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I agree with you, my friends. A lot of teenagers these days only have a smartphone but not a real computer. If something doesn't exist in their social media bubble, it's not real. Even e-mail seems to slowly die off in that generation. At least that's what I see in my circle of acquaintences.
@movq I'd say the water damage and horrible smell are the worst that affect others. Good thing we have fire detecters everywhere, so chances are that such desasters are prevented or reduced.
@mckinley_tt Newsboat brought me there first. ;-) I knew you could base64-encode images pretty much everywhere. However, I was not aware of the fact that this bookmarks file format is such a mess.
@movq Ta! Yup, we had good lighting. 16 and 17 remind me of steppe. The African elephant is right around the corner.
@movq I still use Atom and RSS feeds. But I also don't understand that browsers now need extensions to do something useful with these feeds. The mind just boggles.
@carsten These are some super great shots, I love them! :-) Wasps are cool (but also cruel if you think about it). I'm not sure whether introducing a new wasp species really helps or causes much more trouble in the long run. I fear the latter.
@carsten Oh, this is really interesting. I didn't know that lead is white. I'm totally surprised! Never would have guessed that.
@movq The simulation of thinking hard could be considered cheating, yes. But cheating is such a hard term, at least it's not super straight, that's for sure. I can't tell if I would have told the interviewer, that I thought about that question the other day, though.
@movq Yeah, I can totally understand that fear. Would be same with me. How big was the damage on the neighboring tower? I assume people were not harmed at least?
Been out in the woods yesterday reading a book about common animals in gardens. The silence was super great.
Pine along other trees
@movq I bet you were! :-D What a relief.
@ullarah Cool, have fun! Not too long and you'll be sweating again. ;-) @prologic LOL :-D
@movq @retrocrash Command line and text interfaces are often a lot better and all that one needs. I try to switch to CLI and TUI alternatives as much as possible.
@ullarah Enjoy! The sea looks awesome, just the concrete towers are dulling the view. These are some nice large trees I have to say. Would not have expected those in the city in these quantities. Makes it much more scenic. I reckon it's too cold already to go for a swim, or is it?
@eaplmx I'm on Firefox with lots of stuff disabled. @mckinley Now that's a cool project, thanks!
Thank you for taking the notes, @mckinley! :-) It was really great fun talking to all of you. A very good start into the day.
Yesterday it was supposed to rain just a wee bit for a few minutes during our hike, but the weather had other plans for us. We got soaked instead. So we ran to seek shelter under some trees. Waiting there turned out to be our lucky day, we met two mates on their bikes who had the same plan. They were about to go mowing their lawn. Well.
Next rain front about to hit
Last week I brought a jumper and it was useless, since it was very warm and humid, more than I thought. Temperatures this week were the same, so I learned from the week before and left my jumper at home. Boy, I could have used it this time. When I arrived at home I was super cold.
@movq Really? I'm totally hooked. Sure, the damage isn't nice at all, but it just shows very authentically what the fire brigade does all day long in a big city. And in the end they're usually successful. This show is very well produced, no narration, just the footage and explanation by those who were involved. I like that calm approach very much.
@carsten WTF, crazy! I didn't suspect that they block it outside of Germany. In their Mediathek they remove it in a year. This is such a terrible public broadcasting system we're having. ]:-<
Yes, I'm really glad that we have all those volunteers and professionals. I couldn't do it.
@movq I started out with Delphi, then used Java AWT for a wee bit, but quickly switched to Java Swing. Since I didn't know much else, I was under the impression that Swing was super great with all the dynamic layouts, GridBagLayout in particular. I later tried Java SWT in one uni project. Can't remember whether I liked it more or less than Swing.
Finally, I discovered Qt and KDE. I had been a KDE user for a while already. Qt had a super great documentation. In a semester break I just started reading the docs for fun without any use in mind and then got instantly hooked. It was just very well written and it appeared as if it was designed by people who really knew what they were doing. I certainly did not get that feeling in the Java world. Shortly after I tried out Qt with C++, but quickly discovered that there was QtJambi for Java. Muuuuch easier. Quickly I found out that there are even Python bindings, so PyQt4 (or was it still 3?) was the holy grail. Totally convenient to use, most things could be just passed in the constructor arguments. No need to set things one by one with these annoying setters. You wouldn't believe how happy I was when discovering PyKDE. Native applications for my desktop environment of choice back then! \o/
But writing real GUIs (not mickey mouse kindergarden hello world GUIs) is always painful. I try to avoid it if possible. So far, quite successful. It's been several years now that I touched my last PyKDE code. I would have to port it to version 5 to get it going.
