now I wish there was Google Street View of that area. 😅 I’d love to go around and explore that area a bit. Oh well.
The switch to daylight saving time has really screwed me up this year. I’ve been tired for two weeks now. 😩
The switch to daylight saving time has really screwed me up this year. I’ve been tired for two weeks now. 😩
The switch to daylight saving time has really screwed me up this year. I’ve been tired for two weeks now. 😩
QOTD: Hello Linux users, what do you use to monitor your network traffic?
As you can see in most of my screenshots, I have a widget at the top of my screen that shows the current bandwidth usage:
https://movq.de/v/303e1b1cad/a.jpg
But what does that tell me? What do I do when I see a sudden spike and I don’t know where it’s coming from? 🤔 I don’t have an answer for that. I’d like to have something like a summarized log of the recent network activity of all processes.
Something like tcpdump doesn’t help here, because the traffic is often already finished when I notice it.
QOTD: Hello Linux users, what do you use to monitor your network traffic?
As you can see in most of my screenshots, I have a widget at the top of my screen that shows the current bandwidth usage:
https://movq.de/v/303e1b1cad/a.jpg
But what does that tell me? What do I do when I see a sudden spike and I don’t know where it’s coming from? 🤔 I don’t have an answer for that. I’d like to have something like a summarized log of the recent network activity of all processes.
Something like tcpdump doesn’t help here, because the traffic is often already finished when I notice it.
QOTD: Hello Linux users, what do you use to monitor your network traffic?
As you can see in most of my screenshots, I have a widget at the top of my screen that shows the current bandwidth usage:
https://movq.de/v/303e1b1cad/a.jpg
But what does that tell me? What do I do when I see a sudden spike and I don’t know where it’s coming from? 🤔 I don’t have an answer for that. I’d like to have something like a summarized log of the recent network activity of all processes.
Something like tcpdump doesn’t help here, because the traffic is often already finished when I notice it.
@lyse The magic of dynamic linking (and C). 😅 It has pros and cons, smaller binary size surely is one of the advantages. Go’s huge binary sizes is something that I’ve never gotten used to. 🫤 (Rust *can* be a little better at it, but they’re still very large as well.)
@lyse The magic of dynamic linking (and C). 😅 It has pros and cons, smaller binary size surely is one of the advantages. Go’s huge binary sizes is something that I’ve never gotten used to. 🫤 (Rust *can* be a little better at it, but they’re still very large as well.)
@lyse The magic of dynamic linking (and C). 😅 It has pros and cons, smaller binary size surely is one of the advantages. Go’s huge binary sizes is something that I’ve never gotten used to. 🫤 (Rust *can* be a little better at it, but they’re still very large as well.)
@lyse War helicopters? Oof. 😳 Do you have an airbase nearby?
I only realized this now: Although I’m living quite high up in a tower building, your mountain/hill is probably higher, judging by the view that you get. That gives me a whole new appreciation for your hikes, taking the stairs to my appartment can be quite exhausting. 😅
@lyse War helicopters? Oof. 😳 Do you have an airbase nearby?
I only realized this now: Although I’m living quite high up in a tower building, your mountain/hill is probably higher, judging by the view that you get. That gives me a whole new appreciation for your hikes, taking the stairs to my appartment can be quite exhausting. 😅
@lyse War helicopters? Oof. 😳 Do you have an airbase nearby?
I only realized this now: Although I’m living quite high up in a tower building, your mountain/hill is probably higher, judging by the view that you get. That gives me a whole new appreciation for your hikes, taking the stairs to my appartment can be quite exhausting. 😅
And, of course, at some point the directory items should be clickable, so you can navigate the tree as usual. That’s much less interesting than delving into threading, though. 😅
And, of course, at some point the directory items should be clickable, so you can navigate the tree as usual. That’s much less interesting than delving into threading, though. 😅
And, of course, at some point the directory items should be clickable, so you can navigate the tree as usual. That’s much less interesting than delving into threading, though. 😅
After a bug in the Open Watcom OS/2 resource compiler has been fixed (imagine that – they still fix bugs related to OS/2! 🤯💚), I was able to make some more progress with the OS/2 GUI version of my little disk usage tool. It now has a menu bar and a dialog to open another directory:
https://movq.de/v/2ea508ef9a/MVI_7479.MOV.mp4
The video includes the ZMODEM transfer process of the 50 kB .EXE file from my laptop. It’s a bit lengthy, but I kept it in for nostalgia. 😅
Next up is probably multithreading: Do the disk scanning in a background thread so the UI doesn’t freeze. (This is running on a Compact Flash card, a real hard disk would be much slower.)
