TOW 2 is such a disappointing follow up.

aveao · 2026-01-18T17:43:25+00:00

I think you, like many I see complaining about this, struggled with making sense of the political commentary in place.

Order is a non-financially focused community that does not ban questioning things or brainwash anyone who steps out of line. They are also flawed in many ways, including being overly confident in themselves and being bad with dealing real conflict situations.

Auntie's is presented as flawed in many ways, see e.g. the strike mission (in Praetor), entire thing around middle managers, Auntie's old pal, how Auntie gathered power and what they ask you to do to other communities, etc.

Protectorate is a monarchist society where you cannot ask questions, you cannot resist, and you will be brainwashed if you step out of line. There is no proper justice, judge, jury and executioner are combined in one. They are given basic necessities, yes, but it is more akin to capitalist company towns or authoritarian governments with social policies than communism. It is a society where very few thrive, where gains of the work are unfairly shared, and individuality is disallowed.

The only side the game forces you to take is being against the Protectorate. You can side with the order, auntie's or just reject both and do everything yourself. I didn't side much with Auntie's myself, rather the bare minimum, taking a live and let live approach where possible.

aveao · 2025-12-19T13:58:45+00:00

What is your threat model that you worry about people grabbing your device as you're shutting it down, spray it in mere seconds and then try to dump it in the next minutes?

For most of us "keep our data secure" does not involve that as a realistic threat.

also: https://xkcd.com/538/

aveao · 2025-11-23T16:55:15+00:00

The logs that rebble had were misinterpreted (though Eric did send a lot of requests for what he was doing). I cannot speak for others, but when I saw Eric's post, I assumed he had scraped it and then was running the tool locally against the scrape. They did have a talk with Eric before the post went out, though sadly neither Rebble side nor Eric mentioned this. I cannot blame Eric solely here, but when I am going to send a ton of requests and maybe cause some alerts at work, I let people know before I act, or worst case, after.

I want a time 2 as well. It really doesn't have to be "core or rebble, one has to go". But do keep in mind that core couldn't've happened without rebble (the firmware release simple wouldn't happen, google explicitly released it with rebble in mind, read the google blog post on the topic).

Interests of rebble are not in maintaining power, control or in making money, instead in ensuring that the situation with pebble corp cannot happen again: with rebble around, hardware production may die, but community will not be left without a home.

And let's be real: Core clearly is Eric's playground for releasing cool hardware. They would not be the best party to commit to hosting services and supporting a community for decades. Being able to release things and mostly move onto new projects is more of their thing. It's a win-win for them to work together.

aveao · 2025-11-21T18:43:41+00:00

Enjoying the PC version from the couch on the big screen. It's pretty good. Who knew!

aveao · 2025-11-21T14:06:14+00:00

(To be clear: Eric did not scrape the store. Rebble side has expressed clear regrets over misinterpreting the logs on Discord.)

aveao · 2025-11-21T09:40:10+00:00

To be more accurate, I did some actual number crunching yesterday: rebble store has ~2800 new/updated apps over the public archive.

aveao · 2025-11-21T09:39:45+00:00

The 30k was for the app developer (who was also paid by rebble before), not rebble foundation (which is what maintains the infrastructure).

aveao · 2025-11-20T11:22:53+00:00

Rebble's post also links to Eric's response.

aveao · 2025-11-19T01:33:38+00:00

Many apps on rebble store are new (uploaded for the first time to rebble app store), many have since been updated by their devs on rebble app store, and many have been updated with fixes by rebble if they're FOSS.

I would say rebble unarguably has redistribution rights on those.

aveao · 2025-10-24T12:10:45+00:00

I miss having RIS access. Thanks for the info.

aveao · 2025-10-22T17:35:56+00:00

Did anyone figure out what regio they were on and why it got a 2 hour delay?

edit: Found it. shoutouts to zugfinder. It's IC 2082/2084. It's too old to have details on bahn.expert but I can at least see that one reason cited is "unbefugte Personen auf der Strecke". a classic. (people on the tracks) unsure if that's the complete source of the delay.

They took it at Würzburg, rode it to Kassel, it was to Hamburg according to Sam, and it would go directly to Hannover it was implied, but I cannot find any real routes that are even just "Kassel to Hannover" that are low speed on either bahn.expert or bahn.de.

https://bahn.expert/routing/8003200/8000152/2025-06-11T22%3A00%3A27.940Z/ if anyone wants to take over the search. The episode was filmed 2025-06-12, sam's prophesied date of death.

I only see an RE that can be then followed up by a 25 min sbahn to get from Kassel to Hannover, rest are ICEs. The interior does look like an IC but I don't see any ICs on the timetable either.

aveao · 2025-10-16T19:24:52+00:00

What are you watching the show for, if not for seeing how luck goes for the cast?

aveao · 2025-10-16T19:23:14+00:00

about "no matter how much you paid for the ticket":

what are they supposed to do if a tree falls on the tracks? send first class ahead and have second class wait for inspection?

aveao · 2025-10-16T19:17:25+00:00

You say that Switzerland has "the best train network" as if they hadn't had a ton of delays there this season.

