quixoticgeek

quixoticgeek, 9 months ago to random

Do any of my lovely followers happen to know the Cevennes area of France ?

quixoticgeek, 9 months ago to random

Seems that I started a small debate with @th. I started with the statement "The drop spindle is the only hand tool you don't hold to operate"

@th has countered with the fence post hammer. I contend that this is held in operation.

So, Fediverse, a) can you think of any other HAND tools that you do not hold the tool to operate.

and b) do you think the fence post hammer counts for this ?

quixoticgeek, 10 months ago to random

Just how much of an arsehole do you have to be to park here? A beautiful medieval town centre, one end of this road has bollards blocking it (the other end may do too). It's clearly a fußgangerzone, but there are no signs saying no parking. Cos no reasonable person would think this is a suitable place to discard their vehicle.

What is the German for "you park like an arsehole" ? I want to write it on the bonnet in brake fluid. (May contain traces of joke in that last sentence)

quixoticgeek, 11 months ago to random

@jon Do you no if mopla works if you don't have a German address? My attempts to sign up do not like my Dutch postcode for some reason.

quixoticgeek, 8 months ago to random

Talking with a friend about burning man, they mention that someone has died there. This got me thinking, given 80k people in one place is essentially a small city. How many people die in a given city each day?

City scale data is not easy to find. But google tells me 7974 people die in .US each day. Wikipedia tells me that there are 331,449,281 people in the US. Giving the chance of death as 0.000024%.

1 death in 80k is 0.00001%.

Burning man is safer than the US in General...

quixoticgeek, 10 months ago to random

@jon A train that is dual coded RE1, and IC 5106, is that permitted for the Deutschland ticket?

quixoticgeek, 6 months ago to random

This post has been bugging me for a while. Not for the text about Mastodon, but the screen cap of the wires article.

"Enough to build a town square on".

I read this. Over and over. And I wonder if anyone in tech, anyone who talks about an online town square. Have ever actually visited a town square. Sure we may have the picture in our head of the piazza of some Italian town, with terracotta roofs, and cafes in the lower story of every building. 1/n
https://mastodon.terabyte-computing.com/@cloudguy/111116664690127109

quixoticgeek, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Question for you lovely followers. Are you Dutch and have you made Hachee from scratch in the last 5 years ?

quixoticgeek, 8 months ago to random

The carbon footprint of commuting is largely based on that of your transport. I cycle to work. I'd be very surprised if that is anything close to 1g/km. Vs 100+g/km for many a Dino burner.

Sure there's many arguements to be made about flexible working, work from home, etc... but what this article is really saying, is our transport system is utterly fucked up (and about 25% of global emissions). Ban cars.

https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@danlyke/111088278120179553

quixoticgeek, 1 year ago to random

I'm ok an ICNG at last. Except I'm stuck in on carriage as the door doesn't work.

quixoticgeek, 8 months ago to random

Tonight my friend said it was my turn to buy the wine. I went to the supermarket and got smacked in the face by option paralysis.

My friend gave me some key words to look for.

In the end we got two bottles. One for a fiver and one for €9. So far we've opened the cheap one and it's entirely drinkable.

Mission accomplished.

quixoticgeek, 10 months ago to random

Wtf filesystem does android use underneath everything? Deleting a 4GB file causes my phone to basically stall and become unusable for a few minutes. Which shouldn't happen from just unlinking a file. Deleting a file in most filesystems is an incredibly cheap operation.

quixoticgeek, 9 months ago to random

"don't use ifconfig, use ip instead"
"don't use iptables, is nftables instead"
"don't use brctl, use bridge command instead"
"don't use the route command, use ip instead"

That's cool, but is there any documentation other than a man page for any of these ? The number of blog and forum posts for using brctl are multiple orders of magnitude greater than using bridge. And worse bridge as a command is utterly shit to Google for.

Documentation of Linux has gone down hill a lot in recent years.

quixoticgeek, 9 months ago to random

Dutch people, where can I find out about the water quality for swimming in various local bodies of water ?

quixoticgeek, 8 months ago to random

Imagine if trains were so frequent you could say "oh this train is really busy, I'll wait 15 mins and take the next one" all because the train service was so frequent you never needed to worry about a time table. There were no advance tickets, so you didn't have to stress about catching that one train you booked. Just walk onto the platform and get on the first train to your destination that met your balance of arrival time and busyness.

quixoticgeek, 8 months ago to random

Hearty stew season is almost upon us. Dear fediverse, tell me, what are your favourite hearty stews to cook in the autumn?

quixoticgeek, 4 months ago to random

I find it reassuring that when the UK gov did it's consultation on bringing back barbarian stupid units. Over 98% of respondents said they wanted to just stick with metric.

quixoticgeek, 8 months ago to random

mAh is an utterly stupid unit of measure. Esp when Wh or joules are available.

quixoticgeek, 7 months ago to random

Went to a Norwegian website. Expecting it to be in Norwegian. Except it's in Dutch. But weird Dutch... It took me two paragraphs of unintelligible Dutch before I realised it's actually Deutsch. My language centres are utterly fucked right now. This week is going to make it worse. I'm at an event for an organisation I'm in. The organisation's operating language is German. But there's people from all over Europe here. General policy is pick a language and hope...

quixoticgeek, 6 months ago to random

Someone's not having a good day.

A tram 24 at the Pijp has managed to turn left and right at the same time. And it's not ended well...

A tram broken across a junction in the Pijp, lots of bikes are parked in the foreground.

quixoticgeek, 5 months ago to random

Seems I'm spending my evening rebuilding a linux md raid superblock using dd and hope...

quixoticgeek, 5 months ago to random

Last Christmas I received this drill as an Xmas present. It's great, chews through walls like they aren't even there. But it creates a lot of dust which is a faff, and means I'm less likely to use it. In the Autumn I bought the vacuum attachment for it. Today I used it properly for the first time.

It's amazing. Absolutely no mess. And also doubles as a depth stop, which prevents me going all the way through the wall (which is very easy to do otherwise).

Absolutely brilliant.

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

An excellent plan. But only if the also close all gas stations during those hours too...

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/02/switching-off-car-charging-stations-may-prevent-network-meltdown/

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

How effective is ones altruism, when it involves 25 years in prison...

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

This whole xz vulnerability. Is that effecting devuan Daedalus? Does anyone know ?