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@mckinley @prologic Nice article. I never had the guts to use ed. Now I wanted to try it, but was very surprised that I don't even have it installed on my current system. That must be a sign to better not dare.
@ullarah I'm already using cumin, but haven't tried duck fat so far. Thanks for the recommendation.
Nothing unusual, @off_grid_living. Just obliterated by the earth. :-)
Unfortunately, I cannot select the exposure time, @movq. My pocket camera is too shitty for that. I need to borrow my dad's DSLR one day.
@movq Excellent, thank you for confirming. If I'm very, very lucky I might get after one of the open topics on the weekend. I'm not specifying which one, though. :-P
@mutefall Little time? I hear you! Now that my short holidays are over, I don't get much done either. Totally fell behind again.
@mutefall Oh, interesting. So it's not an Australian thing, but much more common. Never thought that. Whole-grain bread is great, I prefer apple jelly on it, though. :-)
@movq Yeah, 16 km/h should be possible I reckon. If you don't take our tandem, that is. :-D
That's a nice vision, I truely like it. But yeah, ain't gonna happen. Not in a hundred years.
I experimented with photographing the moon again. And of course it profoundly went wrong, what did you think?
Overexposed moon shining through the clouds, creating some kind of a rainbow^H^H^Hcircle
My twtxt.txt feed grew over 700 KiB, so I thought I write a Python script to split it into monthly archive feeds. Now the only things left are automating the execution, automatically rewriting the main feed as well and adding support in tt, so that the full feed is reconstructed in the cache.
Thank you, @prologic! Will give it a try later this evening.
@mutefall Yes, that's a very good read. Do you also have an article where you go into more detail about your setup and changes?
@movq Interesting video! Not being allowed to drive into and out of that garage is really silly. It clearly shows that that those, who came up with the rules, don't use these underground garages. We're very far away here from giant (underground) bicycle parking lots. Not enough volume of traffic.
@movq Whoo, that's quite something I'd say. I wouldn't want to do that on a regular bike when going to the office (recreation is a different story). Maybe with a cheater bike, but that needs to be experimented with first. How long would it take you according to Uncle Elgoog?
I've seen bike lines on motorways in Australia, but I wouldn't feel save there at all. And regular people don't have escort cars:
Cyclists ahead on the motorway
Indeed, you get a nice heads up before:
Narrow shoulder on bridge
But then you basically have to go on the right lane anyways, because that shoulder is pretty much non-existent in my books. And cars and trucks are flying by with 110 km/h.
Shoulder pretty much non-existent
You would need some constructionally separated bicycle lanes.
@will Hahaha, very cool! :-) A folding bike is nice if you have to take a train in the rushhour. I saw people folding and unfolding their bikes in less than ten seconds, pretty amazing what can be done today. I never had a folding bike, but I reckon a non-folding bike will be more comfy to ride, just judging from the smaller tires alone. So when you have 20 km to go, I have my reservations on a folding bike.
Just put it right inside the office. That's what some collegues did at my former employer. Or they locked it on the railing in the public corridor. Just do it, you can worry about the others when they also start coming by bike. However, I doubt, that lots will.
Missing showers is a thing that might kill the bike idea right from the beginning.
@mutefall Apple sauce was originally invented for waffles, I'm totally sure! It's the perfect fit. Yeah, next time try that, you won't regret it. :-) But basically anything works. Plum jam is also a pretty hot candidate. Blackberry, raspberry, you name it.
Speaking of apple sauce. That's also brilliant for pork schnitzel. I was like you guys when I first heard it: "What the heck!? These Aussies definitely want to play a prank on me!" So I waited for them to go first and then hesitantly gave it a try. But man, I was instantly hooked, it's a very yummy combination, no doubt. If you can't believe it, think of cranberries served along deer. Not sure about the rest of the world, but in Germany that's a classic.
@movq I never came across such a bike before either. The chairs are kind of nice, but not super ideal for pedaling. The backrest feels kind of flimsy, the driver's more than the passenger's. When pedaling stronger I always had the slight fear of breaking the backrest, it's not as ridgid as I would like it to be. Also after some effort your buttocks are very sweaty. Never had that with a saddle. But other than that, the seats are nice amd comfy. Good luck not getting rained on on your tour, I reckon these cloth upholsteries will be soaking wet in no time.
