We had 11Ā°C and a lot of wind today. I left the house at beautiful sunshine to go into the woods. I had to shelter from the rain under a coniferous tree right away for 10-15 minutes or so.

Many puddles had plenty of spawn in them. Some of the super tiny tadpoles already hatched. Unfortunately, none of them will probably make it, because all those puddles will all dry up in the next one or two months I reckon. Letā€™s hope for the best, though.

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A bird landed in the trees about 30 meters away from me and it appeared to be a larger one, like a buzzard. Only at home at the screen I then saw that it was just a pidgeon. :-)

A bit later, there was a chaffinch happily singing and picking on the forest road. I could close in to about five meters before it flew half a meter further and continued. So I made a few steps, too. That game continued for over five minutes, before it then decided to relocate four meters higher onto a branch to let me pass by beneath. Pretty cool!

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Rainy day.

I was toying with OS/2 when I noticed that my hard disk was getting a bit full. Iā€™m not aware that something like ncdu or just du exists in OS/2 Warp 4ā€™s base system (Iā€™m sure thereā€™s software like that already available, but I was too lazy to search), so I quickly cobbled a little program together that sums up directory sizes. And there you have it, an installation of Carmageddon was lurking on the disk, weighing in at 200 MB. šŸ„“

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Being able to cross-compile this from Linux still blows my mind.

Anyway, hereā€™s my tool: https://uninformativ.de/git/dusage

Letā€™s see, this might be a good opportunity to make an OS/2 GUI version of this. šŸ¤” Iā€™ve never done that and this might be doable (unlike other stuff Iā€™ve recently tried).

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More basement:

I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. šŸ¤Æ The data on them is from 2008, so theyā€™re not that old. Still impressive.

The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. šŸ¤”

And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs arenā€™t produced anymore at all today. Huh.

(I refuse to tag this as ā€œretrocomputingā€. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still ā€œnew and fancyā€ in my book. šŸ˜‚)

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In-reply-to » @prologic See https://www.sogo.nu/, it looks it has an web app.

Interesting, it looks a little better for me, but itā€™s a bit slow and laggy.

Iā€™ve tried to stay away from hosting email servers myself. Itā€™s really hard. But Iā€™ve thought about a project which uses something like mailgun or SES, but then I create a ui and restful server over the top of it. But, prioritiesā€¦.

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Exactly 10 years ago Kokoriā€™s first release on vinyl was out - and we celebrated with a release party in one of the afternoons of the Entremuralhas festival.
Ten years later, weā€™re back attending the festival, and this time we see one of the stands selling our latest release, rootkit, on CD! ā™”

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I hate reading translations. Hereā€™s an example why: the same passage of the English and the Portuguese translation of the same (French) book. Not just the length of the passage shows one of the translations wasnā€™t faithful, the behavior of the character in one version is the opposite than how he behaves on the other versionā€¦

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