12 sunset photos first sorted by subject and then time.

Sunset

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup, it’s a default key binding.

Still two unresolved issues with WeeChat:

1. How can I mark the current buffer as read? There is /input set_unread to mark it as unread (although I can’t tell that it does actually anything in the TUI) but there’s no set_read command that would put my read marker below the last message. Sure I can switch buffers and then the read marker is at the bottom, but this sounds like a silly workaround. There must be something better.
   
2. I want the beep trigger to also fire when a regular message is sent. But the adjusted condition ${tg_displayed} && ${tg_tags} !!- ,notify_none, with the && (${tg_highlight} || ${tg_msg_pv}) removed then also includes joins and parts, which I don’t want to be alerted by. Now fiddling around with ${tg_message_nocolor} !~ ^(-->|<--), let’s see.
   

How do you folks do that?

@prologic@twtxt.net Yep, encountered a few unanswered ones lately, too. But most of the time I can’t complain.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Whooooooooaaaaaahhhh, this looks super amazing, mate! \o/ I definitely have to give this a try.

@anth@a.9srv.net @prologic@twtxt.net That might help narrowing it down: https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/tracking_map.cfm

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, it’s also a bit of a chicken egg problem. If you have unqualified people, they can’t do a lot of stuff but they have to do something, so then they’re shunt off to support. And there they can’t really improve because they’re always overloaded. And not getting any respect they deserve also doesn’t help their motivation, so the downwards spiral continues. There’s more to it, but in my opinion that’s one key factor.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, if not exactly what I’m after, I get new ideas and hints for a refined next search attempt. I haven’t posted anything either, I’m just reading existing questions and answers.

@prologic@twtxt.net Hahahahaha, very nicely put, mate! :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, I have to confess that whenever a Stack Overflow post pops up in the search results of my least mistrusted search engine the answer(s) there are spot on and exactly what I’m looking for most of the time. Of course there are the occasional exception, but I’m actually very happy with what I dig up there. Sometimes I need to scroll through a few answes to get what I need, but in general the first answer appearing below the question is fairly good. There are super bad answers, no doubt. But you can tell them apart immediately and just skip them right away.

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Absolutely. Not a lot was achieved, but again, this week flew by. So will be the weekend. :-/

Now brace yourself, the tech world stands still for a while: “Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance”

Rien ne vas plus

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Great upcycling! Very nice.

Hoch die Hände, Wochenende! \o/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de From my limited experiences in two companies I can anedoctic tell you, that what we developers told our support work mates after analyzing things and what they replied back to the enquirers was not always the same. That also happend when we gave them answers in written form. Always super nice support folks, no a single doubt, but their basic technical knowledge was pretty much non-existent. And plenty of them didn’t even really know the softwares they’re supposed to support. Granted, those were not easy programs, one was indeed super complex. But if they use them on a daily basis for years one would expect that they know them quite well. At least the main features and workflows. We also often had to tell them basic stuff several times, which was quite a bit frustrating for both sides.

But, I was super glad, that we had them in the front row. You wouldn’t believe what crap queries they had to deal with and what utter bullshit they kept off our shoulders. Sometimes people wrote really offensive e-mails for no reason. Holy moly. I wouldn’t want to trade with them, not in a hundred years. Lots of my developer work mates, however, didn’t value our first level support at all. I mean, I totally understand, that after telling the same things over and over and over and over again it pisses you off, but treating them in a way they feel like shit, doesn’t help either. It only makes things worse. I had the impression that there was a slight war between development and support.

One thing that was totally stupid, is that the POs didn’t listen to improvements and suggestions on how to make things easier for the support team and also all our users. I mean, support has to deal with this software all day long and also get the same questions about workflows and stuff that’s too complicated or unintuitive. So a lot of things were really low hanging fruit to improve everybody’s live. But when they suggested anything, the POs always declined it, nah, it’s the support’s job. Period. A few times I teamed up with the support work mates and told the POs the same, the support team was suggesting and then it was accepted without hesitation. So that clearly shows there really was a two-tier society.

In my current project we don’t have a support team, so we need to handle all the support queries ourselves. In that regard I miss the old project. But luckily, it’s basically just other developers who are needing our help, so that’s fairly okay.

