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xuu
Reply to #74h6s4a
its not remote... though its on a mountain side where the land grants allowed monopolies to occur. Pretty wild that it happened but only specific vendors have utility right of ways. Its been in litigation with the city for years.
11 hours ago
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thecanine
The Facebook Messenger Android app user experience:
1) App fails to update, so you have to reinstall it.
2) You login and have to accept all the bullish terms of service again.
3) The loading wheel gets stuck so you have to restart the app and do it all a second time.
4) It tries to download your language and fails, so you have to click "download again" and wait for the app to slowly crunch everything together.
5) Now you can finally use the fucking webapp.
11 hours ago
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lyse
Heck yeah! I saw my first slow worm this year. Very cool. :-) We also came across some art in the woods. Surprisingly, the blackberries in the forest were mellower than the ones on the south side bushes with sun exposure all day long.

14 hours ago
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lyse
Reply to #vyd7h3a
@prologic I will try. Which time was it again?

The search engine is broken:

> Error error parsing created field: parsing time "1689093798000000000" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00": cannot parse "093798000000000" as "-"
15 hours ago
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lyse
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@movq Ah, I did not have a portable diskman. Just a stationary radio with an integrated CD player. Or my parent's stereo. But it's sooo long ago, I can't remember how long switching tracks took. Yeah, on second thought, maybe a second. Well, that actually improved then. Finally. Nice. :-) Loading the CD took several seconds, that's for sure. And some devices were certainly slower than others.
15 hours ago
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movq
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@lyse Yeah, that has nothing to do with fun. 😅

I was thinking back to CD players. Switching tracks took a moment, although I don’t know anymore how long exactly. IIRC, playing CDs on a computer was a bit slower than in a dedicated player.

Don’t worry, switching to the next OGG file on my disk is basically instant. 😅
16 hours ago
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lyse
Reply to #juhuf5a
@prologic @bender Yep, @xuu's watcher would be my guess as well. :-D
17 hours ago
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lyse
Reply to #c7kyxoa
@movq @bender Thanks, mates. I was on the fence with 13 and 15. :-)
17 hours ago
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lyse
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@movq There's a big difference between being usable somehow and having fun using it. My tolerable limits are lower, but yeah. Up to five seconds for the "next track"? What music player are you using? :-D This must happen in way under a second, and luckily, this works here. :-) (But I'm also not streaming my music, it's all on the local disk.)
18 hours ago
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movq
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@lyse But stuff is still “mostly usable”, isn’t it? It’s not like it became impossible to write a letter because everything has gotten so slow.

That’s what I meant by “absolute” performance: A human being tolerates a system boot up time of 0.5-2 minutes, for example, so there’s an absolute/fixed duration that any task is allowed to take. Boot: 0.5-2 minutes. Opening Word: 1-10 seconds. Saving an image file: 1-10 seconds. Time until the next song starts to play when you click “next track”: 0-5 seconds. Stuff like that. As long as we don’t exceed those durations, people will be more or less happy.

Wasted potential? Ab-so-fucken-lutely.

(Maybe I’m repeating myself. I’m tired. Sorry. 😅)
1 day ago
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movq
Reply to #c7kyxoa
@lyse Uhh, nice. Haven’t seen a sunset like that in a while, I think. 🤔
1 day ago
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xuu
Reply to #74h6s4a
@bender haha funny! though i just realized my ISP is the only one with fiber pulled to the property so i would have to get a phone line from them some how. The other ISP in the area is basically a mobile hotspot.
1 day ago
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lyse
Reply to #2rxkcca
@abucci Can you please check if you reported @xuu's IP address 162.211.155.2 on mistake and let his ISP know that this was some false alarm? They're monitoring his traffic to your server and treating this as continued abuse. :-(

(His twts have been synced to your yarnd by yarnd's gossip protocol.)
1 day ago
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xuu
Reply to #2rxkcca
> We received the abuse report below regarding network abuse from the IP address indicated.
> On researching I see that HTTPS (tcp 443) traffic is continuing and originating from you NAT IP address 100.64.x.x
> This was further found to be originating from your firewall/router at 192.168.x.x (MAC D8:58:D7:x:x:x).
> This abuse is continuing and constitues a violation of [ISP] Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service.
> Please take action to identify the source of the abuse and prevent it from continuing.
> Failure to stop the abuse may result in suspension or cancellation of service.
>
> Thank you,
1 day ago
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xuu
Reply to #2rxkcca
he emailed my ISP about causing logging abuse. This is the only real ISP in my area, its gonna basically send me back to dialup.
1 day ago
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lyse
Reply to #2rxkcca
@abucci Just making sure you're seeing @xuu's twt, in case he's still on your blacklist:

