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@movq it's so scary save urself
@movq yeah man pages are good but these days i kinda prefer tldr and especially cheat.sh
@kiwu i remember when this shit came out godddd it was electric
@kat its so groovy and teen beach esque!
@kat what a time to be alive
@kat I still haven’t tried it. 🤐 Some day, perhaps …
@kat I still haven’t tried it. 🤐 Some day, perhaps …
[47°09′39″S, 126°43′05″W] --no signal--
@lyse YEAH THEY ARE SOOO GOOD SINGING TOGETHER!!! it's kind of their label (hello project)'s thing :]
@kiwu somehow never got into this one, i gotta change that
been loving this song lately
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 30 
The first tomato of the year
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 30 The first tomato of the year
Seems like, that "God Bless the USA" phrase has gotten hijacked by people who don't seem to know what national sovereignty is. Is their boy Trump aware of the existence of other nations ?
Weil mir copyparty gerade ständig begegnet. Nun auch hier. Der Dateiserver für überall.
[47°09′40″S, 126°43′27″W] --bad checksum--
Today, a new blog I'm involved in went live. We've launched the Sociabli blog, and we'll be writing a bit about ourselves there, but even more about Mastodon, Bluesky, and later other connected networks:https://maurice-renck.de/en/blog/2025/new-blog
Why is it that I hate packing so badly? I gotta have to brace myself up to start that now.
The outlook is poor, rain all the way until maybe the last day of summer camp. Definitely bringing my gummies, they are well needed, the weather report announces several days with up to 14 liters per square meter.
Welcome to the club, @kiwu!
@kat Ta, very catchy indeed! :-) Their polyphony is great.
I just emerged from a really long, really tiring cruch. I am alive!
I just emerged from a really long, really tiring cruch. I am alive!
@kingdomcome Yeah, it's all about simplicity. That's what got me hooked. In its original form without the extensions, you can even read the raw feed and it doesn't feel all that bad.
[47°09′36″S, 126°43′16″W] --white noise--
@andros U2FsdGVkX1/4e9bHPqbCrue0Vu6XAqIOlVEZaQVn1nwaXYa5XtZJX/g1EvGGachBq80yZLIqY7qidoDg4O2Juw==
[47°09′31″S, 126°43′12″W] Transfer 50% complete...
@kiwu Hi!!!!!!!!! 😆 Welxome! 🙇♀️
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So 429: Too Many Requests on my GitHub hosted images, breaking my tutorials etc... *Not good!*
July will be gone and my escape to Codeberg.org has not even started (I have to finish my PhD...)
Trump needs tariffs for preparing war.
15 % tariffs on goods from Europe. People in USA nomore can buy cars and machines from Germany. USA will suck.
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@kiwu LETS GOOOOOOOOO BANGER
@kiwu hahahah it's ok! just give it some time :)
@kat ok! its kinda buggy here cuz my replys aren't coming in!
EVERYONE SAY HI TO @kiwu SHE'S MY LONGTIME BESTIE AND SUPER SWEET AND ALSO LOVES IDOLS LIKE ME :DDDD
@ HI KIWU YOUR PROFILE'S A BIT BUGGED ON OUR END BUT IT'S OK IT'LL FIX ITSELF
In 1996, they came up with the X11 “SECURITY” extension:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4w548u/what_is_up_with_the_x11_security_extension/
This is what could have (eventually) solved the security issues that we’re currently seeing with X11. Those issues are cited as one of the reasons for switching to Wayland.
That extension never took off. The person on reddit wonders why – I think it’s simple: Containers and sandboxes weren’t a thing in 1996. It hardly mattered if X11 was “insecure”. If you could run an X11 client, you probably already had access to the machine and could just do all kinds of other nasty things.
*Today*, sandboxing is a thing. *Today*, this matters.
I’ve heard so many times that “X11 is beyond fixable, it’s hopeless.” I don’t believe that. I believe that these problems are solveable with X11 and some devs have said “yeah, we could have kept working on it”. It’s that people don’t *want* to do it:
> Why not extend the X server?
>
> Because for the first time we have a realistic chance of not having to do that.
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
I’m not in a position to judge the devs. Maybe the X.Org code really is so bad that you want to run away, screaming in horror. I don’t know.
But all this was a choice. I don’t buy the argument that we never would have gotten rid of things like core fonts.
All the toolkits and programs had to be ported to Wayland. A huge, still unfinished effort. If that was an acceptable thing to do, then it would have been acceptable to make an “X12” that keeps all the good things about X11, remains compatible where feasible, eliminates the problems, and requires some clients to be adjusted. (You could have still made “X11X12” like “XWayland” for actual legacy programs.)
In 1996, they came up with the X11 “SECURITY” extension:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4w548u/what_is_up_with_the_x11_security_extension/
This is what could have (eventually) solved the security issues that we’re currently seeing with X11. Those issues are cited as one of the reasons for switching to Wayland.
That extension never took off. The person on reddit wonders why – I think it’s simple: Containers and sandboxes weren’t a thing in 1996. It hardly mattered if X11 was “insecure”. If you could run an X11 client, you probably already had access to the machine and could just do all kinds of other nasty things.
