@movq@www.uninformativ.de I did! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I didn’t see that reply in your feed. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You’re right, that was silly. But what do you gonna do? I could have picked bike, well.

At least it’s been a thing since July 1997. :-D I wouldn’t be surprised if this goes on for thousands of years. The German Wikipedia article on that matter doesn’t explicitly say anything about the time scale, but reading it my assertion corroborates. There is a recorded event in the year 1901.

Oh boy, that was fricking hot. I hiked to the dairy farm to get some fresh milk for waffles and was totally soaked when I returned.

Fortunately, the Saharan air layer reduced the direct sunlight. A slightly older man and I talked a bit how weird the sky looked and he asked me whether that has always been like that. He didn’t recall experiencing anything like that in his youth. I really don’t know, but I reckon that this is not a new phenomenon. I also don’t recall seeing that when I was a child, however, I was also not interested in stuff like that back then. Hence, it could be selection bias. But it also might be more frequent with climate change. 02 shows the yellow, hazy sky quite good if I say so myself. It doesn’t compare to last week or whenever that was, though. Last time was much more intense.

Baking waffles in the later evening on the balcony was nice. Temperatures dropped to just 24°C or so. Much more pleasant. The noise level in the neighborhood was also surprisingly low. And no mozzies around, another surprise. Quite the opposite when I was in the forest. Lots of insect clouds that followed me around and tried to bite me.

I witnessed a Eurasian jay land in a tree. On approach it broke off a rotten branch that fell down. The bird luckily selected a different branch to land on. That was crazy.

High stand at the edge of the forest

More pics from the tour: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-08/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de But it’s supposed to rain tomorrow at max 15°C. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Looks like it. 28°C here, gna.

@prologic@twtxt.net Classic move. :-( I think everybody experiences that at least once in their life. Get well!

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Thanks mate! :-)

I’ve been out a few hours again. I came across a dozen or so forest mice. I heard tons of squeaking and saw a lighting fast moving seething mass under leaves and groves. It was impossible to capture anything but I could watch it for two, three minutes. They even seemed to come as close as 20 centimeters judging by the rustle and moving plant leaves. Pretty cool.

But heaps of people had to fire up their noise machines today. That clouded my overall joy in nature. Once a commercial airliner was about to fade away in the distance, the next one already adumbrated itself. Lots of prop planes and even a helicopter. Obnoxious loud super cars and motorcycles with broken off mufflers or I don’t know what. My felt hat amplifies the sound I noted.

Luckily, the sun hid behind the clouds most of the time, so I survived the 25°C. Even hotter tomorrow, yikes!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-07/

Forest monster

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks mate! I’m glad you like it. :-)

Unfortunately, I think it’s just an illusion that it’s super quiet over here. Mostly boils down to carefully selected recordings, as I want to share the nice stuff. ;-) In reality, you can also hear man-made noises nearly everwhere. Depending on the wind direction, even in the middle of the forest in the middle of the night you can hear the railroad in the valley in the distance or cars and motorcycles on surrounding streets. There are only very, very few spots where there is only the sound of nature.

I tried to record birds singing numerous times, but even if they’re quite loud themselves, there has always been the traffic noise in the background on all tracks, so I scrapped them (I would need a directional microphone). And if there is actually no traffic on the ground, a plane comes by. :-) We’re in the air corridor of Stuttgart Airport, planes are still relatively high, so it could be way worse. But recreational smaller planes also like to cruise around in our area. And those propellors stir up the air quite a lot.

However, the snow really does cut down a lot of the (annoying) audio waves, that’s for sure, no doubt about that. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, we thought a couple of times that this loader is about to tip over.

Same here, I’ve seen the needle climb to 27°C. To help cool off, here’s some bonus winter footage I edited today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-01-20/waldspaziergang-2024-01-20.mp4 (724.1 MiB)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de If I go far enough there are indeed a few paths I haven’t been on. ;-)

Yeah, that tractor moved up and down a giant manure heap. Although the tires spun a few times, it’s quite amazing how relatively effortless it looked to drive on that pile of shit. That machine leaned quite a bit at a few spots. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-05/traktor-auf-misthaufen.mp4 (114.5 MiB) You might have figured, 11 and 17 show also the same subject from different angles.

We went on a three hours hike on today’s 22°C warm spring day. Luckily, it was cloudy, so the temperature was bearable. Tomorrow and the day after are supposed to be very sunny 25°C days, puh. We explored even a new path I’ve never been on. It was a very enjoyable tour, up and down, up and down, up and down. I feel m feet. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-05/

Bee hive in front of a farm

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I completely agree.

@adi@twtxt.net Dito. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice! Oh, I hear you. Remindes me of my multi-line table implementation for tt2. Surprisingly complicated stuff is needed for such a trivial thing as scrolling. I implemented a simple cache to speed up rendering when the same entry didn’t change. But there is probably a lot more room for further improvements.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow, this is just totally insane!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha, nice! :-D

Gonna give cmus a try. cmus-tutorial is a cool thing I have to say.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Exactly! :-D Or call it lazy in that case, to be honest. I just got used to all my workarounds in place. :-/ I still want to recreate tt2 one day. I started with it months ago and never touched it since. Too much other stuff going on.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s cool! So that dusage scroll buffer is part of the GUI, not “just” a terminal?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What the heck? That screen capture comes from that program?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de My setup hasn’t changed or progressed for over a year. I still don’t consume archive feeds, just produce one every now and then.

@mckinley@twtxt.net It’s very simple. Quot Libet is my player at the moment, it’s okay, but not great. I really did like Amarok back in the days (unfortunately, not available in Debian anymore), then tried Clementine and switched to xmms2 for a bunch of years. I had a few scripts around it. I don’t remember why I moved away from it, though. A few years back I gave mpd a try, but could never get it to work properly.

