(#gioykcq) @prologic@twtxt.net @mutefall@twtxt.net Turns out, this is actually a thing: https://www.keppeldatacentres.com/innovations/floating-data-centre-park/

(#lakn2oq) @off_grid_living@twtxt.net Looking good, mate! :-)

(#itqyskq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Reading stuff at the Anstalt you mean? Just noticed I haven’t followed it for a long time now. Where’s all my time gone? Right, twtxt and such…

(#gioykcq) @prologic@twtxt.net New records all the time.

(#wzwzqva) @off_grid_living@twtxt.net You can never have enough clamps. :-)

(#gioykcq) @prologic@twtxt.net Good thing that creek and river beds are designed to keep it under control most of the time.

(#ijjwp4a) @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com What a genious! So kind of him to ask you for the money transfer. With all his superpower he easily could have just done it himself instead!

(#ijjwp4a) Thanks for the meeting notes, @mckinley@twtxt.net! I cannot access this lovely spam mail, @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com. :-)

(#d6tq4aq) @prologic@twtxt.net @mckinley@twtxt.net No, no, all good. I just have to go to bed earlier, at a healthier point in time. Last night I overdid it quite a lot.

(#e7bqh7q) @prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, oh yeah, this is brilliant! :-D

(#fm7xdga) @mckinley@twtxt.net Bwahahahahahaaa, I didn’t know this one. Very nice! :‘-D

(#itqyskq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Awesome! :-D Never heard of Tresenlesen, but immediately recognized Jochen Malmsheimer’s voice.

(#d6tq4aq) @prologic@twtxt.net Looks like I was too late.

(#vctugiq) @thecanine@twtxt.net What a cool chilling dog enjoying its shiny teeth. Contemplating whether to use its broom tail to do some cleanup. But the dice have fallen, it keeps resting. :-)

Yesterday morning I got up very early at 05:30 to get the still cold air back in the house. So I opened all the doors and windows for a draft. Suddenly, there was a reddish brown cat in the bathroom and hissed at me when I had a look. It then ran across into my room where I was already working, jumped on the desk, ran over the keyboard and computer, out the balcony door. It tried to to escape between the railing and wall, but failed as it was too big. So it turned around and wanted to get back in the house, but I luckily blocked off the route. The next unsuccessful attempt was to squish between railing and wall on the other end of the balcony. Finally it returned, hissing like crazy of course and then jumped over the railing onto the tiled veranda. Quickly vanished off through the bushes.

That was the end of creating draft in the ground floor. What a stressful morning.

(#3gtuw3a) @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Holy moly! :-D Perfect choice when you try to get hit by a car at night.

(#fm7xdga) @mckinley@mckinley.cc @prologic@twtxt.net Nice article. I never had the guts to use ed. Now I wanted to try it, but was very surprised that I don’t even have it installed on my current system. That must be a sign to better not dare.

(#ha7mmmq) @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com I’m already using cumin, but haven’t tried duck fat so far. Thanks for the recommendation.

(#guv3leq) @off_grid_living@twtxt.net Sounds like a solid plan. To success!

(#stlehta) Nothing unusual, @off_grid_living@twtxt.net. Just obliterated by the earth. :-)

Unfortunately, I cannot select the exposure time, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. My pocket camera is too shitty for that. I need to borrow my dad’s DSLR one day.

(#eawyw6a) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Excellent, thank you for confirming. If I’m very, very lucky I might get after one of the open topics on the weekend. I’m not specifying which one, though. :-P

(#zcp3qna) @mutefall@twtxt.net Little time? I hear you! Now that my short holidays are over, I don’t get much done either. Totally fell behind again.

(#ha7mmmq) @mutefall@twtxt.net Oh, interesting. So it’s not an Australian thing, but much more common. Never thought that. Whole-grain bread is great, I prefer apple jelly on it, though. :-)

(#7kzz5ua) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, 16 km/h should be possible I reckon. If you don’t take our tandem, that is. :-D

That’s a nice vision, I truely like it. But yeah, ain’t gonna happen. Not in a hundred years.

I experimented with photographing the moon again. And of course it profoundly went wrong, what did you think?

My twtxt.txt feed grew over 700 KiB, so I thought I write a Python script to split it into monthly archive feeds. Now the only things left are automating the execution, automatically rewriting the main feed as well and adding support in tt, so that the full feed is reconstructed in the cache.

