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Let’s see how long it lasts. 2021-05-02T15:45:52Z Bought the entire series “Monk” (Adrian Monk, the guy with so many phobias) on DVD. I only knew this series from german TV. I always hated Sharona with a passion. Turns out, her real voice – not the german dub voice – is totally different and she’s actually very lovely character. 🤔 2021-05-02T15:48:52Z (#) Similarly, the german dub voice of Scully from The X-Files makes her sound like a 40 or 50 year old lady. Gives off a very, very different vibe. 2021-05-02T15:51:19Z (#) Voices matter a lot. In general, I think it’s a shame that german TV dubs everything. At least english movies shouldn’t be dubbed anymore. If you ask me, neither should french or spanish movies. Or, you know, make use of “Zweikanalton” again! 2021-05-04T18:07:12Z @ (#<7547j7a https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt>) Did the fox make some noise? What does the fox say?! In all seriousness, you’ll probably be surprised: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Bellender_Fuchs.ogg 2021-05-04T18:07:59Z @ (#<7547j7a https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt>) (I once went out on a field at night to watch the stars. And then I heard that noise RIGHT BESIDE ME. Holy smokes.) 2021-05-06T19:11:29Z @ (#<54yqsja https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt>) Uhhhhhhhhhh, awesome! 😍 2021-05-07T11:41:28Z (#<66aenwq https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt>) Soooooooooo … are there any alternatives to Audacity? 2021-05-07T11:44:04Z (#<66aenwq https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt>) It’s so sad, because I was just joking to my coworkers a few days ago: “Does anyone know those ‘Muse’ guys? Should we be worried?” And boom, there you go. 🙄 2021-05-09T18:45:22Z I think it’s time to dig up Carmageddon again. 🤔 🤘 // Fear Factory - Zero Signal (Instrumental) // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCF5jw_zhD8 #NowPlaying 2021-05-10T17:16:19Z (#) Sadly, the game has graphical glitches when run in DOSBox. So I had to install it on my old box running PC-DOS 7. Some impressions: https://movq.de/v/0bb16b8ea6/ 2021-05-10T17:19:07Z (#) Note the fancy “e” editor. Believe it or not, it had automatic code indentation and code completion for C: https://movq.de/v/a9c9965047/ That’s quite a bit strange, because PC-DOS 7 did not come with a C compiler. Not even BASIC, it just had batch files and a [REXX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx) interpreter. 2021-05-10T17:31:27Z (#) And I really love this game. It had a great physics engine for its time. The race tracks were not just tracks, they were almost like open worlds: You were always free to leave the track and explore the area. There was so much to discover! 2021-05-11T16:54:56Z @ (#) What the heck are those ants doing? 🤔 And nice photo of slenderman in 39.jpg. 😁 2021-05-11T16:57:25Z Why is it so hard for systemd to shut down my NUC … This happens every now and then … https://movq.de/v/22db45ef07/tmp.AI3tx7qlnS.png It’s the year 2021, I’m not motivated anymore to debug shutdown issues. 2021-05-11T19:41:35Z @ (#) Wow, I did not expect that. Clever little guys. 🤔 2021-05-12T11:35:24Z (#) 😭 2021-05-13T04:44:10Z @ (#) TIL: “Greenery” is a word. 😁 Sounds funny to my ears. (“Grünerei“? 😁) And I agree, those make some good wallpapers. 👍 2021-05-13T08:18:20Z (#) Yeah, I read that, too. Is that bad? 😁 I just take a few pictures as a hobby from time to time, I’m not a pro, so … 🤷 2021-05-13T11:50:39Z I’ll have to set up an audio compressor in PulseAudio when watching movies. Yeah, yeah, the audiophiles have been advocating for this for a long time, but there is way too much dynamic range in today’s movies. For example: https://movq.de/v/76490ec1fe/tmp.EHS1nT8VpT.png I simply can’t watch that movie without headphones, because I’ll have to turn up the volume *a lot* to understand the conversations – and then the jump scares will, well, scare *my neighbors*. 