@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Haha π€£
@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Thatβs what I thought as well, sounds way too expensive to me. But I have no idea what the prices are over here. Probably also astronomical. Campers sit around most of the time, one really would need to use them a lot to justify spending so much money on them.
But yeah, each to their own (expensive) hobbies. :-) I, for example, burn my money on tools that I donβt reallyβ’ need. :-P
@bender@twtxt.net An older Firefox on Debian.
@prologic@twtxt.net well, the ones down there (on your list) are pretty minimal, basic even. Yet, their pricing is super high (number wise, havenβt checked the equivalent from AUD to USD).
@bender@twtxt.net are they really though when you factor in the weaker AUD? π§
Those campers are so expensive! For comparison: https://www.rvtrader.com/Orlando/rvs-for-sale?city=orlando&state=Florida%7CFL
Been spending a lot of time researching campers as I want to / plan to upgrade our current Camper Trailoer (forward fold) Stoney Creek XL-FF6 to a slightly larger Hybrid Camper/Caravan with ensuite, internal kitchenette, external full hitchen, pop-top roof and twin bunks.
This is the summary and whittling down of my research so far: https://wiki.mills.io/s/1103bc9c-dd75-4a98-b64b-8dadc5b0e51f/doc/comparision-Ln03Moiibq
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org which browser do you use? Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, under Ubuntu, all show it fine.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de This one is too bleeding edge for me, not even my browser can render it.
Yeah, little fellow. I also just want to walk away. https://movq.de/v/bef8c35f01/ach.mp4
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I dislike him big time. It was a sad day when Tumblr felt on his hands.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, if thereβs no stable API, then itβs not a lot of fun β¦ Bah. :|
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ok π
i made a new tumblr account to interact with fandom last week. while using the site today i got logged out and when i logged back in i was told my account was terminated. mullenweg will pay for this
@prologic@twtxt.net iβll email you!
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I couldnβt agree more! Itβs far from easy. Iβm not free of this guilt either. But Iβm hardly trying.
We got some colorful spots in the sky this evening: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-07-08/
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Iβd love to have a Python script pushing my local CSV, too. But thatβs never gonna fly, not in a thousand years. I canβt imagine that ever becoming reasonably stable without having to fix everything after the reverse-engineered API changes again.
β¦ but you canβt set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
globally, because that breaks Wine again β¦
β¦ okay, the SDL backend works if you also set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org dmenu is a great example.
There have been several attempts at porting dmenu from X11 to Wayland. Well, not exactly βportingβ it, more like rewriting it from scratch. Turns out: Itβs not that easy.
dmenu is super fast and reliable. None of the Wayland rewrites are (at least none of the popular ones that I know of). They are either bloated and/or slow.
It takes a lot of discipline and restraint to write simple software and not blow up the codebase. This is much harder than people think. Itβs a form of art, really.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do my timetracking in a little Python script, locally. Every now and then, I push the data to our actual service. Problem solved β but itβs a completely unpopular approach, they all want to use the web site. I donβt get it. Then, of course, when itβs down, shit hits the fan. (Luckily, our timetracking software is neither developed nor run by us anymore. Itβs a silly cloud service, but the upside is that Iβm not responsible anymore. π€·)
Some of our oldschool devs tried to roll out local timetracking once, about 15 years ago. I donβt remember anymore why they failed β¦
This is developed inhouse, Iβm just so glad that weβre not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.
Oh to be anonymous on the internet. That must be nice. π
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, luckily, there is the suckless project. I couldnβt live without dmenu!
β¦ but the SDL backend is broken as well, albeit differently β¦
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, itβs a shitshow. MS overconfirms all my prejudices constantly.
Ignoring e-mail after lunch works great, though. :-)
Our timetracking is offline for over a week because of reasons. The responsible bunglers are falling by the skin of their teeth: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/timetracking.png
- The error message neither includes the timeframe nor a link to an announcement article.
- The HTML page needs to download JS in order to display the fucking error message.
- Proper HTTP status codes are clearly only for big losers.
- Despite being down, heaps of resources are still fetched.
I find it really fascinating how one can screw up on so many levels. This is developed inhouse, Iβm just so glad that weβre not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.
β¦ which is probably a GTK bug.
QEMU on Wayland unusable, because it canβt grab the mouse β¦ Iβll add it to my TODO list and investigate/report it eventually.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is a really good example of βsimplicityβ but achieves the intent and goals π
(Now, I donβt know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesnβt.)
I donβt use a screen reader fortunately (actually theyβre pretty garbage). So all good π (I juse use full-screen zoom).
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this really could use a proper definition or a βmanifestβ. π Many of these ideas are not very wide spread. And I havenβt come across similar projects in all these years.
Letβs take the farbfeld image format as an example again. I think this captures the βspiritβ quite well, because this isnβt even about code.
