User Frustrations Over The “Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound” Support
Besides the FreeBSD graphics and WiFi drivers lagging behind Linux and other operating systems, the FreeBSD audio driver support and handling of audio streams with FreeBSD on the desktop can be problematic depending upon the hardware/system. One of the most active mailing list threads this week in the FreeBSD camp was over the “tragic state” of FreeBSD audio/sound support… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, 15 shows the site. On the left, I had a roll mat on a tarp. I borrowed some “NVA tarps” from the scouts for this trip. The scouts got them from the National People’s Army, the German Democratic Republic’s armed forces after Germany was reunited. They’re 1.75m x 1.75m in size and weigh 1.3kg, quite heavy, but super awesome. One tarp on the bottom, another one to cover up the clothes, shoes and sleeping bag in order to protect against the thaw. Finally, a mosquito net over all that, hung from a rope between two trees.

My mate just used a hammock with a mozzie net on the right hand side. The third tarp served as the luxurious bedside carpet. :-)

We sat on my second tarp to chill and enjoy the sunset and surroundings. It was nice to notice birds etc. die down. It took a really long time for the last light to fade away. Since we have a very high risk of forest fires, we of course couldn’t have a camp fire. But after all the exhaustion, I didn’t even miss it for one second.

Since we had dinner at home before leaving, all we brought were two lye rolls, two grain rolls, two brezels, some sausage and chocolate biscuits for breakfast. From the 2.5l of water, I ended up using 2l. It’s always good to have a little extra, despite the unnecessary weight. We had brekkie a few kilometers further on a bench in the shade. The first bench was already in direct sun.

Our camp site was maybe 30m to the side and a few meters down of a summit path hidden behind some trees and bushes. We were quite lucky, the other side of the hill got quite a bit of a breeze at night. We could hear the leaved treetops making much more noise behind us.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes, these kind of dogs should really be strictly forbidden!

It’s not illegal if you own the forest or ask the owner. :-)

@david@daiwei.me Yeah, no clue. But my mate said the dog is disqualified from such adventures in the future. :-)

The temps were supposed to hit 14°C just before sunrise. Since we didn’t bring a thermometer, I can’t tell for sure. I was rather hot in my sleeping bag, so I had to pull out my arms every now and then. My mate’s sleeping bag was a little lighter and, unfortunately, the zipper jammed up. Since it didn’t close all the way, it felt quite a bit cold I was told in the morning. When we got up at 6ish (we said, we don’t care about time at all), it was probably already 16°C if not more. I brought a jumper, but a t-shirt was already nice enough to wear. The jumper just served as my pillow. The mercury raised by the minute then.

Yeah, I circled the spot with a biro to keep an eye on it. Until now, there’s absolutely nothing to see. Looks like I got lucky.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org No piccies of your camp site? 🤔

Oh wow! Now, that’s a place I would love to be camping! Very nice pics!

The firefly season is ending. I only saw 200 of them or so. There was one female directly on the forest road. If only I brought my camera and tripod, that would have worked out I reckon. I had my torch with me and this looked really cool.

Dusk took forever today. It was really long light out there. Full moon is tomorrow.

On the way back, there was suddenly a load clatter and crashing sound 100 meters away from me. I didn’t see anything, but a tree fell over in the forest out of the blue. Fuck me dead, that was scary as hell. Luckily, I was already on the main road, only meadows around me. It’s the second time I witnessed a tree accidentally coming down. The first one was during the most expensive hail storm in our area so far in 2011 behind me when setting up a summer camp. The weather changed in less than 15 minutes.

Maybe not such a good idea to go out so late alone. :-? Any rustling in the forest immediately reminded me of the boar the other day. Luckily, always false alarm. Still a bit terrified from that event.

Kieran Foran was spotted in NSW Origin camp on Thursday. Here’s why
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‘I was born in a concentration camp’: The family bond inspiring Nathan Cleary
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Inside QLD Camp ahead of a must win Origin Game 2 - The Billy Slater Podcast
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Scream 7 Star To Lead Psychological Thriller Based on Warren Adler Novel
The Scream 7 star Anna Camp has found her next major film project. She is set to headline Serpent, an upcoming psychological thriller based on a novel by bestselling author Warren Adler. The adaptation will bring one of Adler’s lesser-known suspense stories to the screen and mark Camp’s latest venture into the thriller genre. Anna […]

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Présidentielle en Colombie: l’extrême droite agite la «peur rouge», la gauche dénonce le «péril brun»
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Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda
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Sommet Trump–Xi à Pékin : ce que la presse n’a pas voulu voir
La visite de Donald Trump en Chine n’a rien d’anodin : elle confirme l’installation entre Washington et Pékin d’une politique pragmatique de puissance assumée par les deux camps. À plusieurs égards, cette rencontre renforce la position américaine et acte un rôle clair pour la Chine, premier partenaire mais rival géopolitique. Un décalage frappant entre les médias […] ⌘ Read more

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«Ceci n’est pas un meeting»: en précampagne, Gabriel Attal peine à rassembler son camp
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SPLC et ActBlue : quand la gauche finance ses propres monstres
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We cleaned up the forest today with the scouts at absolute dream weather. Blue sky, no clouds, 19°C sunshine. In the morning it was still quite chilly and windy, though. We didn’t find anything spectacular, maybe a rubber dinghy, three car tires and a broken ratchet strap are the most outstanding things to me apart from all the general rubbish, cigarettes, glass, wet wipes, etc. Still, a very fun activity. In the end we had bockwurst, grilled cheese and lye buns on the camp fire.

