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We are going to bed now. Good night. 🥱
Hehe, as you all might have noticed - I test OS'es often. NixOS was too much of a pain to work efficiently in (the way I wanted), so hopped over to Fedora now. Got all my stuff working there now, as well as the desktop client. I really like how portable the code is, and how easy it is to compile on different os'es. Installed fedora with LXQT, I really like that desktop, I do not like gnome at all - I really dislike the way gnome works. LXQT is just what I need.
Good find, @adi. Thank you!
At a pinch you can always switch to Debian, @movq. :-)
@movq Uuuhhh, that looks awesome! I like it a lot. <3
@lyse That’d be really mean. 😳 Let’s hope there’s another explanation …
@lyse That’d be really mean. 😳 Let’s hope there’s another explanation …
@lyse That’d be really mean. 😳 Let’s hope there’s another explanation …
@adi That looks promising, thanks for the tip. :)
@adi That looks promising, thanks for the tip. :)
@adi That looks promising, thanks for the tip. :)
@movq I fully agree with you. These are all big steps backwards. That contributes to why I hate using smartphones with a great passion. Unusable shit to me. To quote a mate: Auf den Scheiterhaufen mit diesen Möchtegerndesignerhampeln, die immer alles nur schlimmer machen. (Ok, that's enough negativity for tonight. ;-))
@movq Oh yeah, every operator should be hit by lightning and turn into dust the moment they reach for the starter handle!
On our last hike we sat on a public picknick table to eat our waffles with apple sauce. Not even two minutes in, a neighboring restaurant owner (has his own fenced-in outdoor seating) decided that it would be a good time to make some horrendous noise with his leaf blower. Practically nobody else was around. What a fuckwit. Happened the previous times, too. We then aborted our break after five minutes. I will never eat or drink anything at that place, that's for sure. I'm convinced that he does that to lots of folks who have their own food with them, hence do not stop in at him and there are no paying customers around in his garden.
(Regarding hidden scroll bars and not knowing whether an area can be scrolled or not, here’s a conversation I had recently with a younger non-tech person:
- Him: “Uhh, $older_person got stuck using Element (that Matrix client) on their phone again. Can you help?”
- Me: “Yeah, I can take a look. He probably just tapped every item on the screen and ended up in some weird sub menu.” (A little bit of “that’s not how you do things” in my voice.)
- Him: “Hm, isn’t that how you do it? How else would you know where to tap?”
Total bliss. That feeling of “oh, I know, that’s a button that I can click” is completely lost to newer generations of computer users. Modern UIs have so little indication of *what kind of elements* are shown on the screen and *what you can do with them* that users just … try every pixel. Tap here, swipe there, see what happens. Is this really a good way to do UIs? Am I just old and grumpy?)
(Regarding hidden scroll bars and not knowing whether an area can be scrolled or not, here’s a conversation I had recently with a younger non-tech person:
- Him: “Uhh, $older_person got stuck using Element (that Matrix client) on their phone again. Can you help?”
- Me: “Yeah, I can take a look. He probably just tapped every item on the screen and ended up in some weird sub menu.” (A little bit of “that’s not how you do things” in my voice.)
- Him: “Hm, isn’t that how you do it? How else would you know where to tap?”
Total bliss. That feeling of “oh, I know, that’s a button that I can click” is completely lost to newer generations of computer users. Modern UIs have so little indication of *what kind of elements* are shown on the screen and *what you can do with them* that users just … try every pixel. Tap here, swipe there, see what happens. Is this really a good way to do UIs? Am I just old and grumpy?)
(Regarding hidden scroll bars and not knowing whether an area can be scrolled or not, here’s a conversation I had recently with a younger non-tech person:
- Him: “Uhh, $older_person got stuck using Element (that Matrix client) on their phone again. Can you help?”
- Me: “Yeah, I can take a look. He probably just tapped every item on the screen and ended up in some weird sub menu.” (A little bit of “that’s not how you do things” in my voice.)
- Him: “Hm, isn’t that how you do it? How else would you know where to tap?”