🙄 2021-05-13T18:56:18Z @ (#) Not sure if you’re being sarcastic. 😁 I believe this is totally intentional. “The louder the jump scare, the scarier it is”, I guess. It’s basically the opposite of the loudness wars in music. (Maybe it’s just an issue with horror movies? That’s where it’s most noticable, that’s for sure.) 2021-05-13T19:02:56Z Yet another apocalyptic sunset: https://movq.de/v/0c4c271b37/IMG_2251.JPG (Couldn’t grab my camera fast enough to catch the last few seconds of the sun peeking above those hills. In general, these shots are only possible within a time range of 1 or 2 minutes.) 2021-05-13T19:07:28Z @ (#) You do have some talent, my guy. 🙂 I hope the cloudy season will be over soon to allow for some more dramatic lighting. 😁 2021-05-13T19:07:45Z @ (#) … and that’s going to be a lot of frogs. Or food for other animals. 2021-05-13T19:15:48Z (#) This is what I’m using now, btw: https://www.uninformativ.de/git/bin-pub/file/pulseaudio-compressor.html Not perfect, but much better. (That sink master is another LADSPA plugin, an EQ.) 2021-05-14T04:01:56Z @ (#) Nice! The zoom of your camera is crazy. 😁 I have to switch to another lens for that. 2021-05-14T04:12:10Z @ (#) Yeah, normal dialogs are often super quiet. When you get to a more dramatic scene, volume increases – a lot. I think this can actually work quite well *if* you’re using headphones. It just adds to the drama and action of the movie. And headphones make it easier to listen to quiet sections anyway, so you don’t have to turn up the volume of your device that much. But watching those movies on normal speakers? I agree with @, it’s just rubbish. I end up turning the volume knob up and down and up and down … It’s much better now with that PulseAudio plugin. 2021-05-14T07:39:20Z I just love that smilies found their way from Internet messaging to everyday writings. I got a note from my neighbor with a “=)” in it. 2021-05-14T12:19:29Z @ (#<5cgqhha https://twtxt.net/conv/5cgqhha>) lol 😁 Nah, I guess that would have been a “=(” then. 😁 2021-05-14T12:24:50Z @ (#) To be honest, I don’t know if it’s normal for *current* compact cameras (bought my last one in 2005). It certainly is a greater range though than what I have with the zoom lenses on my DSLR (which is 10 years old now too 🙃). 2021-05-14T19:10:53Z (#) I just stumbled on this by accident: https://imgur.com/gallery/C87vYOi Is this real? They sell that as a feature now? 🤣 2021-05-16T17:48:19Z @ (#<4hyrtya https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt>) Yep. Nature is cruel. Everything gets eaten. Even that massive urinating cow. 🤣 2021-05-17T16:48:57Z The best song from the album: A beautiful cross-over of Tuvan throat singing and Bulgarian folk singing. 🧘 // Huun-Huur-Tu & The Bulgarian Voices - Lonely Bird // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyYRoNPlEgE #NowPlaying 2021-05-18T11:07:20Z @ (#<4hyrtya https://twtxt.net/conv/4hyrtya>) Oh yeah, great shots! 😊 Love those clouds. 2021-05-18T14:58:38Z @ (#) Ha, I was 99% sure this was going to be a link to “The HU”. 😁 Yeah, they rock! Also nice: Tengger Cavalry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSwL8ybZQFw (Even though one of their founders died. 😢) 2021-05-18T15:56:40Z Despite being released in the cursed year of 2020, this is still one of my favorite songs of all time. What a blast! 🤘 // Vintersea - Befallen // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA9jknv0Ki4 #NowPlaying 2021-05-18T20:35:15Z @ (#) Nice! I’ve once seen them live when Wilska was their vocalist. They put up a great show. 😁 2004 or something. Haha, lyrics, I used to have them all memorized … 🥴 (They’re pretty brutal. Their music would be banned in Germany if the Jugendschutzbehörden made the effort to translate that stuff.) 