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promovicz

@promovicz@chaos.social

As a hacker prince from the old days I try to keep good ideas alive and bad ones dead.

Interested in society, art, programming, math, colorful people and good giggles.

Keep on hacking in a free world, but please have a profile of some sort.

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gsuberland, to random
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SD cards are the literal worst.

they've expanded to be the size of small hard drives, and devices like the rpi keep using them as boot media, but they:

  • use garbage tier low endurance flash cells internally
  • have little to no overprovisioning for wear
  • perform only the most basic wear levelling
  • have no protocol level integrity checking
  • have few internal error correction features, if any
  • decay comparatively quickly without patrol scrubs
  • do not perform patrol scrubs
  • cannot do PLP
promovicz,
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@gsuberland most embedded software, in comparison, will be like „YOLO“ - it doesn’t even check itself. so we did lots of custom things in PLCs…

mattblaze, to photography
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nerditry:
I make mostly (but not exclusively) B&W images (at least for my fine art work). Is it worth using a dedicated monochrome sensor?

Most digital cameras are designed to record color, using a special mask in front of the sensor called a "Bayer filter". This allows color information to be derived from the raw sensor output, which otherwise would just record brightness. But the Bayer filter can also reduce effective resolution of the image a bit.

So what's the tradeoff?

promovicz,
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@mattblaze @reinoudk It would be nice if cameras has B&W color filter simulation. It's not like all B&W is the same... and here, a monochrome sensor may just complicate things?

promovicz,
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@mattblaze @reinoudk Yes - but it might be nice if they could also preview color filters - like a red filter for sky contrast. Then again, as you say: it's all in the color picture, and I think it's fine to do this sort of thing in post. Film photography would have also had a color preview (!).

promovicz,
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@CStamp @mattblaze @reinoudk Absolutely! But whether it's important to shoot in this or that mode is, I think, up to the artist.

You could stick color filters in front of a color camera, and use B&W preview - and it would end up being much the same as doing it with film photography, with more modern tooling.

promovicz,
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@mattblaze @reinoudk Yes... that's where I'm aiming at. My family has a cinema background, that's why I'm into those things... 😅

promovicz,
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@dan131riley @mattblaze @reinoudk yes - my old little Canon 1000D could do it on Linux, but model support can be an issue with the required tools. i used that setup for macro, and it‘s also very cheap. 😁

anathem, to random German
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Okay, , ich brauch mal nen Labeldrucker.

Anforderungen:

  1. Eigene Tastatur/Display, mit der ich ohne weitere Geräte Standardlabels drucken kann.
  2. Kann per USB angesprochen werden, um Standardlabel oder Bitmaps von Linux zu drucken (CLI tooling oder einfach nur ein USB-Serial-Socket + Protokollspezifikation würd mir reichen).
  3. Kein DRM auf Tapes und keine Anzeichen vom Hersteller, so was einführen zu wollen.

Wegen 3 seh ich nur Brother, dort aber nix, was 1 und 2 kann. Gibts da noch andere?

promovicz,
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@anathem ich habe da was von Brother - einen E550W. Hat mit Koffer auf 10 Jahre gerechnet nicht wirklich krass viel gekostet. Hat ein Display und eine Tastatur, und kann bis 24 mm breit mit abschneiden und anschneiden. Fremdbänder gehen auch - kein Problem. USB geht auch, aber es gibt dafür auf Linux keine gescheite Software - aber eine benutzbare Python-Library. Kleinere Modelle: selbes Ding mit weniger Features. (Rating 4.3/5 - es gibt zwei drei Software-nonfeatures, aber nichts schlimmes)

promovicz,
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@anathem Uff. Da scheint sich was verändert zu haben. Es gab da mal nur eine. Müsste ich auch erstmal wieder durchprobieren. Sowas endet leider oft in custom… aber sonst bin ich mit dem Device ganz happy.

promovicz,
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@anathem Halbschnitt ist der Killer - damit labelt man auch zuhause das Regal schneller. 😅

posiputt, to random
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und wenn wir das klima jetzt einfach auf die straße kleben?

promovicz,
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@posiputt vielleicht macht das Klima den Asphalt klebrig… das könnte passieren.

benni, to random German
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Who put the Dung in Bildung?

promovicz,
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@benni Irgendein Freund von mir ist schuld, dass ich das Wort 'beibringen' mit einer Gerte assoziiere... komme nicht drauf. 😄

anneroth, to random German
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Es gab einen Journalisten in der HU, der beim Polizeieinsatz dort von hinten zu Boden geschlagen wurde (und noch mehr), es gibt ein Video von ihm dazu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtmK66BBz0M

Das wird wird gerade herumgereicht, es gibt Empörung dazu. Absolut richtig.