Oh nice, there’s now a bit rain and even lightning in the distance. \o/ \o/ \o/ Let’s hope that that doesn’t start a fire.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net When searching for a replacement I came across somebody telling, that nobody used it and it shouldn’t be needed anyways, so they removed it and put a half^Wfully-assed implementation in place. Can’t find it now. But I found this bug report that is linked in the addon’s readme and also an article by the same guy opening the bug report. I haven’t read any of them.

@screem@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Now you can write everything as oneliners! Java developers will appreciate the new space they got. ;-)

Before we were sexually herrassed by flying ants in the end, we picked the first blackberries of the season on today’s hike. Very yummy, let me tell you!

First forest blackberries picked and eaten

It’s super dry everywhere, just have a look at the dried out grass in the first two photos. Two nights ago we had the first and biggest forest fire about eight kilometers away. The newspaper article claims that 7,000 m² (sic!) of forest were on fire. In the morning of that day the district fire chief introduced the new alarm plan for forest fires. Eight fire brigades responded with 83 fire fighters in 17 vehicles. Eight trucks shuttled 30,000 liters of water to the scene. Luckily, four and a half hours later they had it under control. A fire fighting drone specialists department of a neighboring fire service located several pockets of embers. I wasn’t even aware, that we have such specialists here in the county, pretty cool. Unfortunately, one fire man probably broke his Achilles tendon in this fire run, the article says.

Other than that, there had been four other wildland fires with a hedge, bunch of trees, a 20,000 m² big stubble fields and another vegetation fire since June in our county. I actually didn’t know that. Well, that’s all nothing compared to the fires they have in East Germany at the moment.

Thank you Mozilla, you bloody &%$&“/§%(”). After removing the ability to switch the character encoding and replacing it with an always disabled “Repair text encoding” menu item, I had to install this third-party Override Text Encoding extension.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I tried to think about it once more today, but still no luck yet. However, I reckon that when I try to grasp something in a very focused way, then I imagine how I would loudly read it (but actually don’t) and hear myself. I’m quite certain about that. In more extreme cases I even noticed my lips slightly moving, but not creating any sound. But most of the time I don’t think there’s a voice. The tricky thing is, if I don’t think about how it works in general, I don’t know. And if I try to think about it, it feels like introducing tons of measuring errors. I just found Schrödinger’s cat in my brain.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Whaaaaat… O_o No offence, but there’s often a reason that first level support works at first level support. I’m not helpful, I know.

@prologic@twtxt.net Haha, the colors :-D @ionores@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you mates! Well, there is a gelatine factory in the next city, but that is quite far away from where I was. You only smell that awful stuff (it’s also a different stench) if you’re close by. Probably just dying animals and the temperatures are not helping here. The vomits remain a mystery, though.

@prologic@twtxt.net Hahahaha, great typo, I had to laugh! Shot probably doesn’t feel too much different in your situation right now. :-D Jokes aside, get well mate!

Maybe call in sick and have a good rest. Sleeping most of the day and drinking a whole lot of tea and/or water sometimes makes a big difference for me when I’m knocked out. I’m convinced that reporting sick a day even speeds up the recovery and is a clear win in the end. Considering the reduced productivity when being ill and all the additional errors one is going to make for several days and the time spent afterwards to fix them or rework stuff, one’s better off to don’t to anything for one or two days and then take that time to really rest and give the body the time to get things sorted. At least in my limited and biased experience. Your mileage may vary, of course might be different for other folks.

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks mate! Hahaha, I can assure you, I’ve shown these places a hundred times already. :-D But I’m glad that my selection seems alright and it’s not getting boring over time. Well, to be fair, the lion is a fairly recent addition when they replaced the old benches and fenced off a steep trail over a meadow, so mountain bikers don’t ride down this path anymore. The tree stump is a knot in a bench timber. :-) The carriage bolt fastens the seat to the frame.

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh yeah, that also works like a treat! :-D I heard a bunch of these bloody wankers today as well. They were a few kilometers away, so I would have needed a high precision ballista.

Went on a hike this evening and brought my camera along. The 26°C felt much nicer than yesterday’s 33°C. I perfectly met a mate who also wanted to go for a quick walk, just like we planned it. The first half hour we went together and then I parted for the longer route to the local mountain. The sunset was absolutely brilliant, but the aftermath turned out to be very boring.

