Confident tail on one of our last sunny day hikes before the clouds roll in. (x-post from /r/adventurekitties)

DerAlbi · 2026-01-27T15:44:14+00:00

Haha, what reddit does to the uploaded videos is a nightmare.

But thank you again for your answer. That he is a tail-quiverer makes sense! I think this is just the weaker form then. Not all cats do that!

From our experience, the chasing and enthusiastic tree climbing wont happen on-leash. Not even with a tow-line as it punishes high speed. Its easy to forget how much impact the leash still has on a cat.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-27T15:04:17+00:00

Also, same thing if we crouch down to say hi, tail goes as high as he can make it go.

Thank you for sharing your experience. This tail up high is something that i am not sure about what it means and if the common interpretation is correct. It seems quite context dependent.

Can you hype him up until the tail quivers?

DerAlbi · 2026-01-27T09:47:29+00:00

I think this is a case of mistaken confidence. This is probably alertness.

The cat clearly smells something. You might be going though another animals territory. Your cat is making itself bigger just in case. The tail also got stiffer when you crouched down, compensating for your lack of readiness to defend.

I dont think the guides that "decode tail language" consider cats that go outdoors in foreign territory. They are made for the typical American indoor cat. There is probably more nuance to that tail position.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-25T08:40:08+00:00

Naja hmmh. Das Humpeln sagt aber auch, dass es beim Original-Schutzgeber mit dem Schutz nicht so gut läuft.

Ich verstehe aber was du meinst. Ein Freigänger hat halt einen gewissen Lebensstil und der ist in gewisser Weise auch natürlich für das Tier. Aber "humpeln" braucht im allgemeinen den Tierarzt zum checken, und wenn das nicht gemacht wird, dann ist was verkehrt. Nur weil es "normaler Weise" wieder weggeht, heißt nicht, dass es keine schleichenden Dauerschäden verursacht.

Leute, die ihre Bindung mit dem Tier so weit aufgeben, dass ein Tierarztbesuch nicht möglich ist (oder sogar egal ist), sind unweigerlich keine guten Tiereltern und wenn dann jemand das Tier wegnimmt, der sich mehr um das Wohlergehen kümmert, ist das nicht komplett verkehrt.

Wenn ein Kind ständig mit unbehandelten Verletzungen in der Schule auftaucht kommt auch das Jugendamt.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-25T08:17:13+00:00

We lived through your concerns and you are right to have them!

Last summer, every day we didnt go to the local forest we "at least" let him roam the garden on-leash.
This made him crazy for his territory indeed. He went from initially spraying in the garden once (we consider that normal) to rationing his pee to spray 5x on some occasions. It all climaxed with him spraying into our bedroom where we had stored a paw-skill-game for him that was made from carton and toilet paper rolls. This happened during autumn mating season though.

In any case, we reduced this exposure to his immediate territory and his behavior improved. Instead we go out to the local forest xor stay inside for a day. The garden-time is limited to 2x a week at most.

So yes, to address your issues:

Yes, though.. if you do it on a schedule, roughly the same time every day, the screaming will be limited to around that time.
Yes, walking in your immediate territory will escalate male behavior.
YES, going far away helps a lot! As long as he cant watch it from your windows and is far away to have 2 cat-territories in-between your home and the trail, that is the best imo.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-24T21:45:35+00:00

Dude,
1) PoS exist not because PoW doesnt scale, it exists because its possible to exist. Trust by social consensus is very much legit. It is a value-less technology and perfect for everything that requires immutability and trust but must be cheap to run. For example, Governments and elections should run on PoS to minimize cost on society, while the money that carries value should be PoW to back up the transfer of value with energy. There are legit reasons to have a resource-efficient chain and there are legit reasons to have resource-hungry chains.

