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Software engineer, retired. Loves trains. Anti-fascist. Atheist. Feminist. Disillusioned by the open source "community".

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Thing found on Bluesky, but probably doing the rounds in all social media:

Google Books doesn't necessarily understand text divided into columns with just a narrow inter-column gap. Not even if there is a vertical thin line between columns. It combines the lines in neighbouring columns into (absurd and non-grammatical) longer lines.

Thus it thinks this English translation of Don Quixote from 1863 contains the phrase "shake my booty".

https://www.google.fi/books/edition/Don_Quixote_de_la_Mancha/UnMPAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22shake%20my%20booty%22&pg=PA289&printsec=frontcover

tml, to random
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This is incredible. Is this for real? https://youtu.be/knhQ2f8anT8

tml, to random
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I love that some of Spain’s main railway stations have been given names honouring Spanish female authors, journalists, philosophers etc. Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Gardens, Madrid-Chamartin-Clara Campoamor, Málaga-Maria Zambrano. Are there more? Better than mythical figures (saints).

But still. From a usability POV such complex names are horrible. Parts of the name can be left out or abbreviated. Could easily confuse an unaware traveler, especially a foreigner.

tml, to random
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So now Open Source enthusiasts are no longer just entitled to getting quick and appropriate responses to their bug reports for packages maintained by single overworked and possibly burned out volunteers, they can also demand that said maintainers don’t delegate maintenance responsibility, for security reasons.

tml, (edited ) to blender
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How do people do version control (using git) of their .blend files? Sure, one can just store the .blend files in git as such, and that is what I do, but is there some clever trick that would make diffs usable? Some tool that could produce a textual summary of the difference between two versions of a .blend file? Etc.

tml, to Oslo
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Aahhh… does not beat the Preda to Bergün run in my opinion, though. The Tim Traveller does a run in between two metro stations.

https://youtu.be/GrqygdjkZuQ?si=hAKHBAay53gCKH3T

tml, to random
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I have received two mysterious shipments apparently from the US that I need to possibly pay import duty and tax on. I have no idea what they are. I have not ordered anything. The sender is “pubworx - gps standard, us”. Weight 0.20 kg, content “free gift - dbl sided canvas”.

Anybody else in FLOSS circles received this? Any guesses?

tml, to random
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The Ore Line in Northern Sweden and Norway, between Kiruna and Narvik, is having a pretty bad winter… First there was a serious derailment on December 17 that took two months to repair. For instance, 14,000 sleepers had to be replaced.

When the freight traffic was restarted, then yesterday another derailment, very close to where the previous one was. Sigh. https://www.trafikverket.se/om-oss/nyheter/nationella-nyheter/2024/februari/ny-ursparning-pa-malmbanan

tml, to random
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Happy Death of Stalin day, to those who celebrate.

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tml, to random
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X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

tml, to random Finnish
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Joo no annetaan olla.

tml, to random
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I saw a man with a towel! Was he celebrating , or was he just going to the sauna or whatever?

tml, to random
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Slight Mordor vibes in this place name.

tml, to random
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Wow, that’s an oddly specific remaining time. What is the point with hotel WiFi “access control” where each guest has the same username and password, and the access is valid for almost a year? But yeah, SECURITY!!! You shall not question the design choices of our VERY SECURE INTERNET.

tml, to random
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The Bohemian hilly forests are like Finland, but with more amplitude modulation. And perhaps less mosquitoes. And much more beautiful small cities. Love it. Harder to pronounce place names though.

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OMG. I just saw nutrias https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutria for the first time in my life. At first I thought they were wild and scared of people and didn’t dare go close. Bah. They are like pigeons. People feed them and they come and beg for food. Eat from your hands, basically. I guess classified as an invasive species but they are so cute. I literally couldn’t believe my eyes.

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As opposed to, for instance, blood bank or sperm bank? Yes, I guess specifying money might avoid some embarrassing situations.

tml, to random
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Bars that serve empanadas (Argentinian pastries with meat or other stuff) were plentiful in Madrid. And in my Airbnb house in Prague there is one. And someone is having their 40 years party here. Nice. Mark my words: Empanadas will be the next big thing in fast food. Or maybe they already are?

tml, to random
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Going to Vadstena. Stil no decision where to stay the next night. Assuming a few hours is enough to see Vadstena, maybe Kalmar? Karlskrona? Or perhaps even Copenhagen or Odense. Schienenersatzverkehr between Älmhult and Hässleholm this weekend, I want to avoid that, so in any case taking the coastal route.

tml, to Prague
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Eek. 28 mm of rain expected in for the next 24 hours. Suggestions for indoor activities welcome. Art museums, design museums, quirky specialist museums, etc. Architectural or city planning landmarks that can be admired through the window of a tram. I do have a (small) umbrella now, and I have good shoes, so minor amounts of walking is OK.

tml, to Prague
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A nice glass of Merlot and a cake called Paris–Brest in a cafe in Praha 6, 20 metres from my Airbnb. Why would I want to go to the touristy hell on the other side of the river?

(I don’t claim this particular cafe is filled with locals either.)

tml,
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(Now you will of course tell me that Praha 6 is completely taken over by “expats”, foreign students, and Airbnb, and it isn’t any better than the Old Town, really.)

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Welcome to today's thread -
South East Europe Day 00 28 May 2024 - Arrival of night ferry, Turku - Kupittaa - Helsinki

Crossing these borders:
Only sea borders

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#7/59.781/21.973

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#7/59.781/21.973

tml,
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@jon Try convincing the average Finn that, though. “Always late, very expensive, sold out, very messy”.

(And with “sold out” meaning it’s unfair they can’t book their Christmas vacation trip to Lapland night train one week in advance.)

tml, to iPhone
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What could be the problem when my 15 keeps dropping down to Edge, while my older iPad Pro stays at 5G just fine, when roaming in CZ? Both use a mobile subscription from the same operator, in Finland. Rebooting the phone helps for a while.

tml,
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Possibly it was a problem only in the train. Now it stays at 5G or 4G just fine.

tml, to random
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Happiness. I can now reveal that I was stupid and left my iPad in the bus from Toledo to Madrid two weeks ago (on a Saturday). I followed it in Find My and saw that it returned to Toledo and stayed there. I went there the following day, but of course the ticket office wasn’t open on Sundays and even if I saw it was some metres away I couldn’t get it... I eventually got a reply from that they do have it there and I can fetch it on a weekday so here I am now and yes I got it back. Whew.

tml,
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If #iOS was really clever, it would notice that you are in bus/train/etc and ping your nearby devices/#AirTag items frequently once you stop, to be able to tell you right away “dude, you left your iPad/hat/bag in the bus, go back now and fetch it”.

Hey #Apple, feel free to implement this.

It did tell me now that I left the iPad, but too late. We were already hundreds of metres away, in the metro station, and it took like five minutes to go back and by that time the bus had already left.

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