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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 06:06:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   "Who is that tall kid and why is he waving at me? Is he one of kid's classmates at the tutor, who somehow recognizes me?"
   "Oh, it's my kid."

   This is literally what happened in my brain, no exaggeration.

   I guess I don't see him from afar much. 😅

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 15:10:55 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     And yeah, he's 10 cm taller by the year. At this rate he'll catch up with his mom next year and me the year after that.
2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 12:29:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   "Regular raids are big, often clunky, and require third party apps to coordinate, especially for bosses that require 7+ Trainers to complete."

   Pokemon Go players in HK, where most gyms have literally a thousand players living within five minutes walk from the gym: Coordinate? You just go there when the egg hatches and ten strangers will show up. 😃

   pokemongohub.net/post/news/why…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 15:06:28 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🎃 Weird Al: "Everybody Polkamon"

     farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

     youtube.com/watch?v=kk3wFAB5VS…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 15:35:14 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     There are two "Pokemon Showcase" pokestops within ten minutes walk from me (and literally 100 regular pokestops). Every weekend and every Mon-Wed a Pokemon Showcase will have a new challenge "show off your biggest/smallest <specific pokemon species>". People submit a pokemon and the winner gets some XP or coins or something and other contestants get a bit less based on their rank.

     These two stops regularly have 200 pokemon submitted. That's what I'm basing my 1000 players estimate on. It's a low estimate. I play every day and only once submitted a pokemon to the showcase.

     Ten thousand people live within my housing estate, three minutes walk from each other. It is merely one of many estates in the area.

3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 12:50:57 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   We watched "Beetlejuice" at home and then "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" in the cinema.

   The old one is a cult classic, and I Iike the story line and characters, the pacing is great, it can surprise you multiple times if you hadn't already watched it dozens of times, but the humor is light-chuckle level and often unintentionally cringeworthy. It's the best and the worst of the 80s.

   The new one is fun, action-filled, full of love for the original, I love that they retained so many of the original cast and that it makes sense, we laughed and oohed and awwed and cringed at intentionally cringe-worthy moments.

   I'm not even talking about technology, Hollywood has learned so much about writing and directing in the last 36 years. The effects are obviously better, that goes without saying.

   #beetlejuice #BeetleJuice

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 15:22:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     I enjoyed both. Kid suffered the old one and enjoyed the new one, but of course watching the old one contributed to the experience of watching the new one.
4. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 01:23:22 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   No air conditioning all day!

   If you want to visit #HongKong, around now is the perfect time of year to do it.

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   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 01:36:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @sim 19 years ago a cute and fun HK girl started texting me on ICQ. Now I work at a bank.

     @Angry Sun

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 10:54:12 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @sim If it's for a reason like that, they're more finance hubs than tech hubs. It's difficult to find cool nerds in Hong Kong.

     If you want to go on a nerd pilgrimage you're better off going to Berlin or Portland, Oregon.

     @Angry Sun

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 13:58:41 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @sim A guy I contracted for wrote an article about "outsourcing yourself", about his theory that it makes sense to move here.

     If you live small enough, living in HK is cheap compared to Stockholm, New York or San Francisco. Everything except the rent is cheaper. But those places are far easier places to find someone who has a programmer mindset and who knows a language other than Java, Python and JavaScript. So maybe find them there and move them here.

     In the end though, that guy moved to New York. For the kind of product he was building, I think he had an easier time finding investors there. Here it's pretty much all fintech, and he was more fin-adjacent.

     @Angry Sun

5. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 01:30:36 EDT Tobias

   SFSCon 2024 - about:Fediverse

   An introduction to the decentralised social network
   09:4015 mins09/11/2024

   The Fediverse is a decentralised social network. But what does that mean?

