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2022-12-21T08:40:00Z	(#6ek4rvq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I’ll have a look. 👌
2022-12-21T08:40:18Z	My feed just got rotated as well. Let me know if it broke something. 🥴
2022-12-21T08:48:54Z	(#g67crtq) Hmm, looks like my reply to this thread (the one with the link to nature.com) got lost: https://twtxt.net/conv/xjgwpsa
2022-12-21T09:18:27Z	(#g67crtq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I do. But didn’t we work out some logic to cover this case? 🤔 I forgot. Something like: “If the current file does not contain the twt hash that we’ve seen on the last run, then traverse back through archived feeds until you find it.” 🤔
2022-12-21T09:21:47Z	(#6ek4rvq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> btw, dev.twtxt.net could use an update. 😅  This page, for example, still shows the old version: https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twtsubjectextension.html
2022-12-21T10:21:48Z	(#g67crtq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Oof. 😅 Yeah, maybe I souldn’t truncate it entirely … let’s see if I can conjure up the motivation to implement that. 😅
2022-12-22T17:25:36Z	(#kwuzqla) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Weather is crazy, yeah. I’m glad that it’s no longer -10°C, though. 🥴

That 04.jpg is wallpaper-worthy! 👌
2022-12-22T19:03:03Z	(#ifngerq) @<justamoment https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt> Nice. (My machine is not fast enough to render this smoothly, though. 🥴)
2022-12-23T10:51:20Z	(#kz2taka) As of today, the noisy drying machines are gone! 🥳 Best christmas present in a long time. 🥴
2022-12-23T12:15:20Z	(#kz2taka) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Dry, yeah. Nice, not yet. 😅  Some stuff needs to be rebuilt/repainted now. But that’s not a big deal.

@<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Close to a month. 🥴 🤦
2022-12-23T16:02:26Z	Advent of Code in a nutshell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVGtz-_da0o

😂
2022-12-23T16:02:57Z	(#ft34wyq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> That is some juicy green, though. Isn’t it *winter*?
2022-12-23T16:15:09Z	I just read that some parts of the US currently have up/down to -40°C. Oh my goodness. 😳
2022-12-24T04:30:27Z	(#kz2taka) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> I’m afraid 3-4 weeks is rather short. 🫤  Depending on how big the damage is, these machines might be around for much longer.

My damage was a minor damage, I think. It also was in the *drain* (not even nasty toilet sewage), so there was only water coming down to me when the upstairs neighbors used their shower. It wasn’t running non-stop. 

And still, it caused a lot of trouble and headache. I don’t even want to imagine a big damage where an under-pressure pipe bursts. 😨😨😨  Let’s hope this never happens while I live here. 🤞
2022-12-25T08:53:06Z	(#6nabnda) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Family stuff, lots of family stuff, then some more family stuff. 🤣  (Eating, drinking, sitting, being unhealthy. Yay!)
2022-12-25T09:50:48Z	Finished Advent of Code and rejoined the private leaderboards out of curiosity -- only to find out that the other people stopped doing the puzzles halfway through. 🥴
2022-12-25T09:50:58Z	(#6bxoatq) Summary of the event: gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2022-12/2022-12-25--advent-of-code-2022.txt
2022-12-26T06:03:52Z	(#qjljwza) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Nice 😂
2022-12-26T06:24:09Z	(#m2n5vzq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> What was that? “Too bad the computer can’t read indentation”? 🐍😏
2022-12-26T07:01:02Z	(#m2n5vzq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Oh, right, that’s the same! 😳
2022-12-29T09:24:42Z	(#d5dkd2q) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Should have been called `gitxt.git`. 😈
2022-12-29T16:24:37Z	(#uxjvuxa) For the record, I think this is spartan:

https://github.com/michael-lazar/spartan

When I searched for “spartan protocol”, the first result was some crypto currency nonsense. 🤦
2022-12-31T16:49:18Z	(#bf44ima) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Niiice! 👌

Now get ready for a nifty little war simulation! 🥳  Err, I mean, guten Rutsch!
2023-01-01T17:29:42Z	(#bf44ima) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Fireworks sure do look nice, though. 😅 I’m surprised that you managed to take such good shots – it’s pretty finnicky to get the exposure right, IIRC. (I guess your camera had good auto-settings here.)

