Testing yarn’s sync function

@prologic@neotxt.dk yes haha, I’m using your stats to track completion. I also want to try some stupid things with it

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Easier said than done. I really do want to have a phone for emergencies (and some people are only reachable via SMS, oddly enough). Maybe I can get away with buying a super cheap and super simple one.

Smartphones got so large the last few years. My goodness. What’s the plan here, make them indistinguishable from tablets? 🤨

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is a lot of planes. And a lot of nice apples. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Just don’t get a new one.

More data contradicting the existence of “echo chambers”. As I’ve argued many times before, the concept of an echo chamber or information bubble is not real. The podcast below is an interview of an author of a study where they actually intervened and changed the information diet of 20,000 people (with consent!), then surveyed them after three months. They observed essentially no changes to the study subjects’ beliefs and attitudes. They also observed that the typical person, while they tend to gravitate towards people with similar political leanings, only get about 50% of their content from such like-minded people. They get the rest from neutral sources and maybe 20% from non-like-minded people.

Varied information diet + No change in attitudes when information diet is forced to be different = no echo chamber.

Listen to the podcast episode here

It’s the airplane edition of the forest stroll today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2023-09-27/

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Battery in my smartphone died. Can’t be replaced. It’s roughly 3 years old.

Now I have to find a replacement, which annoys the hell out of me. 😒 (I checked the prices of Fairphone, PinePhone, Librem, but sorry, all way too expensive.)

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net for a good recommendation we are going to need more information. For the laptop, what would its intended use be? Do you need to run Microsoft Windows? Does it needs WiFi? Destination (for power outlets)? For the phone, do you need it to be “smart”? Physical, or software SIM? Do you want it to work where you are going (destination is needed)?

Details are in the pudding.

@shreyan@twtxt.net you know I’ve already done this right? 😁

@prologic@neotxt.dk indeed. I’m also trying to see if I can index all of twtxt (in a mix of Ruby and Go, haha) 😆

@shreyan@twtxt.net Nice 👌

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net Raspberry Pi Laptop and dumb phone?

@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net

This should be illegal.

The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
Philips Hue products are about to get a whole lot worse – even the ones you already own. Their latest round of stupidity pops up a new EULA and forces you to take it or, again, you can’t access your stuff. But that’s just more unenforceable garbage, so who cares, right? Well, it’s getting worse. It seems they are planning on dropping an update which will force you to log in. Yep, no longer will your stuff Just Work across … ⌘ Read more

Traveling soon.
I’m going to need a new cheap laptop and a new cheap phone.

Any recommendations?

Posting from Yarnc!

EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation | X (formerly known as Twitter) | The Guardian

Not a surprise I guess.

L’automne, le soleil change enfin de couleur. J’adore cette saison!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL 😆 That game was freak’n awesome! 🤣

Unfortunately, all pictures of the first subject turned out to be blurry. Luckily, my collection of much nicer sunsets is rather huge.

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@prologic@twtxt.net Only if it’s Battle Chess. 😃

I play chess, is that considered retro gaming?! 😆

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Haha that sounds like so much fun for the kids 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net Had a scouting game with the scouts today. The story was that some leaders didn’t want to let go their older kids to the next section and thus stole and hid the new neckerchiefs. So the children had to solve all sorts of puzzles in groups to get a new hint and figure out new coordinates that eventually lead to the hidden box. One station was diving for apples, the kids had really great fun. Eventually, the box with the neckerchiefs was successfully located under the hut at the scout yard.

This meant the older kids of all the sections could finally leave their mates and join the next sections. Each section comes up with some kind of an entry exam each year. What you can see in the photos is the scouts (“Jungpfadfinder”, or short “Jupfis”) who are wearing blue colored neckerchiefs and explorers (“Pfadfinder”/“Pfadis”) in green. The old cubs (“Wölfinge”/“Wös”) joining as new scouts had to guess the type of both yummy and nasty blue dyed liquids. Banana juice, cucumber water and the like.

The explorers welcomed their new members with a quiz of green things. Somebody started with the name of something green. The next person then had to find another term of a green-colored item that started with the same letter the previous thing ended in. E.g. grass, slime, emerald, dill, etc. If someone couldn’t think of a thing within fifteen seconds, they had to choose left or right and whatever another person behind them was secretly holding up in the air was then mixed into a cup as penalty. In the end they all had to savor this yucky gnat’s piss. Apparently, kids love such kind of torture. :-D

No slug was harmed by the campfire. It was professionally rescued before the wood shavings were set on fire. Saussages and buns left over from yesterday’s party were put to good use. Also marshmallows and stick bread. All in all, a great fun day.

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Unfortunately, we cannot watch the sunset from the scout yard as it is located in a valley. But I timed the way home just perfectly.

Next week I have to sort through a thousand photos of two cameras from just this weekend. I’m already hating myself because I was one of the photographers. And a third source of pictures will be added. Örks.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Maybe you just got better at the game. I hope 2005 isn’t considered “retro” yet.

Huh, already finished Quake 4. That was much shorter than I remembered. 🤔 Does this qualify as “retrogaming”, btw? It was released 18 years ago … 😳

@prologic@twtxt.net Alright, that’s allowed. 😁

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Just flying down half a day early so not to stress too much 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net But, but … it’s Sunday! Don’t work on a Sunday! 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Cool! 👌 I’m away interstate at the moment for a work thing 😁

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sure is! 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net Not much, really. Went out for a long walk this morning since temperatures are finally down to a comfortable range. Now I’ll have a coffee and play some more Quake 4. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Is “barbie” aussie as well? 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Cheers mate. Fuck me dead, I reckon s’arvo gave it away.

@linux_gizmos@feeds.twtxt.net Hmmm 🤔 This is a cool looking embedded board! 👌

AmaIng that on these plane WiFi networks, clearly powered by satellites, even get this much bandwidth 🙃

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Latency is pretty piss poor, but you kind of expect that with a moving target 🤣

@juhi Hi 🤗 Welcome to Twtxt 👌

@juhi Hello! 👋

@thecanine@twtxt.net Very cool! 👌

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The way you wrote this made you almost sound “Aussie” 🤣

@yakumo_izuru@tsuki.chaotic.ninja Micely put 👌

It just doesn’t scale IMO 😅 Much better to have smaller interconnected decentralised social interactions 🤣

@yakumo_izuru@tsuki.chaotic.ninja This in and of itself ☝️ is why I believe so strongly that the whole “Fediverse” concept is utterly broken. You cannot scale human interactions like this. It doesn’t work on a centralised system, and it doesn’t work on a distributed system either. 🤣

@yakumo_izuru@tsuki.chaotic.ninja The Fediverse has bureaucracy?! 😱 Tell me more! 🤔 – Me just writing some code (for another project)

What’s everyone up to? 🤔 Good weekend so far? 🤔

@thecanine@twtxt.net This classic and all-time favorite masterpiece came to mind immediately: http://myfunnymemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/The-Flying-Camel-Is-Very-Polite-As-It-Soars-The-Desert.jpg

@thecanine@twtxt.net Howdy!

Serving suggestion:

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Today was our yearly scout meeting. Three glass bottles in total didn’t survive the afternoon and evening. After the general meeting some of us went to the scout church service next door and then we had a nice barbie with friends and the general public.