xro

xro, 1 month ago to Astronomy

"Uncle I've read the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy.. and say... where is Betelgeuse?"

"It doesn't exist anymore"

https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/betelgeuse-will-explode-someday/

Kind of amazing that we have recent popular literature which mentions a star and assumes it is a permanent fixture in the sky, when that star might explode within our lifetime. 🤯

Of course we also have star charts from the middle ages that show stars that can't be found in the sky today. 🤷🤔

#randomthoughts #astronomy #betelgeuse #h2g2

xro, 3 months ago to random

China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total

https://www.ecowatch.com/china-new-solar-capacity-2023.html

xro, 9 months ago to random

It was true after all. 😅Proof of Doom on laRhea Coffemachine, after the talk. #cccamp23 #metalab

xro, 6 months ago to Halloween

This is the most horrifying #halloween costume I could think to make 😅

#clippy #retrocomputing #costume

xro, 10 months ago to random

https://topos.orf.at/selbsteinschaetzung-mitte100

"die reichsten 10% [gehen] davon aus, nur knapp über der Mitte zu liegen."

„Die untersten 10% haben weniger als 2.400€ Nettovermögen“,

"Schätzungen [..] zufolge besitzt das oberste % rund 50% des gesamten Vermögens"

"Die untere Hälfte, 2M Haushalte, besitzen [..] weniger als 5%"

"Selbsteinschätzung verzerrt politische Debatten"

"Verzerrte Vorstellung über Steuersystem"

"Das gefährde [..] die demokratische Grundordnung unserer Gesellschaft"

xro, 1 month ago to random

Impressive 🤣😂🤣 #smbc

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tickle

xro, 9 months ago to random

Back home from #cccamp23 , the only orderly spot in my flat is the small corner with the commemorative coins 😅 #milliways #cccamp

xro, 8 months ago to random

https://orf.at/stories/3331697/

damit werden die letzten Missverständnisse, die fpö wäre nicht so schlimm wie die afd, final ausgeräumt.

Beide positionieren sich als Sammelpool für Soziopathen und gesellschaftsfeindliche Egoisten sowie Leute mit IQ <80.

Aus Russland kommen anscheinend weiterhin massiv Parteigelder, denn man verteidigt auch den armen Putin der ja nur ein paar Länder erobern will.

Beide arbeiten auf ihre Zensur und Kriminalisierung hin. Kündigen es sogar an.

xro, 8 months ago to uk

#UK outlaws privacy protecting #E2EE.

Want to underline this advice: avoid #messengers that continue to operate in the UK. They are going to implement and or enable backdoors now.

https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9bf2f06c

xro, 7 months ago to random German

Samstag 2023-10-21 13h-16h gibt's im #realraum wieder einen #sensorcommunity #feinstaub Sensor aka #airrohr Bastelworkshop im Rahmen des #freiraumfest

https://events.graz.social/events/9b88126e-ea22-4309-a83a-d4dade937069

Es wird auch eine begrenzte Anzahl Kits zum Selbstkostenpreis geben.

xro, 5 months ago to random German

Hörensagen #A1 von vor 2 Jahren:

Firmen welche bei A1 Verträge haben, bekommen ein Hardwarebudet/Bonuspunkte(?), die der Firmen-Admin/Prokura/CEO der die Firma zu A1 gebracht hat, für sich nutzen kann.

Einem Freund in dieser Position ist vom A1 Key Account Manager am Telefon gesagt worden, seine Firma hätte da gerade 2k€ zusammen, ob er Hardware wolle oder das Geld, denn viele würden sich das auf ihr Privatkonto auszahlen lassen, das wäre üblich.

Klang wie
#bestechung von Entscheidungsträgern

xro, 1 month ago to azure German

Jetzt 1? Jahr später noch #Azure Cloud oder #Microsoft verwenden ist wie Corona Leugnen oder Klimakatastrophe ignorieren. 🤦

Trotzdem tun es alle, weil sie sich blauäugig knebeln und fesseln und naiv einlullen haben lassen.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/11/politics/russian-hackers-steal-government-hackers-microsoft/index.html

https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=98e7c1ec

https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366569954/Proofpoint-Hundreds-of-Azure-accounts-compromised

https://techreport.com/news/microsoft-azure-hit-with-the-largest-data-breach-in-its-history-hundreds-of-executive-accounts-compromised/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ongoing-microsoft-azure-account-hijacking-campaign-targets-executives/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094287/microsoft-hack-russian-security-attack-stolen-source-code

Etc.

xro, 2 months ago to random German

FSME-Impfung geholt. Assistentin spricht mich auf das #Funkfeuer #Freifunk 0xFF T-Shirt an.

Ich erkläre ihr worum es geht. Sie schaut mich leicht verwirrt an. Plötzlich die Stimme der Ärztin aus dem Hintergrund:

"Stell's dir wie viele kleine Starlink Satelliten am Boden vor"

😀😊😆👍

xro, 3 months ago to random

Mal Schwarz auf Weiß das Polizei Menschenmengen nicht schätzen kann. (u.A.), falls jemand mal einen reality check braucht welche Zahlen bei Demos glaubwürdig sind.

https://fragdenstaat.de/blog/2024/02/12/chaos-und-widerspruche-zum-leipziger-polizeikessel/

Vielleicht sollte man den Beamten einen Kurs anbieten, oder sie auf https://www.mapchecking.com/ hinweisen.

xro, 3 months ago to random

After evaluating GitHub #Copilot in various settings (ansible, golang, rust, python, CL) for 2 months I can now say that it can be helpful like at most 20% of the time but it turned out to be much less usefull than the initial examples, which friends demonstrated to me, let me believe.