We were watching from our balcony. Well, not the balcony actually, we were behind the windows. You can’t watch fireworks from the balcony of a (small-ish) tower building, because the rockets will explode right in your face. 🧨

Where I live, it has actually gotten a bit better. Before Covid, people were shooting fireworks like maniacs. Then in 2020 there were basically no fireworks (I think there were restrictions back then), which was a little strange, but very relaxing. In 2021, some fireworks got replaced by laser shows – pretty cool! And this year we’re back to standard fireworks again – but not to the pre-Covid extent. They stopped sooner and I hardly remember any bombs going off today (January 1st).
2023-01-01T17:30:50Z	(#36xvvca) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Quite a lot of bugs in that area. 🤔  I mean in general, not just in your client. What was it? Sometimes it almost feels like we went too far with that spec and made it too complicated / too many corner cases.
2023-01-02T13:30:43Z	(#trmql3q) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> Cleaning the browser’s profile on every reboot helps a lot. 🥴
2023-01-02T14:37:03Z	(#trmql3q) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> I don’t. 😅 I might accumulate quite a lot of tabs throughout the day (especially at work), but eventually, meh, hardly any of them matter. If something really is important, I store a link at the appropriate place. Let’s say some web site is relevant to a bit of code I’m writing, then it ends up as a comment in said code …

Other than that, I have a bookmarks file with stuff I’m regularly visiting.

And that’s it.

Which brings me to the important question: What *are* those 153 tabs of yours? 😅
2023-01-02T14:57:14Z	[The Fall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(TV_series)) is a great show. 👌 Slow, dark, great atmosphere. Almost like Nordic Noir. I haven’t finished it yet, though (so who knows, maybe the ending sucks 😅).
2023-01-02T15:01:04Z	(#trmql3q) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> Huh … well, to be fair, I do have a “read later” text file. I never read any of the stuff in it, but maybe, one day, when I have the time … 🤪

If you don’t read it now (or at least this evening), then you probably never will.
2023-01-02T16:06:20Z	[Matrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)) as a self-hosted chat for our family was a mistake. Messages even arrive out of order now …

I’ll have to start looking for an alternative.
2023-01-02T19:44:39Z	(#jpn5wua) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> I’ll have a look at the current state of XMPP and that list, thanks. 👌
2023-01-03T07:11:13Z	(#4azhjsq) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> Hmm, I’m just seeing this: https://movq.de/v/d28ab7e453/s.png
2023-01-03T07:23:18Z	(#jpn5wua) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I have to confess, I never really had a look at Salty. 🤔 Is it ready for “prime time”? I.e., usable by non-tech users, Android and iOS client, easy upload of images and videos, … ?
2023-01-03T08:14:27Z	(#jpn5wua) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> They hardly care what it is. It should just work. They’re also an WhatsApp, but I refuse to use that. 🥴
2023-01-03T17:17:24Z	Moon and Mars very close to each other tonight.

![](https://movq.de/v/880202b838/s.png)

Sadly, I lack the equipment/skill to take a good photo of this. The Moon is way too bright and you can hardly see Mars on the left.

![](https://movq.de/v/74826b2534/s.png)
2023-01-04T18:57:19Z	(#w346hia) @<mckinley https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt> I thought it was going to be the year of IPv6?
2023-01-06T17:06:00Z	(#mf4kvaa) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I’m not really sure what you mean. Don’t we already have `nick =` and `url =` in the metadata section? Which problem are we trying to solve? 🤔
2023-01-06T17:59:56Z	(#o33cpoq) @<logout http://i-logout.cz/twtxt.txt> Which books did you read? Are they available online by any chance?
2023-01-07T04:58:22Z	(#o33cpoq) @<logout http://i-logout.cz/twtxt.txt> Nice, thank you.
2023-01-07T05:05:39Z	(#mf4kvaa) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Hmmm.

