@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, we like to be paranoid. Weâve been right so many times. Unfortunately.
Triad Prague, is perhaps the only mainstream âContemporary advertisingâ company, who fucking AI generates âpixelartâ and everyone there is either too blind, dumb, or lazy, to at the very least, align the pixels, to a grid (or even check theyâre square, the same size,âŠanything really).

I guess they must have some remains of shame and self preservation instinct, that made them sweep these off their portfolio website and set the video ads with them, to âPrivateâ on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/s7GZK8FGRvA
But sadly not enough shame, to stop putting these on billboards, I have to see on daily basis and making new versions of them, with different inconsistent styles, of badly AI generated âpixelartâ!

I checked their website, this is their footer, with the text that always overlaps - maybe they also never heard about CSS, canât blame them, itâs only been a thing, since 1996.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, new cars are totally out of question. If I ever have to, only rather old ones are contemplable.
Der ganze Vorgang ist archetypisch fĂŒr die seit Jahrzehnten völlig ohne Not stattfindende politische Selbstverzwergung Europas.
A comment on heise about the recent AWS outage.
(Too bad thereâs no good translation for the great word âSelbstverzwergungâ.)
Iâm paraphrasing: Europe (and other regions) depend on US IT services, a lot, without an actual need. We saw AWS, Google, and Microsoft build large datacenters and then we thought âwelp, shit, nothing we can do about that, guess weâll just be an AWS customer from now on.â Nobody really went ahead and built German/European alternatives. And now we completely depend on the US for lots of our stuff.
The article even claims that thereâs now a shortage of sysadmins in the EU? Iâm not so sure. But Iâd welcome it, makes my job more secure. đ€Ł
Hosting services, datacenters, software, everything, itâs all US stuff. Why do we accept this, why not build alternatives âŠ
Are we some of the only people in the world that realize how fucking dumb all this Internet-connect shitâą really is?
Yeah, but donât ask me why that is. Iâve never gotten a satisfying answer when I talk to people who hype this kind of stuff. (I mean just normal tech people, not CEOs or something.) They just shrug it off and/or think that my concerns are paranoid. đ€
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, that might actually be (partially) true. Some external CD drives (without such a weight) start to spin/wiggle when the drive spins up and down ⊠Although I guess thatâs not really the case for Audio CDs as they are run at a fixed low RPM value, I think. đ€
@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds horrible. đ I wouldnât want to own such a car. (My plan is not to buy a new car after my current one finally broke down entirely.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First time I heard about eCall. I donât think I like this. đ«€ Feels like another attempt at going for complete surveillance. Yes, yes, itâs about âsecurityâ/âsafetyâ ⊠it always is.
Advent of Code will be different this year:
There will only be 12 puzzles, i.e. only December 1 to December 12. This might make it more interesting for some people, because itâs (probably) less work and a lower chance of people getting burned out. đ€
Personally, Iâll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. đ
Maybe this makes it more interesting for some people around here as well?
Reminder, kick-starting our monthly social call! đ Please RSVP if you can make it!
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Holy fuck! Whoever bought such a bed fully deserves this. There isnât the faintest trace of pity on my face.
@prologic@twtxt.net I donât want to defend this, but at least over here a SIM card is necessary for the mandatory emercency call by law in case of a crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall Of course, this enables all sorts of other shenanigans.
Hey all đ Starring up the monthly social call we used to have đ€ Please RSVP here if you can make it! đ
Behold! đ„ł I consider Gatherly âgood enoughââą to use: https://gatherly.mills.io/ đ€
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this is similar to my 2025 GWM Cannon Ute (truck) that we recently bought. It has this app called the âGWM Appâ that lets you view various health/stats of the vehicle, open/close the door, locks, control the A/C etc, all from your Mobile Phone. â But⊠Guess what?! :D It has a goddamn fucking SIM card in the head unit (dash) somewhere that once you âconsentâ and agree it signs up to some god knows what local cellular service and all that wonderul functionality is controlled by, guess what⊠A fucking goddamn CLOUD service! da actual flying fuck is wrong with these people?! â Are we some of the only people in the world that realize how fucking dumb all this Internet-connect shitâą really is?
Haha, beds âstopped workingâ due to that outage? đ€Ș
@thecanine@twtxt.net Pretry muchđ€Ł

