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One of the great many contenders in the messaging space is DeltaChat, a decentralized E2E spec and reference platform. The "official" client features the ability to set a background for chat windows, and while I usually use a TUI client (because DeltaChat is an Electron app), I occasionally open the reference app because -- as is the way with many systems like this -- only the reference platform has All Of The Features.

Anyway, I opened the DC client today and it popped up full screen, and was reminded just how stunningly gorgeous the NCC 1701 Refit is. I thought I'd share my love for the most beautiful Enterprise (IMHO).

I think I've posted the original before:

I do not know the provenance of the image. I downloaded it from somewhere online some time ago. If anyone knows the artist -- I don't believe it's a capture from TMP -- please post it in the comments. It's nicely framed, and nicely done.

Maybe younger people won't appreciate this as much, having grown up when this weren't so rare, but nothing quite illustrates to me how far Linux has come than browsing Amazon and seeing "Linux" listed as a first-class citizen on product images. Not buried in the details, not answered in a FAQ, but right there on the product image at the top of the listing. Many of you will remember having to dig through wikis and forums to uncover whether a product was compatible with Linux; and sometimes you still do.

This is only a USB device; it'd be more surprising if it weren't Linux compatible... but that's not the point; the point is that "Linux" is advertised at the top right there after Windows and before Mac OS or Android. That's what still grabs me. Metrics and guestimates are great; in a capitalist world, it's often what advertisements say that indicate a truer story.

This is an educational video from the German TV station ARD1, about German owls. It's in German, of course, but it's got some great video about two breeding pairs and their owlets, briefly covering from egg to leaving the nest, including some adorable footage of one of the fledglings practicing pouncing on a dead bird.

One couple nests in a cliff face; the other in a castle ruins. I fancy it's a nice watch even if you don't speak German.

Uhu is the German word for Bubo bubo, a Eurasian species of Eagle Owl. Eule is the German word for owls in general: Uhu are Eule, but not all Eule are Uhu.

Original post text:

Title: Die Maus : Uhu – Wo lebt unsere größte Eule?

Featuring die Uhus von der Burgruine (Tristan & Isolde) und des Steinbruchs (Lotte & Leo) mit Nachwuchs.

This is the Urban Jürgensen's The Alfred. I do not own one, and probably never will now as Urban Jürgensen is no longer making them, and the watch is gone from their web site. It remains one of the more beautifully designed watches I've ever come across.

Hodinke did a review far better than anything I could do, and I won't repeat it.

The hands are clearly inspired by Breguet's iconic style, and UJ did a wonderful job with the design and craftsmanship, giving them depth and richness. The fired enamel face is textured, giving it a warm, almost parchment look, and the numbers are inlaid giving it a subtle depth. I love this font!

The back is skeletonized. It's a simple watch: no complications, manual, and not even a second hand. The simplicity is one of its charms.

The watch ran around €14,500 when they were new; if you poke around you can find evidence of them selling used for around $20k.

A promising recovery in Barn Owl numbers is emerging across Suffolk, following one of the poorest breeding seasons in recent years.

n 2025, conservationists monitoring 42 nest boxes across the 6,000-acre Wilderness Reserve recorded just two chicks successfully fledging.

The decline reflected a wider national trend, with Barn Owl breeding activity estimated to be around 25 per cent below average.

I'm not really a gamer, so I'm just curious. I bought Borderlands 4 a few days ago and have been playing it on my Linux desktop every day since then, and every day I run it, it downloads another 2GB patch. Every. Day. I have to make sure I don't start it when anyone else wants to use the WAN, and I have to start it a half-hour before I want to play, and I'm just curious if this is normal? Is it Linux? Is it Borderlands? Is it Steam? I've read that you can't fully disable these updates under Steam, but you can if you buy through Gog; perhaps I made the wrong choice of platform.

I'm just a bit baffled at the idea that Borderlands is releasing a new 2GB patch (and it's never less than 2GB) every 8 hours, or that every patch is necessary. I also know that Borderlands 3 did not have updates this frequently on the PS3. But I accept that, perhaps, I have something set up wrong. As I said, I'm not really a gamer.

Is this par for the course, now?

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It seems disabling the shader caching fixed it. The first time I ran it, it took a long time to get through "resurrecting", which is where it compiles shaders, but after that first time it doesn't take much longer to get to playable, and I haven't had it force download assets yet.

