Posts by es0mhi@tilde.zone
(DIR) Post #9tfbWNysk7Mf3Vg3xg by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2020-04-03T15:01:39Z
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@krixano @solderpunk yes, but let's forget about editors for a moment. The original question is the more interesting: Why doesn't this feature exist elsewhere? Jumping between tabs in the browser would be fantastic indeed: I constantly find myself rearranging the tabs, so that I have certain tabs side by side and do not have to circle through them all. The vi idea of attaching a label to something could be applied to almost anything!
(DIR) Post #9tfqrfy8YdeWEowHHE by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2020-04-03T17:53:33Z
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@solderpunk May I borrow the term "tab archeology"? Has a lot of potential ;-)
(DIR) Post #9tyAmwzvgC5YSyVDQu by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2020-04-12T14:01:35Z
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@jynx I'm not sure why you assume that "most books ever written are available on the internet". Most likely they are not even available in 'classical' libraries. Just to give you an idea: we know the titles of 132 tragedies of the ancient greek author Sophocles but only 7 of them have survived in their entirty. We don't know how many of those books that were written get ever printed and how many of those printed get scanned and uploaded to the internet. (If you consider other languages than English, the percentage is very small indeed.)On your idea of using your own printer to print books: I own an e-reader that is 11 years old. I use it every day, can charge it via small solar panel and hope to use it for at least one more decade. All that said: I love printed books, own thousands of them and one of the projects on my to-do list is to make a book myself from the first idea, (writing, editing, layout, printing,) to binding. I have all the stuff around that I would need and I still haven't tried.
(DIR) Post #9tyIVvJtSqtxyMETOC by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2020-04-12T14:43:34Z
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Fathoming #covid19 : Modernity was all about mobilization and speed. Every now and then there may have been marginal counter movements with the aim to slow things down a little bit. But putting everything to a standstill? Inertia? Ruhende Körper?With fascination I stare at these "Stay at home!" signs. It's exactly the opposite of what my mother had to tell me every single day when I was a child. "Go outside!" - that meant: go playing with the other kids. Be active. Move. Use your body. (But I liked to stay at home, reading, listening to the radio, dream the day away.)And now, quite late in my life, I became the avantgarde of a static way of living. ( I don't know why everbody talks about 'social distancing' and not about 'human statics' or 'immobility'?) But as so often in a situation of binary oppositions, it doesn't change much, when you just shift dominance to the other side. After all, I can now feel how others usually look at me: How can anybody be that out of tune with the commandment of the hour?
(DIR) Post #9xJwQzJrubwwWLMCB6 by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2020-07-20T22:08:58Z
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@Hammut @F1RUM Whenever it comes to CW, hams have the strangest opinions. Everybody knows exactly how to learn it and first of all, what you should never do. "You first have to learn manual keying." No, you don't. Maybe you will never in your life use a straight key. So what? And what is "solid education" when it comes to CW?I have several straight keys, they are easy to get hands on in Estonia. But I don't like to work with them. The one I like most is a single lever paddle built from a telegraph relais (you can find instructions how to build them everywhere on the internet).In my opinion it's easier to learn with a paddle (a twin paddle is also just fine): your hand will not get tired - because you have to practice a lot! - and it is easier to learn the rhythm of dits and dahs, the exact length. But that is my opinion. Everything works well that works for you. When you get used to one key and change it, it will take a long time of learning again.
(DIR) Post #9xLbI8ogHW8zRR6Xjs by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2020-07-22T09:49:50Z
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@Hammut @F1RUM That's interesting. So you mean, you had to use a straight key when taking your test? (Estonia is one of the few countries that still has the requirement of morse code for the A-class license - somehow equivilent to the Extra in the US. I have never thought about what key I would have to use when taking the test. But I think it doesn't matter. I'm having no problems with sending but with copying.)
(DIR) Post #A0UXJwzIoflikzdz72 by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2020-10-24T15:57:25Z
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@pistolpatty It is never a good idea to quote Nietzsche out of context. The quote doesn't exist in the given form. What you probably refer to can be found in Part 1, Chapter 11 (The New Idol) of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". "But the state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen". (Translation by Thomas Commun, 1909 - theanarchistlibrary.org) But never mind, the meaning is the same.The most important thing is: This is not Nietzsche speaking, but his fictional character Zarathustra.It gets much more interesting towards the end though: "Open still remaineth a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!" I'm always on the lookout for these friends of a "moderate poverty", but I can't find them anywhere.
