@apicultor@hachyderm.io
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apicultor

@apicultor@hachyderm.io

In a sense, I am a beekeeper, hence the username.

I work in the rail industry trying to secure all the things: tons of legacy infrastructure which is now being networked.

Never forget: there is no cloud, there is only other people's computers.

I break shit for fun. Sometimes I even fix it afterwards!

They say that "life is what happens while we're busy making other plans", and they're right; tot i que la vida m'ha allunyat de Catalunya, tinc moltes ganes de tornar a casa.

Geek. Aspie. Poly.

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apicultor, to random
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@puppygirlhornypost @jerry This is correct; the project is sound.

The founder's beef with Techlore goes way back, some of which is clearly justified and some of which I believe is an overreaction based on hypersensitivity as a result of the justified events. That said, I have yet to find credible allegations against either the project or the people — and I say this as someone who has been watching, donating, and using it as a daily driver for years now.

jon, to random
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They have a handy map of where I’m going tomorrow 🙂

apicultor,
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@grlodi @jon I expected something fun in the barcode. Alas, I can't get it to decode.

An opportunity was lost.

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I was just curious where I was shipping my old Apple Card back to* — and was once again left wondering, how many Apple Corporate buildings are there, in total, around the world?

  • Apple Cards go to Kifer 1

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apicultor,
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@cabel Apple Card?

18+ stux, to random
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Haha omg :bloblaugh: I wanted to take a shower and noticed they forgot something at the hospital lol

Or perhaps it’s just self removal idunno :blobcatgiggle: didn’t feel them anymore after few hours

(tummy pic)

apicultor,
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@stux This made me think of that third white card. 😂

https://me.me/i/make-a-haiku-2-draw-cards-against-humanity-pick-3-7168537

gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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normal EMF things

#emf2024

apicultor,
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@gsuberland Is... is that a shower?

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day -01 27 May 2024 - Arrival of night ferry, Malmö C - Stockholm, onto night ferry

Crossing these borders:
Only sea borders

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/57.534/15.535

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#6/57.534/15.535

apicultor,
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@jon If the night train can be had cheaper, that's probably why.

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
apicultor,
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@gsuberland What if you used ZFS? Honest question.

apicultor,
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@gsuberland Are you sure that scrubbing causes writes (other than to update the last scrub timestamp)?

paulrickards, to genart
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Red hot Truchet tiles in vermillion, magenta, and red violet. Printed on a HP 7585B pen plotter from 1983 on 11x15 watercolor paper. A slight detour of my usual CMY palette 😀

Detail from a pen plot of concentric large overlapping arcs making swirling patterns of movement in many shades of red, pink, and violet. Focus is on the center of an intersection of arcs.
Detail from a pen plot of concentric large overlapping arcs making swirling patterns of movement in many shades of red, pink, and violet. Focus is on the center of an intersection of arcs.

apicultor,
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@paulrickards That is super fucking cool.

jon, to random
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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day -02 26 May 2024 - Ravières - Montbard - Paris - Köln - Hamburg - Travemünde, onto night ferry Crossing these borders: Lille 🇫🇷 - Bruxelles 🇧🇪 HSL Aachen 🇩🇪 - Welkenraedt 🇧🇪 These borders on the borders map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/50.766/4.263 Today's routes on the routes map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/50.766/4.263

apicultor,
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@jon Sounds like Eurostar is going to get worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/26/why-travelling-on-eurostar-from-the-uk-is-about-to-become-much-trickier

apicultor, to photography
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@mattblaze If I may ask, what do you think about glass such as this?

https://petapixel.com/2024/05/19/nikon-z-28-400mm-f-4-8-vr-the-best-all-purpose-lens-ive-ever-used/

jon, to random
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Deutsche Bahn is introducing transparent noise protection walls

https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/presse/pressestart_zentrales_uebersicht/Mehr-Durchblick-weniger-Laerm-DB-entwickelt-innovative-transparente-Schallschutzwaende-12861336?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

But what’s missing?

