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@lyse
> O_o Software problem, it can't be helped.
https://movq.de/v/961aef2366/nsfw068-willkommen-im-kapitalismus.ogg (This was originally about an iPhone, IIRC, but it fits many situations. 🥴)
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> O_o Software problem, it can't be helped.
https://movq.de/v/961aef2366/nsfw068-willkommen-im-kapitalismus.ogg (This was originally about an iPhone, IIRC, but it fits many situations. 🥴)
16 hours ago
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@stigatle Nice indeed. 👍 (That is a lot of houses in a rather small area. I somehow expected there to be way more space between you and your neighbors. 😅)
17 hours ago
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Reply to #fqdfnyq
@lyse What can you do against spam on jabber? 🤔
17 hours ago
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Reply to #b3b5eyq
@lyse Yep, this was pre-“everything comes from China/Asia”. My keyboard was made in the UK: https://movq.de/v/ac83b493f6/model-m.ff.jpg
17 hours ago
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H e i l i g e r S p e r r s a t z , B a t m a n !
1 day ago
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OS/2 2.0 wasn’t much of a success, huh? So, sure, go ahead and repurpose those disks. 😂
https://movq.de/v/5ad2630508/IMG_20240519_072303.jpg-small.jpg
1 day ago
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Reply to #px274va
@aelaraji Yeah, there is no guarantee with any of these things, it can all be faked or ignored. 🫤 I’m still going to do it in the hopes that *some* of those bots respect it.
3 days ago
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Reply to #6wcpwma
@mckinley I just got bitten by this again: I would make *passive mode* the default mode of FTP. 🥴
3 days ago
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Reply to #sp3wdea
I spent some more time with StarOffice 3.1 and it is indeed a bit clunky (of course it is, it’s from 1996). For example, a table of contents does not update automatically – you have to delete it and re-insert it. Sometimes it has graphical glitches. Font rendering isn’t too great.
And yet, I wish we would use this instead of `$the_other_thing` at work. It’s much faster (on my Pentium 133!) and more featureful. 🫤 (Or, you know, StarOffice’s modern descendant: LibreOffice.)
3 days ago
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Okay, GPS performance has degraded a lot over the last few days.
- Time to first fix is a couple of minutes now, instead of 5-30 seconds.
- Accuracy is reduced greatly, probably because the phone can one lock on to about 6-12 satellites, this used to be around 30 satellites.
In theory and under good conditions, you need 4 satellites to get a fix. But in reality, there are rarely “good conditions”, there are always buildings, hills, or trees nearby, so you need as many satellites as you can possibly get.
It’s not *completely useless* (yet), but it’s not great. I think I’m gonna lift some firewall restrictions. 🫤
3 days ago
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@prologic Ahhh, I right, now I remember. That `ai.txt` boils down to this, I guess:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /
3 days ago
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… or maybe I should do this based on allowlisting rather than blocklisting. 🤔 Only allow a couple of bots that I think are fine …
3 days ago
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Anyone got a link to a robots.txt that “blocks” all the “AI” stuff?
3 days ago
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Reply to #sp3wdea
I was able to dig up StarOffice 3.1, which I used in the 1990’ies on Windows 95. This was the highlight of my day. 🥰 As you can see in the photo below, this CD includes a version for Windows 3.1, 95/NT – and OS/2! How cool is that? My CD back then did not have the OS/2 version.
StarWriter of StarOffice 3.1 can do a lot of the stuff that I’m missing in the tool at work. Like automatic numbering of sections/chapters and cross-references to other parts of the document. Essential basic stuff like that.
All the following screenshots are from QEMU VMs (OS/2 2.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows 98), but I think I’m gonna install this on my real OS/2 Warp 4 box soon. 🧓
https://movq.de/v/eebbe648a5/
What really blew my mind is this feature, though: You can rearrange your document’s structure using drag-and-drop. Here’s a demo (Window 2000):
https://movq.de/v/67523d0d3f/so31.mp4
I really, really wish the tool at work would have a feature like that. It would have saved me so much time already. 😭
4 days ago
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Reply to #xpz5p3a
@rrraksamam You sure that’s enough? My laptop already has 32 GB RAM. You gotta pump those numbers up!
5 days ago
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Reply to #5dwby2a
@prologic Yeah, I was just surprised by that low number, because I still have 126 feeds in my list. Buuuuuut I guess I could clean that up a bit as well. 🥴
6 days ago
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Reply to #5dwby2a
@prologic Not a lot left, huh 🤔
6 days ago
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Reply to #sd3pb4q
@aelaraji lol, yeah, that would be great 😂
@lyse @mckinley Huh, I envy you. 😅 I was browsing my GitHub stars, clicked `Next` a couple of times and then hit the `back` button on my mouse. Boom, I don’t get back to the previous page but to my profile page: https://github.com/vain?tab=stars
At work, it is absolutely pointless to expect forward/backward to work. *Almost everything* breaks. Maybe some older Jira still works, but that’s about it.