After a bug in the Open Watcom OS/2 resource compiler has been fixed (imagine that – they still fix bugs related to OS/2! 🤯💚), I was able to make some more progress with the OS/2 GUI version of my little disk usage tool. It now has a menu bar and a dialog to open another directory:
https://movq.de/v/2ea508ef9a/MVI_7479.MOV.mp4
The video includes the ZMODEM transfer process of the 50 kB .EXE file from my laptop. It’s a bit lengthy, but I kept it in for nostalgia. 😅
Next up is probably multithreading: Do the disk scanning in a background thread so the UI doesn’t freeze. (This is running on a Compact Flash card, a real hard disk would be much slower.)
After a bug in the Open Watcom OS/2 resource compiler has been fixed (imagine that – they still fix bugs related to OS/2! 🤯💚), I was able to make some more progress with the OS/2 GUI version of my little disk usage tool. It now has a menu bar and a dialog to open another directory:
https://movq.de/v/2ea508ef9a/MVI_7479.MOV.mp4
The video includes the ZMODEM transfer process of the 50 kB .EXE file from my laptop. It’s a bit lengthy, but I kept it in for nostalgia. 😅
Next up is probably multithreading: Do the disk scanning in a background thread so the UI doesn’t freeze. (This is running on a Compact Flash card, a real hard disk would be much slower.)
@lyse You could be a lazy ass like me and stay at home. 😂 Just kidding, of course. If it’s fun and enjoyable, go for it. 👌
Wow, they already figured it out in 1901. 🤯 I don’t *remember* having seen this in the last few decades. Goes to show how little we cared about the planet in the past. 🙄
@lyse You could be a lazy ass like me and stay at home. 😂 Just kidding, of course. If it’s fun and enjoyable, go for it. 👌
Wow, they already figured it out in 1901. 🤯 I don’t *remember* having seen this in the last few decades. Goes to show how little we cared about the planet in the past. 🙄
@lyse You could be a lazy ass like me and stay at home. 😂 Just kidding, of course. If it’s fun and enjoyable, go for it. 👌
Wow, they already figured it out in 1901. 🤯 I don’t *remember* having seen this in the last few decades. Goes to show how little we cared about the planet in the past. 🙄
Proof! Irrefutable proof! 😂
(This is silly without copy-and-paste. 🥴)
Proof! Irrefutable proof! 😂
(This is silly without copy-and-paste. 🥴)
Proof! Irrefutable proof! 😂
(This is silly without copy-and-paste. 🥴)
@lyse But you saw this
one, didn't you?
@lyse But you saw this
one, didn't you?
@lyse But you saw this
one, didn't you?
“Dexter” is back on Netflix in Germany. Yay!
“Dexter” is back on Netflix in Germany. Yay!
“Dexter” is back on Netflix in Germany. Yay!
Wrote a little wrapper script that lets me use T in DOSBox as a generic editor. Works with twtxt, too! 😆 Only downside is that I can’t use X11’s copy-and-paste. 🤣
Wrote a little wrapper script that lets me use T in DOSBox as a generic editor. Works with twtxt, too! 😆 Only downside is that I can’t use X11’s copy-and-paste. 🤣
Wrote a little wrapper script that lets me use T in DOSBox as a generic editor. Works with twtxt, too! 😆 Only downside is that I can’t use X11’s copy-and-paste. 🤣
@maradociberlandiapt I saw several mentions of this in the news, both international news and German/Austrian news. But if it’s actually true, I don’t know. 🥴
@maradociberlandiapt I saw several mentions of this in the news, both international news and German/Austrian news. But if it’s actually true, I don’t know. 🥴
@maradociberlandiapt I saw several mentions of this in the news, both international news and German/Austrian news. But if it’s actually true, I don’t know. 🥴
Fuuuuuck, it’s really warm already. 🥵 Do we have six seasons now? Winter, Spring, Summer 1, Inferno, Summer 2, Autumn?
Fuuuuuck, it’s really warm already. 🥵 Do we have six seasons now? Winter, Spring, Summer 1, Inferno, Summer 2, Autumn?
Fuuuuuck, it’s really warm already. 🥵 Do we have six seasons now? Winter, Spring, Summer 1, Inferno, Summer 2, Autumn?
Every time I visit elderly family members, I have to cancel half a dozen subscriptions to online services. It’s not even spam – it’s common, legit services and shops that just use a ton of dark patterns to trick people into signing up. 😡
Every time I visit elderly family members, I have to cancel half a dozen subscriptions to online services. It’s not even spam – it’s common, legit services and shops that just use a ton of dark patterns to trick people into signing up. 😡
Every time I visit elderly family members, I have to cancel half a dozen subscriptions to online services. It’s not even spam – it’s common, legit services and shops that just use a ton of dark patterns to trick people into signing up. 😡
A family member gave away some old USB sticks and memory cards that they no longer needed. They were “mildly devastated” when I told them and then proceeded to demonstrate that it’s often not that hard to recover data from such devices. “But I deleted all the files?!” Yes, but …
This can get ugly. And lots of people don’t know it.