@movq I started out with Delphi, then used Java AWT for a wee bit, but quickly switched to Java Swing. Since I didn't know much else, I was under the impression that Swing was super great with all the dynamic layouts, GridBagLayout in particular. I later tried Java SWT in one uni project. Can't remember whether I liked it more or less than Swing.
Finally, I discovered Qt and KDE. I had been a KDE user for a while already. Qt had a super great documentation. In a semester break I just started reading the docs for fun without any use in mind and then got instantly hooked. It was just very well written and it appeared as if it was designed by people who really knew what they were doing. I certainly did not get that feeling in the Java world. Shortly after I tried out Qt with C++, but quickly discovered that there was QtJambi for Java. Muuuuch easier. Quickly I found out that there are even Python bindings, so PyQt4 (or was it still 3?) was the holy grail. Totally convenient to use, most things could be just passed in the constructor arguments. No need to set things one by one with these annoying setters. You wouldn't believe how happy I was when discovering PyKDE. Native applications for my desktop environment of choice back then! \\o/
But writing real GUIs (not mickey mouse kindergarden hello world GUIs) is always painful. I try to avoid it if possible. So far, quite successful. It's been several years now that I touched my last PyKDE code. I would have to port it to version 5 to get it going.
@tkanos Bwahaahaaahaaaaa, you made my day! Brilliant. :-D
@carsten Very nice! It's a shame we cannot zoom in.
@carsten I definitely prefer the original version. The edited version looks unreal. In the WRINT-Fotografie podcast they would call it Clownkotze. ;-)
@retrocrash @movq Looks like our branch of the universe was not meant for production use.
@anth You have to deliver a screensaver next.
@off_grid_living Wow, what happened here!? Did you upgrade your internet connection or was the high resolution image just an oversight? Anyways, I approve, looking good! :-)
@movq I don't have issues with PulseAudio. But GTK always calls for trouble in my opinion.
@novaburst So somebody used @all and flooded peoples inboxes. Reminds me of my dayjob where this happens at least once every second week. Apparently, this cannot be disabled in GitLab. Somebody could have just made a fix for that, it would have been totally worth the time to get this going with our large user base.
@movq Ah, you're the fire brigade. Speaking of fires, I noticed the other day that Feuer und Flamme Staffel 5 continued. Several hundred Confluences? Holy crap! Oh yes, it adds up quickly with that number of instances.
I see, @retrocrash. I was just surprised that the disappearance happened so suddenly without any notice. Glad to see you again. :-)
@movq Oh, you were in charge of that. :-( Luckily, that fell into the responsibilities of some other department here. I just saw the mail before shutting down my work machine.
@novaburst Shouldn't be too long, next week at the latest. :-)
@off_grid_living Absolutely! In fact it is neither a worm nor a snake, but a completely harmless legless lizzard. It's just the English name, that's misleading. The German "Blindschleiche" means "shiny anguidae".
@mckinley Interesting use cases. I never had the urge to do something like that. But I can see why that would be useful in some situations.
@movq Haha, I just saw that in my work e-mails, too. They had immediately shut it down.
Yiha, the second slow worm this year! \o/ They're just sooo cool. I'm now convinced they can sense when the camera is recording and then stop darting their tongue in and out. Whenever I paused, they started again. And it appears that tadpoles love bread like nothing else. Somebody had thrown in a few buns and they got attacked like there's no tomorrow. It kind of reminded me of the typical piranhas scenes in comic books.
Slow worm enjoying the warmth radiating off the forest road
Yiha, the second slow worm this year! \\o/ They're just sooo cool. I'm now convinced they can sense when the camera is recording and then stop darting their tongue in and out. Whenever I paused, they started again. And it appears that tadpoles love bread like nothing else. Somebody had thrown in a few buns and they got attacked like there's no tomorrow. It kind of reminded me of the typical piranhas scenes in comic books.
