In the stormy Swabian Alps the other day: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-24-berneck/

@arne@uplegger.eu Der Fachmann erkennt sofort die guten Raketenstecken! :-) Hast Du das Zeitungspapier irgendwie verstärkt? Je nach Qualität dieses Druckerzeugnisses könnte ich mir durchaus vorstellen, dass das recht bald einreißt. Ich wünsche allezeit gutes Steigen und bin schon auf Deine Berichte dazu sehr gespannt.

I had dinner with some mates in the city. After 20 o’clock there are basically no trains running anymore due to construction work today and tomorrow. You can take the rail replacement service, but that more than doubles the travel time (over two hours instead of three quarters). Also, replacement buses always call for trouble. You just wanna avoid it at all costs.

I was kinda lucky and took a still running (probably last one) medium-distance train. But I had to exit one station early because it didn’t stop at my destination. Instead of waiting three quarters of an hour in 6°C for a quarter hour bus ride, I decided to just quickly walk the 5 kilometers at a smart pace. It took me 50 minutes. I opted for the direct and way uglier route, the nicer one through the forest would have added another 20 minutes to half an hour. Also, I didn’t wear my hiking boots.

Despite the horrible smell of the gelatine factory and walking right next to a four-lane road, it could have been worse. I saw an oversize load (a new rock crusher was sent from the factory to its new home), that was quite cool. It was also surprising how many cars had a broken tail light or illegally overtook on the right. Crazy! Luckily, there wasn’t a whole lot of traffic anymore.

The moon and the clouds looked really nice. Same with the foggy patches here and there. I got some much-needed exercise. The cold air felt good. I call that a success.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! Well, I’m glad it was detected and put out quickly.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! A false alarm or was something actually on fire?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL! :‘-D This is great!

@david@daiwei.me :‘-D Brilliant!

@arne@uplegger.eu Ganze acht Millimeter, irre?! Zwei Stunden klingen für mich recht flott, sehr schön. Ich bin schon gespannt, was Du uns als nächstes zauber^Whäkelst. :-)

Hahaha, beim Lesen des Filmrequisitenkommentars musste ich lauthals loslachen. :‘-D

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz There are many different reasons. For me it’s usually that perhaps somebody like-minded finds something also interesting, funny, whatever. Maybe not.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Great to see you resurrected, mate! <3

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Good to know!

LOL:

@arne@uplegger.eu Sauber! Sowas ist echt die Pest.

@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Hut ab! Die Schnur sieht fast aus wie ein Seil von der Dicke. Das muss ja eine mords Häkelnadel sein, die Du dazu nimmst. Wie lang hast Du dafür gebraucht? Müsste ja eine ganze Weile gedauert haben, wenn ich mich sehr wage an die Schulzeit zurückerinner, als ich das letzte Mal gehäkelt habe. Also nicht nur Luft-, sondern richtig mit Kettmaschen. Luftmaschen mach ich regelmäßig von Hand.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this diff… :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, I didn’t see the Zalgo either. My own rendering can’t keep up:

But funnily enough, the raw view does it:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s why it’s suddenly getting really cold over here!1 I hope that your workmate keeps it up.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz That sounds absolutely lovely to me. Enjoy while it lasts.

@prologic@twtxt.net Nothing compares to the server my mates and I share. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The vast majority, yes. However, I know it’s hard to believe, I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base. Sometimes. Much more often, it’s not the case and I’m far from really understanding the merge request that I’m supposed to review.

One really looses the feeling for the software quickly. Those who think this is a bad thing are in the minority, unsurprisingly.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz But look at all the free available space now!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Pics or it didn’t happen!!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Nice video effect work indeed! Such a welcome change to all the overproduced music videos. I didn’t come across Castle Rat before. The Rat Queen has a great voice. If there only was less doom/stoner metal influence in their heavy metal. ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Thank you! Yeah, riding a balloon into the sunset must be nice. Although, probably also really cold this time of year. On second thought, you got heating up top, so might not be too bad. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see. Soft start and soft stop are great features. Probably also helped longevity of the desk itself. Not sure if something could be rigged up with a resistor here to dampen it a bit. Electronics are really not my cup of tea.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m probably also not good enough. I just thought that it might be kinda alright, there’s no shortage of work, one’s hopefully not replaced soon by automation and so on. Not sure.

And yes, there are a myriad of jobs that are extremely underpaid, have awful working hours, ruining your health and where you get treated like shit.

The outlook is poor.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That’s so much more handy. :-)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Hahaha, no worries! :-D

All I use Insert for is Shift+Insert to paste sometimes. Other than that, it’s always annoying to switch to replacement mode when I accidentally hit the Insert key it instead of Home or End, depending on the keyboard.

