Mußte ich erst soo alt werden
einen Mann kennen lernen, der noch 10 Jahre länger gelebt hat
um festzustellen, daß es das wirklich gibt
wovon die Frauenzeitschriften in ihren
Berichten über Männergruppen schreiben
einen Mann, der über Gefühle sprechen kann?
Eines ist klar:
ein solcher Mann ist unwiderstehlich,
wenn sich das rumspricht,
gibt es für die Frauen,
kein halten mehr.
Copyright 1998 Andrea Reinhardt
wieder einen mann
im wein ertränkt
im rückblick hat er
den guten tropfen nicht
verdient
also nüchtern bleiben
und gedichte schreiben
dann habe ich
keine leichen im keller
aber tote auf dem tisch
Copyright 1998 Andrea Reinhardt
Initially out of necessity because the brightness keys of my new laptop didn't work out of the box (the driver was aded to my distro not a month later, which should have been acceptable, but I didn't know that at first), I was looking for a way to set the backlight brighness of my laptop's internal screen easily, without typing a command in a shell. What I ended up using I like even better than the usual + and - keys.
I'm using i3wm and dmenu. The way I set screen brightness is
It's simple to implement. Just put this line in the i3 config file:
bindsym $mod+b exec \
thatbright=$(echo "1000\n2000\n3000\n4000\n5000\n6000\n7000\n100\n10" \
| dmenu -p "How bright though?") && echo $thatbright \
> /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness
You can put it into one line (without the \s inbetween) if you want.
You could easily change that to a two-step or single shortcut if you like. I like the three-step version because it allows me to choose from one of seven brightness modes easily but also lets me enter a value below or between those pre-sets without taking up more than one key.
First, the variable thatbright is set to the number that dmenu outputs, which can be one of the numbers that are echoed to the pipe (selected with
arrow keys or completed when typed in dmenu) or another number that is entered into dmenu. If that was suggessful, the value is written to
/sys/class/backlight/*/brightness. If you have multiple backlights in /sys/class and you only want to set one or if your shell doesn't support wild
cards in paths, you can change the * to whatever applies to your system, e.g. intel_backlight.
The simplest script that sets the screen brightness in Linux is probably the one-liner from above: echo $1 > /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness. This
sets the raw numerical value. You need to know what a sensible range of numbers is and what the maximal accepted value is (look at
'/sys/class/backlight/[YOUR_BACKLIGHT]/max_brightness'). But there are more elaborate scripts, like bbacklight by Giuseppe Eletto
with which you set the brightness with a percentage value.
Die Sirenen wurden den Männern schon zum Verhängnis
vor vielen Jahrhunderten
sie hätten es also besser wissen müssen,
sie dachten, sie wären sicher
Worte hätten ihre Kraft verloren
was soll schon passieren,
wenn Du sie nur liest und nicht hörst
Odysseus hatte seien Männern die Ohren verstopft
um selbst gefesselt um so genauer hinzuhören
und er war der erste, der süchtig wurde
seit ihm suchen sie alle den Gesang der Sirenen
und wissen es nicht
und sind so leicht zu fangen
jetzt ist mein Boot übervoll
das Netz meiner Worte läßt keinen los
glücklich betrachte ich jede Seele einzeln
streichle sie sanft und werfe sie wieder ins Wasser
auch wenn wir nicht widerstehen können zu fangen
so haben wir doch hinzugelernt
und lassen die Seelen frei
während unsere das Fangen gefangen hält.
Copyright 1998 Andrea Reinhardt
nobody:
me: can we please let this stupidly over- and misused meme format die already?
When I first read about Project Gemini (the Gemini protocol) I was excited. I think it's a good idea for several reasons and I'm happy that it's reality and more than a handful of people help building that space and filling it with content. I never got into gopher mainly because I don't find the structure of gopher sites (gopherholes?) suitable for most kinds of content. And because the web exists and, with the right browser extensions and configuration, isn't annoying enough most of the time.
But now that there is a new kid on the block with a different feature set and the right ideological background of the initiator(s) of the protocol, I seriously thought about moving this site over to the Gemini Space. Or to participate in any way. But I've decided against it for now. I've just started building this site and the software behind it and I don't want to abandon thi project already or start a competing one before this one is established in my mind.
So this blog entry shall be my only contribution for now. Go check it out, there already is a lot of interesting content in Gemini capsules.
I just woke up from a screenable dream. I didn't get enough sleep every day before today this week. So when I finally took the time for a nap, I got reworded with a long, intense dream. I love this feeling of extra REM sleep. (Although it wasn't extra of course. I really missed it throughout the week.)
