Kids, never move into a tower building if you can avoid it.
I’m also super intrigued by that sampling pad. I might need something like that. 🤔
I haven’t done an “early morning photo tour” in a long time. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow. 🤔 😊
https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2020/12/msg00011.html
It’s from two years ago.
> And maybe I should use this here to speak English, and my blog to speak German?
Well, I enjoy some German around here every now and then. I’m biased, of course. 😁
Wenn’s nach mir ginge, wäre das längst weg. Aber die Diskussion gibt’s ja alle 5 bzw. 7 Monate (weil der Unsinn auch zu allem Überfluss noch *asymmetrisch* ist).
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2022-October/032149.html
Lucky @eaplmx! 😅
It’s funny, though, that regions near the US border will keep it. Doesn’t that just move the problem? What about the regions in Mexico near those border regions?
We, as a species, should stop messing with clocks like this. 🥴 (Yeah, yeah, I know.)
We’re at 20°C officially, my thermometer shows 25°C. 🤔 Either way, feels like summer.
Pretty wonky, of course. 🥴
That’s even in line with Mateusz wrote in the second thread:
> My subjective opinion is that any improvement over RFC 1436 is fine, as long as it answers a practical need without degrading the service for legacy implementations.
I guess I can’t understand the “subtext” of these messages well enough (since I’m not a native speaker, either). 🤔 Yes, when you explain it like that, I can begin to understand.
Oh, I missed the message that starts “RANT follows”. Only saw it just now. Hm.
Still, I suspect that “strong opinion” + “not a native speaker” is a bad combination. 😅 And on top of that, we’re all communicating just through text, you can’t hear that persons voice nor see their face.
https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2022/10/msg00001.html
Interesting – doesn’t feel hostile to me. (These people aren’t native english speakers, maybe that’s an important factor here?) Then again, I often read the OpenBSD mailing lists and those really are “something else” … 😅 🫤
Also, Hiltjo posted links to gopher://bitreich.org/0/usr/20h/phlog/2020-06-07T18-28-23-863932.md and gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/sacc. Apparently, the Gopher server geomyidae does have native TLS support now and there’s a couple of clients supporting it, too. I didn’t test it, though. If that works, it’d be quite a bit simpler than what Solène described in her post (the one mentioned by @mckinley – which, to be fair, predates 20h’s phlog entry from 2020).
So I don’t think that things are *that* bleak. 😊
(Is “Gopher + TLS” still “strictly Gopher”? Nah. But neither is using UTF-8 in Gopher pages and a loooooooot of people do that.)
By the way, you sparked a follow-up thread:
https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2022/10/msg00012.html
This is how the setup looks like:
https://movq.de/v/46ff94e58b/
It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 scope, which I originally bought for birdwatching. It’s not *that* great for watching stars or planets, but the sun is big enough, so it mostly works.
At the front, there’s a solar filter (“Baader ASSF 100”, they don’t make it anymore, though?). It blocks out a lot of light and I don’t think you could make these kinds of photos without a filter like that. You can also watch directly through that filter with just your eyes. :-)
At the other end, there’s a special connector, so I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The entire scope is now the camera lens. Super useful.
The tripod is not suited for this setup, though. It has a “pistol grip”: You squeeze it and then you can freely rotate the thing. Problem is, the scope and the camera are waaaaay too heavy. The tripod doesn’t move on its own, that’s not the issue – but when you unlock the grip, find your position, and then relock, then it doesn’t lock at that exact position, but moves a tiny bit further. Do you understand what I mean? 😅
The tripod isn’t that much of a problem when making photos of the sun, because the sun is huge and you can use the scope’s lowest zoom level (22x). But for planets, you have to use the highest zoom level (66x – which still isn’t great, btw, the scope works better at lower levels) and then the tripod becomes really annoying. Also, you can’t make *small* adjustments. It’s always: Unlock (which means you lose your position), find new position, relock.
The intervals are between something like 2 minutes and 10 minutes. It covers the entire 2 hours, yes. It would have been better if I had made one shot every 2 minutes all the time, but that wasn’t possible, because it was way too cloudy in the beginning. I didn’t even expect to see anything at all, really. 🥴 So, yeah, the texture you’re seeing is clouds.
(Fun fact: I wrote down that it starts at 9:00 local time. Yeah, nope, that’s also wrong, but the other way around. 🥴)
- Video, partial solar eclipse 2022
- Still frames
At any rate, it’s better than the video from 2015, isn’t it? 😅 (I hardly remember how I made those shots back then. I *think* took the photos through a floppy disk. 🤔)
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-90/#more
Chrome started doing this more than half a year before I did. 🤦 I rarely use this browser, so I didn’t notice …
foo.com, goes directly to https://foo.com, instead of going to http://foo.com and “hoping” for a redirect.I think today was the first time that this didn’t work. 🤔 A web server had misconfigured HTTPS, only HTTP worked.
