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1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 10:45:06 EDT Michael Vogel
   Man kann nie zu viel Handball schauen. Heute spielt unsere Jugend.
   https://pirati.ca/photo/921064601366115faba906a677717560-0.jpeg
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 11:43:20 EDT Michael Vogel

     • Matthias ✔
     @Matthias ✔ ich hab keine dabei.
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 13:37:54 EDT Michael Vogel

     • Matthias ✔
     Bei der Jugend gibt es eigene Trommler.
2. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 12:33:39 EDT Michael Vogel
   Sieg!
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3. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 15:59:00 EDT Michael Vogel
   Island kommt nicht zur Ruhe. Aus dem neuen Krater tritt mehr Lava aus als jemals zuvor.
   https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/13550254846612fa0c6d20c106890952
   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 16:10:28 EDT Michael Vogel
     Ich finde diesen Live-Feed recht gut, da er mehrere Streams miteinander kombiniert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804nPrAUAxg
4. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 13:42:07 EDT Michael Vogel
   Heute gab es lettische Suppe (Latviskij Sup)
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   • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 14:13:52 EDT Michael Vogel

     • ɟloʍ
     @ɟloʍ das war richtig lecker!
5. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 01:00:46 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   The funniest thing about the Money-Coutts cluster, among several obviously funny things, is that it was the Coutts root that came from money.

   toad.social/@grumpybozo/112231…
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 00:43:00 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   migration enquiry desk

   "you will have seven years consecutive in January? and visa expires in September? then you apply the extension in September and apply permanent in January. there's no other way, sorry."

   Ok then. Clear answer at least, and one less thing to mind in the now.
7. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 17:16:40 EDT Ji Fu

   this won't end horribly

   
   

   ♲ @storm@social.wolfe.casa: Interesting article, The ADA Now has Regulations for Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps https://www.tpgi.com/the-ada-now-has-regulations-for-accessibility-of-web-content-and-mobile-apps/. There are some exceptions, but still progress is being made.

   • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 19:47:24 EDT lnxw48a1

     in reply to
     There were already some such requirements for federal agencies. If you've ever tried to use a web site of a federal agency, you'll see how little those things get enforced.
     
     I do remember that Target used to have a site built primarily on Flash. The state of California sued because it wasn't accessible, and Target quickly changed their site (even at one point working through Amazon).
   • Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 14:23:49 EDT Ji Fu

     in reply to

     • lnxw48a1
     @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} Target is a big enough company that they can react to such. I fear what would happen to smaller websites like your local hardware co-op.
8. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 23:57:49 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Once again pasting the beautiful waterpaint calligraphy of cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-a… in the team chat.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 00:03:39 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     I jokingly posted it the other day.

     100% a joke, there was no way it was DNS.

     Today I found a configuration line.

     It shouldn't matter, but just to exclude the impossible we had to try it.

     It was frikkin DNS.

     Not a network mesh latency issue, not a weird thing with the database, just some service (a shelf product, not our code) that incessantly looks up whatever names on every single request, without caching, and it was doing it from another continent, slowing everything to molasses.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 00:46:25 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     "Why is it running well in Europe, but when we run it in Asia it's so slow? We checked container node specs and limit, db VM specs, everything is the same!"

     Turns out "everything is the same" was the problem, when the world around the container wasn't the same. 😅

9. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 20:48:32 EDT Hubert Chathi
   Managed to get to a place that wasn't too cloudy for today's eclipse, near the path of totality. I got a few pictures with my camera. I didn't bring any fancy equipment; I just brought my 20-year-old DSLR, with the kit lens. So the pictures are nothing spectacular, but I'm happy enough with what I got. Here are a couple that I took.
   https://social.uhoreg.ca/photos/hubert/image/302717217666148d9aae753877064625
   https://social.uhoreg.ca/photos/hubert/image/625465918166148dbab2f8a796833171
10. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 18:35:37 EDT lnxw48a1
    From 1971: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25-8el1FLzo
    