I see a couple of comments about the game itself being buggy. I'm several hours into the campaign (level 15) and haven't had any issues. I have problem with the Linux bluetooth stack glitching on the PS4 controller (kernel CRC errors from the driver) but I haven't had any crashes. I did encounter a glitch where a creature wasn't being rendered, but moving around brought it back and nothing yet has affected gameplay. I don't know if the creature glitch was related to disabling the cache, but... FWIW, the game seems to run as well as BL3 on my PS4.

Most of the cases where most people use bookmarks, I want a search engine based on only sites I've visited. I don't know whether I'm dramatically different from other people, but by the time I'm looking for a site, I've forgotten the most unique attributes, and even my own tagging often ends up tagging the wrong sorts of attributes. Tagging is still better for me than hierarchical organization, but what I really want is a sort of command-line search engine that searches only sites I've visited before.

I've frequently thought about building such a thing, but every time I do I think, "someone must have already built this." So:

Does anyone know of a tool like bmm or buku, but which indexes the URL's main page, and has a command-line tool for keyword querying the DB like a search engine? As in, performing stemming and lemmatization? It'd be like bmm/buku's tag search, only the tags would be a search engine index of the page.

What I do not want is

• a self-hosted, web-based UI search engine
• a self-hosted bookmark manager; buku and bmm are already both fine tools, and I'm not trying to solve "access all my bookmarks from everywhere". That latter I can do with rsync or syncthing.
• a command-line bookmark manager... unless it conforms to the constraints above: queries should function on a full-text index of selected web pages. Again, buku and bmm would be fine if my tagging skills were better.
• a crawler-based search engine

I do want:

• the convenience of giving the tool a URL and having it auto-tag. buku does this, except that IME the resulting tags correlate even less well to how I remember things when I want to search than my manual tagging does.
• some fuzziness in the search; my current problem is how constrained the searches are. This isn't their failing; I simply have obtuse recollection skills. I tag "dog,pet,animal", but when I'm looking for it, what I remember is "it's got four legs".
• local, command-line
• indexing a page of a given URL. Recursive is optional; I probably wouldn't use it, but if it's there that's fine. I just want to be able to limit the indexing to a single page.

This is my last ditch effort to find an existing tool; otherwise, I'm going to build it, because it's not a hard problem. Which is in part why I'm having trouble believing someone hasn't already built it.

Hi,

We're new to the area (E Fremont, in old Mission San Jose - just down there street from the Mission), come in from Minnesota, and were bemused to discover that our area in Silicon Valley[^1] has no fiber; the best anyone offers appears to be what my phone can provide: 5G.

There are a dozen or more 5G providers. Who are your favorites? I know we're limited by the technology. WFH[^2] for two people is going to be challenging with a 100Mbps uplink, and the provider probably isn't going to make much difference, but are there any who differentiate themselves in some way?

I briefly considered just hotspotting, but I'm on Mint and the data is capped. Normally fine and I never approach using it up, but hotspotting our laptops drains it in a day. An ISP at least will not have data caps.

Anyhoo... recommendations?

Postscript I went with Sail/Twist, and am happy I did. Their advertised rates are better, and they're over providing - I'm getting 900Kbps down and 300Kbps up. Aparently, þey can provide even faster downlink. No caps, no congestion, and no throttling. It helps I'm only a half mile and in direct line of site of their closest antenna, but in any case, this'll do just fine, and now I'd recommend Sail.

[^1]: I know, I know. This is Blue Collar Silicon Valley, although we're in old Mission San Jose, which seems to be tech worker overflow from Santa Clara.

[^2]: I'm not self-hosting from home, but do a fair bit of upstreaming data, and my wife spends her days in video conferences

I thought this was an interesting development. I haven't seen the "you're missing out on content because of your configuration" before.

I saw the recent activity for a fix related to Piefed's new reactions. Is there any idea for if or when support for adding reactions will be added?

Development been quiet for a while - any idea is and when Piefed's new reactions will be supported in Summit?

I'm thrilled about reactions and an glad to see them supported. Several clients specifically mention supporting piefed (Blorp, Summit) - and technically they do, insofar as Piefed's API overlaps with Lemmy's API - but I've encountered none which have yet added support for reactions.

Is anyone out there using a mobile client which does?