Notices by Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop), page 2

Few things annoy me as much as when I ask someone a question and the first thing they do is reading an LLM response at me.

Incredible.

Exactly the right kind of dude is getting raccoon skull tattoos while they think it’s a wolf skull.

https://brobible.com/culture/article/wolf-skull-tattoo-trend-exposed-raccoon/

The lower the light is to the ground, the more forward it should point.

A light at typical handlebar height will be very different from one on the small front wheel of a cargo bike.

If you have front lights on your bicycle (which you should), please adjust them so that they don’t blind people.

Have someone hold your bike upright, stand in front of it a few meters away, and check if the light shines in your face. If you’re tall, check from a lower position than standing.

The front light should mostly illuminate the ground so you can see what’s there, and a little forward too, but the center of the light cone should point slightly down.

This is another easy method to adjust headlights on a bike:

You should be able to see where the far end of your light cone on the ground is. If the illuminated region just fades into the distance, it’s too high.

https://mastodon.social/@knud/115340576421305862

TLDR:

Oct 3rd is a bad holiday because of sellout politics and Nov 9th is forever tainted and the much better May 8th didn’t make it as Germany is still full of people who are sad they lost WW2, because deep down they’re still Nazis.

Opponents to this idea argue that “you can’t have a day of defeat ad a national holiday” and it always makes me think:

Who are you, if you consider beating Nazi Germany as a defeat and not a victory?

So instead, the government decided for October 3rd 1990 which was the first day of the five new states from former East Germany being part of the reunited Federal Republic.

It’s a bureaucratic event and also carries a sour taste for many East Germans who were largely screwed over in the process.

Ok, but what would be a better date, if we have to have a national holiday at all? (or even a nation state *cough*)

May 8th of course. The day WW2 ended in Europe and Nazi Germany surrendered. It is occasionally designated as an irregular holiday, like in Berlin in 2025 for the 80th anniversary.

But you absolutely can’t have a national holiday on Nov 9th in Germany because that is also the date of the Nazi pogrom night of 1939, one of the main turning points leading to the Holocaust.

(Nov 9th is this weird recurring date in german history, look it up, it’s fascinating)

Today is Germany’s national holiday: Reunification Day. I think it shouldn’t be and here’s why:

The actual german reunification event that holds emotional significance is of course the Fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989.

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Supersets of dumbbell rows and memorizing clinical psychology

USB Type B (full-size) is a good connector and CompactFlash is the perfect size for removable storage media. Personal technology should be operating on that scale of things.

I will die on this hill.

If any of you got dogs, could you reply with pictures?

I could use some good dogs right now. Feel free to tell me something about them too.

$400 billion for a bullshit generator machine that erodes all human culture.

According to a 2021 report by the UN World Food Programme, ending world hunger within 9 years would cost $40 billion per year. That’s $360 billion total.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/why-does-openai-need-six-giant-data-centers/

Source: https://www.wfp.org/stories/we-have-resources-end-hunger-no-child-should-be-allowed-starve

Automatic two-sided printing at home is still amazing to me and for most of my life I never had a printer that could do it.

But I do now because a few years ago I got this small-office beast of a color laser printer for cheap and of course it can do it! And it works under Linux with no issues!

People managed to get Jedi, Pastafari, and Dudeism legally recognized as religions.

Can we do the same with Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch?

Doesn’t even have to be each one separately. Chaos Undivided is fine.

I think that would speak to a lot of people honestly.

Are you angry? Horny? Sick but hanging in there? Just … weird?

We got you. Welcome, friend!

Are you against fascism?

Anti-fascist so to speak?

Welcome to antifa!

@jcoglan let me guess, he has opinions about charlie kirk?

About 16 years ago Apple released "Snow Leopard", a new major version of Mac OS X that had no new user-facing features and focused mostly on stability and bug fixes.

And people fucking loved it.

Sounds so weird looking back from today.