In-reply-to » Hi, So i made a little MVP registry crawler tool for twtxt. It now has a basic UI to play with. It has a somewhat full history back to about 2018-ish. Plus some interesting bits that were timestamped to earlier.

it adds users by finding them in feeds mentioning or following. Your URL is already added.

Hmm i am not sure how you got the URL with users at the end..

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In-reply-to » Iā€™m playing with ratterplatter again: Itā€™s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The bird in the wallpaper? Thatā€™s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. šŸ˜ƒ This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didnā€™t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.

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In-reply-to » In Mexico you couldn't register the word Sonora (state), nor Taqueria (kind of restaurant) as there are two common words, but perhaps the combination of both is trademarkable, I'm not sure, so many 'taquerias' here don't file a trademark request. It's usually "TaquerĆ­a

@eapl.me@eapl.me awesome, and thank you! Sorry I missed all that in the noise. I truly am a TL;DR fan! šŸ˜‚

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In-reply-to » An interesting episode about naming stuff, and some implications of the "Trademarks"

In Mexico you couldnā€™t register the word Sonora (state), nor Taqueria (kind of restaurant) as there are two common words, but perhaps the combination of both is trademarkable, Iā€™m not sure, so many ā€˜taqueriasā€™ here donā€™t file a trademark request. Itā€™s usually ā€œTaquerĆ­a

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A hike to the highest mountain in the Odenwald, the Katzenbuckel, lit. cat hillock. It was very windy and the sun very rarely showed its face, so it was quite chilly. Nice scenery, nevertheless. Surprisingly, this ski-jumping hill is still in operation. Iā€™ve never expected this in a hundred years, judging by its state. https://lyse.isobeef.org/katzenbuckel-2025-03-29/

Entrance to a ski-jumping hill in a rather questionable state

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In-reply-to » An interesting episode about naming stuff, and some implications of the "Trademarks"

I am confused (maybe I missed what they said, or didnā€™t read well). What was ā€œSonora Taqueriaā€ answer to the cease and desist demand letter[1]? Did the accusers simply dropped their suit efford, or was ā€œSonora Taqueriaā€ able to make their case (see [1])?

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev DRM is a solution to the wrong problem.

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Iā€™m playing with ratterplatter again: Itā€™s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.

I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years ā€¦ šŸ¤¦).

Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4

(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)

The results arenā€™t too bad, but this thing canā€™t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.

FWIW, if you donā€™t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@prologic@twtxt.net I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I ā€œbuyā€ a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just ā€œrenting itā€.)

But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender@twtxt.net. šŸ˜¢

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In-reply-to » Eberbach is nowhere near Bad Wimpfen in comparison, but still has a nice historic old town: https://lyse.isobeef.org/eberbach-2025-03-29/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Aww, this reminds me that I havenā€™t done any Fraktur/calligraphy in a hell of a long time. I should pick that up again. Itā€™s always nice to see this on old buildings.

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In-reply-to » Not in the mood to deal with reality today, so hereā€™s another one of those silly things: https://movq.de/v/68c61f8ecc/r2_session.ogg This time on electric bass, tuned down to B-standard because oomph. (Well, sounds okay on my headphones, but Iā€™m obviously no sound engineer. šŸ¤Ŗ)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, to be fair, thereā€™s not much of a difference other than a few grace notes (and just lower frequencies). I was mostly just fooling around with this one. šŸ„“

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In-reply-to » This time, I brought my cam along. We checked out a piece of ex-forest they've cut down. It looks terrible now. :-( At least the spruce resin smell was nice. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-27/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This is so crazy to me. When I think ā€œforestā€, I assume ā€œuntouched natureā€, but that couldnā€™t be further from the truth. šŸ«¤

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In-reply-to » Hello, i want to present my new revolution twtxt v3 format - twjson That's why you should use it: 1. It's easy to to parse 2. It's easy to read (in formatted mode :D) 3. It used actually \n for newlines, you don't need unprintable symbols 4. Forget about hash collisions because using full hash Here is my twjson feed: https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/twjson.json And twtxt2json converter: https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/twjson.js

Are you all forgetting todayā€™s Aprilā€™s Fool? šŸ¤£

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In-reply-to » Hello, i want to present my new revolution twtxt v3 format - twjson That's why you should use it: 1. It's easy to to parse 2. It's easy to read (in formatted mode :D) 3. It used actually \n for newlines, you don't need unprintable symbols 4. Forget about hash collisions because using full hash Here is my twjson feed: https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/twjson.json And twtxt2json converter: https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/twjson.js

Let me introduce you to the much superior version 4 instead: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/twxm4.xml

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In-reply-to » @lyse you must be loved by all the web developers in town! But ok, I have added all the missing semicolons, that should technically be there, but them not being there, does not make a difference.

@thecanine@twtxt.net And this is exactly why there are quirks modes in browsersā€¦

Iā€™m actually glad I donā€™t have to deal with all this web shit and work with compilers that hit me in the face when I do something illegal. :-)

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In-reply-to » @andros That's a shame. But here's the thing about piracy. If I could download a PDF or MP3/OGG of a Book I'd happily pay for this. If I could download an MP3/OGG of some Music I would pay for this. If I could download an MP4 of a Movie I would pay for this.

@prologic@twtxt.net thatā€™s you, and me, and some others. Sadly, though, a huge majority (I donā€™t have sources, or numbers, but ā€œtrust me, broā€ :-P) will simply, gladly, and unapologetically, pirate.

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Same!

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@prologic@twtxt.net Fully agreed. Iā€™m far more likely to buy such mediums when DRM-free. I never go near Amazon eBooks etc because of their lock-in, and I have a Kobo eReader which needs to have the books side loaded unless directly from the Kobo store. I prefer DRM-free files every time.

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Thatā€™s a shame. But hereā€™s the thing about piracy. If I could download a PDF or MP3/OGG of a Book Iā€™d happily pay for this. If I could download an MP3/OGG of some Music I would pay for this. If I could download an MP4 of a Movie I would pay for this.

The reason piracy exists at all is economics and greed. If you make something affordable and convenient, thereā€™s no need to steal.

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I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership.
If you have to keep some knowledge: donā€™t write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

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Hello, i want to present my new revolution twtxt v3 format - twjson
Thatā€™s why you should use it:

  1. Itā€™s easy to to parse
  2. Itā€™s easy to read (in formatted mode :D)
  3. It used actually \n for newlines, you donā€™t need unprintable symbols
  4. Forget about hash collisions because using full hash
    Here is my twjson feed: https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/twjson.json
    And twtxt2json converter: https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/twjson.js

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In-reply-to » I'm in an article in Quanta Magazine! It's about the bizarre world of algorithms that re-use memory that's already full. https://www.quantamagazine.org/catalytic-computing-taps-the-full-power-of-a-full-hard-drive-20250218/ I'm the one with all the snow in the background.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks for taking a look, and for pointing out the mixture of tabs and spaces.

I think Iā€™ll leave reachability.c alone, since my intention there was to use an indent level of one tab, and the spaces are just there to line up a few extra things. I fixed reachability_with_stack.cc though.

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