Experiment: Locking down my Android phone in the firewall, only allowing outgoing connections that I approve of. Let’s see how that goes.

Even just looking at the log of attempted connections is scary. This thing is talking to everything all the time. Worse, there are some system apps that regularly query the device’s GPS location and you can’t turn that off … Shitty spy device. 🙄

@prologic@twtxt.net Noticed any slowdowns? I noticed a ~0.2 second delay when opening new shells, never bothered to check it, and now found out that it’s caused by the ~250k lines of shell history. 🥴

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org You mean you edit this file manually sometimes? 🤔

@mckinley@twtxt.net Wow. And you never wonder: “Wait, how did I do $thing back then?” Happens to me all the time. 😳

@bender@twtxt.net My condolences. 😂🙉

@bender@twtxt.net Ah, so that’s the plane with the Brazilian women then. 😅 Enjoy your stay!

@bender@twtxt.net To infinity and beyond? 🤔 How large is it currently? history | wc -l

QOTD: How large is your shell history? No history, 500 lines, 10’000, 100’000, something else?

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh, so the cache just goes back about a month? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Lol, god no 🤣

Well, I missed the time window. Time flies, they’re all grown up now. 😬

One great feature of Vim (and probably other editors) is “keyword completion”: Type the beginning of a word, then press Ctrl-N and Vim will give autocompletion options by scanning all the words in the current file. For example, when I now type “au” and then Ctrl-N, it will suggest “autocompletion”.

This is so very useful when writing text / prose. It’s especially useful for German text with all those long words like “Informationssicherheitsbeauftrager”. I use this feature all time and I sorely miss it when I’m forced to use some other crappy editor. 😩

https://movq.de/v/96049c4aea/s.png

Those options are now included in jenny’s Vim package:

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/jenny/commit/698c4382208c5b5eb87999a30fd657167ab5b694.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awwwwww! 😍

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com You’re welcome. I guess this could/should also be mentioned in jenny’s docs. 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s the trick, yep. 👍 I have something like this in my .vimrc:

au BufRead,BufNewFile jenny-posting.eml setl fo-=t wrap

(That hard disk was in a Windows box and there was no such thing as RAID or anything similar. Didn’t have the money for fancy stuff anyway.)

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yes, over 20 years ago, a hard disk died. Not completely, only some parts of it, but it was enough to destroy ~30 GB or something like that.

I bought a lot of DVDs over time and many of them have become unreadable. Star Trek DS9 is among the victims, parts of TNG, parts of X-Files. Really annoying. I didn’t have the required disk space to make backups and, honestly, didn’t think they would die so quickly. When/if I buy movies these days, I either make a backup right away or I treat those DVDs as “will die soon”. 🫤

CDs regularly die, too, although not as often as DVDs.

And of course, lots of floppy disks are dead now. 😂🫤

@bender@twtxt.net Yep, it’s pass. 👍

YouTube introduces a “stable volume” feature:

https://movq.de/v/ad0dd48aac/a.jpg

Once filmmakers realize that people just want stable volume instead of SUPER LOUD SECTIONS (…andreallyquietones…), then maybe I can finally remove the limiter from my pipewire filter chain. 🥴

In case you need a profile picture: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Why not, give it a shot! 😅

I think I even integrated my password manager into tmux at some point. There’s a lot that you can do.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Same here. I’m watching the storm tracking on kachelmannwetter.com 🍿

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ah, right, you were only talking about 24 hours. I think I can manage without Netflix for a day. 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com At work? Not a chance. 😂

Private life? Sure. There was a regular community event called “A week in the TTY” over at nixers.net, where we spent a week only in text mode. It was easily doable.

There are some things where a graphical browser is pretty much mandatory these days. Online banking comes to mind. I could in theory physically go to the bank, but I’m way too lazy for that. 😂

Netflix is more popular nowadays and I wouldn’t want to miss that, either.