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@bender “Mhhhhhhh, hehehe, gonna poop on *that* car. 😏”
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@lyse That’s interesting, I see them (Teichrallen) everywhere I look. 🤯 *It feels* like they’re about as common as mallards (Stockenten) over here. 🤔
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@lyse That’s interesting, I see them (Teichrallen) everywhere I look. 🤯 *It feels* like they’re about as common as mallards (Stockenten) over here. 🤔
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@quark Plot twist: I only drink decaf. 🤯🤯🤯
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@quark Plot twist: I only drink decaf. 🤯🤯🤯
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Sitting on the balcony with a fucking cup of coffee. https://movq.de/v/463f1f9d03/s.png
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Sitting on the balcony with a fucking cup of coffee. https://movq.de/v/463f1f9d03/s.png
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@kat I’m sure he’s doing a good job! 😊
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@kat I’m sure he’s doing a good job! 😊
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@lyse Looks pretty nice! Enjoy the mild temperatures while you can. 😅
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@lyse Looks pretty nice! Enjoy the mild temperatures while you can. 😅
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@aelaraji Thanks mate. 👌 (In the grand scheme of things I’m still doing great. World news are a horrible shit show nowadays, ffs. 😭)
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@aelaraji Thanks mate. 👌 (In the grand scheme of things I’m still doing great. World news are a horrible shit show nowadays, ffs. 😭)
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@kat Welcome back. 👋 (It’s a bit quiet here in general. 🤔)
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@kat Welcome back. 👋 (It’s a bit quiet here in general. 🤔)
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@lyse Thanks. 😅 Quite a few of them waddle around at the pond in our village. But those two individuals were seen in a nearby zoo. They’re not zoo animals, they just live there. 😅
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@lyse Thanks. 😅 Quite a few of them waddle around at the pond in our village. But those two individuals were seen in a nearby zoo. They’re not zoo animals, they just live there. 😅
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Bird photos of the day:

- Egyptian Goose
- Common Moorhen (half asleep)
- Rock Dove

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Bird photos of the day:

- Egyptian Goose
- Common Moorhen (half asleep)
- Rock Dove

https://movq.de/v/4fe0207d31/
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I wanted to port this to Rust as an excercise, but they *still* have no random number generator in the core library: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/130703
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I wanted to port this to Rust as an excercise, but they *still* have no random number generator in the core library: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/130703
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That’s the code, it’s surprisingly simple: https://movq.de/v/81dd5649be/
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That’s the code, it’s surprisingly simple: https://movq.de/v/81dd5649be/
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@lyse Only 10% of the German population had Internet access in 1998: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Deutschland#/media/Datei:Diagramm_Internetnutzer_in_Deutschland.svg I guess I was lucky in that regard.

(If today’s tech wasn’t constantly trying to track and scam you, I might still be an early adopter.)
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@lyse Only 10% of the German population had Internet access in 1998: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Deutschland#/media/Datei:Diagramm_Internetnutzer_in_Deutschland.svg I guess I was lucky in that regard.

(If today’s tech wasn’t constantly trying to track and scam you, I might still be an early adopter.)
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@lyse Nice! The final desk looks like it’s right out of Skyrim. 😃
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@lyse Nice! The final desk looks like it’s right out of Skyrim. 😃
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Having some fun with SIRDS this morning.

[![](https://movq.de/v/dae785e733/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dres.png.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/dae785e733/res.png)

What you should see: https://movq.de/v/dae785e733/disp.png

And the tutorial I used for my C program: https://www.ime.usp.br/~otuyama/stereogram/basic/index.html
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Having some fun with SIRDS this morning.