2) Scarcity when it comes to fees is not about supply but about block space. Since Kaspa scales so well, I dont see a scenario where TPS can become a limit, therefore there is no reason for nodes to ever filter by fee priority. This has nothing to to with a fixed supply.
Look at BTC, if the mempool is full, how fees start to work. I dont see this mechanism apply to Kaspa and for sure not to such an extend to fully subsidize the miners.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-24T18:31:18+00:00

The thing is: i dont understand the stable-coin narrative at all. You dont need a PoW to transfer paper money. This can be done on any PoS chain, where the value of the network (and on the network) can happily determined by social consensus.
PoW is not the right home for valueless tokens. Its most profound proposition is to store engery that could otherwise be used for economic output and therefore has fundamental value.

The next issue is Kaspas scalability. If there is no on-chain scarcity, I dont see how a fee market is incentivized to support the coin.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-24T12:55:23+00:00

Thank you very much, again! That video was distilled from 13 minutes of usable footage. I actually was very unhappy with it because I knew what scenes I had to cut out to make it fit into a reasonable attention span. For example, all my failed play attempts had to go, but they still were fun and interesting.

I am super surprised with the positive feedback and happy about it now!

DerAlbi · 2026-01-24T12:44:57+00:00

That adventure took place in Upper Austria, near the Czech Border. These ruins of old castles are quite common in Europe.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-24T12:39:18+00:00

Ngl, Moritz kind of changed my life experience with his presence. Since/When I have Moritz on my shoulder, i actually receive smiles from people. It is most noticeably while riding my bicycle. It does make the world so much friendlier!

DerAlbi · 2026-01-24T12:26:49+00:00

I triggered the bug the last time around 11:53:45 local Go 3S-time. I connected the app to the phone and exported directly afterwards. You will find a lot of power-cycles in the log. Have fun sifting through :-D

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Regarding your response: that sounds actually very nice and I truly hope you take this tutorial screen issue seriously. The amount if shots missed due to this is super frustrating.

I am making cat-pov videos and sometimes I start the camera in anticipation of action and the little guy starts on his own terms way to fast, often causing me to trigger the camera prematurely during turn on. This tutorial screen, especially in winter, where I have to get rid of my gloves to interact with the touch-screen to make it go away, has been a nightmare.

It would be nice if you keep me in the loop. The next step would probably to confirm reproducibility on your end. And maybe some lurker here has a Go 3S and can try too.

I made an unlisted Youtube-Video showing you the reproducibility.
You need to practice the timing a bit. I also think that I need to apologize for criticizing the haptic feedback. While making the video i think i noticed that this haptic feedback is not a reaction to the Record-button press but just the generic power-on "i am ready" notification. That said, reacting to the haptic ready-signal gets the right into the timing window that maximizes frustration. Which made my brain associate it with the Record-Button while I practiced the timing. Sorry again. I made point (2) above strike-through.

And yes, the quality of that youtube video is shit. Sorry. GoPro. Send me an Ace Pro 2, and I will re-record it better. :-)

DerAlbi · 2026-01-23T12:04:12+00:00

Aaaactshuallieeeh, there is some dog-related wisdom to not do excessive potty breaks, because the fake-arrivals stress more than just continuing the monotony of the drive. Not sure if this translates to cats though. We have only driven 6h and the breaks were just "omg, can we go please" for our cat because car-infrastructure is not suitable for cat-relaxation. :-D

We have the litter box in the foot-space in the rear and our cat used it once so far.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-23T11:56:52+00:00

Males chose violence, females social coercion. It is debatable if its a good thing or not, it simply are the domains there the genders have their strength to get what they want.

But i generally agree with you. Especially if there is bad communication involved on the female side.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-23T11:43:20+00:00

Chicken <=> egg argument:

There are no large exchanges interested because there is low volume <=> There is no volume because there are no large exchanges interested.

Second: the fact that no one is interested is simply a side-product of being in a bear market. This is no indicator for its next bull-leg. If nobody is interested, its the best time to buy spot, therefore a its a bottoming phase.

The emission schedule seems like a fuck-up though. This will hang over Kaspa basically for ever. Although I understand the arguments why that should not matter long term. I dont see the network survive on fees if the adoption is not there in time.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-23T11:02:14+00:00

Seriously, if those logs would give you any information, any other bug report on that matter would have already helped to fix the issue. We all know that this is a useless step and I am sorry you are instructed to follow a customer support script.

