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Devil Lu Linvega

I wonder if there's such a thing as guerilla gardening geocaching.

Planted wheat, barley and mustard greens at 50°8.409'N 124°56.842'W

Planted lentils, mung beans and radishes at 50°8.527'N 124°40.195'W

#geogardens

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Devil Lu Linvega

Went back to check up on the lentils and fenugreek seeds I've thrown around.

I expected one or two seeds per mudball to sprout, not all of them.

Kolokoko Bird!

@neauoire What are you doing to keep the deer from eating everything you plant?

Devil Lu Linvega

Wrote a very professional email, began with "Dear such and such" even ended it with "Regards", the whole thing.

Accidentally sent it 6 times.

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kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@neauoire me every time i need to send a document to upper management

khm

@neauoire "could you please check with your IT department? your mail server seems to have received my message six times and I was going to send five of those to other people. can I have them back?"

Devil Lu Linvega

Last winter: "The stars are gonna be so bright up north!"

Scratch that, the sun doesn't set.

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FiXato

@neauoire
Norway has some lovely northern lights; it's just a shame you can't see them through the midnight sun in summer. xD

Devil Lu Linvega

I've been meaning to write alt texts for pictures of sign language gestures.

It's super hard to describe hand position in a way that you can actually visualize them, and I'm starting to wonder if there isn't prior art for these.

I realize that the overlap of blind people who sign must be super small, but I'd still like to have them as to have textual descriptions of the gestures for plain-text documentation.

Any suggestion welcome ✋

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Job

@neauoire I mean it's trying to translate a 3D spatial language that combines shapes and movement of two hands, facial expressions and body language, all in parallel to a 1D stream of symbols. That's bound to be seriously difficult!

moonglum

@neauoire Maybe @bitboxer can help :) He built the amazing signdict.org (a German dictionary for sign language)

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@neauoire

Oh, the joy of semantic web!

Alas, not a lot of web writers use the full potential of the W3 standards, maybe because they are too much:
w3.org/TR/

Devil Lu Linvega

Sailed back to the nearest little inhabited nook we could find with a cellular antenna so we could upload our slides for NIME 2022.

It'll be our second talk done entirely with our little slideshow program Adelie. Rekka has drawn a bunch of beautiful slides for this, I will share it as soon as it goes online.

nkint

@neauoire will the talk be recorded? in case, please share the link when/if will be available!

Devil Lu Linvega

None of the American vessels that we encounter up here are flying the American flag, I have never seen that before.

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@neauoire it's very hard to be proud in a time like this

spooky blip 👻

@neauoire Even a majority of my "apolitical", "apathetic", or "moderate" (quotes intentional on all of those) acquaintances are remarkably ashamed to be from this dystopian shithole these days. I'm not surprised. I also see fewer US flags stateside this year

There is truly almost nothing beyond our natural beauty, and I suppose relative technological/financial means compared with a good chunk of the world population, to be proud of this place for lately. Or even to feel neutral about this place

Csepp 🌢

@neauoire I'm pleasantly surprised that this stereotype of US-ians is false.

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TeaBeast

@neauoire And everytime we make an inch of progress, politicians and corporations take us back a mile...

🍂Evan Balster🍂

@neauoire The way I think of it, ruin is an accumulation of complications, hindrances, wounds, driving a system toward quiescence.

The seeds of ruin are planted slowly, and fruit suddenly.

Devil Lu Linvega

Last week I planted mung beans and lentils on a tiny island. There was a big downpour after I planted the legumes, today, most of them were already poking their heads out.

Today, I went back and planted spelt and oats. Next time I go back I'll put some radish in.

4aminifera

@neauoire when you do guerrilla planting like this, do you just put the seeds in a shallowish hole and cover them up or is there a more sophisticated process? like sprouting them before?

Devil Lu Linvega

> A standard Type-C/micro USB port can be inserted into or removed from a USB port for more than 10,000 times(if you insert or remove your data cable three times a day, it should last for more than 9 years)

*Looks at dead micro cable connector that is 6 months old and was disconnected once a week at most*

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nomand

@neauoire I love type C. What I dint understand is why they opted to have a male interface have a female slot and the female interface have a male input. That's awful for durability. You have a tiny thin piece of plastic holding all the connectors that the male plug inserts around, it's just crazy.
Apple's lightning cable is way way better in regards to this - just a tab with contacts that plugs into a hole with contacts.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bird girl

@neauoire When I had a device that used those and was commonly charging it, I regularly had issues with the micro USB (I think it was micro USB) charging cable dying. Like, it was a *thing*. IIRC, it would bend a teeny tiny bit and then the little bits that stick out on one side wouldn't quite be sticking out far enough to make contact and that would be the end of that, or something along those lines. I remember trying to bend them back the other way to keep them working a bit longer, but not what the success rate was ...

@neauoire When I had a device that used those and was commonly charging it, I regularly had issues with the micro USB (I think it was micro USB) charging cable dying. Like, it was a *thing*. IIRC, it would bend a teeny tiny bit and then the little bits that stick out on one side wouldn't quite be sticking out far enough to make contact and that would be the end of that, or something along those lines. I remember trying to bend them back the other way to keep them working a bit longer, but not what...

f.rift :fire_blue:

@neauoire
I kill micro cables basically constantly. Some of the better ones have a properly sturdy connector but many are basically floating in soft plastic and die inside weeks of actual use.

Devil Lu Linvega

🤔 I wonder what I could do for the Fantomes II. I wanna do something witchy.

Devil Lu Linvega

@calutron just noticed the error in noodle you were explaining last time, that after saving the red save-state icon wasn't changing. Just fixed it, sorry about that.

Devil Lu Linvega

It's nice to see a new journal addition to the Neon Kiosk.
kiosk.nightfall.city/
📰

Devil Lu Linvega

@helveticablanc I hope the move is going well, thinking about you.

Helvetica Blanc

@neauoire It took a couple days, but we're finally in the new place! Now we're just waiting on some furniture and picking up necessities, but this place is perfect for us so far!

(And if you're ever back in the Vancouver or Bellingham area, it's just a short drive for us to see y'all! 🥰)

Devil Lu Linvega

Last year we stayed south during the heat wave, this year we decided to weather it up north. I think we'll become more like birds, and migrate with the seasons.

Devil Lu Linvega

Found jellyfish spawn point. The water is warm, with very little outflow, where fresh water from the mountains meet the brine.

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RaelZero

@neauoire Wow, this is so beautiful!

Jellyfishes are always a mixed feeling for me: one of the most beautiful sights in the water, but on the other hand I got stung a few times too many haha

[DATA EXPUNGED]
Z@b0\/\/

@neauoire it looks like something from a Stanisław Lem novel: first meet with alien life on a strange planet.

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