(#gwfjgha) @bender@twtxt.net Hm, are we talking about different dates or are there different timezone offsets for this timezone abbreviation? With EDT being UTC-4, 2025-11-02T12:00:00Z is Sunday at 8:00 in the morning local time for you. Or were did I mess up here? :-?
@prologic@twtxt.net You want me to submit a reply with āI probably wonāt show upā?
(#ykrnzra) @prologic@twtxt.net Ouch, I donāt want to get hit by these projectiles! :-O Is that black tube on the bottom the remains of a chair leg?
I reckon one could collect these hail stones and put them in the drinks to work around the lost air conditioning. At least if one doesnāt mind icy drinks. (I canāt stand that, because I immediately get hickup when drinking something cold.)
(#gwfjgha) @bender@twtxt.net Ohhh! Well, this Sunday is even more unlikely as Iām probably helping a mate in the woods. But maybe weāre quicker than I think.
(#tuh2yda) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Theyāre seriously telling us at work: āCan it be AIād? Do it, donāt waste time!ā Shit like that is the result. (Whatās this weird gray triangle in the bottom right corner?)
(#53hvybq) Turned out I didnāt make it, sorry. Maybe next time. I hope you had a great yarn, @prologic@twtxt.net and @bender@twtxt.net, and didnāt waste any time waiting for me.
We had some gray soup with the occasional fine rain with strong wind gusts. Despite the bad forecast we took the train to Geislingen/Steige and strolled up to the Helfenstein castle ruin. All the colorful leaves were so beautiful, it didnāt matter that the sun was behind thick layers of clouds.
We then continued to the Ćdenturm (lit. boring tower). By then the wind had picked up by quite a bit, just as the weatherman predicted. We were very positively surprised that the Swabian Jura Association had opened up the tower. Between May and October, the tower is typically only manned on Sundays and holidays between 10 and 17 oāclock. But yesterday was Saturday and no holiday. The lovely lady up there told us that theyāre currently experimenting with opening up on Saturday, too, because there are some highly motivated members responsible for the tower.
We were the very first visitors on that day. Last Sunday, when the weather lived up to the weekdayās name, they counted 128 people up in the tower. Very impressive.
The wind gusts were howling around the tower. Luckily, there are glass windows. So, it was quite pleasant up in the tower room. Chatting with the tower guard for a while, we got even luckier: the sun came out! That was really awesome. The photos donāt do justice. As always, it looked way more stunning in person.
Thanks to all the volunteers who make it possible to enjoy the view from the thirty odd meters up there. That certainly made our day!
After signing the guestbook we climbed down the staircase and returned to the station and headed back. The train even arrived on time. What a great little trip!
(#qigsnba) Just FTR, in case this wasnāt obvious, the āright to repairā (if there ever is one) needs to be more than just āyouāre legally allowed to repair stuffā.
I just fixed this thing by replacing two capacitors. Great, but this was an absolute shitshow and it took several days. So many obstacles, everythingās tiny, connectors glued together, ⦠It worked in the end, but I was so close to giving up.
Being legally allowed to do something is basically worthless if itās not feasible to actually do it.
(#7lrohdq) @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.)
(#7lrohdq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I guess I wasnāt talking about the speed of interesting text/context, but more the āslownessā of these tools. I think I can build/ solutions and fix bugs faster most of the time? Hmmm š¤ I think the only thing itās able to do better than me is grasp large codebases and do pattern machines a bit better, mostly because weāre limited by the interfaces we have to use and in my ase being vision impaired doesnāt help :/
(#7lrohdq) @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. š¤
Hmmm š§ Iām annectodalynot convinced so-called āAIā(s) really save timeā¢. ā I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbers⦠ā But, there is one benefit⦠It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.
Itāll 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).
(#pbhb2fq) This was a great read, btw. š If you liked Event Horizon, this is for you. Iām gonna get her other two scifi books as well, thatās for sure.
(#aeg43da) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I think if I was younger, with more energy, and wasnāt blind with leberās disease (look it up) Iād be fine⢠But yeah I get the whole āexhaustingā apart. Iāll join you this year, since thereās only 12 puzzles and as you say, we can ātake our timeā it might actually be fun! (as opposed to exhausting and pressured).
(#aeg43da) @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. Itās a lot of fun and I loved it each time, but yeah, it can be exhausting.