One of the most unexpected but horrific quotes for me so far:
"Unfortunately, many of these worm coders were sloppy and didn't confine this random selection to unicast ranges. [...] If that host was on a multicast-enabled network, its FHR would send a PIM register for each group address to its local RP, which would then send an MSDP SA for each group to all its MSDP peers."
@Linux_in_a_Bit Yes!
And this is why I'm involved with #LinuxCafé, #Linux #installparties, #Linuxdays, #diday ... events, giving #PIM lectures and talks and hopefully publishing a book on how to organize yourself and your data some day.
To me, it's all one common topic:
Helping people to help themselves without #lockin effects.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sysedit/115945430161726947
#publicvoit now has a new tag: https://karl-voit.at/tags/populararticles/
You can find my most popular articles linked on that page.
Be careful when you use the phrase "It's Good Enough" the next time: https://karl-voit.at/2014/02/08/good-enough/
Fremont’s trailside bike shop/coffee shop Cycle & Coffee has ‘unexpectedly’ closed
The shop in the snow, February 2025. From the Cycle & Coffee facebook page.Housed in a small building in the middle of an industrial parking lot just off the Burke-Gilman Trail, Cycle & Coffee (AKA “PIM” for “Power In Motion”) has been fixing and selling bikes since 2018. They shifted to start also selling coffee to people through their bike- or drive-up window in 2019, and the shop slowly transformed from a bike shop that sells coffee to a half bike shop/half coffee shop and eventually to mostly a coffee shop that also fixes up vintage bikes. The beloved and quirky fixture in the neighborhood announced Thursday that they would “unexpectedly” shut down as of January 15.
In a short statement on Instagram, the company said they were “unable to survive the skyrocketing costs of doing business in Seattle, particularly in food service.”
Our Friends and Loyal Customers at Cycle & Coffee (Lovingly known as PIM):
Unfortunately and unexpectedly, today was out last day open as a business. Like many other businesses, we have been unable to survive the skyrocketing costs of doing business in Seattle, particularly in food service.
We are hoping that this is not the official end of Cycle & Coffee, and that a new owner will continue this community. For now though, this is it for us.
We want to thank all of our loyal friends and customers who have been there for us for all of these years and made this job worth coming to. We will see all of you around town!
And to our baristas and bike mechanics: thank you for the memories, friendship, and laughter.
The bike shop portion of the business shifted away from full service repairs. “We are shifting our focus as a shop to align with our passion for restoring and customizing vintage bikes, and doing custom builds for folks getting into using bikes as transportation for commuting, bike touring and bikepacking,” the shop wrote in a note to customers in July 2025.
It’s awful news to lose yet another bike shop in Seattle, though this one is particularly frustrating because it seemed like PIM was working hard to adapt and innovate around what a modern bike shop could look like, mixing coffee service and bike repair while also working with the peculiarities of their location. While the standard bike shop model is facing serious challenges in today’s brick-and-mortar small business environment, we need businesses to keep experimenting the way PIM did. I hope the shop can find new ownership to keep it going.
In case you needed another reminder, support your local bike shop! Bike shops are vital bicycle infrastructure, and what they do cannot be replaced by a website. Don’t buy that bike thing online, order it through a shop. The mechanics there may even have a suggestion for a better option. We cannot afford to keep losing full-service bike shops.
#SEAbikes #Seattle
Hey Fediverse! 👋
Pimalaya is now on Mastodon. We'll share releases, dev updates, and random thoughts about CLI tooling, Rust, and the PIM ecosystem.
Funded by @nlnet, built in the open.
🔗 https://pimalaya.org
💬 Matrix: #pimalaya:matrix.org
#introduction #rust #cli #foss #pim
RE: https://graz.social/@publicvoit/115875810144458821
I really do like how #SilverBullet is explaining the consequences of using their version of #Markdown on https://silverbullet.md/Markdown (#CommonMark).
With statements like that, people learn about the consequences of using that tool.
They can either accept this or think about the negative effects before investing too much energy and data.
I really urge any (#MD-)tool to include such a warning statement on their project page. It's for the benefit of your users.
One of the reasons why I most probably would recommend switching to SilverBullet if you - for some reason - can't use #orgmode with #Emacs which is IMO the optimum tool for many set of requirements: https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/
I'll migrate my wife's #PKM from #logseq (recent changes are a no-go to me) to SilverBullet or preferably Emacs. My upcoming #GLT26 Org-mode workshop (no recording) will tell her.
@sysedit In general, I totally can relate you your statement.
However, there is one additional notion to it: if you're using a really(!) powerful and flexible tool, you might need less tool switches for slightly different jobs.
IMO that's one of the (meta-)reasons why there are so many Windows programs out there: normal users aren't using flexible tools like #GNUtools (UNIX pipes) or #Emacs that are able to match a wide range of requirements where "normal people" are using a specific tool for one specific use-case.
I see the tendency that, e.g., every app needs to have a "read later/notify me later" feature or its own spell checker and so forth. From a tech perspective, this is not very clever.
