clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

Flawesome. GNU/Linux is my daily driver OS since 1995. On Fedi since 2008. Working in Racket, Tcl, Python, whatever gets the page up. Solving yesterday's problems tomorrow. A dad. Freddie Mercury is my spiritual advisor.

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2025-04-25 07:35:32

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Three weeks ago:
RE: libranet.de/objects/0b6b25a8-1…
#nevent1q…6kn5

2025-04-25 07:34:49

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Announced six (ish?) months in advance, closed on its tenth anniversary 2025-04-03, three weeks ago, because ... it had run its course, apparently? Owner was done with it. This pieced together from scattered cached posts.
The site has been explicitly removed from the Wayback Machine, so I won't disrespect the owner and dig around for cached or archived posts to link to. Happy to hear if there's a blog post or something on the topic.
Thanks for all the fish!

2025-01-06 15:33:13

US people and Swedish people have very different relations to medication.
Swedes generally undermedicate. I have made a vow to compensate for it and take an aspirin when there's a rational reason to do so. And to keep aspirin and ibuprofen around to enable that. I know the names of paracetamol and ibuprofen because of a catchy song in a popular ad in the 90s.
When I watch some US shows, medical brands are part of the vocabulary and I have to stop and look them up to follow the dialog. The intended audience is so fluent in dozens of brands for various states of mind or body, that a character can go "ugh, I need my $BRAND" and you're supposed to know "oh, he's sad", or "oh, she's jittery for the presentation tomorrow", and I'm probably missing the more subtle "oh, that person is probably taking too much of their $OTHERBRAND".
I think that is the opioid crisis. Not some shady guy in a garage and/or another country responding to the demand.
I think the right balance is probably somewhere in between.

2024-08-03 21:00:35

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@npub1qh0…xeda Blackrock is among the investors that the Committee is implying left the coalition because of pressure from Jordan's investigation.

2024-08-03 20:35:05

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio [ . . . ] has led a right-wing crackdown on industrial independence — which is blatantly hypocritical behavior coming from the purported party of “free enterprise.”
It's modern-day McCarthyism.
msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-…
Are you, or have you ever been, the CFO of a corporation that is party to Climate Action 100+?

2024-08-02 14:10:17

The HK government bought the Olympic Games rights for HK, so that people can watch it on any channel they like, whether it's Viu, TVB, Hoy, RTHK or something else.
But I can't seem to find anywhere online I can watch the table tennis semifinal that just finished. I found one place where I think I could have streamed it as it happened.

2024-08-01 14:27:14

Not watching the trailers before watching Deadpool × Wolverine was the right choice, maaan they showed a lot.
I had my first big surprise just minutes into the film and that would have been ruined if I had been reading or watching anything about it in advance.

2024-07-29 10:09:50

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@npub15vm…3t4y The question is based on the early-2020 idea that a mask doesn't protect you. It does protect others more.

2024-07-26 18:24:36

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@npub1qh0…xeda Am I missing a reference?

2024-07-26 17:55:32

Kid finds the best youtube channels.
Tonight we have been following a guy's entire villain arc transforming from regular college student to youtuber traveling the world, trying the local signature dishes and turning them into recipes for grilled cheese sandwiches.
"Pappa, I need a grilled cheese sandwich now!"
It was inevitable.

2024-07-26 12:45:24

I deserve some decadence!
I have bought a piece of my favorite unhealthy bread, to enjoy tomorrow when I wake up, and I have bought some Swedish soft rye bread and a jar of elderflower marmalade, om nom nom.

2024-07-24 07:09:06

"Heeeere's Johnny!" was a reference to a Johnny Carson show catchphrase!
TIL.

2024-07-19 13:04:50

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2024-04-16 03:13:23

Colleague in Japan: "Almost every household here has a fax, because if you have kids in school, the main line of communication from the school is the fax."

2023-12-21 02:08:48

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@npub15vz…h7ku What are all those ports? The non-D-sub Centronics? IEEE-488?

2023-11-02 04:12:25

Apart from the control circuitry and maybe the datastream looking different, what would be the reason for someone picking one of NAND and NOR over the other for their persistent storage?
I was expecting them to be functionally equivalent and thought the industry had arbitrarily picked NAND over NOR decades ago, but apparently Apple Sllicon uses NOR for their recovery firmware?

