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@bender@twtxt.net It certainly doesn’t here. I’ve even traced it’s network calls. it makes none.

The man command does not calls home. Not on my macOS 26, at least, but it shouldn’t on any other.

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, I see. Yeah, you might be right. (Still a fragile process due to the general AI wonkiness, but it can help to some degree, yes.)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I guess I wasn’t talking about the speed of interesting text/context, but more the “slowness” of these tools. I think I can build/ solutions and fix bugs faster most of the time? Hmmm 🤔 I think the only thing it’s able to do better than me is grasp large codebases and do pattern machines a bit better, mostly because we’re limited by the interfaces we have to use and in my ase being vision impaired doesn’t help :/

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, although I have a feeling that speech recognition or other means of entering text could be better and much less computationally intensive. 🤔

Hmmm 🧐 I’m annectodaly not convinced so-called “AI”(s) really save time™. – I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbers… – But, there is one benefit… It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.

GTK2 about to be removed from the official Arch repos: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/2BDHYLEFSYQBDTMUOZT5J6AFTA5M3FO6/

It’ll probably all be dropped to the AUR, so I can build this myself, because I still have some stuff that depends on it (and will never receive further updates).

Should be rolling out soon™

Fixed following page template bug so cached feed counts render without errors. cc @bender@twtxt.net

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Kommt auf meine Leseliste. Ist ja eh bald Winter.

@anth@a.9srv.net I’ve never seen my Mac do this? Hmmm 🤔

The most infuriating 3 seconds of using this Mac every day are the first time I run man and it calls home to see if I’m allowed to do that.

Okay I think it’s working now

Hmmm nope. I think I’ve fucked up my network for use with self-hsoted WebRTC. This isn’t a PeerCalls thing at all, this is just me.

See if that fixes it? hmmm

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ahh cool! Gatherly needs a “Maybe” for RSVP(s) :)

@bender@twtxt.net It used to work just fine™ - I wonder if it’s my WAF? Lemme turn the WAF off for this tie…

personal favourite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGfZhkBgR9Q

Fogo :‘( Soft Cell é daquelas bandas que me deixaram triste por não as ter encontrado mais cedo na vida, tão brilhantes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg1rrzn1kwo

Sobre o assunto da impotência do design, não percam o que diz e escreve o @entreprecariat@entreprecariat

São alturas como esta que me convencem da incapacidade do design conseguir abordar qualquer problema de ordem social. Enquanto designer, sinto-me bem distante do que vejo ser o discurso da área.

A sério, “happisodes”? :blobfacepalm:

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Querem ver que todos os takes sarcásticos sobre a empresa das camas inteligentes na verdade serviram para lhes fazer publicidade?

https://www.theverge.com/news/804289/eight-sleep-smart-bed-aws-outage-overheating-offline

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net I might join, but cannot tell for sure at the moment.

This was a great read, btw. 😃 If you liked Event Horizon, this is for you. I’m gonna get her other two scifi books as well, that’s for sure.

O Público a dar 4 estrelas à porcaria da xbox portátil, megalol

My opinion, Meet is kind of crappy.

@prologic@twtxt.net hmmm:

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://meet.mills.io/ws/Yarn.social/l3oVrknUnjZo2zSQoGlOX3.

@bender@twtxt.net I think so. Have to retest it though :)

Oh, also, have you fixed https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social already? It didn’t work the other day.

@prologic@twtxt.net so far, yup. I recommend to make the event banner bigger. I almost missed the details of it, as the text is quite tiny.

So just @bender@twtxt.net and I attending our monly call eh?

All that’s true! – However I am very competitive (usually with myself!)

Unless your masochist spirit requires/demands it, I don’t see a reason to do something that will pressure, stress, and leave you exhausted. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net No pressure! This is meant to be fun. 😅

Fuck me sideways, trying to repair stuff that isn’t meant to be repaired is such a pain. So many pointless obstacles.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think if I was younger, with more energy, and wasn’t blind with leber’s disease (look it up) I’d be fine™ But yeah I get the whole “exhausting” apart. I’ll join you this year, since there’s only 12 puzzles and as you say, we can “take our time” it might actually be fun! (as opposed to exhausting and pressured).

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, lots of people are welcoming this change, saying they are relieved that there are fewer puzzles. And ngl, I, too, have been very exhausted at the end of the month. It’s a lot of fun and I loved it each time, but yeah, it can be exhausting.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is actually a good positive change I think!

