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

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This is incredible. Is this for real? https://youtu.be/knhQ2f8anT8

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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 Finnish
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Joo no annetaan olla.

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.

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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

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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

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Happy Death of Stalin day, to those who celebrate.

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

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Lisbon Airbnb confirmed, a bit nerve wracking, why did we leave it to the last minute…

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I wished Слава Україні! to some people, hope they were Russian.

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Is it so that if you tap “cash and balance” on an ATM they will charge you extra for the balance inquiry? I am very distrusting about that company and always choose “other” and then just “cash withdrawal”.

tml, to porto
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The public transport ticket machines in #Lisbon have a better UX than the ones in #Porto.

In Porto they asked whether you have a Portuguese tax number or not, and they used the weird word “title” instead of the simple to understand word “ticket”. Also, here you can with one payment buy several travel cards with the same tickets loaded onto each card.

But sure, ideal is London-style contactless payment system with daily fee capping . Instead of a separate travel card for each city you visit.

tml, to random
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I dislike Elon Musk and I understand the problems caused to astronomy by a large number of low earth orbit satellites. But still, please people, before you share this story about “Starlink precipitation” that is doing the rounds, be a bit critical. I am not at all sure that such a term is actually used in the astronomical community. My guess is that it’s just this one guy that came up with it for lols in a post.

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.

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

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Nett hier? Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg.

Pleasant small city to overnight in when travelling from Paris towards Hamburg and the Echte Norden. Very quiet in the night, was nice to hear the birds sing when falling asleep. Relatively inexpensive Ibis Styles hotel (although I don’t see what the “styles” refers to in this case) (not in pic).

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… and when I kindly asked them to lower the volume and the parent complied, now the younger one is screaming LAUTER, LAUTER, LASS MICH! Sigh.

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Sigh. A parent and two kids, maybe 4 and 6 years, sit across the aisle. At first I thought they were very pleasant children. But now each is watching a separate programme on their tablet. Without headphones.

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Mmm, olen liberaali. Hyväksyn näitä laskiaispulliksi. Vaikkei edes ole laskiainen.

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(The DeepL automatic translation to English is completely wrong. This is a joke about Shrove Tuesday buns, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla.)

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Today has been a very TGV-dominated travel day. Bordeaux–Paris and Paris–Offenburg. Expensive reservations but 300 km/h for hundreds of kilometres.

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This is probably no news to people used to travelling through Paris, but the walk from Montparnasse station to Metro line 4 (to get to Paris Est) was very long. But well signposted so not a problem. Metro was crowded but not ridiculously so (between 16 and 17).

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.

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The good thing is I did not have to pay anything. In Finland bus companies probably hand items found in buses to some commercial third party lost item handler that charges an exorbitant fee for their services.

tml,
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If was really clever, it would notice that you are in bus/train/etc and ping your nearby devices/ 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 , 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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