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jyrgenn

@jyrgenn@mas.to

Computer Programmer. Home network overengineer. Wannabe amateur linguist and photographer. Straight cis white male, old, fat, bald, unshaven. Okay boomer. Love astronomy, music, books, good food and drink, Unix, Lisp, Emacs. Enjoy good tv and films.
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My banner picture is the view from one of my windows. Because the light is often interesting, I like making photos by night.

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mattblaze, to photography
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Pescadero, CA, 2014.

Grains of sand turned into pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14832380095

#photography

jyrgenn,
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@mattblaze So the sea horizon is intentionally tilted? I get the β€œflattened X” idea, but I think I couldn’t bring myself to have the horizon not horizontal (pun not intended, but appreciated).

jyrgenn,
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@mattblaze Huh, I may not understand what you are saying. What I am talking about is the line that I have emphasised here using the pink rectangle. It is clearly tilted, and as I see it, it is the horizon. Am I wrong?

mattblaze, to photography
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You might have your fancy light meters and in-camera exposure histograms, but I’ll always have my trusty Posographe, an early 20th century mechanical exposure calculator with an insanely complex system of sliders and internal levers.

jyrgenn,
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@mattblaze @HoustonDog These are absolutely amazing. I’d love to own one, but they are Really Not Cheap, and it would only sit on a shelf anyway. Granted, I have a few pocket calculators I have no real need for, but none of them cost a grand.

jyrgenn, to random
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Something for @NanoRaptor ? https://mastodon.world/@obtener/112162964803306834

akrennmair, to beer
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Why Augustiner's new alcohol-free Helles is a big deal.

https://dafteejit.com/2024/03/why-augustiners-new-alcohol-free-helles-is-a-big-deal/

jyrgenn,
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I am curious because I don’t like alcohol-free beers in general. I had given up on them totally until I tried the Jever Fun, which my wife had bought for a friend of hers who came to visit. Curious, I tried it, and to my surprise really liked it. Since then, I will always have it in the house. I like to drink it during the day, often when working (at home). (2/3)

jyrgenn,
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Do you, by chance, know which method of the two you describe is used to make Jever Fun? It is not sweet at all, but also not overly thin and sour. In my eyes, it does not taste like an alcoholic beer, but it has an own IMO attractive, rather dry taste, and relatively string hop notes. From what you write, I’d guess in the direction of physical dealcoholisation. (3/3)

jyrgenn,
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@akrennmair When you find that beer in Berlin, would you drop me a line? Your article does make me curious. (I’d also be interested to try it together with you, if you like!) (1/3)

jyrgenn, to random
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The least β€” and best β€” I can do as a patient, I think, is not make the work of the people who take care of me unnecessarily difficult, and not annoy them. Making it inconspicuously clear that you value their work helps, too.

jyrgenn,
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I hear lots of counter examples from my wife, who works in healthcare. Sure, people can be frightened, and maybe disgruntled they have to undergo whatever procedures. But taking it out on the people who want to take care of them will not improve the situation.

jyrgenn,
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@RogerBW Even if they can, it isn't a good idea to demotivate them.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Reply with a swatch of the colour that just goes straight to your heart. Your fave hue, the best chroma vibe for your head.

jyrgenn,
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@NanoRaptor The colour feels very calming and non-distracting for me. I have been using it for about 30 years on and off as a work screen background, and currently again. At times when I more often needed to set the background by hand, it had the (intended) additional bonus of being very memorable.
[Correction: 30 years, not 40]

simoncozens, to Rabbits
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Attention! We have a double flop! I repeat, we have a double flop!

jyrgenn,
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@simoncozens Am sure @NanoRaptor would like this.

simoncozens, to random
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You've got to sharpen your chisels.

I'm sure a large part of technical mastery in the computer world is about collecting, building and familiarising yourself with the best tool for the task. Time spent learning more about your code editor's features or building a short script to answer a common question makes you more efficient long term.

It might take me five minutes to open a GUI to do a task; half a minute to use someone else's tool; five seconds to do it in a tool I've written for the job.

jyrgenn,
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@simoncozens Just what I am thinking. I love writing small tools to automate things. The fun doing it and the sense of achievement alone are worth it. Using it later, being more efficient and avoiding mistakes, is a bonus.

fanf, to random
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looking at a teletype model 33 manual and section 2-13 is titled β€œHUM SQUELCH (optional)” and describes how to change the wiring to reduce an annoying noise

jyrgenn,
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@fanf If that was possible and know (obviously), why didn't they do that while manufacturing the thing in the first place?

NanoRaptor, to random
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the way home this afternoon.

jyrgenn,
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@NanoRaptor Wow. That is... dark. What happened then?

jyrgenn,
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@NanoRaptor But it sure appeared dramatic.

jyrgenn,
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@NanoRaptor "spesh"?

lzg, to random
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    jyrgenn,
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    @lzg Can you give an example of one such problem to solve?

    PCOWandre, to random
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    Oh, OneDrive.

    jyrgenn,
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    @PCOWandre πŸ‘Œ
    Really, my experience with OneDrive is that it is slow to operate (like doing settings, sharing things) and to synchronise. Self-hosted Owncloud/Nextcloud are so much faster in both points as well as more convenient.

    Unfortunately, work’s own OwnCloud instance is deprecated (while still operating) and the official successor is OneDrive.

    jyrgenn,
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    @PCOWandre MS’s parading our floors, too. Admittedly with the recent update Teams has improved to being borderline bearable by now, which is rather significant for me as I still work mostly remote.
    I do have to use Excel from time to time, but I have discovered that more people are okay with getting CSV files than I had expected. Sometimes Sharepoint and Word to read something; largely steering clear of OneDrive. So, I get by with using MS products as little as possible.

    jyrgenn,
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    @RogerBW @PCOWandre Three or four of my direct colleagues use Teams on Linux, and it works okay for them.
    The rest is one or two on Windows (not sure if one uses W or L), three on Macs. It sucks to some degree on all platforms.

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    Thank you all for the links to ticketing systems. I think about three were just what I could have used.

    But making a start on implementing them also made me realise I'm probably looking at things way more complex than I needed - I remembered a previous job that was all chaos all the time and set up a personal file tags system that helped make sense of that chaos, and since the inside of my head is also chaos...

    It's worked wonders! Yesterday and today I finished eleven backburner restos. Nice.

    jyrgenn,
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    @NanoRaptor Interestingly (or maybe not, huh) I have never used the colour tags in the 30 years I have been using a Macintosh. Uhm, as I think of it, the first one wasn’t even colour (a Classic II), so let’s say in over 20 years I have been using a colour Macintosh. But this gets me thinking, maybe I should start and see if it makes sense for me.

    jyrgenn,
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    @NanoRaptor Tried to apply that to my slightly chaotic incoming folder. Didn’t work. Now I have a cleaned up incoming folder with just one file in it. That one is actually tagged blue, though, so maybe it is a partial success after all.

    RogerBW, to books
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    Happy Ever After, Nora Roberts https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/01/Happy_Ever_After__Nora_Roberts.html

    jyrgenn,
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    @RogerBW Re books β€” according to the search on your website you haven’t (yet) reviewed The Riddle of the Sands from Erskine Childers. Shouldn’t that be just your cup of tea?

    I read it first in German, loaned from the library in the 80s, later got the original text and read it on a sailing trip. What I love most is the loving description of navigating small boats between the islands.

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    jyrgenn,
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    @lzg Ah, I see. Entschuldigung!
    So, which novel?

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