[![](https://movq.de/v/dae785e733/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dres.png.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/dae785e733/res.png)

What you should see: https://movq.de/v/dae785e733/disp.png

And the tutorial I used for my C program: https://www.ime.usp.br/~otuyama/stereogram/basic/index.html
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@lyse Oooooh, never seen that before. 😲 Either white-balance doing funny stuff or unusual “filtering” through those clouds. 🤔
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@lyse Oooooh, never seen that before. 😲 Either white-balance doing funny stuff or unusual “filtering” through those clouds. 🤔
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@lyse Ctrl-U in Vim does something similar (“Delete all entered characters before the cursor in the current line”), but it does not put them into the “clipboard”. I sometimes hit Ctrl-U by accident and then my text is gone. 😡😂
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@lyse Ctrl-U in Vim does something similar (“Delete all entered characters before the cursor in the current line”), but it does not put them into the “clipboard”. I sometimes hit Ctrl-U by accident and then my text is gone. 😡😂
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A bill from our ISP in 1998.

We’re talking about *a month* here, 1998-07-27 to 1998-08-26.

Basic fee: 7.50 DM (about 6€ today).

Online time: *516 minutes*, 23.53 DM (about 20€ today).

That’s just the ISP costs, if I’m not mistaken. The underlying phone calls were pretty pricey as well.

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A bill from our ISP in 1998.

We’re talking about *a month* here, 1998-07-27 to 1998-08-26.

Basic fee: 7.50 DM (about 6€ today).

Online time: *516 minutes*, 23.53 DM (about 20€ today).

That’s just the ISP costs, if I’m not mistaken. The underlying phone calls were pretty pricey as well.

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Just as a little courtesy call (is that the right term?): 2025 continues to be annoying and exhausting, and I won’t really have the energy to work on twtxt/Yarn or texudus. Other than the occasional retrocomputing thingy (which gives a nice boost of nostalgia), I’m not doing much of anything lately.

cc @prologic @andros
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Just as a little courtesy call (is that the right term?): 2025 continues to be annoying and exhausting, and I won’t really have the energy to work on twtxt/Yarn or texudus. Other than the occasional retrocomputing thingy (which gives a nice boost of nostalgia), I’m not doing much of anything lately.

cc @prologic @andros
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SuSE Linux 6.4 and Arachne on DOS also work (with Windows 2000 as a call target):

- https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-31/0/POSTING-en.html#suse-linux-64
- https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-31/0/POSTING-en.html#arachne-on-dos
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SuSE Linux 6.4 and Arachne on DOS also work (with Windows 2000 as a call target):

- https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-31/0/POSTING-en.html#suse-linux-64
- https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-31/0/POSTING-en.html#arachne-on-dos
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@bender Hm, I was just surprised to see so many non-english feeds in there. 🤔
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@bender Hm, I was just surprised to see so many non-english feeds in there. 🤔
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@lyse Like this? 😅



Source: https://mastodon.social/@islieb/114635884398567253
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@lyse Like this? 😅



Source: https://mastodon.social/@islieb/114635884398567253
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@lyse Where do they come from, anyway? Are they somehow auto-discovered or is this a curated list?
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@lyse Where do they come from, anyway? Are they somehow auto-discovered or is this a curated list?
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@kat I don’t do a lot of CSS and tried to use flexboxes recently, couldn’t find a great explanation. I somehow managed to get the desired effect, but am I using them correctly? Who knows.
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@kat I don’t do a lot of CSS and tried to use flexboxes recently, couldn’t find a great explanation. I somehow managed to get the desired effect, but am I using them correctly? Who knows.
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@lyse I cannot / could not imagine that, either – but if it’s publicly available on the internet and something links to it, they’ll eventually find, scrape it, use it. ☹️
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@lyse I cannot / could not imagine that, either – but if it’s publicly available on the internet and something links to it, they’ll eventually find, scrape it, use it. ☹️
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@arne … Petrasilie? :-D
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@arne … Petrasilie? :-D
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When I chose the MIT license for all of my software, I thought:

“Should I use GPL, which I don’t really understand? Is that worth it? Yeah, there is a *theoretical possibility* that some company might use my code in their proprietary product … and then what? Should I sue them to enforce the GPL? I’m not going to do that anyway, so I’ll just use the MIT license.”

