Got a new bird feeder and a different seed mix. It ended up attracting more than just the great tits that were regulars before.

The new patrons (jackdaws and magpies) are too large, so I had to kludge something to stabilise the feeder.

Hope it keeps the seeds off the floor until I set up something more permanent.

#birds #birding #kludge

@briankrebs could you run two Mastodon clients in separate windows ? I can do this in @IceCubesApp on iPadOS- it’s a bit of a fudge ( does that translate outside the UK ) but it “works” #kludge

I'd like to create a shared knowledge base using #tiddlywiki for my work team, hosted on #OneDrive / #MSTeams, and I'm worried about burdening them with the complexity of the UX of TiddlyWiki. I really just want a simple taggable #knowledgebase but that's hard to get going on an internal file sharing site where we can't run our own servers. I currently have a #markdown KB running within #Obsidian, but people are struggling with the #kludge of that solution as well.

What would you do?

#TFT

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#Markdown #Kludge

@PatrickOBeirne It's surely time for everyone who has this happening to write letters to the Minister for Communications and ask for an investigation into the Customs. It's also time to stop having one minister responsible for multiple important sectors
#Customs #Kludge #EamonRyan #CatherineMartin

The Permanent TSB banking website has become hopeless since its recent "improvement" - it's rarely possible for any of the "recent transactions" options to be workable #PTSB #banking #kludge

Same thing with Apple Books on the Mac - can't zoom if you're reading a graphic novel, also a big fat kludge
#Kludge #AppleBooks #BooksForMac #Apple

Who on earth coded the Kindle app for the Mac? So kludgy! No zoomability, can't pinch to zoom or cmd+ to zoom. Only way to see drawings with small writing is to take a screenshot and zoom that
#Kludge #KindleForMac #Kindle

@polpo @mediaarchaeologylab When I was at UCLA we needed a feedback system to control the output of a CO2 laser. Using parts on hand we grabbed a plotter. We duct-taped one end of a ruler to the print head and the other end to a the knob on the top of a rheostat that adjusted the laser output. It worked, although we ended up burning out several plotters.

#kludge #laser

I managed to get it into my head that my #algorithm to calculate the #Sun's true position as per the #SuryaSiddhanta was just a #kludge that seemed like it gave the right answer, but then I read the relevant passage and it turns out I was right all along.

To a large extendt, Burgess' commentary is necessary to understand the Surya Siddhanta, but Burgess keeps making vague, meandering, unclear explanations coupled with incredibly cluttered, unreadable diagrams.

Well I was tired of looking at the ugly email so I guess it is back to the old ways of just cobbling together page scraps and hosting locally. I miss #googlereader on days like these #kludge

I'm not sure if I'm doing this mastodon thing the correct way? I'm using a cron job to pull the latest post for my favorite tags and then send me an ugly email:

`curl -k https://post.lurk.org/api/v1/timelines/tag/$tag | jq --arg now "$NOW" '.[] | if ($now | fromdate) - (.created_at[:-5] + "Z" | fromdate) < 172800 then .created_at, .content, .url, .account.username, "<hr/>" else "__OLD_AND_DEAD__" end ' | grep -v "__OLD_AND_DEAD__" | lynx -stdin -dump >> maFeed.txt`

It seems like I should be able to subscribe to tags since the api is right there. #kludge

In #webUI when #replying to a toot the #textbox gives too small of a space to type, compared to when typing a new toot. The textbox lacks the resize-widget so that I cannot stretch it to suit.

The #kludge I, then, use is to increase the zoom ratio by 10% (#Firefox/Windows 10; 13", 1920x1080 px screen). Besides increasing the font size a tiny bit, the layout changes from 3-column to 2-column & rewarded by decently sized text box to reply.

#mastodonWishlist #mastodonUX #mastodonClient

In the end, I've decided something a bit different: just found (and bought!) from Amazon a #Royal #Kludge #RK61 60% #keyboard with #blue #switches, Italian ISO layout and even double-shot #PBT #keycaps for €80!
It's a 60% so arrows as secondary functions. But still it's Amazon: I'll try it and if won't like it, I can simply return it .. and probably do for the #YMDK one.