The handlebars are in very silly locations. I'd like them to be much lower. But that's not possible. It's a bit like I image what it would feel when sitting on a Harley. Sort of driving a recumbent bicycle, not that extrem, of course, but a bit in those lines (never sat/layed on one either).
And the passenger's armrests don't line up with the handle bars either. You have to select one position: Put your arms on the rest or grab the handlebars, but both is impossible. Unless your anatomy is reaaally weird. Riding freehand also works of course, the armrests can be tilted up.
But always keep in mind, *the only* usecase of the bike is to drive your grandma around in the park. Something along those lines. Certainly not going for longer adventures. I'm pretty sure it's quite up to that task. But it would be muuuch cooler to also support other usecases. Wouldn't be hard in my opinion.
The flavor of hay and freshly cut meadows was everywhere, the sun spoiled us with 23°C, a pleasant easterly breeze was blowing and we went on a tandem ride again. We had like a VIP lodge on the river Fils. That was pure luck, the ice cream shop we were headed for originally was still closed because of renovation. They'll open tomorrow, the owner told us. So we went to a park/beergarden thingy and enjoyed the view.
Drake eating a slice of presumably bread somebody upstream threw in the river Fils which got caught up in a small basin in a rapid
My dear friends, do you have any particular library recommendations for ical parsing in Go?
@mutefall Drop me a note when it happens. :-) Waffles are awesome, I fully agree. And indeed, they work out fine with plant-only material. Some years ago I had to omit the milk because of one person being strongly lactose intolerant. I had also ran out of eggs and didn't feel like going to the shops, so I simply tried without them. Very surprisingly to me I hardly could tell any difference in regards to taste. I was super baffled that this experiment turned out this good. But maybe homemade apple sauce was key. ;-)
@mckinley I'm writing one Atom feed by hand myself and I'm super glad I update it only very rarely..
@mckinley Very nice, thanks! :-) Well, at least the standard is pretty obvious in that regard. Although, I have to say, I prefer the "must NOT" over the "cannot" version. Interesting that they changed the wording in the draft version. Admitted, it's basically a complete rewrite.
Now the only thing left for you is to file a bug report against Otter.
After the quick tandem ride and a quick lunch we headed out on foot this time and visited the tadpole pond. Lo and behold my friends, the little creatures were out there again the first time this year! The entire pond was crowded with millions if not billions of them. Absolutely amazing! \\o/ I'm super excited about that.
Tadpoles are swimming again!
More of this trip into the woods.
After the quick tandem ride and a quick lunch we headed out on foot this time and visited the tadpole pond. Lo and behold my friends, the little creatures were out there again the first time this year! The entire pond was crowded with millions if not billions of them. Absolutely amazing! \o/ I'm super excited about that.
Tadpoles are swimming again!
More of this trip into the woods.
On Saturday it was sunny and so we went on a short 19 km tandem ride in my area. The bike was designed in the hillless Netherlands, so that's presumably why in areas like mine the battery is flattened in no time. They claim a maximum range of 40 km in the flat. We only engaged the motor on the way up to save on juice.
Mt. Hohenstaufen in the distance, side by side e-tandem
My town lends out the electronic tandem to all its inhabitants for free, which is awesome. The cool thing is you sit side by side and not behind each other like on a regular tandem. This makes it quite cool for conversations. But of course, narrow spots might get tricky, it's over a meter wide. Posts on the footpaths to block off cars and other motorized vehicles can get a challenge to navigate around. Also avoiding oncoming or overtaking traffic is tricky on narrow paths or lanes.
