Im Nahverkehr gab es erhebliche Einschränkungen bei Verbindungen zwischen Köln und Aachen. Statt rund 50 Minuten Fahrzeit müssen Reisende aktuell knapp zwei Stunden für die Strecke einplanen
Also weiterhin die normale Durchschnittszeit fuer die Strecke wenn man die taeglich faehrt.
Ist wieder mal einer der Momente wo man sich doch den Laschet zurueckwuenscht. Haette vor der letzten Wahl niemand geglaubt....
"In einer Demokratie darf man die Herrschenden Idioten, Schwachköpfe, Deppen nennen. In Diktaturen wird man dafür strafrechtlich verfolgt. Als Ministerpräsident wurde mir oft vorgeschlagen, beleidigende Tweets mit Strafanzeigen zu verfolgen. Bis heute unterzeichne ich solche nur bei Morddrohungen"
Oh nein, strafbares Verhalten anzeigen! Wo kämen wir denn da hin, wenn das jeder machen würde!? /s
Wir reden hier von sowas wie Anzeigen wegen eines Bildes wo er "Schwachkopf" genannt wird. Wenn das jeder machen wuerde koennten wir das Justizsystem wegen Ueberarbeitung erstmal abschreiben.
Habeck ist der Kanzlerkandidat der Gruenen. Ich halte ihn wegen der Anzeigen charakterlich nicht fuer das Amt des Kanzlers geeignet. Baerbock scheint die gleiche Strategie zu fahren - bei weiteren hab ich nicht geschaut. Das zeigt aber schon in Richtung strukturelles Problem bei den Gruenen.
Aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach wird es nie eine Organisation geben, der du zu 100% zustimmst. Aber es gibt Organisationen, die sich von hier aus in die für dich falsche Richtung und welche, die sich in die für dich richtige Richtung bewegen.
Problem an den Gruenen ist halt dass die was fuer beide Richtungen haben - und ein paar Sachen machen die ich komplett inakzeptabel finde. Ich war gerade langsam dabei mich dabei Abzufinden vielleicht doch mal wieder Gruen zu waehlen (hab ich nicht mehr gemacht seit sie mit Schroeder Hartz IV eingefuehrt haben) - und dann lese ich heute dass Habeck jeden Scheiss anzeigen laesst. Ist fuer mich absolut inakzeptables Verhalten.
Mir war das mit Habeck nicht bekannt. Meiner Meinung nach sollten Politiker deutlich Dickheutiger sein als Normalbuerger - und fuer das was er angezeigt hat wuerde ich jeden auslachen der das verfolgen laesst.
Mit Bauchschmerzen ging ich langsam in Richtung fuer Habeck als kleineres Uebel zu stimmen - aber wenn er sich nicht deutlich davon distanziert und verspricht in Zukunft nur noch wirklich hartes Zeug anzuzeigen werde ich nicht gruen waehlen.
I read about that, and my first thought was that bike lanes adjacent to streets indeed aren't a great thing - but then again, you probably don't have all the bike/pedestrian only paths offering way shorter connections we have here. In the area I live in I can reach pretty much any house by foot within 5-10 minutes - while most of them are only reachable by car with a lengthy detour, if at all.
Over here in Europe we'd just arrive by public transport.
I've been quite impressed with spain for a while. I remember when that tank stuff started and pretty much every country then had excuses to send less than what they originally were thinking about - and spain announced they'll send less as the tanks are broken. It sounded like all the other excuses - but instead Spain steadily has been fixing and delivering way more tanks than they originally mentioned.
Finland and only on a few connections. I have things at both Hetzner and TeliaSonera - which were using that link. So few things didn't end up getting routed ideally afterwards.
I've been trying to locate what I messed up in my home network earlier today - until I've seen this news.
Du hast es ja fast selber geschrieben - wenn man die auf Gelb anschaltet (evtl. auch mit blinken vor tatsaechlichem Betrieb) ist die Warnung da.
The design of the car heavily influences driver behavior
One part of the design is the "one touchscreen for everything" - which causes accidents by needless distraction for basic tasks. Our last car also fell victim to this - totaled after a Tesla driver crashed into its side due to doing stuff on the screen instead of looking to the road. I don't quite understand how those things are still considered road legal in the EU, and still hope we'll eventually get rules prohibiting this kind of UI, and forcing retrofit of existing cars or banning them from driving.
I guess empty ones are hard to find - but some manufacturers (like Foma) are selling their films in them. In other news, I'm drowning in those things.
Was heisst hier "Sueden gegen Norden"? Schwaben und Bayern sind direkt nebeneinander, und die Bayern bekommen trotzdem vieles nicht hin. Zum Beispiel koennen sie keine Brezeln machen.
Some years age when I was still using some more google stuff (like an account for calling out from my PBX) I had each service assigned to its own google account to limit the impact of google doing something crazy to an account.
Apart from playstore youtube red is now the only service left - and that's about to go as they now made it too expensive, especially taking into account that they enshittified it so much that we've blocked it on the TV, and "adfree on TV" was the main use case there...
Mit Scholz als SPD-Kanzlerkandidat waere beim naechsten mal eine Grosse Koalition eh CDU+AfD.
Damit ist dann wohl geklaert dass die vom Postillion veroeffentlichten Chatverlaeufe keine Satire, sondern Dokumentation sind.
Kernkraft eignet sich fuer Grundlast - was wir brauchen ist aber kurzfristig regelbares. Ich kann zwar bei Kernkraft den Generator entkoppeln - ich hab aber trotzdem praktisch die gleichen Unterhaltskosten, was das heutzutage unwirtschaftlich macht. Der Artikel verweist da auf fehlende Stromspeicher. Eine andere Option waere auch weitere Leitungen nach Skandinavien um die dortige Wasserkraft als kurzfristig regelbares weiter zu nutzen - Problem daran ist dass das ohne ordentliche Nord-Sued-Stromtrassen in Deutschland nix bringt, Norddeutschland wo das ankommen wuerde hat kein Stromproblem.
