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howdy y'all!!!
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′59″W] Transfer 25% complete...
You can fuck right off, thank you very much.

(18/29) upgrading firefox
New optional dependencies for firefox
onnxruntime: Local machine learning features such as smart tab groups
@lyse Yeah, removing the cover will probably help. I’ll have to try. 😅 And, yes, the scrolling is pretty annoying (and kind of ruins the experience a little bit).

The printer isn’t that loud – at least not for a dot matrix printer. 😅 It’s been ~30 years since I’ve last seen them in person, but I remembered these things to be louder. I’m typing on my Model M, maybe that contributes to the perceived noise on this video. Here’s an isolated recording of that keyboard: https://movq.de/v/ddc98b03d8/2022-02-21--model-m-goes-brrr.ogg 🤣 It really sounds like that when you’re typing fast. Brrrrt.~
[47°09′29″S, 126°43′21″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
@dce I switched over to following you on Gopher, because why not. 😅
@thecanine Oh! 🤯 Hadn’t heard of this before. And 100% agree with that video.
Try bluedwarf.top!!!
Cette font est vraiment bien. C'est celle que j'utilise pas défaut dans mes cours désormais. Lisible, et accessible pour troubles dys. https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
https://smolweb.org/validator/ I have some work to do :P
[47°09′52″S, 126°43′45″W] Waiting for carrier
I'm a bad swimmer, and a chill runs down my spine while the world burns outside and the waves crash against the rock.There's still some air left before the water's up to our necks. What do we do now? What? Wait?I'm a bad swimmer, and the water's rising, and a text like this won't save the world, but I had to write it.https://maurice-renck.de/erzaehlen/2025/der-schlechte-schwimmer
Décidément, ce gestionnaire de fichiers en cli est vraiment le meilleur pour moi: https://github.com/lecram/rover
[47°09′14″S, 126°43′38″W] 4514 days without news from Herve
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Hello from a IBM PS/2!
@dce these are some of the same reasons that I enjoy Yarn.social/Twtxt 🙌
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So, in addition to HTTPS and Gemini, my twtxt should now also be available over Gopher (gopher://hashnix.club:70/0/~dce/twtxt.txt). Not sure who, if anyone, would need this; but since my tilde provides Gopher hosting, I'd may as well mirror my twtxt there as well.
You know, I think I do actually like it here better than my other social media. It's slower and quieter, but it feels more organic and nobody's trying to sell me anything, promote their podcast, or change the way I think. It's just... nice!
[47°09′32″S, 126°43′41″W] Transponder still failing -- switching to analog communication
I’ve got a prototype of my hardcopy simulator going. I’m typing on the keyboard and the “display” goes to the printer:

https://movq.de/v/56feb53912/s.png

https://movq.de/v/235c1eabac/MVI_8810.MOV.mp4

The biiiiiiiiiig problem is that the print head and plastic cover make it impossible to see what’s currently being printed, because this is not a *typewriter*. This means: In order to see what I just entered, I have to feed the paper back and forth and back and forth … it’s not ideal.

I got that idea of moving back/forth from Drew DeVault, who – as it turned out – did something similar a few years back. (I tried hard to read as little as possible of his blog post, because figuring things out myself is more fun. But that could mean I missed a great idea here or there.)

But hey, at least this is running on my Pentium 133 on SuSE Linux 6.4, printer connected with a parallel cable. 😍

(Also, yes, you can see the printouts of earlier tests and, yes, I used ed(1) wrong at one point. 🤪 And ls insisted on using colors …)
[47°09′21″S, 126°43′36″W] Transponder malfunction
Trouble exporting P3D via PGraphics recording (OpenGL error 1282) :blobcatsad:

https://discourse.processing.org/t/trouble-exporting-p3d-via-pgraphics-recording-opengl-error-1282/47033?u=villares

#Processing #CreativeCoding #OpenGL
Dear @doctormo@doctormo, I'm a great admirer of your work in general and hopefully I won't creep you out by telling everyone I'm your fan!