2021-05-19T12:14:56Z *Possibly* due to all the hype around “proof of storage” cryptocurrencies, our company now has trouble buying/renting new storage. What a waste of everybody’s time and energy. 🙄 2021-05-20T15:00:07Z (#) Still don’t know if I need to care about this. There are plenty of free IRC networks out there. And when in doubt, you can easily host your own one. The times where mIRC could only connect to one server at a time are long over. 😁 Still, what’s nice about Libera is that we all start a fresh and the nick name that I actually wanted to use was still free. 😁 > 2021-05-20T16:57:56Z Laphroaig. 🥃 🥴 2021-05-21T14:12:33Z (#) Oh no. One chick died at a very early age. The other two were already wearing rings, but now they were killed by a raccoon a few days ago. 😭 2021-05-24T06:20:02Z @ (#) We really don’t have that many hills around here, which makes those shots quite refreshing and enjoyable for me. 😊 And TIL: Dark brown squirrels exist. 2021-05-24T06:22:56Z After quite a long period of clouds, clouds, clouds, I was finally able to see the nightsky yesterday. Shortly after sundown, Mercury and Venus were visible. As can be seen in the screenshot of Stellarium, they’ll get very close next Friday. Let’s hope it’ll be a clear sky then as well. https://movq.de/v/fc450fa28c/ 2021-05-24T06:26:40Z (#) Catching Mercury is rather rare, because it’s so close to the sun. Last time I made it was in 2017: https://www.uninformativ.de/pics/photo/astro/2017-09-16--IMG_7471-venus-mercury-mars.jpg 2021-05-24T08:47:56Z @ (#) Oh, yeah, do it! 😁 2021-05-24T09:08:26Z @ (#) That’s right, especially since I’m living in one of the “red” areas here: https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ But well, Mercury was hardly visible with the naked eye. I just knew where to look. Venus was fine. 2021-05-24T12:44:46Z @ (#<7po5x4a https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt>) Meine Fresse! These are awesome. Seriously. Added them to my wallpaper collection. 😊 🤗 2021-05-24T18:23:47Z Anybody from the US around? I’ve got a report that cloning Git repos from my server is very unreliable / broken from the US. Could anybody do me a favor: Clone some repo a couple of times and see if that works? `git clone https://www.uninformativ.de/git/lariza.git`, for example. Thank you! 2021-05-25T14:54:56Z @ (#<3hp6d2a https://txt.sour.is/search?tag=3hp6d2a>) Alright, that’s looking good. May I ask which ISP you’re using? Thank you! > 2021-05-25T16:49:38Z When my Amazon account turns 18 next year, do I finally get to order stuff without age verification? 🤔 2021-05-25T19:12:39Z @ (#) I use 😬 2021-05-26T18:49:22Z DOUBLE RAINBOW! WHAT DOES IT MEAN? https://movq.de/v/6cf9918991/ 2021-05-26T18:55:36Z @ (#) Oh no, dead bird. 🙁 2021-05-26T18:56:26Z @ (#) Yeah, I think that era is over. RIP Freenode. (But hey, SourceForge is still around, too. You never know.) 2021-05-27T16:24:07Z @ (#) To be honest, all I understand is: “Freenode got bought by someone and then weird stuff happened.” I don’t know what they’re up to. I wouldn’t even care, if they (Freenode) didn’t rename some channels I’ve been in and if they didn’t post paranoid stuff like “their plan to destroy us has failed!!1!” on their front page. It’s all very strange. New owner, renamed channels, paranoia, what? I don’t care. I just got outta there. 🙃 2021-05-27T16:25:49Z @ (#) Eww, yeah. That … that’s slimy. 😁 You’re fearless, eh? Going out in the woods *when it’s raining*? 😱 Your shoes will get dirty! (I admit it, I watched too much “Monk” lately.) 2021-05-27T16:27:41Z @ (#) Neato! Has that image been scaled or is that its original size? 2021-05-28T19:05:39Z @ (#) You don’t wear glasses, do you? I hate getting all that drizzle on them, can’t see a thing anymore. 😂 Anyway, I don’t want to complain too much. Going out and not a soul around is so nice, especially in times like these. 