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We installed an electric shutter/door in a mate's shed. The four-core wire from the motor had to be extended with a five-core (that's all we had on hand). However, I forgot to mark on the other end which of the two black cores was the dead one. Also, we didn't remember whether black or brown was up or down. So my mate just hooked them up somehow. And we were very lucky. Correct on the first attempt. Even the labeled buttons weren't reversed. In return, we had all sorts of cable management issues in the switch boxes to get to this point.

Nice colors again this evening:

[![Past sunset](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2023-07-22/01-vorschau.jpg)](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2023-07-22/01.jpg)
[47°09′49″S, 126°43′24″W] Weather forecast alert -- storm from N
@movq Die, die danach fragen, haben doch keinen blassen Schimmer, was sie da eigentlich fordern. Ich kann mir beim besten Willen nicht vorstellen, dass die wirklich wissen, was da drinsteht. Das wird halt gemacht, weil es schon „immer“ so gemacht wurde oder von irgendeinem anderen Ahnungslosen weiter oben in der Hierarchie vorgeschrieben wird. Das ist halt eine Endlosschleife, die keiner durchbrechen will. Eine reine Gelddruckmaschine für die einen, die das Regelwerk vertreiben, Schulungen durchführen, Abnahmen machen usw. Eine gigantische Geldverbrennung für die, die am Ende dann das in ihrer täglichen Arbeit ausbaden müssen.

Wir haben Spaß mit ASPICE. Das bringt dann das V-Modell mit in die agile Entwicklung. Funktioniert bestimmt ganz großartig. In der konkreten Umsetzung bei uns sind dann irgendwelche Schrottprogramme verpflichtend vorgeschrieben, die nur auf Windows laufen. Wir kotzen alle im Strahl. Aktuell ziehen sich die Lizenzbeschaffungen aber noch hin.
@lyse Ohweh. 😂 Haben die in den 90ern keine Identifikationsskills beim Sichten der ganzen Bigfoot-Videos aufgebaut? 😅
@lyse Ohweh. 😂 Haben die in den 90ern keine Identifikationsskills beim Sichten der ganzen Bigfoot-Videos aufgebaut? 😅
@lyse Ohweh. 😂 Haben die in den 90ern keine Identifikationsskills beim Sichten der ganzen Bigfoot-Videos aufgebaut? 😅
It might have been “CyberRacer”:

https://tilde.zone/@movq/110758252780165524

(TIL: Mastodon has full threading, not just “reply to first post in thread and the rest is linear”. But UI/UX of that is super awkward … Why are modern web apps so, so bad at this?)
It might have been “CyberRacer”:

https://tilde.zone/@movq/110758252780165524

(TIL: Mastodon has full threading, not just “reply to first post in thread and the rest is linear”. But UI/UX of that is super awkward … Why are modern web apps so, so bad at this?)
It might have been “CyberRacer”:

https://tilde.zone/@movq/110758252780165524

(TIL: Mastodon has full threading, not just “reply to first post in thread and the rest is linear”. But UI/UX of that is super awkward … Why are modern web apps so, so bad at this?)
Thank you, @prologic and @movq!

Not sure if hats are prevalent these days again. I just wear a cowboy hat for very practical reasons. Couldn't care less about fashion. ;-) As a bonus, the hat looks nice, I think.

Yep, certainly don't want to trade temps with 'em.
@movq No other humans around is always great. And ducklings are super sweet. No idea when they hatch.
@movq Hihihi, ja! :-D

> "Das eine war ein Wildschwein und das andere war offensichtlich eine Raubkatze, eine Löwin. Die beiden Herren haben auch ein Handyvideo aufgenommen und auch erfahrene Polizisten mussten bestätigen, es handelt sich wahrscheinlich um eine Löwin", so Keip weiter. — https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2023/07/brandenburg-berlin-kleinmachnow-loewin-wildtier-entlaufen.html

Da stellt sich dann die Frage, auf welchen Bereich sich deren Erfahrung erstreckt. Grundlegende Zoologie ja schon mal nicht.
@prologic @abucci How nice! Text doesn't work for me, though. I usually have the problem, that websites steal my keyboard input that is meant for Tridactyl. This time, however, everything goes to my Firefox extension and doesn't reach the website. Hmm. Centuries ago, I used http://jave.de/ for ASCII art drawing.
I take it back. Excalidraw is like tldraw--you can integrate it into a Javascript front end if you want. Which means technically you could self-host it if you wanted, but you'd have to write your own front end code to embed it, and host that code somehow.
@prologic I see what you mean about tldraw. I looked at their github repository and it seems like they are distributing it as an npm package for people who want to include a whiteboard in their Javascript-based frontend. I didn't see a way to just launch the thing.