So you’re suggesting to make `prologic@twtxt.net` the “primary identifier” of a user, right? That’s the string that I would configure in my twtxt client when I want to follow someone. Then when my client fetches the feed, it first does a webfinger lookup to find the feed URL and the nickname. (Or maybe this only immediately after adding the user to my client and then maybe update it every now and then.)

Did I understand correctly so far? 😅
2023-01-07T06:17:44Z	(#mf4kvaa) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Alright, buuuut … what do we gain from that?

You could do almost the same thing currently with just the feed URL. `nick =` can be read from metadata. The canonical feed URL used for twt hashing is well-defined, too (first `url =` in metadata).

Sorry if I’m being too dumb. 😅
2023-01-07T08:17:22Z	(#mf4kvaa) @<darch https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt> Hmmm … if the argument is “not all twtxt files have all required fields”, then wouldn’t this also apply to webfinger? Not all servers that host a twtxt file will also serve webfinger info. 🤔 You’d probably always have to implement some fallback mechanism.

I don’t really know anything about “indieweb”, though. I’ll have to read up on that first. 😅
2023-01-09T17:36:56Z	Why, oh why, does YouTube include *upcoming* videos in RSS feeds? “This video premiers in 21 hours.” Oohhhhhhkay. I will long have forgotten about it by then, thank you very much.
2023-01-09T20:30:09Z	(#dusjj6a) @<eaplmx https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt> What? It’s the same in the YouTube app?! 😂  Okay, then … whatever. 🤷🤦
2023-01-09T20:31:38Z	Looking forward to the bass lesson for My Sleeping Karma - Ephedra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H22lajS4GE #NowPlaying 👌😍
2023-01-09T20:32:56Z	(#xmu3c7a) (That’s a video that will … premier in … *20 days*! 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJtnCZHPxM I guess that’s the whole point of this “feature”. It’s so ridiculous that people just *have* to talk about it. And boom, marketing.)
2023-01-10T15:21:00Z	(#dusjj6a) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Good point. Turns out, they *are* available in the web UI:

![](https://movq.de/v/b57bee8387/s.png)

So, yeah, probably nobody uses feeds, so they don’t notice how inconvenient this is …

Ugh, I really don’t want to build a queue for this. 😅
2023-01-11T20:42:37Z	This struck a nerve: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/orphans-of-netscape.gmi
2023-01-13T15:59:52Z	(#pq3g2oq) @<eaplmx https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt> Well, I can relate quite a bit to this idea of “Orphans of Netscape”. I can’t really put it into words. 😅  Just “yeah, that’s it!”
2023-01-14T16:14:06Z	(#i6td62a) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Yeah, the second picture is a photo: https://movq.de/v/74826b2534/s.png Mars is on the left. It’s tiny, though, maybe you can’t spot it. 🤔
2023-01-16T14:41:09Z	Tea, Earl Grey, hot. ☕
2023-01-16T14:54:15Z	(#qy3odxa) @<stigatle https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt> Ah, you’re back. 👌  I was *this close* to removing your presumably dead feed from my list. 😅
2023-01-16T14:58:35Z	(#q6rwseq) @<bender https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt> @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> Oh, I love Voyager. 😁 Probably my favorite Star Trek series. Just finished re-watching it for the n-th time recently.

I just don’t have good coffee here at home. 🥴  (I’m not a coffee nerd.)
2023-01-16T15:03:36Z	I had no idea that there were VMs in Windows 3: https://xtof.info/inside-windows3.html
2023-01-16T19:16:58Z	Welch wundervolle Comics: https://mastodon.social/@kplx/media
2023-01-17T20:03:05Z	(#wwc44pq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Yup, implementing stuff like that is way more complicated and annoying than one might think. 🤔
2023-01-18T18:52:35Z	(#6ao3moq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Sigh. 🫤  As much as I love C for its (apparent) simplicity, we should really abandon it and these classes of bugs with it. (Rust or Go are not the answer, though, imho.)
2023-01-18T18:52:48Z	(#6ao3moq) (Yay, programming language discussion! 😅)
2023-01-20T15:12:28Z	(#ukxztdq) @<stigatle https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt> NOPE! Still work tomorrow. 😂  (Network maintenance in one of our offices.)
2023-01-20T15:15:21Z	(#2lf3mmq) @<stigatle https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt> For traffic flow, it doesn’t matter which sides initiates the connection. The only thing that matters here: Do you have a static IP at home? If not, then you will want to initiate the connection from your home to your server.
2023-01-20T15:23:57Z	(#y52r2ca) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Awwww, you got snow! ☃️

