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@prologic The threads’ broken for me, I can’t find znf6csa. 🤔
@prologic What happened here – did I edit my twt or is this hash wrong? 🥴
@prologic What happened here – did I edit my twt or is this hash wrong? 🥴
@bender I’m afraid of Australia. The spiders will eat me alive. 😂
@bender I’m afraid of Australia. The spiders will eat me alive. 😂
I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
It’s not toooo far into the future.
It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴
I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
It’s not toooo far into the future.
It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴
I see. We should all take a loooooooooong vacation. 😂
I see. We should all take a loooooooooong vacation. 😂
Fuuuuuuucking hell. 😮💨 It’s one of “those” days.
Fuuuuuuucking hell. 😮💨 It’s one of “those” days.
@prologic I wonder what this will do to my followers list. I suspect there were a lot of dead accounts out there. 😅
@prologic I wonder what this will do to my followers list. I suspect there were a lot of dead accounts out there. 😅
@prologic Well, if we really wanted to, I guess @lyse and I could provide you with our copies of that time period. 😆
@prologic Well, if we really wanted to, I guess @lyse and I could provide you with our copies of that time period. 😆
I’ve been using GIMP 3.0 for a few weeks now and it’s great. New features and I got rid of two custom plugins because they’re in core now. Literally nothing broke for me. And I really appreciate that they kept the familiar UI (instead of changing things just for the sake of change).
Thank you! 🥳
I’ve been using GIMP 3.0 for a few weeks now and it’s great. New features and I got rid of two custom plugins because they’re in core now. Literally nothing broke for me. And I really appreciate that they kept the familiar UI (instead of changing things just for the sake of change).
Thank you! 🥳
@lyse The bird in the wallpaper? That’s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. 😃 This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didn’t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.
@lyse The bird in the wallpaper? That’s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. 😃 This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didn’t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.
I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.
I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.
I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
Just saw this user agent popping up:
yarnd/ERSION@OMMIT go1.23.4 (+https://.../twtxt.txt; @username)
ERSION? OMMIT? 😅
Just saw this user agent popping up:
yarnd/ERSION@OMMIT go1.23.4 (+https://.../twtxt.txt; @username)
ERSION? OMMIT? 😅
@lyse … I was fully expecting this to be a WSDL file. 😂
@lyse … I was fully expecting this to be a WSDL file. 😂
@prologic I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I “buy” a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just “renting it”.)
But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender. 😢
@prologic I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I “buy” a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just “renting it”.)
But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender. 😢
@lyse Aww, this reminds me that I haven’t done any Fraktur/calligraphy in a hell of a long time. I should pick that up again. It’s always nice to see this on old buildings.
@lyse Aww, this reminds me that I haven’t done any Fraktur/calligraphy in a hell of a long time. I should pick that up again. It’s always nice to see this on old buildings.
@lyse Yeah, to be fair, there’s not much of a difference other than a few grace notes (and just lower frequencies). I was mostly just fooling around with this one. 🥴
@lyse Yeah, to be fair, there’s not much of a difference other than a few grace notes (and just lower frequencies). I was mostly just fooling around with this one. 🥴
@lyse This is so crazy to me. When I think “forest”, I assume “untouched nature”, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. 🫤
@lyse This is so crazy to me. When I think “forest”, I assume “untouched nature”, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. 🫤
I’m a long-term mpd user (some 16+ years), but for $reasons I have to compile it myself now – and, boy, that is one heavy program. Takes several minutes to build. 😳
I’m a long-term mpd user (some 16+ years), but for $reasons I have to compile it myself now – and, boy, that is one heavy program. Takes several minutes to build. 😳
@kat Does … does that mean … that we’re “trending” on TikTok? 😅
@kat Does … does that mean … that we’re “trending” on TikTok? 😅
@lyse Commercial forest, I guess? (Are there any other forests?)
@lyse Commercial forest, I guess? (Are there any other forests?)
Not in the mood to deal with reality today, so here’s another one of those silly things: https://movq.de/v/68c61f8ecc/r2_session.ogg This time on electric bass, tuned down to B-standard because oomph. (Well, sounds okay on my headphones, but I’m obviously no sound engineer. 🤪)
Not in the mood to deal with reality today, so here’s another one of those silly things: https://movq.de/v/68c61f8ecc/r2_session.ogg This time on electric bass, tuned down to B-standard because oomph. (Well, sounds okay on my headphones, but I’m obviously no sound engineer. 🤪)
Hab’ ich einen Durst! Ist noch Lack da?
Hab’ ich einen Durst! Ist noch Lack da?
