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lyse
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We finally got a caliper donated for this year's scout flea market. We didn't sell it, but kept it ourselves. It will come in very handy every now and then in our material store. For example, I missed having a caliper in the past when sorting our random assortment of screws or measuring the depth of a hole. It's a wee bit banged up (probably happened during transport) and didn't come with a box, but the latter is now solved.

The lid and bottom came from a wardrobe back panel I got from a mate, the sides were rocket sticks in their former lives. I found some scrap of felt in our material store and some hinges laying around in the drawers of my own workshop.

Unfortunately, the table saw teared up the plywood veneer fibres badly, even though I put tape around to prevent that. This is the first time it didn't work. At. All. To cover that up, I painted the box with some decades old tinting paint (price tag says Deutsche Mark, not Euro!) from my paint cabinet. It's awesome, works absolutely perfectly and doesn't smell the slightest bit. I reckon, this caliper box is plenty good enough for occasional use at our scout material store.

Caliper box
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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I was drafting support for showing “application icons” in my window manager, i.e. the Firefox icon in the titlebar:

https://movq.de/v/0034cc1384/s.png

Then I realized: Wait a minute, lots of applications don’t set an icon? And lots of other window managers don’t show these icons, either? Openbox, pekwm, Xfce, fvwm, no icons.

Looks like macOS doesn’t show them, either?!

Has this grown out of fashion? Is this purely a Windows / OS/2 thing?
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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I was drafting support for showing “application icons” in my window manager, i.e. the Firefox icon in the titlebar:

https://movq.de/v/0034cc1384/s.png

Then I realized: Wait a minute, lots of applications don’t set an icon? And lots of other window managers don’t show these icons, either? Openbox, pekwm, Xfce, fvwm, no icons.

Looks like macOS doesn’t show them, either?!

Has this grown out of fashion? Is this purely a Windows / OS/2 thing?
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′45″S, 126°43′19″W] Transponder still failing -- switching to analog communication
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse @kat I spent so much time in the past figuring out if something is a dict or a list in YAML, for example.

What are the types in this example?

items:
- part_no: A4786
descrip: Water Bucket (Filled)
price: 1.47
quantity: 4
- part_no: E1628
descrip: High Heeled "Ruby" Slippers
size: 8
price: 133.7
quantity: 1

items is a dict containing … a list of two other dicts? Right?

It is quite hard for me to grasp the *structure* of YAML docs. 😢

The big advantage of YAML (and JSON and TOML) is that it’s much easier to write code for those formats, than it is with XML. json.loads() and you’re done.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse @kat I spent so much time in the past figuring out if something is a dict or a list in YAML, for example.

What are the types in this example?

items:
- part_no: A4786
descrip: Water Bucket (Filled)
price: 1.47
quantity: 4
- part_no: E1628
descrip: High Heeled "Ruby" Slippers
size: 8
price: 133.7
quantity: 1

items is a dict containing … a list of two other dicts? Right?

It is quite hard for me to grasp the *structure* of YAML docs. 😢

The big advantage of YAML (and JSON and TOML) is that it’s much easier to write code for those formats, than it is with XML. json.loads() and you’re done.
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse YAYYYY <3
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse YAYYYY <3
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse I might need that script as well. 🙈🙏
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse I might need that script as well. 🙈🙏
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Only figured this out yesterday:

pinentry, which is used to safely enter a password on Linux, has several frontends. There’s a GTK one, a Qt one, even an ncurses one, and so on.

GnuPG also uses pinentry. And you can configure your frontend of choice here in gpg-agent.conf.

But what happens when you *don’t* configure it? What’s the default?

Turns out, pinentry is a shellscript wrapper and it’s not even that long. Here it is in full:

#!/bin/bash

# Run user-defined and site-defined pre-exec hooks.
[[ -r "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}"/pinentry/preexec ]] && \
. "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}"/pinentry/preexec
[[ -r /etc/pinentry/preexec ]] && . /etc/pinentry/preexec

# Guess preferred backend based on environment.
backends=(curses tty)
if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" || -n "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" ]]; then
case "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" in
KDE|LXQT|LXQt)
backends=(qt qt5 gnome3 gtk curses tty)
;;
*)
backends=(gnome3 gtk qt qt5 curses tty)
;;
esac
fi

for backend in "${backends[@]}"
do
lddout=$(ldd "/usr/bin/pinentry-$backend" 2>/dev/null) || continue
[[ "$lddout" == *'not found'* ]] && continue
exec "/usr/bin/pinentry-$backend" "$@"
done

exit 1

Preexec, okay, then some auto-detection to use a toolkit matching your desktop environment …

… and *then* it invokes ldd? To find out if all the required libraries are installed for the auto-detected frontend?