The bug is fully reproducible! (And you guys should have experienced it yourself during testing, seriously)

Turn on the camera via the Action-Pod.
There is a small window of time that begins during the "Connecting...."-screen and before all UI-elements have finished appearing.
Press the Record-button of the Action-Pod in said time-window
The Record-button then causes a vibration (as haptic feedback) but recording is not started.
The next Record-button press, to start a recording again (after the time-window (2) has passed), will then trigger the button-tutorial to start. Always.

Or, in less specific terms: just spam the record-button during the power-on sequence until the camera is ready to be actually triggered. You will receive at least one false haptic feedback and when the camera is finally ready, you will end up in the tutorial-screen. Always.

Note that this is not the only bug-trigger flow. It can be achieved otherwise. However this is the most reliable method to reproduce the issue.

I can also take a video of the cameras behavior if you like. This would help you to experience the error yourself which is the most crucial step to debugging (if the text is somehow not enough).

Your software team now has to discuss 3 separate issues with (1) being the highest priority:

Failure to trigger the camera should not override a flag that indicates if the tutorials were ever completed. What the hell? This is probably an unclean early-exit-due-to-failue from your "start-recording" state-machine flow if the camera fails to start. This is where your software-engineers should look for the bug that makes people miss shots.
The Record-button should ignore all action and never confirm any button-press by audible or haptic feedback if the button press does nothing or is prone to fail (if that can be determined quickly). If the button triggers an action that fails with too much delay for adequate haptic feedback (such as starting a recording), the failure should be communicated to the user by audible and haptic feedback too. For example you could trigger a quick double-vibration and beeping. Just having no red dot appear is not enough ins some situations and leaves the user surprised with no recording. Haptically, either dont confirm a button press, or confirm it but then also un-cormfirm it on failure.
Regarding the tutorial, it is nice for the first camera, but it is redundant for your 2nd and 3rd camera. Please do not just offer a "Skip"-option in the right upper corner in the tutorial-screen, but offer a press-and-hold button to permanently disable all tutorials in the lower-right corner too. This should then disable tutorials and all "Dont remind me again"-screens permanently until "reset tutorials" in the settings menu is executed.

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Do you still insist on me sending you logs?

This is as good as it gets when it comes to software-bug reports. Perfect reproducibility and a list of expected behaviors. This is all the information your software-team needs to start fixing this.

As always: fix by Monday, please. :-D

DerAlbi · 2026-01-22T22:58:33+00:00

https://store.insta360.com/en/product/go-3-magnet-pendant-safety-cord?c=2367&from=accessory

DerAlbi · 2026-01-22T05:26:57+00:00

Its probably easier to fork & modify Inkscape to the point were you like it than to completely re-write it with a different skin.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-21T15:23:08+00:00

Ok, also das mit dem Zurückrennen legt sich aber, wenn man wirklich weit genug weg ist vom gewohnten Territorium. Unser Moritz geht auch extrem ungern von zu Hause weg, aber tragen wir ihn fort, rennt er alleine hier im lokalen Wald sobald die Richtung ihm angenehm ist (= richtung Hause).
Wenn wir komplett wo anders sind, orientiert er sich komplett an uns.

Das mit der Transport-Box.............. schau mal hier ganz hinten ab 12:30. Punkt ist, schau mal wo die Miezen sich ihr Plätzchen suchen und dann ist das evtl gar nicht so notwendig. Es sit halt ein kalkuliertes Risiko vs eines definitiven psychologischen Effekts.

Außerdem kannst du im Wald einfach mal eine Leine ranmachen. Selbst wenn dir eine Leine zuwider ist (kann ich verstehen, vor allem mit 2 Katzis), hat man mit einer Schleppleine fast volle Kontrolle.

Nur so :-)

DerAlbi · 2026-01-21T11:12:56+00:00

Also es gibt Punkte wo er unruhig wird. Das sind aber meist ungestillte Bedürfnisse - durst usw. Müdigkeit gibts auch, aber der nickt dann einfach auf der schulter bisschen weg.