$something to avoid legal consequences?
!. :D
(Your slenderman-like shots always make me chuckle. 😁)
Weather’s weird. We had 26°C today.
I guess that’s what I originally wanted to say. Then depression took over and derailed my train of thoughts into a nightmare. 😅
The thing is … we must use the “sucky part” of the web anyway, don’t we? At least I do. There is absolutely no way (anymore) for me to use a WebKit2GTK browser at work – I did that for a while, long ago. (We’re now forced to do 2FA with some USB key and WebKit doesn’t support that anyway …)
Even in my private life, I do want to use YouTube or even Netflix. I want to search something on DuckDuckGo (or whatever), open a link and it should open that page – instead, it works only ~50-70% of the time. Yes, those might be shitty web pages, but if they contain the information that I’m looking for, then I’d rather be able to visit them.
Every time a web page that I wanted to visit didn’t work, I opened Firefox. Over time, I noticed that I usually have two browsers running *at all times* – my WebKit2GTK one and Firefox. Firefox for all the web sites that didn’t work in WebKit.
Which web sites don’t work? Mostly those with a gazillion JS frameworks and twenty billion CSS effects. (Btw, “is really slow” is the same as “doesn’t work” for me.) It has nothing to do with ads. 😅 It’s just shitty shitty bloated web sites – and more web sites become like that every day.
With all that said, it *is* possible to use WebKit2GTK as a (main) daily driver. You should just expect a *very* bumpy ride and you need a lot of patience. 😅~
WebKit is an admirable project, but they simply cannot compete with the sheer man power of Firefox/Chromium. There are so many standards and new features all the time, the WebKit team can’t keep up with that. A funny/good/sad example is imgur.com: For a while, it’s completely unusable; then WebKit catches up and it works more or less (probably pretty slow, though); then imgur changes stuff, uses new browser features and, boom, your WebKit browser doesn’t work again; and this cycle repeats over and over.
All this makes me pretty sad (once more 😅). Here’s the thing: WebKit is *super easy* to use in a GTK program. It’s just another GTK widget. It’s totally possible for a single person to write a browser that he/she likes using WebKit2GTK as a rendering engine. If you could actually *use* the web with WebKit, we could see *a ton* of different browsers out there, all serving different needs and purposes.
(I tried building a browser around the Firefox engine or the Chromium engine, but this is muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch more involved than WebKit2GTK. I quickly gave up on that. Sure thing, Firefox/Chromium don’t *want* you to just use their rendering engine …)
People are often replying to feeds that I don’t follow. In mutt’s overview, this shows up as like this:
Ripped out of context. I can *guess* that this is a reply, because it’s so out of context, but it’s still weird. To make sure, I’ll have to open the twt:
Aha, now there it is, it’s a reply. Okay.
If the reply hash was removed from the body as well, I’d have to perform yet another step (toggle mutt’s
weed option to show the mail headers) in order to find out if that’s really a reply or not. That’s a bit too convoluted, imho.
@prologic I try to stay positive, yes, especially when new members join the team. But as you said, it’s hard. 🫤
@eaplmx Hmmmmmm. 🤔 I need to think about that.
It’s been like that for as long as I can remember … Why do we love misery so much?
It’s really turning me off lately, making me want to leave IT for good. 😒
https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-10-11
For reference, this is how it looks like on my end (after having zoomed out quite a lot):
That’s a lot of paper. Did you read through it, maybe find some cute gems?
I used a plugin like this for a long time in the past, but eventually gave up on it. I have to use too many websites that insist on implementing their own editor widget. Google Docs, Confluence, stuff like that. 😞
bind log:DNS format error from 38.87.162.177#53 resolving social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/A for 192.168.1.1#38972: empty question section
Trying a
dig +trace … ends with:couldn't get address for 'ns1.kyoko-project.wer.ee': failure
🤷
yarn
yarn social😅
https://github.com/tomast1337/black-metal-logo-generator
Since I’m not a fan of NodeJS, I tried reimplementing some of the ideas in C. (No Rust this time, sorry, I just wanted to get things done.) So here you go, the official twtxt black metal logo:
😂 😅
Regular bass guitar for size comparison. That thing is huge.
I still suck at playing it, naturally, but it’s a looot of fun. And the posture is much more comfortable than that of a guitar, where you have to twist your left hand like a maniac. 🥴
😅
… I’ve used that quite a lot, too. 😅 As for entering that stuff directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key is great