> Hey so.. i just got an email from my ISP saying they will terminate my service. Did i break something @abucci ?
>
> – https://txt.sour.is/twt/oohzbqa
1 day ago
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xuu
Reply to #2rxkcca
Hey so.. i just got an email from my ISP saying they will terminate my service. Did i break something @abucci ?
1 day ago
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lyse
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@movq My issue is, now that we have the chance of getting something fast, people artificially slow it down again. Wether they think it's cool that they added some slow animation or just lack of knowledge or whatever. The absolute performance does not translate to the relative performance that I observe. Completely wasted potential. :-(

In today's economy, nobody optimizes something if it can be just called good enough with the next generation hardware. That's especially the mindset of big coorporations.

Anyway, getting sidetracked from the original post. :-)
1 day ago
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lyse
Reply to #c7kyxoa
@prologic Yup. Didn't regret climbing these three hundred odd meters of elevation. :-)
1 day ago
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lyse
Reply to #ug2ndqa
@stigatle Worky, worky now! :-)

Mate, these are some really nice gems! What a stunning landscape. I love it. Holy cow, that wooden church looks really sick. Even though, I'm not a scroll guy and prefer simple, straight designs, I have to say, that the interior craftmanship is something to admire.
1 day ago
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movq
What the heck is going on here today, so many messages. 😂
1 day ago
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lyse
Reply to #ug2ndqa
@stigatle Welcome back! I don't know what's going on, but all the photos fail to load for me. Wget reports decoding errors for the received TLS packets. :-?
2 days ago
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lyse
Went for a walk onto my backyard mountain again and ate the first three wild blackberries of the season. Watching the sunset unfold from the summit was quite spectacular. The solar disk was glowing extremely blood red. The photos show it way too white, though.

Blood red sunset

More: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-07-24/
2 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #ndodcuq
@xuu Interesting!
2 days ago
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xuu
Reply to #ndodcuq
i imagine this is the agreement that the lower plebs are stuck in. Larger enterprise accounts wont fall under these agreements. When I worked a hospital we would get agreements like this with contracts and the legal would line out things like this add new language and send them back.
2 days ago
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movq
Reply to #sderf2q
@prologic … what was that again? 🤔😅🤪
2 days ago
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movq
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@lyse I guess it’s all about “absolute” performance. Everything is *just* fast enough for you to get stuff done – no matter the underlying machine. LibreOffice today on my modern machine takes the same time to start up as StarOffice (its ancestor) on my retro machine. And working with it feels the same, everything is just as fast (or slow).

Browsing the web today feels similar to 25 years ago. Even all this wobbling that my link above demonstrates already existed back then (in a way), but it was caused by images loading so slowly. Then, for a brief moment, some browser (I don’t remember which one) had this brilliant feature of trying to keep the current scrolling position *stable* while the page was still loading. That was great. 😃 This feature then got lost again, probably because it’s too hard to do with JavaScript changing the DOM all the time. So now we’re back to the way it was before.

Corporations should give devs the slowest and oldest machines that they have. 😏 Not only would this be more sustainable, it would also force them to optimize better.
3 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #g6v4kxq
@movq It's fascinating how people always find ways to completely waste all gained resource improvements and speedups and beyond, so every new and more powerful computer actually feels like a big step backwards. :-( The web shit is particularly terrible.
3 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #ndodcuq
@prologic I reckon, it's just so that they can say: "Oh, whoopsy daisy. Too bad that you fell for our trap. Sorry, it's entirely your own fault. Go away, leave us alone."

The bullet point 8.6 continues right away (I forgot the ellipsis in my initial quote, excuse me):

> […] Customer agrees that it is Customer’s responsibility to ensure safe use of an Offering and the CrowdStrike Tools in such applications and installations. CROWDSTRIKE DOES NOT WARRANT ANY THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.

And in the one before that:

> 8.5 No Guarantee. CUSTOMER ACKNOWLEDGES, UNDERSTANDS, AND AGREES THAT CROWDSTRIKE DOES NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT IT WILL FIND, LOCATE, OR DISCOVER ALL OF CUSTOMER’S OR ITS AFFILIATES’ SYSTEM THREATS, VULNERABILITIES, MALWARE, AND MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, AND CUSTOMER AND ITS AFFILIATES WILL NOT HOLD CROWDSTRIKE RESPONSIBLE THEREFOR.

