Emil @EmilJacobs@soc.ialis.me
Dutch, communist and open source enthusiast.
So, after a first weeklong waterfast in November, I'm now in my 72nd hour of my two-week waterfast for December! So far things are going great! :)
Ketogenic meal of the day: 400 grams of sprouts, 250 grams of bacon and half a "rookworst" (a Dutch delicacy, look it up at Wikipedia). Omnomnom 🤤
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So, last week I started a new kind of diet: fasting. After reading a book on the subject ("The complete guide on fasting" by Dr. Fung) and I started on a 3 day waterfast right away. This worked out great: I felt good and energetic, my eczema dropped as did blood pressure and lost some weight (3 kilo's, mostly water).
Last Monday I started alternate fasting: 19 hours of no eating at all per day, to drop my insulin levels and have some fat burning going on, and five hours of eating. Again, I feel great and appear to lose more structural weight now.
I do have some questions though, being new at this. I figured that, when eating, I go for a low/none carb diet. Is that the way to go? Also I could use some recipes, as I kinda default to a meat-rich diet and an overload on proteins can't be good either.
So, I'm looking into #MediaGoblin again and wonder what's up with them?
- No news on their main site since almost a year.
- Last release (0.9) 18 months ago.
- Documentation outdated, referring to version 0.7 (released 3 years ago).
- Still missing basic functionality, such as sharing on social media.
- On that note: MediaGoblin is (semi)active on Twitter, but doesn't appear to have a Mastodon account.
So, yeah. Is this a stillborn?
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60 000 people so far have signed the petition to request a referendum on scrapping the Dutch bill on total surveillance of all communication, called the "Sleepwet".
If you're a Dutch citizen, get us to the required 300 000 and spread the word to friends, family and colleagues!
And... I burned through season 2 of the Expanse way faster than I like.
Damn, I like that series.
So, my new Airpods connect pretty well to my Fedora 26 installation. Wasn't expecting that actually. Some notes:
- Yes, connecting them is really as easy as opening the bluetooth settings and pressing connect.
- For some reason the global Gnome sound bar doesn't affect the volume, at least in combination with Spotify. The Spotify sound bar works fine. The global sound bar works fine in other applications, like my browser. I suspect Spotify / electron weirdness.
- When removing one Airpod from your ear, music doesn't doesn't pause :( (why did I think this would work?).
- The battery life was somewhat of a concern, but is actually pretty good. I'm now on a single charge for two days. Found no way to read the battery level on Linux yet though.
Yes, it's an expensive accessory, but I think it's really worth it. Especially if you're a podcast addict like me :D
Tl;dr for English speakers: the Dutch government wants to have a law to spy on all citizens, all the time.
"Dit wil de Sleepnet wet: onschuldige Nederlandse burgers worden voortaan massaal getapt door onze eigen veiligheidsdiensten. Je facebookberichten, chats, persoonlijke mails en telefoongesprekken worden voortaan afgeluisterd en jarenlang opgeslagen. Niet alleen metadata dus, maar gewoon alles, ook de inhoud."
http://www.grutjes.nl/2017/07/laat-jij-je-door-de-sleepnetwet-vangen/
Today we had Romans marching our lands! 😨
It was a great day. A bit warm though.
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Here's a report on the action yesterday. If you don't read Dutch... Well, there's lots of pictures!
Had a great evening! The local neighbourhood is threatened with losing their local patch of green. The neighbourhood however says "No! We want to keep our green heart!" ❤️
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Started today inspecting a possible future office for the local branch of the Socialist Party. Looking good, cheaply priced and great location for distribution and neighbourhood work. What can a socialist ask for more in a stable base of operations?
Everyday you learn something new: while the PDF format has no explicit limits, Adobe software has. It only sees PDF's up to 200 inches, or about 5 meters. While this is fine in most cases, it can lead to strange situations.
Most PDF viewers respect this limit and have it built in (without notifying you of course). But Evince, the Gnome PDF viewer I use, can render all of it, irrespective of size.
So, when I exported a 15 meter wide PDF from Inkscape and reviewed it in Evince, it looked fine. The printer disagreed, only "seeing" 5 meters of it. A short Google search later explained why.
What a stupid limitation.
So, haven't been very active lately on Mastodon. Sorry about that, as lots has happened!
First, this commie has been elected chair of the local SP (the NL party) branch since earlier this month.
Second, we had a great human chain last Sunday, stretching 50 000 people and running 90km from Aachen to Maastricht to Liege and the Tihange nuclear power plant. This protest was to give a message to the Belgian state running this old and dangerous plant, that it has to close!
Will keep you posted 👋
So, I tried out KDE 5.9 today and can't say it works for me anymore. Gnome just feels much better in its workflow. Waiting for 3.24 to come out. Not hating you KDE users out there of course 😁