(Brass at a funeral? Odd, to me at least.)
2023-01-20T15:25:54Z	(#eqcmvja) @<eaplmx https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt> https://www.passwordstore.org/ here as well. 👌
2023-01-20T15:49:54Z	Such a catchy and haunting melody. 😃 🤘 NSFW. // Chelsea Grin - Origin of Sin // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMZqtIs8X_Y #NowPlaying
2023-01-20T15:58:02Z	(#cdrrj4q) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> Yeah, not everybody likes this genre. 😅
2023-01-20T19:05:01Z	Oh, now we got snow as well! https://movq.de/v/6181224c0f/

![](https://movq.de/v/6181224c0f/IMG_4505.JPG-small.jpg)
2023-01-20T19:59:04Z	(#eqcmvja) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt>

> One major gripe I have with `pass` is that it is way, way, way too easy to end up with your passwords displayed on the screen in cleartext.

Huh, that never happened to me. 🤔  Not accidentally, I mean.  I do use a frontend, though: https://uninformativ.de/git/padme  (Just a slight tweak of the default `passmenu`.)
2023-01-21T06:10:58Z	(#3suu3oa) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Not anymore – luckily, because I have to drive to the office today. 😅
2023-01-21T08:37:06Z	(#lnbbpzq) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> Hmm, I see what you mean. 🤔

From a “UNIX” point of view, the current behavior feels correct. By default, print to stdout. If you want something else, then you have to specify a flag. That’s what a lot of UNIX tools do.

Now, it’s up for debate if this kind of behavior is appropriate for a password manager. 😅
2023-01-21T08:46:39Z	(#lnbbpzq) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> I suspect that people _might_ argue: “If we change the default behavior, then a ton of tools will have to be updated as well, so we can’t do that.” One way to alleviate this issue could be: Have `pass show` refuse to print clear text passwords *if `stdout` is a terminal*. 🤔
2023-01-21T08:47:54Z	(#mu3gdja) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Aww. 😅
2023-01-21T08:55:25Z	Yeah, little buddy, I’m not happy, either.

![](https://movq.de/v/20b8b75ef0/s.png)
2023-01-21T09:13:42Z	(#lnbbpzq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Then we’ll add a `pass --force show` or something. 🥴
2023-01-21T16:27:36Z	(#jkjr52a) @<eaplmx https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt> Yep, it means “the air is too dry” and/or “it’s too cold”. 😅
2023-01-21T20:36:20Z	(#jkjr52a) @<eaplmx https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt> You gotta be kidding, this has got to be the outside temperature, right?! 🤪
2023-01-22T07:14:30Z	(#idjvp3a) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> “Voi vittu” indeed. 😂
2023-01-23T18:57:35Z	Picking up calligraphy as a hobby again – after a long break. The result isn’t great, but better than I expected. Maybe this is a bit like riding a bike, you don’t unlearn it. 😅

[![https://movq.de/v/2340e9d444/f.jpg](https://movq.de/v/2340e9d444/.html-index-thumb-f.jpg.jpg)](https://movq.de/v/2340e9d444/f.jpg)

(Clickable thumbnail.)
2023-01-24T06:51:31Z	(#fh2laiq) @<bender https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt> @<eldersnake https://we.loveprivacy.club/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> Thx!