Slow worm enjoying the warmth radiating off the forest road
@novaburst @movq It's fantastic, yes! Another one of my favorites addresses the so called Deppenleerzeichen – idiot's space. That's where a German compound noun is not spelled in one word or with a hyphen, but with a space instead. Just like the English language does it, but in German that's wrong. A phone shop once advertised "ohne Grund Gebühr" (fee for no reason) instead of "ohne Grundgebühr" (without basic fee).
@tkanos Crazy stuff, this sounds pretty cool! The details were a bit too much, so I ended up skipping the PDF, but the article was very good.
Hmm, what happened to @mutefall? That feed is gone for a few days now. Had it been relocated somewhere else?
@tkanos I just glimpsed over the first one and they both went straight on my short term bucket list, thank you!
@ionores @movq Thank you, mates! Correct, here the dirty lense helped to improve the effect. :-)
@movq What barbarians! 7/13th of a frankenstein.
Another past walk last week:
Mt. Stuifen nicely lit
@prologic Ta, yep, that was a really, really nice one.
@movq With all these American crafts videos, fractions are unavoidable for me. I don't know the decimal equivalents for the more esoteric ones.
But only the quotes, not the parentheses, @novaburst. I'd like to write just 3/8inch. I should create a bunch of shell functions to help with that.
I now follow your new feed, @darch, so I saw your answer only now. Yeah, the carrot is a "yellow turnip" in Swabian. You can also call it "Karotte", "Möhre" or "Mohrrübe" in German. In contrast to the first term, the latter three are understood by everybody I'd say. And the banana is simply a "Banane". I just wanted to highlight the weird naming of an orange thing called out yellow instead.
Temperatures dropped to 12°C today. No complaints about that. Except that tomorrow they are supposed to climb back to 17°C and keep raising throughout the week. My hike brought a nice spectacle. I went up my mountain to spot a rain front coming in. At times it appeared quite apocalyptic with the dark clouds in the front and the bright sun in the background. What can I say, very gorgeous! Luckily, I decided to stay up top. I toyed with the idea to descent and seek shelter in a small hut-ish building. But in the end I covered my backpack with its protective shell and braved the wind and rain up top. The leaved trees made for good covers.
Rainbow
I met some dude when the rain hit and had a good chat with him for over an hour. We enjoyed the scenery from the lookout. And as you can see, we got rewarded with a super intense rainbow, that lasted for about 20 minutes. That's very rare.
@movq It took me also quite a long time to get introduced to it. You also probably want to use the -t or --terse flag to get a better output. Not sure why --compact and --one-line aren't the defaults. The only downside with this program is that you need to put fractions in parenthese and then quote the whole thing: units -t '(3/8)inch' mm
@prologic Yup, looks like this dog wanted to claim an electric fence. :-D
@prologic Yup, I fully agree with you, @movq. We're like a third world country in that regard. In big cities it's usually not too bad, but in more rural areas you're often centuries behind. I'm lucky that I cannot complain too much here about the service (except for the price). A speed test just revealed new all-time records: 56.72 Mbps download and 11.95 Mbps upload. I can't really believe that.
@thecanine Oh no, that poor little guy got electrocuted! Nice work, though. :-)
@movq Yeah, decoration easily makes for about a quarter of the donations I reckon. We open at 9 o'clock and the first people lined up at 8:15. This time they didn't, but past years the literally ran into the hall when the doors opened. The one who unlocked had a dangerous job.
I'm pretty sure there are flea markets in your region, too. One train mate is a super active flea market vistitor and he went about every one or two weeks somewhere in my area. Most of them I also never heard of before. Granted, that was pre-corona, not sure if they all survived, but I imagine if you do a quick search, you will dig something up.
I had a long afternoon nap and can't emphasize enough, how great that was.
I would say it was just about five centimeters long, @movq, so quite a normal size. :-) Oh wow, I didn't know that. Crazy! Completely sick how some specializations work out.
It was very humid and hot at our quick forest hike on Thursday last week. The announced thunderstorm didn't struck, but rain was definitely a thing in the distance.
