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@stigatle It's this time of the year again… Speedy recovery!
@stigatle Enjoy!
My mate and I just went into the woods. Although the weather forecast said nothing about rain, five minutes into the walk it started to drizzle lightly and got worse and worse. Wearing a regular jacket without a hood it was quite unpleasant. Especially at just 8°C. So we then returned earlier. Surprisingly the inside of my jacket's pocket was still bone dry, didn't expect that at all. I feared my camera was soaked, too, just like all the rest. A few minutes before coming home, the rain stopped. Our 1:30 hours long trip was really bad timing.
I guess I clean up here a bit on the weekend. :-/
@movq To explore new routes, I have to go on longer hikes. ;-)
@stigatle Holy cow, they shot the dog? Did I get this correctly? Or was it another animal (boar, deer, etc.) the dog was barking at and that the hunters then culled?
The scariest moment I encountered was yesterday when I nearly fell down twice that incredibly steep hill in the pitch-black. I didn't want to walk on the footpath next to the country road, so I took an extremely long detour (like eight, nine, ten times longer) through the woods. Totally worth, though. :-)
@movq Awesome! Being in the outdoors is just great fun. We office workers definitely need some exercise.
I called it quits relatively early this afternoon, so I could take advantage of the remaining daylight on my three and a half hours long hike. In contrast to yesterday, I was prepared for all the rain, much better, let me tell you. The low hanging clouds are always very nice to watch. It's the time of the crazy people again. When I photographed the decorated house, a car pulled up and was nice enough to wait for me to finish before parking in front of that house. Much appreciated. When I arrived back in the so called civilization, tons of parents crowded the streets with their brats to hunt for sweets in the neighborhoods. I should have taken a few hours longer tour…
[](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2023-10-31/37.jpg)
https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2023-10-31/
@movq Good question. Probably exactly as you described it.
@prologic What's this rating? You scored under 700 points? :-?
@mckinley Cool, that sounds actually promising. I started out with Debian, went to Kubuntu for now unknown reasons and then broke something with every upgrade. So after four or five times I went back to Debian and never had these kind of troubles. Yeah, snaps are from hell, I don't like them either.
@movq Oh, I didn't know that!
@movq Ah, that's interesting! In my mind it even makes perfectly sense to just assume the last known position in lots of scenarios. The user might just be still (roughly) at the same location before the device was turned off. What alternative does the GPS tracking application have when a track should be recorded? Refusing to start the tracking until GPS signals are received isn't very user-friendly either. Usually, we waited until the location was figured out, so that the resulting GPX was somewhat reasonable. But sometimes we just began our tour while the device was still calculating the current position. And then we went supersonic. :-D
@mckinley Ah. Did you try Ubuntu? That's also a Debian derivative and claims to be super user-friendly. At least in the past there was Kubuntu which shipped KDE instead of GNOME or Unity or whatever it is these days that Ubuntu defaults to. Personally, I use Debian.
@prologic Great, my congratulations! What does <700 mean?
@stigatle @movq Apart from some lovely shop time I was super lazy on the weekend. But today I walked 11.5 km in two hours. Unfortunately, it started to rain. I didn't look at the weather forecast, so I was underprepared. A hunter in a high seat told me to have a lamp on in the dark. It's now hunting season again.
Oh, home-made pizza is brilliant.
@movq Yeah, basically it took the last known point from whenever that was (some hours ago when the phone had GPS reception) and then jumped to the real location, once that was known. That's why we travelled highspeed. :-) On bad days the accuracy was off by at most 40-50 meters I'd say. Usually it was relatively close to reality, in the range of 2-15 meters.
@movq Indeed, that's terrible! Back in the days when my mate recorded the bike tours, we noticed that sometimes the reception was really poor. Whenever it took about three to five minutes or so until the location was found, we knew, the GPX is not going to be great that day. Sometimes there was a jump of several kilometers right after starting the track when we couldn't be bothered to wait for enough satellite contact. Our top speed was astronomically high. :-D
@movq He's not following me (or at least not advertising his feed in the User-Agent header), so he probably doesn't resolve this mystery.