I have half a mind to write a little scala frontend that sets up one of these, since scalajs makes it very easy to use these Javascript web component things while making it look like you're writing scala.
@prologic I'm a big fan of https://excalidraw.com , especially the collaborative editing feature, but I don't think you can self-host it 👎
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I'm looking for an old game from the mid 1990ies, probably DOS. (Not sure if it really existed or if I dreamed it up.)

Outdoors, alien planet, SciFi setting. 3D, voxelized landscape. The terrain was very open, you could move around freely. There was water in some parts of the terrain. You were piloting some sort of hovercraft or helicopter. I think you were also able to jump very high/far. There were few enemies and the entire gameplay was somewhat obscure -- I cannot remember the actual goal anymore, probably just "kill all enemies".

I think "energy balls" played an important part. I think they looked somewhat like the blue balls in "Descent" (those added energy to your shields), but I don't know anymore what their purpose was -- were those the projectiles you were shooting?

*Maybe* you were able to destroy the terrain.

I cannot remember any kind of narrative or story.

I think it was a relatively unknown game, not a big hit. It was not Comanche, nor Earth Siege 2.
I'm looking for an old game from the mid 1990ies, probably DOS. (Not sure if it really existed or if I dreamed it up.)

Outdoors, alien planet, SciFi setting. 3D, voxelized landscape. The terrain was very open, you could move around freely. There was water in some parts of the terrain. You were piloting some sort of hovercraft or helicopter. I think you were also able to jump very high/far. There were few enemies and the entire gameplay was somewhat obscure -- I cannot remember the actual goal anymore, probably just "kill all enemies".

I think "energy balls" played an important part. I think they looked somewhat like the blue balls in "Descent" (those added energy to your shields), but I don't know anymore what their purpose was -- were those the projectiles you were shooting?

*Maybe* you were able to destroy the terrain.

I cannot remember any kind of narrative or story.

I think it was a relatively unknown game, not a big hit. It was not Comanche, nor Earth Siege 2.
I'm looking for an old game from the mid 1990ies, probably DOS. (Not sure if it really existed or if I dreamed it up.)

Outdoors, alien planet, SciFi setting. 3D, voxelized landscape. The terrain was very open, you could move around freely. There was water in some parts of the terrain. You were piloting some sort of hovercraft or helicopter. I think you were also able to jump very high/far. There were few enemies and the entire gameplay was somewhat obscure -- I cannot remember the actual goal anymore, probably just "kill all enemies".

I think "energy balls" played an important part. I think they looked somewhat like the blue balls in "Descent" (those added energy to your shields), but I don't know anymore what their purpose was -- were those the projectiles you were shooting?

*Maybe* you were able to destroy the terrain.

I cannot remember any kind of narrative or story.

I think it was a relatively unknown game, not a big hit. It was not Comanche, nor Earth Siege 2.
I do however kind of prefer tldraw.com however its rather painful to get running and has no decent way to get it running quickly/easily.
I do however kind of prefer tldraw.com however its rather painful to get running and has no decent way to get it running quickly/easily.
I do however kind of prefer tldraw.com however its rather painful to get running and has no decent way to get it running quickly/easily.
@abucci Yeah it is 😅 I was however re-looking for a decent self-hostable real-time/collaborate drawing app. I've settled on whitebophir (_often shortened to "wbo"_) for now and have spun up an instance over at wbo.mills.io
@abucci Yeah it is 😅 I was however re-looking for a decent self-hostable real-time/collaborate drawing app. I've settled on whitebophir (_often shortened to "wbo"_) for now and have spun up an instance over at wbo.mills.io
@abucci Yeah it is 😅 I was however re-looking for a decent self-hostable real-time/collaborate drawing app. I've settled on whitebophir (_often shortened to "wbo"_) for now and have spun up an instance over at wbo.mills.io
https://www.stremio.com/ media center
@prologic whoa that's so cool!
https://browse.feddit.de/
https://join-lemmy.org/instances lemmy is the new frontpage of the internet
ASCIIFlow This is kind of cool 😅


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ASCIIFlow This is kind of cool 😅


