Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:28:17 +0100

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

Another beautiful day for #skitouring and #sota

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:11:51 +0100

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

Apparently developers at Transa (a Swiss outdoor supplier) can't be bothered to read RFCs. Translation of the red box: "This does not look like a real email address". Well, as RFC 3692 nicely describes this does in fact look like a valid email address. But yeah, why research how to validate an email addresses. It's way cooler to invent your own rules.

#^RFC 3696: Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names

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Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:00:08 +0100

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Harka I sent them an email. They told me to change the email because they don't support a + in email addresses. I told them not to bother. The main reason I kept ordering from them was because I liked the service in their stores. Now I'm forced order from cheaper internet-only shops. Good for me.

Fun fact: They only do not accept a + in the login form. It's totally ok to change your mail address in the settings. You even get a confirmation email. However, as soon as you log out you're locked out of your account....

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:14:48 +0100

Harka

harka@nerdpol.ch

lol...what a mess!

For what it's worth: I have numerous logins in that format, which work just fine.

And good for you to make them pay for their nonsense!

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:39:03 +0100

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Harka I have several, too. That's the first one I came across that didn't work..

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:49:59 +0100

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

Finally the snow is here.... first #skitour of the season...

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:14:43 +0100

Urs Naegeli

bjoern52@nerdpol.ch

Wow, so viel Sonne - in Tsüri ist nur grau in grau... Enjoy!

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:05:27 +0100

Benedikt Bauer

bbauer@pod.geraspora.de

Ich bin schon ein bisschen neidisch, muss ich gestehen...

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 14:48:01 +0100

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

Ok, I think I'll give up trying to wrap my head around #nixos. I still think it's an great idea to have a fully declarative OS where you set up everything in code. However, the non-default file structure make it hard to run software that assumes a POSIX filesystem. Also I never really got a proper grasp of the Nix language and documentation is sparse.

So, I'm ready to try something new. Currently #Fedora Sericea, Fedora Silverblue, #OpenSUSE MicroOS or #EndlessOS are on my distrohopping candidates list as I want to try what the immutable OS buzz is all about....

Any suggestions where to start?

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Sun, 29 Oct 2023 23:17:18 +0100

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@C.B.Leslie as I said, I don't think the problem is NixOS. I'm sure it's me, but if I spent half a year with a OS and language, read most of the doku available online, wrote some simple derivations and still don't feel like I understand how it works, it's not for me. I might eventually come back and try again. For now I don't have the dedication to continue learning Nix. I'm not even at the point where I how the canonical way to manage secrets works.

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:07:39 +0100

C.B.Leslie

cbleslie@hachyderm.io

@navigium Kay. Good luck, have fun!

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 23:50:01 +0100

NullSpaceOddity

nsoddity@hubz.secretlair.me

I have a Silver blue install on a flash drive. I use it at work because I'm too impatient to wait for the shared Windows machine to log me in. :)

Overall, it's pretty neat. Just make sure you dedicate a decent amount of space to it. After several updates it grows if you don't actively prune the rollback layers

Hinter Schloss HB/UR-015

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:02:19 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

I still owe you some pictures of the #sota peak that almost killed my phone....

The wall where I dropped the phone... 🥴

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Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:15:26 +0200

ghostdancer

ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org

@navigium Even the old Nokias would have had problems with that. 😲

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 21:06:12 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@morph @ghostdancer to be fair, it was only the bottom 50 meters, we were more than half way down when I dropped it.

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 21:14:59 +0200

ghostdancer

ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org

@navigium 50 meters is more or less like 15-16 storey building so still quite a fall.

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:52:30 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

When I dropped my phone down a 50m cliff and it survived with nothing but a few scratches, someone suggested that I have been very lucky because the phone happened to be in flight mode...

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:00:10 +0200

ghostdancer

ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org

@navigium Too many dads in the fediverse. 🤣

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:13:19 +0200

Thomas

tpheine@mstdn.io

@ghostdancer
@navigium
ROFLOLMAO!
Now this feature makes totally sense.

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:03:58 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

Today I dropped my #fairphone3 50m down a cliff while abseiling, hitting rocks several times. The cover has some major dents but the screen only suffered a minor scratch and everything still works perfectly fine.....

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:34:48 +0200

hosh

hosh@hub.vikshepa.com

Wow, maybe they don't even need that self-repair feature.

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 07:28:15 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@hosh yeah, when I first found the phone again, I hope for the mainboard to still be ok because everything else can be replaced. Now it turned out that I don't have to replace anything...

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:42:04 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

I keep coming across services that claim that a email address containing a + is not a valid address. Are their developers just too lazy to read RFC 5233 on subaddressing or are they actively trying to avoid using subadressing... (because they absolutely respect my privacy and would never, ever sell my contact information to someone else).

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:47:19 +0200

Evan KC2IHX

kc2ihx@mastodon.hams.social

@navigium

Especially fun are the sites that let you sign up with a + in your address but won't let you log-in from one. Ran into it _more than once..._

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:49:09 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Evan (KC2IHX) I ran into one where you could change the email from from one not containing a + to one with a + but then you couldn't log in to your existing account...

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:21:02 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

I'm quite happy that #kagi decided to make their professional plan unlimited. This means that I can start actually using #kagi at work, too. Another step away from "free" services to companies where I'm actually the customer rather than the product.

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Fri, 22 Sep 2023 20:23:28 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Joby (chaotic good) Yeah, absolutely. I started paying a couple of months ago but only used it sporadically because of the cap on searches. Today I fully switched thanks to unlimited searches in the professional plan. I haven't used Google in years so I can't comment on how much an improvement it is over Google - but it's definitely an improvement over Startpage and DDG and the like...

And honestly, AI generated crap is only just starting to gain traction. In the future we'll need the filtering feature even more. I noticed that I keep coming across what's called "howto" articles that contain obviously wrong information.

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:26:49 +0200

Joby (chaotic good)

joby@hachyderm.io

@navigium Yeah, I feel like I'm seeing a marked uptick in obviously AI-generated **NONSENSE** in search results for the most mundane stuff.

Like recently I was searching for affordable prefab home kits, and wound up on a quite highly-ranked listicle that was just complete gibberish about like the "big box style of building" that's popular in the United States.

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:39:55 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

@Joby (chaotic good) I came across a howto for Debian which started with the instructions to install a package using yum.

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:23:26 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

I just came across this website of a camping in France and it made me feel 25 years younger. Feels like time traveling to the 90's... #^http://www.les-lumes.com - now, where is that #hamsterdance link agian?

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:33:42 +0200

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timttmy@the-pit.uk

@navigium it needs a good dose of <marquee> tags to be complete 😁

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:59:45 +0200

Beni Grind ~HB9HNT

navigium@grindcore.ch

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