Total bliss. That feeling of “oh, I know, that’s a button that I can click” is completely lost to newer generations of computer users. Modern UIs have so little indication of *what kind of elements* are shown on the screen and *what you can do with them* that users just … try every pixel. Tap here, swipe there, see what happens. Is this really a good way to do UIs? Am I just old and grumpy?)
@movq I think you cannot with the browsers I know of. Not sure if this is still possible, but I think in the past the validator could be run locally, too. My memories might fail me, but I reckon some early versions of Firefox had a checker built in. Or was it a plugin? Maybe in Firebug? It's been too long.
@lyse I wish it would just respect the global GTK setting for that … 🙄
@lyse I wish it would just respect the global GTK setting for that … 🙄
@lyse I wish it would just respect the global GTK setting for that … 🙄
Just another 2.5 years and I’ve been using my own X11 window manager for a decade. 🥁 Let’s see if X.Org lasts that long.
Just another 2.5 years and I’ve been using my own X11 window manager for a decade. 🥁 Let’s see if X.Org lasts that long.
Just another 2.5 years and I’ve been using my own X11 window manager for a decade. 🥁 Let’s see if X.Org lasts that long.
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It really pisses me off that Firefox hides the scrollbar and only shows it when I actually scroll. What the bloody fuck is that bullshit!? It can be fixed in about:config by changing layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible to true as I found out by experimenting.
@mckinley I have not, but I definitely will. I just started with issue 0 and although it was a good read, I don't think that PDF is an excellent choice. It's a very complex format (maybe not PDF/A, I don't know). I'd stick to (a subset of good) HTML as any editor will do and I'm a fan of small files. But other than that, I agree.
@off_grid_living That sounds like an awful user experience. You basically describe captchas here. If somebody wants to absue your stuff, they just do it anyways.
> I was originally going to switch to HTML 4.01. I ended up choosing XHTML because it isn't forgiving like regular HTML; tiny errors in markup will make browsers refuse to display anything. This will help me have a more correct website according to the specifications.
I really miss this property with regular HTML. This might be a stupid question, but how do I find out if my HTML is valid? I mean, other than running it through W3C’s tool. My browser surely doesn’t tell me …
> I was originally going to switch to HTML 4.01. I ended up choosing XHTML because it isn't forgiving like regular HTML; tiny errors in markup will make browsers refuse to display anything. This will help me have a more correct website according to the specifications.
I really miss this property with regular HTML. This might be a stupid question, but how do I find out if my HTML is valid? I mean, other than running it through W3C’s tool. My browser surely doesn’t tell me …
> I was originally going to switch to HTML 4.01. I ended up choosing XHTML because it isn't forgiving like regular HTML; tiny errors in markup will make browsers refuse to display anything. This will help me have a more correct website according to the specifications.
I really miss this property with regular HTML. This might be a stupid question, but how do I find out if my HTML is valid? I mean, other than running it through W3C’s tool. My browser surely doesn’t tell me …
@lyse Let’s not forget the leaf blowers. 🥴 Very popular around here.
@lyse Let’s not forget the leaf blowers. 🥴 Very popular around here.
@lyse Let’s not forget the leaf blowers. 🥴 Very popular around here.
@abucci It is. The general area where I live is not plagued by crows, it’s plaged by airplanes. The sound you’re hearing happens roughly every 2 minutes, 5am thru 11pm, when the wind is right (it often is in summer). They tried to extend this to 24/7 around 15 years ago, but failed, luckily.
Okay, I get it. The crows can be annoying (especially if you don’t like birds – I happen to love them, so I’m biased). They *are* noisy. But really … compared to all those jets, they’re irrelevant … I guess people simply think they have a better chance at fighting the birds than the planes. :/
@abucci It is. The general area where I live is not plagued by crows, it’s plaged by airplanes. The sound you’re hearing happens roughly every 2 minutes, 5am thru 11pm, when the wind is right (it often is in summer). They tried to extend this to 24/7 around 15 years ago, but failed, luckily.
Okay, I get it. The crows can be annoying (especially if you don’t like birds – I happen to love them, so I’m biased). They *are* noisy. But really … compared to all those jets, they’re irrelevant … I guess people simply think they have a better chance at fighting the birds than the planes. :/
@abucci It is. The general area where I live is not plagued by crows, it’s plaged by airplanes. The sound you’re hearing happens roughly every 2 minutes, 5am thru 11pm, when the wind is right (it often is in summer). They tried to extend this to 24/7 around 15 years ago, but failed, luckily.