It would be great if devices like digital cameras provided a function like “wipe storage completely”. Or, better, try harder at actually deleting files instead of doing things like just writing an 0xE5 on a FAT file system. Don’t shift the blame to the user.
I guess the situation is a bit better these days with Android encrypting everything by default and stuff like that … Hopefully.
A family member gave away some old USB sticks and memory cards that they no longer needed. They were “mildly devastated” when I told them and then proceeded to demonstrate that it’s often not that hard to recover data from such devices. “But I deleted all the files?!” Yes, but …
This can get ugly. And lots of people don’t know it.
It would be great if devices like digital cameras provided a function like “wipe storage completely”. Or, better, try harder at actually deleting files instead of doing things like just writing an 0xE5 on a FAT file system. Don’t shift the blame to the user.
I guess the situation is a bit better these days with Android encrypting everything by default and stuff like that … Hopefully.
A family member gave away some old USB sticks and memory cards that they no longer needed. They were “mildly devastated” when I told them and then proceeded to demonstrate that it’s often not that hard to recover data from such devices. “But I deleted all the files?!” Yes, but …
This can get ugly. And lots of people don’t know it.
It would be great if devices like digital cameras provided a function like “wipe storage completely”. Or, better, try harder at actually deleting files instead of doing things like just writing an 0xE5 on a FAT file system. Don’t shift the blame to the user.
I guess the situation is a bit better these days with Android encrypting everything by default and stuff like that … Hopefully.
@lyse Hahaaaaaaa, wonderful video! The sound of ice crackling under your feet is great, I love that. I always pay special attention to that when I walk in snow/ice. 😊 And towards the end of the video, I couldn’t help but notice how quiet your area is. Where I live, you can always hear a highway or a bigger road in the distance. Or planes, of course. 😵
I woke up to 20°C outside at 5:30 am. Gonna be a tough day.
@lyse Hahaaaaaaa, wonderful video! The sound of ice crackling under your feet is great, I love that. I always pay special attention to that when I walk in snow/ice. 😊 And towards the end of the video, I couldn’t help but notice how quiet your area is. Where I live, you can always hear a highway or a bigger road in the distance. Or planes, of course. 😵
I woke up to 20°C outside at 5:30 am. Gonna be a tough day.
@lyse Hahaaaaaaa, wonderful video! The sound of ice crackling under your feet is great, I love that. I always pay special attention to that when I walk in snow/ice. 😊 And towards the end of the video, I couldn’t help but notice how quiet your area is. Where I live, you can always hear a highway or a bigger road in the distance. Or planes, of course. 😵
I woke up to 20°C outside at 5:30 am. Gonna be a tough day.
@lyse Oh dear, that guy sure trusts his little tractor. 😳 Looks a bit scary, not gonna lie. 😅
We had 28°C today. Jesus fucking christ. 🥵 They say it’s just a short temporary heat wave and I sure do hope they’re right.
@lyse Oh dear, that guy sure trusts his little tractor. 😳 Looks a bit scary, not gonna lie. 😅
We had 28°C today. Jesus fucking christ. 🥵 They say it’s just a short temporary heat wave and I sure do hope they’re right.
@lyse Oh dear, that guy sure trusts his little tractor. 😳 Looks a bit scary, not gonna lie. 😅
We had 28°C today. Jesus fucking christ. 🥵 They say it’s just a short temporary heat wave and I sure do hope they’re right.
@lyse Ha! So there *are* paths you haven’t explored yet! 😅
16.jpg looks quite a bit … surreal. If it weren’t for some of the surroundings, I would have thought that digger was a toy, not a real full-sized one. 🥴
I see people are already putting up easter decoration. No, wait, it’s already over. Time flies …
@lyse Ha! So there *are* paths you haven’t explored yet! 😅
16.jpg looks quite a bit … surreal. If it weren’t for some of the surroundings, I would have thought that digger was a toy, not a real full-sized one. 🥴
I see people are already putting up easter decoration. No, wait, it’s already over. Time flies …
@lyse Ha! So there *are* paths you haven’t explored yet! 😅
16.jpg looks quite a bit … surreal. If it weren’t for some of the surroundings, I would have thought that digger was a toy, not a real full-sized one. 🥴
I see people are already putting up easter decoration. No, wait, it’s already over. Time flies …