    When the boy across the street brought this record over, we all loved it. But I expected it to be a lot older than 1971.
11. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 18:21:47 EDT lnxw48a1
    https://nu.federati.net/url/293742 [theconversation com]
    
    People have been predicting eclipses for many years.
12. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 14:59:50 EDT lnxw48a1
    We're not in the zone of totality, but we're in the "above 90%" zone. Still a few minutes out. 5 year old Grandson_3 is enjoying it. 3 year old Grandson_4 isn't into it much. https://nu.federati.net/attachment/293734
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13. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 10:31:01 EDT lnxw48a1
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5j95RUSLd8 NASA livestream of the solar eclipse.
    • GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 12:06:37 EDT GeniusMusing

      in reply to
      Eclipse Map April 8, 2024 - NSO - National Solar Observatory
      https://nso.edu/for-public/eclipse-map-2024/
      
      Interactive map where you can pick your location and it will tell you when it will start and how much the sun will be eclipsed.
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14. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 21:17:44 EDT lnxw48a1
    We took the kids to a tulip festival. Based on the lavender festival that sonTwo and my niece LG used to attend with my mom, I expected big fields of flowers and a small vendor area. It turned out to be the opposite, but we still had a good time.
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15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 11:37:11 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Wow, I do not recognize Kristen Wiig at all in her current hairstyle. It's like her entire face changed, just from that change in frame.

    I had to go back and look at some older clips and yep, I do recognize her when her hair is tied.

    Remarkably how such a seemingly small change can throw the whole pattern recognition machinery off.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 11:46:21 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • David Bremner
      @David Bremner My brain parses her surname in Norwegian, so I don't automatically make the association. 😃
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 09:03:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    yet another supposed Swedish classic that the Internet age informs me was translated from an English original

    🤯

    Ewan MacColl: "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh"

    farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

    youtube.com/watch?v=GV94ibUocE…

    #HoChiMinh #EwanMacColl #KnutnaNävar

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 09:09:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Knutna nävar: "Balladen om Ho Chi Minh"

      farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

      youtube.com/watch?v=k8_ZlmVCIp…

      Knutna nävar ("Clenched Fists") was the musical wing of the KPML(r)[0] political party and protest movement in Gothenburg in the 1970s, which sprang from the wharf labor movement.

      [0] The Communist Party Marxist Leninists (revolutionary)

17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 03:49:32 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    From a global perspective, I come from a wealthy background, as I was born into a country with high-quality public-funded healthcare and education, giving me many opportunities denied many people in other countries.
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 08:39:55 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    The contention is "math has only one truth, it's not subjective!", but we are talking about human conventions and notations here, not the abstract nature of the concept of mathematical relations.

    In the real world, outside a given classroom that teaches one way, professional mathematicians do not even agree of whether the natural numbers include the number zero not.

    Smart people who want to communicate ideas will say "non-negative integers" or "positive integers" to be clear, rather than going on the barricades for the supremacy of a given interpretation. And professional mathematicians just do not write x/yz in their paper. Except when they do.

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 11:08:47 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @WimⓂ️ Yes. In many scientific contexts, implied multiplication by just putting things together without a "·" or "×" binds tighter, basically because it's visually tighter. But in high school algebra that kind of notation isn't used much, so people haven't been exposed to the issue.
    • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 11:46:32 EDT lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      @clacke Oh, yeah. We use it in the lower grades. And it is only later that they inform you why it looks that way, right around the time we switch to the front-slash.
      
      Also, I remember one instructor using the back-slash for truncated division (integer portion).
    • lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 11:51:50 EDT lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      @clacke I had a college instructor who said if there's any chance of misinterpretation you should be as clear and specific as possible. So write "x/(yz)" or "(x/y)z" as appropriate, even though "/" already has implied grouping.
19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 01:30:19 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    I'm watching Netflix's "3 Body Problem" and what I've learned so far is that *Benedict Wong is English*.
20. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 19:55:27 EDT lnxw48a1
    https://journa.host/@lolgop/112224094772229490
    
    I have long thought this, but I am surprised to hear that an elected Republican agrees.