Caterpillar
@movq Yeah, nothing really to worry about here, too.
Whoops, I just noticed the article's image link was broken and fixed it.
Well, I'd say most things are still in good shape and reusable, @movq. But some people abuse us as large trash collectors, that's for sure. There is always a looooot of decoration crap, that most of us don't value ourselves, but it sells like hot cakes, so we don't mind it too much. :-) I'm in charge of the electronics department and most things work, but we threw away a few things right away, because they were complete garbage. On the other hand, some machines were even never used once and came in their original packaging. So you have the complete spectrum.
That also goes for the customers. Most are super nice and few even give you more than you charged. Of course haggling is key and everybody tries to get a good deal. "It's for a good cause" is a trick to get people to finally accept your higher price request every time (if it's not too far away from what they want). I never experienced sb. declining that in all the years. ;-)
But you also have the complete asshole that tries to shamelessly bargain the crap out of you and often are successful in pulling young cub scouts over the barrel, who of course have no idea what something is really worth (and a buck is quite a lot for them). Well, even we grown-ups often have no clue about the real value. You won't believe how many times I heard "but that's really all I have" by wheeler-dealers and after some time they accidentally find some more coins in their pockets. Surprise! And then there are also the thieves. We watched like hawks, but a smartphone was stolen regardless in the first 20 minutes or so. And probably a few other things as well, we didn't even notice.
But all in all, most people are great to deal with. The bad bunch are a very small minority, it's just that the unpleasant situations sink deeper into memory. But the good thing is that you know them inside out the next year and can act appropriately.
@movq Ah, I see. Sounds good, will check it out later. Yes, the show is always a downer on the mood.
Phew, our yearly big flea market this weekend is over. It was cancelled for obvious reasons in the last two years. We got donated a bit more material than usual I'd say. In the end the big multipurpose hall was packed like nothing. Every square centimeter on and below the tables was occupied with things. Residents donate all sorts of stuff they don't need anymore to our local scout group on Saturday and we go through it, sort it and sell it on Sunday to the general public. All profits go to our youth work.
Some photos on the course of Saturday. Like always, sorting and preparing the "Bikes and more" and "Garden" sections outside after closing on the pre-sorting area took way beyond dark and through the night. I forgot to take pictures yesterday.
Material delivery area outside
@movq Reading stuff at the Anstalt you mean? Just noticed I haven't followed it for a long time now. Where's all my time gone? Right, twtxt and such…
@prologic Good thing that creek and river beds are designed to keep it under control most of the time.
@ullarah What a genious! So kind of him to ask you for the money transfer. With all his superpower he easily could have just done it himself instead!
Thanks for the meeting notes, @mckinley! I cannot access this lovely spam mail, @ullarah. :-)
@prologic @mckinley No, no, all good. I just have to go to bed earlier, at a healthier point in time. Last night I overdid it quite a lot.
@prologic Hahaha, oh yeah, this is brilliant! :-D
@mckinley Bwahahahahahaaa, I didn't know this one. Very nice! :'-D
@movq Awesome! :-D Never heard of Tresenlesen, but immediately recognized Jochen Malmsheimer's voice.
@thecanine What a cool chilling dog enjoying its shiny teeth. Contemplating whether to use its broom tail to do some cleanup. But the dice have fallen, it keeps resting. :-)
Yesterday morning I got up very early at 05:30 to get the still cold air back in the house. So I opened all the doors and windows for a draft. Suddenly, there was a reddish brown cat in the bathroom and hissed at me when I had a look. It then ran across into my room where I was already working, jumped on the desk, ran over the keyboard and computer, out the balcony door. It tried to to escape between the railing and wall, but failed as it was too big. So it turned around and wanted to get back in the house, but I luckily blocked off the route. The next unsuccessful attempt was to squish between railing and wall on the other end of the balcony. Finally it returned, hissing like crazy of course and then jumped over the railing onto the tiled veranda. Quickly vanished off through the bushes.
That was the end of creating draft in the ground floor. What a stressful morning.
@prologic @movq Holy moly! :-D Perfect choice when you try to get hit by a car at night.
Colorful sunset
High voltage line on a green meadow with blue sky
Heavy rain