In other words: "Just give us your money and hope for the best. It might work. Maybe." Nope, of course it doesn't.
3 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #exdpxpa
Thanks, @aelaraji! :-) I nearly missed it, because the shutters are closed to keep the heat out.
3 days ago
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movq
Wayland wants to make *every frame perfect*. I wish web devs had the same goal. Instead, we’re stuck with this:

https://movq.de/v/112a927861/hiccupfx/

😂😭
3 days ago
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movq
Reply to #haiwbdq
@prologic Most of the things that cause my frustration are things that I can’t change or even avoid. There’s little benefit in complaining about it, I think. 🤔
3 days ago
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movq
I’m putting all efforts to switch to Wayland on hold for another 2 years, minimum.

As we all know, writing a Wayland compositor from scratch is next to impossible. Luckily, there’s the wlroots project which aims to build a base library for this task. Basically every compositor except for GNOME and KDE uses it. (This is good! The less fragmentation, the better.)

wlroots is still very volatile, lots of changes with every release. Downstream users (i.e., the projects that write the actual compositor) have to constantly “chase” changes in wlroots. dwl, my favorite compositor at the moment, has recently switched their `main` branch to target the wlroots *git* version instead of the latest release. My understanding is that they *have* to do this in order to keep up with wlroots (maybe I’m wrong).

Everything is volatile and a moving target.

Why does any of this matter for me? Because I have to eventually fork dwl or at least keep a patch set, and I don’t have the stamina to constantly fiddle with this stuff. I’m running my own X11 window manager, it’s highly specialized, and using just “some Wayland compositor out there” is a *huge* step backward that I’m not willing to take. I tried, it’s just painful and annoying with *zero* benefits.

So … it was fun experimenting with Wayland a bit, but I’m now back to waiting for things to settle down considerably.
3 days ago
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lyse
This sunset was nicer in person: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2024-07-22/

Sunset
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #lu7gjvq
@prologic @lyse It’s better this way. 😂 I don’t like all this negativity in tech. We tend to focus on bad aspects too much, imho. Then again, it’s *really easy* to focus on bad stuff, simply because there’s so much of it. 😂
4 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #lu7gjvq
@movq What a pity for all the effort!
4 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #ndodcuq
It's also funny to read their terms and conditions:

> 8.6 […] THE OFFERINGS AND CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.

That's why all airports remained operational. Oh wait…
4 days ago
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movq
Today is one of those days where I’m really grumpy and have typed out lots and lots of rants. Luckily, I all deleted them in the end instead of sending them. 😂
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #ndodcuq
@prologic They all gave Crowdstrike root access to their machines. What could possibly go wrong? 🤷🤷🤷
4 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #bl7a36a
@movq No, no, not snarky at all. That's just their Aussie name. :-)
5 days ago
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mckinley
Reply to #sj2bhjq
The end-to-end encryption means very little if you have your messages backed up in iCloud because the encryption keys are also stored with the messages in iCloud according to this FBI document. If that's the case, Apple can definitely read your messages as well as (obviously) any government agency who can make a legal request to Apple.
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #bl7a36a
@lyse Oh, ok, somehow I thought this was not your thing. 😅 Maybe I was misled by you calling them “Acca Dacca”, which felt somewhat derogative. But I just found @mckinley’s twt `gaapgna` from a while ago – so this is just normal Aussie slang for AC/DC?! 🤯🥴
5 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #o53yanq
@prologic Right, I hate it. I'd stick to regular pagination and page sizes that are reasonable large. But if you think another approach is better, go for it. It's your sofware after all.
5 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #o53yanq
Ah, thanks, @bender! Yeah, that combines the disadvantages of both approaches and successfully throws away the advantages. I actually know at least two webshops with that terrible UI.
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #dk5cxea
@eldersnake

> I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time

Hmmmmmmm, I like that idea. If I could ban WhatsApp into a second profile and only switch it on every now and then, I would feel a little bit better about it.

(I don't really trust Android, though, and I suspect that apps can still install background services that are *always* active. Pure speculation and paranoid on my part, but still.)
6 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #o53yanq
@prologic What's that?
6 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #ttjvaya
@prologic Just look at their website. Yesterday, there was this quote, it's already gone by now:

> Cybersecurity’s AI-native platform for the XDR era

Mo-mo-mo-monster bingo!

Someone archived this screnshot, that I've also seen yesterday: https://assets.chaos.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/812/257/953/926/994/original/c9de6459751f2ebf.png „Your company can be ruined in just 62 minutes“ Luckily, ClownStrike can shorten this timeframe even more. :-D

@movq I hope all admins can at least tell management: Told you so! But of course, no manager gets fired for their bloody stupid decision.

@xuu We got several e-mails about this whole desaster at work.
6 days ago
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