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This is just the universe telling me to reduce my screen time.
@lyse To be fair, I did first notice this a while ago. But no monitor I ever had showed burn-ins like this (be it TFT or CRT), so I didn’t know that I *should have* sent it back. And then it got worse over time and now I see ghost images after 20-30 minutes. :(
Enough AI Copilots, We Need AI HUDs
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds
A look at the issues list of a project, and you can easilly see how misguided the whole thing is:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues

#EUDIWallet ![The top of the list of issues on EUDIWallet's github project. They are nine, all but one of them (direct or indirectly) about the lack of support on free software due to the dependency on GMS.](https://media.ciberlandia.pt/ciberlandia-media/media_attachments/files/114/930/613/659/201/814/original/e7df7bded3d39c61.png)
[47°09′20″S, 126°43′11″W] Dosimeter overflow
@birb@birb https://processosprocedimentos.wordpress.com/feed/
#Cidadania: Onde está a “avaliação por peritos” sem a qual, garantiu ministro, nada se alteraria?

https://www.dn.pt/sociedade/cidadania-onde-est%C3%A1-a-avalia%C3%A7%C3%A3o-por-peritos-sem-a-qual-garantiu-ministro-nada-se-alteraria
Hi roman at shibboleths.org! Why do you use java? My lynx browser has no java.
EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′08″W] Dosimeter malfunction
[47°09′57″S, 126°43′45″W] Reading: 0.87000 PPM
Hello, o shadowy, passing, good, good world.
Dumb Pipe
https://www.dumbpipe.dev/
Disabling telemetry in ByteDance's VSCode fork increases data sent to its server
https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research
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As in regards to technology...


"Behind the scenes, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and EU’s Maroš Šefčovič hashed out technical annexes on automobiles, pharmaceuticals and digital trade."

"Tech giants Microsoft’s cloud services, Apple’s iPhones and Google’s data solutions gain tariff-free pathway, fueling digital exports growth."

"Digital Services: Microsoft announces a new 150 MW cloud data center in Berlin backed by tariff-free equipment imports; SAP commits to expanding U.S. R&D hubs in Austin, Texas."

https://www.peacocktariffconsulting.com/can-the-new-u-s-eu-trade-pact-ignite-a-21st-century-global-commerce-revolution/
If you think the EU-US agreement is good news, think again:

"We will replace Russian gas and oil with significant purchases of US LNG, oil and nuclear fuels," the European Commission President says in a statement.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y0d0yz282t?post=asset%3A23c287b5-7113-4081-8b9d-71b8de41df4c#post
We ate the #burgers and drank the #beers before taking a picture to the #books during the second #BBB (Books, Beers and Burgers) of #2025 in #Lamego - oops! Eight books and a few port glasses, with books in Portuguese, Spanish and English, one of them on an ebook reader, two of them Manga, four of them sci-fi, two of them non-fiction, other two crime fiction.
@kat Ooooooohhhhh, nice 😲
[47°09′10″S, 126°43′37″W] Transfer aborted
@andros U2FsdGVkX1/c9Vp0NgzTWbM+iC22XiKykv270+F2SdWJTOWfYpnL+xhUk5/beEWplMQS+xYG1WvaCKW5PZRDcQ==
[47°09′59″S, 126°43′26″W] Waiting for carrier
@movq Don't worry, this hype will end as quickly as the last one haha 🤣
@movq Sounds about right 😅
Really, it won’t be long until I give the world the finger and move everything behind Gopher or Gemini. It’ll be a while until the bots find me there.
Heck yeah, that's damn cool: Reading QR codes without a computer! https://qr.blinry.org/
@prologic I’d expect a custom build like that to cost at least 50'000€ here in Europe. *Used* campers with 100'000 - 200'000 km already on their clock are 20-40k€, apparently. 😆
We just met again after sleep to clean up all the rest. I now got food for literally two weeks. At least. No kidding! I feel really bad for taking waaaaay more home than bringing along. :-/ Turned out that a bunch of people were absent without an excuse. :-( That rude behavior is beyond my comprehension.
Bloody AI clowns:

https://movq.de/v/34ccfc125c/s.png

How many IPs am I supposed to block, eh?
@movq Smart decision. :-)
@prologic Too bad, no FLOSS software. :-/ But thanks! :-)
@movq What the heck, that's terrible! :-( This planned obsolence right after warranty really sucks balls.
[47°09′54″S, 126°43′43″W] Sample analyzing complete -- starting transfer
@movq Haha 😆 But OTOH not nearly as much as you think. Plus you get to build what you want!
@lyse A web app called Floor Plan Creator
@lyse Looks like it. 🤔 Didn’t dig deeper into this, just uninstalled it. 🥴
@lyse 4 years. 🫤
@movq It's about time to get a new monitor. How old is it, btw.?
Do I buy a new monitor or do I live with the burn-ins all the time? It’s getting annoying. When I edit images in GIMP, I have to double check if something is a pixel or a burn-in.
@prologic If anything looks expensive, then it’s *that*. 😅
@prologic Cool! What program do you use to draw this up?
@thecanine Nice! :-)

When tidying up my good mate's birthday party site last night we emptied the beer pong cups which had been filled with just ordinary tap water. There was also a cute dog whose owner gave it its drinking bowl, but it was not interested. Just for fun I offered it one of those water cups and it began to drink. We all had to laugh so hard because it was completely unexpected and looked so funny. Can't describe this comicalness of the situation. :-D
@kat Uuhh, I love this! Who's that, what's that song?
Been mucking around with designing my own camper (_floor plan_).
@kat From what I grasped so far, you're certainly heading for this for sure. :-)
[47°09′18″S, 126°43′14″W] Taking samples
@movq Yikes! Debug settings enabled right from "the factory"?
[47°09′51″S, 126°43′33″W] --no signal--
Sies Pine Phone come with a stock OS?
Mine cost $200, plus delivery to the USA. Their site has the prices and everything. It is not a daily driver for me, though. Fun gadget.
....Pine Phone
How much is a Pune Phone these days?
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[47°09′52″S, 126°43′18″W] --bad checksum--
Ainda têm 20 dias para submeter uma apresentação na @FestaSoftwareLivre@FestaSoftwareLivre !
https://masto.pt/@FestaSoftwareLivre/114727786622693696

#FSL25
Stuff that nobody needs:

systemctl uses ANSI escape codes to underline text (\e[4m) and then it also uses special escape codes – that Wikipedia classifies as “not in the standard”, but I haven’t looked it up – to *change the color of the underline*. That color change is barely noticeable in the first place.

Some terminals don’t support this and now my systemctl output is *blinking* because of that.
[47°09′38″S, 126°43′20″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
《“Não agir deixou de ser legalmente aceitável.” Decisão de tribunal da ONU pode dar impulso à Lei de Bases do Clima》

https://www.publico.pt/2025/07/26/azul/entrevista/nao-agir-deixou-legalmente-aceitavel-decisao-tribunal-onu-dar-impulso-lei-bases-clima-2141791

#criseclimática
(Now why is that GNOME gcr thing running with *debug logs enabled* that print stuff like “sending secret exchange: …”? Is this healthy?)
have you ever wanted to see an idol play violin live on stage? your wish has been granted
@kat i'm a self hoster at heart man i open those ports MYSELF with EXTREME RECKLESSNESS
guys i use VPS systems from time to time and they scare me. wdym they have every port open by default and the firewall is your responsibility. what the fuck bro
@movq for real!!!
@movq i hope to become this cool
[47°09′42″S, 126°43′38″W] 4482 days without news from Herve
/https://baldo.cat/media/photos/IMG_5230.jpeg) #catsoftwtxt
[47°09′56″S, 126°43′19″W] Reading: 0.36000 PPM
[47°09′32″S, 126°43′25″W] Reading: 0.07 Sv
@bender Hahaha, nice! :-D
@bender Haha 🤣
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Global update: Trump in Scotland says EU trade deal has 50-50 chance as tariff row grows. Gaza sees 9 more starvation deaths (122 total); UN says famine is deliberate. Thai-Cambodia clashes kill 16, displace 135k. US raid in Syria kills top ISIS leader & sons.
@movq That's how it's supposed to be. :-)
You know you’re getting old when there’s quite a few scripts in your ~/bin that you use daily, but you haven’t edited them once in well over 10 years …
@lyse “Advanced”, well, probably more “mature”. There aren’t a ton of crazy features and that icon thing is the largest code addition in the last 10 years. %)

Speaking of OS/2 … I just realized that Windows 3.x didn’t have icons, either. If I’m not mistaken, this only got added in Windows 95. In other words, OS/2 had this feature before Windows did, because at least OS/2 2.1 from 1993 had icons. Who would have thunk.

