Well, this looks good, I guess: 🥳

@prologic@twtxt.net Let’s give it a shot! Test!

@bender@twtxt.net Speaking of drawers at the office … this is mine:

Looks a bit sad, eh? 🤣 (Or you could say: Minimalism!)

There you go: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-07-10/0/POSTING-en.html

@bender@twtxt.net

Oh, crap! It’s only Thursday! I thought we had Friday already … nnnnooooooo, not another day. 😭

@bender@twtxt.net Ha, I remember these from our trip to Florida ~30 years ago:

(Yep, it was a rainy day. 😂)

Heh, that’s a cute story: https://www.osnews.com/story/145459/you-paid-me-a-long-time-linux-user-to-use-windows-11-exclusively-for-a-month-heres-how-it-went/

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com And sometimes …

(It’s an older meme but it checks out.)

@bender@twtxt.net Oh my god! 😅 That’s worth a small fortune on eBay. 🤣

I’m in the process of making a big page with photos and screenshots, and this is more stuff than I expected. 🫩

@arne@uplegger.eu You have Matrix at work? No Teams, Google Chat, Slack, Discord, whatever, but Matrix? Really? Where do you work, is this Socialist Russia?!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org How many people are still using XMPP? 🤔 I’d expect the number to just as low as IRC users? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Neither can I. 😱

However, I haven’t touched my favicon longer than that, lol:

$ l movq.de/favicon.ico
─rw─r──r── void users 2011-01-08 198 │ movq.de/favicon.ico

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com That’s Halo? I don’t think I ever saw that in person … 🤔

Sie schreien wie die Paviane und Gegenstände fliegen.

Es muss ein Fußballspiel sein.

Windows NT 4 didn’t have a Device Manager. You know, this thing right here that got introduced with Windows 95:

And that’s super awkward in NT4.

You know what doesn’t have a Device Manager, either? Linux. Why? 🤔 Isn’t this one of the most useful system tools? It gives you an overview of the devices in your system and tells you which driver is used for them. Linux could really use such a tool, I think? 🤔

(There are programs like “hardinfo” and I remember ancient KDE providing such a tool, but they’re all an afterthought. Hardly integrated into the overall system.)

@prologic@twtxt.net Oohhhhhhhh, lovely. 😍

15 years without reinstalling on this particular box.

$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)

Two more years and I’ll be celebrating the “20 years of Arch” anniversary.

@prologic@twtxt.net That looks nice! What’s the temperature?

← expected hash

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Test 3

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https://movq.de/

Test 2

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@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com The no-JS part is one thing, but you also have to disable the (nowadays common) forced-HTTP-to-HTTPS-redirect, because those old browsers can’t do modern crypto. And make sure that your webserver serves the correct page even if no Host header is sent by the client. And don’t even think about serving UTF-8 or even just putting utf-8 in the content type. 😅 And for the JPEG thumbnails I pass a special flag to ImageMagick so that IBM Web Explorer from OS/2 won’t trip. 🤣 And always use link rel="stylesheet" for CSS, because some browsers render inlined CSS as literal text. And … probably more that I forgot by now. 😂

@david@daiwei.me Not sure, actually. Let’s see. Those are the ones where I still have the original disks (or have bought them on eBay again):

• SuSE Linux 6.4 (it’s a massive 7 CD distro with a huge manual, best thing ever)
  
• OS/2 2.1
  
• OS/2 Warp 3 (red and blue spine because $reasons)
  
• OS/2 Warp 4
  
• PC DOS 7
  
• MS-DOS 6.22
  
• Windows 3.1
  
• Windows for Workgroups 3.11
  
• Windows 95 C
  
• Windows 98
  
• Windows NT 4 Workstation (still in the mail, though 😅)
  
• Windows 2000
  
• Windows XP Professional (last Windows I ever used on my private PCs)
  

(Plus a few “classic” office products as can be seen here: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/POSTING-en.html )

Okay, wow. Windows NT 4 wasn’t part of my timeline back then, so this is the first time I’m seeing it in action. And this thing came with IE 2, which I’ve also never seen before. (That’s interesting, because I remember using IE even on Win 3.x, but apparently that was already IE 3?)

It also makes me really happy to see my website work in these old browsers. Fullscreen images are “broken” because those are PNG or WebP, but the rest works just fine. 🥳

https://movq.de/v/56243a3e54

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh yeah, few people are as persistent as her. That said, it’s really easy to give up. This shit is overwhelming.

@citizenalex@citizenalex.envs.net Correct.

@bender@twtxt.net “Twt could not be found” 😢

@bender@twtxt.net For fork’s sake!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, yes. The brackets help a great deal.

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Baseball, root beer, darts, atom bombs.

( https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116862294937117528 )

Java 1.3 on Windows 95 with Proton as the editor could be another option for next Advent of Code.

Win95 runs pretty smoothly on my old box (no surprise, that box came with Win95) and I like Java, so … why not …

Not sure about the speed, though. 🥴

I just read @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s blog post over here:

https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/learning-to-code-like-it-s-the-90s

Jesus, it must be so overwhelming for young people to get started with programming.

When I started programming, there was the built-in ROM BASIC of that PC and probably a bit of BASIC on a floppy, and that was it. Nowadays? Millions of libraries and frameworks and languages and what not – and, much worse, there’s the expectation that you need to make something fancy. When I started, printing something and understanding IF was good enough.

Installing software was (is?) such an incomprehensible mess on Windows … Why did you allow any program to install files anywhere in the system? Why was this considered normal and okay? With no chance of ever cleanly removing that stuff again?

And now we’re back to the trend of curl | bash these days … same thing.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This apparently depends on the program now … Some Qt6 programs still allow that, others don’t. I can’t remember if GTK ever had that feature. 🤔 But yeah, this whole “move stuff around as you please”-mentality is mostly gone.

I know I keep referring to StarOffice 3.1 a lot, but it’s just such a good example for all these things. All the toolbars and panels could be rearranged:

(This is running in Wine, btw.)

LibreOffice is the descendant of StarOffice and it doesn’t support anything like that anymore.

Maybe it was deemed too confusing for users? “Oh no, I mis-clicked something and now that bar is gone! How do I get it back? I don’t even know what it’s called!” 🤔

@arne@uplegger.eu Wie sah’s denn drinnen aus? 😅

@bender@twtxt.net twtxthashgeddon, word of the year! 😂

@arne@uplegger.eu Yay! So I’m the only one who fucked it up. 🤪🙈

Well, they paid me something back. (I’m not required to file a tax report, which means that I absolutely should do it. They’re ripping off the “lazy” people.)

@arne@uplegger.eu Foo, bar, and baz! Does it work? Is the houseplant happy?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh wow, those are some amazing photos! 🤯

Test! It works now.

🚨 jenny was broken due to the switch to v2 hash tags.

I pushed a hotfix to main, but this needs a few more test cases. I’ll do that tomorrow.

How about now?

Shit. Jenny is broken. 🥴

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Test!