These are ideal working conditions:
https://movq.de/v/c0fb720543/server.mp4
These are ideal working conditions:
https://movq.de/v/c0fb720543/server.mp4
I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on *people*. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of *topic-based* forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️
I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on *people*. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of *topic-based* forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️
(Also, cute name. The “-le” suffix is a German diminutive, so it means “little OS”. 😃)
(Also, cute name. The “-le” suffix is a German diminutive, so it means “little OS”. 😃)
3rvya6q and *your* feed, but your feed certainly does not include that particular twt (it comes from *my* feed).But my proposal probably isn’t very helpful, either. We have this flat conversation model, so … this twt right here, what should it refer to? Your twt? My root twt? I don’t know.
@prologic Don’t include this just yet. I need to think about this some more (or drop the idea).
3rvya6q and *your* feed, but your feed certainly does not include that particular twt (it comes from *my* feed).But my proposal probably isn’t very helpful, either. We have this flat conversation model, so … this twt right here, what should it refer to? Your twt? My root twt? I don’t know.
@prologic Don’t include this just yet. I need to think about this some more (or drop the idea).
if clauses to this. My point is: Every time I see a hash, I’d like to have a hint as to where to find the corresponding twt.
if clauses to this. My point is: Every time I see a hash, I’d like to have a hint as to where to find the corresponding twt.
Instead of
(#123467) hello foo bar
you would have
(#123467 http://foo.com/tw.txt) hello foo bar
or maybe even:
(#123467 2025-04-30T12:30:31Z http://foo.com/tw.txt) hello foo bar
This would greatly help in reconstructing broken threads, since hashes are obviously unfortunately one-way tickets. The URL/timestamp would *not* be used for threading, just for discovery of feeds that you don’t already follow.
I don’t insist on including the timestamp, but having *some idea* which feed we’re talking about would help a lot.
Instead of
(#123467) hello foo bar
you would have
(#123467 http://foo.com/tw.txt) hello foo bar
or maybe even:
(#123467 2025-04-30T12:30:31Z http://foo.com/tw.txt) hello foo bar
This would greatly help in reconstructing broken threads, since hashes are obviously unfortunately one-way tickets. The URL/timestamp would *not* be used for threading, just for discovery of feeds that you don’t already follow.
I don’t insist on including the timestamp, but having *some idea* which feed we’re talking about would help a lot.
It usually doesn’t end well, because the contrast is just not as good. There’s a reason that things like professional DAWs or CAD software use a dark theme.
With a heavy bold font, it’s much better:
https://movq.de/v/331aa40bde/s.png
My font doesn’t get any bolder than this, though. I’d have to make a new variant of it. Mhh. 🤔
It usually doesn’t end well, because the contrast is just not as good. There’s a reason that things like professional DAWs or CAD software use a dark theme.
With a heavy bold font, it’s much better:
https://movq.de/v/331aa40bde/s.png
My font doesn’t get any bolder than this, though. I’d have to make a new variant of it. Mhh. 🤔
https://movq.de/v/a1c4a819e6/vid.mp4
(It runs smoothly. My computer just isn’t fast enough for a smooth X11 screengrab at that resolution.)
https://movq.de/v/a1c4a819e6/vid.mp4
(It runs smoothly. My computer just isn’t fast enough for a smooth X11 screengrab at that resolution.)
> Hence, I'd recommend to start programming with a console program. As for the language, not sure. But Python is probably a good choice
That’s what I usually do (when we have young people at work who never really programmed before), but it doesn’t really “hit” them. They’ve seen so much, crazy graphics, web pages, it’s all fancy. Just some text output is utterly boring these days. ☹️ And that’s my problem: I have no idea how I could possibly spark some interest in things like pointers or something “low-level” like that. And I truly believe that you *need* to understand things like pointers in order to program, in general.
> Hence, I'd recommend to start programming with a console program. As for the language, not sure. But Python is probably a good choice
That’s what I usually do (when we have young people at work who never really programmed before), but it doesn’t really “hit” them. They’ve seen so much, crazy graphics, web pages, it’s all fancy. Just some text output is utterly boring these days. ☹️ And that’s my problem: I have no idea how I could possibly spark some interest in things like pointers or something “low-level” like that. And I truly believe that you *need* to understand things like pointers in order to program, in general.
> Also, I see what you did there in regards to the reply model change poll. ]:->
The community is heavily divided in this regard, and yet we need consensous. We’re like the three Borg in VOY: Survival Instinct). 🥴
> Also, I see what you did there in regards to the reply model change poll. ]:->
The community is heavily divided in this regard, and yet we need consensous. We’re like the three Borg in VOY: Survival Instinct). 🥴
git pull on one of my repos – once every two minutes. This is a very pointless endeavour. I push new code a couple of times *per month*.So far, this isn’t causing any issues. I *think* this is just a regular human being who misconfigured some automation. And I *hope* this doesn’t mean that the “AI” bots have finally discovered my page …
git pull on one of my repos – once every two minutes. This is a very pointless endeavour. I push new code a couple of times *per month*.So far, this isn’t causing any issues. I *think* this is just a regular human being who misconfigured some automation. And I *hope* this doesn’t mean that the “AI” bots have finally discovered my page …