@movq How far off was your GPS location?
@movq Yeah, getting things under the keys is very annoying.
Saw a dead fire salamander in the forest. :-(
@prologic @mckinley Hahaha, no, not a typo. :-) Carved four more notches into my revolver grip today.
@eapl.me Totally depends on the use case. E.g. for internal stuff that only club members should be able to access this is the way to go.
@stigatle Haha, for a moment it looked like you goot Nanook on a fishing rod. :-D
@prologic They look like (and probably are just) fruit flies.
Where the heck are all these tiny flies coming from? For weeks I'm murdering numerous of them each and every day.
@xuu I fully agree, distributed bug trackers are the way to go. It is just so natural to have the issues and the code at the same place together. I probably wrote it in the past, a few mates and I tried several times to roll our own, but none of them really made it in the end. We learned a lot, though. Thanks for recommending git-bug, I'll take a close look at this and see whether that suits my needs.
@movq Yeah, silly, funny, educational and interesting at the same time. They did a very good job. I find it very fascinating to see the violent power enfold in an instant.
@movq Ta! It means we got lucky that there was a bright sky and the sunlight was reflected twice on the inside of the droplets. ;-)
@movq A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. :-(
@movq Thanks! Hahaha, the Men In Black, true. :-D
@movq You can't be blamed. :-)
@movq Heck yeah, this is beautiful! <3
@prologic Hahaha, of course you forked this one, too! Is there any Go library that you did not rework? :'-D All kidding aside, I didn't know that you extended this router. Cool! I gotta check it out.
@stigatle I was looking at the European thunderstorm map today and quite surprised to see ourselves in green surrounded by orange, red and violet. Glad to hear that you're doing alright.
@movq Yeah, that GitHub praise also turned me off, too. He should have stuck with plain Git or at least something self-hostable. The GitHub-lockin also jumped right at me. I find tables quite neccessary sometimes, markdown just hasn't standardized them in a single fashion, they depend on the exact implementation.
Looking forward to your article about simplicity. :-)
Whoops, you're right. I should have written "2023-10-14".
@mckinley Quite an interesting thought. I'm a bit surprised that XHTML didn't take over. It felt like XML was a big enterprise thing, the rest didn't adopt it with great delight. Also, most websites were entirely broken with invalid syntax all over the place, that even coorporate website generators produced big piles of garbage. No wonder they didn't switch to XHTML as they would have needed to fix all their shit. Or else browsers would not display anything except of errors.
@movq Well, I was referring to the golden colors. ;-) Yeah, 27°C on Friday, but only 11°C at the moment. This night we had 5°C and it's going to be one fresh degree Celcius tonight. Friday was really awesome, sunny all day long. We enjoyed this at our quick scavenger hunt in the late afternoon at our three-day retreat. Yesterday came the rain and strong winds. Luckily, with patches of sun mixed in, too. It made for some beautiful scenery. The advanced training and scout annual planning were indoor events, anyways.
[](https://lyse.isobeef.org/weiler-2023-10-14/06.jpg)
A mate just told me: On 14th October 2023 most of the civilized world will celebrate World Standards Day, as agreed upon by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
On 12th October 2023 the United States will celebrate World Standards Day, as specified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This pretty muchs sums up the American consencus on following global standards. At least there's ASME I reckon…
@movq Unfortunately, I'm not surprised, people are just fuckwits. Humanity was a big mistake.
@movq Auweh, der braune Sumpf legt in Bayern und Hessen zu. :-(
@xuu It's too early to tell, but so far, I didn't run into a timeout yet.
@movq That's 15 to 16 kilometers a day. So, not too exhausting for me. Another story for my mate. ;-)
I thought so too. But we couldn't find the moorhen in the animal classification book we had at hand. Glad that you confirm. :-)
In my experience the "Eidechsen" can be found in rocky terrain where there is also greenery around. The rock radiates the heat which they seem to enjoy. These sandstone walls with little crevasses are perfect. I basically never see them around here and just know of exactly one tiny spot where I discovered two lizards this year. They were immediately hiding in the grass.
