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1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 13:02:13 EDT Michael Vogel
   A: "Es regnet in Strömen!"
   B: "Wie gut, dass wir hier in Hamburg und nicht in Strömen sind."
   #flachwitzfreitag
2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 10:54:23 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Thunderstorms in Sweden have a location. "Oh, there's a thunderstorm over there." And then you see a bolt of lightning over there and you hear the boom, "Ok, six seconds delay, that was two kilometers away, that's over at Pettersson's place then."
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 10:58:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     Thunderstorms in Hong Kong are an all-encompassing event. "The city is under thunder now." A constant dull roar of thunder and half an hour of continual strobe lights with occasional glorious sharp streaks across the sky.

     "Why are you filming this? It's just thunder."

     If you grew up here, you have no idea how remarkable this is.

3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 02:45:40 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   A colleague always says "let me see if you cannot see my screen", clearly trying to avoid the noise of "works for me" from multiple people.

   It never works, there are always some people doing it anyway. 😃
4. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 00:55:06 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   The Princedom of Pontecorvo was a short-lived client state of France during the Napoleonic Wars.

   Napoleon took it from the Papal State after becoming King of Italy, created it as a princedom and made one of his Imperial Marshals the Prince of Pontecorvo.

   The Marshal, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was soon headhunted by the Swedish establishment to become Karl XIV Johan, the new King of Sweden, and gave up the princedom. His dynasty formally rules Sweden to this day.

   Pontecorvo today has a population of ~13000, the same size population as the bunch of towers on top of a shopping mall where I live.
5. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 01:03:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   The Princedom of Pontecorvo was a short-lived client state of France during the Napoleonic Wars.

   Napoleon took it from the Papal State after becoming King of Italy, created it as a princedom and made one of his Imperial Marshals the Prince of Pontecorvo.

   The Marshal, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was soon headhunted by the Swedish establishment to become Karl XIV Johan, the new King of Sweden, and gave up the princedom. His dynasty formally rules Sweden to this day.

   Pontecorvo today has a population of ~13000, the same size population as the bunch of towers on top of a shopping mall where I live.
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 23:42:57 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Death of the author: Treating the author’s stated interpretation of their own work as merely one opinion among many, rather than the authoritative Word of God.

   Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and circumstances of the work’s authorship as entirely irrelevant with respect to its interpretation, as though the work had popped into existence fully formed just moments ago.

   Taxidermy of the author: Working backwards from a particular interpretation of the work to draw conclusions about what the context and circumstances of its authorship must have been.

   Undeath of the author: Holding the author personally responsible for every possible reading of their work, even ones they could not reasonably have anticipated at the time of its authorship.

   Frankenstein’s Monster of the author: Drawing conclusions about authorial intent based on elements that are present only in subsequent adaptations by other authors.

   Weekend at Bernie’s of the author: Insisting that the author would personally endorse your interpretation of the work if they happened to be present

   
   prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/6374…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 23:45:56 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     Go to prokopetz.tumblr.com/ at your peril. This person writes a lot. Many, long, interesting things about literature, tropes, fandom, boardgames, computer games, other media.
7. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 06:02:48 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Time to bring this up again. Ever heard the term "sea lioning"? This is the origin of the term:

   
   wondermark.com/c/1062/

   /by @malki !
   Patreon: patreon.com/malki
   Merch: topatoco.com/wondermark

   /via mastodon.online/@Adam_Cadmon1/… @Adam F. Lawton
   /via social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/1123… @Mark Gardner

   #sealion #sealioning

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 06:06:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     Cue the comments inventing scenarios and interpretations outside what's in the strip itself to try to recontextualize and justify the sealion's obnoxious and antisocial breach of boundaries.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 21:24:10 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     Self-defeating prophecy? 😅
8. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 05:30:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   The terror balance between
   Fear of publically committing to a deadline you might fail to meet
   And
   Fear of not finishing anything because you didn't publically commit to a deadline
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 05:16:39 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   One of kid's classmates had a surprising anti-gay opinion, so he's been asking around a bit where people stand. Thankfully, that kid seems to be the outlier.

   Made me remember that time half a life ago when I accidentally "came out" to a friend ... I admitted my interest for a woman with an ambiguous nickname and hilarity ensued.

   My friend's response was so overwhelmingly excited and supportive that I promised that if I ever discovered I was gay, I was sure to go to him first with the news. 🥰
10. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:44:40 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "Hi! I recognize you! You're the guy who came in here two years ago to meet [colleague who doesn't work here anymore] and could speak a bit of Cantonese! You're living upstairs in Tower XX, right?"

    Sales people have superpowers.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 07:51:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      "This location has really convenient access to the wet market. Do you go to the wet market?"
      "No. I guess I should. I should eat more fresh vegetables."
      "But you said you cook??"
      "I cook stuff I get from the supermarket."
      "Hah! Yeah, you Westerners are like that."

      Real "tok tok, these Romans are crazy" moment. 😅

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 03:56:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Thomas
      @Thomas If I bought that much in one go, it would rot before I made use of it all.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 05:18:25 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Thomas
      @Thomas oh yumm
11. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 02:38:11 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Resting my phone upright on my keyboard and screen, and mere seconds later trying to move my laptop cursor onto the phone screen.

    Security issues aside, would be neat if screens and their devices actually worked like this, like they do in stuff like Trek, you just grab objects and fling them in the geographic direction of other screens.

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 03:03:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • pettter

      "I share monitors between systems using x2x. How will this work under Wayland?