This is the entire farbfeld spec:
farbfeld is a lossless image format which is easy to parse, pipe and compress. It has the following format:
ββββββββββ€ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
β Bytes β Description β
β βββββββββͺββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ£
β 8 β "farbfeld" magic value β
ββββββββββΌββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ’
β 4 β 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (width) β
ββββββββββΌββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ’
β 4 β 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (height) β
ββββββββββΌββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ’
β [2222] β 4x16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-major β
ββββββββββ§ββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ
The RGB-data should be sRGB for best interoperability and not alpha-premultiplied.
(Now, I donβt know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesnβt.)
I think these are some of the properties worth mentioning:
- The spec is extremely short. You can read this in under a minute and fully understand it. That alone is gold.
- There are no βknobsβ: Itβs just a single version, itβs not like thereβs also an 8-bit color depth version and one for 16-bit and one for extra large images and one that supports layers and so on. This makes it much easier to implement a fully compliant program.
- Despite being so simple, itβs useful. Iβve used it in various programs, like my window manager, my status bars, some toy programs like βtuxeyesβ (an Xeyes variant), or Advent of Code.
- The format does not include compression because it doesnβt need to. Just use something like bzip2 to get file sizes similar to PNG.
- It doesnβt cover every use case under the sun, but it does cover the most important ones (imho). They have discussed using something other than RGBA and decided itβs not worth the trouble.
- They refrained from adding extra baggage like metadata. It would have needlessly complicated things.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice shot! π³
For example, I reckon software should treat stdout
and stderr
with care and never output logs or other such garbage to stdout
that cannot possibly be useful in a UNIX pipeline π
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah thatβs why Iβm striking this conversation with you π Not only do I respect your opinion quite highly π€£ But like you say (and Iβve read their philipshpy) it can be a bit βelitismβ for sure. Iβm genuinely interested in what we think of as software that βdoesnβt suckβ. Tb be honest I havenβt really put thought to paper myself, but I reckon if I did, Iβd have some opinions/ideasβ¦
@prologic@twtxt.net Hm, I wouldnβt say that. Go code could fall into that category as well.
Maybe this topic could use a blog post / article, that explains what itβs about. Iβm finding it hard to really define what βsuckless-like softwareβ is. π€ (Their own philosophy focuses too much on elitism, if you ask me.)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de So you wouldn;t consider things written in Go to be βsucklessβ-esque? π€
@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, Iβm referring to software thatβs similar to that of suckless.org: Small, minimal codebases, small tools, but still useful. dmenu is probably the best example and also farbfeld.
Hereβs the author of Anubis talking about some of their experiences:
https://xeiaso.net/blog/why-i-use-suckless-tools-2020-06-05/
(You can skip the long config and keybinds part.)
@eldersnake Yeah well when you put it like that π€£
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Curious what you would define as βsuck lessβ software? (language agnostic of course!)
Iβve been playing around with AI at home over the past few months and building my own neural networks from scratch (in Go) with genetic algorithms
Oh, is that all π€£
That sounds like some intensive βplaying aroundβ haha
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Happy birthday and good health! :-)
Yesterdayβs moon through the window: https://lyse.isobeef.org/mond-2025-07-06/
The lack of suckless-like simple, hackable software these days is appalling.
The Linux installation on my main PC turned 14 today:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club This wasnβt always the case, though. Quake3, Quake4, Unreal Tournament 99 and 2004 are examples of games that used to run very well as native Linux games. But that was 20+ years ago β¦
@eldersnake Yeah for sure! The thing that annoys me about a lot of this, is the sheer fact you canβt really self-host let alone self-train these things Iβve been playing around with AI at home over the past few months and building my own neural networks from scratch (in Go) with genetic algorithms on a few tasks and training sets, but man itβs hardβ’ π€£ I feel like weβre doing something wrong hereβ¦
@prologic@twtxt.net yep for sure. The part about concentrating too much power and reliance on the wealthy elite also resonated with me. Seems a good way to potentially end up in one of those dystopian futures you usually see in fictions where massive corporations have too much power and control over people.
@eldersnake This was an interesting read for sure! π I donβt think it had anything I hadnβt already considered in terms of the ethical/moral points of view. Iβm not sure where I stand myself either to be honest. Iβve forced myself to get familiar with the ecosystem and tooling, because in my line of work as a tech lead (staff engineer in sre) you donβt want to be that one guy that ya know π Ethically/Morally though, Iβm definitely with the sentiment of this post π Much like the whole Crypto hype yaers back (if yβall remember?!) this is also one of the most energy hungry pieces of βtechβ (if you can call it that?) in a while. Then thereβs these other issues βstealing peopleβs workβ, βreliance is causing humans to become cognitively weak and neural connections to shrinkβ, to name a fewβ¦
A good blog post that makes some good points: Can I ethically use LLMs?