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@movq @kat Thanks! :-) I was reading the gakw manual when it started and caught up on the eels later. :-)
@movq Holy shit, that's insane! :-D I tried it, but i'm absolutely terrible at these type of games. I'm having trouble with the keys to move around. Maybe after ages I would pick it up and it becomes natural. I just was never a real gamer.
I will definitely try to read through the code, though! This looks sick. 8-)
@movq Despite you claim it to be pretty simple, rest assured, you're still a wizard to me. :-)
@movq Interesting, yes. I didn't know that.
No AI being used is really great. However, the same clips shown over and over again and some images being mirrored was quite annoying to me. Also, there were some quite terrible computer animations and sometimes the narration and picture didn't match at all. Talking about the medieval period and then showing an image from the 18th hundred or so. What the heck?
These production issues made me sceptical pretty much early on. So I quickly crosschecked Wikipedia. But it seems spot on from what I've read. Very good. Also, the narrator's voice was really nice to listen to.
Eels are fascinating creatures. :-)
I missed the best part, this was at the end:
It was much more purple before
@movq Woah, heck yeah, congratulations, mate!
@zvava That's a double-sided sword, I'd day. This also helps the bad guy kick out the rightful owner. Anyway. Happy hacking!
@bender Cool, the PDF doesn't have the navigation links between each section, that's indeed a tad nicer. Thanks!
@kat Oh dear, nobody needs bot attacks. :-( Luckily, the web server responding a hell lot quicker today than the last two days.
@eric Hmm, the images are all 404ing. Also, I reckon that lots of code blocks are broken, too.
@dce You should try los86! 8-)
Well, what are you trying to do on this ThinkPad? That might affect the OS choices.
I really had to laugh when I read your initial comparison. I love it! :-D
Hmm, gnu.org is slow as heck. Shorter HTML pages load in about ten seconds. This complete AWK manual all in one large HTML page took a full minute: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html Is there maybe some anti AI shenanigans going on?
In any case, I find the user guide super interesting. My AWK skills are basically non-existent, so I finally decided to change that. This document is incredibly well written and makes it really fun to keep reading and learning. I'm very impressed. So far, I made it to section 1.6, happy to continue.
It was raining cats and dogs for a few minutes, I almost couldn't see the houses down in the valley anymore. Pretty sick. :-)
@bender Haha, yeah, we're also better off rolling dice sometimes. I usually don't mind liquid sunshine either. But I have to be prepared for it. As a matter of prudence, I brought my rain jacket along. In the end, I was wet from the inside as well, though. The breathability of this plastic bag isn't as good as they always claim it to be. Especially in summer.
@movq I couldn't agree more! :-)
Three weather services with three different forecasts. We got a little bit rained on, so at least some of them were not completely wrong. The timing was off by an hour, though. And nobody expected the Spanish inqui^W^Wthunder either. It was a nice walk.
Oh cool, as I type this, lighning and thunder very close by now. At most a kilometer away. Glad I'm home and not in the woods anymore. And heavy rain kicks in, too.
@zvava Uuhh, that's nice! And welcome to the twtxt world.
The password change might query the current password as well in order to make it difficult for attackers to change account passwords.
@movq Oh, nice read!
If I'm in the woods, I'd like to not waste my time with computers and focus on the beauty of nature. ;-) So, I'm not gonna participate in that event. But I'd read your articles on that subject anytime. :-)
@eric That's cool, happy hacking! :-)
@ionores Haven't seen 'em yet, unfortunately. But I will keep an eye out for them. :-)
@movq Now, you can automatically ban everybody requesting these old URLs.
@movq Dunning-Kruger twice, also in the field of photography. :-D
@movq Hahaha, great idea! :-D I never saw the Epson Image Scan logo before.
And the e-mail body says that @movq is leaving, too.
Hey @jost, not sure if this reaches you, but your TLS server certificate expired two weeks ago.
@movq Yeah, that Model M has quite some oomph. ;-)
@movq Haha, that's so cool! :-) Could you remove the cover to at least reduce the amount of scrolling around? But I bet any amount of scrolling is annoying.
This printer has quite some noise level to it. Or how bad is it really in person?
@movq Nice picture, this hot air balloon has quite a large basket.
Yes, go for it! :-)
My grandpa went ballooning ages ago and liked it. The balloonist misjudged the height a bit and landed in an open-air pool. Well, not in the water, but on the sunbathing lawn just inside the fence. :-D After the ride, everybody was given a very long personal name that they had to memorize. Decades later, my grandpa still knew his assigned name.
The most important thing to know is that – in German – you don't fly (fliegen) a ballon, but ride (fahren) it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballonfahren#Fahren_oder_fliegen Judging by the English wikipedia article, this is not an English thing, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_ballooning
@movq I'm in Standard Camp. ;-)
@movq There haven't been decent ones for a while.
@movq Heck yeah, have fun! :-) We never had a matrix printer, started off with a cathode ray tube and an inkjet pisser.
I'm happy to see you compose your first twtxt message using ed on your new output device. We definitely need video proof of that! ;-)
@movq Haha, yeah. I never bothered with them.
We went out an hour earlier to escape the rain. But we got drizzled on, nevertheless. As expected, the rain jacket was finally wet on both the out- and inside. Sweating under that plasic layer is unavoidable with these temperatures. It was still a very nice walk and great vibe with the gray soup. Just right. :-)
Didn't bring my camera, I guarantee that it would have gotten soaking wet.
@movq Ucycling just rocks to hard!
@bender Hahaha, I bet you could use it for a myriad of things! :-D
@movq Very nice! I fully agree, I really like listening to him, too.