The vehicle is designed for disabled passengers, but some of these features are in fact drawbacks for others. The driver can select from eight gears, but the passenger has always a fixed gear ratio. So at very low (going uphill) and at a bit higher speeds (basically regular cruising speeds on the flat) the passenger cannot help pedalling, it's either too hard to tread or you're like a hamster in a spinning wheel. Only the midrange (~5-15 km/h) is somewhat okay. Ideally, the passenger would have an own gearbox or at the very minimum share the same gear ratio as the driver. But the current solution is just terrible. There are three settings for the passenger the driver can control: 1) idle all the time 2) fixed gear with the option of ideling 3) fixed gear without the possibility of ideling, you always have to tread and cannot rest. So of course, setting 2 it is. But why not provide a fourth or fifth option with a passenger gear box?
I will talk about the tandem experience in more detail another time.~
@mutefall Of course, come by, mate! I have homemade pizza and waffles to offer you today. And two or three slices of hazlenut cake (this time it worked out).
I have nothing to add to @movq's statements. I remember it exactly the way he described. But we might be able to just also allow absolute URLs, if multi-protocol is nothing for feed authors to worry about. Might get messy, though. Didn't completely think this through yet.
@movq Oh dear, one of those days… :-( But you managed to finish the job?
@mckinley This is great, thank you very much! I was very pleased to see that! :-) I hope you automated this somehow and don't have to handcraft this each and every time.
It is linked in the blog section, @movq. That's how I found it.
@mckinley What a mess! Nice solution though, I was wondering how you solved that. But I wouldn't have come up with that on my own. In hindsight, it's totally obvious. Now what does the standard say?
Finally showed a mate around in my lovely area on Friday. So we went up my backyard mountain. It was cloudy and right between t-shirt and jumper weather.
The local mountain rescue service started a training at the Spielburg, a nature reserve of white jura surrounded by brown jura. While the presumably leaders prepared the wall with climbing gear the youth group arrived with more equipment, I reckon their own gear. I would have watched them much longer, but my mate pressed on to return home. So there are only a few photos of that event.
Members of the mountain rescue service climbing up the Spielburg in a training situation
@movq I see. Yup, going slow is much needed every now and then. I'm having a four days weekend now with using up a bit of my overtime.
Wow, that's a really bad ratio. It just looks like they force you to not use public transport at all. 16 km seems like it could be done with a bike (maybe with a fancy help these days). Or how is the terrain? Are there many hills and valleys between you and the office? In any case, cummuting is totally not worth all the wasted time.
Glad you liked my new invention. ;-) That train stops at each milk can along the way. Luckily, most of the stations are coming after my destination, but there are still quite a few before that, too.
@off_grid_living Very nice. How long does it take roughly to rip one sheet in two?
@movq Yupp, yummy I have to say. :-)
@prologic @movq Thank you for digging this up, this is really, really cool! I was instantly hooked. I loved it.
@novaburst An old classic, but still greatly entertaining every time I read it. I'd like to see a follow-up on that.
@off_grid_living It took me a bit to understand the mechanism and interpret the photo, but this is a homemade rope saw, I'd say. Very cool! Your skin was quite hard to distinguish from the rusty metal, it just blends very well with the background, so at first I only saw a sheet of metal with groks on it. Even the groks I first confused for some knife blades. ;-) How thick is this sheet metal? These guys make for some rather nice looking raised beds.
Nom, nom, nom: 
Roast potatoes
@movq Yeah, I image they were super pleased to see that hitting their holy possessions. But luckily, the hailstones were mostly just around half a centimeter in diameter from what I could tell. The greenery suffered more than those driving tin cages. The hail lasted for maybe 15 to at most 20 minutes, just gently raining now.
@prologic If I get up early, that's not a problem. But I'm already having different plans for this weekend. :-) Next week might work out, no guarantees, though.
@movq So the "now" is a "no", if I read this correctly. Bah, how dare they!
The train connection takes exactly one hour. One-way. At least. If everything goes to plan. Plus the time walking from home to the station and from the station to the office. Going to office is always quicker then the way home, because the regional train basically runs only hourly. But I can take a connecting S-Bahn every five minutes. So missing the S-Bahn on the way in is no big deal. Not catching the Bummelbahn on the way out is a real bummer, though. I can then wait half an hour for an inter-regional train and then switch again to an even bummeliger Bahn after waiting another quarter an hour, so it effectively costs me at least 45 minutes and more stress with less comfort. If you can talk about comfort in a German regional train at all, hahaha. So to avoid that, I usually take two, three or even four S-Bahns earlier on my way home, depending on the announced train traffic delays or even cancels. Delays of course accumulate easily and often over the course of a day, so the return rides are much more often impacted than not.