👌 (Fun fact, I took a walk today and forgot to take off my mask, because I’m so used to it now …) 2021-05-28T19:07:45Z @ (#) Oh, no need to, I was just curios about the original size in pixels. 🙂 I was wondering about the quality of the shots you can take with your telescope, but the more I think about it: The number of pixels only depends on the camera, not the scope. 🤦 So it’s irrelevant anyway. Stupid question. Nothing to see, move along. 😁 2021-05-28T19:08:39Z (#) Today is the day. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand of course, clouds all over the place. 😭 2021-05-28T19:46:00Z (#) Ya, no way for me to see the planets. But at least it was a fancy sunset. https://movq.de/v/0c2d68c001/ 2021-05-29T07:47:00Z TIL: /dev/v4l/by-id exists. If you have multiple video devices attached to your system, using this directory it’s easy to find out which one is which. No need to struggle about “was it /dev/video0 or /dev/video2?” anymore. 2021-05-29T16:33:22Z @ (#) Certificates have flags that indicate their “purpose”. Looks like you’re trying to use a “client” certificate for “server usage” or the other way around. I think you can view these flags using something like `openssl x509 -noout -in mycert.pem -purpose`. (Maybe you’re interested in using Wireguard, it’s quite a bit simpler. 🙂) > > > 2021-05-30T15:30:42Z Yay, all OpenBSD boxes finally upgraded to 6.9. 🐡 🎉 2021-05-31T15:16:11Z @ (#) Argh, snake, a snake! Snake! A snake! Oohhh, it’s a snake! 2021-05-31T15:21:03Z @ (#) It’s crazy how we sometimes freak out about health stuff, and then it’s just nothing. 🥴 I wish the human body was better at analyzing itself. 2021-06-01T09:47:11Z @ (#) Ah, so that’s a “slow worm” (Blindschleiche), didn’t know that word. A long-ass lizard without legs. Nature does some crazy stuff. 2021-06-03T08:43:40Z Omg, planet. What’s going on. Suddenly 25°C and high humidity. Feels like being in the jungle. 2021-06-03T08:44:28Z @ (#) 😍 2021-06-03T08:46:33Z (#) Won’t be long until everyone needs a Google account to watch videos. I mean, hey, all of you already have one, right? ;-) And Widevine is easy to install as well, so let’s use that, too … 2021-06-03T08:51:34Z What a lovely title for a bug report: “ILoveCandy erratic eating behaviour” https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71112 2021-06-03T18:27:51Z @ (#) Widevine is part of that DRM stuff used by services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. It’s very easy to install on Firefox (FF just tells you “oh, you need it, click here to install”), so nobody complains about it. 2021-06-03T18:33:54Z @ (#) According to my hygrometers, I often have only 20-30% rel. humidity during winter. Today, this jumped to 50-60%. A funny side effect of this is that I can suddenly smell a lot more things. 🤣 Human noses don’t work too well with low humidity … 2021-06-04T14:07:53Z We’re currently doing another “Workflow Compilation” at nixers.net: https://nixers.net/Thread-Workflow-Compilation-June-Events-2021 2021-06-05T06:09:43Z Es ist so süß, wie auf den Fischverpackungen neuerdings „nachhaltig gefangen“ draufsteht. „Schau’ mal, Klaus-Dieter! *Den* haben wir aber ganz nachhaltig! *Der* schwimmt uns nicht mehr weg!“ 2021-06-05T08:17:07Z @ (#) Haha, my one and only Perl script. 🥴 2021-06-05T08:20:49Z @ (#) Ich stecke da nicht so tief drin. Aber wenn auf der Banane, die einmal um die halbe Welt geflogen/-schifft wurde, „bio“ draufsteht, dann weiß ich nicht so recht, was mir das Label sagen soll. Dass die dort lokal bei sich nicht gespritzt haben oder so? Ja gut … Naja. Ich habe wirklich keine Ahnung. Alles Bauchgefühl. 2021-06-06T12:14:18Z @ (#) Wait, isn’t `-strip` supposed to only strip metadata? How can this account for such a difference in size? 😱 Also, nice to see that the little guys are doing fine. 