@bender There are all sorts of pallets. I made my wooden mallet from a heavy duty beech pallet a few years ago:
Too lazy to take a new photo, so I just dug out this old one from the mallet
Oh yes, this guy is so cool. I think the next machines I need are a thickness planer and a big dust collector with at least hose 100mm diameter! :-)
@movq Hahaha, congrats! :-D
@movq Oh yeah, once in the quarter to the office is absolutely amazing and luxurious. Thank you teammates and employer! Though, I would already have been on site when these things happened earlier.
Today is my last day of holiday. Back to work again tomorrow. Not looking forward, vacation is just great. So easy to get used to.
I just saw that these motherfuckers also query my twtxt feed. I have to enable access logs for everything again and see who else wants some napalm response. :-(
Exactly, @eric! Welcome to the party. :-)
@movq Hahahaha, great! :-D
@movq Hell yeah, this is cool, thank you! <3
@bender Yeah, the subject and multiline extensions are great and absolutely needed. If incorporated right from the beginning, though, they could have been designed even better. :-)
@kat @movq Sorry, I neither finished it nor in time. :-( That's as good as it's gonna get for the moment: https://git.isobeef.org/lyse/gelbariab/-/tree/master/rss-proxys?ref_type=heads
The README should hopefully provide a crude introduction. The example configuration file is documented fairly well, I believe (but maybe not). You probably still have to consult and maybe also modify the source code to fit your needs.
Let me know if you run into issues, have questions, wishes etc.
@movq @kat I also wondered for a very long time why nobody improved the man experience in the terminal. I'd love to see links and more colors.
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.
@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.
@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.
@movq How many? All of them!
My goodness, what assholes. Reacting based on the User-Agent might just work. For now.
We just met again after sleep to clean up all the rest. I now got food for literally two weeks. At least. No kidding! I feel really bad for taking waaaaay more home than bringing along. :-/ Turned out that a bunch of people were absent without an excuse. :-( That rude behavior is beyond my comprehension.
@movq Smart decision. :-)
@prologic Too bad, no FLOSS software. :-/ But thanks! :-)
@movq What the heck, that's terrible! :-( This planned obsolence right after warranty really sucks balls.
@movq It's about time to get a new monitor. How old is it, btw.?
@prologic Cool! What program do you use to draw this up?
@thecanine Nice! :-)
When tidying up my good mate's birthday party site last night we emptied the beer pong cups which had been filled with just ordinary tap water. There was also a cute dog whose owner gave it its drinking bowl, but it was not interested. Just for fun I offered it one of those water cups and it began to drink. We all had to laugh so hard because it was completely unexpected and looked so funny. Can't describe this comicalness of the situation. :-D
@kat Uuhh, I love this! Who's that, what's that song?
@kat From what I grasped so far, you're certainly heading for this for sure. :-)
@movq Yikes! Debug settings enabled right from "the factory"?
@movq That's how it's supposed to be. :-)
@movq Ah, okay! That's why it's in such an advanced state. :-)
Nice, I never came in contact with OS/2.
@xuu I see you're already a big fan of that language!
@movq According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/KDE_Plasma_5.21_Breeze_Twilight_screenshot.png
And GNOME used to have them, too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Gnome-2-22_%284%29.png
I like the looks of your window manager. That's using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!@1 At least the file browser. 8-)
This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really don't get it how people can work like that. You can't even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then there's 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! There's the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a "regularish" 16:10 monitor and don't see shit, because it's resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D
Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesn't serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/leafpads.png) gives me also classic vibes. Awww. We ran some similar brownish color scheme (don't recall its name) on Win95 or Win98 for some time on the family computer. I remember other people visting us not liking these colors. :-D
@movq Nice looking birds! :-)
Oh, interesting. Lessons learned: Never simply redefine things.
@kat Cool! I just got an idea for work tomorrow: Use dmenu to quickly start different SSH tunnels I routinely need.
@movq Wow, up until now, it never occurred to me that dependencies can be optional. :-O I gotta put that on my research list.
@movq I haven't used KDE or GNOME for ages, but I'm sure KDE at least used to show application icons in the title bars. They proabably still do. But then, one could argue that KDE is mimicking Windows. I never thought like that, I always found KDE way superior, because I was able to configure it like a madman.
In i3, I don't have any application icons. I remember missing them at the beginning. But I don't even have the classical minimize, maximize and close buttons in the title bar either. Just the title. Being mostly keyboard driven and a tiling window manager, these buttons are not super useful, anyway.
@movq @kat I'm just used to it because I deal with such things all the time. :-)
@movq Huuuhhh?! Did I get this correctly? There are programs installed that miss (some of) their dependencies?! What the heck! O_o
@movq Following all your Wayland endeavors, it doesn't sound like a mature and usable thing to me yet.
@movq I found it quite easy to mentally parse this structure.
We finally got a caliper donated for this year's scout flea market. We didn't sell it, but kept it ourselves. It will come in very handy every now and then in our material store. For example, I missed having a caliper in the past when sorting our random assortment of screws or measuring the depth of a hole. It's a wee bit banged up (probably happened during transport) and didn't come with a box, but the latter is now solved.
The lid and bottom came from a wardrobe back panel I got from a mate, the sides were rocket sticks in their former lives. I found some scrap of felt in our material store and some hinges laying around in the drawers of my own workshop.
Unfortunately, the table saw teared up the plywood veneer fibres badly, even though I put tape around to prevent that. This is the first time it didn't work. At. All. To cover that up, I painted the box with some decades old tinting paint (price tag says Deutsche Mark, not Euro!) from my paint cabinet. It's awesome, works absolutely perfectly and doesn't smell the slightest bit. I reckon, this caliper box is plenty good enough for occasional use at our scout material store.
Caliper box