*Today*, sandboxing is a thing. *Today*, this matters.
I’ve heard so many times that “X11 is beyond fixable, it’s hopeless.” I don’t believe that. I believe that these problems are solveable with X11 and some devs have said “yeah, we could have kept working on it”. It’s that people don’t *want* to do it:
> Why not extend the X server?
>
> Because for the first time we have a realistic chance of not having to do that.
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
I’m not in a position to judge the devs. Maybe the X.Org code really is so bad that you want to run away, screaming in horror. I don’t know.
But all this was a choice. I don’t buy the argument that we never would have gotten rid of things like core fonts.
All the toolkits and programs had to be ported to Wayland. A huge, still unfinished effort. If that was an acceptable thing to do, then it would have been acceptable to make an “X12” that keeps all the good things about X11, remains compatible where feasible, eliminates the problems, and requires some clients to be adjusted. (You could have still made “X11X12” like “XWayland” for actual legacy programs.)
[47°09′11″S, 126°43′59″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
@lyse check out their song zenbu kakete go!! it's very sleek and smooth and just so vibe-y!!! also this live performance has an EPIC intro featuring ichika (violin girl) plus one of the members beatboxing and two girls (including my all time favorite idol, dambara ruru!) on vocals! it's so good
@kingdomcome I REPLIED TO THIS AND NOW IT'S NOT SHOWING WTFFFF anyway what i said was that i have some fun stuff in the daily note template already like ASCII weather forecast from wttr AND a jenny holzer quote from fortune!!! i should add more fun stuff!!!
Twtxt as a network is so neat. Sucks it isn't more widely adopted ): I feel like it'd be way easier to host than say, mastodon or GTS. & would require WAYYYY less resources. Not a diss on GTS, I love GTS <3, just saying _because_ it's text files, I assume the minimum amount of ram needed to host any of the twtxt server software is very low.
I could be super wrong though lol. Idk shit about anything ^^"
@kat I BELIEVE IN U!!! Making it fun helps! Maybe like put images in the docs so it's cuter to look at! I did that, but with physical journaling. Except instead of pics it was receipts & leaves & dried flowers lol
Howdy twtxt! How's ur morning going?
[47°09′27″S, 126°43′08″W] --interrupted--
God bless USA and mr. Trump
[47°09′35″S, 126°43′14″W] Reading: 1.02000 PPM
[47°09′08″S, 126°43′55″W] Dosimeter fixed
The stock OS on mine was Manjaro. I didn't request it. Now it has PostmarketOS. You can request a default OS.
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@kat Thank you! I have to check out more of their stuff.
@movq Holy cow! O_o
Reducing the overall screen time is desireable, that's right. I should do the same.
I wasn’t really aware until recently that programs can’t choose their own window’s position on Wayland. This is very weird to me, because this was not an issue on X11 to begin with: X11 programs can request a certain position and size, but the X11 WM ultimately decides if that request is being honored or not. And users can configure that.
But apparently, this whole thing is a heated debate in the Wayland world. 🤔
I wasn’t really aware until recently that programs can’t choose their own window’s position on Wayland. This is very weird to me, because this was not an issue on X11 to begin with: X11 programs can request a certain position and size, but the X11 WM ultimately decides if that request is being honored or not. And users can configure that.
But apparently, this whole thing is a heated debate in the Wayland world. 🤔
@movq How many? All of them!
My goodness, what assholes. Reacting based on the User-Agent might just work. For now.
[47°09′56″S, 126°43′17″W] Dosimeter still failing
@bender yeah, my friend's considering moving away from linode and instead self hosting. VPS stuff is a pain
[47°09′28″S, 126°43′11″W] Resetting dosimeter
This is just the universe telling me to reduce my screen time.
This is just the universe telling me to reduce my screen time.
@lyse To be fair, I did first notice this a while ago. But no monitor I ever had showed burn-ins like this (be it TFT or CRT), so I didn’t know that I *should have* sent it back. And then it got worse over time and now I see ghost images after 20-30 minutes. :(
@lyse To be fair, I did first notice this a while ago. But no monitor I ever had showed burn-ins like this (be it TFT or CRT), so I didn’t know that I *should have* sent it back. And then it got worse over time and now I see ghost images after 20-30 minutes. :(
@kat after 5 years or so with Linode, I started having little---but annoying---issues with them. Moved to Vultr and have been very happy with them since Ubuntu 16.04, so 9 years, and a little bit more.
LOL. I felt like I was been left behind! 😜
@prologic yeah, because, you know, even if you try entering a fake date of birth, the "algorithms" will move it, like a Ouija board, changing it back to the right one /s. 🙄
linode's having a major outage (ongoing as of writing, over 24 hours in) and my friend runs a site i help out with on one of their servers. we didn't have recent backups so i got really anxious about possible severe data loss considering the situation with linode doesn't look great (it seems like a really bad incident).
...anyway the server magically came back online and i got backups of the whole application and database, i'm so relieved :')