Nice, which style were you doing, bender?
2023-01-24T19:44:58Z	(#bg5h3dq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> They are very similar, yes, but I’ve also been sloppy. 😅 “u” should be connected at the bottom, “n” at the top. Here’s a better example from 2018:

https://movq.de/v/82bcbb7b92/eugen.jpg

I also like that capital “E” much better, hmm.
2023-01-25T17:17:59Z	(#bg5h3dq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> I don’t remember, to be honest. 🤔  I was probably browsing random images on imgur.com and saw someone doing it, so I thought to myself: “Hey, that’s cool, I always liked that, so let’s just buy a pen and some nibs.” 😅 Luckily, that equipment isn’t very expensive … It was just 20 bucks, so why not just give it a shot.
2023-01-25T20:36:33Z	(#bg5h3dq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> I use ink pots:

https://movq.de/v/f75e6597bb/1.jpg (oops, 5 MB image)

The nibs are pretty simple:

https://movq.de/v/f75e6597bb/2.jpg (5 MB)

A small amount of ink gets trapped in that little “hook” there. (Dunno how to describe it, that’s what I mean: https://movq.de/v/304d99e6cd/2-2.jpg) Depending on the size of the nib, this lasts for about, hmm, maybe half a line? You have to re-dip quite often, which can be a bit annoying. Then again, it’s not a big issue, because the whole process is super slow anyway. When I was writing birthday cards this way, I think it took about 30-45 minutes to write one card with a couple of lines on it.

It’s a matter of practice to make it uniform – and it also depends on the type of ink. “Scabiosa” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_gall_ink) is not very uniform, it’s the purple-ish stuff in the upper half (I probably ran out of ink on “Xerox” and was too lazy to re-dip):

https://movq.de/v/f75e6597bb/3.jpg (6 MB)

The lower half is some other ink, much more uniform.

Those little ink pots last a really, really long time, by the way. This is the one that I’ve been using the most throughout the years, and there’s still quite a bit left:

https://movq.de/v/f75e6597bb/4.jpg

I often thought about buying a pen with an integrated cartridge, but I think that it’s better with ink pots. It’s super easy to clean, nothing ever clogs up or dries out. And you can easily switch to another type of ink without much hassle:

https://movq.de/v/71d33691c0/g.jpg
2023-01-26T08:06:17Z	(#4jsfxfa) @<eldersnake https://we.loveprivacy.club/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> It is a joke.

```
$ mkdir foo && cd foo
$ cargo init
     Created binary (application) package
$ cargo run
   Compiling ach v0.1.0 (/tmp/tmp/ach)
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 1.17s
     Running `target/debug/ach`
Hello, world!
$ cat src/main.rs
fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}
$
```

(Yes, a “hello world” is the default code created by `cargo init`.)
2023-01-26T17:04:59Z	(#bg5h3dq) @<justamoment https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt> Thanks 😅 To be fair, though, I think it’s easier to write Fraktur than normal handwriting. First, as I said, I’m doing it super slow. Second, that pen/nib has much more “friction” on the paper than a regular pen. I find it much easier to make a straight line this way.

Doing something like this (not mine, got it off Google) is a whole different story: https://movq.de/v/de01805560/s.png
2023-01-28T19:20:49Z	(#bg5h3dq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Those birthday cards were quite popular, yes. 😅

> drying takes around a day?

Nah, it’s a few minutes. At least with the ink(s) that I’m using. 🤔

@<justamoment https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt> Oh! Well that’s a different story then. 😵 (Thinking about it, I don’t think I’ve ever met someone with dyslexia in person … Hmmm.)
2023-01-31T17:29:55Z	Man, I wish I had the room for a pool table at home. I really love 8 ball. 🎱
2023-02-02T07:47:41Z	(#4cl5vaq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Well, I did, the last few days. We have a table at work. Now my hands hurt. 😂
2023-02-03T17:46:39Z	(#b5smlzq) @<abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt> I don’t know what happened. I agree, though: Not OK. I just wanted to leave this “+1” here, because your post shouldn’t drown in the noise, thus falsly creating the impression that nobody cares or that people silently disagree with you.
2023-02-03T17:53:14Z	I’ve been to the office almost every day for the last 5 weeks (debugging WiFi in our various buildings) and it really took a toll on me. I’m exhausted. It’s so much overhead to drive to the office, a ridiculous waste of resources and time. How did we ever consider this normal? 😨

Not one traffic jam, though. Looks like lots of people are still working from home as well. Put another way: Back in the day, it took *even longer* to get to the office due to bad traffic! Oof.
2023-02-03T18:10:45Z	(#qjazcnq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> That looks like really annoying german Matschwetter. 😅