   In this talk I will give a short introduction to the Fediverse of 2024 and how it started to evolve in 2008. I will explain the basic concepts of ActivityPub as the protocol of the Fediverse and how the use of this open protocol has enabled a diverse group of Free Software projects to build a social network of (micro) blogging, video streaming, podcasting and event organising. A network where users can share and interact with each other regardless of the platform they use. What will be possible in the Fediverse of 2024? And how can you get started today?

   sfscon.it/reserved-area/talk-l…

   Beginnt:

   Samstag November 09, 2024 @ 9:40 AM GMT+01:00 (Europe/Berlin)

   Endet:

   Samstag November 09, 2024 @ 9:55 AM GMT+01:00 (Europe/Berlin)

   • Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 08:33:58 EDT Tobias

     • aracnus
     Yes they will. Also the ones from @Berliner Fediverse Tag
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 10:42:43 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   In Swedish, the name of this eldritch entity is the vulgar nounified verb for the sexual act. It's so hilarious to see it used in earnest on the web, like "omg I hope Knull is the final big boss in this film".

   marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Knull_%…
7. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 07:42:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Only six years ago, China built the world's longest bridge, connecting Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau.

   Today:
   "Grandma went to Zhongshan on the new bridge."
   "But you said she went through Shenzhen, did you mean Zhuhai?"
   "No! There's another new bridge!"

   June this year (TIL), the Shenzhen-Zhonshan Link opened, half as long as the HK-ZH-MO Bridge (HZMB), but still very impressive to see, stretching past the horizon, only 32 km north of the HZMB and only 27 km south of Humen Bridge.

   It takes a lot of links to build a one-hour region for 60M+ people! Every week is infrastructure week.

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen…

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kon…

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humen_Pe…

   #HongKong #Zhuhai #Macao
   #Shenzhen #Zhongshan
   #ShenzhenZhongshanLink
   #HongKongZhuhaiMacauBridge
   #HumenBridge #HumenPearlRiverBridge
8. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 14:00:33 EDT Tobias

   • ˗ˏˋ wakest ˎˊ˗
   hey @wakest ⁂ when do you plan the next Fediverse Exploration Circle?
   • Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 00:25:13 EDT Tobias

     • ˗ˏˋ wakest ˎˊ˗
     @wakest ⁂ would be nice to have a next meeting :)
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 01:23:40 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:…

   "Harari's main argument is that Sapiens came to dominate the world because they are the only animal that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers. [ . . . ] He further argues that the ability of Sapiens to cooperate in large numbers arises from its unique capacity to believe in things existing purely in the imagination, such as gods, nations, money and human rights."

   ... as also observed by e.g. Terry Pratchett.

   "Harari claims that all large-scale human cooperation systems – including religions, political structures, trade networks and legal institutions – owe their emergence to Sapiens' distinctive cognitive capacity for fiction. Accordingly, Harari describes money as a system of mutual trust and political and economic systems as similar to religions."

   #YuvalHarari
   #SapiensABriefHistoryOfMankind #Sapiens #ABriefHistoryOfMankind

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 01:33:10 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terry_Pr…

     "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather" (2006), based on "Hogfather" (1996), by Terry Pratchett

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 12:20:21 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Mans R
     @Mans R I have some criticism lined up.
10. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 12:59:31 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "[I'm a strong proponent of always using the right tool for the right job. And that tool is Lisp.]"

    -- a guy in a Swedish devs group
11. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 10:57:21 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    After years of struggle, I’m finally trying something out.

    friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos…
12. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 23:01:15 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    I’ve not been able to do a complete reset on my buggy MSI yet, but it’s been helpfully encouraging me by suddenly dropping support for the whole Start Menu. It doesn’t open anymore at all. The Windows key has also lost several of its features like bringing up a native emoji picker in any text field (Win + .).

    I found an online article suggesting 9 ways of fixing this known issue that pops in year in year out according to the Microsoft community forums, but none of the first 7 worked, and the last two consist in reinstalling Windows and resetting the computer to factory settings. 😰
    
    

    ♲ @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com: I finally caught it in the act!

    I've complained before about my laptop frequently rebooting on its own friendica.mrpetovan.com/displa…, usually at night. I initially thought it was for Windows Updates, but the increased frequency has made me doubt this.

    This time I caught it rebooting on its own during the day after a blue screen of death too fast for me to see the error code. I went to the Windows Event Log and I saw an error logged after the reboot but nothing specific at the time of the crash itself. It generated a dump I can't open by myself, which is a poor hint at what might be the problem.