My mate's shots of the grasshoppers: https://wf.isobeef.org/i/e8df08a4-645e-11ee-8223-038caf2a765b.jpg and https://wf.isobeef.org/i/f98d9e96-645d-11ee-9e39-c3d3a859e767.jpg
@prologic @movq Yep, ta! :-) The term is not limited to sunsets but used for anything crazy colorful. Often it has even a negative connotation.
@movq Cool! Kids may have built a shelter here. At least back in the days we went into the woods and have "Lägerle gebaut". I would not be surprised if that's in the official program of forest kindergardens these days. If I remember correctly, our structures were free-standing, something like that: https://hr-pioneers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_1294.jpg For toddlers it might be much easier, though, to just put branches against a tree.
It's hard to judge the size, but even for kindergarden children that hideout looks rather small. Alternatively, forest owners or rangers could have created shelters for small animals to attract a variety of species and hence create a more healthy and robust environment. So, I reckon it's part of a forest program, since you said these things are everwhere.
We were a bit over 30 km on our feet the last two days at around 17°C. Not too shabby, perfect hiking conditions. Unlike forecast, it was beautiful weather on Wednesday. Only yesterday the sun was covered by clouds. It's a sunny 19°C day, but I had to cancel today's 12 km hike as I woke up with a pretty sore throat. :-( Damn!
We came across two grasshoppers, one of which even climbed my leg to escape my mate's photography. Really awesome. The other one crawled over my hand to get away of the photo shooting. Its hooked feet tickled a little bit. That was the first time I got this close to these little creatures. What a truly wonderful experience.
And I was super happy to see the lizards again. There were plenty of them, but I find them quite hard to spot. And they almost always vanished immediately.
[](https://lyse.isobeef.org/asperg-2023-10-04/18.jpg)
https://lyse.isobeef.org/asperg-2023-10-04/ and https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2023-10-05/
@mckinley To me it sounds the only actually useful feature is the plate renewal. But all the license plate registration department would have to do is offer an online service – if that's not already the case. Solved. Everything else: What the heck!?
@adi Okay, cool, I guess. ;-) This nextvi readme is badly formatted in my opinion, I'm having a hard time skimming it. So it's a vi(m) with hardcoded keybinds is what I got before I got too tired of walking that document. Okay. I'm pretty happy with good old vim (fun fact: writing that wearing a Vim t-shirt). I never used Plan9 and presumably won't do it in the near future either. But I'm glad you're having a good time. :-)
@mckinley This sucks! Both rewriting and digital number plates. I never heard of them before.
> I think this product started with the question "How can
> we put an Internet-connected computer in people's cars?"
> and everything else was an afterthought. I'd say this is
> a solution looking for a problem, but it's not about the
> solution.
That's what I was thinking right at the beginning. Humankind is lost, there's no hope.
@movq Very beautiful! We didn't have a cool one today.
@movq It's nice to explore new places. :-) Reminds me of Mundstuhl where they once said: „Und nächstes Mal zeig ich euch, wie ihr eine Ölpest macht“ (can't find it online anywhere).
@movq Oh, very nice! :-) We don't have them around here.
@prologic That's what I was thinking, too. ;-) But no clue how that suddenly happened. Didn't touch the source code for ages.
@movq In the beginning that was very strange, since I was a big fan of handshakes. But now that I'm used to it, I rarely do anymore. Basically just if somebody else insists.
So far, I still feel healthy, no signs of the plague.
@prologic I mean not just work. :-) But yeah, I strictly separate personal and work stuff, too.
Hmmm, I noticed that tt is incorrectly counting unread messages. There's currently one unread one, but it says 0. When I mark it read, the counter goes to -1. It certainly worked a few weeks back. I probably should work on version 2.