So, all in all I'm wasting 2:30-3:00 hours for commute, depending on the exact connection and condition.
And yes, pre-Corona I did this every single day in the work week. Well, at my former employer only four days a week. Friday was the typical day to work from home half a day or take off completely. In the new company there was the spirit of "Gschafft wird em Birro". You could also sporadically work from home, but you needed some good excuse, like expecting a visit by a craftsman or something along those lines. Covid upset the apple cart. It was the very best that could happen to me.
Going by car could be slightly faster, but there's no guarantee, either. Accidents and traffic jams happen all the time. And then you also have all those bloody wankers on the Autobahn. You know, if the German (probably anyone) has a steering wheel in his hand, he instantly turns into an animal. Not saying, that a train ride is not stressful, but you can just sit in, wait and eventually reach your destination. Listen to podcasts, talk to your fellow passengers you see every day, just look out the window, read a book, take a nap, … Try going the latter two things in your car's driver seat. :-)
@movq Hahaha, that's a nice one. :-)
But the fresh air, I tell you what. Lovely! Still hailing.
The weather forecast… The whole day is supposed to rain and thunderstorm. Nothing. Now I just wanted to get out my bike and it's starting raining cats and dogs. Luckily, I got out the chain grease, so when I was about to move out my bike, it started. So I aborted my mission. Now rain like no tomorrow and even decent hail.
@mutefall Unfortunately, I will not be able to make it this week. You have to tell me the results afterwards. Maybe it is possible to record that subject if everybody is fine with it. In any case, I bet you're the king at the next sausage stand wearing ketchup shoes.
My neighbor told me somebody ran over the garbage can (today was collection) and that the driver thought that it got broken. Coincidentally, the public order office was at the site because of someone illegally parking on the road and they then also dramatized the whole situation and proudly recorded everything. But luckily, neither my neighbor nor I can see any damage to the bin. It's just the shape of the wheel axle clamp that kind of looks on first glance as a piece is missing, but that's clearly just the regular molding. Also evident on all other bins. Maybe a slight scratch, but who knows when that happend. Even if, doesn't hurt, it's a garbage can. So tomorrow, I'm gonna call that poor guy and give him the all-clear signal.
It just figures that this happens at this one day I'm not at home…
@movq Alright. Working on Saturdays will hopefully result in more money, too.
My train was on time but I was quite a bit late today morning. I got the ticket when the train doors opened. UX of the ticket vending machines is still as bad as I remembered. Back then, I didn't have to use them, because I always had annual tickets. Switching trains was also quite a lucky moment, just caught the connecting train before the doors got locked.
I was productive until the first team mate arrived. You were absolutely correct in that regard. ;-D After that, only very small progress. And also as expected, most people think, that Corona is now finally over. :-( Fortunately, people are still wearing masks in public transport.
And now it appears a thunderstorm is rolling in. Lightning and thunder in the distance. But it's fine, I'm home.
@movq Oh shit, that doesn't look good at all. :-( So you now have to go regularly to the office?
@novaburst To test whether a file is executable, you can simply: test -x $file
@novaburst ! [ -z "$string" ] can be simplified to [ -n "$string" ] :-)
Yes, @prologic, all clear. @ionores read the image title and/or alternative text. :-)
@movq I have to watch out, that I'm not undermining my own agenda with all those pro office arguments. :-D
Haha, I just remember so well because I was a newbie not too long ago in my current project. And shortly after we got even more team mates. All remote of course. The first few days after I joined were quite tricky, but we all managed it very well I have to say.
Exactly, consideration is the keyword. Since that property seems to be on the decline everywhere anyways, the Großraumbüro should rapidly die out.
@carsten Yes, you remember correctly. @prologic asked about it one day and a litle bit later you had the same question where somebody linked to my answer (sorry, forgot who it was).
