@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, I see. Yeah, you might be right. (Still a fragile process due to the general AI wonkiness, but it can help to some degree, yes.)

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, although I have a feeling that speech recognition or other means of entering text could be better and much less computationally intensive. 🤔

GTK2 about to be removed from the official Arch repos: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/2BDHYLEFSYQBDTMUOZT5J6AFTA5M3FO6/

It’ll probably all be dropped to the AUR, so I can build this myself, because I still have some stuff that depends on it (and will never receive further updates).

This was a great read, btw. 😃 If you liked Event Horizon, this is for you. I’m gonna get her other two scifi books as well, that’s for sure.

@prologic@twtxt.net No pressure! This is meant to be fun. 😅

Fuck me sideways, trying to repair stuff that isn’t meant to be repaired is such a pain. So many pointless obstacles.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, lots of people are welcoming this change, saying they are relieved that there are fewer puzzles. And ngl, I, too, have been very exhausted at the end of the month. It’s a lot of fun and I loved it each time, but yeah, it can be exhausting.

Der ganze Vorgang ist archetypisch für die seit Jahrzehnten völlig ohne Not stattfindende politische Selbstverzwergung Europas.

A comment on heise about the recent AWS outage.

https://www.heise.de/meinung/Kommentar-zum-Totalausfall-bei-AWS-Nichts-gelernt-in-den-letzten-30-Jahren-10794622.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

(Too bad there’s no good translation for the great word “Selbstverzwergung”.)

I’m paraphrasing: Europe (and other regions) depend on US IT services, a lot, without an actual need. We saw AWS, Google, and Microsoft build large datacenters and then we thought “welp, shit, nothing we can do about that, guess we’ll just be an AWS customer from now on.” Nobody really went ahead and built German/European alternatives. And now we completely depend on the US for lots of our stuff.

The article even claims that there’s now a shortage of sysadmins in the EU? I’m not so sure. But I’d welcome it, makes my job more secure. 🤣

Hosting services, datacenters, software, everything, it’s all US stuff. Why do we accept this, why not build alternatives …

@prologic@twtxt.net

Are we some of the only people in the world that realize how fucking dumb all this Internet-connect shit™ really is?

Yeah, but don’t ask me why that is. I’ve never gotten a satisfying answer when I talk to people who hype this kind of stuff. (I mean just normal tech people, not CEOs or something.) They just shrug it off and/or think that my concerns are paranoid. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, that might actually be (partially) true. Some external CD drives (without such a weight) start to spin/wiggle when the drive spins up and down … Although I guess that’s not really the case for Audio CDs as they are run at a fixed low RPM value, I think. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds horrible. 😅 I wouldn’t want to own such a car. (My plan is not to buy a new car after my current one finally broke down entirely.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First time I heard about eCall. I don’t think I like this. 🫤 Feels like another attempt at going for complete surveillance. Yes, yes, it’s about “security”/“safety” … it always is.

Advent of Code will be different this year:

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1ocwh04/changes_to_advent_of_code_starting_this_december/

There will only be 12 puzzles, i.e. only December 1 to December 12. This might make it more interesting for some people, because it’s (probably) less work and a lower chance of people getting burned out. 🤔

Personally, I’ll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. 😅

Maybe this makes it more interesting for some people around here as well?

Haha, beds “stopped working” due to that outage? 🤪

• https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/AzQlI7XeQFjsmlNK1w
  
• https://status.8slp.net/

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah. The actual services don’t run on AWS, apparently, but often it’s just the login service?! The whole Atlassian suite was “down” today because you couldn’t log in. But if you already were logged in, it wasn’t much a problem.

@bender@twtxt.net I think you’ve asked for that a while ago. 😅 Does that diff actually help? Don’t you have to use A (instead of i) anyway? 🤔

That was a very non-fun day at work.

We’re not using AWS directly, but soooooooooooooooo much other stuff does.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Bwahaha. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That’s from a radio / CD-player thingy that someone in my family gave me so that I can try to repair it. (Indeed, some capacitors have blown up. But if that doesn’t fix it, I don’t know what to do. 😅)

There’s nothing on the other side. This really is just a block of metal that acts as a weight.

You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would “feel cheap” otherwise.

https://movq.de/v/c5dcc25bc9/weight.jpg

Also, that red stuff on those connectors might be glue? To make it harder to disconnect them?

https://movq.de/v/79dbd850ea/maybe-glue.jpg

@dce@hashnix.club Same, I’m not quite sure what you mean. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net So you love @bender@twtxt.net very much? 🤣 How does speech recognition work for you? 🤔

🎶 … Gästeklo, Gästeklo, ja, das macht die Gäste froh … 🎶

@arne@uplegger.eu Wer mir mit Werbung im Buch kommt, hat verschissen. 😂 Hatte ich kürzlich auch (in einem Roman von 2025), da wurde immer wieder sehr auffällig eine bestimmte Lokalität erwähnt. Ganz am Ende hab’ ich dann gesehen, dass auf den letzten paar Seiten diese Lokalität nochmal explizit einen „Flyer“ platziert hatte, das war also durchaus ein Werbedeal.

Nervt stark. Ich hab’ schon für das Buch gezahlt, da will ich nicht noch „angeworben“ werden. Dann mach’ lieber das Buch leicht teurer oder setz’ einen Spendenaufruf rein, wenn die Finanzen so knapp sind. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … der Bremsschlumpf … 😂 https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antiblockiersystem&curid=22921&diff=53690119&oldid=53690088

@arne@uplegger.eu Joa, ’n Vierteljahr, dann biste durch, oder? 😂

(„Stahlratte“, uffpuh, welch Wort. 😅)

@dce@hashnix.club Arch is the most stress-free OS I’ve ever run (I last reinstalled it 14 years ago, only rolling updates since then) – but to be honest, I sometimes wonder what role my general choice of software plays. I mostly run minimalistic software or programs that I wrote myself. I guess that greatly reduces the chance of breakage. 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Wait, wait, wait, that’s the chance to post this GIF!

https://movq.de/v/2538ec61c1/thumbsup.gif

Again, lots of flies now. There weren’t that many in the last few months, but now they’re everywhere. There’s not really much that I can do and spiderbro can’t keep up with them, either. 🙁

Everything in the realm of “smartphones” is such an incomprehensible clusterfuck. I want to throw this thing out the window.

And this fucking WhatsApp … jfc.

@bender@twtxt.net I only know two songs, to be honest, but yeah, she can be quite good. 😅

I don’t care much for the video, but damn, that is one catchy song. 🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70cExuzZM

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Indeed. 😃

What’s broken™ on my system that makes a little “door” show up in YouTube’s progress thingy? Happens in Firefox and Chromium. https://movq.de/v/f03f47afcc