Notices by Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode: (publicvoit@graz.social)

If you're using #Magit for your #git productivity boost, please do consider spending a few bucks for its maintainer who earns his living with that and seems to struggle at the moment:

https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13736

Weiß jemand von einem #Reliefglobus mit Durchmesser mit mehreren Metern in Mitteleuropa?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus#Weitere_Globusarten

Ich würde gerne eine maßstabsgetreue Nachbildung ohne künstlicher Überzeichnung der Höhenmeter im wahrsten Sinne begreifen.

An sich müsste eine solche Erdkugel so gut wie ganz glatt sein mit hauchdünnen Erhebungen für Gebirge und Vertiefungen für Meere.

Weiß jemand, wo sowas herumsteht? In irgendeinem Museum oder so?

#Globus

Update: Das #Globenmuseum in Wien hat ein paar #Reliefgloben: https://www.onb.ac.at/museen/globenmuseum

Allerdings sind diese ebenfalls überzeichnet und somit nicht maßstabsgetreu in den Höhenlinien.

Sie haben allerdings im Lesesaal ein maßstabsgetreues Relief von Italien in Gips, das man ansehen darf.

2025 and grown up men are surprised that putting their luggage unattended for 10 minutes on open space at an airport is problematic. 🤷

@Suiseiseki @NanoRaptor Each posting taking minutes?

It seems to me that you've never actually used Usenet. 🤷

With several different clients I was able to post within a few seconds.

If you argue with personal preference, I do get it. But such exaggerated time to post? No, I can't agree here at all.

@NanoRaptor I tried #IRC in the 90s and I never understood it so far. No threading, no references, pure chaos when multiple chats intertwine. Basically works only synchronously. 😞

I liked the #usenet much, much more!

#Newsnet #NNTP

Using #Orgmode for so many years, I just recently stumbled over the Elisp function "org-copy-visible" which is practical as hell: it copies the currently visible characters.

So you can collapse/expand, mark a region and then copy only the visible parts of it.

Particular helpful when you paste into non-Emacs or non-orgdown situations. Or to manually generate some table of contents.

I wonder how I was doing things so far without knowing about that feature. 🤦♂️

#Emacs

#EU age verification done by #Google or #Apply only?

Well, Michał has a better and cheaper proposal for implementing that process:
https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/ue-borks-age-verification/

😜

@monarchist @mina @freepatriot @p @sun @dcc @eriner @na Sorry, your impression is not reflected on my side.

About algorithms: https://karl-voit.at/2024/06/18/Fediverse-and-Mastodon/

Our number of daily active users (at our instance) is not in free fall either.

@monarchist @mina @freepatriot @p @sun @dcc @eriner @na From an extremist point of perspective, other point of views may seem to be very similar, yes.

@monarchist @mina @freepatriot @p @sun @dcc @eriner @na Isn't all social network always some kind of echo chamber?

IMO it is important to keep away from algorithms that decide for you + expose yourself to other opinions by following people you're disagreeing with but do have good arguments.

@pu Of course. This limits the device choice dramatically.

You can also think of using a projector instead or not connecting your TV with the Internet.

I do have a projector as my main driver and for our guest room, an old smart TV without Internet.

Don't buy a #SmartTV from #LG anymore:

"LG TVs’ integrated #ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer #emotions"
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/lg-tvs-integrated-ads-get-more-personal-with-tech-that-analyzes-viewer-emotions/

#surveillance #privacy #cloud #advertisement #spyware

#MastoMetrics stopped working from my point of view: "Data syncing suspended [...]"
https://mastometrics.com/

I just revoked its permission and stopped my monthly bank transfer to its author.

Does anybody know a similar alternative to get some insight on the popularity of my toots to get some form of feedback?

I know some DIY-tools but so far, I was too lazy to run it on my own hosts:
https://github.com/muesli/mastotool
https://github.com/blackle/mastodon-data-viewer.py

#statistics #Mastodon

@janneke @nobodyinperson @AngryAnt @raboof On, I have plenty messages on that: my downsides start with: https://graz.social/@publicvoit/112197919942153866

@raboof Wow, thanks for that.

@AngryAnt @raboof I can relate to that but this is only achievable with a high level of Nix knowledge.

So at that stage of Nix(OS), it is no option to me. I failed with much simpler tasks already. 😔

@AngryAnt @raboof Frankly, I haven't even looked at this #NixOS feature.

My experience so far which doesn't necessarily contradict your comment: if something is working, its "source" looks clean and you can reproduce it a number of times. 👍

However to get to that point in the first place, I had to bump into too many issues, rely on multiple experts on the Internet to help me with my specific issue until it somehow worked and I did not even understand all the mistakes I did which is a pity with respect to learning.

My most significant example: simply invoking a local #Python script.

You could read about the very last mile of that journey here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-shell-isnt-executing-its-python-poetry-command-and-doesnt-exit/58452

Note that it took me half a year, at least six iterations of approaches including switching to poetry, various variations of nix-shells/shellscript combinations and so forth.

And this all for a task that is easy as "python3 ./myscript.py" on all(!) other operating systems.

Hardly a motivation for me for NixOS.

@nobodyinperson @AngryAnt @raboof On any other OS I did never have to use something more complicated than a venv. 😉

@nobodyinperson @AngryAnt @raboof My problem is that I thought that NixOS is a solution to some issues I had with other Linux distros. That failed and I got additional issues as well.

When I have to setup my system, NixOS (and Nix) will be a part of my past.