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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

browsers did vertical tabs in the 90s and it flopped

There are extensions for that. Which are worse than they used to be because they didn't provide APIs enabling to do that properly, about 10 fucking years after they dropped the old APIs. There are a lot of other feature requests from back then open, often even filed years before they went through with dropping the old APIs. The best way of doing custom keyboard shortcuts in Firefox is still injecting Javascript into each page, with all the shortcomings this has. Usability of Firefox is way worse nowadays than what it was 10 years ago - and I do understand (and agree) with the decision to dump the legacy APIs, but you can't just break functionality lots of people use, and not provide APIs in over a decade to fix that.

I'm trying other browsers now and then, but every single one is a dumpster fire. At least the Firefox dumpster fire is a bit less out of control - but that's the most positive thing I can say about it nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dazu habe ich zumindest schon mal die Meinung gehört, dass das finnische Endlager von der Herangehensweise her veraltet sei und die Schweiz ein moderneres Endlager plane. Sicher ist nur, dass Dland bei dem Thema bisher komplett versagt hat.

Hast du da mehr Infos? Hab da auf die schnelle nichts gefunden - und der Zyniker in mir wuerde das dann als "na, wir bekommen das auch mit weniger Aufwand als die Finnen hin" lesen.

Auch da weiß ich nicht so recht. Olkiluoto-3 scheint durchaus immer noch Probleme zu haben und EDF als Bauherrin scheint mir ein Pulverfass zu sein.

Die Aufsicht scheint hier etwas besser zu funktionieren als in Deutschland. Hab aber gerade keine Quellen mehr greifbar.

Die eh-da-Kosten (Mitarbeitys, Wartung, Abschriebung, …) können an der Stelle nicht durch Gewinne wettgemacht werden. Ansonsten ist es halt das ewige Problem: “Mein, dein, das sind doch bürgerliche Kategorien.” Unternehmys haben den Anspruch, mit ihrer Investition Gewinne zu machen. Die wichtige Frage ist die nach dem gesamtgesellschaftlichen Nutzen.

Die laufenden Kosten bei so einem Wasserkraftwerk duerften sicher zu den geringeren bei einem flexibel zuschaltbaren Kraftwerk liegen, und bieten sich daher an, egal wie man das jetzt dann finanziert. Was aber eben nicht akzeptabel ist ist dass man das jetzt runterfahren muss weil Strom aus Norddeutschland kommt den eigentlich auch Sueddeutschland (oder evtl. auch Suedeuropa) gerne abnehmen wuerde - aber nicht kann weil es innerhalb von Deutschland keine Leitungen gibt.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Hier von Finnland aus stimme ich zu dass das Kabel aktuell besser nicht gebaut wird - aber das wars auch schon wo ich mit dem Autor einer Meinung bin.

Atomkraft neu bauen macht keinen Sinn mehr. Haben wir in Finnland gemacht, war sauteuer, und ewig verzoegert, und die laufenden Kosten sind zu hoch. Wir haben Endlagerung hinbekommen - in Deutschland wurde das massiv verkackt. Mit diversem anderen Zeug was da schief gegangen ist bin ich durchaus froh dass Deutschland keine Atomkraftwerke mehr betreibt (und habe wenig Bedenken mit denen in Finnland - nur dass es eben keinen Sinn macht neue zu bauen).

Der Autor stellt korrekt fest dass eines unserer Probleme schnell zuschaltbare Erzeuger sind um Solar/Wind auszugleichen. Die Wasserkraftwerke bei denen er bedauert dass da Wasser ablaeuft (das "ihr Wasser" zu nennen ist Bloedsinn - die sind im Fluss gebaut. Die Formulierung suggeriert dass dadurch Kosten entstehen) waeren dafuer gut geeignet.

