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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 01:57:18 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Internet rando to other internet rando: "You're the result of baby-proofing and guard rails. You're the reason everything has safety labels. You're the reason we no longer have Ferris wheels."

   Uh. My dude. We still have Ferris wheels.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 14:03:52 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Jima :Compromise_bi_flag: @Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: I'm wondering if they mean Ferris wheels as a part of traveling carnivals, which may very well have been more dangerous than your typical stationary Ferris wheel and had to be discontinued.

     Did traveling carnivals have Ferris wheels? Did they stop?

2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 08:54:41 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   what is all this hannibal lecter talk
3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jul-2024 02:06:27 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   I wish I had investments in the companies pitching AI Everything at us, so I could divest from them.
4. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 08:10:23 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   I was up most of last night simply because I was too tired to execute going to bed.

   Hopefully tonight I'll be so disastrously tired that I'll just crash.
5. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:40:41 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   "[Millennials don't know what video stores were like]"

   Hey Gen X internet person, even elder Gen Z know what video stores were like. There are millennials that have grandchildren, do you think video stores ended when the Cold War did? Oh wait, elder millennials remember the Cold War too!

   My first German class used a book with West and East Germany in it, and it was only 2 years out of date.
6. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 18:37:49 EDT Brian Ó

   Updated garden photo. The (volunteer) dill is almost as tall as me.

   #gardening
7. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 18:27:32 EDT Brian Ó

   I sowed these dry beans from the supermarket on Sunday. No sprouts were visible this morning, and then this! Apparently today was prime bean weather.

   #gardening #plants #beans
8. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 09:23:25 EDT Brian Ó

   Bumblebees love the dill flowers but do not love sitting still for photographs.

   #bees #insects #flowers #gardening #photo #mywork
9. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:25:12 EDT Brian Ó

   I harvested my Norland red potatoes a bit early, as my plan is to use them as seed potatoes in the spring. This was the result of two plants sown in the beginning of May. Plenty to fill a 6x4" raised bed next year.

   #gardening #harvest #potatoes #food
10. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 03:09:06 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "Heeeere's Johnny!" was a reference to a Johnny Carson show catchphrase!

    TIL.
11. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2024 00:39:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    TAWNY NEWSOME TREK LIVE ACTION COMEDY WAAAAT

    No official sources yet, but if this is true then ending LD at S5 is fully forgiven.

    #StarTrek #LowerDecks #StarTrekLowerDecks
12. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 11:26:16 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    @A Sweet Gentleman It's close, but Goodwill is way more corporate than the private Parisian flea markets, which makes the contrast with the sidewalk peddlers even more marked.
13. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 10:56:31 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    For the love of everything that’s good please stop sharing links to Zach Vorhies’ X thread “analyzing” the #CrowdStrike bug by explaining null pointers exception with no evidence that’s what actually caused the outage. At the end he goes off on his usual rant that only white men should be allowed to code he became famous for in the first place.

    He might be technically right but nothing is worth spreading his parting bile further. Several online news article have already taken the bait.
14. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 10:57:58 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    Last month I finally bought the #LEGO #Technic 8880 Super Car set (1994). It came out right in the middle of my teenage LEGO years, and was heavily promoted in all the other Technic sets released at the same time.

    And for the time, it was a marvel of engineering: 4 wheel drive with 3 open differentials, independent suspension, 4 wheel steering, a V8 engine with moving pistons, and a brand-new 4 speed gearbox. A life-size version was even built for the Paris Motor Show around the same time, and I got the privilege to see it in person.

    Alas, the set didn’t fit in either my birthday or Christmas budget at the time, and it stayed a dream figment for the best part of 30 years. Until last month when I finally got my hands on a second-hand copy of the set.

    I was of course afraid that reality would trample that dream to dust especially after I was gifted a 42115 Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 lego.com/en-us/product/lamborg… set by my partner which is in the same vein, but I’m pleased to report some of the original magic is still here.

    The building experience is typical of 1990s Technic, with much more parts per building step than entirely comfortable, and several building techniques taking advantage of parts’ flexibility that have since been outlawed by LEGO. But the main advantage the Super Car still holds over newer large scale Technic vehicles is how didactic it is. Its weirdly high stance and airy design with no body panels makes every single feature visually accessible, including during operation.

    This was immediately evidenced by my 10 year old kid asking me about the simple but functional gearbox. I was able to show her how it worked by comparing wheel speed with engine speed and point at various exposed gears. Sure, the Lamborghini’s modern gearbox is impressive, but I’d be damned if I could explain how it works to anyone, let alone show most of it given its tight package with body panels hiding the gears including on the bottom.