Sunset

Photo 9 shows the entrance to a wasp nest next to the bench in the previous take. The greenery blocks most the view, though. Several individuals took off and returned. But it wasn’t too crowded. Nothing like at a typical honey bee hive at this point in time

What I found quite strange, there was quite a lot of smell of dead meat and butyric acid in the air. Hello hot summer. Both in the forest as well as in the village. I think I noticed those nasty odors at six or seven different places. Never experienced that before. Not to thaaat extent.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @mckinley@twtxt.net Yup, some people do. I tried several times to figure out whether I also have some imaginary voice in my head or not. And I can’t really tell. My best bet is that it depends. Generally there is no voice or just a very faint one. For very complex stuff I think my brain plays some audio. But it’s very hard to tell. If I try to think about it, it feels super weird in my head.

@akoizumi@kyoko.nerdpol.ovh Yup, I destroyed a few files with that myself, too. On a positive nite, it doesn’t create an infinite loop.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de To show the world they have to compensate for their small dick. In situtations like these, I’d often like to have a wire handy.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Es kann so einfach sein!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Now that is a cool thing. Showing the work time. I need something like that, too!

@prologic@twtxt.net Damn, I was 100% sure to have set visibility to public, but I’m also prompted to log in. O_o Turns out, the project move must have ruined this setting somehow. Should now work.

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Ich wollt’s grad sagen, damit kommst Du nicht weit. ;-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Haha, of course, no worries! :-) Yup, I thought to try Go for this web application this time. REST API and web UI would be both needed in my opinion. I have at least two mates who would need a UI instead of a programmer-friendly interface. :-D

It’s far from complete, but I started writing something down: https://git.isobeef.org/lyse/kraftwerk2

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Cool! In a double sense.

@prologic@twtxt.net Collaborating on the refactoring/rewrite of the “Kraftwerk” as I called it? Sure, why not. At least the user authentication part needs to be replaced, it was wired against an LDAP that doesn’t exist anymore. Also the API (so that you could just send in your exercises via a script) was kind of broken. I reckon starting from scratch would be best. I just saw my first commit was ten years ago, holy crap!

@prologic@twtxt.net Simpler is better even most of the time, I’d say. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Na die Symmetrieachse verläuft doch durch die mittlere Wurst. Oder wie waren die angeordnet? Sieben deshalb, dass es für eine Woche reicht. Oder so.

@ionores@twtxt.net Indeed! :-( The only good thing is that I haven’t heard of any fires yet over here. The fire danger rating reached the highest level we have here days ago. On Thursday when we dared to go for a hike we’ve seen new signs put up warning about that and banning all fires, even smoking. We do not have any fixed sign installations like Australia or the North American states.

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk :-D

@eaplmx@twtxt.net That reminds me, I should start doing some exercises, too. Years ago, I wrote a web application to track those and two other mates used it as well. This way we motivated us to do our daily pushups and situps. I even extended it to upload GPX trajectories from our bike rides and hikes to show the route on an OSM map. Finally, you could enter your weights and get a nice graph with all the ups and downs. I should revibe this project. And maybe even rewrite it.

@ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com I always enjoy crafts stuff, very nice! How did you make these golden speckles? Put color on a stiffer brush and then pull back the fibers to shoot the color through the air onto the guitar body?

@prologic@twtxt.net Sadly, the old site looked better than the new one. :-/ Good report, though! Reminds me of several similarities at work.

@prologic@twtxt.net 100 liters are one cubic meter, so that doesn’t sound too unrealistic in a whole month. Looking at the climate diagrams of Stuttgart and Ulm (they’re the closest cities where I could find data for in a hurry) it seems to be in the ballpark. Admittedly, this number matches June better than July.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I had to build the drawers myself, too. ;-)

@prologic@twtxt.net What’s a lot? @movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m glad it rained much more in the end than I expected, but still a lot less than I was hoping for. Also the cooling was a couple of hours late. Today, we had the chance of breathing a wee bit before it will raise again tomorrow.

I just read that on average we get about 108 liters of rain per square meter in July. This year it has only been 6 liters so far. I truly hope that we get some heavy rain later this evening. But looking at the forecast I reckon it will only be a few drops, if at all. It’s supposed to get less and less with each day and even hour I look at the weather report. :-( Terrible 35°C at the moment. Bwäh!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I always put it in the drawer of my desk cabinet when I’m done. That’s part of my quitting time ceremony each day. :-)

@kt84@twtxt.net Never. At least not from my tech mates.