6 days ago
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@prologic I sure hope you’re right. 😅 I’d love nothing more than not having to rely on the internet for this. 🤞
(I clearly remember sitting in my car and waiting an eternity to get a fix, though. I’d regularly start the GPS device and then continue to load up my bags/stuff into the car because it took so long. 😅 Maybe it was just a shitty device, who knows …)
1 week ago
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The GPS satellites transmit an almanac, a (coarse) list of all satellite positions:
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog862/node/1739
That’s apparently crucial for a low “time to first fix” and, as I understand it, that’s where A-GPS comes into play: Downloading this information from the satellites takes about 12.5 minutes, but downloading it via the internet (A-GPS) is much faster.
So the question is: How long is this data valid for? It’s a bit hard to find information on this … It looks like it’s valid for several *weeks*:
https://flysight.ca/wiki/index.php/Almanac_and_ephemeris
If true, it would mean the situation is much less dramatic than I thought. 😅 I go on a walk every couple of days and that gives the device more than enough time to download an updated almanac. So, I *guess* I should be fine without A-GPS *if* I regularly use (standard) GPS for an hour or so. 🤔
We’ll see. This might take a couple of months to find out. 😂
1 week ago
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Reply to #sp3wdea
I’m gonna need some medication if I have to keep doing this. 😬 It’s infuriating.
Automatically numbered sections, 1978 in `nroff` / `ms`: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-Release/usr/man/man7/ms.7#L231-L233
1 week ago
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Thinking about disabling the two extra buttons for “forward” and “backward” on my mouse, because today’s websites don’t support this anymore, and it’d safe me the constant moments of “oh for fuck’s sake”. 🙄
1 week ago
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Reply to #ghroc5q
I’m (just) old enough to have experienced the German Democratic Republic first hand and if they had had *any* of these capabilities … 🙈🙈🙈
1 week ago
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@mckinley Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh! 🙈🙈🙈 What a mess …
1 week ago
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Reply to #f5xzzha
@mckinley Wow, nice. 😍
1 week ago
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@mckinley Thanks for the info. 🤔
This is quite bizarre. Why are we accepting this? 🤔 I guess it just doesn’t matter to people when they use Google for everything anyway (mail, Google Drive, …) … 😒 Bah.
It’s extra “funny” in my case, because I run that Matrix server myself, so I assumed that data is only sent between that server and the clients. But no, of course not, lots of things still get shoved through Google and Apple. 😂😭 How silly.
1 week ago
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@prologic That must be hard indeed. 🤔 Are the kids old enough to be interested in this kind of stuff? (Are kids in generall still interested in this? 😂)
1 week ago
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@prologic Right! I think I remember 😅
1 week ago
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@prologic Thanks 😅
This is my setup, I *think* I posted these before:
It’s a Celestron Ultima 100 (originally bought for bird watching, not a telescope) with a special adapter so that I can mount my Canon EOS 600D directly. The sun filter is just a generic filter for 100mm scopes. The tripod isn’t very good and actually rather annoying. 😂
It’s not a very complicated setup. 🤔 Being able to mount the camera directly is crucial.
1 week ago
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I was able to take a photo of the large sunspots that made the news these days:
https://www.uninformativ.de/pics/photo/astro/2024-05-11--IMG_7512-sun-AR3664.jpg
It’s not a super high quality shot, my scope isn’t good enough for that. Still cool to see. 😎
1 week ago
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@aelaraji It would appear so. 🤔 (I’m too lazy to set that up, though, I rather just don’t use notifications. They’re not *that* important in this case.)
I was not aware that I needed a cloud service for something as (seemingly) simple as local app notifications. 😳
1 week ago
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Another thing that doesn’t work anymore after blocking network traffic from my Android phone: Some push notifications.
I run a Matrix server for our family. I use “FluffyChat” on my phone. Traffic from the phone to my Matrix server is allowed and chatting in FluffyChat works.
But I don’t get any notifications anymore on new messages.
So, what’s going on here? Does FluffyChat, which only really needs to talk to my own server, rely on some cloud service *for notifications*? Seriously? 🤔 How does that work, does this cloud service see all my notifications or what?
Anyone around who did app development on Android? Can you shed some light on this?
1 week ago
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(The old device I’m referring to was a handheld device. It was not built into the car and was not running 24/7.)
1 week ago
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Reply to #iefub6q
I’ll make an experiment: I’ll keep blocking all the phone’s internet traffic and then we’ll see how bad the GPS performance will get in a couple of hours/days. 😅 (If I got it all wrong and it still works fine, that’d be great!)
1 week ago
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Reply to #iefub6q
@prologic Regarding the static URL: The hostname at least is a CNAME record and resolves to something at cloudfront. What I meant was that I, as a user, cannot configure this URL anywhere in the Android UI. 🤔
1 week ago
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@prologic Hmm, have you used a GPS device 15, 20 years ago? I had one in my car. It would take a long time until it got a first “fix” of your location. That’s because it can take up to 12 minutes until you have gathered all the data directly from the satellites. These days, GPS trackers on smartphones get a fix within seconds, maybe 30 seconds tops, because they get pre-seeded with (approximated) satellite positions via A-GPS.