It took me quite a long time to find out what bird that is, but I think I got it now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_nuthatch (Kleiber)

Never seen such a tree, either. Then again, I don’t see lots of trees close up anyway. 🥴
2023-02-03T21:59:58Z	(#tjwbl7a) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt>

> You could have just looked at the alternative text of the image in the announcement twt. 8-)

Ah, shit. 🤦 😅
2023-02-03T22:07:23Z	(#4zh74ya) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Luckily, most of the WiFi stuff has been sorted, yeah. So no more compulsory commutes. I might go there, though, to play some Pool. 🎱 😁 But most certainly not every day.
2023-02-04T19:24:29Z	(#r5mgrnq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Okay, wow. This is a much more involved process than what I was expecting. 😳
2023-02-04T19:26:55Z	(#r5mgrnq) Mhh, bah, my client missed one of your twts. The one starting with “At least there's that, good.”. 😩
2023-02-05T09:08:57Z	(#cljzwvq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Can I? I mean, usually I probably can, but at the moment nothing shows up:

https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse

😅
2023-02-05T09:31:54Z	(#r5mgrnq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> jenny uses `if-modified-since` and then ignores all twts that are older than the newest twt we saw last time. 🤔  Did anything fancy happen to your feed?
2023-02-05T12:36:13Z	(#2xsjjhq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> I see, alright. (I just found an actual bug in that area, though … Sigh.)
2023-02-05T14:34:53Z	(#i3amaaa) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Rally English is best English! 😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtDEbHOcd8
2023-02-14T19:54:10Z	(#kxt2sua) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Oh, nice, I’m glad/surprised that someone actually still uses this. 😅 💚

We used to have it running on a Raspberry Pi in the office (this was 8 years ago, February 2015):

![](https://movq.de/v/119201145c/s.png)

Nice photo. 👌 It’s all foggy here, can’t see anything.
2023-02-17T14:04:02Z	Brilliant image! 🤣 https://gnulinux.ch/vim-verlassen-mit-stil  (Also, great movie.)
2023-02-17T17:12:02Z	(#shfimrq) @<logout http://i-logout.cz/twtxt.txt> Welcome to the club. 😅 Did the floppies/CDs still work?
2023-02-17T19:29:43Z	(#phyjs3q) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Ah, right, that would be “Arrival”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)
2023-02-19T17:40:39Z	(#o3seqlq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> 06 is a stunning shot. 👌

Yeah, it was pretty windy here too. And then we were at 10°C today with some light rain, which was surprisingly warm. Sat on the balcony for a while. 🧘
2023-02-20T18:49:47Z	Jupiter and Venus this evening:

![](https://movq.de/v/fa81b7e91a/jv.jpg)
2023-02-21T16:24:21Z	The outtakes of Ricky Gervais’ “After Life” are so great:

-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAeGQKVMyMY
-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2vElLG0rc0

I just love how virtually all of the takes are ruined by Ricky himself because he bursts out laughing. 😂
2023-02-22T15:47:42Z	(#ugbi4dq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> yt-dlp is critical infrastructure … Easy to forget …
2023-02-25T18:34:29Z	I’m not doing a lot of computer stuff lately, hence it’s a bit quiet over here.

Instead, I’m spending more time fiddling with music and audio stuff. Latest gadget, an additional microphone for my electric upright bass:

[Photo (1.6 MB)](https://movq.de/v/98c97d69ed/photo.jpg)

More expensive instruments often have such a microphone builtin, but not mine, since I went for the cheapest model available. 🤪

Normally, mine only has a piezo pickup, which sounds like this (headphones advised for all of these clips):

[raw_pickup.flac (1.7 MB)](https://movq.de/v/98c97d69ed/raw_pickup.flac)

It’s pretty dull, especially when using the bow. So, with that additional mic and some reverb, I now get this:

[mix.flac (3.6 MB)](https://movq.de/v/98c97d69ed/mix.flac)

Much better. I’m not 100% happy with the result, but it’s a big improvement nonetheless.