(Now I kind of want to know which system really introduced this feature.)
[47°09′12″S, 126°43′10″W] --white noise--
@movq Ah, okay! That's why it's in such an advanced state. :-)

Nice, I never came in contact with OS/2.
@xuu I see you're already a big fan of that language!
[47°09′49″S, 126°43′19″W] Transfer 99% complete...
Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/
@kat dmenu is such a great tool. So simple, yet so versatile.
@lyse Oh, huh, maybe it was just my GNOME 2 themes back then that didn’t show the icon. 🤔

> I like the looks of your window manager. That's using Wayland, right?

Oh, no. It’s still X11. All my recent Wayland comments resulted from me trying to switch, but I think it’s still too early. Being unable to use QEMU (because it can’t capture the mouse pointer) is a pretty big blocker for me. This is completely broken, it just happens to be unnoticeable with modern guest OSes, so it’s probably not a priority for devs.

(Not to mention that I would have to fork and substantially extend dwl in order to “replicate” my X11 WM. And then, after having done that, I’d have to follow upstream Wayland development, for which I don’t have the resources. Things would need to slow down before I can do that.)

> all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!@1

Heh. I’ve been using tiling WMs for ~15 years now, so it’s actually kind of refreshing to see something different for a change. 😅

> Probably close to the older Windowses.

That particular theme is a ripoff of OS/2 Warp 3: https://movq.de/v/6c2a948882/s.png 😅

> We ran some similar brownish color scheme (don't recall its name) on Win95 or Win98

Oh god. Yeah, I wasn’t a fan of those, either. 🥴~
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[47°09′59″S, 126°43′32″W] Transfer 50% complete...
[47°09′07″S, 126°43′35″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
@lyse defn foo(_ x _): # Ignored arguments
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or else
everyone needs to lock in
Em crescente #criseclimática , nunca nos portámos tão mal:

https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/sobrecarga-do-planeta-humanidade-esgota-recursos-naturais-de-2025-esta-quinta-feira_v1671587
Em crescente #criseclimática , nunca nos portámos tão mal:

https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/sobrecarga-do-planeta-humanidade-esgota-recursos-naturais-de-2025-esta-quinta-feira_v1671587
@kat I know, right!?

Obligatory meme: https://www.digitalprintcustom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Jesus-Fucking-Christ.jpg :-D
Hm, maybe pumpkin: https://64.media.tumblr.com/e1aedc97e3c4929de60304a2c7b274f2/tumblr_mzt4m2SeWk1t2as4so9_r1_1280.pnj Looks a hell lot uglier than I remembered. :-D So, perhaps it was a different one. :-?

Your brown and gray is a lovely combination.
[47°09′58″S, 126°43′28″W] Dosimeter fixed
@movq According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/KDE_Plasma_5.21_Breeze_Twilight_screenshot.png

And GNOME used to have them, too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Gnome-2-22_%284%29.png

I like the looks of your window manager. That's using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!@1 At least the file browser. 8-)

This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really don't get it how people can work like that. You can't even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then there's 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! There's the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a "regularish" 16:10 monitor and don't see shit, because it's resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D

Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesn't serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/leafpads.png) gives me also classic vibes. Awww. We ran some similar brownish color scheme (don't recall its name) on Win95 or Win98 for some time on the family computer. I remember other people visting us not liking these colors. :-D
i am having fun with dmenu

https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/dotfiles/src/branch/main/config/.local/bin/dict
https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/dotfiles/commit/b5ca2e0eaba3cbc0cf0898926ffcb0bb064d17c7
i am having fun with dmenu

https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/dotfiles/src/branch/main/config/.local/bin/dict
https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/dotfiles/commit/b5ca2e0eaba3cbc0cf0898926ffcb0bb064d17c7
yarnd supports webmentions??? that's awesome!
yarnd supports webmentions??? that's awesome!
working on a new astroJS based site and i hate being shit at web design because like i have the media for it ready (it's for my fandom creations which are all done and ready to be shared here lol) but i keep agonizing over the design TT