(DIR) Post #A0YnHgW4rHg23Thrpw by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2020-10-26T17:15:07Z
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@pistolpatty And his face speaks volumes!
(DIR) Post #A9iZ66T4SpFMxgO8Ya by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2021-07-27T13:53:14Z
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#amateurradio #IOTAcontestPerhaps I am the least spontaneous person you can imagine. But sometimes things you couldn't plan may turn out better than with all the usual preparations.Last weekend was the weekend of the #IOTA (Islands on the Air) contest. But since we had promised three years in a row to visit some relatives during their summer vacation, this weekend seemed like the time to make good on that promise. So I forgot about IOTA.It wasn't until my wife asked me if I would take some radio equipment with me that it occurred to me that we would in fact be going to the neighboring island of Saaremaa, and that maybe I could still take a quick shot at contesting (operating portable). So I grabbed what I had on hand: a dipole for 20m, no antenna tuner, just the radio and a car battery.When I woke up early on Sunday morning, I found a nice spot right by the sea. After the antenna was set up, I had four hours to participate in the contest. And it turned out to be a most pleasant, memorable day: hot summer weather, a beautiful view, and a relaxed but at no time boring contest. (I might even surpass my last year's result, as I got significantly more multipliers ;-).
(DIR) Post #AAgFg16htAGf5FK208 by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2021-08-25T10:17:14Z
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@entreprecariat I rather look at it from the other direction - but it comes out the same: If there is a technical gadget that really excites me, stop developing it immediately. It won't catch on. Most prominent example: google glasses.
(DIR) Post #AAvLjSHuovpjABLdei by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2021-09-01T17:05:45Z
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@entreprecariat Why do you look at it as an 'incapacity'?I don't know exactly since when people are packaging their occupation(s) as 'projects' but I always found it odd. Usually you would call that what you do for a living your 'profession'. Lat. professio means something like a public confession, a commitment. In other languages this inner impulse (or urge?) is expressed even more clearly. Like in the german 'Beruf' which comes from the word vocation. I have never made a distinction between what I do in my spare time and what I do for a living. I like to see myself as an 'amateur' - somebody who loves what he is doing. Nowadays, people conceive even their hobbies as mere projects. I see the whole thing as a shift from a psychological approach to pure planning - that is, from a 'human' approach to a 'technical' approach.
(DIR) Post #AAvTYvwN23UbZolS08 by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2021-09-01T18:33:31Z
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@entreprecariat It doesn't make life easier, that's for sure. Because you are somehow incompatible to your surrounding. I'm so used to doing what I do that I just put it into the jargon of "project management" to make myself compatible. But life isn't a project. It happens.
(DIR) Post #AHAQ8YkoKXiN1pVfpg by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2022-03-06T22:53:55Z
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#UkraineWar I think I'll start writing down some things concerning the war in Ukraine that I would otherwise just write in a diary. That way it's easy to look up later, at what moment I started to notice certain things.I returned to Tallinn this evening - work tomorrow. In the supermarket it becomes clear that people have started hoarding again. This time it's not toilet paper.It all started a few days ago when the salt disappeared from the shelves overnight. A colleague called my wife: she had run out of salt, went to the grocer, but there was none left in the whole city. My wife told me this on the phone. It was immediately noticeable that she already was in a slight panic. She told me to have a look at the shops on the island if there was anything left. Salt? What do you need salt for? For salting and preserving? It was probably too late for that.But as always, I do the most absurd things when my wife tells me to. At the first supermarket, big surprise: no salt. Where the salt should be on the shelf, there was nothing but a big gap. In the next supermarket the same. In the third supermarket I could find salt: next to a big gap there were a few packages left, very unusual packaging. Imported from Finland. That rang a bell.In the morning I had read a strange headline in the newspaper: "Russian-language books still available in bookstores." One of those headlines you skim until your brain starts thinking, wait a minute, wait a minute, what? It said that in the meantime all goods of Russian origin had been removed from the shelves, but russian books will continue to be on sale. So that was it. Our salt here comes almost exclusively from Russia and Belarus.In Tallinn, the situation was already quite different. The shelves with canned goods were only sparsely filled. Buckwheat was completely sold out. There were also no matches. People are buying matches like crazy, said the woman at the checkout. No doubt these people can still remember wars. If we would run out of matches, we'd really be screwed. All our heating completly depends on firewood.