The mic alone sounds like this:

[raw_mic.flac (2 MB)](https://movq.de/v/98c97d69ed/raw_mic.flac)

… and of course, I’m still learning how to play this thing properly. 😅  Using the bow is pretty hard.
2023-02-26T06:24:04Z	(#ze7xh7q) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Thanks, yeah, I’ll post something. Might take a couple more months/years, though. 😅
2023-02-26T06:24:43Z	(#yw7aouq) @<stigatle https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt> That’s going to be a client that posts to *yarn*, right? Not a generic twtxt client?
2023-02-27T16:22:03Z	PSA: Turn off YouTube’s completely useless “ambient mode” to save lots of CPU cycles.

![](https://movq.de/v/51e6cdf819/s.png)
2023-02-27T16:38:10Z	(#tioppiq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> What she says there at the end has mindboggling consequences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkD5SeuwzM&t=510s

Creatures that live in the distant future will have no way of knowing that there’s anything but their own galaxy. 😳 No idea of the big bang, nothing.
2023-02-28T13:39:35Z	(#sfurppq) @<thecanine https://twtxt.net/user/thecanine/twtxt.txt> I have a hard time even noticing the effect of that setting. 😅  Yes, it’s there, but it’s so subtle …

And, granted, my machine is 10 years old now, so maybe this isn’t really an issue on more modern machines. (But still … 😅)
2023-02-28T13:40:33Z	(#s6wx52a) @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> Welcome to the EU! No, wait … Anyway, welcome and congrats! 🥳
2023-03-01T16:29:57Z	I don’t think I’ve seen Patrick Stewart laugh before … Like, genuinely laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlLbZVxRH60

(The clip they were doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M)
2023-03-03T18:42:14Z	(#qcaeuta) They moved a lot closer together by now:

![](https://movq.de/v/c76dd3f933/s.png)

That thing on the left? That’s an airplane. 😅
2023-03-04T06:31:24Z	(#2ynox6q) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> That is one biiiig boomerang! 😅
2023-03-04T06:59:46Z	(#2ynox6q) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Maybe as a kid, not sure. 😂  I’ve certainly never thrown one in such a manner that it came back to me. 😅
2023-03-04T09:02:33Z	(#2ynox6q) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> There is? What is it, attach a rubberband rope? 🥴
2023-03-05T12:02:27Z	(#nu6dzua) @<stigatle https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt> Wahaha, yay, programming language war! 😂
2023-03-06T14:47:38Z	(#jyejv3a) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Does this apply to external feeds as well? 🤔
2023-03-07T13:49:03Z	(#54y7mua) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Nah. 😅  I was just wondering because my posts show up the twtxt.net website as well.
2023-03-07T16:26:49Z	(#54y7mua) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> No, not at all. It’s all good, man. 👌😅
2023-03-08T13:12:41Z	(#l5virpq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Ohhh, I love that. I wish I had one of those. (Then again, I’d find all the nasty and badly insulated spots, so it’s probably better to live in ignorance. 😅)
2023-03-09T16:07:41Z	I’m happy to report that the neighbor started practicing “Für Elise” at a much slower speed now – and now they’re making progress and getting better at it! 🥳
2023-03-09T16:08:59Z	(#zcxdhgq) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> What a beautiful country. Great shots. 😍
2023-03-09T16:51:12Z	One of my favorite things to do now: Playing Stoner Metal riffs on the upright bass, super slow. 🥴 😁

Here’s a bit of [Monolord - Empress Rising](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCc901E02eY) (the part starting at 7:45):

https://movq.de/v/bd9faa6c24/empress-rising-upright.ogg
2023-03-09T18:04:17Z	First there was this (I love it, great technique, consistent and relaxed – you just gotta ignore that cheesy American TV stuff):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-TkyCwy4CU

Then this lovely thing with the original band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzSi5lseWk

And eventually this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qqoqvJ9MqI

