@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, decoration easily makes for about a quarter of the donations I reckon. We open at 9 o’clock and the first people lined up at 8:15. This time they didn’t, but past years the literally ran into the hall when the doors opened. The one who unlocked had a dangerous job.

I’m pretty sure there are flea markets in your region, too. One train mate is a super active flea market vistitor and he went about every one or two weeks somewhere in my area. Most of them I also never heard of before. Granted, that was pre-corona, not sure if they all survived, but I imagine if you do a quick search, you will dig something up.

I had a long afternoon nap and can’t emphasize enough, how great that was.

I would say it was just about five centimeters long, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, so quite a normal size. :-) Oh wow, I didn’t know that. Crazy! Completely sick how some specializations work out.

My biggest mistakes while learning bass (so far 😅):

• Trying to do “one finger per fret” and big stretches all the time. This even lead me to believe that I need a smaller bass (which I totally don’t). It also caused me to cramp up a lot, which ruins everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFq8QRPFv4E
  
• Assuming that I don’t have enough strength. I have more than enough strength and I now have to work on playing as softly and gentle as possible. I’m slowly discovering how little force is actually needed – it’s crazy. 😳 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_RdSSQeqU0&t=108s
  
• Playing with too much EQ. It can hide flaws in technique very easily.
  
• Spending too much time trying to play songs written by other people. It’s easy to get stuck on details and then I wasted lots of time trying to nail it.
  
• Didn’t practice with a metronome often enough. 🤦
  

(I’m still a total newbie, of course, but I’m seeing little improvements all the time. 😊)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oof, that’s a big boi. Also, nice lens flares. 👌

That caterpillar took me to this interesting thing: Apparently, some butterflies only eat when they’re a caterpillar. Once they turn into a butterfly, those species can’t eat anymore. They then die after a week or so. 😳

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturniidae#Adults
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucken_(Schmetterlinge)#Lebensweise

@apex@rawtext.club Oh I didn’t know you were from Sydney? 😳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yes, exactly, I noticed lots of “decoration crap” on those photos, that’s why I asked. 😅 Sounds like a nice bell curve distribution of people.

(I just realized I never heard of an event like this in my area. Hmm.)

Hmmm? 🤔

@ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com Haha yeah 😅 That’s awesome to hear! 🥳 – My week is “so so”, have had a teammate sick for the past 2 weeks so I’ve been working extra hours so I’m pretty tired and haven’t had much energy left or time for anything else 😢

Their s aren’t <![CDATA[]]>’d, either. They’ve opted to escape every single HTML &lt;tag&gt;.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net this is an interesting turn of events. I wonder how this will unfold.

Companies that remove features deemed addictive to children by April 1 would not be responsible for damages.

I’m sure social media marketing teams are going to use this to spin features that aren’t addicting. Just like advertising tobacco products in the early 1900’s…

@prologic@twtxt.net it really has. I have been flat out at work! But in a really positive way, it’s been a fantastic week so far. Plus I don’t have to work late or even work a Saturday so hooray! 🎉

How has your week been going so far?

Pretty quiet lately 🤔 (from Humans 😂)

@prologic@twtxt.net Ta!

@prologic@twtxt.net most of the community abandoned it. opting for building our own communities

@prologic@twtxt.net jitsi uses it as well.

@marado@twtxt.net Imagine how I feel 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net it’s a fancy ejabberd on backend XDDDDDD

therefore Zoom is a lie, I mean, Always has been

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Very nice 👌

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I really do not know 🤦‍♂️ People are being duped into a false sense of security 😢 over this Web3 madness 🤬

TIL that Zoom’s chat uses XMPP 😳

@anth@a.9srv.net Ahh nice! 👌

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net a sad say for the phreaker crowd

It was very humid and hot at our quick forest hike on Thursday last week. The announced thunderstorm didn’t struck, but rain was definitely a thing in the distance.

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Finally, went through the photos from one and a half weeks ago. Still a lot of other days left to sort, including today.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, nothing really to worry about here, too.

Whoops, I just noticed the article’s image link was broken and fixed it.

Well, I’d say most things are still in good shape and reusable, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. But some people abuse us as large trash collectors, that’s for sure. There is always a looooot of decoration crap, that most of us don’t value ourselves, but it sells like hot cakes, so we don’t mind it too much. :-) I’m in charge of the electronics department and most things work, but we threw away a few things right away, because they were complete garbage. On the other hand, some machines were even never used once and came in their original packaging. So you have the complete spectrum.