Personally, I’ll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. 😅

I might even do AoC this year with the elevated stress/pressure! – The last few times I’ve tried, I’ve always felt far too much pressure and felt like a failure 😞 (mostly ya know because of my vision impairment, I couldn’t keep up!)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de My impression also is that good sysadmins are missing. No wonder if they all get laid off because they’re “not doing anything” and developers can just operate their shit themselves. Or so the bosses and plenty devs think. Sadly, that’s the general view.

Hell no, devops is bullshit in my opinion. Most developers (including myself) are rather bad at administrating. A good sysadmin offers other skills. Great admins appear to just sit around, but they’re much more proactively working than programmers who also operate the same stuff. The latter have a waaay more reactive work model in comparison. When things have already gone south. The sysadmin, on the other hand, would have noticed and thus prevented the vast majority very early on when it was far from becoming a problem in the future.

At least that’s my personal experience in all those years in different projects and what my mates tell me from their companies. Sure, skills can be learned, but it’s just not happening (enough). And obviously, there are people out there who excel in both disciplines, but they are rare. Most fall in one of the categories. Not to forget, plenty are just bad at everything. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, we like to be paranoid. We’ve been right so many times. Unfortunately.

Triad Prague, is perhaps the only mainstream “Contemporary advertising” company, who fucking AI generates “pixelart” and everyone there is either too blind, dumb, or lazy, to at the very least, align the pixels, to a grid (or even check they’re square, the same size,…anything really).

I guess they must have some remains of shame and self preservation instinct, that made them sweep these off their portfolio website and set the video ads with them, to “Private” on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/s7GZK8FGRvA
But sadly not enough shame, to stop putting these on billboards, I have to see on daily basis and making new versions of them, with different inconsistent styles, of badly AI generated “pixelart”!

I checked their website, this is their footer, with the text that always overlaps - maybe they also never heard about CSS, can’t blame them, it’s only been a thing, since 1996.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, new cars are totally out of question. If I ever have to, only rather old ones are contemplable.

Der ganze Vorgang ist archetypisch für die seit Jahrzehnten völlig ohne Not stattfindende politische Selbstverzwergung Europas.

A comment on heise about the recent AWS outage.

https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-zum-Totalausfall-bei-AWS-Nichts-gelernt-in-den-letzten-30-Jahren-10794622.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

(Too bad there’s no good translation for the great word “Selbstverzwergung”.)

I’m paraphrasing: Europe (and other regions) depend on US IT services, a lot, without an actual need. We saw AWS, Google, and Microsoft build large datacenters and then we thought “welp, shit, nothing we can do about that, guess we’ll just be an AWS customer from now on.” Nobody really went ahead and built German/European alternatives. And now we completely depend on the US for lots of our stuff.

The article even claims that there’s now a shortage of sysadmins in the EU? I’m not so sure. But I’d welcome it, makes my job more secure. 🤣

Hosting services, datacenters, software, everything, it’s all US stuff. Why do we accept this, why not build alternatives …

@prologic@twtxt.net

Are we some of the only people in the world that realize how fucking dumb all this Internet-connect shit™ really is?

Yeah, but don’t ask me why that is. I’ve never gotten a satisfying answer when I talk to people who hype this kind of stuff. (I mean just normal tech people, not CEOs or something.) They just shrug it off and/or think that my concerns are paranoid. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, that might actually be (partially) true. Some external CD drives (without such a weight) start to spin/wiggle when the drive spins up and down … Although I guess that’s not really the case for Audio CDs as they are run at a fixed low RPM value, I think. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds horrible. 😅 I wouldn’t want to own such a car. (My plan is not to buy a new car after my current one finally broke down entirely.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First time I heard about eCall. I don’t think I like this. 🫤 Feels like another attempt at going for complete surveillance. Yes, yes, it’s about “security”/“safety” … it always is.

Advent of Code will be different this year:

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1ocwh04/changes_to_advent_of_code_starting_this_december/

There will only be 12 puzzles, i.e. only December 1 to December 12. This might make it more interesting for some people, because it’s (probably) less work and a lower chance of people getting burned out. 🤔

Personally, I’ll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. 😅

Maybe this makes it more interesting for some people around here as well?

Balsemão implica a existência de um Balsepé

Reminder, kick-starting our monthly social call! 📞 Please RSVP if you can make it!

Acabei de ver um toot a mencionar “pumpkin spice salmorejo” e agora não consigo desler, obrigadinho @ifrit@ifrit

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Holy fuck! Whoever bought such a bed fully deserves this. There isn’t the faintest trace of pity on my face.

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t want to defend this, but at least over here a SIM card is necessary for the mandatory emercency call by law in case of a crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall Of course, this enables all sorts of other shenanigans.