Oof. I was sitting here wondering why it would use pinentry-gtk on one machine and pinentry-gnome3 on another, when both machines had the exact same configs. Yeah, but different libraries were installed. One machine was missing gcr, which is needed for pinentry-gnome3, so that machine (and that one alone) spawned pinentry-gtk …
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Only figured this out yesterday:

pinentry, which is used to safely enter a password on Linux, has several frontends. There’s a GTK one, a Qt one, even an ncurses one, and so on.

GnuPG also uses pinentry. And you can configure your frontend of choice here in gpg-agent.conf.

But what happens when you *don’t* configure it? What’s the default?

Turns out, pinentry is a shellscript wrapper and it’s not even that long. Here it is in full:

#!/bin/bash

# Run user-defined and site-defined pre-exec hooks.
[[ -r "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}"/pinentry/preexec ]] && \
. "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}"/pinentry/preexec
[[ -r /etc/pinentry/preexec ]] && . /etc/pinentry/preexec

# Guess preferred backend based on environment.
backends=(curses tty)
if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" || -n "$WAYLAND_DISPLAY" ]]; then
case "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" in
KDE|LXQT|LXQt)
backends=(qt qt5 gnome3 gtk curses tty)
;;
*)
backends=(gnome3 gtk qt qt5 curses tty)
;;
esac
fi

for backend in "${backends[@]}"
do
lddout=$(ldd "/usr/bin/pinentry-$backend" 2>/dev/null) || continue
[[ "$lddout" == *'not found'* ]] && continue
exec "/usr/bin/pinentry-$backend" "$@"
done

exit 1

Preexec, okay, then some auto-detection to use a toolkit matching your desktop environment …

… and *then* it invokes ldd? To find out if all the required libraries are installed for the auto-detected frontend?

Oof. I was sitting here wondering why it would use pinentry-gtk on one machine and pinentry-gnome3 on another, when both machines had the exact same configs. Yeah, but different libraries were installed. One machine was missing gcr, which is needed for pinentry-gnome3, so that machine (and that one alone) spawned pinentry-gtk …
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse The cynic in me says: “It’s not bleeding edge, it’s from 2008!” That’s not fair, though, looks like the issue only arose in libinput in 2019. And maybe these weird mice are super rare. Dunno.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse The cynic in me says: “It’s not bleeding edge, it’s from 2008!” That’s not fair, though, looks like the issue only arose in libinput in 2019. And maybe these weird mice are super rare. Dunno.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse The underlines are a bit much, yes. It appears to be related to my font (Helvetica) … Maybe they do some Unicode trickery these days, I don’t know. 🫤
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse The underlines are a bit much, yes. It appears to be related to my font (Helvetica) … Maybe they do some Unicode trickery these days, I don’t know. 🫤
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′14″S, 126°43′28″W] Transponder malfunction
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′19″S, 126°43′27″W] Reading: 1.34 Sv
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′13″S, 126°43′30″W] Raw reading: 0x68806C51, offset +/-1
dev1ls
texto-plano.xyz
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yggdrasil Network <3 http://[200:6823:aabc:7629:cd2d:e9d7:cf7f:c6f8] #ygg #httpd #ergo #ipv6
dm-echo
dm-echo.andros.dev
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@andros U2FsdGVkX1/IvWjriWZG42dQhwoouGubCVIGytDynx3GTo5H8WJH3LkzaR80PGAZHiy3OtRJaTWluQ56NE+6jQ==
stats
yarn.meff.me
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GopherChat
magical.fish:70
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Desktop SSH->Pinephone->here. This is crazy. Sxmo is the best UI for the Pinephone, and maybe phones in general. Insane: basically dwm on a phone with gestures and built-in yt-dlp + mpv (among others).
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′12″S, 126°43′15″W] --bad checksum--
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq I fully agree with you on https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/POSTING-en.html!

Although, in the first screenshot, the window title background is much darker in the new version than the old one@1@1 :-P Kidding aside, the contrast in the old one is still better.

