nemobis

nemobis, 4 days ago to random

I don't believe that you can neatly separate economic processes from the social and political processes enabling them. (For example, industrialization and the #state, or WIPO/WTO and the wars of the past 150 years.)

(Stating here what I thought was obvious in some other posts of mine, but evidently was not.)

nemobis, 4 days ago to random

I have one polo shirt with the buttons on the left side rather that on the right. Every single time I wear or fold it, my muscle memory fails me and I get confused. It feels like I have to reprogram my body to complete the task. I guess this is how a left-handed person feels all the time in a right-handed world?

nemobis, 4 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to climate

The dramatic detainment of a tent, by #ElsiSloan.

#elokapina #MyrskyVaroitus #ClimateCrisis #IlmastoKriisi #XR #Helsinki

dcz, 9 days ago to random

My #GPN22 talk about the hopelessness of organizing your files is up: https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn22-410-my-files-are-a-mess-why-the-past-and-future

ntnsndr, 14 days ago to random

Giving up on all the fancy stuff and just transitioned my newsletter back to a simple Mailman operation. There's a form at the bottom of my website: https://nathanschneider.info/

Bye, bye, tracking and formatting.

tml, 15 days ago to random

That’s a familiar face! It’s Jaroslav Rudiš @jaroslavrudis , known for the book Gebrauchsanweisung fürs Zugreisen, which is great and easy to read with just half forgotten high school German skills . Apparently here in an advertisement for a radio station. https://www.amazon.de/Gebrauchsanweisung-fürs-Zugreisen-Jaroslav-Rudiš-ebook/dp/B092LNM1GQ

jon, 15 days ago to random

Welcome to today's thread -
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 00 28 May 2024 - Arrival of night ferry, Turku - Kupittaa - Helsinki

Crossing these borders:
Only sea borders

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#7/59.781/21.973

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#7/59.781/21.973

nemobis, 16 days ago to random

#Observability with too many false alerts:

«At 08:48, team 1 passed its responsibilities to team 2. Team 2 did not escalate either the 284 information alerts or the suspension alerts. Team 3 failed to escalate the incident because their monitoring system filtered out all but eight of the alerts. Team 3 escalated the incident to team 2, via email, at 09:31, 20 minutes after the [incident was resolved]. Having received no response, team 3 followed up four hours later.»
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-22/citi-missed-a-fat-finger

taavi, 16 days ago to random

life hack:

1. buy a train ticket in Finland in VR's Ekstra (= first) class
2. take all water bottles from the self-service drinks thing
3. return said water bottles to a store, and get the bottle deposit (€0.10 each)
4. profit!

(for legal reasons this is a joke)

18+ taavi, 16 days ago to random

taavi on trains

selfie of me with a black t-shirt and a hat, sitting next to a window on a VR ekstra (~first class) seat on an intercity train. i'm smiling, holding a blåhaj and in the window you can just see the roof of a VR Eil/Eilf loco-hauled commuter rail car getting ready for its singular run of the day (that I still need to ride at some point before they're retired because why not)

nemobis, 17 days ago to thinkpad

I'm finally "reconditioning" the latest unused #ThinkPad X1 carbon from the extended household, a 2017 gen. (I'm still using the 2012 gen as it leaves nothing to be desired.)

Really there's nothing to do, it only needs a battery replacement. So the challenge begins: find a seller that ships to Finland; read the tea leaves to guess the reliability; wait a month or two for delivery from China; use the battery enough to find any obvious faults, but not so long that it's too late to return it.

jon, 17 days ago to random

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 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

gubi, 19 days ago to random Italian

#Confindustria si unisce al coro del #populismonucleare e dice di sì a non si sa cosa, da installare non si sa dove, e rinunciando a investire sulle rinnovabili non si sa perché. Del resto il nucleare è l'unica industria dove puoi farti dare dallo stato 10 MRD per comprarti 30 MRD di debiti, come è accaduto in Francia quando hanno sbolognato al pubblico l'ultima fetta privata di EDF, lasciando ai francesi i costi di smaltimento delle centrali e stoccaggio delle scoriel: #NoNuke :nonuke:

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nemobis, 19 days ago to random

Happy to see more people exposed to the culinary benefits of glue. I prefer potato starch but wheat and corn are ok too. Once you get good at avoiding lumps, reuse the experience in the next wheatpasting night in your neighbourhood.

raffaele, 19 days ago to random

"The only other common format for storing mails locally is mbox. But it stores all messages in a single file, which is unacceptable if you’d like to access them with regular tools."

disagree: mbox is absolutely not bad. I keep my entire mail archive (~20 years) with it. The largest file is 2GB, and I can read it easily with mutt and grepmail.
Having a single file is much more efficient than storing millions of small text files on disk.

https://mastodon.social/@kepano/112492204632170268

nemobis, 20 days ago to random

I was asked to ELI5 the DDG-Microsoft downtime.

"It's like I ask you to set the table, but your older brother does it for you, without telling me. Like a washing machine which sends the clothes to a bigger machine in a basement; and when the pipes get clogged, all our neighbours' clothes go unwashed. Or a calculator where you write 2+2 and it phones someone across the globe to ask the answer; when the phone breaks or they speak different languages, you get no answer from the calculator."

phastidio, 20 days ago to random Italian

Continuo a chiedermi perché Patuelli insista con questa assurdità, da chi gli sia stata suggerita e se abbia amici.
(MF)

mako, 20 days ago to random

I'm at the Universtät Leipzig for the week as a visiting fellow visiting Christian Penztold's group. https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-kommunikations-und-medienwissenschaft/newsdetail/artikel/neuer-besucher-im-fellowship-programm-digital-media-and-society-2024-05-08z

It's a work sprint, but I might have some time tomorrow, so LMK if you're around.

taavi, 22 days ago to random

so i should probably figure out what exactly is DECT and if I need to get some weird phone before gpn next week?