And now we have those LLM scrapers and now it’s suddenly *a reality* that these companies (ab)use my code. I can see it in my logs. I didn’t expect that back then.

GPL wouldn’t help, either, of course. (Regardless, I now think that GPL would have been the better choice anyway.)

I’m honestly considering taking my code and website offline. Maybe make it accessible through some obscure protocol like Gopher or Gemini, but no more HTTP.

(Yes, Anubis might help. Temporarily.)

I’m just tired.
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When I chose the MIT license for all of my software, I thought:

“Should I use GPL, which I don’t really understand? Is that worth it? Yeah, there is a *theoretical possibility* that some company might use my code in their proprietary product … and then what? Should I sue them to enforce the GPL? I’m not going to do that anyway, so I’ll just use the MIT license.”

And now we have those LLM scrapers and now it’s suddenly *a reality* that these companies (ab)use my code. I can see it in my logs. I didn’t expect that back then.

GPL wouldn’t help, either, of course. (Regardless, I now think that GPL would have been the better choice anyway.)

I’m honestly considering taking my code and website offline. Maybe make it accessible through some obscure protocol like Gopher or Gemini, but no more HTTP.

(Yes, Anubis might help. Temporarily.)

I’m just tired.
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Getting a bit quiet in the Yarniverse.
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Getting a bit quiet in the Yarniverse.
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@arne Was sind denn Petras? :-)
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@arne Was sind denn Petras? :-)
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🌈 Hooray! 🌈
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🌈 Hooray! 🌈
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@kat A blast from the past! 😅 And all of it still works, that’s quite the surprise. I mean, I’m making *real phone calls* here and let the modems talk over that connection … Almost like in the 90ies. 😅
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@kat A blast from the past! 😅 And all of it still works, that’s quite the surprise. I mean, I’m making *real phone calls* here and let the modems talk over that connection … Almost like in the 90ies. 😅
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@nghialele Man, I wish I could watch Formula 1 on a regular basis again, but it has become expensive as fuck here. 🫤
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@nghialele Man, I wish I could watch Formula 1 on a regular basis again, but it has become expensive as fuck here. 🫤
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This is my highlight, really, haven’t seen this in action in a loooooooong time:



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This is my highlight, really, haven’t seen this in action in a loooooooong time:



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I had a lot of fun with my modems these past few days:

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-31/0/POSTING-en.html
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I had a lot of fun with my modems these past few days:

https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-31/0/POSTING-en.html
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@bender Not sure if you’re serious or joking, but: IE3 introduced support for CSS, Mosaic completely ignores it. 😅 Besides, it looks fine in IE3 now as well, after I fixed my CSS bug. 🤪
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@bender Not sure if you’re serious or joking, but: IE3 introduced support for CSS, Mosaic completely ignores it. 😅 Besides, it looks fine in IE3 now as well, after I fixed my CSS bug. 🤪
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@prologic Mosaic (2.7) works fine, I maintain that package in the AUR and test my website regularly. 😅

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@prologic Mosaic (2.7) works fine, I maintain that package in the AUR and test my website regularly. 😅

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@quark Ah, I see. Hm, only problem is, IE 3 doesn’t seem to support this yet. 😅 Nah, I don’t think I’ll go down that road – seems like a slippery slope. 🤣
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@quark Ah, I see. Hm, only problem is, IE 3 doesn’t seem to support this yet. 😅 Nah, I don’t think I’ll go down that road – seems like a slippery slope. 🤣
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@bender Probably, yes. 🤔 There’s no standard way to do that, though, is there? 🤔
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@bender Probably, yes. 🤔 There’s no standard way to do that, though, is there? 🤔
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… but as it turned out, this was a bug in my CSS. It works now. 🥳

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… but as it turned out, this was a bug in my CSS. It works now. 🥳

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My website is compatible with many old browsers, but Internet Explorer 3, uhm, not so much.