Hey all 👋 Starring up the monthly social call we used to have 🤞 Please RSVP here if you can make it! 🙏

Behold! 🥳 I consider Gatherly “good enough”™ to use: https://gatherly.mills.io/ 🤟

Like these Car Manufacturers, like GWM, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and whoever else does this stupid shit™ need to pull their heads out of their asse. :O

Obviously none of this requires an Internet connection, let alone a Network connection. All of it can be done over Bluetooth! Just like Carplay itself!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this is similar to my 2025 GWM Cannon Ute (truck) that we recently bought. It has this app called the “GWM App” that lets you view various health/stats of the vehicle, open/close the door, locks, control the A/C etc, all from your Mobile Phone. – But… Guess what?! :D It has a goddamn fucking SIM card in the head unit (dash) somewhere that once you “consent” and agree it signs up to some god knows what local cellular service and all that wonderul functionality is controlled by, guess what… A fucking goddamn CLOUD service! da actual flying fuck is wrong with these people?! – Are we some of the only people in the world that realize how fucking dumb all this Internet-connect shit™ really is?

Haha, beds “stopped working” due to that outage? 🤪

• https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/AzQlI7XeQFjsmlNK1w
  
• https://status.8slp.net/

@thecanine@twtxt.net Pretry much🤣

Weird setup right? 😆

Gente, ainda tinha algumas vagas nos tutoriais da #PythonBrasil2025 aqui em São Paulo, que são de graça:

https://pybr2025.eventbrite.com.br/

(esta semana de terça a quinta na #PythonBrasil, independente das palestras sexta, sábado e domingo, cujo ingresso era pago e já esgotou) #python

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah! Maybe, but just maybe, this weight helps to keep the device from wandering around if a CD is spinning inside. CDs should be pretty well balanced, though.

Good luck with the replacement of the capacitors and reviving this player! :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah. The actual services don’t run on AWS, apparently, but often it’s just the login service?! The whole Atlassian suite was “down” today because you couldn’t log in. But if you already were logged in, it wasn’t much a problem.

@bender@twtxt.net I think you’ve asked for that a while ago. 😅 Does that diff actually help? Don’t you have to use A (instead of i) anyway? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de streamlining jenny.vim?

index adc0db9..cb54abc 100644
--- a/vim/ftdetect/jenny.vim
+++ b/vim/ftdetect/jenny.vim
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 au BufNewFile,BufRead jenny-posting.eml setl completefunc=jenny#CompleteMentions fo-=t wrap
+au BufRead,BufNewFile jenny-posting.eml normal $

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Too many things˚ running on AWS eh?

That was a very non-fun day at work.

We’re not using AWS directly, but soooooooooooooooo much other stuff does.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Bwahaha. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That’s from a radio / CD-player thingy that someone in my family gave me so that I can try to repair it. (Indeed, some capacitors have blown up. But if that doesn’t fix it, I don’t know what to do. 😅)

There’s nothing on the other side. This really is just a block of metal that acts as a weight.

@bender@twtxt.net Sweet 🤟

@prologic@twtxt.net built it (as in banner reminder, etc.) and I will come! Joke side, I will join for 30-45 minutes each month, sure! No main topic, no pre-conceived themes, just folks getting together to chat and rant, or whatever. Count me in!

Hahaha! https://www.toonpool.com/user/196055/files/blutlache_4502399.jpg

Anyone interested in starting up the monthly social calls we used to have? 👋

“Em 2025, o Brasil lembra os 50 anos da morte do jornalista Vladimir Herzog, brutalmente assassinado em 25 de outubro de 1975 nas dependências do DOI-CODI, em São Paulo. Para marcar a data, a Comissão Arns e o Instituto Vladimir Herzog realizam a recriação do ato inter-religioso na Catedral da Sé, mesmo local em que ocorreu a histórica cerimônia de 1975, que desafiou o regime militar e se consolidou como divisor de águas na luta pela redemocratização do Brasil.”

Ato interreligioso 25 de outubro na Sé.

https://vladimirherzog.org/ato-interreligioso-na-catedral-da-se-relembra-resistencia-por-vlado-e-todas-as-vitimas-da-ditadura/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Where the heck did you find that? What is that thing? Yeah, totally looks like an attempt to make some garbage feel more solid. Unless this steel plate is actually used for attaching bolts from the other side or something like that. Which I highly doubt, given that there are muuuuuch cheaper options to install various types of nuts in plastic.