@bender Hahaha! :-D To make it clear, I'm not one of those esoteric radiation jerks. I simply don't have enough use cases to justify one. And then comes the absolutely horrific UX I'm not willing to deal with. Lots of people love it, I just don't. Finally, in this day and age I do enjoy that I'm not reachable everywhere. There's not even a chance of getting distracted. All my good mates don't have an issue with that, at least they do not admit it. ;-) Of course there are people that think I'm silly, but I don't care about them.
@bender It's Germany, there's no middle of nowhere. Sadly. Definitely not where I am. In case of urgent emergencies in nature, somebody is fucked, no doubt. I'm happily taking that risk.
@movq No private mobile phone at all, just landline telephone. I have a company smart phone but it sucks balls and I don't want to even use it for anything unless I really have to. It covers two use cases, 2FA and accepting/rejecting meeting invites (somehow my desktop mail client can't send meeting replies reliably). 99% of the time the phone sits either on the desk (during work hours) or lays in the drawer (after quitting time). So it moves less than a meter each workday. And for obvious reasons I have to take it to the office with me, too.
@bender SUVs are known for their fuel efficiencies…
@movq No doubt, that's for sure. The only thing I can say: Works for me since forever.
@movq Thanks, yeah. Let's hope that we still get a few apples from these trees (they're marked for public use) in a few weeks.
Had to go to the office today. Leaving the house, some nice reddish spots appeared in the sky, probably saw a hedgehog and by the time I reached the train station, the sunrise had fully emerged. Unfortuntely, I did not have a camera with me, so I had to enjoy this super crazy, ultra red sky on the platform and can't show you anything. It was easily one of the most beautiful sunrises of this year. A very large section of the sky was very, very red.
This evening I had to go for a quick stoll after suffering from terrible seating conditions in this meeting room. I met a few friends on the way and shook their hands. Then it occurred to one of them that this was a bad move, he's home sick with a sore throat and a positive corona test. I watched like a hawk to not touch myself with that hand and sanitized the crap out of me when I got home. Let this cup pass from me. On the truly positive side, however, I saw a squirrel, the rest of the sunset (I missed the best part in the forest), six deer on a paddock and a bat flying over me couple of times. Good yield.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2023-09-28/
@movq Just don't get a new one.
@prologic Had a scouting game with the scouts today. The story was that some leaders didn't want to let go their older kids to the next section and thus stole and hid the new neckerchiefs. So the children had to solve all sorts of puzzles in groups to get a new hint and figure out new coordinates that eventually lead to the hidden box. One station was diving for apples, the kids had really great fun. Eventually, the box with the neckerchiefs was successfully located under the hut at the scout yard.
This meant the older kids of all the sections could finally leave their mates and join the next sections. Each section comes up with some kind of an entry exam each year. What you can see in the photos is the scouts ("Jungpfadfinder", or short "Jupfis") who are wearing blue colored neckerchiefs and explorers ("Pfadfinder"/"Pfadis") in green. The old cubs ("Wölfinge"/"Wös") joining as new scouts had to guess the type of both yummy and nasty blue dyed liquids. Banana juice, cucumber water and the like.
The explorers welcomed their new members with a quiz of green things. Somebody started with the name of something green. The next person then had to find another term of a green-colored item that started with the same letter the previous thing ended in. E.g. grass, slime, emerald, dill, etc. If someone couldn't think of a thing within fifteen seconds, they had to choose left or right and whatever another person behind them was secretly holding up in the air was then mixed into a cup as penalty. In the end they all had to savor this yucky gnat's piss. Apparently, kids love such kind of torture. :-D
No slug was harmed by the campfire. It was professionally rescued before the wood shavings were set on fire. Saussages and buns left over from yesterday's party were put to good use. Also marshmallows and stick bread. All in all, a great fun day.
[](https://lyse.isobeef.org/spieletag-aufstufung-2023-09-24/24.jpg)
Unfortunately, we cannot watch the sunset from the scout yard as it is located in a valley. But I timed the way home just perfectly.
Next week I have to sort through a thousand photos of two cameras from just this weekend. I'm already hating myself because I was one of the photographers. And a third source of pictures will be added. Örks.
@prologic Cheers mate. Fuck me dead, I reckon s'arvo gave it away.