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ASCIIFlow This is kind of cool 😅


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And last but not least: Contests such as the underhanded C contest show that it is quite easy in sufficiently expressive formal systems) to create malicious outputs with high plausible deniability. Since training ML systems is even more expressive than that, the existence of such successful contests seems worrying
Porto #payphone Cabine telefónica vermelha degradada e cheia de autocolantes e tags
Porto #payphone Cabine telefónica vermelha degradada e cheia de autocolantes e tags
output format of AI systems doing alignment research (formal proof, set of heuristics, set of algorithms…)? AI systems will align their successor systems, repeatedly. Unless this process has 100% fidelity, errors in the alignment process will compound over time, similar to numerical instability. Similar to numerical analysis, could we make a useful statement about the “condition number” of this repeated alignment process?
output format of AI systems doing alignment research (formal proof, set of heuristics, set of algorithms…)? AI systems will align their successor systems, repeatedly. Unless this process has 100% fidelity, errors in the alignment process will compound over time, similar to numerical instability. Similar to numerical analysis, could we make a useful statement about the “condition number” of this repeated alignment process?
output format of AI systems doing alignment research (formal proof, set of heuristics, set of algorithms…)? AI systems will align their successor systems, repeatedly. Unless this process has 100% fidelity, errors in the alignment process will compound over time, similar to numerical instability. Similar to numerical analysis, could we make a useful statement about the “condition number” of this repeated alignment process?
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Archive of Our Own, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/22/ao3-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
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projects: felt release 0.2.2; logs/blog: zen app dev with the stackless stack
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„Löwe ist wohl ein Wildschwein“ ist auch eine gute Zusammenfassung der allgemeinen Sachlage.
„Löwe ist wohl ein Wildschwein“ ist auch eine gute Zusammenfassung der allgemeinen Sachlage.
„Löwe ist wohl ein Wildschwein“ ist auch eine gute Zusammenfassung der allgemeinen Sachlage.
@lyse Noch ein bisschen Stockholm-Syndrom: Die Kunden fragen ständig nach einer ISO27001-Zertifizierung, also hat es schon einen Nutzen™ das zu machen. :-)

Habt ihr schon einen Zeitplan, wann das bei euch losgeht? Und welche Zertifizierung wird’s? Ich bin schon ganz gespannt. 😅 #Selbsthilfegruppe
@lyse Noch ein bisschen Stockholm-Syndrom: Die Kunden fragen ständig nach einer ISO27001-Zertifizierung, also hat es schon einen Nutzen™ das zu machen. :-)

Habt ihr schon einen Zeitplan, wann das bei euch losgeht? Und welche Zertifizierung wird’s? Ich bin schon ganz gespannt. 😅 #Selbsthilfegruppe
@lyse Noch ein bisschen Stockholm-Syndrom: Die Kunden fragen ständig nach einer ISO27001-Zertifizierung, also hat es schon einen Nutzen™ das zu machen. :-)

Habt ihr schon einen Zeitplan, wann das bei euch losgeht? Und welche Zertifizierung wird’s? Ich bin schon ganz gespannt. 😅 #Selbsthilfegruppe
I was surprised to see a few very young ducklings. At this time of year? 🤔 I thought their breeding season was long over. I’ll have to watch more closely next year.
I was surprised to see a few very young ducklings. At this time of year? 🤔 I thought their breeding season was long over. I’ll have to watch more closely next year.
I was surprised to see a few very young ducklings. At this time of year? 🤔 I thought their breeding season was long over. I’ll have to watch more closely next year.
Went on a walk early in the morning. Super relaxing. No people around, just birds. 🐦🦆
Went on a walk early in the morning. Super relaxing. No people around, just birds. 🐦🦆
Went on a walk early in the morning. Super relaxing. No people around, just birds. 🐦🦆
@lyse Nice shots indeed. 😊 Yesterday as well! (Fedora hats are in vogue again, aren’t they? 🤔)

The temperatures are very comfortable at the moment, yes. At least where we live – southern Europe not so much, I guess. 🫤
@lyse Nice shots indeed. 😊 Yesterday as well! (Fedora hats are in vogue again, aren’t they? 🤔)

The temperatures are very comfortable at the moment, yes. At least where we live – southern Europe not so much, I guess. 🫤
@lyse Nice shots indeed. 😊 Yesterday as well! (Fedora hats are in vogue again, aren’t they? 🤔)