My mate and I were fortunate enough to witness one of the very best, top-quality sunsets of the year on our evening hike. Very hard to get any better than this. The really good stuff easily lasted for 20 minutes, even one hour after the sun disappeared behind the horizon, there were red clouds slightly glowing in the dark. Absolutely insane. Enjoy!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-16-waldspaziergang/

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @movq@www.uninformativ.de I have mapped Caps Lock to be my Compose Key. :-)

cat ~/.Xmodmap
! Convert the otherwise useless Caps Lock key to a compose key, so e. g.
! non-breaking spaces can be inserted with Caps+Space+Space.
! https://adamsimpson.net/writing/compose-key-and-i3
keycode 66 = Multi_key
clear Lock

It’s really great! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, do you now own a 3D printer? The vibration is crazy, didn’t expect that. Let’s toast to a long life!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Kat’s instance was last seen on 4th October in my logs. Xuu is still actively fetching. Or somebody pretending to be them. ;-) Maybe some web server routing or firewall clearance issue. :-?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Enjoy! :-) In case you wanna upgrade, I uploaded both originals with the file extensions in all caps.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Unfortunately. Maybe become some sort of craftsman dealing with physical objects in the real world. :-?

When I was cycling home: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-15-abendhimmel/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de People have not been fired over here. But I fully expect this to happen, too. Non-techies soldering together their own production shit is only consequent. I was actually wondering when this will happen. Product owners don’t need anyone else anymore, they can just be one-man shows. That’s what the AI bros jerk off to.

If certification won’t help us (heavily crumbling already from what I observe), it will go away completely and will be replaced with the Wild West. That’s my guess.

In case my employer makes it until then, I will have been gone in five years. At most. I should start looking for complete alternatives. The IT industry is absolutely poisoned and destroyed. I have no hopes left. We’re all fucked on so many levels.

@david@daiwei.me There ya go! :-)

Color in the sky: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-14-abendhimmel/

@david@daiwei.me Same here, all dead.

@david@daiwei.me Woooaaahhh, this looks really sick! :-O

@david@daiwei.me Yes, it’s been a hot minute. One of his last messages (that I remember) were some holiday photos with hotel highrises and palm trees at the beach. Let’s hope Phil just went offline. :-/ But I fear you could be right about him.

Speaking of obsolence, Night Mail from 1936 is a nice film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEZ25sQGmc

@movq@www.uninformativ.de There are some other interesting facts about this funnel shaped tower. Now that this message is long enough that jenny has cut off the first few words for the subject, I can be sure that it’s not spoiled right away. This wall of text for the introduction also helps with any other clients.

Please excuse me, I hope you had some fun reading my fictional explanation. It’s just a water tower: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserturm_Eichert

Interesting, I didn’t know that water towers are basically obsolete these days.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, mate!

This funnel is a famous landmark originally built in the 40ies or 50ies on top of a hill range by a local coffee roaster modeled after their logo for advertising purposes. They were called “Schwäbische Kaffeewerke” or something like that. As a coffee guy, you might have heard of them. :-)

When this company went bankrupt several decades later, a chemistry plant nearby expanded to that site and flattened most of the infrastructure, but took over the funnel. They maintain it now. You can see some of their larger office highrises on the right. Luckily, most of their buildings, tanks, chimneys, etc. are on the opposite hill side and in the valley, so they’re out sight from this point of view and don’t further ruin the shot.

A few years ago, they underwent a rebranding and – at least surprisingly to me – changed their logo to also incorporate said funnel now. Giant ads lives forever, I reckon.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me @jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yes, it’s sad. But I don’t think they died. If they did, I expected the feeds to be completely gone, with the hoster shutting their accounts down when no more payments were received anymore. Well, at least for those with own domains or not on shared systems. We can only hope.

Chilly 15°C in the shade with a slight breeze, but it was very nice in direct sun. I jumped outside after calling it quits. There were five herons on that meadow, super sweet. One even caught something fairly large when I returned, but it was already too dark, so my camera just cooked up a blurry pixel soup.

The country road is closed for construction. There’s now a one-way detour on the field road. For the opposite direction, you need to take a giant detour. It looks like they installed a temporary traffic light just for that one dairy farm, so that the farmer can also go in the opposite direction, just like before. Surprisingly to me, the traffic wasn’t too heavy on that field road. Of course, I really don’t wanna walk there anymore for the time being, but I expected a hell lot more.

As always, the sunset looked much cooler in person.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-12-waldspaziergang/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ta! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Stellt fick raus. Hihihi. Gab es wenigstens einen schönen Unfall beim Rennen?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Working fine for me, I believe.