Prusa slicer 2.8 UI changes
Screenshots of the UI changes on the Mac - in my opinion it is now just wasting a lot of screen estate for zero benefit.
On non-Macs they're adding an extra usability issue by hiding the top menu bar. I've gove back to 2.7.4 for now - fortunately I had my configuration in git.
Up to 2.7.4:
2.8.4:
Deutschlandwochen in Lidl Finnland
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.
A futuristic city
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:
IT security EDC bag
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
Import environment variables into Emacs from a shell or similar 'source of truth'
Import variables into emacs from the system environment - GitHub - bwachter/system-environment: Import variables into emacs from the system environment
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.
What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?
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.
Cover for old beam central vacuum sockets
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
Emacs keybindings addon for Firefox
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.
Heidelbeerkuchen
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.
Excluding elements from search results when using find.find
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
Nuernberger vom Grill, auf der Terasse...
... mit Nudeln, Krautsalat und Ketchup.
Unklar ob das gegen Regeln 1, 2 und 3 verstoesst.
Pizza
This is a backup of this imgur album
First cheese only pizza in...
... and out.
Mushrooms, tuna and scallions
First of two cheese pizzas to finish
Workstation (after cleaning), oven and final pizza
Final cheese pizza for the day.
Pentax 645N in a Manfrotto Active Sling I
This post mirrors my old imgur post on transporting my 645N.
My old Rowi bag. While it fits it's not an ideal bag for such a big camera.
I've been looking for a while for a better bag now - but many quite obviously can't handle the 645, or are too expensive and not locally available to just give it a try. About a week ago I discovered the Active Sling I. Manfrotto seems to be phasing the Active Sling I out - I've seen it available in multiple places quite cheap, and got a new one for under 30 EUR. Cheap enough to just order it to see if it's usable with the 645 - worst case I'll have a fancy bag for my 35mm cameras.
I can just fit the 75mm lens.
It does have side pockets in just the right size for an 645 film holder, though.
Length of the Manfrotto bag pretty much exactly fits a 645z with the 45-85 FA lens. The compartment on the left is pretty much gone, and just usable for something like a thin filter or papers.
This configuration requires that the camera is in the bag with the grip facing downwards. While not ideal it's still easy to remove it on the lens, and provides some additional storage space.
The space is enough for the 2x teleconverter and the 75mm FA lens. Pretty much what I'd like to carry with me as 'reduced' gear. The 75mm lens weighs next to nothing, but is very useful in low light situations.
Having a small opening on the bottom half of the side would make accessing the lenses a bit easier. I think the new model of this bag does have this, though I'm not sure if it's on the right side for this kind of configuration.
The 645N has a bit more space, both to the front and the side.
The bag doesn't have big external compartments, but there's enough space near the lens for one film insert. I might stick some velcro to the insert cover to keep it in place - that should be a solution I can live with.
It's not the perfect bag for this use case - but a step up from my old one. I'll still play around to see if I can find a better compartment configuration, but with the limited space there aren't that many options. If you're looking for a bag now and can get one of them for cheap I'd recommend giving it a try.
Just after initially publishing this album I noticed the product photo with a smaller format camera standing on its lens - something that never occurred to me as it doesn't fit with any of the bags I own.
I just tried it, and to my big surprise it just barely fits. The camera is a tiny bit higher, but the bag is flexible enough to still mostly close. That'll make the space in the bag much more useful.
Here's the bag closed. It's visible that the zipper is hardly closing, and needs some force to fully close. The red padding can't lie on top of the camera anymore - but does support the side quite nicely.
The 645N in upright position. The eye piece sticks out more than on the 645z, while the rest is a tiny bit smaller. I couldn't close the bag with the viewfinder on the left, like I put the 645z in.
I assume with the regular eye piece this would be a bit easier.
Bonus picture: The 'living dangerous' no padding bag for just quickly taking the camera only.
Using original 645 focusing screens in 645N/D/Z
This post mirrors my old imgur post on how to use original 645 focusing screens in the newer cameras.
Left the 645Z default focusing screen, right the 645 focusing screen with split screen and micro prism ring (UC-21). Focusing screens for 645N/D/Z are compatible (though the screen mounting frame on the 645Z is easier to handle than on the N), the original 645 screen has the same size and thickness as the later screens, but only one tab instead of the later two - and that one tab at a different location.
There is a microprism focusing screen for the 645N (AA-82) as well as a split screen focusing screen (AB-82), but both of them are almost impossible to find, and if they're available, ridiculously expensive - easily over EUR 200. The UC-21 on the other hand can be had for around 30 EUR, including shipping.
From this angle the tabs are easier to see.
To make the original screen 645N/D/Z compatible the notch needs to come off. I've found using an X-Acto knife to prepare the breaking point, and then just breaking it off with my multitool worked very well. It may be necessary to scrape a bit off the edge with the knife after breaking it off, though it doesn't need to be fully smooth to fit.
Important is to fit the screen with the right side up, otherwise focusing will not be accurate. In both old and new screens the notch is on the right side.
With the notch gone it's not easily possible to use the included tweezers to handle the screen - though even with the notch there they're not ideal. I recommend simply wearing cotton lab gloves, and using your fingers.
A crappy through the viewfinder image with the screen installed. The viewfinder seems to be slightly darker, but manual focusing with both microprism ring and the split screen works perfectly. Both the picture on the matte screen and the autofocus agree with those focusing aids, as does the final picture.