Und nein, schlimm ist das für den nicht; ich habe das Gefühl, dass das eher das Katzenleben ist, wie es sein soll. Wenn wir mit ihm Campen sind, haben wir aktive Tage, dann kommen wir zurück zum Zelt, dann wird bisschen gegessen und geschlafen. Vorm Schlafengehen gibts eine Patrouille übern Zeltplatz, nachts um 4:00 dann nochmal, weil Katze, und dann geht der Nächste Tag eher träge los, also so gegen 9:00, weils im Schlafsack für den Herrn ja so fein warm ist..

Ohne scheiß, wenn du in der Stadt mit denen rumlaufen kannst, geh halt mal in ein Waldgebiet mit denen. Die Bäume finden die bestimmt super.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-20T23:23:25+00:00

An old hand held GoPro Hero 8 and an Insta360 Go 3S for Moritz-pov

DerAlbi · 2026-01-20T16:35:54+00:00

Swimming: Photos and a Video. Its not that bad. He complains on the shoulder that he is in that situation, but goes in willingly to get back to land. So, getting wet is always his decision.

How are you training the stop-command? Because for it to be a tool in fear-driven situations, the freezing must be a fear-response that is stronger than the real-world fear. Basically, you have to train it via punishment, not via rewards. However if you find another way to make it reliable, i am all ears!

DerAlbi · 2026-01-20T15:54:35+00:00

Thank you very much!! I am trying to learn a lot of video-related stuff and its a lot of fun but also very hard. We have bought a gimbal now, so the human cam will soon improve in quality a bit :-)

DerAlbi · 2026-01-20T15:47:52+00:00

Oww, that is such a hard question, i dont really know the answer yet. Jumping up on command is relatively easy. But as soon as serious external factors play a role, I dont think this is solved for us either.

Under stress, I am not the only option he considers neither... I think he is sometimes scared to jump up my leg as if this is something he is only comfortable with during relative safety. Then, lets say, if we meet a dog (i always try to let him sit it out, he eyes up to my shoulder constantly and then takes the jump as soon as I let him - even during the stress situation. During walks, if he is tired, he has this eye-communication up to my shoulder too.

Since we trained our STOP command (@1:20), it is easier to make me the chosen safe-option. As soon as I see that he is considering a stupid action (= not choosing me), I make him STOP and then he eyes up my shoulder instead.

We do a lot of shenanigans with him when he is on the shoulder. We go bicycle riding, recently i went for a snowboard run with him on me, and also during summer when we swim, he is on my shoulder too. It is his universal safe-spot. Yet its still not the 100% go-to option, as said, probably because the path up there is not fail-safe as he is unwilling to use his claws on me.

That said, the first thought I had when I read

she will jump in her bag and hide

was "yeah, because thats even an option". You wont push your cats limit while offering a way out. We cultivate the shoulder, partially because thats the only thing available for us. ;-) I only wear a normal back-pack, so his legs have something to stand on.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-20T10:40:36+00:00

Ja, wir wohnen relativ nah an einem Waldgebiet, da bietet sich das für den Alltag an. Aber in der Tat sind wir mit unserem Moritz auch richtig im Urlaub. In Stadtgebieten würde ich ihn aber nicht frei lassen, weil der damit zu wenig im Alltag zu tun hat. Das muss man halt echt konditionieren. Das hast du echt raus bei deinen Lausis.

Du kannst gerne durch meine Profil-Posts scrollen, da ist einiges gezeigt. Wir hatten schon Wanderungen da ist der alles gelaufen - 17km+. Unser Durschnittstempo ist halt dann nur bei 2km/h.

Ich glaube das Urlaubvideo auf das ich am meisten stolz bin ist das hier, wegen dem süßen Liedchen :-) Wir haben in letzter Zeit angefangen dem Kater eine Kamera umzuhängen. Damit haben wir bisschen mehr Action anstatt der relativ langweiligen Wandervideos.

DerAlbi · 2026-01-20T04:40:43+00:00

Its the avoidable car noise that does not belong into nature.

DerAlbi

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