lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (1h ago)

Two mates and I went on a 25km hike yesterday to the Wasserberg (lit. Water Mountain) and Fuchseck (lit. Fox Corner) on the edge of the Swabian Alb. They arrived by train and of course it was delayed by half an hour, ā€œdue to limited availability of tracksā€. That was a first one, I never heard that reason before. Another train had a breakdown in a train station and later my matesā€™ train had to be rebooted, too. That restart alone took 10Ā minutes. O_o Software problem, it canā€™t be helped.

It rained the whole day before, so a lot of foot paths had turned into small creeks. Also, the mud levels were much higher than usual. We also took one or the other shortcut which were even messier. And also reeaalllly steep (see 07 and 08). It didnā€™t help that my guiding abilities also sucked a bit and I took the wrong turn twice. Oh well, we just explored new paths Iā€™ve never been on. Thatā€™s a win in my book. :-)

After a rest at the Wasserberghaus with a Spezi, we then decided to also visit the Fuchseck, since weā€™re just around the corner. It took a bit longer that I remembered and after enyoing the view and eating homemade waffles with apple sauce, we then made our way home.

About 100Ā meters in front of the train station it began to rain. The thunderstorm caught up on us. We just made it in time, a couple of minutes later, the train was supposed to show up. I quickly walked home and was a bit soaked when I unlocked the front door.

It was great fun, it was a nice stroll for me, my mates were absolutely exhausted. Well, I admit, my feet hurt, too. :-)

Hereā€™s a nice view on the Three Emperor-Mountains in the distance. From left to right: Hohenstaufen, Rechberg and Stuifen, the left one is my backyard mountain:

https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-und-das-fuchseck-2024-05-18/42.jpg

More pics: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-und-das-fuchseck-2024-05-18/

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prologic @twtxt.net
 (11h ago)

For anyone else that canā€™t login to twtxt.net and believe they had an account, please reach out to me. I suffered a recent database corruption. Your feed is likely still there, so just reach out and we can sort out any mess šŸ™

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prologic @twtxt.net
 (1d ago)

(#6wcpwma) @mckinley@twtxt.net Oh well in that case, Iā€™d redesign the IRC protocol to be more like a combination of what Signal is today but with SMTP like capabilities. A bit like what weā€™ve been trying to do with Salty IM ā€“ So-called ā€œfederatedā€ instant messaging, with group support and fully e2e encrypted.

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movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (1d ago)

(#sp3wdea) I spent some more time with StarOffice 3.1 and it is indeed a bit clunky (of course it is, itā€™s from 1996). For example, a table of contents does not update automatically ā€“ you have to delete it and re-insert it. Sometimes it has graphical glitches. Font rendering isnā€™t too great.

And yet, I wish we would use this instead of $the_other_thing at work. Itā€™s much faster (on my Pentium 133!) and more featureful. šŸ«¤ (Or, you know, StarOfficeā€™s modern descendant: LibreOffice.)

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movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (1d ago)

(#iefub6q) Okay, GPS performance has degraded a lot over the last few days.

  • Time to first fix is a couple of minutes now, instead of 5-30 seconds.
  • Accuracy is reduced greatly, probably because the phone can one lock on to about 6-12 satellites, this used to be around 30 satellites.

In theory and under good conditions, you need 4 satellites to get a fix. But in reality, there are rarely ā€œgood conditionsā€, there are always buildings, hills, or trees nearby, so you need as many satellites as you can possibly get.

Itā€™s not completely useless (yet), but itā€™s not great. I think Iā€™m gonna lift some firewall restrictions. šŸ«¤

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movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (2d ago)

(#sp3wdea) I was able to dig up StarOffice 3.1, which I used in the 1990ā€™ies on Windows 95. This was the highlight of my day. šŸ„° As you can see in the photo below, this CD includes a version for Windows 3.1, 95/NT ā€“ and OS/2! How cool is that? My CD back then did not have the OS/2 version.

StarWriter of StarOffice 3.1 can do a lot of the stuff that Iā€™m missing in the tool at work. Like automatic numbering of sections/chapters and cross-references to other parts of the document. Essential basic stuff like that.

All the following screenshots are from QEMU VMs (OS/2 2.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows 98), but I think Iā€™m gonna install this on my real OS/2 Warp 4 box soon. šŸ§“

https://movq.de/v/eebbe648a5/

What really blew my mind is this feature, though: You can rearrange your documentā€™s structure using drag-and-drop. Hereā€™s a demo (Window 2000):

https://movq.de/v/67523d0d3f/so31.mp4

I really, really wish the tool at work would have a feature like that. It would have saved me so much time already. šŸ˜­

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