The temperatures are very comfortable at the moment, yes. At least where we live – southern Europe not so much, I guess. 🫤
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@stigatle Trying to figure this out... Writing up a wiki page on this. Having a bit of trouble though as I'm getting a 400 Bad Request for some reason and I'm not sure why 🤔 (yet)
@stigatle Trying to figure this out... Writing up a wiki page on this. Having a bit of trouble though as I'm getting a 400 Bad Request for some reason and I'm not sure why 🤔 (yet)
@stigatle Trying to figure this out... Writing up a wiki page on this. Having a bit of trouble though as I'm getting a 400 Bad Request for some reason and I'm not sure why 🤔 (yet)
@lyse Very beautiful shot 👌
@lyse Very beautiful shot 👌
@lyse Very beautiful shot 👌
@marado I 100% agree on the sick perverted goals of these large corporations, who let's be honest are really running/owning the world right now. But I'm not so convinced that adding Website to Browser integrity and attestation would "break the web" per se, the Web is built on open protocols. This would just further fracture the Web even more. Just like all this (_the fudd has died_) "blockchain" / "web3" crap 😅
@marado I 100% agree on the sick perverted goals of these large corporations, who let's be honest are really running/owning the world right now. But I'm not so convinced that adding Website to Browser integrity and attestation would "break the web" per se, the Web is built on open protocols. This would just further fracture the Web even more. Just like all this (_the fudd has died_) "blockchain" / "web3" crap 😅
@marado I 100% agree on the sick perverted goals of these large corporations, who let's be honest are really running/owning the world right now. But I'm not so convinced that adding Website to Browser integrity and attestation would "break the web" per se, the Web is built on open protocols. This would just further fracture the Web even more. Just like all this (_the fudd has died_) "blockchain" / "web3" crap 😅
@prologic "websites" that only work on "trusted browsers", the vilest sort of proposal one can do, breaking the web.
@marado wtf are we trying to attest?!
@marado wtf are we trying to attest?!
@marado wtf are we trying to attest?!
I mean "fucked" 🤣
I mean "fucked" 🤣
I mean "fucked" 🤣
@lyse scary but sadly turning out to be true 😆 we're all tucked eventually 🤦‍♂️
@lyse scary but sadly turning out to be true 😆 we're all tucked eventually 🤦‍♂️
@lyse scary but sadly turning out to be true 😆 we're all tucked eventually 🤦‍♂️
"Web Environment Integrity" is Google's fancy name for closing the web in a DRM scheme. The internet found out, started questioning in github issues ans pull requests... and now the repository is worth reading with a popcorn bucket on your lap.
On my blog: Toots 🐘 from 07/17 to 07/21 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/07/21/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
De férias no Algarve, encontro-me incontactável. Obrigado.
WTF was I just looking at?
Quickly paid a visit to the dairy farm this evening. When walking over the paddock I nearly fell into giant crevasses. It's all super dry here. We had the tiniest bit of rain today, but really not worth mentioning. Luckily, just 17°C at the moment, 24°C during the day. But temps are supposed to go up again.

Colorful sky

More wild colors in the sky.
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user/bmallred/data/2023-07-21-05-26-51.fit: 6.47 miles, 00:09:36 average pace, 01:02:10 duration

#running
user/bmallred/data/2023-07-21-05-26-51.fit: 6.47 miles, 00:09:36 average pace, 01:02:10 duration

#running
user/bmallred/data/2023-07-21-05-26-51.fit: 6.47 miles, 00:09:36 average pace, 01:02:10 duration

#running
Kauai County Running: 6.47 miles, 00:09:36 average pace, 01:02:10 duration
last run of the trip. made it to "pineapple dump" where Dole and others used a pier to dump the waste in to the ocean. stopped a few times to take in sights but overall an easy run although my stress levels were through the roof and would remain that way all day.
#running
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The future of "truth" on the Internet - YouTubeBahahahahaah 🤣 Call me unsurprised but it'll likely happen 🤦‍♂️
The future of "truth" on the Internet - YouTubeBahahahahaah 🤣 Call me unsurprised but it'll likely happen 🤦‍♂️
The future of "truth" on the Internet - YouTubeBahahahahaah 🤣 Call me unsurprised but it'll likely happen 🤦‍♂️
❤️ 🎶: My Loneliness Calls You by SURAN
❤️ 🎶: My Loneliness Calls You by SURAN
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❤️ 🎶: BOM BOM BOM by Punch