(DIR) Post #AHAwHgaZlb2IT37OFc by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2022-02-25T18:19:32Z
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#StandWithUkraine The Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) offers Ukrainian students free study opportunities at our four faculties of Fine Arts, Design, Architecture, and Art Culture until the situation in their country stabilises. For details go to:https://www.artun.ee/eka-offers-study-spots-for-ukrainian-art-students/
(DIR) Post #AHJjxBoFmwwrbstmCG by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2022-03-11T22:38:50Z
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#UkraineWarIn the morning at 6:47 my sleep gets interrupted by the roaring noise of fighter planes. It's NATO planes. In the first week of the war they seemed to be in the air almost all day long. Now mainly in the mornings and in the evenings. They take off from Ämari airbase, about 30km southwest of Tallinn. Estonia itself does not have any fighter aircraft (the same is true for the other Baltic states) and is therefore entirely dependent on the Baltic Air Policing mission. At the moment the Belgians are in Ämari with their F-16s, additionally the F-15s of the United States Air Force.Several times a year Russian fighter planes enter Estonian airspace. They want to test NATO. How long does it take for NATO planes to start, how long does it take for them to reach the borders from Ämari? The invading planes turn off their transponders. (A transponder in air navigation is a radio that answers an interrogating signal with an encoded identifying signal). It goes without saying that switching off your transponder is against any rules. The Estonian Ministry of Defense will send a complaint to Russia. These always remain unanswered.All summer NATO fighter jets trained in the sky over our island. That constant noise drove me mad. Now the sky is finally quiet again. The planes are now in action in the eastern part of Estonia. In Tallinn, the permanent noise of airplanes over your head makes for constant tension. Not for a minute you can forget that there is a war going on in Ukraine.In the evening, I go grocery shopping: a salad and a bottle of red wine from Portugal. "Have a nice evening," says the woman at the checkout in the wine department. "Same to you," and I raise the wine bottle as if I would raise my glass to her. "Let's hope we don't get shelled," she replies, breaking into a loud laughter behind her mask. She is joking. But her laughter shows that she is freeing herself from a tension that has been mounting inside her all day.
(DIR) Post #AHOl3pKNCtB4RSTmYC by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2022-03-14T06:53:36Z
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@thatguyoverthere Thank you for pointing this out. This is exactly the salt that is currently sold in the stores here. It was probably offered in the past as well, I just never noticed it as long as the usual brands from Russia were on the shelves.
(DIR) Post #AHPP5Z4waSVanCe6jY by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2022-03-14T14:50:07Z
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#AcademicFreedom #UkraineWar On Friday, Tartu University made a stupid decision. Russian and Belorussian citizens can no longer apply for study opportunities in the upcoming fall semester. The reasoning is particularly bizarre: allegedly, they could pose a security risk to Estonia, as the university is unable to determine their exact intentions and backgrounds. (Estonia has been a fierce critic of Putin's regime from the very beginning. It didn't need Russia invade Ukraine to do so. So why has this not been an issue so far?) This is an attack on individual and academic freedom that can only prove counterproductive in the current situation: We exclude precisely those who are likely to be among the only ones who might turn against Putin and help to stand up for democratic values in Russia.188 university teachers and employees of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn University, Tartu University, Tallinn University of Technology and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater have signed an "Open letter in support of academic freedom".The text in Estonian, Russian and English can be found here:https://www.akadeemilinevabadus.ee/
(DIR) Post #ALrF9i6DczNIw32m9o by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2022-07-25T18:06:20Z
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@entreprecariat Günther Anders, Paul Virilio
(DIR) Post #APRGWF8RXuEP93sLXE by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2022-11-09T20:44:55Z
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@entreprecariat - both are met with great skepticism (outside their peer group)
(DIR) Post #AbhOifAcnsLCzCtUZc by es0mhi@tilde.zone
2023-11-11T13:55:41Z
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@ferki @Perl While these are surprisingly flattering figures for #Perl, they have to be put into perspective.GitHub 2013: 3M users, 5M reposGitHub 2023: 100M users, 372M repos(numbers according to wikipedia)Interesting nevertheless.