Notices by Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)

@codewiz Is the projector RISC-V driven?
(I'm allowed to make the joke, I have a (well behaving) star64 board with RISC-V right here ;)

I had hoped for something more positive or traditional, but here we go:
In Japan, the Kanji of the year is 税, "tax".

Background:
* yearlong debate in Japan on raising taxes to fund increased defense spending
* fixed tax reductions
* a new invoicing system
* the new NISA (Nippon Individual Savings Account)
* crackdowns on the so-called "hometown tax"
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=61642

Yea thanks @codewiz , now also in our heads.. even without clicking the link.
German has a word for it: Ohrwurm, literally "earworm" :)

@codewiz I think an Amiga 500 maxi, so with usable keyboard, might sell well. They did a C64 maxi.. not sure why not Amiga.

#Japanese has a nice native term for "Artificial Intelligence": 人工知能, literally "Humanmade think capability". Lately I see also term "AI" used here, like in English.
The creators of this advertisement want to use much AI, so they write "AIX", "many times AI".

When I saw this for the first time, I wondered "what are they doing with the AIX operating system here?".

#librespeed is a nice bandwidth test for self hosting. Just clone into a directory offered by nginx or apache with PHP, make a copy of one file, and then you have your own speed test running.

Does not sound to interesting.. but it is!
Walking through the flat with the smartphone, via wlan executing the test, you can compare reception.
https://github.com/librespeed/speedtest

@codewiz While microsd card slot is existing, the Steamdeck users mostly use NVMe.
@benoit

@codewiz @benoit
Yes, I think also others offering support just stick to the basics, no encryption/raid/compression.
Using the snapshots to jumping back and forth after upgrades could be nice though - error prone to do with LVM snapshots and i.e. XFS ontop.

@codewiz We had an info session some month ago, and it was taken in good spirit by our teams. Now next is to have stuff in upstream, and see how heavily it gets used by people, and how many issues get reported.

When I installed Asahi remix on the work provided Macbook pro recently, that also was my first contact with btrfs. For Fedora server, XFS stays default at the moment.

@benoit @codewiz
It's clearer if you distinguish: Fedora is heavily (full?) community driven, and has decided to do btrfs by default for Workstation. Fedora Server is still XFS, I think.
For RHEL, the decision is rather what feels enterprise ready (stability, features, knowledge level of the employees - much plays in).

I think the fact btrfs made it into Workstation as default shows how much community driven it is.

@codewiz Seems like you got caught on 14:50 :)
https://youtu.be/ZmhhEYx2RQM?t=890

Hiking in October, still the time of t-shirt and short pants. The convenience stores got violet sweets with the flavour of sweet potato.

Quite some interesting pieces about #unicode :
https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

Do you run a mail server, want to test your DMARC setup and learn a bit about DMARC?

Try this nicely done site, we should have more of these!
https://www.learndmarc.com/

I was just using the washing machine for the first time and added another fun part to the article: power outlets do not have a proper contact for "ground". So outlets intended to be used by washing machines etc. have a small lid, a screw, and then you attach the ground cable manually..

I wonder which content warning this needs for electrical engineers ;)

@benoit Cool, was not aware. Good to know it's around now!
Might be chicken and egg problem now to get appliances to also come with that plug.. because that's useless if you only have the old outlet :)

What is it like to move to a flat in #Tokyo ?
Some details on searching, contracting, moving and local specialities.
https://blog.fluxcoil.net/posts/2023/09/moving-flat-in-tokyo/

Edited:
My ISP is from time to time resolving chaos.social into 31.13.96.208, an IP from facebook. The request is then ending up on their server, it can not answer the request and the presented cert is not for "chaos.social", but for *.facebook.com .

@ordnung

White socks in sandals are no problem in Japan from what I've seen, how is that in your neck of the woods?

Got reminded of this by today's smbc:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/therapy-2

Japanese websites are "special".
This time tracking site for example.

The pull-down menu for "hour the work started" has fields with numbers 1 to 48.. in my world, we have just 24 hours. Or maybe it's a hint one should do more overtime?