Auch nuetzlich waeren gut verteilte Windkraftanlagen damit man nicht das Problem "hier in der Gegend ist gerade Windstill, aber wir haben unseren einen grossen Windpark genau hier" nicht so stark hat. Und da kommen wir jetzt dazu wieso ich das Kabel auch nicht will: Die Blockiererei gegen Nord-Sued-Stromtrassen innerhalb von Deutschland, und der NIMBYism gegenueber Windkraftanlagen gerade im Sueden ist nicht akzeptabel, und traegt zu dem Problem bei. Wenn Deutschland die Leitungskapazitaeten gebaut hat dass wir nicht nur Norddeutschland kompensieren, sondern auch ueber Deutschland nach Zentraleuropa leiten koennen (oder umgekehrt), dann konnen wir wieder darueber reden. Ohne das importieren wir hier oben nur die teuren Strompreise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Airplanes. Plural.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Did pretty much the same with a new server recently - spent ages debugging why it didn't find the SAS disks. Turns out, disks like to have power connected, and no amount of debugging on software level will help you.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 days ago (6 children)

You still had a 4GB memory limit for processes, as well as a total memory limit of 64GB. Especially the first one was a problem for Java apps before AMD introduced 64bit extensions and a reason to use Sun servers for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I was referring to work setups with the overengineering - if I had a cent for every time I had to argue with somebody at work to not make things more complex than we actually need I'd have retired a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Unless you are gunning for a job in infrastructure you don’t need to go into kubernetes or terraform or anything like that,

Even then knowing when not to use k8s or similar things is often more valuable than having deep knowledge of those - a lot of stuff where I see k8s or similar stuff used doesn't have the uptime requirements to warrant the complexity. If I have something that just should be up during working hours, and have reliable monitoring plus the ability to re-deploy it via ansible within 10 minutes if it goes poof maybe putting a few additional layers that can blow up in between isn't the best idea.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Everything is deployed via ansible - including nameservices. So I already have the description of my infra in ansible, and rest is just a matter of writing scripts to pull it in a more readable form, and maybe add a few comment labels that also get extracted for easily forgettable admin URLs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Shitty companies did it like that back then - and shitty companies still don't properly utilize what easy tools they have available for controlled deployment nowayads. So nothing really changed, just that the amount of people (and with that, amount of morons) skyrocketed.

I had automated builds out of CVS with deployment to staging, and option to deploy to production after tests over 15 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Accessing powershell is not the issue - that Windows is broken, with a sprinkle of bad permission management by corporations using it is the issue. And the bad permission practices are a direct result of how broken Windows is - I tried a while ago to use it with a fully unprivileged user, just like I do for decades on UNIX and now Linux. It pretty much is impossible without privilege elevation prompts every few minutes.

In a proper environment a user should be able to destroy data they're working with - but not have the ability to alter the operating system.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Meanwhile over in Europe - went to the doctor in spring as a cough didn't go away for ages. As suspected nothing he could do much - irritated throat, and just at the time when cold season was giving way for allergy season. So he prescribed some nose spray - and asked if he should also add some antihistamine to the prescription to save me a few eur (didn't check, but it probably is single digits. That stuff is cheap)

 
 

Vor ein paar Tagen gabs hier ein Post zu Deutschlandwochen im Lidl in Italien, wo einer aus Schweden und ich mich ueber das Layout gewundert haben.

Jetzt sind auch hier Deutschlandwochen - und anscheinend wurde generell das Packungslayout geaendert - frueher war das alles "Alpenfest", jetzt "taste of deutschland".

Einige Produkte haben sich auch geaendert - z.b. waren die Apfel/Kirsch/Pflaumenkuchen frueher grosse runde Kuchen, jetzt sinds mehrere Teile.

Und Maultaschen sind wieder nicht dabei.

 

This is OpenDalle with img2img to make an existing picture into a futuristic city.

I took this picture at work a while ago, and it reminded me of cities with brutalist architecture we see in movies now and then, so I tried to get it made into one:

Other interesting attempts:

Forcing it to stay closer to the source made things look more like a highschool cardboard model:

 

I've finally found a bag which nicely fits almost everything I want to carry every day, and alos makes everything easily accessible - it is about the same size as what I used to carry, but now I no longer need to dump everything out to find what I neede, even with some lose parts still in there.