I then went for a quick stroll with my mate. It’s crazy how quickly the clouds moved in, 30-45 minutes tops. There will be rain in an hour. And the coming days only reach half the temps. I’m glad I took advantage of the great spring day. Haven’t seen Azabache yet and with the rain on deck, the odds are against him and me.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-04-11/

There is something about camping with your family and the togetherness and tranguility of being together 🙃

@prologic@twtxt.net Happy camping, mate! That’s a giant rig. Don’t forget to snip one or the other pic from the landscape. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net congrats! That’s why you were so quiet. And now it will even get quieter, when y’all start camping all over Down Under. We lost James! 😅

Batman TV Series Premiered 60 Years Ago Today
60 years ago today, ABC aired the first episode of its live-action Batman television series, introducing Adam West as the deadpan Caped Crusader in what became a pop culture phenomenon blending high-camp humor and cliffhanger thrills. The mid-season replacement ran for 120 episodes over three seasons before ending in March 1968.

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Groq Investor Sounds Alarm On Data Centers
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Revitalised Mackay waterfront at centre of drug and homelessness problems
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Children interviewed about ex-principal’s school camp photos
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Five killed in Israeli air strikes on tents near Khan Younis, medics say
Rescue workers say they recovered bodies from a camp for displaced people. The IDF says it “struck a Hamas terrorist”. ⌘ Read more

Five killed in Israeli air strikes on tents near Khan Younis, medics say
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Rural university campus confirmed as site of ‘open-security’ prison work camp
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AI Is Being Used To Help Modernize The Ubuntu Error Tracker
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@prologic@twtxt.net I’m sensing Laid-Back Camp

How to Disable Camera Lock Screen Swipe on iPhone
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Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell bailed after allegedly leading group attack on sacred site
Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, who allegedly led a violent group attack on a First Nations protest camp, has been granted bail. ⌘ Read more

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell bailed after allegedly leading group attack on sacred site
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Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
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Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
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NSN leader Thomas Sewell granted bail after alleged attack on Indigenous camp
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Hazlewood cleared for Ashes opener
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Neo-Nazi leader in second bid for release over camp attack
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Net zero Australia LIVE updates: Camp pushing to dump net zero takes slight edge as marathon Liberal meeting wraps up
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, give it a shot. At worst you know that you have to continue your quest. :-)

Fun fact, during a semester break I was actually a little bored, so I just started reading the Qt documentation. I didn’t plan on using Qt for anything, though. I only looked at the docs because they were on my bucket list for some reason. Qt was probably recommended to me and coming from KDE myself, that was motivation enough to look at the docs just for fun.

The more I read, the more hooked I got. The documentation was extremely well written, something I’ve never seen before. The structure was very well thought out and I got the impression that I understood what the people thought when they actually designed Qt.

A few days in I decided to actually give it a real try. Having never done anything in C++ before, I quickly realized that this endeavor won’t succeed. I simply couldn’t get it going. But I found the Qt bindings for Python, so that was a new boost. And quickly after, I discovered that there were even KDE bindings for Python in my package manager, so I immediately switched to them as that integrated into my KDE desktop even nicer.

I used the Python KDE bindings for one larger project, a planning software for a summer camp that we used several years. It’s main feature was to see who is available to do an activity. In the past, that was done on a large sheet of paper, but people got assigned two activities at the same time or weren’t assigned at all. So, by showing people in yellow (free), green (one activity assigned) and red (overbooked), this sped up and improved the planning process.

Another core feature was to generate personalized time tables (just like back in school) and a dedicated view for the morning meeting on site.

It was extended over the years with all sorts of stuff. E.g. I then implemented a warning if all the custodians of an activitiy with kids were underage to satisfy new the guidelines that there should be somebody of age.

Just before the pandemic I started to even add support for personalized live views on phones or tablets during the planning process (with web sockets, though). This way, people could see their own schedule or independently check at which day an activity takes place etc. For these side quests, they don’t have to check the large matrix on the projector. But the project died there.

Here’s a screenshot from one of the main views:

This Python+Qt rewrite replaced and improved the Java+Swing predecessor.

France : Héritage combattu, capitalisme impossible
Les Français ne comprennent pas ce qu’est le capitalisme, et le rejettent assez majoritairement. Pour beaucoup, c’est par simple ignorance, pour quelques uns, c’est par idéologie – ils ne veulent pas savoir, ne veulent pas le comprendre pour continuer à appartenir au camp du bien – mais finalement, très peu le comprennent et encore moins […] ⌘ Read more

@zvava@twtxt.net There would be only one hash for a message. Some to be defined magic date selects which hash to use. If the message creation timestamp is before this epoch, hash it with v1, otherwise hammer it through v2. Eventually, support for v1 could be dropped as nobody interacts with the old stuff anymore. But I’d keep it around in my client, because why not.

If users choose a client which supports the extensions, they don’t have to mess around with v1 and v2 hashing, just like today.

As for the school of thought, personally, I’d prefer something else, too. I’m in camp location-based addressing, or whatever it is called. There more I think about it, a complete redesign of twtxt and its extensions would be necessary in my opinion. Retrofitting has its limits. Of course, this is much more work, though.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m in Standard Camp. ;-)

Why is it that I hate packing so badly? I gotta have to brace myself up to start that now.

The outlook is poor, rain all the way until maybe the last day of summer camp. Definitely bringing my gummies, they are well needed, the weather report announces several days with up to 14 liters per square meter.