@lyse I had that as my avatar/userprofile pic at work for a few years. 😆
@lyse I had that as my avatar/userprofile pic at work for a few years. 😆
@lyse Luckily, yeah. Happens every now and then. It’s usually not even worth reporting, they often fix it in 30-90 minutes anyway.
@lyse Luckily, yeah. Happens every now and then. It’s usually not even worth reporting, they often fix it in 30-90 minutes anyway.
(Is this how we do “reactions” here on twtxt? 🤪)
(Is this how we do “reactions” here on twtxt? 🤪)
Super stressful day at work and, once I got home: Internet outage.
I guess that’s a sign.
Super stressful day at work and, once I got home: Internet outage.
I guess that’s a sign.
@bender 🙈🙈🙈
@lyse I remember WebKit having a similar list, but I can’t find it right now … 🙈
@bender 🙈🙈🙈
@lyse I remember WebKit having a similar list, but I can’t find it right now … 🙈
@prologic In all seriousness: Don’t worry, I’m not going to host some Fediverse thingy at the moment, probably never will. 😅
But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️
@prologic In all seriousness: Don’t worry, I’m not going to host some Fediverse thingy at the moment, probably never will. 😅
But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️
@bender That … was better than expected. 😂
@bender That … was better than expected. 😂
The Mastodon admins say that it’s probably because of the size of my account (~600 MB), so the export process times out. And I understand that. Here on twtxt, I always use auto-expiring links when I post images or videos. It just gets too much data otherwise. I think I’ll just set my Mastodon account to auto-delete posts after ~180 days or something like that. Nobody cares about old posts anyway.
The Mastodon admins say that it’s probably because of the size of my account (~600 MB), so the export process times out. And I understand that. Here on twtxt, I always use auto-expiring links when I post images or videos. It just gets too much data otherwise. I think I’ll just set my Mastodon account to auto-delete posts after ~180 days or something like that. Nobody cares about old posts anyway.
@lyse @bender It already is a tiling window manager, but some windows can’t be tiled in a meaningful way. I admit that I’m mostly thinking about QEMU or Wine here: They run at a fixed size and can’t be tiled, but I still want to put them in “full screen” mode (i.e., hide anything else).
@lyse @bender It already is a tiling window manager, but some windows can’t be tiled in a meaningful way. I admit that I’m mostly thinking about QEMU or Wine here: They run at a fixed size and can’t be tiled, but I still want to put them in “full screen” mode (i.e., hide anything else).
The brokenness of the web can be examined by opening about:compat in Firefox.
Lots and lots of workarounds for specific websites.
The brokenness of the web can be examined by opening about:compat in Firefox.
Lots and lots of workarounds for specific websites.
@kat I have just opened the GIMP bug tracker (hosted at gitlab.gnome.org) and, I kid you not, they have deployed Anubis in front of it:
Oof.
@kat I have just opened the GIMP bug tracker (hosted at gitlab.gnome.org) and, I kid you not, they have deployed Anubis in front of it:
Oof.
@lyse I’m glad to hear that! Yay for more clients. 😊
@lyse I’m glad to hear that! Yay for more clients. 😊
(I didn’t submit a proposal of my own, because it would basically just be a duplicate of another one. 😅)
(I didn’t submit a proposal of my own, because it would basically just be a duplicate of another one. 😅)
@lyse Interesting, thanks for that list. 🤔
@lyse Interesting, thanks for that list. 🤔
I’ve identified several issues with my current (admittedly cheap) upright bass by now. It might be time to upgrade to a better model. 🤔
If only those things weren’t so damn expensive. I just checked the prices and simply burst out laughing. 😂
I’ve identified several issues with my current (admittedly cheap) upright bass by now. It might be time to upgrade to a better model. 🤔
If only those things weren’t so damn expensive. I just checked the prices and simply burst out laughing. 😂
… yeah, okay, I don’t think I’ll do that. 😅 Anything but twtxt is just too much effort.
… yeah, okay, I don’t think I’ll do that. 😅 Anything but twtxt is just too much effort.
@lyse
> Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.
Is that because you mostly use Qt programs? 🤔
I wish Qt had a C API. Programming in C++ is pain. 😢
@lyse
> Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.
Is that because you mostly use Qt programs? 🤔
I wish Qt had a C API. Programming in C++ is pain. 😢
@lyse (I think of pointers as “memory location + type”, but I have done so much C and Assembler by now that the whole thing feels almost trivial to me. And I would have trouble explaining these concepts, I guess. 😅 *Maybe* I’ll cover this topic with our new Azubis/trainees some day …)
