Attending Japanese HAM radio training: one day on regulations, one day technology.
Following the explanations in Japanese is ok, but answering these test questions is super hard. Many Japanese terms I never heard of.
Also for the tech part: you would think they use much Katakana based on English terms, but no: for almost everything relating to electric, native Japanese terms were invented..
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I'm behind a 1GBit fiber connection from NTT. Took me years to get aware that I can replace their "home gateway" (where one plugs in the fiber and gets network out via 4 rj45 connectors) with a plain modem, and then run an own router behind that.
I did the switch this week, works really nice, recommended! Thanks to #OpenWRT on the router, I get traffic stats and more.
Just IPv6 setup took a bit longer: no delegation of a whole network segment is done, but DHCPv6 relay on the router works.
Word of the day: hikoshisoba/引っ越しそば.
Hikoshi is "to move houses", soba is buckwheat noodle. So these noodles were traditionally handed out to neighbours after moving in.
Occasion: a friend who is from France has built a house near Tokyo and just moved in. I guess he is quite decided where to spend his further life then :)
Memorising and citing classical Chinese texts is playing a role in Japan's education. I think Japan sees this completely as 'culture', and is not relating that to political relations with China.
Chinese texts are also used in education in Taiwan, and apparently influenced by politics there are now voices to change that.
So I used to worry about leap seconds causing problems. But with declining programming standards & increasing code brittleness, I wonder what will break this February 29th...
Klar würde ich gerne einen Japanrailpass kaufen.
Aber wenn die Registration auf deren Server schon so viele Hindernisse bietet, wäre der CHF 100 Aufpreis pro Person im Reisebüro ev. doch keine so üble Sache?
Erstes Hindernis, keine Sonderzeichen im Passwort.
Zweites Hindernis, fehlkonfigurierter E-Mailserver da drüben (helo mit ungültigem Hostnamen). 😩 #Travel#Japan#Rail
@Jackobli Das ist nur zur Einstimmung in Land und Volk das Du bereisen willst :)
Mit digitalem ist man hier in einigen Aspekten noch nicht so weit - nimmt sich nichts mit Deutschland.
My wife used the word トリセツ to talk about our toddler. It's an abbreviation of 取扱説明書（とりあつかいせつめいしょ） or "user's manual." But can also be applied to how to handle people, such as celebs (and small children). #japanese
@egghat In Thueringen hatte ich auch gerade eine Erfahrung mit einem Handwerker die nicht vermuten laesst das da an Auftraegen mangelt, ganz und gar nicht.
Frage am die #postfix-Eperten: Ich kriege im log von Postfix nur genannt, das ein Server der Mail einliefern will keine der Ciphers kennt die ich nutze. Kann ich rausbekommen welche er anbietet? Der liefert nur aus, ich kann also nicht per telnet bei ihm testen....
Idee:
Wir bauen eine neue Einheit der Bundeswehr auf, die nur im Ausland agiert.
Und da kommen die ganzen gewaltbereiten Störenfriede rein, ohne Fragen zu stellen, Teilnahme = Amnestie (nach Mindestdienstzeit).
Welchen klingenden Namen sollte das Ding haben?
ASUS Chromebox 5 arrived so I installed Fedora and turned it into a server. I had a problem when installing Tianocore UEFI bootloader but I could solve it without heroic debugging effort thanks to coreboot/depthcharge firmware source code availability.
Now I can access it from my MacBook anytime I need an x86 system.
@fn_aki I got the first graphs this week from comparing power consumption of a certain task running on arm (raspi), x86, aarch64/macbook. If the efficiency extends like this to other compute tasks.. then the macs with Applesilicon make great and efficient servers. Just price is higher..
Article to follow, writing that right now.
Microsoft wird rund 3 Milliarden Euro in den KI-Standort Deutschland investieren. Eines von vielen Beispielen für große Investitionen in unser Land. Ob in Magdeburg und Dresden, Straßkirchen, Dortmund, Eisenhüttenstadt, Bremen, Guben oder Berlin: Alle Regionen unseres Landes profitieren. So schaffen wir eine industriell starke Zukunft mit gut bezahlten Arbeitsplätzen.
@zhenech To watch something, or as further screen? Nah, using the mac internal screen would be better for that.
I never got into using multiple screens in parallel - but heavy user of virtual screens.
@alexziemianski@zhenech I'm using virtualization and emulation much, but directly with virsh/virt-manager/virt-install instead of Proxmos.
Using the steamdeck to measure it's power consumption under some workloads, and will then compare that with some arm and risc-v systems, to compare power efficiency. Will write an article when done.
@alexziemianski@zhenech
The steamdeck is not weak, but not beefy on memory either. I run virtualized x86 on a Thinkpad with 32GB, and emulation of x86 on Macbook with Asahi linux is also reasonably fast.
Ich würd total gern mal einen Stammbaum meiner (komplizierten) Familie OPTISCH SCHÖN darstellen, find aber bisher keine gescheite Software, die folgendes erfüllt: Scheidungen, Stiefeltern, Halb- und Stiefgeschwister, mehr als 2 Geschlechter, kostenlos und ohne DNA-Ahnenforschung.
Tokyo had a bit of snow this week - and all hells broke loose :)
TV has tables with "what breaks down with 5/10/20cm snow", and does live coverage.
Cycling to work next day took a bit longer, but was fun.
@taseroth Depends very much on the location: Japan is covering more climate zones than Germany, from warm to cold. The amount of snow we just had in Tokyo makes people in Hokkaido, the big part in the north, just smile.
That huge range also is good to see with cherry blossom, which is kind of 'rolling' through Japan: https://sakura.weathermap.jp/en.php
