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slothrop

@slothrop@chaos.social

Bumbling through the technosphere. Easily amused.

Messing around with #FOSS, baking #bread, paddling a whitewater #kayak, and #parenting a herd of kids . Sometimes I manage a Hello World without syntax errors in #python.

Professionally, I help to build and run #trains with software and IT stuff.

Middle-aged cishet white guy, trying not to be an asshole about it. Please let me know if I get it wrong.

Toots auto-delete after 2 weeks. #noindex or I will punch you.

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glennf, to random
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Musk would shout on his way out, “I’m gone! Let that stink in!” while carrying a bag of old garbage, storm over to his CyberTruck parked in a disabled permit space, jump into the vehicle after several tries to open it, and then slam the door—causing all the panels to fall off in cartoon-like succession…and then a pause, and then all four wheels.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112571252769186651

slothrop,
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@glennf I’d pay good to watch a live stream

ifixcoinops, to random
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Need some lights for my bike, I see they're all USB rechargeable now and the dynamo-powered ones are scarce and have crap reviews

I mean I figured in the twenty years I've been out of biking, what with LEDs and such, the new lamps would draw so little juice you'd hardly even notice the jenny was engaged, maybe it could even charge up a wee battery or supercapacitor on the downhills, but instead it seems we're all taking our lights with us and plugging them into the wall?

We just not doing dynamos anymore I guess?

slothrop,
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@ifixcoinops Oh but we are! Specifically hub dynamos. Light‘s always on, nearly frictionless.

And maintenance free. Mine hasn’t had a single problem in 12 years.

slothrop,
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@ifixcoinops Oh, and the dynamo charges little capacitors in the lamps, giving you a couple of minutes of (somewhat dimmed) light when you’re not moving. great for stopping at traffic lights in the dark!

slothrop,
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@ifixcoinops Back in the early aughts I used to work in a bike repair shop at the uni.

About half the bikes that came in were having trouble with burned-out bulbs or with their dynamo. I used to keep a few spare bulbs around for the rear light on my own bike, because those broke all the time.

When LED lights and hub dynamos arrived, all that just stopped. These simple technologies have made bikes 50% less annoying in just a few years.

slothrop, to snowboarding German
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Moin liebe #Outdoor Bubble, ich brauch ne neue Regenjacke.

Leicht soll sie sein, robust, und der Hersteller soll einen Reparatur- / Pflegeservice anbieten.

Wer hat da selbst Erfahrungen gemacht und kann mir was empfehlen?

slothrop, to random
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I´m getting notification spam on my laptop: Some program is constantly sending assorted notifications like "virus found", "Gmail account suspended for spam", etc.

This is in Firefox on Debian Stable.

It´s all bullshit of course.

When clicked (I know), the notifications take me to [random_subdomain].enhancesecurity.co.in.

How can I get rid of these notifications? I´ve already installed Ublock Origin, which doesn´t seem to be helping.

slothrop,
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@Larymir ok, thanks!

Quite unusual -- I´ve never had this before.

slothrop, to random German
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Wohngemeinnützigkeit klingt gut.

Weiß jemensch da genaueres? https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/jahressteuergesetz-wohnraum-bezahlbar-100.html

ordnung, to random German
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And we are back online. There was a problem with the hardware we couldn't fix on our own so we had to wait for a technician to fix it for us. Now there will be some lagging because of full queues for a while.

slothrop,
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@ordnung Yay, thanks for the good work!

slothrop, to random German
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Na super. Das Internet-Sicherheit-Dingens des Arbeitgebers schaltet jetzt eine Warnseite vor, wenn ich tagesschau.de besuchen will

Weil´s eine "Streaming-Seite" ist 🤡

slothrop, to random
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Resorting to @schratze level follower authentication methods

slothrop,
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@schratze Nope.

It’s probably after hours over in St. Petersburg

slothrop, to random
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Hi @Samantha1ir what are your pronouns, and what is your stance on the Lockheed Martin Pride socks?

slothrop, to random German
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Ok, Hochwasser ist irgendwie doof. Aber meine -Buddies überlegen gerade, welchen Bach sie zuerst fahren sollen, weil er endlich mal wieder Wasser hat… 🙃

slothrop, to random
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A fun aspect of LLMs is that they can out-mansplain the mansplainers.

If we could got those guys to talk to an LLM instead of bothering real people on the internet... They could just argue with the machine till the cows come home...

elilla, to random Portuguese
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de cara que tem dialeto alemão que também chama isso de "penal" #curitiba

slothrop,
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@elilla This made me think of an old German slang word for “pupil”: “Pennäler“. You got me curious, so I looked it up 🤓

The root word is Latin „penna“, writing feather. The penna is kept in a „pennale“, a feather box.

Accordingly, a „Pennäler“ is one who carries a feather box. TIL.

https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Penn%C3%A4ler

slothrop,
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@elilla Neat!

Now I’m wondering which German dialect uses “Federpennal”.

I’m familiar with quite a few German dialects, but I’ve never encountered this word in the wild.

slothrop, to random
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Und damit guten Morgen

slothrop, to random German
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Künstlerpech

stadtneurotikr, to random German
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Vom niederbayerischen Großgrundbesitzer mit dem Flugblätter verteilenden Bruder hört man in diesen Tagen sehr wenig.

slothrop,
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@stadtneurotikr Außer, dass am Hochwasser der Vogelschutz schuld ist 🤷🏻‍♂️

slothrop, to random
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X.com finally living up to its new name

This will be fun until the payment processors wake up, so for about 5min total

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112553794026678732

slothrop, to random German
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Eigentlich hab ich gerade zwei Kajaks zu verkaufen.

Aber es fühlt sich ein bisschen pietätlos an, die jetzt bei Kleinanzeigen mit Standort "Oberbayern" reinzusetzen...

slothrop,
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@mwfc Allerdings.

Aber selbst wenn: Ich verkaufe ja nicht alle meine Kajaks.

slothrop,
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@mwfc hmmm... dazu hätte ich nun wiederum fast genug Material im Keller... 🤔

slothrop,
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@kokoschinsky Eins steinaltes GFK-Kajak „Bavaria Adventure“ (Länge knapp 5m), und ein altes Kinder-Slalomboot

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day 05 03 Jun 2024 - Vilnius - Warszawa, onto night train

Crossing these borders:
Road border 🇱🇹 🇵🇱
Zebrzydowice 🇵🇱 - Bohumín 🇨🇿

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/54.2528/23.3199

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#10/54.2528/23.3199

slothrop,
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@jon There’s currently heavy rain and massive flooding in southern Bavaria.

Trains from Austria up to Munich seem to be currently unaffected though.

(This being a cell broadcast message, it probably just refers to wherever you are ATM)

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