If you do have your flexible #knowledgemanagement tool, you can implement all sorts of "do stuff later" functionality with it, in case your tools are flexible enough to interact with each other.
Furthermore: our requirements differ more than we think: https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/
Im Geiste der aktuellen Bestrebungen, sich von ausbeuterischen Großkonzernen frei zu machen (#DID, #DUD), möchte ich auf meinen Artikel hinweisen, wo ich erkläre, weshalb man vorsichtig sein soll, bevor man sich an ein Werkzeug bindet, das mit #Markdown als Dateiformat arbeitet:
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/
Meistens sind die hippen Tools auch noch #ClosedSource (zB #Obsidian). Mit einer Entscheidung für diese Software hat man schon mal einen #Lockin-Effekt, solange die Funktionalität nicht trivial ist. Das scheint vielen Menschen nicht bewusst zu sein.
Wenn dann die eigenen Informationen in Form von e. Markdown-Dialekt vorliegen, den man ohne Analyse + manuelle Konvertierung nicht in ein anderes (Markdown-)Format bringt, dann hat man trotz Textformat e. impliziten Lock-In-Effekt bei den Daten.
Entweder ein Werkzeug suchen mit einem ordentlichen, offenen Format ohne Mehrdeutigkeit oder sich bewusst auf konvertierbare Syntaxelemente beschränken.
@martinaklinkowski
Nun, das sehe ich etwas anders.
#Obsidian ist #closedsource und verwendet eigene Erweiterungen für das ohnehin bereits problematische #Markdown:
https://www.karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/
Insofern hat man mit solchen Lösungen trotz Textformat implizite lock-in-Faktoren, da man seine Daten nicht ohne aufwändige Konvertierung in anderen Tools 1:1 weiterverwenden kann.
Wenn man die proprietäre Software an sich bei der Bewertung ignoriert: einfach testweise 1 Woche ohne Obsidian arbeiten & schon merkt man sehr rasch, welche Funktionalitäten plötzlich doch stark fehlen. Das Dateiformat ist das eine aber die dynamischen Features wie Agenda machen erst die Lösung zu einer attraktiven.
Man kann sich schon für Obsidian entscheiden, allerdings darf man sich nicht so einfach in die Tasche lügen, was #Abhängigkeiten betrifft. Die sind da durch proprietäre Software und teilweise inkompatibles Speicherformat.
Wie viele Hypes wird es Obsidian in 5 bis 20 Jahren nicht mehr geben.
Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is an email client and personal information manager from Microsoft. Available for Windows and macOS, Outlook combines email, calendar, contacts, and task manageme(...)
#email #microsoft #pim #windows
https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/outlook?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@gisiger Der würde schauen, wenn ich ihm als sein Chef zu #Emacs zwingen würde. 😁
Und es ist sehr anmaßend von ihm, wissen zu wollen, was die Anforderungen seiner Kollegen sind:
https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/ 🙄
Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is an email client and personal information manager from Microsoft. Available for Windows and macOS, Outlook combines email, calendar, contacts, and task manageme(...)
@debacle Or do it like us did if you have the physical space:
Buy a used office #copymachine on the 2nd hand market for maybe 300€. Add 100-150€ to rent a truck to get it to your home.
Ours is: #KonicaMinolta #Bizhub C224e https://kmbs.konicaminolta.us/products/predecessor-products/bizhub-c224e/ but you may get Konica Minolta machines also under the brand "Develop": https://www.konicaminolta.eu/eu-en/news/develop-brand-identity-refresh
Those https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Printer offer awesome features, reliability, stability, proper document loader, A3 size scanning and printing, color, ... and are very easy to maintain with astonishing cheap supply. A fresh load of toner lasts for 50.000 pages or so. Basically endlessly for a typical household.
Make sure to disconnect it from power supply when not needed as it is consuming too much IMO. I do it via Shelly Plug S + HomeAssistant integration.
HTH
#Irreal: Never try #Emacs 😲
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13507
Yaiy, have set up a new #dn42 peering at the #39c3 with @famfo! Even with #multicast / #PIM enabled (one more issue to fix, but 95% done / works with a workaround).
Wow, Apple's issues with one of their most important core values (#UX, #UI design) does seem to be worse than I'd have expected.
More and more complaints do pop up in my bubble.
Latest example:
https://www.osnews.com/story/144083/apples-terrible-ui-design-is-not-the-fault-of-just-one-fall-guy/
Disclaimer: I'm #Apple-free (again) for over a decade mostly because of too many inabilities to adapt #macOS to my #PIM requirements and #privacy/#security concerns in general.
Large family on a table at Xmas.
A 18 year old woman who recently joined University seriously tells us that she can't imagine how to set an alarm clock without #Siri.
No, it wasn't metaphorical or something like that. She definitely has no clue how this could be accomplished without using Siri on her #iPhone. As if she's proud of this.
😒🤦
Aus einem Kalender mit Kinderzitaten.