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My website is compatible with many old browsers, but Internet Explorer 3, uhm, not so much.

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@kat Yep, can’t wait to hear *that* dial-up sound again. 😃
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@kat Yep, can’t wait to hear *that* dial-up sound again. 😃
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@kat Awww, welcome to the family, little guy. 😅
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@kat Awww, welcome to the family, little guy. 😅
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Maybe you’ll enjoy this as well:

I still have one of my first modems, a Creatix LC 144 VF:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Da.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/a.jpg)

I *think* this was the modem that I used when I first connected to the internet, but I’m not sure.

I plugged it in again and it still works:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2D0.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/0.jpg)
[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2D1.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/1.jpg)

The firmware appears to be from 1994, which sounds about right. I don’t think we had internet access before that. We certainly did use local mailboxes, though. (Or BBS’s, as you might call them.)

I now want to actually use that modem again. For the moment, I can only use a phone to dial into it, I lack a second modem to actually establish a connection. Here’s a video:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dcall3%2Dre.mp4.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/call3%2Dre.mp4)

Not spectacular, but the modem does answer after me entering `ATA`.

I bought another cheap old modem on eBay and am now waiting for it to arrive. Once it’s here, I want to simulate an actual dial-up session, hopefully from OS/2 or Windows 3.x.
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Maybe you’ll enjoy this as well:

I still have one of my first modems, a Creatix LC 144 VF:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Da.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/a.jpg)

I *think* this was the modem that I used when I first connected to the internet, but I’m not sure.

I plugged it in again and it still works:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2D0.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/0.jpg)
[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2D1.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/1.jpg)

The firmware appears to be from 1994, which sounds about right. I don’t think we had internet access before that. We certainly did use local mailboxes, though. (Or BBS’s, as you might call them.)

I now want to actually use that modem again. For the moment, I can only use a phone to dial into it, I lack a second modem to actually establish a connection. Here’s a video:

[![](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dcall3%2Dre.mp4.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/37e694fdfd/call3%2Dre.mp4)

Not spectacular, but the modem does answer after me entering `ATA`.

I bought another cheap old modem on eBay and am now waiting for it to arrive. Once it’s here, I want to simulate an actual dial-up session, hopefully from OS/2 or Windows 3.x.
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@kat Ah, I see. I would assume that you’ll get used to it at some point. 🤔 But yeah, a lot of meaning is packed into these symbols. (It’s much, much worse with languages like Rust. 😅)
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@kat Ah, I see. I would assume that you’ll get used to it at some point. 🤔 But yeah, a lot of meaning is packed into these symbols. (It’s much, much worse with languages like Rust. 😅)
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That was so great to watch, I was smiling from ear to ear the whole time. 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LYCERDnX4
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That was so great to watch, I was smiling from ear to ear the whole time. 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7LYCERDnX4
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@kat In what way should it be more verbose? Can you give an example? 🤔
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@kat In what way should it be more verbose? Can you give an example? 🤔
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@lyse Oh, yeah, nothing beats modern DVCSs. I just *hope* that having CVS is better than nothing. We’ll see. 😂
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@lyse Oh, yeah, nothing beats modern DVCSs. I just *hope* that having CVS is better than nothing. We’ll see. 😂
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@lyse Okay, jetzt hör’ ich’s. :DD
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@lyse Okay, jetzt hör’ ich’s. :DD
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@lyse Kenne ich gar nicht und noch sehe ich die Ähnlichkeit nicht, aber kann ja noch kommen. 😅
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@lyse Kenne ich gar nicht und noch sehe ich die Ähnlichkeit nicht, aber kann ja noch kommen. 😅
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@bender With these paper thin walls, it might just work. 🤣
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@bender With these paper thin walls, it might just work. 🤣
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Happy to report that the neighbor has started playing Tschaikowski on their piano. And they’re getting really good at it! This is awesome. 😍