Okay, I get it. The crows can be annoying (especially if you don’t like birds – I happen to love them, so I’m biased). They *are* noisy. But really … compared to all those jets, they’re irrelevant … I guess people simply think they have a better chance at fighting the birds than the planes. :/
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@mckinley Regarding your move to XHTML 1.1:
> […] I can regenerate the entire page with an XSLT stylesheet. It will be like a static site generator, but worse.
Hahaha, exactly what I was thinking. :-D
Looking at the changes between HTML 3.2 and 4.0, apart from the XML properties, you could even have used HTML 3 instead of 4. Maybe even 2. I could not be bothered to look up what 3 added, though.
I chose HTML 5 for my stuff just because I can remember the doctype and meta tag to specify the encoding. The charset is of course also included in the HTTP headers, I just keep it in the HTML so that I easily cover the extremely rare use case of saving something to disk.
@movq 25°C, shutters for the win.
❤️ 🎶: We Should've Been Friends by HYNN
❤️ 🎶: We Should've Been Friends by HYNN
@movq @abucci That's ridiculous. Sure these people must have a hard time being out in nature. I lately heard several people complain about the allegedly crazy noise of pidgeons. To which I replied that's nothing compared to crows. Birds can be loud, but any motorcycle or tractor makes a hell more racket than them. Not to speak of playing children screaming like there's no tomorrow. It's absurd. I'm lucky, the next commercial airport is a bit away, so only the smaller, way lower flying private propeller planes terrorize us.
We had a really nice day today, dog woke up early (as he always does during the weekend), and I went for a walk in the forest while the rest of the house got to sleep some extra. When I got back we went to a fleamarket, and then we went to a farmersmarket in town, was really nice, and tons of things to see :) And a bit later today we'll have nachos, and I spend some time on my computer. Currently coding a bit.
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I wrote here a few days ago about kokori's "rootkit" (now also available on CD) but it all started on this day 13 years ago, with the release of our "init()" EP, seen in this picture:
@movq Is that a jet flying over? People's priorities are fucked up.
❤️ 🎶: Just Like a Dream by BEN
❤️ 🎶: Just Like a Dream by BEN
❤️ 🎶: 시간이 지나면 by Baek Ji Young
❤️ 🎶: 시간이 지나면 by Baek Ji Young
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Estudiando ingles como un bellaco
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And later on in the document on How vDSL works in Australia:
> Prior to the deployment of VDSL2 technology for
FTTN, FTTB, and FTTC, the main DSL technology
employed in Australia was ADSL / ADSL2+ which
used signals up to 2 Megahertz (MHz). To achieve
much higher speeds than ADSL, VDSL2 expands
the DSL signal spectrum to up 17 MHz, which
happens to overlap with many Australian amateur
radio signal bands.
And later on in the document on How vDSL works in Australia:
> Prior to the deployment of VDSL2 technology for
FTTN, FTTB, and FTTC, the main DSL technology
employed in Australia was ADSL / ADSL2+ which
used signals up to 2 Megahertz (MHz). To achieve
much higher speeds than ADSL, VDSL2 expands
the DSL signal spectrum to up 17 MHz, which
happens to overlap with many Australian amateur
radio signal bands.
And later on in the document on How vDSL works in Australia:
> Prior to the deployment of VDSL2 technology for
FTTN, FTTB, and FTTC, the main DSL technology
employed in Australia was ADSL / ADSL2+ which
used signals up to 2 Megahertz (MHz). To achieve
much higher speeds than ADSL, VDSL2 expands
the DSL signal spectrum to up 17 MHz, which
happens to overlap with many Australian amateur
radio signal bands.
Interestingly if you dig around, you come across this article:
Mitigating Amateur Radio Interference
to VDSL2 published by NBN Co, which basically states:
> Some of the frequencies used by amateur radio
operators coincide with frequencies used by
VDSL2 technology, used by nbn to deliver nbn™
Fibre to the Node (FTTN) services.
