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@movq Cool, thank you for the reminder! That was certainly not on my radar.
@movq I'm sure I heard about them in uni. But not in combination with such a useful or fun example. So I forgot everything (if I even understood anything back then). Never had a use for them in my stuff. Or I simply didn't know. :-)
@movq Well done you! I was just super lazy.
Oh come on! go tool cover -html=coverage.out -o - does not write to stdout but into a lovely file named "-". Thanks.
@movq Oh, this is so cool! Of course I knew that in winter days were shorter than nights, but this is the first time I actually see by how much. Super cool visualization, truly loving it! Funny that the clock is as gray as the outside right now. ;-) These days this resolution is indeed sufficient for me, but if I had a train to catch, seconds do count. It doesn't matter too much if you're at the station a couple of minutes earlier because it's delayed anyways. But public transport is always on time when you're late. It's a strict rule. Nah, even required by law.
@eapl.me Now that I slept on it, I do find these thoughts very interesting. Working less in winter seems like a thing I could get used to easily. :-)
@abucci Oh, that's surprisingly low. We're about 350 meters NHN. Okay, far north makes sense.
@abucci Uuuhhh, nice! What elevation are you at?
@movq Flying leaves in 21, 22, 23 (most difficult to see here), 27 and 28. Bwahahahaha, lip protectors! :'-D
@movq Haha, that's a bit similar. Good shot!
@movq Oh yes, especially ^W happens to me all the time.
@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.