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@aelaraji LOL which I block on purpose 🤣
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prologic
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@aelaraji LOL which I block on purpose 🤣
12 minutes ago
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movq
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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. 😭
6 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji Bahahaha 🤣 The domain for that image is blocked on my local network 😅 
16 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji Good luck! 🤞
1 day ago
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prologic
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@mckinley I see 🤔
1 day ago
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movq
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@rrraksamam You sure that’s enough? My laptop already has 32 GB RAM. You gotta pump those numbers up!
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #66sdgyq
@mckinley What happened to it? 🤔
1 day ago
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movq
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. 🥴
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #5dwby2a
@movq To be fair Twtxt has always been quite niche. Yarn picked up interest a bit a few years back, but then things died down a bit. I built `yarnd` for me, I continue to use it and improve it every now and again. But I guess the only uses we'll continue to see and that includes new folks are folks that give a shit about simple things, and see value in a slow, privacy focused medium? 🤔
2 days ago
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movq
Reply to #5dwby2a
@prologic Not a lot left, huh 🤔
2 days ago
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prologic
Cut my following list down to just a mere ~47 feeds. ~11 rss/news feeds, 23 local feeds from my pod, and 13 external feeds.
2 days ago
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movq
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.
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #d3drzhq
@news Err I meant "junk" 🤣 (_too late to edit, cbf editing it manually or via the API/CLI 😅_)
3 days ago
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news
New feature (_not a great UX, sorry 😞_) that displays the last fetched feed status, last error (_if any_) and error count in your "Following" list. Check it out and cleanup your feeds for "hunk" 👌
3 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Could also just be a shitty antenna 😅
3 days ago
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prologic
I just unfollowed some ~200+ feeds that are basically dead "404 Not Found" 😳
3 days ago
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movq
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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 …)
3 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Well I used to have a handheld GPS device, probably before I lost most of my sight. I didn't really feel that it took ~12m to get a fix, it was usually much faster. You _may_ just find that all this A-GPS thing is all just bullshit anyway and just an excuse to collect and store your GPS location on some random web server that someone else owns 🤣
3 days ago
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movq
Reply to #iefub6q
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. 😂
3 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #kfr5vja
If Sam Altman really wanted "AI" to be in the hands of the people, he a) Should not have made deals with multiple devils that turned OpenAI into a proprietary company. b) Sold most of the company to Microsoft.
3 days ago
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prologic
hey @oevl you're still around right? I'm not imagining it 😅 How are ya? 🤔
3 days ago
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movq
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
3 days ago
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movq
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”. 🙄
3 days ago
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movq
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 … 🙈🙈🙈
4 days ago
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movq
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@mckinley Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh! 🙈🙈🙈 What a mess …
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #f5xzzha
@mckinley Wow, nice. 😍
4 days ago
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movq
Reply to #ghroc5q
@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.
4 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #yonaqra
@mckinley Looks pretry interestinf 🤔
4 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #hw74veq
Sorry folks, it was a total disaster 🤣 Had to disable the new feature 😢
- ran out of disk space
- blew up the db on this pod (_corrupted_)
- lots of missing features and. broken shit™
5 days ago
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prologic
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And we're back!
5 days ago
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news
Reply to #3kqbdxq
@news And we're back!
5 days ago
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news
👋 This Pod (https://twtxt.net) will go offline for ~15m shortly, while I perform an offline index of the archive.
5 days ago
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prologic
👋 This Pod (https://twtxt.net) will go offline for ~15m shortly, while I perform an offline index of the archive.
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #hw74veq
@xuu You got any time/energy to help me test this? 🤔 There's a process for indexing an existing archive too...
5 days ago
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prologic
Okay, I've built full search capabilities for `yarnd` 😅 Let's see how many bugs I've created 🤣
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq I _think_ my daughter might be finally 🤔 She's 9 now and getting into table tennis 🏓 whoot whoot! 🥳 So... Maybe...
5 days ago
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prologic
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Yeah nothing being logged, so all the "golden paths" are being executed hmm 🧐
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #qmttc3q
@bmallred I don't think so. Let me check my pod's logs now though that I know you're pulling me feed.... One sec...
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #phld5ba
@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? 😂)
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq Yeah I'll see if I can get back into this, everytime I see you post stuff like this it makes me want to go out again 🤣 Bit hard for a blind guy to do it all, but still I try 😅
5 days ago
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prologic
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The weird this is I still see your profile as
> bmallred may not follow you
I _assume_ you share your followings publicly, I see them on your feed, so I _assume_ so. I was going to debug this on my side too today to see if.I goofed something up but my pod is rather busy so I hadn't done that yet 😅 (_actually working again finally on search_)
5 days ago
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prologic
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@bmallred D'oh 😅 Just in the nick of time haha 😜 Good o, I'm very pleased this all works across very different pieces of software 👌
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #phld5ba
@prologic Right! I think I remember 😅
5 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq Oh that's hilarious 😆 I have the exact same setup (_minus any filters, I only have those for my Celestron NextStar 4SE telescope_) 🔭
5 days ago
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movq
Reply to #phld5ba
@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.
5 days ago
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prologic
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@movq Wow! 🤩 That is impressive! 👌 Do you mind sharing how you went about doing this? 🙏
5 days ago
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movq
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. 😎
5 days ago
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movq
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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. 😳
5 days ago
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movq
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?
5 days ago
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prologic
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@movq Look forward to the results 🤞
5 days ago
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