Interestingly if you dig around, you come across this article:
Mitigating Amateur Radio Interference
to VDSL2 published by NBN Co, which basically states:
> Some of the frequencies used by amateur radio
operators coincide with frequencies used by
VDSL2 technology, used by nbn to deliver nbn™
Fibre to the Node (FTTN) services.
Interestingly if you dig around, you come across this article:
Mitigating Amateur Radio Interference
to VDSL2 published by NBN Co, which basically states:
> Some of the frequencies used by amateur radio
operators coincide with frequencies used by
VDSL2 technology, used by nbn to deliver nbn™
Fibre to the Node (FTTN) services.
Meanwhile have asked my ISP to switch me back over to what NBN call a "Stability Profile" where the DSLAM uses DLM (Dynamic Line Management) to manage the channels and noise and tries its best to keep the signal up. So far this has resulted in a ~10-20Mbps drop in bandwidth (down from ~90Mbps) but so far 🤞 an increase in stability and decrease in latency (less noise? better channels?)
Meanwhile have asked my ISP to switch me back over to what NBN call a "Stability Profile" where the DSLAM uses DLM (Dynamic Line Management) to manage the channels and noise and tries its best to keep the signal up. So far this has resulted in a ~10-20Mbps drop in bandwidth (down from ~90Mbps) but so far 🤞 an increase in stability and decrease in latency (less noise? better channels?)
Meanwhile have asked my ISP to switch me back over to what NBN call a "Stability Profile" where the DSLAM uses DLM (Dynamic Line Management) to manage the channels and noise and tries its best to keep the signal up. So far this has resulted in a ~10-20Mbps drop in bandwidth (down from ~90Mbps) but so far 🤞 an increase in stability and decrease in latency (less noise? better channels?)
This has resulted in an availability of 99.8% for the Mills DC 😢 Not happy 🤬
This has resulted in an availability of 99.8% for the Mills DC 😢 Not happy 🤬
This has resulted in an availability of 99.8% for the Mills DC 😢 Not happy 🤬
Incurred ~16 dropouts over the last 48hrs with ~5m outage per dropout. So I finally cracked the shits and run up my ISP to figure wtf was going on. 🤔 Turns out after a quality test on the line it was showing ~5-6DB average SNR 😱 So filed a fault with the infrastructure provider (NBN Co) whose own equipment picked up the 16 dropouts and also found noise 1/2 way up the 450m Copper cable 😅~
Incurred ~16 dropouts over the last 48hrs with ~5m outage per dropout. So I finally cracked the shits and run up my ISP to figure wtf was going on. 🤔 Turns out after a quality test on the line it was showing ~5-6DB average SNR 😱 So filed a fault with the infrastructure provider (NBN Co) whose own equipment picked up the 16 dropouts and also found noise 1/2 way up the 450m Copper cable 😅~
Incurred ~16 dropouts over the last 48hrs with ~5m outage per dropout. So I finally cracked the shits and run up my ISP to figure wtf was going on. 🤔 Turns out after a quality test on the line it was showing ~5-6DB average SNR 😱 So filed a fault with the infrastructure provider (NBN Co) whose own equipment picked up the 16 dropouts and also found noise 1/2 way up the 450m Copper cable 😅~
With a drop to 99.8% availability for my vDSL line and the Mills DC I've finally cracked the shits and rung up my ISP. Turns out the SNR/Noise Margin was a pitiful ~5-6dB on average for 450m of Copper line 😱 Filed a vault with the infrastructure provider (NBN Co) where their own diagnostics show noise 1/2 way up the line 🤦♂️~
Incurred ~16 dropouts over the last 48hrs with ~5m outage per drop-out. You do the match 😅
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Já anda por aí, enquadrado no festival literário "Lamego, Cidade Poema". É o livro "Era Uma Vez - Lamego 2023", e tem o seu lançamento oficial no último momento do festival, domingo às 16h.
Participo nele com um texto de não-ficção para o leitor curioso geek: não haverão muitos, mas dá-me prazer saber que a história geek Lamecense vai estar nas prateleiras de uma qualquer biblioteca.
Lamego 2023
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