I went on a quick walk as well. Lots of birds chirping. Can’t be long anymore until the mallards start to hatch. :-)
I went on a quick walk as well. Lots of birds chirping. Can’t be long anymore until the mallards start to hatch. :-)
I went on a quick walk as well. Lots of birds chirping. Can’t be long anymore until the mallards start to hatch. :-)
I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. 🤯 The data on them is from 2008, so they’re not *that* old. Still impressive.
The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. 🤔
And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs aren’t produced anymore at all today. Huh.
(I refuse to tag this as “retrocomputing”. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still “new and fancy” in my book. 😂)
[](https://movq.de/v/5bdf173e49/dvdram.jpg)
I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. 🤯 The data on them is from 2008, so they’re not *that* old. Still impressive.
The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. 🤔
And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs aren’t produced anymore at all today. Huh.
(I refuse to tag this as “retrocomputing”. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still “new and fancy” in my book. 😂)
[](https://movq.de/v/5bdf173e49/dvdram.jpg)
I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. 🤯 The data on them is from 2008, so they’re not *that* old. Still impressive.
The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. 🤔
And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs aren’t produced anymore at all today. Huh.
(I refuse to tag this as “retrocomputing”. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still “new and fancy” in my book. 😂)
[](https://movq.de/v/5bdf173e49/dvdram.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/524d12ec71/disks1.jpg)
Only to find out, that …
[](https://movq.de/v/524d12ec71/disks2.jpg)
… it’s something else. 😭
[](https://movq.de/v/524d12ec71/disks1.jpg)
Only to find out, that …
[](https://movq.de/v/524d12ec71/disks2.jpg)
… it’s something else. 😭
[](https://movq.de/v/524d12ec71/disks1.jpg)
Only to find out, that …
[](https://movq.de/v/524d12ec71/disks2.jpg)
… it’s something else. 😭
I just accidentally deleted the wrong list in the app that I’m currently using, and now there’s no way to get it back. Recreating it is a major pain, because typing on a phone sucks ass. Fuck.
Maybe I should just go back to using pen and paper …
I just accidentally deleted the wrong list in the app that I’m currently using, and now there’s no way to get it back. Recreating it is a major pain, because typing on a phone sucks ass. Fuck.
Maybe I should just go back to using pen and paper …
I just accidentally deleted the wrong list in the app that I’m currently using, and now there’s no way to get it back. Recreating it is a major pain, because typing on a phone sucks ass. Fuck.
Maybe I should just go back to using pen and paper …
I’ll see myself out.
I’ll see myself out.
I’ll see myself out.
> the keyboard was amazing
Was it? It’s quite a bit “mushy” in my opinion. 😅
It’s funny how tiny the touchpad is by today’s standards.
> the keyboard was amazing
Was it? It’s quite a bit “mushy” in my opinion. 😅
It’s funny how tiny the touchpad is by today’s standards.
> the keyboard was amazing
Was it? It’s quite a bit “mushy” in my opinion. 😅
It’s funny how tiny the touchpad is by today’s standards.
(In the case of the Rust installer, I still wonder why they go through the trouble of having a shell script (POSIX, portable, even runs on Windows apparently), when all it does is download a binary and run that. Is that super useful to people, yeah? I’m sure there’s some reason, I just don’t see it.)
(In the case of the Rust installer, I still wonder why they go through the trouble of having a shell script (POSIX, portable, even runs on Windows apparently), when all it does is download a binary and run that. Is that super useful to people, yeah? I’m sure there’s some reason, I just don’t see it.)
(In the case of the Rust installer, I still wonder why they go through the trouble of having a shell script (POSIX, portable, even runs on Windows apparently), when all it does is download a binary and run that. Is that super useful to people, yeah? I’m sure there’s some reason, I just don’t see it.)
