We had 5cm snow at our scout yard at 10 o’clock. But it was nearly fully gone when we called it quits after sunset.

In May we charred cloth to be used as tinder. A fire steel and some wood shavings lit the fire in under a minute. Maybe half. That was good fun. I reckon I have to replenish the charred cloth soon, though. It’s crazy how great that works. I’m absolutely amazed.

We cut back the thorny brushes for hours and eventually winched out some heavy fallen trees. That was really cool to see this powerful winch in action. Absolutely effortless. It was also a complete one man show. We couldn’t do anything and just watch. There is no chance that we could have moved the tree trunks up the steep hill with just man power. Well, a few dozen people might have made it with great struggle.

Next time we have to cut them into smaller pieces and split them into firewood or keep some for contruction. I will see whether I can safe some to cut some boards from. A sawmill would be really cool to have. :-)

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https://lyse.isobeef.org/plaetzlestag-2024-11-23/

Glenda’s on a Joy Division kick: http://a.9srv.net/image/jocelyn.x3y2o10t1.png

Wow! Just Wow! 😮

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Discovered this whilst trying to debug why my Youtube frontend no longer works:

$ youtube-dl 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpiK1FMy2Mg'
[youtube] YpiK1FMy2Mg: Downloading webpage
WARNING: unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see  https://yt-dl.org/update  on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

@bender@twtxt.net WELL, that looks much better than mine. 😂

https://movq.de/v/6d07f1486c/p.ff.jpg-small.jpg

Doesn’t matter, had pizza. 😝

@bender@twtxt.net Gave it a try on Termux same thing @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt uses and it worked 👍

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It looks just like this.

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Btw the way, here’s a copy of the Email I sent to my Federal MP (Elizabeth Watson Brown):

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Interesting list of features to protect users and communities on bluesky. I wonder if any make sense in text context.

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Anyone actively use filters here? 🤔

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If so which ones? If not, why? Any more useful than others? 🤔

Taking photos from a moving car is a tough challenge. https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendheimfahrt-2024-11-16/

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Why is the rooted post after the replied post?? time shenanigans?

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@bender@twtxt.net I now read the German Wikipedia article on fog. These are some really beautiful pictures:

• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Nebelbank_in_der_W%C3%BCste_Namib_bei_Aus_%282018%29.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_moving_through_fog.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Fog_Bow_%2819440790708%29.jpg
  
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/360_degrees_fogbow.jpg

First one on the third row, for example. There are more, though.

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Trump Wins US Presidency For Second Time
Major media outlets are beginning to declare former President Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election. As with previous election announcements on Slashdot, this is your chance to talk about it and what it means for the future of our nation.

Developing…

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A simple medium experiment

Time for the annual profile picture change. 😅
Second pixelart I drew this year, expecting my least active artist award soon! 💪🏆

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https://spiritualsprings.proboards.com/thread/46/flat-earth-round-explorer

I have just made yet another convoluted twtxt notifications script! Feeling like an old dog learning new tricks! 🤣

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And they have arrived (well, they did around 3 hours ago, LOL). Buttery smooth, my 16 Pro (one with dark cover). It took a bit over an hour to transfer all my data.

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Alright. My first mentions—which were picked not so randomly, LOL—are @prologic@twtxt.net, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, and @movq@www.uninformativ.de. I am also posting my first image too, which you see below. That’s my neighbourhood, in a “winter” day. Hopefully @prologic@twtxt.net will add my domain to his allowed list, so that the image (and any other further) renders.

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Beginnings of a little notebook app. Doesn’t actually run any code yet. https://akkartik.name/images/20240917-notebook.png

@prologic@twtxt.net earlier you suggested extending hashes to 11 characters, but here’s an argument that they should be even longer than that.

Imagine I found this twt one day at https://example.com/twtxt.txt :

2024-09-14T22:00Z Useful backup command: rsync -a “$HOME” /mnt/backup

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and I responded with “(#5dgoirqemeq) Thanks for the tip!”. Then I’ve endorsed the twt, but it could latter get changed to

2024-09-14T22:00Z Useful backup command: rm -rf /some_important_directory

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which also has an 11-character base32 hash of 5dgoirqemeq. (I’m using the existing hashing method with https://example.com/twtxt.txt as the feed url, but I’m taking 11 characters instead of 7 from the end of the base32 encoding.)

