This happens more often than I would like. š¢
@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon!
(And thanks for not being one of those āitās just a coldā guys.)
One of the super frustrating things about this: I have to write lots of documents, but I am required to use horrendous software to do that. It cannot even number sections automatically, nor can you insert cross-references to other sections. Simple stuff like that. It all has to be done manually.
Even Word 97 could do shit like that ā¦
Went out in the cold and noticed that taking photos half an hour on top of the drafty summit is not the very best idea. Not suprising that I freeze if there is snow. Gloves would have been actually great, I only wore my beanie. But it was a very good afternoon and evening. Looking at the snowmen, there must have been heaps of snow on the ground earlier this day.
I came across several different birds and two deer. 36-38 shows the same one, one meadow further, another deer jumped across the road. That was cool.
The focus often wanted to do its own thing, unfortunately. 25 shows the flatness of the Kaiserbergsteige (literally āEmperor Mountain Steep Roadā).
@prologic@twtxt.net canāt
see it depending on how you open the file, but itās there. Hereās a
screenshot with: ābatā vs ācatā vs ātwtxt view {link}ā :
@bender@twtxt.net This is what I fell over and bunged up my shin š±
@prologic@twtxt.net Thank
you! and hereās a twt with the said random characters, since Iāve been
cleaning them up manually, earlier before scp-ing my twtxt.txt file. And
maybe a screenshot of how things look in my editor?
Those new lines are added automatically as I type (except for the ones
after the screenshot.
@bendwr and I discussing something along the lines of:
I.e: How to deal with or reduce noise from legacy feeds.
Renders like this:
Welcome @aelaraji@aelaraji.com!
What the heck is going on with the encoding here?! The feedās Content-Type
header does not include any charset, but Iām still relying on the official twtxt client to fetch and parse feeds. Havenāt noticed this with any other feeds. Where in the chain is this messed up? :-? Seems like the āspaceā is the Unicode line separator U+2028, that we use for newlines.
We have great April weather over here. Yesterday sun, rain, sun, rain, sun, hail, sun, hail, sun, rain, etc. It didnāt hail today, but sun alternatd with rain a bunch of times. Went out this evening and boy, what an absolutely gorgeous scenery!
@mckinley@twtxt.net Looks like XMR is much more stable than bloody BTC which is nice š¤£
I took advantage of the last sunny, but also 25Ā°C hot day and hiked in the woods. It was so much more pleasant in the forest than out in the sun. The wind could have been a long stronger with that heat. I was completely soaked.
At one point I thought I better grab my camera out of my backpack, so whenever something comes up, Iām ready. But I was too lazy and thought, well, I just wait until there is a nice subject and keep going instead. No joke, ten meters further I came across two squirrels. A red and a brown one, sitting on a tree at just one and three meters height two meters away from me. If I only had unpacked my bloody cam a few seconds ago! I just watched them sit on the tree and then tried to slowly strip my backpack and grad the cam. It was still booting up when they decided it was enough sitting around and climbed higher. What a silly move on my end, damn.
I tried to improvise some Lyse Street View, but felt really uncomfortable to photograph other peopleās houses. Somehow my cam produced sooo many blurred shots on the way up still away from the village, itās unbelievable. I scrapped nearly the entire project. Only very few survived. There were heaps of people on the mountain summit, so I quickly left again.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-14/
Looking forward to next weekās rain and temperature drop to 16Ā°C or even 8Ā°C.
I like the self-shot in the mud: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-07/43.jpg
@movq@www.uninformativ.de https://www.barrettguitarrepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/heat-press-guitar-repair1.jpg
I now own a guitar again.
Switching between my upright bass and that thing is a wild ride. The difference in string gauges is so massive. š„“ Feels like trying to play on an egg slicer.
@prologic@twtxt.net I might have to look into this thing. But at first glimpse it looks rather complicated and doesnāt look like a simple replacement in my chain.
Again, YT keeps on deploying broken shit. >:-( Excerpt from my cronjob error feed: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/404.png
We had 11Ā°C and a lot of wind today. I left the house at beautiful sunshine to go into the woods. I had to shelter from the rain under a coniferous tree right away for 10-15 minutes or so.
Many puddles had plenty of spawn in them. Some of the super tiny tadpoles already hatched. Unfortunately, none of them will probably make it, because all those puddles will all dry up in the next one or two months I reckon. Letās hope for the best, though.
A bird landed in the trees about 30 meters away from me and it appeared to be a larger one, like a buzzard. Only at home at the screen I then saw that it was just a pidgeon. :-)
A bit later, there was a chaffinch happily singing and picking on the forest road. I could close in to about five meters before it flew half a meter further and continued. So I made a few steps, too. That game continued for over five minutes, before it then decided to relocate four meters higher onto a branch to let me pass by beneath. Pretty cool!
Rainy day.
I was toying with OS/2 when I noticed that my hard disk was getting a bit full. Iām not aware that something like ncdu
or just du
exists in OS/2 Warp 4ās base system (Iām sure thereās software like that already available, but I was too lazy to search), so I quickly cobbled a little program together that sums up directory sizes. And there you have it, an installation of Carmageddon was lurking on the disk, weighing in at 200 MB. š„“
Being able to cross-compile this from Linux still blows my mind.
Anyway, hereās my tool: https://uninformativ.de/git/dusage
Letās see, this might be a good opportunity to make an OS/2 GUI version of this. š¤ Iāve never done that and this might be doable (unlike other stuff Iāve recently tried).
17Ā°C today and I finally managed to go on a hike again. My thighs are a little bit sore. Sun didnāt cooperate too well with my camera, but the sunset was all the more beautiful for it.
More basement:
I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. š¤Æ The data on them is from 2008, so theyāre not that old. Still impressive.
The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. š¤
And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs arenāt produced anymore at all today. Huh.
(I refuse to tag this as āretrocomputingā. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still ānew and fancyā in my book. š)
I was so hyped when I found this box in the basement! š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ
Only to find out, that ā¦
ā¦ itās something else. š
Also made a webfinger lookup resolver that works with my own webfinger endpoint as well as yarnd servers:
http://darch.dk/wf-lookup.php