[](https://movq.de/v/f7b7391d37/helvete%2D1.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/f7b7391d37/helvete%2D1.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/f7b7391d37/helvete%2D1.jpg)
curl foo | sh is basically equivalent to running precompiled binaries or the huge dependency mess that we have these days (simple programs pulling in 47289 libraries). We run completely untrusted code all the time and nobody cares anymore. The idea of eliminating distributions (which at least provide *some* layer of quality control) pops up again and again. A curl foo | sh is probably the *least* harmful thing these days, because it’s the easiest issue to fix.(Meh: Rust’s
curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh downloads a 15 MB binary that does god-knows-what.)Or am I missing the point? 🤔
curl foo | sh is basically equivalent to running precompiled binaries or the huge dependency mess that we have these days (simple programs pulling in 47289 libraries). We run completely untrusted code all the time and nobody cares anymore. The idea of eliminating distributions (which at least provide *some* layer of quality control) pops up again and again. A curl foo | sh is probably the *least* harmful thing these days, because it’s the easiest issue to fix.(Meh: Rust’s
curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh downloads a 15 MB binary that does god-knows-what.)Or am I missing the point? 🤔
curl foo | sh is basically equivalent to running precompiled binaries or the huge dependency mess that we have these days (simple programs pulling in 47289 libraries). We run completely untrusted code all the time and nobody cares anymore. The idea of eliminating distributions (which at least provide *some* layer of quality control) pops up again and again. A curl foo | sh is probably the *least* harmful thing these days, because it’s the easiest issue to fix.(Meh: Rust’s
curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh downloads a 15 MB binary that does god-knows-what.)Or am I missing the point? 🤔
rustup. 🙄 I guess the same is true for Newsboat?Hmm, no, not really. Newsboat wants “Rust Edition 2021”, which is supported since Version 1.56. That’s already “ancient”. 🤣
rustup. 🙄 I guess the same is true for Newsboat?Hmm, no, not really. Newsboat wants “Rust Edition 2021”, which is supported since Version 1.56. That’s already “ancient”. 🤣
rustup. 🙄 I guess the same is true for Newsboat?Hmm, no, not really. Newsboat wants “Rust Edition 2021”, which is supported since Version 1.56. That’s already “ancient”. 🤣
[](https://movq.de/v/a3f8e4f1d7/moon1.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/a3f8e4f1d7/moon2.jpg)
Looked much more spectacular in person. 🫤
[](https://movq.de/v/a3f8e4f1d7/moon1.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/a3f8e4f1d7/moon2.jpg)
Looked much more spectacular in person. 🫤
[](https://movq.de/v/a3f8e4f1d7/moon1.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/a3f8e4f1d7/moon2.jpg)
Looked much more spectacular in person. 🫤
> terminal browsers
Are there any new ones, btw? Besides lynx, w3m, (e)links. 🤔
> terminal browsers
Are there any new ones, btw? Besides lynx, w3m, (e)links. 🤔
> terminal browsers
Are there any new ones, btw? Besides lynx, w3m, (e)links. 🤔
And of course the insect, that once crawled into the screen, is still there.
Let’s see if I can find some use case for this machine. 🤔
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell1.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell2.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell3.jpg)
And of course the insect, that once crawled into the screen, is still there.
Let’s see if I can find some use case for this machine. 🤔
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell1.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell2.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell3.jpg)
And of course the insect, that once crawled into the screen, is still there.