    This makes for me the 8880 Super Car a timeless classic less by its outdated looks than by the sheer “how it works” enjoyment it still provides to this day while modern Technic sets can fall short in that aspect despite more complex features.

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    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 11:18:16 EDT Hypolite Petovan
      @Pepijn Thanks, I might just build the B model, the number of parts is reasonable compared to the size of the model. On the other hand I never want to have to part out the 3700-part Lamborghini set for any reason. 😵
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 14:38:50 EDT Hypolite Petovan
      @Johan The 8860 set definitely is in that didactic vein I talked about. For me the 8880 set is a sweet spot between an educational model and aesthetics, despite the oddly high stance for a high-performance car.
15. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 11:59:03 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    Cool #Maps thread about the Soviet #Mapping the whole world.
    
    

    ♲ @Pepijn@mastodon.online: 1-x Do you marvel at how #OpenStreetMap or #GoogleMaps can show you the street pattern, all the way to individual houses, of any random village?

    Before the age of internet mapping this required a paper map. As most people did not have easy access to detailed maps (house level maps often not available at all) we had a very different view of the world outside our direct area.

    This is why I find the history of how the Soviet Union mapped the world so interesting.

    #hobby #maps #mapping #USSR #gis
    
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 14:54:03 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "I can't find pants", he says, "help me."

    So I stand there and just look at him and he starts to dig through the basket of clean clothes. And then I look at him pull out a drawer, examine the contents and take out a pair of pants.

    "You're welcome", I say.

    "I want your powers", he replies.
17. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 12:35:57 EDT Michael Vogel

    • Friendica Admins

    !Friendica Admins Dear admins, I need your input. Recently I added some data for the monitoring, so that you can monitor your Friendica instance via Tools like Zabbix.

    Question now is: What data could be interesting for you? This data is currently available now (I added some more fields)

    pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/imag…

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    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 12:59:11 EDT Michael Vogel

      • Friendica Admins
      BTW: That data is protected by a password.
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:24:22 EDT Michael Vogel

      • Friendica Admins
      • Andy H3

      It's now looking like this on my system:
      pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/imag…

      I also added data like the last execution of the cron worker or any worker at all (this is good for sending a notification that something is wrong). And also the number of reports and the date of the last report is displayed. This means that you can create a notification for that as well. And yeah, we should do that inside the system, but the reports are still a place where we have a lot to improve.

    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:10:25 EDT Michael Vogel

      • Friendica Admins
      • Andy H3
      Can Munin read JSON and can perform HTTP requests?
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:17:27 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    When you are sharing screen on a call, please share the common denominator, your small laptop screen, not your huge 2160p 24" desktop monitor.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 03:32:21 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @🇺🇦 haxadecimal Oh wow.

      Thank you for making the effort for those less blessed. 😊

19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2024 02:30:16 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    "BO" in the office means "back office", but when a "BO checker" is supposed to verify the validity of a transaction, I can't help but think "ah, so it's a smell test".
20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 06:56:12 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Them: "Could you record this session?"
    Me: "Sure!"

    Me, 1 h later, converting and listening to the session: "Aaaaugh my Swedish accent!!!"
    The recording: "... so this catalog is defined by the user support team in eash location ..."

    I haven't listened to myself speak for years, I forgot how much it can hurt. 😅

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 09:19:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      Apart from my hangups with my own accent, and honestly I'm mostly fine with it, I'm happy with how I'm sounding in this video. I sound like I know what I'm doing, I sound composed, and I sound like I'm paying attention to the others on the call. 😊

      I'm the one demonstrating something, so it's perfectly reasonable that it's me talking 75% of the time. 😅

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 09:26:57 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      Shotcut took 8.5 min to export 24 min ("mp4" ... looking at the file it says it's AAC + h.264), whereas VLC took something like 100 min to convert 37 min (WebM, Vorbis + VP8).

      Does the computer have h.264 encoding acceleration, perhaps?

      The files are about the same size. The mp4 has fewer encoding artifacts.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 22:42:16 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

      @Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} I probably notice it more than I should. 😅

      I think though for most non-native speakers, my accent is easier to understand than many native accents, so I keep that in mind when criticizing myself.

      In terms of accent privilege and social status and how that affects your career, I work in a company full of French English, Cantonese English and Indian English, and in that context my accent puts me close to full colonizer status.