Also, note the missing underlines for the Alt hotkeys now. I just think that the underline in the old one is too thick.
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq LOL! No, I mean Wayland.
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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Of course, @kat! But I'll first write some instructions (hopefully this week) and then let you know. :-) Should be much easier then.
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse What’s bleeding edge? The mouse? Yeah, maybe. 😅 I didn’t buy that on purpose and didn’t even know hi-res mouse wheels were a thing …
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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@lyse What’s bleeding edge? The mouse? Yeah, maybe. 😅 I didn’t buy that on purpose and didn’t even know hi-res mouse wheels were a thing …
lahvak
lahvak.github.io
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/21/ckjv-j21.html
lahvak
lahvak.github.io
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https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′29″S, 126°43′13″W] Non-significative results -- sampling finished
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′44″S, 126°43′21″W] Re-taking samples
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′51″S, 126°43′34″W] Taking samples
prx
si3t.ch
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new snapshot, #openbsd works like a charm :)
prx
si3t.ch
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new snapshot, #openbsd works like a charm :)
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′52″S, 126°43′43″W] --interrupted--
stats
yarn.meff.me
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@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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Hi @wxcafe@wxcafe ! Is the Hackers GIF bot still running somewhere?
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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Hi @wxcafe@wxcafe ! Is the Hackers GIF bot still running somewhere?
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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Hi @wxcafe@wxcafe ! Is the Hackers GIF bot still running somewhere?
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse got this script anywhere cuz i would be interested 👀👀👀
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse got this script anywhere cuz i would be interested 👀👀👀
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse that's so interesting omg!!! if true i wonder why it does that.... so weird!
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse that's so interesting omg!!! if true i wonder why it does that.... so weird!
dev1ls
texto-plano.xyz
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check my shit plis! xD https://dev1lsconf.github.io/
GopherChat
magical.fish:70
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Hello from Romania as well
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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I have a Python script that transforms the original YouTube channel Atom feed into a more useful Atom feed by removing the spam description and replacing it with the video duration, filtering out videos by title, duration, etc. I just updated it to exclude the damn Shorts garbage more efficiently. Finally, YouTube updated their Atom feed generation, so that the video URL contains /short/ if it's of this useless kind. Never thought that they ever actually will improve their Atom feeds. Thank you, much appreciated!
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@javivf Perfect, it's fixed! :-)
javivf
adn.org.es
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Hey @lyse thanks for noticing. I think I had a DNS record pointing to the old IPv6 host. Is the issue gone now?
@villares@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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The command line version is here:

https://github.com/villares/sketch-a-day/blob/main/admin_scripts/pngs_to_gif.py

I should add a "public domain dedication" to both scripts...

#Python #imageio #GIFAnimation
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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Hi @javivf, your TLS certificate ia broken:

> certificate is valid for cluster029.hosting.ovh.net, not adn.org.es
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′31″S, 126°43′12″W] Dosimeter overflow
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq Oh boy! Fingers crossed.

That's what you get when playing with bleeding edges. :-D
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@kat I have absolutely no idea, but I wouldn't be surprised if it uses the closest full image after your cut point and not the one before. Hence, the deltas between the two full images have nothing to really refer to. So, the video player just shows the first full image it finds and "freezes" the image until the video stream actually hits it.

Let me try to visualize it, | represent full images, . just subsequent deltas:


Original start of video
↓
|......|.....|........|......|..
   ↑                      ↑
   Cut point      Cut point

Resulting video:

   ....|.....|........|....
   ↑↑↑↑
   This is where it freezes


Could be complete bullshit, though. Wouldn't be the first time that I'm wrong. :-)

I'm just curious, what exact command line do you use to cut the video?
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Since Wayland compositors handle input devices on a lower level than X11 window managers, every compositor has to figure out on their own what a “mouse wheel click” is:

- https://github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/1068
- https://github.com/labwc/labwc/pull/2933

(I think “Wayland compositor” is a misnomer. They are full-blown display servers that also do compositing, plus Wayland window management, plus X11 window management.)

One can only hope that all this eventually gets moved into the wlroots library. (I’m not sure if that’s possible, nor if people would want that.)
movq
www.uninformativ.de
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Since Wayland compositors handle input devices on a lower level than X11 window managers, every compositor has to figure out on their own what a “mouse wheel click” is:

- https://github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/1068
- https://github.com/labwc/labwc/pull/2933

(I think “Wayland compositor” is a misnomer. They are full-blown display servers that also do compositing, plus Wayland window management, plus X11 window management.)

