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1. 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
2. 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…
3. 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!
4. 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.
5. 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.

6. 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…
7. 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?
8. 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…
9. 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.

10. 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…
11. 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?
12. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 04:22:16 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    The full "Be Water" quite by Bruce Lee.

    Kind of surprised I haven't seen that on a T-shirt until today, after an effective 11 years of living in Hong Kong.

    #TShirtSpotting
13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 03:56:22 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    The equinox is almost upon us, the outdoor temperature is slowly falling from unbearable to somewhat reasonable, and for me that means two weeks of some very particular balance of humidity that causes my eyes to go into self-assault. The same thing happens for two weeks in April, a bit after the other equinox.

    I get a lot of eye gravel, my eyes treat that as foreign objects and make gunk to defend itself, then treat the gunk as foreign objects in an evil feedback loop.

    Ironically enough, inserting actual foreign objects, contact lenses, protects the eye against itself and breaks the cycle.
14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 02:23:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    @~~~~~~ Is there an intentional reason why OCRBot replies twice? Sometimes it's the same text, but it seems it's sometimes slightly different.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 02:42:52 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @~~~~~~ No worries, just thought you'd like to know in case it's not intentional.

      My quick guess without knowing anything about your setup is that somehow two instances of the bot might be running? And the slight differences might just be the OCR not being deterministic.

15. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 01:41:23 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    It is very satisfying to be watching GTLive on youtube, and both MatPat and Ash are able to say FNAF without the crutch of calling it Fuhnaf.

    So it *is* possible to be a native English speaker and say a run of "fn" in the beginning of a word!

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 01:43:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      Now I want to hear a US person say "västkustskt" ("of the west coast") and "kvastskaft" ("broom handle").
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 02:30:02 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Thomas
      @Thomas Call out to "Estocolmo" being the official Spanish name for Stockholm. 😊
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 00:45:45 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Typhoon warning lowered from T8 to T3, meaning wind speeds at 42–62 km/h.

    #HongKong #TyphoonYagi

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 09:10:14 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Efraim Flashner

      @Efraim Flashner T1, T3, T8/T9, T10, it's the steps we have. 😊

      There were more originally, but I think these were the ones that made sense in terms of mobilization steps.

      T1: Storm is coming (< 800 km away)
      T3: Strong wind (41 km/h)
      T8: Storm (63 km/h)
      T9: Also storm, but T8 comes with a cardinal direction while this one is all over the place, also T10 probably coming
      T10: Hurricane (118 km/h)

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 09:15:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Efraim Flashner
      @Efraim Flashner The social importance of moving from T8 to T3 is that it's considered safe to walk outside, and buses, outdoor MTR stations, shops etc open again.
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 11:52:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Me, 2014-09-05:

    Today the Python profiler taught me something:

    Why cache the downloaded XML files, when you could be caching the parsed object tree pickled?

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 00:41:29 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      I believe the devices that benefited from that code have been phased out long ago. But it would be cool and kind of typical if that code were still running for some reason.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 00:42:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Hypolite Petovan
      @Hypolite Petovan It's just the way grandma used to make 'em!
18. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 10:35:23 EDT Hubert Chathi
    Wow, Poilievre. First he calls on the NDP to withdraw from their agreement with the Liberals, and then when they actually do it, he calls it a "stunt". I don't know why anyone would trust him.
19. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 07:32:37 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    I remember when large supermarket chains switched to cheaper bags made with 30% less plastics allegedly to “save the environment”. They were so weak cashiers had to double-bag groceries, resulting in a net plastics usage increase.

    Good times.
20. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 08:14:12 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    #MiniReview #Movies Dune: Part 2 (2024) is a faithful continuation of the first movie. A lot of spectacular and pointless fighting and too little but tense intrigue. Overall a good spectacle way showier than the books.

    Awaiting the hopefully last movie in the series. Much like Star Wars, this franchise has the potential to bog down with each subsequent release.