@mckinley@mckinley.cc 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@www.uninformativ.de Very beautiful! We didn’t have a cool one today.

@stigatle Goodbye! :-(

@movq@www.uninformativ.de 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@www.uninformativ.de @abucci@anthony.buc.ci Thanks, mates! Found her:

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Ta, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, very nice! :-) We don’t have them around here.

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s what I was thinking, too. ;-) But no clue how that suddenly happened. Didn’t touch the source code for ages.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de 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.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Harrharr! :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net I mean not just work. :-) But yeah, I strictly separate personal and work stuff, too.

We didn’t let our hair down today! https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2023-09-30/

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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@twtxt.net 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@twtxt.net 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@www.uninformativ.de 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@twtxt.net SUVs are known for their fuel efficiencies…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No doubt, that’s for sure. The only thing I can say: Works for me since forever.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de 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@www.uninformativ.de Just don’t get a new one.

It’s the airplane edition of the forest stroll today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2023-09-27/

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Unfortunately, all pictures of the first subject turned out to be blurry. Luckily, my collection of much nicer sunsets is rather huge.

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@prologic@twtxt.net 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.

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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@twtxt.net Cheers mate. Fuck me dead, I reckon s’arvo gave it away.

@thecanine@twtxt.net This classic and all-time favorite masterpiece came to mind immediately: http://myfunnymemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Flying-Camel-Is-Very-Polite-As-It-Soars-The-Desert.jpg

@thecanine@twtxt.net Howdy!

Serving suggestion:

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Today was our yearly scout meeting. Three glass bottles in total didn’t survive the afternoon and evening. After the general meeting some of us went to the scout church service next door and then we had a nice barbie with friends and the general public.

Learning from the big ones means learning to win. :-P

Thanks, @prologic@twtxt.net. There are worse places for sure. :-)

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Sums it up perfectly.

After several hours of debugging in a larger task force yesterday and today, we finally figured out that we must have ran into an XFS bug (seems to work fine on ext4). An ftruncate syscall hung forever and hence the process was caught in an uninterruptible sleep. This was the first time I ever witnessed kill -9 not to “work”. But I learned a bunch of new stuff. I never dug this deep into the guts before.

Some of you probably know that /proc/$PID/syscall tells you the current system call the process is executing. And /proc/$PID/stack returns the kernel stack trace. Awesome stuff!

That’s a wonderful article on that matter: https://tanelpoder.com/2013/02/21/peeking-into-linux-kernel-land-using-proc-filesystem-for-quickndirty-troubleshooting/

@darch@neotxt.dk! Man! These are some cool pictures! The Iceland gallery was the most beautiful in total to me. How else can it be, right?! ;-) Very beautiful scenery and lovely colors overall. I’d love to see that with my own eyes one day. Very hard to choose, but I have to highlight the following pics:

• http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-07-iceland/IMG_20230801_195449.jpg
  
• http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-07-iceland/IMG_20230801_195600.jpg
  
• http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-07-iceland/IMG_20230801_200227.jpg
  

Additional nature shoutouts go to:

• http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-08-aln/IMG_20230827_125342_HDR.jpg
  
• http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-08-aln/IMG_20230827_145244_HDR.jpg
  
• http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-09-nyc/IMG_20230830_193738_HDR.jpg
  

The latter one perfectly fits this sign: http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-08-aln/IMG_20230807_140853.jpg (probably a sunset, though ;-))

I had to chuckle at this one: http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-07-iceland/IMG_20230802_112551.jpg

Which brings me to the art pictures. Interesting museum visits. Mostly funny and neat ideas, but also some weird ones. I immediately liked that one (again, obviously): http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-08-aln/IMG_20230825_200517.jpg All these chairs look really cool, great photo, mate! Perfectly fits into the art category itself: http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-09-nyc/IMG_20230829_162111_HDR.jpg

That one is a good mix of nature and art combined, with a touch of ugliness, that brings its own beauty, though. It’s a bit hard to describe, but I hope you get what I mean: http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-08-aln/IMG_20230827_114645_HDR.jpg

NY has some really ugly spots, that’s quite a contrast. I especially get that feeling when looking at this brilliant shot: http://darch.dk/fotos/media/images/2023-09-nyc/IMG_20230830_114320_HDR.jpg It portraits the shabbiness perfectly. I’m very glad I don’t live in a concrete and glass desert but rather a town. However, I have to admit, the views from the skyscrapers aren’t so bad.

Thank you very much for sharing all of them! I certainly had a blast going through them.

I covered today’s sunrise to sunset. Sort of. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2023-09-20/

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Woooooaaaaaahhhh, geil! I’d absolutely love to see this some day.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Some mates and I run a server and I’m a (rather passive) member of some club. But that’s about it. I used to attend the yarn calls every now and then when that was a thing. :-) So mostly online stuff, rarely on-site anymore. How about you?