@prologic Cool, cool! :-) It also looks quite cold on the photo. I think around the turn of the year 2018/2019 was the last time I've been on a (also very cold) beach and seen the ocean.
@movq @prologic @novaburst I started out with the MiKTeX distribution and then went on with Kile as the LaTeX IDE after changing to Linux. Shortly after I used Vim, of course. The results are super awesome looking, but the error messages are easily the worst I've ever come across. Oh, the compiler reported an error in line 742, where it finally gave up. Damnit, the error is actually *somewhere* in the range of lines 1-742. Good luck finding that. Always compiling at least twice, better three times is something, I'm not missing either. Sure, just put it in the Makefile, but still. The syntax is also something I don't really like, but that's just personal taste. My application documents were the last things I've typeset using LaTeX.
To produce weekly schedules and personalized time tables for summer camps I generated LaTeX documents from the data model of my planning software. That was in fact the easiest option to get PDF documents. Ones that are even also very good looking in the end without much effort. But yeah, it took quite some time to compile all those files.
@carsten I'd say you definitely should use a camera you're very familiar with. Otherwise it's just ging to be terrible always figuring out first how to configure the cam for the best shot. And by then the situation is long gone.
@prologic I will blame it for sure. :-D But it doesn't end there, even though I put the nut cake in a container over night so it doesn't dry out, it's bone-dry now. Taste is toleratable but easily ranks high in my worst cakes I ever made. I have no idea what I have done wrong there. It's like everything went belly-up this time. This cake really sucks. Oh well, at least it's very rare that my baking ends this terrible.
My cake didn't raise, what the heck!? And I thought I threw in rather too much baking powder this time. Grrr.
@movq If you refer to the nuts/berries part, then that's ivy for sure I'd say. But you might still score on the actual tree. No idea though, I think we have to wait until we see some leaves or even fruits on the tree. The bark of the Edelkastanie looks a bit different than this specimen. In fact, the reference photo reminds me of oak. But this just tells that I'm very bad at plant identification and there are plenty types of chestnut, so all bets are still off. My grandpa wanted to teach me about plants and birds when I was a young boy, but back then I didn't care at all, had no interest whatsoever. And these days I regret it, of course.
@mckinley Oh wow, surprisingly easy. Never thought that, not in ten cold winters¹. Do you mind showing a screenshot of your tidied up bar?
¹: That's the literal translation of a local saying we have here and I like to use a lot.
@movq Yep. I changed the project pretty much exactly one year ago and met my new work mates and customer only once in person a private beer garden get-together last summer. So next week will be my second time for real.
Hahaha, chances are that you're right. :-D Usually review and planning take about two hours, so if we plan like eight, we might be able to actually achieve something. I will report back. :-)
Yes, that's also the way I see how it should work. I'm very happy, that they made this arrangement. But the working council said, they had a look at looots of different agreements out there in the wild, but virtually nobody does it this way or not to this extreme without any hard limits. The management seems to always fear that they cannot hand power and control down to those, who do the actual work. I'm super happy that our bosses are that couragous. I reckon it will talk a lot of time to become the new standard. Talking to my friends, it's not even close to what we have here. Very sad.
Walking over to your work mate and quietly asking something is clearly the advanced technique. I fully second that. :-) That together with quickly yelling over the desk or even across the whole room is just what everybody was used to for decades, centuries or even millennia. And for new collegues it's the easiest thing, too. As a bonus the greenhorn gets extra introduction into the project via this "sidechannel". Observing how the existing work mates interact with each other is super helpful in getting into a new team. You just learn the mentalities of the individuals or team so much faster. It's also just a very natural thing, that you pick up a problem somebody is having and then you can quickly help out or do whatever.
With all this spontaneity mostly gone, the great benefit is of course that you can work much more concentrated on a subject. That's what I really, really enjoy. No more background noise, interruptions are greatly reduced. I'm much more efficient and focussed without all those many little distractions and mental context switches. And if something urgent comes up spontaneously, you can still call your workmates or use the chat for things of lesser importance. I reckon the stronger and getting-things-done people really benefit from that, but the new, weaker or introverted ones might suffer a bit more. But if you reflect on this, you can counteract.
