phellmes

Ants on peach blossom

phellmes

Sat, 23 Apr 2016 23:09:45 +0200

They were searching around very meticulously...

This was also posted on my DeviantArt gallery: http://fav.me/da01y5r
You can go there to find some of my older photos that have not been published here on this channel.

photography

phellmes

Mon, 04 Apr 2016 16:05:18 +0200

Here's a snapshot from last week showing a cute bullfinch couple at a feeder. It's a bit vague because it was taken through a window - but still worth showing.

photography

Relaxing with Phedran's "Life in the Woods Renaissance"

phellmes

Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:57:41 +0200

Minecraft has been an occasional way to get my mind free and relaxed for quite a while now. Recently I stumbled upon some videos about the lately released "Life in the Woods - Renaissance" modpack by Phedran, installed it and loved it right from the start. It provides a well balanced experience for both exploring and settling/farming. You can find a lot of interesting landscapes and plants but you also have to take care about the food situation. So - big thanks here to Phedran and of course all the developers of the included mods.

Btw, as you see on the images I can't play with the advanced shaders. They drop the framerate too much and remind me that the graphics card on my machine wasn't intended to be used for gaming. Still a lot of fun.

I used one of the world seeds provided by Phedran in her seed showcase videos (Cherry Blossom Cove) and this was my first home to get things started.

Dusty desert ahead...

Bridge construction at the second temporary home:

Through seasonal woods...

Building the third temporary home on the way to restock food and material resources:

I've also seen some nice flowing rivers already but didn't take a screenshot.

Phedran's Life in the Woods Renaissance playlist on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlegvgmNHE67g84ctQMt-BGKvbndpw9fk

#LitWR #Minecraft

games

Museum

phellmes

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:36:40 +0100

From the late afternoon park walk series, December 2015

backside of a historic museum building

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You can go there to find some of my older photos that have not been uploaded here.

photography

Math denialism: crypto backdoors and DRM are the alternative medicine of computer science

phellmes

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:22:41 +0100 last edited: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:07:18 +0200

Good point from Cory Doctorow (I suggest to also read his Guardian column that is linked in there).

Math denialism: crypto backdoors and DRM are the alternative medicine of computer science
by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing

article links

Silent observer

phellmes

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 23:42:36 +0100

From the late afternoon park walk series, December 2015

The statue is located on the islet in the pond.

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photography

phellmes

Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:20:40 +0100

Big thanks to all the developers and contributors of FOSS projects out there!

https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2016/index.en.html

#ilovefs

Duck traffic

phellmes

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 21:17:44 +0100

Pond in the park, late afternoon, December 2015

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Sweet dreams

phellmes

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:24:15 +0100

Time to put up the obligatory cat photo. No web appearance is complete without it.

Not my cat... but I did take the photo.

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http://fav.me/d9fy4ya

photography

phellmes

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:19:26 +0100

Here's a photo from an afternoon stroll in the park in late December 2015.

Image/photo

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You can go there to find some of my older photos that have not been uploaded here.

photography

phellmes

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:23:53 +0100

Caminandes: Llamigos (the 3rd episode of the Caminandes animated shorts) is out. Great work from the team at Blender Institute and another showcase of what can be done with Blender today.

Caminandes 3: Llamigos - Funny 3D Animated Short
by Blender on YouTube

art links

phellmes

Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:44:04 +0100

Oh joy - David Revoy just published the new "Pepper & Carrot" episode 14: The Dragon's Tooth

Episode 14 : The Dragon's Tooth - Pepper&Carrot

Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free/libre and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.

art links

phellmes

Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:52:11 +0100

After my longer absence from the grid I used a planned server replacement to finally migrate this channel to a shiny new Hubzilla installation. So far the channel import worked and everything is running smoothly. Let's see if it stays that way once the previous Red Matrix hub shuts down later today.

phellmes

Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:25:02 +0200

Fresh out there now -
Episode 3 of David Revoy's open source webcomic "Pepper&Carrot":

http://www.davidrevoy.com/article241/episode-3-the-secret-ingredients

I really like it!

Post permission priority

phellmes

Germany, Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:31:11 +0200

Hi there, people on @The Red Matrix Support Channel,

I have a little question about the permission settings on posts.
Each channel and group has a "show" and a "don't show" option.
If these permissions overlap - which one has priority?

Example: channel A is both in group X and Y. I set permission for X to "show" and permission for Y to "don't show". Can channel A see the post or not?

From my point of view I would expect the restrictive option ("don't show") to have priority on overlapping settings.

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Thomas Willingham

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:34:43 +0200

You can't do that.

If you can do that, your browser is broken, so whatever it decides to do is what will happen.

phellmes

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 22:52:58 +0200

That's interesting. Because, conceptually, I think this is a valid scenario. Since you can put channels in multiple groups (collections), and you can set permissions based on groups, intersections with conflicting permissions have to be possible. Which channel ends up with what final permission would then be a question of priority.
Or am I missing something?

Thomas Willingham

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:02:06 +0200 last edited: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:04:34 +0200

That's a completely different thing.  deny takes precedence there.

The issue with setting allow and deny for the same user is that it isn't possible.  For it to happen, the browser has to render the ACL box incorrectly which makes it a bug.  An imaginary bug.  There's no way to predict the details of an imaginary bug.

IE, As described, it can't happen.  That means there's no way to predict what the item would be stored with.  The bug is happening in a different layer to the actual permissions side of things.

Thomas Willingham

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:07:46 +0200

You can't use "show" and "don't show" for the same person.

You can get them both into the actual permissions array, but if you clicked both options for the same entry, something has already gone wrong before the post is even stored. In that case, what the end result is depends on exactly what the client has done wrong.

phellmes

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:17:55 +0200 last edited: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:22:35 +0200

That completely different thing was what I initially meant - settings via different groups that have some identical channels in them.
So, as expected - "don't show" has priority then. That's good to know, thanks for the info!

Thomas Willingham

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:31:11 +0200 last edited: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:32:12 +0200

<aside>This is why I keep saying that sometimes the people who know the code best are the last people you should ask how it works...</aside>

Mike Macgirvin

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:35:21 +0200

Deny (don't show) has precedence for all the reasons given - deny isn't typically used on its own - you could just list those allowed (show).

Where it becomes useful is if you've got a collection called "friends" and you want to show something to all your friends - except Bill; and Bill is a member of friends. So you would select "show" for your Friends collection and "don't show" for Bill and it will do what you want.

phellmes

Sat, 05 Apr 2014 23:46:54 +0200

That totally makes sense and was - as I wrote - the expected behavior. I just wanted to ask and be sure about that before writing documentation or giving support to someone without definitely knowing it. I didn't find something on that in the official docs.
Thanks again, Thomas and Mike!