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👋 network engineer building an off-grid home and reconnecting with nature
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🗣 Followers 27 · Following 7 · Logs 229 · Docked 2 years ago
had the rare opportunity to spend two hours in the tower of a major international airport and get to know their systems and procedures. that was damn cool. mad respect for the job of air traffic controller.
💬 6 Replies · 8 Thumbs · 4 days ago
everyone’s talking about a superb owl 🦉 idk, i’m no bird watcher
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 week ago
ah, snap, i need to extend the auxiliary hydraulic hoses on my excavator. that’s going to be fun. those lines are rated for 3000psi which sounds like a lot to me.
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 weeks ago
spent all day yesterday clearing and sectioning dead trees to make room for new ones. german quality chainsaw by stihl did a great job. now i am recovering. i consider myself fit, but there are always muscles one rarely uses that make themselves known after such days! what’s your favorite tool in the box? and why? does it spark joy when you’re using it?
💬 4 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 3 weeks ago
mindblown by the social structure and behavior of a typical honeybee colony. and they don’t even write anything down. it must all be in the genes and learned behavior taught from one generation to the next and maybe pheromones.
💬 5 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
large language models and their integrations that surf the web for me habe become my sanity firewall when searching for or learning about a new topic. even if they hallucinate a bit, the experience is superior than wading through the mud of seo garbage and skipping through cringy sponsor messages in videos.
💬 5 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 month ago
interesting talk about burning it (software) all down and start over. featuring some surprising retro operating systems. https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2021/M.misc/new_type_of_computer.mp4
💬 5 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 1 month ago
early to rise… yawn!
💬 4 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 month ago
surprisingly, i am fascinated by the amish and their culture and values. i think one can learn a thing or two from them.
💬 8 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 month ago
after years of the government being slow to do its work and after losing some of our paperwork, it has determined that my wife and i are a good addition to the great united states of america and has just recently granted us lawful permanent residency. a celebration shall be had. finally that stressful part of our life is over and we have certainty. 🇺🇸
💬 5 Replies · 7 Thumbs · 2 months ago
what’s your philosophy of life?
💬 12 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 months ago
somehow i didn’t know how much sugar happens to be in bagels. no wonder they taste so good. why is it so hard to find a reasonably nutritious breakfast in this country? what’s wrong with us?
💬 5 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 months ago
been burying dead trees and branches all day to build a hügelkultur. helping nature heal and rebuild soil. next week i have over 150 tree seedlings coming. build back the forest!
💬 0 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 2 months ago
dove into some very interesting c code that handles packets at line rate. good stuff.
💬 4 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 months ago
the government agency responsible for immigration is asking my wife for the same set of documents we already sent a year ago. my suspicion is that they lost a bunch of documents when they were moving the stack of paper across the country at least twice. this includes sensitive medical information. big government is failing left and right and i start to fancy lean government and simplification of laws and regulations. even if it hurts a little. less is better. now this paperwork drama starts all over again. over 400 days of them doing nothing only to then ask for the same documents again. unreal. absolutely unreal.
💬 5 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 months ago
my friend @picasso showed me how to run my phone with so little color (hue?) in the color profile that everything on my screen looks almost black and white. even the gray cubicle in which they keep me during the day so i can help increase shareholder value by doing cool network things now looks more interesting than whatever happens to be on my phone. life changing pro tip. screen time is down significantly. (also deleted a bunch of apps, that helped)
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 months ago
started a two person book club with my brother who lives an ocean away. we are reading the same book and then chat about each chapter. it has been great, timezone-friendly fun. currently reading “going infinite” which is about the rise and downfall of ftx, the crypto exchange. unbelievably weird story. lot’s to talk about. what are you reading these days?
💬 19 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 2 months ago
welcome to gemini @florianl :)
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
visiting switzerland 🇨🇭 once again
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
welcome @picasso!
💬 1 Reply · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
coughed a lot recently, all day and night. even a little blood in there every now and then. it is getting better, finally. sucks to be sick.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
on a trip through my old home town talking to old friends. observation: the mood has shifted and i hear quite some negativity about germany’s future specifically and europe in general. been away a fee years. a lot has changed, but then again, much has remained the same and problems remain unsolved. what to make of this?
💬 7 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
over the last 5 years i was very lucky in that all my transcontinental flights have been in business class or better, and only once did i have to pay for it myself. the golden times are over and i am flying economy class to europe in an hour from now. i am grateful for having been able to experience the pinnacle of aviation short of traveling in a private jet. i also anxious about being crammed in a small seat for 11 hours. it is so easy to get entitled and quite hard to let go of comfort. will put my newfound curiosity for discomfort into practice… 😑😶
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
drop ur fav nex sites in the replies, my friends! 👇👇👇 i like to explore the nex space but don’t know where to start.
💬 4 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 3 months ago
@martin station feature request: when someone replies to my log and mentions me at the same time, this should result in only one, not two, notifications.
💬 0 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 3 months ago
a 1 3/8 inch diamter and 15 inch long steel pin on my excavator broke. it was a custom part, to enable a retrofitted thumb to the bucket arm. now i have to produce a replacement part. it took me almost a day to figure out which alloy steel i need. long story short, i have a piece of 42crmo4 steel coming my way. time to brush up my metal lathe "skills". a new challenge...
💬 2 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 3 months ago
reading this book titled “the comfort crisis” and it speaks to me. a lot. great book so far (60% in). typing this while camping, fittingly. what’s the most uncomfortable thing you have experienced recently?
💬 15 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
i will travel to europe next month and also stop by in good old munich. excited!
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 4 months ago
this place is wonderful. @whixr made me rethink my phone use even harder, with the result of me having trimmed down my phone even more, removing more and more attention-grabbing or less useful apps.
💬 2 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 4 months ago
after a long day out it san francisco watching the fighter jet air show and navy fleet ships and boats, my wife and i decided to order food delivery when we finally arrived back home late at night. she used a popular ride hailing app that also integrates food delivery. the amount of dark patterns in the selection and checkout flow was absurd and placed with predatory precision. tired us ended up paying 30% more than we thought while coming close to also subscribing to some unwanted membership. it took both of our brains, four eyes staring at the screen and scrutinizing every click while being very tired.