@movq A bit over a thousand people. We're still in the same building, but another site had to be relocated and they're now in our old rooms so to speak. The second move was into storage to free even more space for those who have to be on site. :-)
I love you, @movq! I wasn't aware of the -auto-orient flag. Hell yeah, this is really cool! No need to do my additional identify -format "%w" … trickery anymore in other scripts to check for landscape or portrait and then swap numbers! In retrospect it's totally obvious that there's already something built into convert. I should have done my research years ago.
@carsten ImageMagick to the rescue! Its convert utility is *the* perfect solution to your problem: for i in *.JPG; do convert -resize 1600x $i $i.resized.jpg; done Adjust the size to your needs. Also you might want to reduce quality a tad to save on file size with -quality 70 or something similar. Exif metadata can be stripped using -strip. That's basically exactly what I'm doing with my nature image galleries, too.
@prologic As with everything, you can eat them once. But you really shouldn't in this case. All parts of that thing are poisonous. The German Wikipedia article claims that symptoms of poisoning might even occur after only two or three berries: Burning throat, diarrhea and/or vomiting, headache, increased heart rate, cramps. Shock and cardiac arrest at intake of large quantities, although unlikely due to their damned bitterness. Stay safe!
@movq Well, as with most things and especially tools in general, get the best you're able to afford. It will usually be more fun and more joyful when using them. Pay once, cry once. No regrets later on.
@mutefall Loool, I'm interested in hearing the ketchup cleaning results.
@movq Regarding windows: I think, some could be opened, but not all of them. It's been too long since I was in the office, can't remember exactly. And I only was two and half months in that company when Covid struck and we were all sent home. I only remember hitting the light and shutter switches every morning when I was one of the first who arrived. The one bigger meeting room we used the most had definitely at least one window that could be opened. Probably more. In the open space office I think at least some into the patio were openable. Not sure about the ones pointing to the road. But most likely, too.
Now we changed office rooms in the meantime. Twice. Without being even in the office ever since. A moving company moved things around for all of us. So not enirely sure what the new rooms will be, but I assume they're equipped the same, just a different building section.
@movq Just that one day for now. I hope that most of the time we'll continue working from home and meeting at the office will remain a very, very rare thing. Some of us have commutes of over an hour, so they naturally aren't keen on coming in neither. On the other hand, some wouldn't mind meeting in person more often. I'm just concerned that if we now meet on Wednesday, people think "oh, that was a really cool thing" (granted, which it is going to be, fully agree on that), however, then also come to the conclusion "let's do it more often".
Luckily, we have a works council agreement that the project teams themselves decide how they want to work. Not the management will order, but it's all in the hands of the individual teams (provided it works, but as past already told, it does). They will scout out if they want to and also can work from home or the office or what kind of mix they wanna do. Most will decide on some mix with probably largely from home I reckon. So basically, the complete spectrum of 0-100% office is possible. The team just has to agree on something. My goal is to bring this as close to 0% as possible. I believe that our work does not require any office presence at all.
Sure, there are some advantages in the office like quickly asking your workmate something, office grapevine, easily and naturally drawing something on a board by hand and things like that. But I think we have good enough technical solutions in place to work around that.
In our case the big overall project is spread all over the world. So even if you meet with your subproject locally in the office, meetings with other teams (which we have lots of) will always happen remotely anyways, so it's not a big win going to the office. You can just call them from home with less hazzle.
Yeah, all in all I like my job. Of course it could always be better, more efficient, smoother, more paid, what not, but it's mostly complaining about first world problems. And we always take time off in lieu. Just at the moment it's a bit stressful, so the hour counter goes a bit through the roof. Next month I'm planning on reducing.
@will Oh, I see. Bonding with wild animals is always very tricky. :-)
Two days ago I remembered to visit and took some photos. I then realized, these "nuts" are actually berries. And those berries belong to the ivy wrapping and killing that tree, not the tree itself! I've never seen berries on ivy before, but according to photos in the Wikipedia, that's actually a thing. Crazy. Mystery solved. At least the one about the fruits. Still no idea about the type of tree. Long-term investigation continues.