Graffiti

It covers every sound protection wall everywhere in Germany. Perhaps these transparent walls are a little easier to clean? We can hope..?

apicultor,
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@jon >But what’s missing? Graffiti

Methinks we won't be waiting long... 😂

luckytran, to random
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An NPR reporter collected samples of raw milk from 4 farms in Texas, and asked a USDA-authorized lab to test for bird flu. The lab refused to do it, because the farms wouldn't give them permission to test, even though permission isn't required. Wow.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1251647612/a-bird-flu-outbreak-among-dairy-cows-sparks-new-warnings-about-unpasteurized-mil

apicultor,
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@luckytran Sounds like they should name and shame the lab, and then give the samples to one who will.

koalie, (edited ) to random
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RIP Laurence Victoria Taranto Mercier

My mum passed away on Thursday 25 April 2024. She was found on Monday 29 April. She died in her bed, in her sleep, and didn’t suffer. I don’t remember when I last spoke to her. Probably over a year ago. The last time I wrote about her, 8 months ago, to put into words that I had finally given up hope to get along with her, we had stopped speaking to each other 6 or so months prior.

https://blog.koalie.net/2024/05/12/rip-laurence-victoria-taranto-mercier/

apicultor,
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@koalie I'm sorry for your loss.

kwf, to random
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Fun demo of the difference that galvanizing makes. The left stack of nails are bright finish, where the right stack are galvanized, so the zinc kept them from rusting when I left them out overnight

apicultor,
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@kwf They only galvanize the top half?!

jon, to random
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Ha

If only my knowledge of EU law had the desired impact this fast every time 🙂

My father wanted to pay a EDF French electricity bill from a Belgian bank account, and was told that this was not possible because the bank was outside France

I formulated a stern email to EDF for him, in French, stipulating this was not allowed as a reason within the Single European Payment Area (SEPA), and within a few hours they relented in a grovelling email!

apicultor,
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@jon Whenever I have experienced IBAN discrimination in France, I have sent this PDF and they have changed their tune right quick.

May it serve you (and your father) well.

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/files/files/directions_services/dgccrf/presse/communique/2021/CP-CNPS-DGCCRF.PDF

apicultor, to random
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@GrapheneOS https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266628172100007X

apicultor,
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@GrapheneOS Has it been entirely remediated since it was written in 2021?

jon, to random
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“Kon­trollen an deut­scher Grenze sind rechts­widrig”

Interessanter Fall. Nicht zuletzt, weil der betreffende Wissenschaftler die gleiche Frage (Maßnahme um eine Identitätskontrolle oder eine Grenzkontrolle?) verwendet, die ich seit Jahren benutze.

https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/vg-muenchen-m23k223422-grenzkontrolle-zug-deutschland-oesterreich-rechtswidrig/

apicultor,
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@jon But will anything actually change?

jon, to random
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Trying to help a friend get from Madrid to Paris 8 June. And I want to 😭

€122 for the best timed TGV train to Paris €97 is the cheapest
Cheapest flights from €43
Other flights €54 - €74

apicultor,
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@jon Yes, but one of those choices is going to be fucking misery, and the other one is going to be beautiful views, free internet access, and a picnic which can contain a bottle of wine and a corkscrew.

apicultor,
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@jon Don't forget to add a few euro in Madrid and at least twelve in Paris to actually get back into the city.

If you are booking very close to departure, then the price isn't great either way.

Did you look at Madrid-Lyon via Renfe and then a Freccia or Ouigo from there to Paris?

foone, to random
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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

apicultor,
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@gsuberland @foone 1204x768?

jon, to random
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“Cooperation” between state owned railway companies Slovenia 🇸🇮 and Croatia 🇭🇷, don't you love it

Train 1273, summertime only, runs whole way Pula 🇭🇷 - Divača 🇸🇮

On HŽPP site: shows Pula - Buzet (border station)
On SŽ site: shows Buzet - Divača

Only 🥁 Deutsche Bahn 🇩🇪 shows the whole lot 🤪

On SŽ site: shows Buzet - Divača - screenshot
Pula - Divača on Deutsche Bahn site

apicultor,
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@DiegoBeghin @jon Planning is absolutely what Germany does best... and definitely not execution.

Lines up perfectly.

jon, to random
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Trenitalia seeking more business in France

Good trains. Sensible company. Thoughtful offer. I wish them well! And some international trains - to Genova and Madrid - are being considered, as well as operation of 16 carriage trains to Lyon

https://www.railwaygazette.com/passenger/trenitalia-seeks-more-business-in-france/66351.article

apicultor,
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@jon I am absolutely fucking overjoyed to read that headline. I wish them nothing but the best.

Great trains, too.

>investigating options for high speed services from Paris to destinations such as Genova, Marseille and Madrid

Wouldn't it be embarrassing if FS started serving Paris-Madrid before Renfe? Yikes.

apicultor,
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@jon AFAIK Renfe has been waiting for authorisation from the EPSF, which issues same on a sector-by-sector basis.

They're dragging their heels to maintain SNCF's monopoly on the route as long as possible.

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