That also goes for the customers. Most are super nice and few even give you more than you charged. Of course haggling is key and everybody tries to get a good deal. “It’s for a good cause” is a trick to get people to finally accept your higher price request every time (if it’s not too far away from what they want). I never experienced sb. declining that in all the years. ;-)

But you also have the complete asshole that tries to shamelessly bargain the crap out of you and often are successful in pulling young cub scouts over the barrel, who of course have no idea what something is really worth (and a buck is quite a lot for them). Well, even we grown-ups often have no clue about the real value. You won’t believe how many times I heard “but that’s really all I have” by wheeler-dealers and after some time they accidentally find some more coins in their pockets. Surprise! And then there are also the thieves. We watched like hawks, but a smartphone was stolen regardless in the first 20 minutes or so. And probably a few other things as well, we didn’t even notice.

But all in all, most people are great to deal with. The bad bunch are a very small minority, it’s just that the unpleasant situations sink deeper into memory. But the good thing is that you know them inside out the next year and can act appropriately.

@prologic@twtxt.net Cool, thanks!

@prologic@twtxt.net Why is anyone taking this stuff seriously? 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m happy with “some rain”, too. They issued official warnings for that day – but it really wasn’t bad over here. 👌

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org People sure are donating quite a lot. 😲 Is it useful stuff? I hope they don’t just dump their old garbage on you. (Although it might be hard to tell sometimes if things are still useful …)

meanwhile Zoom: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2254

@~duriny@envs.net +1 on learning Go 😅 Can’t believe missed this Yarn 😂

@eaplmx@twtxt.net PS: My remarks here in this Yarn are not and were not specifically aimed at you, but in general. I just hit the “Reply” button so it’s tagged you 😅 – I’m trying to get all of the right words in so this Yarn gets picked up by web crawlers 😅

@eaplmx@twtxt.net

and the potential of decentralized power behind it

The problem though with Web 3.0 (if that’s the proper naming) is that is is NOT decentralised at all.

Is it “distributed”.

I really do not understand why we collectively keep pushing the hype of “decentralised” and confusing it with “distributed”. A Blcokchain (any really) is actually a centralised data structure comprised of a chain of hashes and some “data”. A Blockchain + “some fancy networking” (usually Byzantine fault tolerance networking (or some variant thereof) is just another type of “distributed networking” technology.

Then of course tack on top the details of the various cryptocurrencies and “proof of work” vs. “proof of stake”, “longest chain wins”, etc… (details).

Bottom line. Web 3.0 is NOT decentralized. It is distributed and any data you store on it is very much “centralised” on whatever network you decide to put it on (e.g: IPFS).

@eaplmx@twtxt.net I think your last statement is correct. I can’t see the sustainability of Web3 in general.

There is the web3 and Web 3.0 (as a successor for Web 2.0), one more oriented to distributed and federated content, another with everything on top of a currency, so every stored bit costs some gas.

And although I don’t dislike the good parts of cryptocurrency, being the cryptography behind it and the potential of decentralized power behind it, I’m not too fond of the interests it brings. Since it’s designed from the core for monetary value, it attracts people aiming for the best Return on investment not caring for the environment (there is a debate about green energies by 2022).

I know that a Hobbyist net, an Indieweb, and a Hyper profitable net are going to be different between them, their core values are different, and there is a space for all of them.
I don’t think Web3 is going to be self-sustainable since there is no balance between losers and winners.

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk I think it still is 🤔 But it’s important we kill this Web3 bullshit with fire 🔥

@prologic@twtxt.net i wonder, is the Web any free anyway? indieweb aside

Keep the Web Free, Say No to Web3

@mutefall@twtxt.net Same here, no longer use Keybase.io after the Zoom acquisition.

@anx@twtxt.net

several keybase users left after the zoom acquisition. i no longer use it but tombstoned my account.

Anyone using https://keybase.io? Any expectations missmatch or other friction with original community since Zoom acquired them?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yea it is actually. Based on the same paper 👌

And now the report has one photo where quite a lot of stuff is already sold.

@prologic@twtxt.net I suppose your bitcask implementation is a Go version of Basho’s “original bitcask” in Erlang?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m happy to see some rain. On Friday we were surprised with a very quickly rolling in thunderstorm with heavy rain. But luckily, no material delivered yet, so not a problem for us. So we watched the open-air pool visitors across the street fleeing in a hurry.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah, I see. Sounds good, will check it out later. Yes, the show is always a downer on the mood.

Phew, our yearly big flea market this weekend is over. It was cancelled for obvious reasons in the last two years. We got donated a bit more material than usual I’d say. In the end the big multipurpose hall was packed like nothing. Every square centimeter on and below the tables was occupied with things. Residents donate all sorts of stuff they don’t need anymore to our local scout group on Saturday and we go through it, sort it and sell it on Sunday to the general public. All profits go to our youth work.

Some photos on the course of Saturday. Like always, sorting and preparing the “Bikes and more” and “Garden” sections outside after closing on the pre-sorting area took way beyond dark and through the night. I forgot to take pictures yesterday.

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@Rob@jsreed5.org Why so you not post links to them on your feed? 🤔