Yeah, @movq. :-/ I managed to take a couple at the beginning, but as time passed it got of course much, much nicer than it is shown here.
Sunset
Finally, more than 600 pictures from that walk are sorted, but still, quite a lot remained in the end. And the zoomed details are a bit hazy and not super sharp. A tri- or monopod would have been perfect. These photos only have value to those who know the area, you all out there in the twtxt universe will be probably bored to hell, sorry. Just skip them.
Anyways, the air was full of pleasent smells, plant fragrance, flowery scent and pollen. Quite a wide variety. Also much more intense than the days before. When I started, a t-shirt was all I needed. But then on top of the mountain it quickly cooled off, so I was happy I brought my jumper. In combination with the setting sun, the gentle breeze was very chilly.
Curiously looking common kestrel on a tree, feathers around that twig create the illusion of being staked by the twig
If you're hooked, have a go.
@movq Regarding overtime: My flextime account climbs and climbs, even from home. Location doesn't really make a difference. But I recall several occasions in the office when I missed to leave on time to catch my train. Then I had to stay and work for another hour and try again.
@movq What a price for basically no material, holy crap! Your version sounds completely alright to my untrained ears. Speed will automatically come with time, they all say. Keep rocking, mate! :-)
@mckinley Maybe you might want to update the HTTP URLs in your RSS feed to HTTPS, not sure. And including the full content would also be greatly appreciated. 8-) At least Newsboat would render it perfectly, since it's just text and no images (with the exception of the one article on the Monero button).
@will I might not interpret this correctly, but why exactly don't you like them? Because they die so quickly? I fear I'm missing something here to connect the two. :-?
@eaplmx What a great description, matches perfectly.
@movq Oh no! Next week we'll have one day at the office for our first on-site sprint meeting. Then we also will see our new customer for the first time in real life. And one of our team mates. But I'm totally not looking forward to the long train ride at all. I'm already in a bad mood when I just think about it. :-( I also expect that not wearing masks and not keeping a safe distance will be an issue.
Coming into the office at most once a quarter would be fine with me, but I certainly don't need more than that. Just not worth the wasted time and risk of getting infected.
I've just ran into a super great sunset and what happened? Of course, the battery was flat.
@movq Sounds about right. But be careful that the bird isn't building a new nest in your own head. To avoid that, burn everything on the stake or drown them. I heard it's a successful method.
I could witness a large heron being attacked by two ravens in the air this morning. Later, I saw this cute little feller:
Some little bird on a conifer
@movq Hihihi, this completely missed my own bubble. Did you already break down or could you just borrow a fluffy dust catcher from your workmates for further analyses?
@movq Ha! Didn't think of that. :-D According to GfdS people in medieval times believed that mental disorder was caused by nesting birds in the head. O_o Wie zum Kuckuck did they manage to get in?! Of course, the devil was involved…
@movq Yeah, right! :-) Interessanterweise kann man entweder einen Vogel oder eine Meise haben, aber nicht etwa eine Amsel, einen Raben, einen Adler oder andere gefiederten Freunde. Ich frag mich, woher das kommt. Basstölpel is truly an amazing name. :-D
@will That is a problem indeed. Luckily, most of my feeds do include everything. Over the years the number of feeds without content decreased, because I either simply unsubscribed or wrote some wrapper scripts that pulled in the contents and merged it into a new feed I then subscribe to. The other kind of problem is image-centric feeds. Here I have to open the articles in the browser.
@movq Ah, I see. Well, that's always the danger of putting anything online. Suddenly, one might be right in the middle of a shitstorm. Luckily, I haven't experienced that so far. But I understand that this can really hurt, even when trying to ignore it. Think positive, play some bass and go for a walk to distract yourself. :-)
I now just read your original version and I don't see how that caused people to hate you. In fact I like it much more than your second version, because it had some nice stories that got lost. I don't see a big drama or exaggeration there. Even though I'm biased (fully agree with you), your original version is not too negative in my opinion.
Nice! I'd love to sit around a camp fire now.
Setting sun
Colorful sunset
Very orangy sunset and clouds behind the trees creating the slight illusion of a forest fire