As a creator of digital vector-based art I find the color management stuff (trying to figure how to generate things to print "in CMYK") mind boggling. I slowly try to read and acquire the concepts and vocabulary to understand more about this. I'm grateful for your work in this area. Thank you!

#FLOSS #CMYK #ColorManagement #inkscape
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@dce Twet is a far better command line client. Yea 👌
@dce I feel you 🤗
Back to Win16 8-) New arrivals of fixed programs for Win31. A big collection of tested network software for Win31. gopher://shibboleths.org/1/win31
@prologic Hi!
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[47°09′15″S, 126°43′44″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
Como o Kanye West destruiu uma casa do #TadaoAndo. É surreal:

https://archive.ph/WqjkH

#arquitetura
@dce Hello! 👋 Welcome! 🤗
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Also not sure why this post is duplicated on twtxt.net. Ah, well...
This would have been neater, but evidently my client foesn't support multiline posts.
Since 2020, I've been putting together one playlist every year, in which each track represents one month of that year. However, I also have assigned each season two specific songs, which do not change year-to-year: Spring: "A Little Bit Of Love" by Weezer and "Gretel" by Alex G; Summer: "Dumb" by Roe Kapara and "Endless Bummer" by Weezer; Autumn: "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins and "The Dead Come Talking" by Roe Kapara; Winter: "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" by Type O Negative and "Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)" by The Darkness
No bluedwarf.top is not any social media site, it's free speech and you can moderate which post categories you see.No nonsense
Se calhar foi distracção e azelhice minha: quando ouvi falar de reverter a fusão de freguesias pensava que iam ser todas as qie foram fundidas, na generalidade. Quando soube que foi aprovado, pensava que nestas autárquicas ia ter freguesias separadas por aqui.
Fui hoje surpreendido quando fui ao Tribunal para ler o registo das candidaturas para as próximas #autárquicas (se me cingisse à imprensa local ainda ficava convencido que só seriam candidatos PS e a coligação PSD/CDS) e descobri que afinal, por aqui, as freguesias continuam todas fundidas.

Para ajudar outros que possam estar assumir mais do que devem como eu, fica aqui a Lei que tem a lista das freguesias que se voltaram a dividir (o resto fica tudo igual):
https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/lei/25-a-2025-910933580
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′16″W] Resetting dosimeter
I have to be fair and update this: turns out, there is another country I would be unable to ship to, and I only found out now: Syria. So... congratulations, I guess, to the USA for joining Syria in how inaccessible it has become.
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@bender That is a noble goal. We can talk about that – as long as it doesn’t mean giving up essential freedoms like choosing which software you can run on your device (without having to ask someone for permission).
@bender Yay!
Hi all, this is a cool place! Thinking of spinning up a Gopher server myself soon :)
Tudo parece pouco, mas há que fazer o que se pode para acabar com o #genocídio em #Gaza

https://sicnoticias.pt/especiais/guerra-no-medio-oriente/2025-08-26-mariana-mortagua-miguel-duarte-e-sofia-aparicio-integram-flotilha-humanitaria-que-parte-esta-semana-para-gaza-3ae6438e?s=35
@movq At this rate, I'm going to be carrying a feature phone in a few years' time.
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@prologic I’m not smart enough to answer that question. 😅 Certainly feels like unregulated capitalism. Governments being too slow and/or unwilling to intervene … It’s a mess.
@thecanine I sure hope there’s going to be push back. Is it going to happen, realistically? I don’t know.
@movq Yeah I'm worried about this too. What's the systemic problem at paay here? Capitalism at it's extreme? 🤔
@prologic Yes, this is another instance of restricting “personal” computing. You won’t be able to install arbitrary software anymore (“sideloading”, as they call it).

It’s not unique, it’s not new. Boiling the frog alive.