Boom. 🤯

Really curious to see how this evolves. Let’s just hope this success at such a young age doesn’t ruin her. 🤞
2023-03-11T09:55:04Z	(#ypfv22a) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Maybe … but probably not. 😅
2023-03-11T09:55:54Z	(#x7zzmwq) Yeah, let’s wait another 5, 6, 7 years or so. 😅  I mean, the kid has to go to school and stuff. 😅
2023-03-11T09:58:19Z	(#cyflq4a) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I think the high score at work was something like 28'000 unread mails … Not my inbox, somebody else’s. Mine is at zero, too. 😂

(IIRC, when they tried to mark all those as “read”, it broke our Google Mail for a while. 🤦)
2023-03-11T09:59:51Z	(#eriddma) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Looks nice and can be quite entertaining to walk in, but it also caused quite a bit of damage: https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/rheinland-pfalz/sturm-rlp-stromausfall-ludwigshafen-100.html I wasn’t affected, luckily. (I’m just waiting for my windows to burst, though. 😂)
2023-03-11T10:08:25Z	I never owned a coffee maker, because … I don’t really know exactly 😅, but one of the reasons is that I’m too lazy to properly clean and maintain these machines. So, I was just drinking tea at home and coffee only at the office (where we have big fancy machines). Recently, a friend told me about a super simple way to make coffee:

![](https://movq.de/v/8950977b94/s.png)

Put in a filter, put in the coffee, pour water over it, done. The only “machine” required is something to heat up the water. Hardly any cleaning involved.

I love this low-tech approach.

Now I just have to learn more about it, buy better beans and all that. 😅
2023-03-11T21:33:44Z	(#db3ri3q) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> But but, aren’t you a programmer? I thought programmers were machines that convert coffee into code! 🤯 😅

@<marado https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt> Now what is *that*? 😳  Disclaimer, I am not a coffee nerd. I know next to nothing about it. 😅
2023-03-12T07:09:23Z	(#db3ri3q) @<marado https://twtxt.net/user/marado/twtxt.txt> Oh dear, that’s crazy. 😳  There are *so many* different and elaborate ways to make a coffee, my goodness. 😀

The upper container might get pretty messy, right? I’m looking at this picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_coffee_maker#/media/File:Vacuumcoffeestep7.jpg
2023-03-12T07:23:04Z	(#x3kg7yq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> 03.jpg is pretty good, though, you can see nice structures on the feathers. 👌

It’s hard to make good photos of black birds. I guess you’d have to drag them into a studio. 😅
2023-03-12T07:29:57Z	(#5q4ovpa) @<mckinley https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt> I’ll be completely honest: For a split second, I was already thinking “ah screw it, I’ll just use Mastodon now”. 😅
2023-03-12T07:50:05Z	(#5q4ovpa) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Yeah, I know. 😅  For now, I just sit back and watch. 😂
2023-03-12T07:50:37Z	(#h2brfvq) (… because I don’t really have an informed opinion about ActivityPub nor Mastodon, so I can’t contribute anything meaningful …)
2023-03-14T19:44:13Z	(#chck3aq) @<logout http://i-logout.cz/twtxt.txt> Oof, let us know how that goes. 😅  I only remember REXX very very vaguely, I only saw it as a kid every now and then … Are there any REXX interpreters for modern operating systems? Or are you simply doing it one, say, OS/2?
2023-03-14T21:21:41Z	Too bad non-native speakers (probably) cannot appreciate this beauty … 😂 // We Butter The Bread With Butter - NICE // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E49Qrhdk2cI #NowPlaying
2023-03-14T21:22:39Z	(#opgchza) (To avoid misunderstandings: It might sound like he’s saying the N word, but it’s “mega” with a german accent. Just so we’re clear on that.)
2023-03-19T06:58:38Z	(#sjqknxq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> Frühlingsanfang ist, wenn die Luftfeuchtigkeit nach dem Lüften höher ist als vorher. 😏

Is there a special meaning behind those hearts? Or just something that kids make these days?
2023-03-19T10:02:47Z	It’s that funny time of the year again when maps look like this. 🥴

![](https://movq.de/v/3332182bd0/out.png)
2023-03-19T10:06:33Z	(#rrab2cq) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> What’s going to happen with that paper now? 🤔
2023-03-19T11:10:30Z	(#rpykyfa) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice 😅