One can only hope that all this eventually gets moved into the wlroots library. (I’m not sure if that’s possible, nor if people would want that.)
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′30″S, 126°43′19″W] Dosimeter fixed
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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@birb@birb https://www.jornalmapa.pt/rss
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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@birb@birb https://www.jornalmapa.pt/rss
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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@birb@birb https://www.jornalmapa.pt/rss
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@kat why does ffmpeg always freeze the video in the first five seconds after a cut lmfao
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@kat why does ffmpeg always freeze the video in the first five seconds after a cut lmfao
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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can you imagine being this cunty
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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can you imagine being this cunty
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@kat not k-pop but i will share one. look at my girl dambara ruru
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@kat not k-pop but i will share one. look at my girl dambara ruru
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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we need more k-pop stans on here i swear that is the key to making this network even more alive. bring in the fan cams❗❗❗❗❗❗❗
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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we need more k-pop stans on here i swear that is the key to making this network even more alive. bring in the fan cams❗❗❗❗❗❗❗
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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i should work on my PHP project again just so i have an excuse to use htmx
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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i should work on my PHP project again just so i have an excuse to use htmx
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′10″S, 126°43′25″W] Resetting dosimeter
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse yeah same YAML over XML forever bc at least one is more readable lmfao!! doesn't forgive YAML's crimes though... cursed formats
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse yeah same YAML over XML forever bc at least one is more readable lmfao!! doesn't forgive YAML's crimes though... cursed formats
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse yesss it's not my idea but it's sooo fun here ngl like i should use it more!!
kat
yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz
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@lyse yesss it's not my idea but it's sooo fun here ngl like i should use it more!!
melyanna
tilde.club
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New day and new workout done! Today was full body HIIT, lower body and some abs, for a total of 40 minutes. I am very happy that I did it!
melyanna
tilde.club
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New day and new workout done! Today was full body HIIT, lower body and some abs, for a total of 40 minutes. I am very happy that I did it!
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 29 Pumpkin flower
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 29 Pumpkin flower
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 29 Pumpkin flower
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The warning is: your browser is suspiciously anonymous. And my ip from Telekom Munich.
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magical.fish:70
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Telekom GmbH Munich
GopherChat
magical.fish:70
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Sorry shibboleths.org! I get a warning with my ip, even when I use lynx with a german IP from
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′42″S, 126°43′32″W] Dosimeter malfunction
maurice
maurice-renck.de
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Well that was a short night 😴 and it seems like the thunderstorm dropped a few degrees but the humidity is still awful.
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′59″S, 126°43′41″W] Raw reading: 0x687DC951, offset +/-4
@villares@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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I have this very simple #Python script that uses #imageio to convert all PNG files on a folder into a #GIFAnimation, and this is a #FreeSimpleGUI version of it (I usually run a command line version).

As I usually run #gifsicle on the command line after creating a GIF, I decided to update it to add #pygifsicle to do it for me and save a step.

https://github.com/villares/sketch-a-day/blob/main/admin_scripts/make-gif.py Screen capture of a GUI dialog window for a Python script that converts PNG files into a GIF animations.
dm-echo
dm-echo.andros.dev
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@andros U2FsdGVkX18OJn7xiR0qMjt0uTC36g1p6MSB4dCk+VjX21yCyr7GljdgHac40SfeW51AJf1/+jri4wAq9TLNDw==
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@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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A 12 years old tablet is slow but works fine;
A 12 years old tablet without software updates is almost useless.
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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A 12 years old tablet is slow but works fine;
A 12 years old tablet without software updates is almost useless.
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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A 12 years old tablet is slow but works fine;
A 12 years old tablet without software updates is almost useless.
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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Portanto o #SIRESP continua a dar problemas - e a #AD já é outra vez #Governo.

Onde é que está o plano para resolver isto de uma vez por todas?

https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/pais/resolvida-avaria-do-siresp-no-codu-norte-sindicato_n1670432

#ptpol
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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Portanto o #SIRESP continua a dar problemas - e a #AD já é outra vez #Governo.

Onde é que está o plano para resolver isto de uma vez por todas?

https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/pais/resolvida-avaria-do-siresp-no-codu-norte-sindicato_n1670432

#ptpol
@marado@ciberlandia.pt
ciberlandia.pt
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Portanto o #SIRESP continua a dar problemas - e a #AD já é outra vez #Governo.

Onde é que está o plano para resolver isto de uma vez por todas?

https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/pais/resolvida-avaria-do-siresp-no-codu-norte-sindicato_n1670432

#ptpol
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@kat Yup, can't complain! :-)
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@kat Nice use of dmenu.
@jo
comam.es
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[47°09′33″S, 126°43′43″W] Raw reading: 0x687D3CB2, offset +/-3
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@movq @kat Any text format beats a binary configuration format. However, YAML and XML are both terrible choices in my opinion. I'd prefer YAML over XML if I had to.