On my way to install PC DOS 7 in QEMU … which isn’t particularly a no-brainer because of IBM’s XDF floppy disks. I’ll get there eventually.

https://movq.de/v/7317bbadc9/

@bender It’s still there. 🤔 Maybe @prologic’s cache exploded. 💥

@bender Oof, okay. Guess I got lucky then. Never had to use any of those features. 😅

@johanbove@johanbove.info Is there any reason to use this program? I can’t remember when I last had it installed, must have been early 2000’s.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hold on to something, don’t let it blow you away! 😅 🌪️

Pretty fucken wimdy outside. I wonder if my windows are going to burst some day.

@mckinley Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, why have I never experimented with this kind of workflow? 🤔 Probably useful for lots of things.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s probably better for them if they’re shy. 😅 But yeah, if they’re used to humans, they won’t run away so easily. At least the ducks won’t – the rails/moorhens do. 🤔

Ahh, I remember those Asperg shots. 😅👍

That whole area with the tunnels and basins is probably some sort of “retention basin” (Regenrückhaltebecken), with several levels to reduce the flow. There’s almost never a lot of water in there, though. Not sure if this structure just isn’t used anymore or if it’s too dry. There’s also this “pole”, it’s a bit hard to see, though:

https://movq.de/v/dd71ae14a5/a.jpg

Looks like they’re trying to measure the water height (Pegelstand)? The pole is super high and I doubt that any rainfall will ever reach the top of it. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I truly wonder how those shops can survive. 🤔 Even if they offer some more services like copy or printing – how many people do that? 🤔

There you go, multithreading. 🥳

I tested this in QEMU, which luckily supports throttling disk I/O, so I can make sure that scanning the disk actually takes a while.

https://movq.de/v/f714cfebff/pmdusage.mp4

(Still boggles my mind a bit. When OS/2 2.x came out, DOS was still the norm for us and I didn’t even know what multithreading was. I really didn’t appreciate this operating system enough back then – only now.)

@prologic 0.15 to 0.20 USD sounds about right, compared to small VPS’s like those: https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php

It’s an interesting offer/concept, btw. Lots of minimal software doesn’t require lots of “oomph” and I’d be fine if my VPS was smaller. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The ducks aren’t too scared of humans. Great story from the first days of Covid in 2020: There were so few humans out and about that the wildlife began to reclaim its place. Those ducks in particular waddled around near the shops – and one of them even went into the super market. 😃 Never seen that before or since.

That path leads to a highway, yeah. Or rather under a highway. 😅 The photo with the graffiti shows a short tunnel, the highway is on top of it. It’s usually annoyingly loud, so I don’t go there often.

Found some more older photos of the general area of the last shot: https://movq.de/v/885fb9c57b/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m surprised as well. It’s one of those big, clunky laser printers:

https://movq.de/v/8a3495c3c2/

But it’s not “industrial grade”, it was a normal consumer printer and cost about 370€. I changed the black toner once and nothing else. Admittedly, the color toners are “worn out” and don’t give great results anymore, but I can’t be bothered as I hardly print anything in color these days. It might be worth buying replacements now, though, before they go out of production. 🤔 It’s already impossible to buy original ones, but there are still 3rd party toners. (Wtf? Was this a super popular model?! 😂)

@prologic Oh, I see. God, how annoying – the place where you live abolished DST but the place where you work didn’t. 😂

@mckinley Ahh, right, nethogs, iftop, stuff like that. I forgot about those. 🥴 If I’m quick enough to open them, they’re pretty useful as well. (I’m just too slow most of the time and the thing hogging the net is already gone. 😅)

Low-quality smartphone shots from today’s walk:

https://movq.de/v/0f42ac9be0/

Most importantly: Ducklings! 😍 I’ll have to take my good cam next time.

My printer will turn 18 years in a couple of months and will thus be allowed to drive a car.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, okay, it’s not as steep as stairs, but still quite the climb. 😅

Now I wish there was Google Street View of that area. 😅 I’d love to go around and explore that area a bit. Oh well.

@prologic Wait, don’t you live somewhere in Queensland? Wikipedia says there is no DST in Queensland (anymore). 🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Australia

Funny how not all states in Australia observe DST. Why can’t we do the same in Europe, ffs. 🥴

The switch to daylight saving time has really screwed me up this year. I’ve been tired for two weeks now. 😩

@prologic Ohh, nice. I’ve ignored eBPF for too long, so I guess it’s time to take a look. This tool is already very helpful: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/tcpconnect.py

QOTD: Hello Linux users, what do you use to monitor your network traffic?

As you can see in most of my screenshots, I have a widget at the top of my screen that shows the current bandwidth usage:

https://movq.de/v/303e1b1cad/a.jpg

But what does that tell me? What do I do when I see a sudden spike and I don’t know where it’s coming from? 🤔 I don’t have an answer for that. I’d like to have something like a summarized log of the recent network activity of all processes.

Something like tcpdump doesn’t help here, because the traffic is often already finished when I notice it.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The magic of dynamic linking (and C). 😅 It has pros and cons, smaller binary size surely is one of the advantages. Go’s huge binary sizes is something that I’ve never gotten used to. 🫤 (Rust can be a little better at it, but they’re still very large as well.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org War helicopters? Oof. 😳 Do you have an airbase nearby?

I only realized this now: Although I’m living quite high up in a tower building, your mountain/hill is probably higher, judging by the view that you get. That gives me a whole new appreciation for your hikes, taking the stairs to my appartment can be quite exhausting. 😅

And, of course, at some point the directory items should be clickable, so you can navigate the tree as usual. That’s much less interesting than delving into threading, though. 😅