(#nbt66eq) Thank you, @prologic@twtxt.net! Will give it a try later this evening.

(#zcp3qna) @mutefall@twtxt.net Yes, that’s a very good read. Do you also have an article where you go into more detail about your setup and changes?

(#7kzz5ua) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting video! Not being allowed to drive into and out of that garage is really silly. It clearly shows that that those, who came up with the rules, don’t use these underground garages. We’re very far away here from giant (underground) bicycle parking lots. Not enough volume of traffic.

(#7kzz5ua) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Whoo, that’s quite something I’d say. I wouldn’t want to do that on a regular bike when going to the office (recreation is a different story). Maybe with a cheater bike, but that needs to be experimented with first. How long would it take you according to Uncle Elgoog?

I’ve seen bike lines on motorways in Australia, but I wouldn’t feel save there at all. And regular people don’t have escort cars:

Indeed, you get a nice heads up before:

But then you basically have to go on the right lane anyways, because that shoulder is pretty much non-existent in my books. And cars and trucks are flying by with 110 km/h.

You would need some constructionally separated bicycle lanes.

@will@twtxt.net Hahaha, very cool! :-) A folding bike is nice if you have to take a train in the rushhour. I saw people folding and unfolding their bikes in less than ten seconds, pretty amazing what can be done today. I never had a folding bike, but I reckon a non-folding bike will be more comfy to ride, just judging from the smaller tires alone. So when you have 20 km to go, I have my reservations on a folding bike.

Just put it right inside the office. That’s what some collegues did at my former employer. Or they locked it on the railing in the public corridor. Just do it, you can worry about the others when they also start coming by bike. However, I doubt, that lots will.

Missing showers is a thing that might kill the bike idea right from the beginning.

(#ha7mmmq) @mutefall@twtxt.net Apple sauce was originally invented for waffles, I’m totally sure! It’s the perfect fit. Yeah, next time try that, you won’t regret it. :-) But basically anything works. Plum jam is also a pretty hot candidate. Blackberry, raspberry, you name it.

Speaking of apple sauce. That’s also brilliant for pork schnitzel. I was like you guys when I first heard it: “What the heck!? These Aussies definitely want to play a prank on me!” So I waited for them to go first and then hesitantly gave it a try. But man, I was instantly hooked, it’s a very yummy combination, no doubt. If you can’t believe it, think of cranberries served along deer. Not sure about the rest of the world, but in Germany that’s a classic.

(#zitnbvq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Örks! :-(

(#duqvxja) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I never came across such a bike before either. The chairs are kind of nice, but not super ideal for pedaling. The backrest feels kind of flimsy, the driver’s more than the passenger’s. When pedaling stronger I always had the slight fear of breaking the backrest, it’s not as ridgid as I would like it to be. Also after some effort your buttocks are very sweaty. Never had that with a saddle. But other than that, the seats are nice amd comfy. Good luck not getting rained on on your tour, I reckon these cloth upholsteries will be soaking wet in no time.

The handlebars are in very silly locations. I’d like them to be much lower. But that’s not possible. It’s a bit like I image what it would feel when sitting on a Harley. Sort of driving a recumbent bicycle, not that extrem, of course, but a bit in those lines (never sat/layed on one either).

And the passenger’s armrests don’t line up with the handle bars either. You have to select one position: Put your arms on the rest or grab the handlebars, but both is impossible. Unless your anatomy is reaaally weird. Riding freehand also works of course, the armrests can be tilted up.

But always keep in mind, the only usecase of the bike is to drive your grandma around in the park. Something along those lines. Certainly not going for longer adventures. I’m pretty sure it’s quite up to that task. But it would be muuuch cooler to also support other usecases. Wouldn’t be hard in my opinion.

The flavor of hay and freshly cut meadows was everywhere, the sun spoiled us with 23°C, a pleasant easterly breeze was blowing and we went on a tandem ride again. We had like a VIP lodge on the river Fils. That was pure luck, the ice cream shop we were headed for originally was still closed because of renovation. They’ll open tomorrow, the owner told us. So we went to a park/beergarden thingy and enjoyed the view.

(#nbt66eq) Ping, @prologic@twtxt.net. :-)

My dear friends, do you have any particular library recommendations for ical parsing in Go?

