https://www.dumbpipe.dev/
https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research
https://movq.de/v/34ccfc125c/s.png
How many IPs am I supposed to block, eh?
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
systemctl uses ANSI escape codes to underline text (
\e[4m) and then it also uses special escape codes ā that Wikipedia classifies as ānot in the standardā, but I havenāt looked it up ā to *change the color of the underline*. That color change is barely noticeable in the first place.Some terminals donāt support this and now my systemctl output is *blinking* because of that.
gcr thing running with *debug logs enabled* that print stuff like āsending secret exchange: ā¦ā? Is this healthy?)
/https://baldo.cat/media/photos/IMG_5230.jpeg) #catsoftwtxt
~/bin that you use daily, but you havenāt edited them once in well over 10 years ā¦
Speaking of OS/2 ā¦ I just realized that Windows 3.x didnāt have icons, either. If Iām 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.)
Nice, I never came in contact with OS/2.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1030004/898017c7953c0946/
> I like the looks of your window manager. That's using Wayland, right?
Oh, no. Itās still X11. All my recent Wayland comments resulted from me trying to switch, but I think itās still too early. Being unable to use QEMU (because it canāt 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 itās probably not a priority for devs.
(Not to mention that I would have to fork and substantially extend dwl in order to āreplicateā my X11 WM. And then, after having done that, Iād have to follow upstream Wayland development, for which I donāt 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. Iāve been using tiling WMs for ~15 years now, so itās actually kind of refreshing to see something different for a change. š
> Probably close to the older Windowses.
That particular theme is a ripoff of OS/2 Warp 3: https://movq.de/v/6c2a948882/s.png š
> We ran some similar brownish color scheme (don't recall its name) on Win95 or Win98
Oh god. Yeah, I wasnāt a fan of those, either. š„“~
defn foo(_ x _): # Ignored arguments
https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/sobrecarga-do-planeta-humanidade-esgota-recursos-naturais-de-2025-esta-quinta-feira_v1671587
https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/mundo/sobrecarga-do-planeta-humanidade-esgota-recursos-naturais-de-2025-esta-quinta-feira_v1671587
Obligatory meme: https://www.digitalprintcustom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Jesus-Fucking-Christ.jpg :-D
Your brown and gray is a lovely combination.
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
https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/dotfiles/src/branch/main/config/.local/bin/dict
https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/dotfiles/commit/b5ca2e0eaba3cbc0cf0898926ffcb0bb064d17c7
https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/dotfiles/src/branch/main/config/.local/bin/dict
https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/dotfiles/commit/b5ca2e0eaba3cbc0cf0898926ffcb0bb064d17c7
https://movq.de/v/0e4af6fea1/s.png
GNOME, on the other hand, didnāt, at least to my old screenshots from 2007:
https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2007%2D05%2D25%2D%2Dgnome2%2Dlaptop.png
I switched to Linux in 2007 and no window manager I used since then had icons, apparently. Crazy. An icon-less existence for 18 years. (But yeah, everything is keyboard-driven here as well and there are no buttons here, either.)
Anyway, my draft is making progress:
https://movq.de/v/5b7767f245/s.png
I do like this look. š
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/research-shows-google-ai-overviews-reduce-website-clicks-by-almost-half/
Oh, interesting. Lessons learned: Never simply redefine things.
In i3, I don't have any application icons. I remember missing them at the beginning. But I don't even have the classical minimize, maximize and close buttons in the title bar either. Just the title. Being mostly keyboard driven and a tiling window manager, these buttons are not super useful, anyway.
X11 knows the data type ācardinalā. For example, the window property
_NET_WM_ICON (which holds image data for icons) is an array of ācardinalā. I am already not really familiar with that word and Iām assuming that it comes from mathematics:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number
(It could also be a bird, but probably not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinalidae)
We would probably call this an āintegerā today.
EWMH says that icons are arrays of cardinals and that theyāre 32-bit numbers:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest-single/#id-1.6.13
So itās something like
0x11223344 with 0x11 being the alpha channel, 0x22 is red, and so on.You would assume that, when you retrieve such an array from the X11 server, youād get an array of
uint32_t, right?Nope.
Xlib is so old, they use
char for 8-bit stuff, short int for 16-bit, and long int for 32-bit:https://x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html#Obtaining_and_Changing_Window_Properties
That is congruent with the general C data types, so it *does* make sense:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types
Now the funny thing is, on modern
x86_64, the type long int is actually 64 bits wide.The result is that every pixel in a Pixmap, for example, is twice as large in memory as it would need to be. Just because Xlib uses
long int, because uint32_t didnāt exist, yet.And this is something that I wouldnāt know how to fix without breaking clients.