That’s what I meant by “spoofing” in an earlier twt.

I don’t know if preventing this sort of attack should be a goal, but if it is, the number of bits in the hash should be at least two times log2(number of attempts we want to defend against), where the “two times” is because of the birthday paradox.

Side note: current hashes always end with “a” or “q”, which is a bit wasteful. Maybe we should take the first N characters of the base32 encoding instead of the last N.

Code I used for the above example: https://fossil.falsifian.org/misc/file?name=src/twt_collision/find_collision.c
I only needed to compute 43394987 hashes to find it.

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And here the Tommos camp with Mum and Dad in the trailor at Myall Lakes.
Boy I could tell you some stories here, like the time we got dozens of spiders all in the tent one night, and the time Dad yelled to Bob to get the red belly black snake that crawled over Brains sleeping bag. Up I jump grab a shovel and cut the head off. silly me !! We camped out with all our partners too.

Karen was treated like family with the 5 siblings and Mum and Dad. It was a great time. Happy camping James on your birthday!

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Here is a picture of me aged 1 yr in a bucket at Muttabun Sheep Station, a place near Goodooga in NSW.

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And here is James with Emily as a very young boy

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Here is a picture of Sunshine House in 1970, I am the tallest one at the back. The house got a new roof and some more bedrooms before you lived here after Belmont Hospital.

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The potato shed is fully insect proof and the tender leaves are untouched and uneaten by beetles.
Great idea, will we get potatoes and can I grow them all year round… Have to wait and see…. More larger shade houses to build to keep the beetles out.

#August’s reading prompt is #SpinTheWheel and that’s that I did. The result: “Total Eclipse” is my #FridayReads !

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3577559

#Bookstodon

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyRecord Week 35

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Agora com texto e cartaz oficiais:

“Lançamento do livro |
MEMÓRIAS ACADÉMICAS – Liceu Nacional de Latino Coelho, de José Francisco Rica

A não perder, dia 6 de setembro, pelas 17h00, no salão nobre do Museu de Lamego.

A entrada é gratuita.”

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#ARomariaDePortugal já começou, e não é coisa que costume divulgar, mas calha que este ano, no dia 6 de Setembro às 17h no Museu de #Lamego, vai decorrer o “Lançamento do Livro MEMÓRIAS ACADÉMICAS (Liceu de Lamego) de José Francisco Rica”, no qual participo com algumas das minhas memórias.

https://aromariadeportugal.com/programa

#Lamego

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#Extramuralhas 2024 day 3 (evening)

See you next year, #Leiria!

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#Extramuralhas 2024 day 3 (afternoon)

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#extramuralhas 2024, Day 2 (evening)

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#extramuralhas 2024, Day 2 (afternoon)

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you’ll probably get an Error 1011 🤦 … just copy and paste the link in a new tab if you can Screenshot of neomutt running Jenny

#FridayReads #bookstodon

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@bender@twtxt.net My index formatting is intact, probably because I still haven’t figured out how to set up my terminal to show RTL text correctly! 😅 but hey, that won’t be a problem anymore, I don’t feel like twting in Arabic. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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#extramuralhas #2024 Day 1

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And here it is, the mandatory yearly #Extramuralhas picture of #Leiria’s #castle

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How great some science people are, to find such a drug inside the soil of only one place in Japan

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyRecord Week 34

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#qotd

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#kokori #photoshoot #2024

De regresso ao estúdio, com novidades planeadas para breve, fizemos uma pausa para um photoshoot.

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Next week: #Extramuralhas 2024

#MakeMusicNotWar

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Love the program James has given me, I just edited some 40 webpages from junk viewing to nice, in a few minutes per edit, as shown in the two programs both running in Windows Mode.

On the left is directly to the Webserver files On the right is the webpage running over the www

Really nice and easy to navigate.

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Notice these never existed when the local host ran, but now they do because not all servers are the same

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OK I found this one, small enough, but where does it install to? can’t find the app, of any files of anything.
Being a total novice to Linux stuff….where is this file located and why don’t they prompt you for a folder location of the program? And why such a stupid name? Dozens to choose from and most over 300MB, not what I want - I just want Apache to run the index.html webpage or the index.php webpage. I do not need Javascript or Java programming editors….