(#ha7mmmq) @mutefall@twtxt.net Drop me a note when it happens. :-) Waffles are awesome, I fully agree. And indeed, they work out fine with plant-only material. Some years ago I had to omit the milk because of one person being strongly lactose intolerant. I had also ran out of eggs and didn’t feel like going to the shops, so I simply tried without them. Very surprisingly to me I hardly could tell any difference in regards to taste. I was super baffled that this experiment turned out this good. But maybe homemade apple sauce was key. ;-)

(#clv7woa) @mckinley@twtxt.net I’m writing one Atom feed by hand myself and I’m super glad I update it only very rarely..

(#dq4wraq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Very nice, thanks! :-) Well, at least the standard is pretty obvious in that regard. Although, I have to say, I prefer the “must NOT” over the “cannot” version. Interesting that they changed the wording in the draft version. Admitted, it’s basically a complete rewrite.

Now the only thing left for you is to file a bug report against Otter.

(#dgj5zvq) @prologic@twtxt.net Ta! :-)

Even today the sunset gods meant very well for us! Cannot complain about this beautiful scene.

And we were lucky enough to also receive a very pretty sunset present yesterday.

After the quick tandem ride and a quick lunch we headed out on foot this time and visited the tadpole pond. Lo and behold my friends, the little creatures were out there again the first time this year! The entire pond was crowded with millions if not billions of them. Absolutely amazing! \o/ I’m super excited about that.

More of this trip into the woods.

On Saturday it was sunny and so we went on a short 19 km tandem ride in my area. The bike was designed in the hillless Netherlands, so that’s presumably why in areas like mine the battery is flattened in no time. They claim a maximum range of 40 km in the flat. We only engaged the motor on the way up to save on juice.

My town lends out the electronic tandem to all its inhabitants for free, which is awesome. The cool thing is you sit side by side and not behind each other like on a regular tandem. This makes it quite cool for conversations. But of course, narrow spots might get tricky, it’s over a meter wide. Posts on the footpaths to block off cars and other motorized vehicles can get a challenge to navigate around. Also avoiding oncoming or overtaking traffic is tricky on narrow paths or lanes.

The vehicle is designed for disabled passengers, but some of these features are in fact drawbacks for others. The driver can select from eight gears, but the passenger has always a fixed gear ratio. So at very low (going uphill) and at a bit higher speeds (basically regular cruising speeds on the flat) the passenger cannot help pedalling, it’s either too hard to tread or you’re like a hamster in a spinning wheel. Only the midrange (~5-15 km/h) is somewhat okay. Ideally, the passenger would have an own gearbox or at the very minimum share the same gear ratio as the driver. But the current solution is just terrible. There are three settings for the passenger the driver can control: 1) idle all the time 2) fixed gear with the option of ideling 3) fixed gear without the possibility of ideling, you always have to tread and cannot rest. So of course, setting 2 it is. But why not provide a fourth or fifth option with a passenger gear box?

I will talk about the tandem experience in more detail another time.

(#ha7mmmq) @mutefall@twtxt.net Of course, come by, mate! I have homemade pizza and waffles to offer you today. And two or three slices of hazlenut cake (this time it worked out).

(#opev6mq) I have nothing to add to @movq@www.uninformativ.de’s statements. I remember it exactly the way he described. But we might be able to just also allow absolute URLs, if multi-protocol is nothing for feed authors to worry about. Might get messy, though. Didn’t completely think this through yet.

(#zitnbvq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh dear, one of those days… :-( But you managed to finish the job?

(#clv7woa) @mckinley@mckinley.cc This is great, thank you very much! I was very pleased to see that! :-) I hope you automated this somehow and don’t have to handcraft this each and every time.

It is linked in the blog section, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. That’s how I found it.

(#dq4wraq) @mckinley@twtxt.net What a mess! Nice solution though, I was wondering how you solved that. But I wouldn’t have come up with that on my own. In hindsight, it’s totally obvious. Now what does the standard say?

Finally showed a mate around in my lovely area on Friday. So we went up my backyard mountain. It was cloudy and right between t-shirt and jumper weather.

The local mountain rescue service started a training at the Spielburg, a nature reserve of white jura surrounded by brown jura. While the presumably leaders prepared the wall with climbing gear the youth group arrived with more equipment, I reckon their own gear. I would have watched them much longer, but my mate pressed on to return home. So there are only a few photos of that event.