Contents:

Center:

  • 4 empty 64 microSD with SD adapter
  • one rpi 2040 with USB-A interface
  • headphones
  • bag of female jumper cables, with male-male adapters
  • a collection of the most used NFC keyfobs

Left side:

  • USB-C cable with attached USB-A adapter (USB3, missing on picture)
  • two USB-C to headphone adapters
  • satechi USB-C power meter
  • headphone splitter
  • USB-C to SATA adapter
  • USB-C smartcart reader
  • VGA to HDMI
  • USB Ninja (USB-C)
  • proxmark3 with battery/bt
  • collection of NFC magic cards

Right side:

  • USB-C hub with charging port
  • miniDP to HDMI
  • small USB-C dock
  • USB-C to whatever adapters (mini, micro, B, HDMI, ..)
  • Chameleon ultra
  • MPP pen
  • Ninja USB remote
  • USB-C to serial, connected via jumper cables

 

I recently had to add a Mac to my zoo of hardware I'm trying to do productive work on - which prompted me to clean up and document my environment variable importer, which had grown to platform specific functions with lots of code duplication.

On both Windows and MacOS I have properly configured shells with all relevant variables - so it makes sense to query them, instead of duplicating the logic how they create that configuration into Emacs.

On Linux that'd have worked too, but I also have the relevant variables in the systemd user session, and querying that is a tiny bit faster than launching a shell.

 

I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it's pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that'd be rather time consuming.

Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can't ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

edit: the high number of replies mentioning "swimming" made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.

 

My kids broke the flap on one of our sockets, so I had to look into getting them replaced.

Initially I tried to make them clip on to avoid having to remove the complete socket for future replacements, but that ended up either weakening the hinges too much, or making it impossible to attach it with the spring in the right position.

The gasket and O-ring are donated from the original flap:

The original flap and the first test prints to check if I got the dimensions right:

The whole thing is over on printables

 

I'm currently in the process of taking over as maintainer for the emacs-keybindings addon for Firefox.

I've just published the first update in years, with changes including:

  • tested on Windows and Linux now
  • some functionality is now configurable: debug logging, custom new tab page, experimental features, modifier-less high level bindings
  • all keybindings are listed in the options settings page
  • M- keybindings are now also reachable via ESC
  • M-< and M-> was added for scrolling to top/bottom
  • introducing prefix key, currently only used for opening/closing of windows (C-u C-x C-f or C-u C-k)
  • search is introduced as experimental feature - currently it just highlights all matches
  • the extension now registers as browser action in preparation for additional features

Unfortunately a lot of things that used to work with the old XUL plugins few years back just don't work with the new APIs - and Firefox developers have been sitting on relevant bugs for 8 years or more without anything happening now - so this is probably close to the best we can have for now. In combination with setting editing keybindings either via Gnome settings or AHK it makes browsing almost bearable again.

 

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Die Kinder waren vorher im Wald und haben Heidelbeeren mitgebracht. Daher musste ich jetzt ungeplant schnell einen Kuchen machen.

Falls ihr das nachbauen wollt sollten eure Kinder so 250-300g Beeren aus dem Wald holen.

Boden: Normaler Muerbteig (200g Mehl, 75g Puderzucker, 75g Butter, 1TL Backpulver, 1 Ei)

Fuellung: 250g Quark, 50g Puderzucker, 2 Eier

Fuellung aufschlagen, ggf. etwas Vanillezucker dazu. Ich hatte nur 200g Quark, aber dafuer noch etwa 50g Vanillesosse uebrig, das tuts dann auch.

Beeren unterheben, Fuellung auf den ausgerollten und an den Seiten hochgezogenen Teig geben, im vorgeheizten Backofen bei 180 Grad etwa 45 Minuten backen. Aus der Form nehmen und auf einem Gitter abkuehlen lassen.

 

On the off chance somebody here is familiar with this API: I've spent some time trying to make using browsers somewhat bearable, and tried - with limited success - to re-implement search using find.find, with the search input in a HTML dialog.

The problem with this approach is that the search query itself is treated as part of the results:

So far I haven't seen a way to have that excluded. Does anybody have ideas outside of "throw this away and reimplement with JavaScript"?

The code is here

 

... mit Nudeln, Krautsalat und Ketchup.

Unklar ob das gegen Regeln 1, 2 und 3 verstoesst.

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