Håkan Geijer

Fedi. I heed your help. I need to send a gif to someone with the caption "mood" but I can't find it.

It shows horses in a stable and says "stables" then pans over to show vibrating and exploding horses and says "unstables."

Please. This is very important. Than you for your time.

If you want to break all your illusions about what it means to live and survive outdoors be it post-apocalyptic, part of a guerilla insurgency in the hills, seeking refuge after a disaster, or as part of a migratory journey, then please do a single three-day/two-night journey where you cross no civilized amenities between start and finish. Online and off, I see people speak about it with an air of casualness as if one can so simply walk away from society on a whim with little prep or practice. It is much more challenging than you think, especially the logistics of getting enough daily calories if you plan to be out for longer than a week.

I'm a hiker, not a survivalist, so I'm not even claiming to have this skillset, but having spent time living outside for weeks and months on end in a variety of conditions, I am acutely aware where my knowledge ends and how absolutely reliant I am on existing supply chains.

I suspect most people would have a rough time if power and water were cut off to their flats for a single week and they had to live off only what was presently in their flat. And with climate disasters, weak infrastructure from capitalist/neolib efficiency, "hybrid" war, and even ransomware hacker groups running amok, this too is more likely than most think.

I think about this a lot, and how media makes survival during hardship seem so easy (or when it's hard, it's just vague hardship symbolized by dirtiness and tiredness). In TLOU S2, I have booed and hissed at the comically insufficient amount of gear carried by the protagonists and antagonists for their journeys outdoors, and I wonder if the inadequacy (or the degree of it) registers for most. The only media I can think of (that wasn't explicitly about hiking, e.g., Wild) that seems to somewhat accurately capture the difficulty of traveling by foot and living outdoors was The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (and maybe the two sequels too?).

This is an insomniac ramble, maybe better suited for a longer form essay somewhere where I can go into detail, but having been up for the last 3 hours, well, shit. This is what we got for now.

Across the political spectrum, people are calling Palestine Action's vandalism/sabotage on the RAF base "terrorism" and I mean this quite literally, those same people would have sided with the Nazis in the 30s.

Everyone sharing that CounterPunch article estimating the death toll of the genocide in Palestine at 460k should possibly stop and delete their posts.

1. The author in their bio says he's an English teacher, not even a statistician or epidemiologist.
2. He does an awful lot of extrapolation that's assumed to be linear.
3. His basic math is even wrong as he doesn't understand that in a ratio of 3:1 that if one knows the value of the "1" component, to get the whole, one must multiply by 4. The author multiples by 3.

His numbers are a guess and not an asserted minimum.

The way this article is circulating has the same feel as pop-sci interpretations of another Lancet article from last year that estimated the long-term mortality in the event of an immediate cessation of hostilities, and people quoted these future deaths as if they were a factual number of currently counted deaths.

The current death toll is almost certainly a significant undercount, but this quote from the article is absolutely false:

> Anyone who claims to rely on the best scientific consensus today must report the current death toll in the Gaza genocide as “more than 115,000” violent deaths or “more than 460,000” overall.

The author is likening his napkin-math to "best scientific consensus." This is, of course, absurd.

This article gives the impression of "validating" what we already "know," but it doesn't. And actually a known death toll doesn't matter in the sense that genocide isn't determined by a raw number of deaths nor by a percentage of a population killed. If by some miracle only 10k had been killed, it would still obviously be genocide, and we should still oppose it.

What purpose does inflating this number serve? Will it change politicians' opinions? Will it drive us to bolder action? Or even just to put more time into fighting for Palestinian liberation? I imagine neither. The purpose it serves to deliver us the liberal self-satisfaction of being able to say "told you so" more than anything else.

I cannot express how important it is to build in person networks where you can meet and verify those you organize with. The ease and hyperreal nature of online interactions is rapidly becoming a time sink and liability, as if it wasn't already. Print zines and pamphlets. Talk to your neighbors. Make fewer but tighter connections instead of chasing "reach." And make sure those around you do the same.

https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/

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Fediverse map nerds. I need your help.

