RE: https://discuss.systems/@sperbsen/117247038388537712

#macOS27 #AppleTimeMachine

This IMHO is the greatest thing since sliced bread:
Now that Apple has discontinued the AFP protocol of old Time Capsules, James Chang figured out that Time Capsule firmware is based on NetBSD, hacked it to provide SMB, and did a beautiful UI frontend to make it super-easy to install.
https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

@CoMaps Is there a way to support you regularly by a simple SEPA bank transfer? Cheap, immediate, European? All other options seem to go through platforms that want a share, or US credit cards that take a share, and PayPal is, well, no longer an option for me for political reasons.

A quotation from Bill Watterson

   CALVIN: It offends the human ego that nature is indifferent to us. Nature doesn’t care if people live or die. It refuses to be tamed. It does whatever it wants and acts like people don’t matter. It won’t confirm our right to be here. That drives people crazy. We can’t stand being ignored. It’s insulting and … hey!
   HOBBES: YAWWNN. [wanders off]
   CALVIN: I think that’s also why some people don’t like cats.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1994-03-04)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/84594…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #cats #ego #humannature #indifference #naturalworld #nature #reality #validation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116297450175217702

»Am Ende bleibt ein Satz meiner Großmutter, ruhig, aber bestimmt: „Alle sagen immer, die AfD, das seien die Nazis, die seien das Problem. Aber der Kanzler redet doch genau so, damit die Leute ihn weiterhin wählen. Dann ist die CDU doch auch ein Teil dieses Problems, oder etwa nicht?“« #Merz

Wer kannte ihn nicht? Vor seinem Buchladen und Stadtteilwohnzimmer in der Altstadt sitzend. Rauchend. Links. Scheinbar unerschütterlich.

Bert Heim ist am vergangenen Freitag verstorben und mit ihm ein Stück Stadtkultur, eine kleine Institution. Wir werden ihn vermissen. Danke, Bert, für viele gute Bücher und viele gute Gespräche in vielen Jahrzehnten.

Den Genossenschaftler:innen und uns allen wünschen wir, dass der Laden in Berts Sinne weiterleben kann.

https://die-zeitgenossen.buchhandlung.de/shop/

#Esslingen

With the polio vaccine in the news, I want to tell some of my mom's story:

My mom got polio when she was a kid living in southern California, pre-vaccine. She survived it, but it put her in a wheelchair for a while, then leg braces. She was actually a literal poster child for the Polio vaccine: they used her picture on some March of Dimes posters.

But this was not a thing that just affected her for a while, and then she was better. As a result of having Polio, her right leg is slightly shorter than her left. For her entire life, she's had to have special lifts put into her right shoe. When she drives, she uses her left foot for the brake pedal because she's concerned that her right leg might not be strong enough to stomp on the brake hard if needed. She has always been limited in how long and far she can walk: I remember many times on family vacations where the rest of us would go off to do something and she'd have to sit it out because she knew she just couldn't do that much walking.

Now that she's elderly, a lifetime of this is catching up: her bones, joints, ligaments, tendons are all messed up from having a weak leg and an unbalanced gait. Her mobility is declining much faster than it should be, even for someone of her age. She had to have her ankle fused because of the constant pain it was causing.

Polio didn't ruin her life, but it has stolen it in slices. Times she couldn't keep up with her kids, times she was just too tired to be able to stay on her feet, chronic pain, losing the ability to climb stairs in her own house as she ages.

Vaccination is the greatest public health success humanity has ever produced, and we forget this only at our own peril.

@Fischblog #Quokka-Sprechstunde! Für wenn du mal im LÄND bist … 😉 https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.talk-ueber-quokkas-in-der-wilhelma-stuttgart-zu-besuch-bei-den-gluecklichsten-tieren-der-welt.243007b7-b26c-4765-ac4d-3b59c6e424b5.html

#Lynx #Wildlife #ShareGoodNewsToo

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/113022412266837341

CACM Is Now Open Access https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/

#Esslingen #LautGegenRechts #NieWiederIstJetzt @ralphruthe

Flora Incognita: Pünktlich mit den ersten Sonnenstrahlen seit langem fängt’s draußen an zu blühen: Winterlinge, Kornelkirschen, Alpenveilchen … Hier eine tolle App zum Bestimmen. Macht Spaß, man lernt viel und unterstützt ein wichtiges Forschungsprojekt.

@FloraIncognita_DE