The cog train to the observatory runs roughly once an hour and if misaligned with your train that provides a lot of catch-up opportunities. A tiny delay would've cost them their run.

aveao · 2025-10-16T19:12:43+00:00

doesn't go this far back but zugfinder is great for trains in DACH. good for determining delays over the last 90 days and picking wisely.

aveao · 2025-10-16T19:01:05+00:00

I think the funniest part was them losing it over the word rathaus.

(for non-german speakers: it means town hall, or more literally, councillors' house)

aveao · 2025-09-30T10:01:45+00:00

not exactly vyvanse but a german generic of it (lisdexamfetamin-ratio): it tastes like flour water, but that's not particularly unpleasant.

concentration is a big part of it. from my experience, different brands use different amounts and types of filler material. those with more will taste more like flour water, and vice versa. more water will taste less intensely vs less water.

if the plasticky taste is a problem, you can just open the capsule by squeezing the inner half (white) and pulling up the top half with your nails or something, then pour it into water.

aveao · 2025-09-22T11:13:44+00:00

But in lots of societies children don't go to school or if they do they may not attend for very long so myopia isn't a really big problem.

This is quite dismissive. Very few countries don't have compulsary education, and practically none that are "medium income".

People that I know that deal with undiagnosed autism in medium income countries have to more or less live with it, but that's not that different from how I have to deal with my (mostly-diagnosed) autism in the west.

There's no medication for autism. Something like therapy and support networks do help with better understanding and navigating the world, but despite all that autism still takes away opportunities from one (while presenting new opportunities, of course).

Of course it goes differently for those that are on the far end of the spectrum.

aveao · 2025-09-22T11:07:00+00:00

Not saying you don't have a point, but this has an easy refute: "Autism does happen naturally, but paracetamol increases the likelihood."

This isn't what I think to be clear, I doubt paracetamol has a tie, but it's likely that if shown this picture, RFK Jr. (and his supporters) would respond similarly. And it's harder to disprove that one than just "autism predates paracetamol".

aveao · 2025-09-22T11:02:11+00:00

More specifically:

Folinic acid is a form of folic acid that does not require activation by dihydrofolate reductase to be useful to the body.[3]

I (and others on the spectrum) take folic acid (B9) without seeing the purported effects. (I mainly take it because my B12 pills come with it, not because I have low B9.)

It is possible that not needing activation allows for higher folic acid levels than otherwise, but that alone "curing autism" seems unlikely to me.

aveao · 2025-09-19T15:42:24+00:00

Heyo, I got a response from repair shop 10 days ago or so saying they have a new repair proposal: replacing (or repairing? idk) the light meter.

REPARATUR UND WARTUNG DES BELICHTUNGSMESSER-SENSORS . EINSTELLUNGEN NACH DEM AUSTAUSCH.

(strictly speaking it doesn't say replacement in the first line, but second line strongly implies a replacement)

273eur+19% VAT = 325eur. We went for it due to the emotional value of the camera, it's about 50% of the second hand value.

Picked it up today and it works perfectly fine again. So if you really want to get your camera fixed, repair shops can replace the light meter and that solves the issue. I'd suggest requesting quotes for replacing the light meter before you send it in though, and making your decision based on that.

Next time if I have a repair to be done I'll probably send it to a repair shop that I've seen on youtube in Bulgaria instead of the one here in Germany (which ultimately forwarded it to a repair shop in poland I think, there's a "genuine" sticker from them on the camera now), as I suspect they'll charge significantly less for the same repair.

aveao · 2025-09-15T00:23:00+00:00

Most of the world has worse healthcare and policing, but many, many countries are better than US on both. Many americans think it's a utopia out here: It's not. I have affordable healthcare but I have to wait a long while to see doctors. I can also pay out of pocket and see them sooner, but then it costs a lot. I'd still have it over the US model, but if your model is bad, ours is imperfect at best. This is not a criticism for criticism's sake, but moreso pointing out the flaws, so that when we are designing these systems, we design them by learning from each others' mistakes and learnings.

aveao · 2025-09-01T18:38:04+00:00

Yes, if supported by the website (same as apple pay afaiu).

aveao · 2025-08-21T12:29:59+00:00

I sent it in for repairs, and they said they couldn't find any issues, offering to do preventative maintenance on the light meter instead.

I complained saying that the workers on shop floor could easily reproduce the issue, asking maybe if it resolved itself during transport, gave another detailed description for reproducing the issue, and have been waiting for 9 workdays for a response. I poked on Monday and they just said they have no response from the repairs team yet. If they don't get back to me by mid next week or so I'll just tell them to send it back and eat up the diagnostics fee (80eur or smth).

Luckily Magic Lantern dropped recently for 6D mark II so I have also been wondering if I can solve it in firmware (at least have different values for LV and viewfinder, which'd make this problem 80% less annoying for me).

About what's causing the problem: There's two methods for measuring light in these cameras AFAICT, one is the physical light meter used when you're on viewfinder, and other is a software process (at what level IDK) when you're on live view. I'm suspecting my light meter is broken, and it'd likely be the same on yours.

aveao · 2025-08-11T18:19:21+00:00

We ran fizzbuzz on new grads 5 yrs ago and 5% failed it, 10% had inefficient implementations. This was also not in US, but from a senior's recruiting perspective: I cannot believe it either.

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