https://youtu.be/Tcw4jgfjd3o

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I was visiting Germany once, and saw a guy try to load his bicycle onto the bike racks they have on the front of city buses. There were rules about when you could do that, which were posted on the bus stop sign, and I guess the guy thought this was a time when he could do that. But no, the bus driver disagreed. The bus driver got off the bus with a rule book, flipped it open to what I guess were the rules about bikes on the bus, and showed him the rules. The guy pointed at the sign, the bus driver said no and pointed at the book, and they went back and forth for I don’t know how long. It felt a lot like these videos lol

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci 😆🤣

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Very nice 👌

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Nice view, oh yeah.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I especially love the doch and hiking videos! :-D

God, that’s brilliant. 😂

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDpy2efNMU
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrXj-BVJOJ8
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmqMqXwDNAg

@mckinley@twtxt.net Playing Dungeon Keeper. 🥴 It was available for free on GOG a while ago. (Turns out, this was already 9 years ago, sigh.)

We had a wonderful day by the ocean today.

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@prologic@twtxt.net doesn’t sound like there has been much planning involved in the “planned power outage” if they can’t tell you when the power will be out 🤦

@mckinley@twtxt.net not much, enjoying time off work and family time :)

I want to try NixOS again, and then get the yarn desktop client built on that, and then see if I can get the client into their repo. That would be fun to do. If I have time tonight I’ll start on that.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Pretty much 😆 Useless 🤦‍♂️

@news@twtxt.net I guess the electric companies are the same everywhere.

📣 Outage Notification: On Tuesday 23rd May 2023 between 7.30am to 5pm, there will be an outage of undefined length with no known start time due to planned power meter upgrades on the premises by the energy company.

You know, it’s one of those things where they give you a ~12hr window 🤦‍♂️ I will post here again once the technician is on-site and power down. I will power back up as soon as the work is complete.

According to the information I’ve received, the outage should be no more than ~1-2hrs.

Apologies for any inconvenience 🤗

📣 Outage Notification: On Tuesday 23rd May 2023 between 7.30am to 5pm, there will be an outage of undefined length with no known start time due to planned power meter upgrades on the premises by the energy company.

You know, it’s one of those things where they give you a ~12hr window 🤦‍♂️ I will post here again once the technician is on-site and power down. I will power back up as soon as the work is complete.

According to the information I’ve received, the outage should be no more than ~1-2hrs.

Apologies for any inconvenience 🤗

@shreyan@twtxt.net Ahh I see. 🤔 Surely there’s a way to manually add them with developer options?

What’s everyone been up to lately?

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net I’m still getting back to nvAlt and Sublime Text for over 10 years of trying different apps. The txt/md files are stored in Dropbox so I can always get to them and on my android using Simple Text

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net What about Ulysses?

@willowashmaple@twtxt.net It’s cold over here this morning 🥶

sun. purr.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Yeah the last couple of weeks for me at work have been super crazy 😅

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net I still quite like HedgeDo and use it all the time. The only feature I find missing is some way to organization documents I guess?

What would your ideal feature list be?

Oh, I forgot Hedgedoc, which I also use as a self-hosted installation on one of my domains. I really like this one too. Tags, markdown, slideshow and more. Nice layout and public sharing when needed, which is very nice. But! It doesn’t work on mobile. It doesn’t work at all! So I only use it to transfer text during the day to save in Bear later.

I think I am finished. And that was so refreshing. Damn, it feels good to write down some anger.

ChatGPT also thinks that this was a good idea :-)

I’m glad that writing down your thoughts and feelings was helpful for you! It can be a great way to release pent-up emotions and gain clarity on a situation. If you need any further assistance, feel free to reach out.

Apple Notes I like them. I do. They work well. Text, images, copy and paste, tags, headings, etc. Sync across devices and accessible on the web. But unfortunately, NO markup. And since all my stuff is markdown, I am not going back. I use Apple Notes sporadically here and there, grocery shopping lists that I share with my wife, but that is about it.

StandardNotes - Omg I don’t want to get started. It is actually the only solution to all my problems, but self hosting is really difficult and there are so many problems with the clients that I dont even want to think about writing them down. i caues anger and fear to go through the list of bugs. So no thanks. Might work well with online subscription, but so expensive. No!

Some features are still missing. Like an overview of which images are linked in which bog post. A paginated list of images in the file manager module, a tag system and some other little things I cannot remember at the moment.

My blog system. I really like it. I like what I have achieved. It is actually the first (almost finished) product I have ever written myself. It started out as a little twitter clone, but then I rebooted and created a blog. you can register multiple users, but it is actually made for one user only. legacy stuff from the tutorial I guess. I should probably update it to the latest python modules. I also implemented a small file manager so you can upload files and add them to posts.