Let’s see if I can find some use case for this machine. 🤔
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell1.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell2.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/28031461f1/dell3.jpg)
Do
ctty com2 in DOS and then something like minicom -D /dev/nullmodem -R cp437 -b 9600 on Linux, for example.It literally only redirects stdin/stdout/stderr on DOS, which limits what you can do quite a bit. Launching
edit, for example, starts the editor on the normal screen and you have to use the actual keyboard to control it.(It’s probably useful to note that you can back to normal operations using
ctty con.)Those 9600 baud are pretty slow and they make it feel like you’re sitting in front of an old machine where even
dir prints line by line, slowly.Fun stuff. 😅
[](https://movq.de/v/56906c28cf/serial1.png)
[](https://movq.de/v/56906c28cf/serial2.png)
Do
ctty com2 in DOS and then something like minicom -D /dev/nullmodem -R cp437 -b 9600 on Linux, for example.It literally only redirects stdin/stdout/stderr on DOS, which limits what you can do quite a bit. Launching
edit, for example, starts the editor on the normal screen and you have to use the actual keyboard to control it.(It’s probably useful to note that you can back to normal operations using
ctty con.)Those 9600 baud are pretty slow and they make it feel like you’re sitting in front of an old machine where even
dir prints line by line, slowly.Fun stuff. 😅
[](https://movq.de/v/56906c28cf/serial1.png)
[](https://movq.de/v/56906c28cf/serial2.png)
Do
ctty com2 in DOS and then something like minicom -D /dev/nullmodem -R cp437 -b 9600 on Linux, for example.It literally only redirects stdin/stdout/stderr on DOS, which limits what you can do quite a bit. Launching
edit, for example, starts the editor on the normal screen and you have to use the actual keyboard to control it.(It’s probably useful to note that you can back to normal operations using
ctty con.)Those 9600 baud are pretty slow and they make it feel like you’re sitting in front of an old machine where even
dir prints line by line, slowly.Fun stuff. 😅
[](https://movq.de/v/56906c28cf/serial1.png)
[](https://movq.de/v/56906c28cf/serial2.png)
I’d rather focus on keeping my website compatible with older/retro clients. Not having a forced redirect to HTTPS and sticking to a simple layout is mostly enough.
Netscape 4.07 on WfW 3.11:
[](https://movq.de/v/10948b8de6/ns4.jpg)
Netscape 2.02 on OS/2 Warp 4 (only 16 colors in QEMU at the moment):
[](https://movq.de/v/10948b8de6/ns2.jpg)
(Those older clients tend to extend HTTP/1.0 a bit by sending a
Host: header. Without that, my webserver wouldn’t be able to find the correct vhost.)Really, having my _exact same website_ accessible with those browsers feels more rewarding than having to resort to Gopher. 🤔
I’d rather focus on keeping my website compatible with older/retro clients. Not having a forced redirect to HTTPS and sticking to a simple layout is mostly enough.
Netscape 4.07 on WfW 3.11:
[](https://movq.de/v/10948b8de6/ns4.jpg)
Netscape 2.02 on OS/2 Warp 4 (only 16 colors in QEMU at the moment):
[](https://movq.de/v/10948b8de6/ns2.jpg)
(Those older clients tend to extend HTTP/1.0 a bit by sending a
Host: header. Without that, my webserver wouldn’t be able to find the correct vhost.)Really, having my _exact same website_ accessible with those browsers feels more rewarding than having to resort to Gopher. 🤔
I’d rather focus on keeping my website compatible with older/retro clients. Not having a forced redirect to HTTPS and sticking to a simple layout is mostly enough.
Netscape 4.07 on WfW 3.11:
[](https://movq.de/v/10948b8de6/ns4.jpg)
Netscape 2.02 on OS/2 Warp 4 (only 16 colors in QEMU at the moment):
[](https://movq.de/v/10948b8de6/ns2.jpg)
(Those older clients tend to extend HTTP/1.0 a bit by sending a
Host: header. Without that, my webserver wouldn’t be able to find the correct vhost.)Really, having my _exact same website_ accessible with those browsers feels more rewarding than having to resort to Gopher. 🤔
$dayjob. 😂 Way too much work to clean up other people’s mail all the time … I admire your mental strength. 😆
$dayjob. 😂 Way too much work to clean up other people’s mail all the time … I admire your mental strength. 😆
$dayjob. 😂 Way too much work to clean up other people’s mail all the time … I admire your mental strength. 😆