Basically, at the current price, it's imho not really worth the money.
Or: At current usefulness it should imho be priced around 3 USD/m.

xro, 3 months ago to vim

Still a great resource that helped me today 😀 when I remembered a keybinding Sven once demonstrated to me.

http://www.guckes.net/vim/

#vim

xro, 4 days ago to random German

Es wäre so leicht die Welt ein bisschen gescheiter und besser zu machen...

• Werbung verbieten
• Boulevard Medien TV und Zeitung zerschlagen
• Journalistische Mindeststandards heben
• Journalistische Unabhängig von Werbung und Geldgebern die den Inhalt diktieren

😮‍💨

xro, 4 days ago to random German

Holy Shit 🤣 #buchempfehlung #leseempfehlung

So wahr - so bitter - so lustig

===============

Brüssel sehen und sterben by Nico Semsrott

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211504693-br-ssel-sehen-und-sterben

xro, 1 month ago to mechanicalkeyboards

I did it ... 😊 I could not leave it be...
I ordered custom printed #keycaps from WASD for my customized #chrumm #keyboard showing the full #NeoQWERTZ layout. 😅 Plus the keyboards first FN-layer.

They arrived .. today 😀 and they are beautiful. Came out much nicer and less chaotic than I feared. Even though #chaos, chaosknot and fairydust-rocket are part of the design 😁

On top of that, I added o-rings for a softer key-press bottom-out.

keycap design, remix at will: https://github.com/btittelbach/custom_printed_keycaps/tree/main

The photo shows a angled closeup of xro's custom Chrumm Keyboard with newly added custom printed keycaps. The chaos knot is used as symbol for "Alt" and fairy-dust is used as symbol for "Enter" while a gamecontroller is used as symbol for "Ctrl"
the image that was submitted to WASD for printing

xro, 4 days ago to random

How Sweden switched from left-driving to right-side-driving

• because the infrastructure was already mostly there
• because left-driving caused problems
• because all neighbors used right-side standard
• forward-looking policy making, before the 5x increase in traffic came which studies predicted
• against public habit and vote, because it was the obvious thing to do, knowing that everybody would get used to it quickly and see the advantages afterward

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

xro, 2 months ago to keyboard

Built myself a #chrumm #Keyboard last week in standard configuration. (chrumm is actually a very cool parametric STL and PCB keyboard generator)

The goal was to see how I would do with isometric aligned keys.

So far, my experience has been great. No problem with the rectilinear layout per se.

The main annoyances so far focused on the missing F-key-row, the two missing keys on the left half that I need regularly and having to type '6' with the right hand instead of the left.

closeup of chrumm keyboard PCB fitted into 3D printed body with soldered keys.
assembled chrumm keyboard without keycaps
finished Chrumm Keyboard next to a MS Natural Keyboard 4000

xro, 2 months ago to diy

The path to a better(?) parametrically generated #chrumm #diy #Keyboard is fraught with failed #3dprint s. 😅

On the FFF side, 3 prints with 3 filaments failed, before I could pin down the reason for it (all our filaments needed drying)

On the resin side, 1 print had the wrong parameters and 2 prints with high clarity resin bent away from the support structure and thus assembling became inviable. Also I further destroyed one of those while trying to fit a threaded inset into it. 😅

Collage of failed resin print with black ABS like resin. Good thing it failed, because it also showed me that I would have to order new PCBs for these angles.
Collage of 3 failed FFF prints. Materials used were PETG, Meta PLA and GreenTecPro. All prints have a lot of stringing and uneven surfaces due to having drawn too much moisture from the air.

xro, 2 months ago to diy

Finally finished my second #chrumm #diy #keyboard 😃 🎉

This version features -12° backwards tilt instead of -3° and is thus a bit higher.

It also features 20° split angle instead of 12°, which feels much better. On the MS Ergonomic keyboard, which seems to also have only 12°, I actually also used an wider arm angle so so that finger movement is more isometric over the diagonally arranged keys.

The body was printed with resin and the threading hole diameter needed to be increased for glueing.

Collage of three photos of my second chrumm keyboard. Assembly in progress. Top photo show the underside of the body with Cherry Ergo Clear keys installed. Middle photo shows the added PCB and cables. Lower photo shows the fully assembled body.
Collage of photos of chrumm keyboard assembly. Top image shows assembled keyboard with only a few keycaps still missing. The Cherry Ergo Clear Keys are still visible The lower image shows the finished keyboard with Evangelion keycaps.

xro, 3 months ago to random

Mal Lust auf gute Nachrichten?

Gibt anscheinend Leute welche daran arbeiten dieses Bedürfnis zu befriedigen 👍 😃 Danke Leute!

https://goodnews.eu/

publicvoit, 1 day ago to ukteachers

I recently explained two different colleagues working in the IT the basic concept of a template page you need to copy for a new meeting. 🤷

#PIM #education