We’re heading towards this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Its like TV. Very few good channels and many bad channels. Or like books. Very few good books and many bad books. Look for spezialized channels and educate your children. Read the bible.com . But only Jesus is reliable. Forget Moses and the punishing God.
> To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026.
>
> This requirement applies to “certified Android devices” that have Play Protect and are preloaded with Google apps. The Play Store implemented similar requirements in 2023, but Google is now mandating this for all install methods, including third-party app stores and sideloading where you download an APK file from a third-party source.
@movq TL;DR? 🤔
RIP Android:

https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

Since nobody is going to push back on this (I don’t even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.

I’d guess in 20, 30 years, there won’t be “PCs” anymore. No more home computing, no more “I just write my own software”. You won’t own devices anymore, it’ll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.

I hope that I’m wrong, but given where we are today, I don’t think that I will be.
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I think social media ruined the Web. Think about how much happier and social people would be without those sites feeding themm inflammatory posts and articles.
Yep! Seems to work!
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Apparently twtxt wasn't the right client to use. twet seems to be alright, though.
Assuming I configured this right, my twtxt should now also be available over Gemini!
♩ Is there anybody out there? ♩
#Pyxel is a retro inspired #GameEngine for #Python, it's very impressive!

It's not hard to generate a static HTML page that loads your game to run on the browser with #pyodide (WASM). And it comes with an assets editor and a #chiptune making tool.

https://github.com/kitao/pyxel
#BolhaPreguiçosa Qual o equivalente brasileiro do Fourthwall / redbubble que permite fazer uma lojinha com camisetas, cacarecos, adesivos, etc. customizados com os seus desenhos?
Ben c'est pas dommage! Je regrette que de telles infos aient été conservée, naïf que je suis (note pour ce que ça vaut vu ce que j'ai pu entendre: je ne suis pas militant pro-homo, je suis hétéro, et en fait osef, chacun fait ce qu'il lui plaît tant que ça ne force personne). Don du sang : l’EFS supprime ses archives mentionnant les relations homosexuelles après une pétition
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https://www.jetset.nl/archive/john-paul-ringo-george #TheBeatles #tshirt
Sometimes it's a small thing, it's a bit jarring when orgs that want to pose as international/global publish some copy/event based on US school terms/seasons. That's a reminder of how other people are at the periphery and will be probably ignored most of the time. Isn't it obvious we have different school year arrangements & seasons around the world? I guess @melissawm@melissawm will share my sentiments about this.
I used to be able to sell my music anywhere in the world - and I have managed to send CDs to quite remote places, or kingdoms with nefarious regimes... but now, well, there is one country where I can not ship cassettes or CDs to: the USA 🇺🇸.

It's not like I'm expecting any loss: I rarely sell music, and when I do it is rarely to the states (I don't know why, I think my stuff ought to be way more popular! 😁). But still, it is disheartening to see there is now an effective wall, a country where I won't be able to (directly) reach. Congratulations to everyone involved.

[PS: if you're puzzled about what is this all about - a number of European countries, including Portugal, won't be shipping stuff to the US due to legal uncertainty regarding Trump's tariffs.]
I only learned about the .envelope object/propriety in #shapely yesterday, before that I used .bounds (a min/max of points tuple), but envelope is good to know because it provides an easy way of getting the centroid and the area of the bounding box, which can be very useful.
Interactive demo of #shapely's centroid for the triangle :)

n
import py5
from shapely import Polygon, Point

def setup():
    py5.size(400, 400)
    py5.stroke_join(py5.ROUND)
    
def draw():
    py5.background(200)
    pts = ((100, 100), (300, 100),
           (py5.mouse_x, py5.mouse_y))
    xs, ys = zip(*pts)
    cx = sum(xs) / len(xs)
    cy = sum(ys) / len(ys)
    tri = Polygon(pts)
    py5.no_fill()
    py5.stroke_weight(1)
    py5.stroke(0, 200, 0)
    py5.shape(Point(cx, cy).buffer(5))
    py5.stroke(0, 0, 200)
    py5.shape(tri.envelope.buffer(2))
    py5.shape(tri.envelope.centroid.buffer(5))
    py5.stroke_weight(3)
    py5.stroke(0)
    py5.shape(tri)
    py5.fill(0)
    py5.shape(tri.centroid.buffer(2))

py5.run_sketch(block=False)

