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@lyse We finally had snow today as well. π I went out for a quick walk immediately, because who knows how long it’ll last. β
1 day ago
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@lyse We finally had snow today as well. π I went out for a quick walk immediately, because who knows how long it’ll last. β
1 day ago
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Reply to #atm7oga
@eapl.me That bee story was so mean! π
1 day ago
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That last story he tells there (about the masked interrupts), that’s what fascinates me about computing. π You’re close to the machine and you’re dealing with interesting problems. I find this way more intriguing than all the “modern” hyped stuff like “““AI”””.
2 days ago
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Reply to #ngkm4ya
@lyse Nice. π One can hope for a white christmas. π
2 days ago
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Reply to #bi76pbq
@stigatle Whoa. π²
3 days ago
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@prologic
> I'm willing to get that Google™ is losing ad revenue from sponsored advertising and sponsors of Youtubers.
That sounds like a plausible explanation to me. (Then again, I have little insight into how “making money on YouTube” works. π
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Like @lyse, I skip these sections immediately, unless it’s just one or two sentences. If it’s too long, I might just close the tab right away. π€·
3 days ago
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@eapl.me There it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDicLHBvQQM π₯³
3 days ago
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Reply to #ghenmeq
@prologic I don’t have a clue if they work or not. π
There are probably studies, but I’m too lazy to search now. π€£
I, myself, don’t remember even having clicked on one of those banners and then proceeded to actually buy something. But what certainly *does* work on me is the effect of hearing/seeing a certain brand over and over again. “Oh, that’s a Logitech mouse, I know that manufacturer.” Stuff like that.
3 days ago
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@prologic What I “love” about this is that the popup randomly disappears after just 1 or 2 seconds – and then reappears a litle while later. π«€
3 days ago
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An excerpt from an interview with Raymond Chen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UCohRKY2ns
The full interview is supposed to get released today. Looking forward to it. π
3 days ago
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Crap! I just realized I never made a backup of my Windows 95 CD. And now I can’t find that CD anymore. My collection is incomplete! π±
3 days ago
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Reply to #7bxj6sq
@lyse @johanbove Speaking of “ss” and “ß”: I regret that we don’t use the “ΕΏ” anymore. π
It’s nice if you can tell “Wachstube” and “WachΕΏtube” apart! π
4 days ago
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Reply to #p5zosmq
@prologic Same! Time to go to bed. :-)
5 days ago
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Reply to #a35ceca
@johanbove Yeah, I think that’s the case with my Epson as well. π«€ (But mine is about 18 years old, so I’m happy that it still works at all.)
5 days ago
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@johanbove I had no idea where it came from. π
There are so many “black `$something`” throughout the year and similar sales events … It was news to me that it’s related to Thanksgiving.
5 days ago
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@shreyan Well, I think it’s more of a workaround than a solution. And there’s a lot of guesswork needed from Firefox – that’s why I probably won’t enable this option. It needs to guess which elements to hide and, if set to the more aggressive option, which elements to *click* (to discard the dialog). That sounds very wonky. π«€
5 days ago
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Firefox’s new option to automatically block/accept cookie banners feels super useful. π At _very, *very*_ wrong. We shouldn’t need this. Oh dear.
6 days ago
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(I think I first saw `for i; do` in Shell-Skript Programmierung by Patrick Ditchen from 2008: German excerpt. They didn’t mention any restrictions on shell versions and I’ve been using it for ages. π
(I’m not too happy that the book uses `for i in $*` as the default template instead of `for i in "$@"`. The book doesn’t care too much about file names with spaces in them.))
1 week ago
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I wonder what Google would even bother to care about Firefox. According to https://netmarketshare.com, Firefox’s market share is around 5% on desktops. That’s still too much for Google, huh?
1 week ago
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Reply to #bsl6gma
@lyse Oops, I must confess that I didn’t check whether that’s POSIX or not. π¬ So, thanks for the link. π
It really is a shame that there’s no guarantee that a shebang of `#!/bin/sh` enforces true and strict POSIX-conformity. This is all so fragile. π
1 week ago
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Reply to #rg3d75q
@xuu Bloody hell, that sounds horrible. Hope you get well soon. π³
1 week ago
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Reply to #rg3d75q
@prologic Gosh, that sucks. I certainly risked similar things, too, though. π«€ I was just lucky. For now.
1 week ago
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Reply to #rg3d75q
@prologic Oof, you caught it in a theme park? π³ I assume this was an outdoors activity?
1 week ago
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Reply to #zbncbhq
@prologic Yeah, you certainly get no argument here when it comes to Ruby. π
(I’m much more familiar with Java, so I don’t perceive the things you listed as a problem there.)