#!/bin/sh
# Position the pointer at the center of the dot, then run this script.
sleep 1
start=$(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)
eval $start
r=400
steps=100
down=0
for step in $(seq $((steps + 1)) )
do
# pi = 4 * atan(1)
new_x=$(printf '%s + %s * c(%s / %s * 2 * (4 * a(1)))\n' $X $r $step $steps | bc -l)
new_y=$(printf '%s + %s * s(%s / %s * 2 * (4 * a(1)))\n' $Y $r $step $steps | bc -l)
xte "mousemove ${new_x%%.*} ${new_y%%.*}"
if ! (( down ))
then
xte 'mousedown 1'
down=1
fi
done
xte 'mouseup 1'
xte "mousemove $X $Y"
Interestingly, you can abuse the scoring system (not manually, only with a script). Since the mouse *jumps* to the locations along the circle, you can just use very few steps and still get a great score because every step you make is very accurate – but the result looks funny:
🥴
#!/bin/sh
# Position the pointer at the center of the dot, then run this script.
sleep 1
start=$(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)
eval $start
r=400
steps=100
down=0
for step in $(seq $((steps + 1)) )
do
# pi = 4 * atan(1)
new_x=$(printf '%s + %s * c(%s / %s * 2 * (4 * a(1)))\n' $X $r $step $steps | bc -l)
new_y=$(printf '%s + %s * s(%s / %s * 2 * (4 * a(1)))\n' $Y $r $step $steps | bc -l)
xte "mousemove ${new_x%%.*} ${new_y%%.*}"
if ! (( down ))
then
xte 'mousedown 1'
down=1
fi
done
xte 'mouseup 1'
xte "mousemove $X $Y"
Interestingly, you can abuse the scoring system (not manually, only with a script). Since the mouse *jumps* to the locations along the circle, you can just use very few steps and still get a great score because every step you make is very accurate – but the result looks funny:
🥴
It feels like 2020 to and including 2023 never happened. 🫤
It feels like 2020 to and including 2023 never happened. 🫤
[](https://movq.de/v/07e4be1aad/a.ff.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/07e4be1aad/b.ff.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/07e4be1aad/a.ff.jpg)
[](https://movq.de/v/07e4be1aad/b.ff.jpg)
https://movq.de/v/f0c0e1e38c/
Now it’s getting greener:
https://movq.de/v/24e62315ef/
[](https://movq.de/v/24e62315ef/IMG_20250421_071652.jpg%2Dsmall.jpg)
https://movq.de/v/f0c0e1e38c/
Now it’s getting greener:
https://movq.de/v/24e62315ef/
[](https://movq.de/v/24e62315ef/IMG_20250421_071652.jpg%2Dsmall.jpg)
> My profile pic is AI modified to prevent deepfakes. I used local Stable Diffusion on my solar powered 7900XTX to average a few selfies.
That sounds like a fun thing to do. Do I have a chance of doing that on my old box from 2013 without a dedicated GPU? 😂
> My profile pic is AI modified to prevent deepfakes. I used local Stable Diffusion on my solar powered 7900XTX to average a few selfies.
That sounds like a fun thing to do. Do I have a chance of doing that on my old box from 2013 without a dedicated GPU? 😂
What the heck is going on in 86.jpg? An art installation, apparently, but, uh, I wouldn’t trust that. 😂
What the heck is going on in 86.jpg? An art installation, apparently, but, uh, I wouldn’t trust that. 😂
[Global]
Name = your.irc.server.com
Password = yourfancypassword
Listen = 0.0.0.0
Ports = 6667
AdminInfo1 = Well, me.
AdminInfo2 = Over here!
AdminEMail = forget.it@example.invalid
[Options]
Ident = no
PAM = no
[SSL]
CertFile = /etc/ssl/acme/your.irc.server.com.fullchain.pem
KeyFile = /etc/ssl/acme/private/your.irc.server.com.key
DHFile = /etc/ngircd/dhparam.pem
Ports = 6669
Start it and then you can connect on port 6667. (The SSL cert/key must be managed by an external tool, probably something like certbot or acme-client.)
I’m assuming OpenBSD here. Haven’t tried it on Linux lately, let alone Docker. 😅=
[Global]
Name = your.irc.server.com
Password = yourfancypassword
Listen = 0.0.0.0
Ports = 6667
AdminInfo1 = Well, me.
AdminInfo2 = Over here!
AdminEMail = forget.it@example.invalid
[Options]
Ident = no
PAM = no
[SSL]
CertFile = /etc/ssl/acme/your.irc.server.com.fullchain.pem
KeyFile = /etc/ssl/acme/private/your.irc.server.com.key
DHFile = /etc/ngircd/dhparam.pem
Ports = 6669
Start it and then you can connect on port 6667. (The SSL cert/key must be managed by an external tool, probably something like certbot or acme-client.)
I’m assuming OpenBSD here. Haven’t tried it on Linux lately, let alone Docker. 😅=
Information published on the internet (or anywhere, for that matter) was never guaranteed to be correct. But at least you had a “frame of reference”: “Ah, I read this information about Linux on a blog that usually posts about Windows, so this one single Linux post might not necessarily be correct.” That is completely lost with LLMs. It’s literally all mushed together. 🤷