Quod Libet usually just plays the whole collection from top to bottom and I manually skip every now and then. Sometimes even entire bands.

I’ve got all sorts of file types in ~/music. Usually each artist gets their own directory, depending on how many stuff I’ve got, there’s usually a directory for the album and then come the tracks. Filenames are all over the place, for new stuff I use lowercase only and no spaces but dashes. I make use of common meta data such as artist, title, genre, often also year, album and track number. These days I get a lot of new music from YouTube and cut the start and end off with Audacity. The last three fields are only filled when I can be bothered to look them up.

Currently playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS0hYhD-U0A

Very cool, heavy-duty chainmail from serious chain: https://youtu.be/IyUrDWGtS24

@movq@www.uninformativ.de https://www.barrettguitarrepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/heat-press-guitar-repair1.jpg

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wurde wohl allen erzählt. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de We’ve been spared the horrific murder in the sky. :-D Your photo is actually pretty good. Well done mate!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yepp, even “blood rain” possible this evening: https://www.wetteronline.de/wetterticker/blutregen-ab-samstagabend-moeglich-saharastaub-als-ursache–9bec6ee5-61ff-4781-9cdc-5be2adb6f187 (beware of the cookie terror banner)

The Sahara pays us a visit again. It’s all yellowy here. Looks quite surreal. But I can’t show you a photo, just doesn’t capture on film.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Nice one. :-)

It’s the second time, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. Not the XFS filesystem driver anymore this time, though. Luckily, with my experience from last time it was rather easy today – once we finally managed to reproduce it. cat /proc/<PID>/{syscall,stack} were absolute key again, thank you very, very much dear Linux kernel hackers for these absolutely wonderful tools! The only tricky part left is figuring out why that actually happens.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Enjoy your thick egg slices. :-)

Hurray, yet another bug where a process is not killable and hangs forever in an uninterruptible system call…

@prologic@twtxt.net I might have to look into this thing. But at first glimpse it looks rather complicated and doesn’t look like a simple replacement in my chain.

Again, YT keeps on deploying broken shit. >:-( Excerpt from my cronjob error feed: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/404.png

@prologic@twtxt.net Does your cronjob parse the HTML, queries an API or how does it work? I parsed the video list HTML in the past. But it constantly broke, because somebody at Google thought they have to mess with the HTML every now and then. When I noticed that there are actually RSS feeds, I immediately switched. It’s way better. Here’s my setup: https://lyse.isobeef.org/online-video-setup/ I reckon I have to update this article with the latest achievements of #shorts exclusion.

@prologic@twtxt.net Not sure why the deerstand’s roof is on the ground. That high seat has been built not that long ago. I can’t tell for sure but I’m fairly certain that the roof was installed the last time I checked. :-?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Cool! sed 21/s/one/on/ vec.h 8-)

We had 11°C and a lot of wind today. I left the house at beautiful sunshine to go into the woods. I had to shelter from the rain under a coniferous tree right away for 10-15 minutes or so.

Many puddles had plenty of spawn in them. Some of the super tiny tadpoles already hatched. Unfortunately, none of them will probably make it, because all those puddles will all dry up in the next one or two months I reckon. Let’s hope for the best, though.

Spawn

A bird landed in the trees about 30 meters away from me and it appeared to be a larger one, like a buzzard. Only at home at the screen I then saw that it was just a pidgeon. :-)

A bit later, there was a chaffinch happily singing and picking on the forest road. I could close in to about five meters before it flew half a meter further and continued. So I made a few steps, too. That game continued for over five minutes, before it then decided to relocate four meters higher onto a branch to let me pass by beneath. Pretty cool!

Ah, it’s supposed to be this pattern in the example code, but – to my understanding – applied incorrectly since all interaction with this channel happens in the same goroutine: https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Server.Shutdown

I’m not a channel expert, @prologic@twtxt.net, but idleConnsClosed is useless here, right? https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/branch/main/internal/server.go#L192

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks. It’s so cool to see all the colorful change and animal activity that comes along with spring. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sadly, you’re right. The impacts are getting closer, adding two hours today. Yes, I’m speaking of the RSS feeds.

Haha, how cool is that! :-D Bee invasion interrupts tennis game: https://youtu.be/AADUUz2xqos

17°C today and I finally managed to go on a hike again. My thighs are a little bit sore. Sun didn’t cooperate too well with my camera, but the sunset was all the more beautiful for it.

Bugs on a lent lily

It’s always impressive to see that every now and then YouTube manages to break all feeds for several hours straight. 404s for hours on end. My hourly cronjob failed three times this morning. You’d think at least one test would fail in their CI/CD pipeline to prevent that.

@prologic@twtxt.net As a workaround, you can add Alex’s channel to your archive: https://www.youtube.com/@anengineersfindings If anyone of you likes engineering stuff, that’s certainly worth it. :-)

Hell yeah, this is just so cool to watch. Machining a replacement part for a wristwatch. Also really nice old machinery, truly fascinating. https://youtu.be/i9aQVclIxB4

We participated with the scouts in the county cleanup day and even found a whole rubbish dump at the edge of the woods. Somebody must have dumped a whole truck load down the hill and burried half of it. We filled up a complete trailer with that. I reckon you can get much more out of this place.

Just in time for the start of the event, it began pouring down on us. It was very muddy, but still good fun. One cub scout said: “Oh, this is so cool! Walking around earlier on the paths and picking up trash wasn’t bad, but this here is really awesome. I really do enjoy it a lot. Look how much trash there is. Crazy!”

It took me half an hour to hose down all the clay from my rain jacket, -trousers and boots. What a mess.

Oh damn, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. @mckinley@twtxt.net Yup, paper it is.