Yeah, this goo makes it just harder to disconnect. I bet it doesn’t add water protection to the connections at all.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de ;-)

“o galo de barcelos labubu não é real nao te pode magoar”
o galo de barcelos labubu

[roubado do passaralho]

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You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would “feel cheap” otherwise.

https://movq.de/v/c5dcc25bc9/weight.jpg

Also, that red stuff on those connectors might be glue? To make it harder to disconnect them?

https://movq.de/v/79dbd850ea/maybe-glue.jpg

@dce@hashnix.club Same, I’m not quite sure what you mean. 🤔

finalmente conseguimos montar o servidor de Luanti (ex-Minetest, o Minecraft livre) e foi logo calhar no primeiro dia de chuva do outono, perfeito pra nós e os miúdos ficarmos dentro de portas a montar aldeias e escavacar os subterrâneos

alguém tb joga #Luanti / #Minetest?

@dce@hashnix.club retro hacking as in ROM hacking? Not me.

Random question: does anyone here happen to know anything about retro hacking?

Yeah technology is honestly quite garbage 🗑️

@movq@www.uninformativ.de he sure does! LOL. It is more like incomprehensible stuff that comes out. Sometimes I manage to get what he was trying to say, but more often than not I have no idea. 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net So you love @bender@twtxt.net very much? 🤣 How does speech recognition work for you? 🤔

Epigenetic changes help cells adapt to low oxygen levels, study reveals
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered how cells can adjust their gene activity to survive when oxygen runs low. The study, published in Nature Cell Biology, reveals that cells use a previously unknown mechanism to control which proteins are produced—and how quickly. ⌘ Read more

Southern Ocean’s low-salinity Antarctic waters continue absorbing CO₂ despite climate model predictions
Climate models suggest that climate change could reduce the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). However, observational data actually shows that this ability has seen no significant decline in recent decades. ⌘ Read more

Follow-up observations by Webb confirm GRB 250702B is most energetic cosmic explosion ever recorded
Considering the immense size of the universe, it’s no surprise that space still holds plenty of secrets for us. Recently, astronomers believe they stumbled upon a kind of cosmic blast never seen before, and it’s challenging what we thought we knew about how stars die. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Speaking of “clusterfucks”. Every fucking time I try to type something on my fucking goddamn iPhone’s little tiny ass on-screen keyboard it ends up typing out “I love you!” 🤟 For fucks sake 🤦‍♂️ – Given the size of the fucking goddamn on-screen keyboards on these things and folks with limited/poor vision, can’t we figure out what I meant to type instead of spitting out total garbage nonsense that I had no intention of typing that makes me just look silly and stupid?! 🤬 Ask @bender@twtxt.net how many times this has happened on IRC whenever I’ve been on my phone 📱

Exploring the power of plants to make drugs out of sunlight
Plants are consummate chemists, using the sun’s energy and carbon dioxide from the air, to conjure a dazzling array of complex natural products in ways that cannot be replicated synthetically in the lab. ⌘ Read more

🎶 … Gästeklo, Gästeklo, ja, das macht die Gäste froh … 🎶

‘Less and less sea ice’: Brazil woman sails solo through Arctic
Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink told AFP she encountered “very little” sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage—a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship three decades ago. ⌘ Read more

Nearly 900 mn poor people exposed to climate shocks, UN warns
Nearly 80% of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United Nations warned Friday. ⌘ Read more

Silicon Valley’s Trump courtship is backfiring spectacularly
Tech execs thought billion-dollar investments had bought them influence. Instead, they learnt that loyalty means nothing when the president sees political advantage elsewhere. ⌘ Read more

Salesforce defends security practices after Qantas hack
Hackers used AI-powered voice phishing to trick employees into granting database access. ⌘ Read more

Surprising bacteria discovery links Hawaiʻi’s groundwater to the ocean
A new species of bacteria has been discovered off the coast of Oʻahu, shedding light on how unseen microbial life connects Hawaiʻi’s land and sea ecosystems. ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu Wer mir mit Werbung im Buch kommt, hat verschissen. 😂 Hatte ich kürzlich auch (in einem Roman von 2025), da wurde immer wieder sehr auffällig eine bestimmte Lokalität erwähnt. Ganz am Ende hab’ ich dann gesehen, dass auf den letzten paar Seiten diese Lokalität nochmal explizit einen „Flyer“ platziert hatte, das war also durchaus ein Werbedeal.

Nervt stark. Ich hab’ schon für das Buch gezahlt, da will ich nicht noch „angeworben“ werden. Dann mach’ lieber das Buch leicht teurer oder setz’ einen Spendenaufruf rein, wenn die Finanzen so knapp sind. 🤔