(#ftqfrta) Alright, Advent of Code is over:
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-12/0/POSTING-en.html
Itās been quite the time sink, especially with the DOS games on top, but it was fun. š„³
In case youāre wondering: All puzzles (except for part 2 of day 10) were doable in Python 1 on SuSE Linux 6.4 and ran in a finite time on the Pentium 133. Puzzle 10/2 might have been doable as well if I had better education. š¤£
Right at sunset we went for a quick stroll into the woods. Cannot complain about the colors in the sky: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-12-12/
(#6p6xg7a) @shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe Time to become a trixie or forky!
(#r5kb2kq) @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yes, exactly. It also blows my mind that with sooo much less budget and equipment, her videos are way superior to productions of big TV stations.
(#hqmp4yq) @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Anytime! Glad you like it, too. :-)
(#gwia6va) @bender@twtxt.net agreed
(#lquocva) @aelaraji@aelaraji.com probably a bug on my end with the bridge. Iāll figure it out with your help when I get home from my holidays.
(#gi4kq6a) @prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net I see, ta! :-)
(#jwv5raq) @bender@twtxt.net thatās kind of what I was getting it initially yeah
(#c742mra) @movq@www.uninformativ.de this is brilliant!
May I turn your attention to this timeless masterpiece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkyFHx4ncR0 (Terra Ferma - Floating)
(#jwv5raq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de @zvava@twtxt.net I think people get sick of everything changing all the time and so donāt bother adopting things to change when things are already good enough š¤·
(#jwv5raq) @prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, but isnāt it from 2010? No widespread adoption after 15 years? Is there that much inertia? š¤ On my box, everything just works ā browser, GIMP, ImageMagick, imlib2, ā¦ š¤
(#gi4kq6a) Ba Na Hills and itās basically clouds at this point š¤£
(#jwv5raq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I think WebP being new just hasnāt seen widespread adoption everywhere (yet) š§
(#25s22ka) iām always open to suggestions: PRs also welxome š¤£
(#jwv5raq) Searching the web a bit brings up lots of threads where people hate WebP. The problem being that browsers support WebP but other programs tend to be problematic ā¦ ? š¤
(#jwv5raq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, no idea why that is. š¤
(#q3qrw5q) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice! š
We got a very colorful sunset today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-12-09/
(#gi4kq6a) @prologic@twtxt.net Nice! And foggy as heck, very beautiful! Or is this smog?
(#jwv5raq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de The terminal colors change quite drastically, but not the photo. Interesting.
Use more WebP, I guess.
(#gi4kq6a) @prologic@twtxt.net That looks super humid. š
(#gi4kq6a) @bender@twtxt.net No no we did!!! Just the photos are rubbish š
(#xtqtdaa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Ahh you are a brilliant man š
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(#tiyosla) @prologic@twtxt.net Here you go:
(LTT = āLinus Tech Tipsā, thatās the host.)
LTT: There was a recent thing from a major tech company, where developers were asked to say how many lines of code they wrote ā and if it wasnāt enough, they were terminated. And there was someone here that was extremely upset about that approach to measuring productivity, becauseā
Torvalds: Oh yeah, no, you shouldnāt even be upset. At that point, thatās just incompetence. Anybody who thinks thatās a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company.
LTT: You do know who you just said that about, right?
Torvalds: No.
LTT: Oh. Uh, he was a prominent figure in the, uh, improved efficiency of the US government recently.
Torvalds: Oh. Apparently I was spot on.
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Went to Ba Na Hills today, but honestly it was so cold and misery i couldnāt take very good photos š¤£ Hereās a few shots i managed!
(#4gya42q) @movq@www.uninformativ.de BahahahGG š¤£š¤£š¤£
(#nzcc6oa) @klaxzy@klaxzy.net do you know what I also find equally just as stupid and dumb is having to upgrade the software license on something just to be able to get OIDC or OAuth support ffs š¤¦āāļø
(#tiyosla) can somebody please transcribe what he said and post it here? š I think itās too good just to waste in a video it needs to be preserved. š¤£
Fuck me, soooooooo beautiful! Awwww! :ā-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYfKgi133qo
This focuses more on the landscape part, other episodes also have amazing interactions with the locals. I cannot recommend the Itchy Boots channel enough. Itās in my top three channels of all time I believe. I hardly get the travel bug, but this has now changed. Watching Noralyās videos brings me great joy. It also shows humanity is not lost, contrary to what one might think in this crazy world. :-)
Caution, this channel gets very addictive!
(#tiyosla) @movq@www.uninformativ.de :ā-D
In case you havenāt seen it yet:
https://movq.de/v/89c2e025ce/torvalds.mp4
Linus Torvalds about SLOC as a measurement of productivity. š
(#66rm73q) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I reckon youāre right. There cannot be any other explanation.
(#4gya42q) Haha, Amazon is full of bad reviews because the pin order doesnāt match ā¦ š¤¦š¤¦š¤¦
(#t24o2wq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org My theory is that these people simply donāt do ācode archeologyā. When something breaks, they donāt reach for git log. They simply donāt experience the pain that comes with bad commits / commit messages.
Or is that different in your company? š
(#4bg5k7a) But it is weird that none of the slot plates (that I can find) appear to have the correct pin order. š¤
The two mainboards I have here use this order:
2468x
13579
But the slot plates use this:
12345
6789x
I tripped over this at first and wondered why it didnāt work.
Has this changed recently or what? š„“
(#4bg5k7a) @prologic@twtxt.net Ah, shit, you might be right. You can even buy these slot plates on Amazon. I didnāt even think to check Amazon, I went straight to eBay and tried to find it there, because I thought āitās so old, nobody is going to use that anymore, I need to buy second-handā. š¤¦š¤¦š¤¦
It really shows that I built my last PC so long ago ā¦ I know next to nothing about current hardware. š¢
(#lquocva) Need to fix:
Weāll all my posts are making it to the āFediverseā https://bridge.twtxt.net/users/c350a5e5fb9d9457
(#scuugpq) @bender@twtxt.net iām just pointing out that itās one of those fundamental RS 232 standards that will never die š¤£
(#4bg5k7a) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I think even modern PC still come with serial ports they just donāt wire them up anymore right? Theyāre still there in the board itself, though just unwired.
(#t24o2wq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Same. :ā-( I just donāt get how people do code archeology with all their shit messages and huge commits changing a gazillion of different things. I always try to lead by setting good examples, but nofuckingbody is picking up on that. At all. Even when bringing this up every now and then.
Currently watching Stranger Things and all I can think of is this:
(#fzfnvoa) @prologic@twtxt.net Bwahahaha! I tried to establish some form of āconventionā for commit messages at work (not exactly what you linked to, though), but itās a lost cause. š Nobody is following any of that. Nobody wants to invest time in good commit messages. People just want to get stuff done.
Iām just glad that 80% are at least somewhat useful ā instead of āwipā or āshit i screwed upā.