#py5 #python #creativeCoding
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Instagram is shit, Bluesky is corporate, and Mastodon is...okay, but not fantastic. Maybe twtxt is what I'm after...
James Gleick: "The lie of AI"
https://around.com/the-lie-of-ai/
Long read, it starts with Claude Shannon and Markov chains...
@movq Yeah I just got a bit curious after watching your video and reading your OP 😅
@prologic Anything above a couple hundred Euros. 😅 The current Epson LX-350 appears to be not *that* pricey, though. 🤔

I mean, what do you want to do with it? If you want to use this as an actual printer for daily use, I’d get a laser printer instead, because they’re very reliable and the print quality is top notch.

I got my dot matrix printer mostly for experiments and nostalgia, so I wouldn’t want to pay something like 300-400€ for it.
@movq Haha yeah rightio, and yeah inches suck 🤣
@prologic It’s quite similar to how escape sequences work in a terminal. ASCII text is printed as ASCII text and then an escape sequence can make it bold or underline and so on. Other escape sequences allow you to say “the following $n bytes are part of a bitmap image”, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).

It’s just that the *units* are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. 😅
Tiens, cool ça, pour se prêter des trucs entre voisins: https://lesecolohumanistes.fr/lecologie-au-quotidien/pret-entre-voisins/
@movq What do you define as "expensive"? 🤔 (I've always thought of modern-day painters as a "rip", and the ink my god 🤯)
@movq Is there like a TL;DR of this standard? I can't say I remember this tbh 🤔
@prologic Here’s one: https://github.com/vmykh/printer_labs/blob/master/escp2ref.pdf
@prologic Yeah, those POS thingies are similar. There’s “ESC/POS” as a variant of “ESC/P”, if I’m not mistaken.

All I can say is, when I go to big stores like Amazon, then I have trouble finding “traditional” dot matrix printers for use at home. 😅 Epson still sells them, but they’re more expensive than my laser printer was. So yeah, they still exist, just expensive, by the looks of it.
@movq Got a link to this

> ESC/P standard.
@movq Are you sure?

> because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning new ones are very, very expensive.

I think dot matrix printers are still pretty common in many Point of Sales (POS) registers right? At least here in AU they're very common. I had a quick look myself today, there seems to be quite a solid market for these types of printers. In fact even EPSON still sell Dot Matrix printers themselves 🤣
@thecanine That’s cute. 😃 (Why Clippy, though? 😅)
@prologic Hmm, good question. I haven’t checked the market, I got mine from someone I know. But to be honest, I’d suspect that buying a *used* one is actually your best shot, because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning *new* ones are very, very expensive. 🫤

FWIW, I have an OKI Microline 3390eco. Good thing is, you can still buy new cartridges for it.

If you want to buy a new device, check if it supports the “ESC/P” standard. That’s very widely supported.
@movq Kind of curious now... Is there a (to buy new) dot matrix printer you'd recommend if someone wanted to get into this sort of thing (sending plain 'ol bytes to a printer port)? 🤔 (I remember this back in the ye 'old days!)
[47°09′05″S, 126°43′31″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
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#Python is for artists too @ #SescAvPaulista
(Oficina do Clubinho Gráfico aos domingos) "#Python for artists" button
Oh, j'ignorais ça à propos des messages sur l'acceptation des cookies trop chiants. ublock peut les désactiver. Merci fredg! https://galusik.fr/log/2025-08-24-ublock-petit-setup-ameliore.html
[47°09′56″S, 126°43′32″W] Dosimeter overflow
Should I go on a tour with these hot air balloons some day? Not sure if it’s scary as hell. 😂

https://movq.de/v/3e26ec9a71/IMG_8800-edit.jpg
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