    The laptop seller offered me to repair the computer at their facility, but for that I first need to save my data on an external storage as I last transferred my data directly from my old computer to the new. I know I had some 2.5" drives stashed somewhere in my house so I ordered an enclosure.

    However, I'm not able to find the drives anymore so I'll have to order an actual drive since I now have an empty enclosure, which will delay the troubleshooting process further.

    Stay tuned for the next episode of my modern computer woes!
13. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 11:37:00 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    Love when an internal corporate swag email looks exactly like the phishing tests the security team sends periodically.

    I ended up sending it for phishing review.
14. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 14:23:41 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    The main pain point in my #LEGO hobby process is drying the parts of the sets I sell or store. So much so that I finally bought a $100 Williams-Sonoma exclusive salad spinner with a stainless steel basket suitable for “microgreens” and, I assume, the smallest LEGO parts.

    Please like and subscribe for the upcoming unboxing video, followed by a demo and later a tips and tricks segment.

    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 15:14:18 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      @Abdelkader Thanks! I’ve used a plastic basket one before and it was finicky, the thinner parts snuck out and ended up stuck between the basket and the bowl.

      It isn’t perfect either, the double-sided geometry of LEGO parts means that they need to be thoroughly mixed between strain cycles. But it gets more water out than anything else I’ve tried with colanders.

15. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 11:58:19 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    Strong Terry Pratchett's Luggage energy.
    
    

    ♲ @decarpentier_nl@mastodon.gamedev.place: Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See
    decarpentier.nl/carpentopod for project info. (Or come see it live at Maker Days Eindhoven this 14 & 15 Sept.)
    cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedev…
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 08:13:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahlbeck_…

    Mit 522.000 Gästeübernachtungen im Sommerhalbjahr 1938 war Ahlbeck das – nach Kolberg – zweitmeistbesuchte der pommerschen Seebäder im letzten Jahr vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

    Seit 1990

    Nach der politischen Wende wurde ab 1991 der Ortskern im Rahmen der Städtebauförderung gründlich saniert.

    
    Wait a minute, what happened between 1938 and 1990? Did the SS take over the village, and then the Stasi? Why is there a silent gap?

    A friend showed me a picture from one of the hotels. They have a wall with memorial plaques: In 1937 this famous person visited, in 1938 that famous person visited ... umm, in 2006 the Swedish Queen visited, and then in 2007 this other person ...

    Was the hotel renovated from top secret site back to tourist hotel between 1990 and 2006? Had it fallen into disrepair from lack of tourism during the DDR?

    Does anyone here from Vorpommern know something?

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 06:25:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Ton Zijlstra VEBs?
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 11:49:56 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Best Comment: """I once saw an Internet post that said something along the lines of "Emails aren't secure enough. The government should instead hide national secrets in the story part of recipe blogs."
    """

    Ryan George: "If Restaurants Hired Food Bloggers"

    farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

    youtube.com/watch?v=Gyc7cE6vp9…
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 10:39:42 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    This week I learned that there are energy drinks with caffeine *and nicotine* in them.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 07:38:21 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @Alessio Maffeis There is a least one youtuber in the US who drinks them and says they're probably not good for his health but they help him keep his videos on schedule.

      I wonder if they're even legal in Hong Kong. I certainly haven't seen them here. Or maybe I have and just wasn't aware.

19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 12:30:31 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Historia Civilis: "The Trial of Charles I (1649)"

    An abridged reenactment with simple geometric representations of the rooms and parties, really interesting and in parts pretty funny. I learned a lot about this pivotal moment in British history.

    Some really bizarre people in the comments, which is interesting in its own way.

    farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

    youtube.com/watch?v=OPDpj59kkg…
20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 08-Sep-2024 04:22:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    When you quote something and vaguely say "uuuh I think Edgar Allan Poe said that in one of his books", that's a paracite.
    • Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 09-Sep-2024 05:46:43 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)

      in reply to
      wasn't there some korean movie about that?