I need to create maps that I can apply custom filter/styling to. My assumptions for doing this are:

- Export from OSM as SVG
- Import to Inkscape and apply styling
- Export to PNG

I have found a bunch of wiks and help pages, mostly centered around `josm` which does not work at all. (can't download large enough grids, can't import an OSM dump of "norway" due it being too much data).

I think I am pretty "good at computer" and literally nothing I've found works. At all. I can produce nothing.

How much one do what I'm trying to do?

A pet peeve is people misusing this alleged proverb (such as below) where it's made more and more explicit so that it can only be interpreted in a single way. And then is still presented as being the original proverb, with it being an old phrase giving gravitas to whatever hamfisted point the author is trying to make.

The actual proverb is "Ağaca balta vurmuşlar 'sapı bedenimden' demiş" which translates more accurately to "They hit the tree with an axe, and the tree said 'the handle is of my body.'"

There's so much going on in the world, and to post about this rather than anything else seems like a frivolity, but it grates on me because there is endless misinformation with no attribution floating around as if it were The Truth, and we should do everything we can to retain our tenuous grasp on reality.

"It's okay when I make things up because I'm the goodie who's deriding the baddie" is actually total dogshit. Stop.

I finally got a pair of alpha-like fleece/mesh mitts after seeing it out in the wild for the first time late in my Norway trip and getting to try it on. And holy fuck this material is some incredible space-aged shit. Cannot wait for my current midlayer to become tatters so I can swap it out.

@federicomena@mstdn.mx I want to download topo maps and print them with some control over the contour lines and shadings like "forest" vs. "marsh" etc. I want to overlay GPX track and style that. I want some features (river, peak, hut, etc.) to appear and be styled in some way.

@apodoxus@mastodon.online Alpha Direct is a brand name of a type of micro fleece that's mesh-like to make small pockets of air to trap warmth. I bought midlayer mitts of a material that's similar (different brand, OMM if you're curious), and they are stupidly light and packable and so warm. Haven't used them yet, but its supposed to be quite warm when wet relative to other fabrics. I've used woven mesh base layers for a while and have been wanting to switch out my midlayers to something like this too.

@BigTittyBimbo@autonomous.zone I always think John Baizley and get confused

@Aepasek@scholar.social Vivaldi is Chromium based. Something like LibreWolf which is Firefox with the AI and telemetry stripped out might be an easier transition

@contrapunctus@fe.disroot.org

It seems like QGIS is the tool I need, and I was able to follow bits of the tutorial.

The steps you listed here don't seem to actually get me where I need. GeoFabrik doesn't have Shapefiles available. For adding layers, I don't see a source type called "service." I'm on v3.40.

I've tried searching for what I need, but this seems to be a whole world that I just don't know quite well enough to be able to even ask the right question.

The workflow I'm imagining is:

- Get topographic OSM data files for Norway/Sweden/Finland from *somewhere*
- Load them into QGIS (maybe this is a plugin)
- Create a saved style/template so I can make ~10 maps that have the same "feel"
- Set the params I want, make the labels, etc.,
- Export the ~10 maps to PNG / PDF

This seems to be a very simple workflow and I'm again entirely unable to get started (even if I've made much more progress relative to josm).

Got any pointers?

@De_Minimis@infosec.exchange I have not

@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems I have only used Brynje and it seems to be the standard for mesh base layers in these parts.

@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems I dont think the durability is worse than other base layers, no

@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems Maybe mesh base, work shirt, durable fleece, and hardshell/jacket over it? Bottoms also mesh and then work trousers over it? But also I think the main advantage of mesh is absorbing less sweat, so going up a mountain for two hours and then another two down the back side. High intensity, lotta sweat followed by needing to stay warm at lower output while damp. Idk if the price of mesh vs cheap base layers makes it worth it for your use case. Or maybe the price difference isn't so bad if you're already using better quality work clothes.

@PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems yes. Can recommend. They are def warm and they feel far less gross when wet than synthetic or merino. Downside is (so I've heard) you can't do one under a VBL if you plan to unzip the VBL to dump heat when you get warm as that exposes moist bare skin to frigid air. I'm fully sold on mesh base layers over traditional ones.

This video is useful but slightly overestimates its conclusions because it's not as controlled as it claims. Still some real data https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dLo2D-J-8nk