Bei allen anderen, die von der Polizei bei einem Einsatz von hinten zu Boden geprügelt werden, sollte das genauso empörend gefunden werden.

promovicz,
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@anneroth Ganz schön Herbststimmung. Kann mir keiner erzählen dass das nicht anders geht.

whitequark, to random
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every compiler project expands until it creates its own version of TableGen. after that it is swiftly replaced with something that is "not as difficult to use", and the cycle continues

promovicz,
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@whitequark even in lisp - as macros.

lzg, to random
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it causes problems

promovicz,
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@lzg [German law reference: Tanzverbot] (technically real)

nitram2342, to random
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When I went to school, it was a useful skill to fix cable breaks on headphone jacks by cutting the affected part away and solder the ends together. I did it many times for my headsets and for friends. Time has changed. There is no mechanically stressed cable anymore and now headsets are replaced when the battery is too old to work for a day.

promovicz,
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@nitram2342 or when one of the vendor bugs hits you. or when the neck cable breaks. or when it has too many Bluetooth exploits. we have an x-ray - it can see those breaks sometimes, but it‘s hard to see with mesh cable.

whitequark, to random
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notices ur fp oword whats this

promovicz,
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@whitequark octoword - she‘d have 8 words. that‘s a lot for oldskl dolls!

(no idea what precision - seems new to me)

lzg, to random
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remember when we thought keyloggers were a bad thing? now companies assume we want them to log all of our keystrokes for yet unknown and never materialized benefits. good times.

promovicz,
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@lzg „optimize your typing for great profit“ - hamster wheels look like career ladders from the inside.

lzg, to random
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i’ve realized i have about 5 scripted things i say to neighbors on morning walks, but they are all slightly odd and maybe need a little workshopping

promovicz,
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@lzg my hairdo for today seems to already say „hello“ for me - that seems convenient.

lzg, to random
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what’s the best city to spend one month of your life walking around doing nothing much?

promovicz,
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@lzg I‘m in Leipzig on layover. Easy for me to say, since it‘s around the corner, but it‘s great for just that.

Otherwise I‘d pick a tourism spot in off-season, that‘s big enough to not be closed down. Maybe take a friend to Barcelona, or get a different view in the Baltic capitals.

tazgetroete, to random German
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Wenn wir alle in Würde leben wollen, können wir uns Hyperreiche nicht leisten. Es braucht einen höheren Spitzensteuersatz und eine Vermögenssteuer. http://www.taz.de/!6009151/

promovicz,
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@tazgetroete Die Sache finde ich richtig, aber den Impetus mittlerweile etwas abgelutscht. Die allgemeine Linke könnte mehr gewinnen indem sie Verbesserung verkauft anstatt sich gegen Reiche zu richten. „Holt euch das Geld zurück“ kann man auch weniger konträr verkaufen, und ich glaube das wäre momentan effektiver.

tess, to random
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I want to be more active in different discussions on here but don't want to dump irrelevant stuff onto everyone or make additional accounts. I wish we could have different personas or sub-profiles, so I could read a single TL but post to different feeds that could be subscribed separately.

promovicz,
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@tess I run a few accounts in parallel, but it would be hard to have them on the same instance because the web client can’t switch. Otherwise I’m happy with it - and also, about having several different instance feeds, where each is somewhat subject-focused.

promovicz, to random
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<kid voice> „But I want Redsky!“

scrottie, to linux
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Adding myself here: I'm happy to chat about and answer what I can or help find resources. I don't know a lot about the latest, fanciest KDE and Gnome desktops but maybe you don't want that anyway and want to run something like xfce or another lightweight desktop (and yeah, for better or worse, there are lots of options with this stuff). Or . OpenBSD has been the daily driver for years now. One starting point might be https://fedoraproject.org/spins/ to easily try different desktops...

promovicz,
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@scrottie one of my favorites - admittedly - is something that I concocted myself in buildroot, because i would totally like to replace my Qubes some day, with something that runs from RAM.

gsuberland, to random
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something I find extremely tiring about discussing software on here is that there are systems and environments with genuinely immutable constraints that I am intimately, professionally familiar with, and whenever I talk about them someone will inevitably respond as if those constraints are trivial short-term stumbling blocks that can be handwaved away in order to embrace their own preferred form of software. it comes up most commonly with people proselytizing FOSS, but it's not the only example.

promovicz,
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@gsuberland there are many types who „don‘t care about other people‘s details“. I just go and ignore them. Some make bad friends, anyway.

marysheep, to random
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Today in “Never let them know your next move”: My YouTube algorithm thinks I’m a gay Asian man and I think that’s beautiful. 😊

promovicz,
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@marysheep Birdsite thinks I‘m between 16 and 68 y/o. No, I don‘t like checks notes the American NHL.

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