2023-10-22 06:33:02

"maple-flavored syrup"

2023-10-16 00:05:34

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@npub1qdc…wf2f @npub1re8…flwd The text just says it's bigger. =)
Awesome picture! Especially love the halo behind the middle sun shining behind its neighbors! Lovely artistic choice.

2023-10-03 00:51:57

"Jesus saves. Moses invests."

2023-09-17 18:13:21

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@npub1p0p…txys "Waiting for Godot" 4 to support mobile

2023-09-12 06:45:44

I'm on a lunch break.
Person in another time zone:
"Hello Claes, good afternoon"
When I come back I respond, but now they are on a lunch break.
I have a permanent status "It's ok to skip the smalltalk, just let me know how I can help you. 😊 nohello.net/ ". Anyone writing a message to me will see this above their input box.
Sadly it is not helping, people do this all the time.
#NoHello #NoHelloNet

2023-09-08 12:29:34

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@npub1mh5…233h @npub1ysu…2jyl @npub1wc2…4sk7 You don't necessarily have to "win".
It's more important to make sure you don't have millions of people in your country who "lose", and to have solid institutions that keep it that way even in the presence of "winners" trying to change that.
Good education, nutrition and transport for everyone goes a long way.

2023-09-08 10:36:52

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1ysu…2jyl Car dependency is keeping people not only poor but unhappy.
I'm perfectly happy with a CO2 tax that is on the total cost neutral. Charge everyone for their emissions, distribute the money back equally. Where's my hate for the poor now? The rich pollute more.

2023-09-08 10:29:46

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1ysu…2jyl Not if the alternative infrastructure is provided to get prices back down.

2023-09-08 10:02:28

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub1ysu…2jyl Gas prises (including tax) are too low everywhere. They are the highest in Scandinavia and they're still not enough to get driving down to sustainable levels.

2023-08-19 08:53:03

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@npub1a9p…5t5x @npub1q9n…709x There were nonzero people who sincerely tried to make Russia a liberal democracy. If they failed to rally the rest, understanding why is an interesting and important topic.

2023-08-19 02:41:45

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@npub162n…ja4e @npub1tt4…x9ud I originally wrote this with "user", but a lot of people including me don't like that word and I hate the word "stakeholders". Clients don't have to be paying clients, just someone or some community for whom we're making software.
It is perfectly valid to write software for oneself, just nerd away for the art and/or fun of it, but even for software written for oneself, more often the software is incidental and serves furthering some non-software goal.
Lots of people originally considering themselves non-developers get into software this way – linguists, lawyers, biologists, textile designers, tax accountants, visual designers, musicians, architects, farmers, divers ...

2023-08-18 16:47:12

Software development is about solving client problems, not about writing code.
Code is our foremost method for solving client problems, but lines of code are a liability, not an asset. The fewer you can get away with while solving the client's problem equally well, the better.
#SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #BusinessDevelopment

2023-08-18 16:33:36

Which Free Software project had an in-joke where there was a text file like "cabal.txt" on their web site and the file just said "there is no Swedish cabal"?
Gnome? Mozilla?

2023-08-15 03:23:57

Another day, another trip to @npub15f2…djpn . ❤️
Always a reliable partner to get an overview of the open source alternatives to some proprietary service people are pushing.

2023-08-12 10:41:06

Aaand it continues.
"Authorities said that those arrested — four men and six women, aged 26 to 43 — were suspected of conspiring to collude with the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund.
The now-disbanded fund helped pay legal and medical costs for people arrested during the mass pro-democracy protests that rocked the Chinese city in 2019."
dw.com/en/hong-kong-arrests-10…
#hongkong #antiELAB #hkpol #HKNatSecLaw

2023-08-11 12:12:04

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@npub1asx…0zge Obviously yes. There are difference degrees of whitehood in every country. Sweden for example has statistics for Nordic and non-Nordic immigrants.

2023-08-05 08:55:50

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@npub1gss…ju3v Yeah I don't remember seeing anything either.