1 week ago
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Reply to #so2i5za
@stigatle Alright, alright, he’s even bigger than I thought. π₯΄ And lol, the dog’s grin when you’re holding him is precious. π
1 week ago
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Reply to #56htoea
@eapl.me Which problems are those? π€
The only “advanced” Tetris I played back then was “Block Out”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpeSH6pbio4
Except it didn’t run nearly as smooth as in this video. π
1 week ago
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Reply to #rg3d75q
Phew, am I the only one around here who hasn’t had Covid (yet)? π€
1 week ago
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Reply to #zbncbhq
@prologic Why, don’t you like it? π
(I’m quite indifferent to most programming languages, but Ruby is “special”. It’s very incompatible with my brain. π¬)
1 week ago
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Reply to #mqgooyq
@lyse Yeah, I actually wanted to buy one of those. The shop where I was didn’t have them, though, only digital ones. I didn’t think much about it and never expected it to need batteries. π«€
1 week ago
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Reply to #zbncbhq
@prologic Well, *finishing* it shouldn’t be too hard. *Finishing it until the 25th* is another story. π
Go, you say? Why not Ruby? π
j/k
1 week ago
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Reply to #a35ceca
@johanbove Printing in general is a bit of a challenge.
What’s your issue? π€
1 week ago
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Reply to #mqgooyq
@lyse I suspect that they put a battery in this time switch (is that the correct word for “Zeitschaltuhr”? π€), so the thing doesn’t lose its settings in cases of power outages. I would have thought there are better ways to do that, though … (Honestly, I wouldn’t care if it lost the settings. It’s irrelevant for my use case. But it was the only model available, so I had no choice anyway.)
1 week ago
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The movie “UFO” popped up on Netflix. Here’s a screenshot:
Are you kidding me? Gillian Anderson and some dude who’s trying to prove that aliens exist? π€£ Déjà-vu …
1 week ago
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@stigatle That’s a really lovely country you’re living in. π I envy you. π
Btw, I saw your video on Mastodon and only then did I realize how big Nanook is. Your photos almost have some kind fisheye effect, which makes him appear much smaller. π
1 week ago
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Hab’ eine Zeitschaltuhr gekauft. Stellt sich raus, braucht Batterien. Wie, Batterien? Du steckst doch in einer 230V-Steckdose, du olles Gerät? Fuck’s sake …
1 week ago
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@lyse Ah, horses. Huh. My first thought was: “People are still riding horses?” π
1 week ago
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I’m currently preparing for this a bit with some skeleton code and a few libraries. I can’t get over the fact that most of the code I’m writing on Linux *just works* on DOS. π³ The C compiler I’m using on DOS is from 1992. π€― Some modern stuff and some POSIX functions are not available, yes, but I can work around that.
1 week ago
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I’m already at 70km this month. Might even crack the 100km. π€ (That might be a bit too much, though. 50-80km a month is good.)
1 week ago
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@lyse What does the sign say on 01.jpg? No cycling? π€
Walks in the rain under an umbrella are great. Feels a bit like camping in a tent, waking up early in the morning to some drizzle …
1 week ago
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There were *so* many geese today. π€― πͺΆ
https://movq.de/v/5277df3fb7
That’s just a small fraction of them, it went on like this for at least 30 minutes.
1 week ago
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@prologic https://movq.de/v/8129acbd2d/everything-1.webm
1 week ago
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Reply to #d55lmza
@mckinley Hmm, I have not perceived this to be much of a problem in the past … but I admit I’m getting quite careless in this regard.
@lyse Asking DuckDuckGo real quick turns up this:
https://docs.libreoffice.org/slideshow.html
So, I guess you don’t get to enjoy nice fancy physics animation effects in `Impress`. π€ͺ
Long story short, I just uninstalled LibreOffice. I hardly need it anymore these days.
1 week ago
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Reply to #zg5lxwq
@lyse Lol, that’s nice as well. π
1 week ago
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```
$ pacman -Qi box2d
Description : 2D rigid body simulation library for games
URL : http://www.box2d.org/
Required By : libreoffice-still <---
```
wat
1 week ago
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@lyse Heh, meetings. You’re gonna love this drawing by kplx.de:
12.jpg is really nice. π
1 week ago
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@lyse Aww, too bad. π₯΄ I went to the `time_t` party and I all I got was this lousy screenshot: https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2023-11-14--katriawm-time_t-party.png
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I think I’m going to do this year’s Advent of Code in C and see how much of it I can get to run on DOS. Not a novel idea, people have been doing that a lot in recent years. I’d just like to join in on that. πΎ
2 weeks ago
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@lyse That usually works, as long as the program in question doesn’t `lseek()`. π€
2 weeks ago
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Wow: Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance
2 weeks ago
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Don’t forget about the upcoming `time_t` party:
$ TZ=UTC date -d @1700000000
Tue Nov 14 10:13:20 PM UTC 2023
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