We also not only have the USA’s GPS these days but also other satellite systems like the EU’s Galileo or Russia’s Glonass. A-GPS helps you get “in contact” quickly with *more* satellites, which enhances the precision quite a lot.
So, yeah, you *can* use it without A-GPS. But it would be very annoying and imprecise. I bought a new phone last year and A-GPS was broken on that one (I saw no internet traffic at all), which made it basically useless, to the point where I wouldn’t want to use it at all. I sent it back and bought another model.
To my knowledge, the only way to use GPS without something like A-GPS is to have it turned on all the time, so you get regular updates directly from the satellites.
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One thing I’ve learned from locking down my Android phone (see #pknsrda):
The data for assisted GPS does not come from *Google* or, better yet, *A PUBLIC SERVICE*, but from a server hosted by the *hardware manufacturer*. Without regularly fetching fresh A-GPS data, the GPS performance is *much* worse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS).
This means that the hardware manufacturer has (more or less) direct control over whether I’m able to use GPS or not. This isn’t an Android setting, it’s buried deep within the device, no way to change the URL. If that manufacturer decides one day to cut me off, for whatever reason, or goes bankrupt or whatever, then I’ll have to buy a new phone.
And of course, this data transfer is encrypted as well, so I don’t know what my phone sends to those servers.
All this smartphone business is such a clusterfuck. I should have never bought one of those things.
1 week ago
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@prologic Thanks. I expected this to take *much* longer. 😅
1 week ago
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Whoohoo, it’s fixed. 🥳 Now I can look at funny pictures again!
I took the opportunity to remove some dependencies on the internet from my workflow. Actually, outages like these are healthy.
1 week ago
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This is going to take a while … See ya in a couple of days/weeks.
1 week ago
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I have a day off, national holiday.
What happened so far:
- Internet outage since early in the morning. Still going on.
- Unable to reach a human being at my ISP, so I hope they mean it when the computer voice says "we know it, we're on it". 🤣
- systemd (PID 1) crashed. Might be partially my fault, but meh.
I take this as a sign to not do any computer stuff today. 🤣
1 week ago
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@prologic Doesn’t matter. Far, far away! From everything! That’s where I’d go. 😂
1 week ago
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Ran a few tests.
Copying data from the NAS’s encrypted ZFS pool to the USB disk’s encrypted btrfs runs at ~20 MByte/s. That is for a single 1 GB file of random data. Cold caches, `sync` included.
That same USB disk with the same btrfs can sustain ~75 MByte/s when I use it on my workstation (i7-3770).
And indeed, the `aes` flag does not show up in the output of `lscpu` on the NAS.
I’ll try to tweak some things about this, but it might be time for an upgrade … 🫤 (Or I’ll have to re-think the entire thing somehow.)
1 week ago
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@mckinley It’s probably a bit faster, but not much. Maybe 20-30 MByte/s (I watched one 40 GB file being copied and it took 20-30 minutes or something like that.)
I need to optimize this. 🥴
1 week ago
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The “annoying” thing about hardware these days is that it basically keeps working “forever”. At least much, much longer that you’d expect.
Now that I think about it … I only remember *one* PC of mine actually dying because of a hardware failure – and that was probably because I did too much overclocking. 😂 If it wasn’t for changes in *software*, I could probably still use them all. I mean, why not, my Pentium 133 still works and I use it for gaming regularly.
So … my little NAS probably won’t die any time soon. Hmmm.
1 week ago
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@mckinley Not really sure, to be honest. _Probably_ a couple hundred GB … ? 🤔 With the *changed* data, it might be half a TB to transfer? I’m just guessing.
Let’s see how it goes next time. I don’t expect to add much data any time soon. (On the other hand, I’ll swap the USB disks for the next run, so it’ll take the same ~9 hours, again. Meh.)
I think the solution is to have less data. 😈
1 week ago
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Reply to #e24exeq
@lyse Yeah, only ~30 of the ~133 feeds I’m following have had a twt in the last month … 56 in the last year. Some had their last twt in 2016. 🫤
1 week ago
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Reply to #7gwktxq
@prologic From the DOM? That can’t be right. 😳😳😳
1 week ago
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@prologic It always fetches the canonical feed URL and, when it can’t find the latest twt hash (that it saw in the previous run) it traverses the archived feeds until it does find it. Something along those lines.
I just got one such notification:
Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 15:56:01 +0200
From: me@pinguin
To: me@pinguin
Subject: [regularly] jenny
Fetching archived feed https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/1 (configured as prologic, https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt)
Fetching archived feed https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/2 (configured as prologic, https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt)
Fetching archived feed https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/3 (configured as prologic, https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt)
Fetching archived feed https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/4 (configured as prologic, https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt)
Fetching archived feed https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/5 (configured as prologic, https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt)
Now, your feed did *not* get archived, as far as I can tell. So why am I getting this then? Have you edited a twt just now? That would explain it. 😅
1 week ago
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@prologic Strip it from what? From requests being sent to the server? That’s always been the case, afaik. 🤔
1 week ago
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