      Screen sharing with Wayland is in the preliminary stages. Currently, the most progress has been made in Chromium where pipewire and xdg-desktop-portal can be leveraged for screen sharing in WebRTC."

      Ugh. What?

      "WebRTC PipeWire support must still be enabled in the Chromium flags, as can be found by entering in the address bar: chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-pipewire-capturer" 😵

      wiki.debian.org/Wayland#I_shar…

      @pettter

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 03:11:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 Z? Proprietary walled gardens have all the fun.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2024 03:51:52 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 Z? You're mean when you speak the truth.
12. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 28-Apr-2024 21:30:47 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    As a guiding principle, the notion that 'bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit' has helped me filter out a lot of opinions.

    
    twitter.com/anammostarac/statu…
13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 03:44:08 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    • Ruben

    Oh. What happened to social.mjd.id.au ?

    @Ruben Are you using some of your other accounts?

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 09:53:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Ruben

      @Ruben You answered. 😊

      Thank you for clarifying which one is your main!

      I don't remember, but I'm assuming I picked which one to ping based on which one had more posts that were recent.
      
      

      ♲ @tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org: Matthew threw it in. He moved away from the cultural wastelands of Surfy Sawtell and into a Melbourne where I guess he gets his kicks from the immediacy of the city life. We have resorted to texting these days. He's even slacked off on his blog!

14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:05:50 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    The words
    You speak
    Become
    The house
    You live in

    
    #TShirtSpotting

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:06:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      That's a good Fediverse motto.
15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 04:57:32 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    support for the SHA-256 hash function in Git

    
    Oh! So this is finally a usable thing now?

    Does git build a parallel merkle tree with sha-256 and is the sha-256 reference a usable replacement for the sha-1 reference everywhere?

    #git
    
    

    ♲ @forgejo@floss.social: #Forgejo v7.0 was just released! Get it at forgejo.org/download/. 🚀

    Forgejo v7.0 is available with translations in Bulgarian, Esperanto, Filipino and Slovenian; SourceHut builds integration; support for the SHA-256 hash function in Git; source code search by default and more. It also is the first Long Term Support version. The adoption of semantic versioning is the reason for the version bump from v1.21 to v7.0 and is compatible with existing tools. ✨

    Read more at forgejo.org/2024-04-release-v7…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 14:21:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Stefan Sperling

      @Stefan Sperling Thanks for the info! Thanks for allowing me to be lazy. 😊

      @Forgejo

16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 13:41:39 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    I hope #NewPipe 0.27 is cleared for release soon, so I can read the comments again.

    I know what people say about YouTube comments, but for the kind of videos I tend to watch, the comments are overwhelmingly of the delightful sort.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 09:30:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      It's out let's goooooo!

      I just upgraded and yep, we got the comments back!
      
      

      ♲ @forteller@tutoteket.no: Yes, finally a new version of #NewPipe is out, which fixes both that constant error message on every single video and comments not loading! It even adds support for comment replies.

      Thank you devs!

      Go get it while it's hot.
      

17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 09:06:37 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    An internet:

    "Tom Holland and Zendaya are considering marriage"

    "They will take her last name. So he will be just Tom."
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 01:54:52 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    A pet peeve of mine is when someone says "be careful" after something happened. It is extremely common in Hong Kong culture, it is basically the rule that someone will say this if someone else has some minor misfortune like stumbling, dropping something etc.

    People say this out of the goodness of their hearts and as a form of comforting word, and I should get over it, but no matter how long I've lived here, it really gets on my nerves.

    To me, it hits as arrogance, nosiness, fake concern and a waste of breath. People don't mean it as any of those things, but I cannot make myself appreciate it, I can only bite my tongue.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 02:05:27 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      1. You don't know if the receiver took insufficent care according to their view. Maybe they consciously accepted a tradeoff because they directed their attention on something else.

      2. Maybe a reasonable observer before the fact would have said they were taking the appropriate level of care, but shit just happened.

      3. Maybe they don't consider whatever happened a problem. Maybe they don't want to draw attention to it and just want to move on.

      4. As advice, it's 100% based on hindsight. Where were you when the person made the decision to take whatever level of care they took? Where was your advice as they were taking whatever action they took?

      5. It's unsolicited, extremely unspecific advice and offers zero insight. What other thing should they have taken less care with?

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 02:07:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      I'm being unfair, it's 100% cultural clash over a simple friendly social glue filler word, but I can't help that it makes my skin crawl, it's visceral. Not just when said to me, when said to anyone.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 02:12:03 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      Hopefully overanalyzing my reaction to it and ranting here might help me shake it off better next time.

      It's not prompted by anything, I didn't hear anyone say it today, this simmering resentment for it just randomly came to the surface as I was thinking of the rain or something.

19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 23:28:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    I'm receiving anti-trans propaganda in my email inbox, "Paid for by official funds authorized by the House of Representatives".
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 10:16:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
      @Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} It was organized as a "survey" from iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet… defined by a member of congress, a long introduction complaining about Biden and gender and then a yes/no question "Should government documents reflect your biological sex?".
20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 08:26:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    yesterday I got the “are you a boy or are you a girl” question from a six-year-old, and I told her that some people aren’t boys or girls (like me!) I was expecting her to be a little confused, but she nodded thoughtfully and said, “wow, just like snails.”

    
    tumblr.com/adventures-in-poor-…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 10:11:19 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @chiasm Kids aren't the ones who have trouble understanding and relating. 🥰

      Not until they're trained. 😔