I don't usually write my dreams down. And I won't include the actual detailed content, scenes, what I saw, who did what, etc. of this one either. And I won't even try to put the feelings that I had into words. But I just could not go on with normal everyday life without addressing it. I tried, but it felt like letting an entire civilisation die in my head. One with a bunch of kitties among them even. I won't take on that guilt.
Rough story overview: Stuff happens, people live their lifes, have interactions, make mistakes, hold grudges, are sometimes angry with each other, love, work, try to enjoy life anyway. Then something happened. I wondered throughout the dream what it was exactly. I don't know. Lets say some scientist in a secret laboratory messed up and started a chain reaction of really bad events. It (the world) very quickly gets worse, like fires everywhere, soon no electricity, people disappear (nobody died in this story, they were just suddenly gone somehow). An undetermined apocalypse with the result that every city, town and village and most people are gone. Few people find themselves on an earth that has nothing of the things they were used to just a few days ago. They soon find each other and work together to figure out how to live now. They are the people we met at the beginning. There are people who hated each other, but they have to work together now, and they do. Our protagonist wanders alone for a day until he meets this new small tribe and is instantly assumed part of it. They are a cheerful group of friends now. Nobody hates each other. Everybody helps each other. Everybody acknowledges each others quirks and lives with them. They travel together, presumably to find a nice inhabitable piece of land. Along their way they find ruined cities, a displaced ocean, pieces of their old civilisation that they can use as tools. They share, they laugh together, they build a society.
This dream felt so good because of the intense feelings that I got from it and that I woke up with. But I found the story worth telling, even if it's just in this short, rough form. I don't think I've ever heard of an apocalypse movie where people didn't try to kill each other or trick them out of their belongings afterwards. Ignoring the facts that this wouldn't fly with Hollywood and that it might still be too soon after waking up for me to judge this, I'd love to watch that movie!
Parts of the story that I didn't include above: The people somehow also were animals, like in "The Animals of Farthing Wood" maybe, but they were also humans most of the time. They didn't shapeshift, they just were both but mostly one of the two at a time. In the new society one member started a newspaper. He didn't have any tools or paper. He just made it his job to be the newspaper. He ran around telling people the news. Some thought it was annoying, but they just laughed and liked him anyway. The new tribe had a huge float when the protagonist found them. I don't know what they were floating on, but it was light red. The float wasn't in the rest of the dream. There were still forest fires when they traveled. The protagonist discovered at some point that they weren't traveling away from the fire because they were surrounded by huge fires now. They were fine where they were currently. But they had to find a way to get out of that entwining fire. He was telling the rest that I they started to run when I decided to wake up. Maybe better that way, could have continued badly.
I don't think I'm going to set up anything that could be considered smart home tech for me. There are such fun projects in it and it would be very satisfying to
be able to control some things remotely (that is, I'd decide on and be able to change the interface) but it would also be yet another never-ending project for me.
I have never planned to install anything of that kind but I already have so many ideas about what I would do if I would go smart home and how I'd set things up.
Let's leave it at that. I have enough too many unfinished project already.
For example I have those universal keypads that were made for numeric keypads (+ a fey extra keys) of industrial machines. I have at least a dozon of them, maybe two. They are great: Good quality in every aspect, nice hard click, sturdy, customisable (buttons can be switched out or replaced by blank covers) and a simple matrix connector. It would ne great to have one of these next to every door, in or on every table, at the bedside, and maybe one or two non-stationary ones that would control everything that could be relevant from the location of each terminal.
Every terminal would have a micro controller connected to a network. I could update those controllers all at once with new firmware. The keypads would have several modes from where I could control devices and the lights (including color, at least in one room). Also for my blinking light projects and mood light that would be a nice way of turning on and off exactly those lamps, effects and glowing pictures that I want at taht moment.
But I won't do it. That's a decision.
PS: Does anybody want some great small keypads for DIY use?
Edit: I remember that I, when I previously talked about this topic, said that I don't start with this because the value I see it bringing to my life isn't large enough. I said that the one thing that could convince me that it's worth investing money and time into smart home tech would be a really very reliable way of sensing presence in a room as well as somebody approaching the entrance to a room. Basically, if the music or podcast that I was currently playing on my PC or phone would automatically be played in the room I'm currently in but not in any room I'm not in, except when I was about to walk into another room, then I'd maybe get in. If this would be really really reliable and affortable, then I'd reconsider my decision. Thermal based motion sensors aren't good enough for this. I'd probably need a dozen of them in each room. (Looks like I saved a dozen of the wrong things from being scrapped.) And to customise the software for my home would probably a small project on its own. I don't know of another sensor that could do this that wouldn't require me having at least some sort of device on me all the time.