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah! Maybe, but just maybe, this weight helps to keep the device from wandering around if a CD is spinning inside. CDs should be pretty well balanced, though.
Good luck with the replacement of the capacitors and reviving this player! :-)
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah. The actual services donât run on AWS, apparently, but often itâs just the login service?! The whole Atlassian suite was âdownâ today because you couldnât log in. But if you already were logged in, it wasnât much a problem.
jenny.vim?
@bender@twtxt.net I think youâve asked for that a while ago. đ
Does that diff actually help? Donât you have to use A (instead of i) anyway? đ€
@movq@www.uninformativ.de streamlining jenny.vim?
index adc0db9..cb54abc 100644
--- a/vim/ftdetect/jenny.vim
+++ b/vim/ftdetect/jenny.vim
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
au BufNewFile,BufRead jenny-posting.eml setl completefunc=jenny#CompleteMentions fo-=t wrap
+au BufRead,BufNewFile jenny-posting.eml normal $
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Too many thingsË running on AWS eh?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Bwahaha. đ
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thatâs from a radio / CD-player thingy that someone in my family gave me so that I can try to repair it. (Indeed, some capacitors have blown up. But if that doesnât fix it, I donât know what to do. đ )
Thereâs nothing on the other side. This really is just a block of metal that acts as a weight.
@bender@twtxt.net Sweet đ€
@prologic@twtxt.net built it (as in banner reminder, etc.) and I will come! Joke side, I will join for 30-45 minutes each month, sure! No main topic, no pre-conceived themes, just folks getting together to chat and rant, or whatever. Count me in!
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Where the heck did you find that? What is that thing? Yeah, totally looks like an attempt to make some garbage feel more solid. Unless this steel plate is actually used for attaching bolts from the other side or something like that. Which I highly doubt, given that there are muuuuuch cheaper options to install various types of nuts in plastic.
Yeah, this goo makes it just harder to disconnect. I bet it doesnât add water protection to the connections at all.
You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would âfeel cheapâ otherwise.
https://movq.de/v/c5dcc25bc9/weight.jpg
Also, that red stuff on those connectors might be glue? To make it harder to disconnect them?
@dce@hashnix.club Same, Iâm not quite sure what you mean. đ€
@dce@hashnix.club retro hacking as in ROM hacking? Not me.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de he sure does! LOL. It is more like incomprehensible stuff that comes out. Sometimes I manage to get what he was trying to say, but more often than not I have no idea. đ€Ł
@prologic@twtxt.net So you love @bender@twtxt.net very much? đ€Ł How does speech recognition work for you? đ€
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Speaking of âclusterfucksâ. Every fucking time I try to type something on my fucking goddamn iPhoneâs little tiny ass on-screen keyboard it ends up typing out âI love you!â đ€ For fucks sake đ€Šââïž â Given the size of the fucking goddamn on-screen keyboards on these things and folks with limited/poor vision, canât we figure out what I meant to type instead of spitting out total garbage nonsense that I had no intention of typing that makes me just look silly and stupid?! đ€Ź Ask @bender@twtxt.net how many times this has happened on IRC whenever Iâve been on my phone đ±
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@arne@uplegger.eu Wer mir mit Werbung im Buch kommt, hat verschissen. đ Hatte ich kĂŒrzlich auch (in einem Roman von 2025), da wurde immer wieder sehr auffĂ€llig eine bestimmte LokalitĂ€t erwĂ€hnt. Ganz am Ende habâ ich dann gesehen, dass auf den letzten paar Seiten diese LokalitĂ€t nochmal explizit einen âFlyerâ platziert hatte, das war also durchaus ein Werbedeal.
Nervt stark. Ich habâ schon fĂŒr das Buch gezahlt, da will ich nicht noch âangeworbenâ werden. Dann machâ lieber das Buch leicht teurer oder setzâ einen Spendenaufruf rein, wenn die Finanzen so knapp sind. đ€
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ăber den musste ich auch sehr lachen. :-D
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org ⊠der Bremsschlumpf ⊠đ https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antiblockiersystem&curid=22921&diff=53690119&oldid=53690088
Hahaha, in dieser Liste https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:Anneke_Wolf/Edits_des_Grauens sind schon echte Perlen enthalten, z.B. https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baustelle&diff=prev&oldid=18568598 :-D
@arne@uplegger.eu Joa, ân Vierteljahr, dann biste durch, oder? đ
(âStahlratteâ, uffpuh, welch Wort. đ )
@dce@hashnix.club Arch is the most stress-free OS Iâve ever run (I last reinstalled it 14 years ago, only rolling updates since then) â but to be honest, I sometimes wonder what role my general choice of software plays. I mostly run minimalistic software or programs that I wrote myself. I guess that greatly reduces the chance of breakage. đ€
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I havenât noticed an increase in flies here, feels totally normal. Just a bit more fruit flies in the house with all the windfall gathering. It was worse the past years, though.
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@bender@twtxt.net Wait, wait, wait, thatâs the chance to post this GIF!
@bender@twtxt.net I only know two songs, to be honest, but yeah, she can be quite good. đ
@movq@www.uninformativ.de we found a Swiftie! :-D (me too, me too!)
I donât care much for the video, but damn, that is one catchy song. đ¶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70cExuzZM