@aelaraji@aelaraji.com What terminal are you using? 🤔

Did someone already tested https://github.com/CEREBRUS-MAXIMUS/Surfer-Data ?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Stell dir vor, es wären NaN Grad! 😱

This has become quite a large thread. 😅

https://movq.de/v/5c51be2cd3/s.png

@quark@ferengi.one I once decided against that, didn’t I? 🤔 I don’t remember why anymore. I’ll think about it. 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Yes, I see the same. Right-to-left Unicode breaks mutt (and apparently neomutt). It was once reported as an issue:

https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/131

They closed it because the solution was supposed to be implemented in terminals … Apparently, that never happened?

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Ah, I see. 🤔 Maybe I’ll add that. To be honest, I have the same “problem” regarding the slashdot feed. 😅 It’s mostly stuff that I’m not interested in – but from time to time someone replies and then I want to see what it’s about.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org You mean fetching the feed temporarily and then discarding all its twts again? 🤔 I don’t think there’s an easy way to do that, other than filtering in your mail client, yeah. 🤔

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s good to know. 🤔 Luckily, the phone wasn’t full of 3rd party stuff. There were so few of them actually, that I didn’t really bother looking. That’s why I only found out recently about that Meta stuff.

The soundtrack of World of Goo 2 is amazing. It’s quite epic and melancholic at times.

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

It doesn’t fit the “cuteness” of the game at all – but there are a lot of contradictions in that game anyway, it’s an important aspect.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 4.75 seconds, are you kidding me? 🤯

@prologic@twtxt.net Yep. ✅

@xuu@txt.sour.is Ahhhh, ohhhh, ouch. 🫤

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hmmm, the user agents indicate two different pods. 🤔 Most of them are twtxt.net, though, only one user is something else. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, indeed, but still. 😂

@mckinley@mckinley.cc Uhhh, I bet the support people at Lenovo love this. (Assuming it’s accurate.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ahh, good old Senfglastradition. Looks delicious. 👍

Speaking of web server logs: Unless someone posts one of my blog posts on HackerNews (I never do that myself, don’t even have an account), my twtxt.txt file is always the most requested resource. 😂 It easily gets several thousand hits, way more than the blog’s Atom feed. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net I didn’t want to hijack @bender@twtxt.net’s thread: There’s two things that feel a bit unexpected regarding the requests of 159.196.9.199 in my logs:

1. It doesn’t respect HTTP 301 and instead asks for the same URL every time, thus needing a redirect.
   
2. Is this one Yarn pod or several? I’m seeing multiple requests from this same IP with different user agents. It’s not a lot, just about 5 different ones (every couple of minutes), but I thought that Yarn only issued one such request? 🤔 You know, when several users follow the same feed, Yarn would only fetch that feed once?

@xuu@txt.sour.is I don’t even have a WhatsApp password, it never asked me? 🤔

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Lenovo BIOS simulator: https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/#/

Can’t function without an AC

@prologic@twtxt.net Maybe one day I’ll have the motivation to learn enough about JPEG, so I can understand the reason behind this. But not today. 😅

I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time

So this kind of works in stock Android, too. You have to reboot after switching back to the main profile, then the second profile won’t get loaded at all.

(I bet that this stops working in the future. It feels like the second profile doesn’t get loaded as a means to save CPU power. Once those smartphones get even more powerful, there’s no need to do that anymore …)

(I tend to post all that retrocomputing stuff on Mastodon lately. 🤔)

This morning’s task: Making the thumbnails in my blog compatible with IBM WebExplorer 1.0 on OS/2 Warp 3. 🤪

Before:

https://movq.de/v/b7443c8873/a.jpg

After:

https://movq.de/v/b7443c8873/b.jpg

And the fix was using -define jpeg:sampling-factor=2x1 when creating the thumbnails using ImageMagick.

I’m not really sure, though, what’s going on. 🤔

More context: https://tilde.zone/@movq/112981572946464025

(This is probably the first time I’ve seen the word “confluence” being used outside of an Atlassian-related context. 🥴)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Which account, the “normal” Facebook one? 🤔

(Regarding Musk: He bought Twitter, ruined it and people mass-migrated to Mastodon. So let’s let him buy Meta and do the same thing! 🤪)

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@prologic@twtxt.net I guess I’m more “strict” than you are, probably. DNS queries tell me very little about which data is actually sent to those servers.

On the other hand, this is probably a reasonable argument: The vast majority of users have no idea what a DNS query even is (and they don’t care to begin with), so trying to hide something here is probably not worth the effort for Google/Apple. This would make filtering DNS requests more meaningful after all.

(But you can’t be sure and that is driving me nuts. I don’t want to deal with this in the first place.)

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this whole thing of pre-installed third-party apps doesn’t exist on the iPhone. So that appears to be a bit better. You’re still sharing data with Apple and it’s next to impossible to tell what exactly the device does or does not do (just like with Android). If you can’t easily install your own OS, then it’s a lost cause.

Best you can do with any of these devices is disconnect them from the Internet.

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess any Android phone is like that, except maybe for the Google Pixel stuff. It’s a shit ecosystem. And so is the iPhone world. It’s all proprietary garbage.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They’re just playing and having fun right? 🤪

@prologic@twtxt.net Whoohoo! 🥳 (Table tennis, I guess?)

Just realized that phone came with a bunch of “hidden” Meta/Facebook services pre-installed and they cannot be uninstalled, so I guess me trying to “fight” WhatsApp is pointless anyway. 🤪

… and then people call me a “luddite”. 🤣🖕

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@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Oh, I know that feeling all too well. Go for it! ✌️

Also:

https://movq.de/v/8cdad1ae3a/s.png

😅

@bender@twtxt.net Sigh. 🫤 Elon Musk should buy Meta. Problem solved. 🤣

WhatsApp locked me out of my test account for violating their TOS. Huh? I hardly even used it? Or is that the violation – not immediately feeding them with all available data about my private life? 🤣

mp3fs: https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/

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Go 1.23 is Released
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@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, that is part of the problem. Bash is so dominant on Linux, it’s hard to avoid. When I use #!/bin/sh, it still gets me a Bash that does NOT enter strict POSIX mode. 🫤 The script below uses Bashisms and requests #!/bin/sh but still runs happily …

#!/bin/sh

foo=1

if [[ "$foo" == 1 ]]
then
    echo match
fi

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They promised rain. I ain’t seeing any rain so far. 🫤

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net So ready for winter. 🥵

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Exactly! 🥳

So this works:

$ bash -c 'set -u; bar=1; foo=$bar; if [[ "foo" -eq "bar" ]]; then echo it matches; fi'
it matches

Without the misleading quotes:

$ bash -c 'set -u; bar=1; foo=$bar; if [[ foo -eq bar ]]; then echo it matches; fi'
it matches

As does this:

$ bash -c 'set -u; bar=1; foo=$bar; if (( foo == bar )); then echo it matches; fi'
it matches

What the person originally meant was what bender said:

$ bash -c 'set -u; foo=bar; if [[ "$foo" = "bar" ]]; then echo it matches; fi'
it matches

It’s all rather easy once you’ve understood it … but the initial error message of the initial version can be quite unexpected.