Memos - nice software, nice interface, now has ChatGPT integration (who needs that?). Works with various DB systems and you can upload/paste files/images into the editor. Nice feature is a heat map showing your memo activity over the last 30 days. Something like github and gitlab have. There are several mobile and desktop clients, it has users and you can choose to publish, private, registered or public. Which is super nice. It is actually the perfect solution as it also has a tagging system. I

Benotes - omg would be nice to use, but I cannot get it to run or install properly. There are so many things you have to do manually that even after two hours of trying I could not get it to work.

Bear would be the perfect match. It has markdown, it has right content, you can insert images and links, it syncs between desktop and mobile, and it is really easy to use. The new version 2.0 should be out soon, but development is really slow and people are desperate for the new editor. I hope it will be block editing like editor.js like Notion. The biggest drawback is: Mac and iOS only. No web (yet) and no Windows. So, I cannot use it from work.

Dokuwiki, on the other hand, is also a mature piece of software. It works on almost all browsers, stores data in plain text files and can be easily migrated, copied or transferred to another hoster as long as you have php. unfortunately the syntax is not markdown and using markdown with it is quite cumbersome and somehow difficult. it is mobile friendly but not really, reading works fine, entering is difficult.

tiddlywiki: good software, runs in your browser, fast searching and an amazing tool for personal brains or digital gardens or whatever you want to call it. Unfortunately, it really lacks the ability to upload images. You can, though, using the nodejs browser if you run it server-side. But even with lazy loading, it gets pretty slow after a while. And the biggest disappointment is that it is not mobile friendly. Not even for reading.

But TiddlyWiki does lack proper authentication as well, and I have to hide it behind basic auth. Works nice afaik and I cannot complain. I also cannot see that somebody else got access.

Still undecided between TiddlyWiki, DokuWiki, Bear, Benotes, Memos, my blog software, standardnotes, apple notes and more. I like them all quite a bit, but standardnotes, the only one that has reall multiplatform is so fucking complicated to host on your own and then they have this stupid offline subscription thing that allows rich text or the block editor that works like notion. I also found codex docs which is really really nice. Unfortunately they lack proper authentication. 1 / 2

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/09/16/how-aaron-swartz-the-irresistible-force-and-ron-wyden-and-darrell-issa-the-immovable-object-saved-the-internet-part-ii/

I find it deeply ironic that the site that ran this article, Forbes, has by now become enshittified with ads and paywall popups galore. Would they come out against stricter copyright laws again today?

Been some busy days this week, even though I have some time off now. Today me and Marlyn had some time for ourselves - and her mother watched our kids, so we went out to eat at a resturant, which we very rarely do, was nice to do that. I had some nachos, was really nice. Also bought one of those popcorn machines for our kids, because they always burn the microwave popcorn (not their fault - its the microwave thas weird), so now they can safely make popcorn :)

Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang | WIRED

This is so embarrassing. I wonder how much Wired gets paid to sell off its editorial integrity.

Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money

Starting to get ugly already.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Interesting 🤔

@shreyan@twtxt.net For the sake of security and supply-chain-attacks, I don’t have a problem with that requirement per se to be honest. If you build from source, you’re all good. If you download some arbitrary binary, yeah you’re going to want that to be signed. As I do most things with either go or brew I don’t really run into too many issues here myself.

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s also been my primary OS for a long time, and I still love it, but I don’t love some of Apple’s decisions. What prompted me to write this specific post was having to take extra steps to open FOSS apps on macOS because they don’t have an “Apple-approved” signature 🤦‍♂️

@phoronix@feeds.twtxt.net Google just sucks in every way it seems.

Bug Bounties May Sound Great, But Aren’t Always Handled Well
Bug bounty programs setup by large corporations to reward and recognize security researchers for properly reporting new bugs and security vulnerabilities is a great concept, but in practice isn’t always handled well. Security researcher Adam Zabrocki recently shared the troubles he encountered in the bug bounty handling at Google for Chrome OS and in turn for Intel with it having been an i915 Linux kernel graphics driver vulnerability… ⌘ Read more

Scrollwheel on bluetooth mouse on ipad does not work in goryon. Other then that it works great!
But you can use mouseclick and move the timeline as you do with touch, so its not a big deal.

@prologic@twtxt.net I should have posted the more recent one from May, but the rankings are still pretty similar and Go and scala are tied still!

Using and/or relying on vendor products/services sucks 😆

@shreyan@twtxt.net Locked up how? Irs my primary OS and I don’t see how it’s too locked up tbh