Notices by fiona (vidister@chaos.social)

Outlook wants to stop me writing "python script from hell" in work emails 🙃

fellow queers, hackers and anarchists,

dark times lie ahead. I know everything feels overwhelming right now and might seem like there is nothing one can do.. but there is something you can do: Cultivate small bubbles of solidarity. Form a book club, a knitting meetup or invite your friends over for baking.. anything goes.

We have to fight the isolation first, before we can fight the oppression.

Average IP version

I wonder if linux audiophiles are a thing.

"plain ALSA sounds warmer than pipewire"

"linux kernel compiled with ALSR makes for a more chaotic high end"

"ext2 sounds better than ext4"

@ryanc radioation burn sounds disproportionately scarier than sunburn

born to share, copyright is a fuck, download em all 2038.
I am license violation girl.
410,757,864,530 COPIED FILES

hello?

gf dragged home an old phone and we wired it to a SIP gateway.
Kinda amazing that a 70 years old device can speak with modern day phones. Timeless paradigm, huh?

Someone replies that the tz db only tracks diversions after 1970 and goes on..

> However, we should have the correct entry for Berlin, which raises the question: where is the commonly accepted center of Berlin? If the center is in the former Soviet zone, tz's Europe/Berlin should use what is in the proposed Europe/BerlinEast zone. If Berlin's center is in the former west-Berlin zone, Europe/Berlin should change to match what is in the proposed Europe/Berlin zone.

🥴 🤯

https://web.archive.org/web/20080203081524/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2063

For example there is this gem, where someone is pointing out that there is a mistake in how a brief time zone change in East Berlin in 1945 is handled wrong:

> The mistake in tz2007k is that the special 1945 rules for East Berlin and the German Sowjet Zone [...] are applied to Germany in general. The modifications return Europe/Berlin to the standard rules [...] and introduce a new zone Europe/BerlinEast [...].

https://web.archive.org/web/20080203081524/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2059

yesterday I ended up reading the time zone database mailing list archives. I'm so thankful that there are people who do that kinda work, so we don't have to. It's a very special kind of rabbit hole.

Der Diminutiv "München" impliziert die Existenz eines ausgewachsenen "Mün".

I'm not mad, it's not like I put a lot of original creative work into the toot.

But this leads to a broader topic. I think we should discuss how we feel about these content farming accounts, that thrive from the uncredited content of other people, for the sole purpose of gaining followers and selling merch. Do we really want that in the fediverse?

tfw a big account like @nixCraft steals your exact toot, but with a slightly worse alt text.

https://chaos.social/@vidister/111615797474390549

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112149260975556267

owo ➡

feels a lot better to imagine the Internet as a bunch of cat videos compared to the corporate hell it is

the only symbol for "Internet" you're allowed to use in architecture diagrams

wanna listen to music but all wifi speakers suck?

try 30 to 40 meter AUX cables. plug it directly into an old janky amplifier. no balanced connections, no fancy DACs, just 30 to 40 meters of cable and a 3.5 mm TRS plug.

you will certainly not regret having 30 to 40 meters of unbalanced analog audio laid across your whole apartment

mood

"you must be at least this tall to do memory management"