🐸 2021-06-06T12:30:03Z Did you know that Netlabels exist? There’s a whole culture around publishing your music online. And: Much of it is Creative Commons! For example: https://monofonicos.net/mns006-varios-colores-paralelos/ 2021-06-06T12:32:55Z (#) I found out about Netlabels via Machtdose, who, sadly, have recently stopped making new episodes. Still, their “Aqual(o)unge” is a series of exquisite mixes, if you’re into calm, dub-y, “aquatic” electronic music: https://machtdose.de/tag/aqualounge 2021-06-06T14:11:22Z @ (#) Wow. I would never have expected this. The size of the thumbnails of my /pics went down from 6.3 MB to 2.3 MB. How can metadata be *that* big! I’m using `-strip` in https://uninformativ.de/git/html-index now, thanks for the tip! 🤯 2021-06-06T14:27:05Z @ (#) Jesus, what the heck. One of the old thumbnails, ~2kB of spaces inside some XML … https://movq.de/v/f1d9d1153e/md.png 2021-06-06T17:29:21Z @ (#) I usually find this metadata very interesting, it tells me about the camera used, aperture size and all that. I like it when it’s there. 😊 As for the XML, well, all my photos have it. I guess the camera just dumps it there. Looks like it’s that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform 2021-06-06T17:31:33Z @ (#) Yeah, me too. 😁 I found a few gems on Jamendo back then. And then they decided to “revamp” their website and now it’s pretty terrible. 😢 The good thing about podcasts like Machtdose was that they filtered out all the garbage for you. 2021-06-07T12:39:59Z @ (#) I’ll take a look, but so far, I haven’t noticed anything weird. 😊 2021-06-10T14:29:46Z Today’s partial solar eclipse was not quite as spectacular as I’d hoped. No sunspots, no accidental planes. https://www.uninformativ.de/pics/photo/astro/2021-06-10--IMG_2456-sofi.jpg 2021-06-10T14:31:47Z @ (#) I love the one with the bird. It’s super rare to catch something like this! 🥰 2021-06-11T13:35:06Z @ (#) Ha, nice! That’s the kind of Tweet that I like. 🐦 2021-06-11T13:36:23Z @ (#) Heh, sadly, those colors are just an indicator for the lense being not 100% optimal. 🥴 2021-06-11T13:39:38Z @ (#) I have a Celestron Ultima 100. It’s actually just a spotting scope for watching birds, but it also works okay-ish for astrophotography. I have an adapter for it, so I can mount my Canon EOS 600d directly. Well, and then a sun filter on top. The tripod, on the other hand, is terrible for astro stuff. https://movq.de/v/7c33c93387 > > 2021-06-11T13:40:01Z Yay, another internet outage ot home today. 🙄 2021-06-12T05:33:34Z @ (#) Oh, lol, I read that as “internet outage” at first. Power outage? Yeah, what was the cause? I also had one a few weeks back, but it was limited to just this (large) building, I think. 2021-06-12T05:34:07Z @ (#) Same what, same tripod? 😁 2021-06-12T08:14:23Z @ (#<3jjnl3q http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt>) It’s supposed to be an RFC 3339 date-time string, and I can’t find anything regarding “.” in that RFC, so I suppose “:” is the only correct version. 🤔 2021-06-12T16:49:03Z Reaaally entertaining, all kinds of media types throughout modern history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXXkB2jic0 💾 💿 (thanks venam on irc) 2021-06-12T16:57:18Z (#) The most “unusual” media types I’ve used in the past were probably the LS-120 (this was great because it could read normal floppys as well), the 100 MB Iomega ZIP drive, and up until a few years ago DVD-RAM. How about you? 😁 2021-06-13T07:16:32Z (#) I just learned that this exists: https://www.instagram.com/p/CP758u2qcFQ/ 🤯 2021-06-14T14:42:52Z Was Lustiges für die Deutschsprachigen: https://www.stuttmann-karikaturen.de/karikatur/7784 Das ist die nächste Evolutionsstufe nach „alles ist eine App“. 2021-06-15T16:12:32Z @ (#) Don’t forget how gravity works, my friend. 🙃💩 2021-06-16T11:18:40Z @ (#) Holding a grudge against raccoons since they killed the owls. 😡 (Of course, the humans who initially brought them to this continent are actually to blame. Booo!)