It’s the little things that make me happy these days. Like adding a function to search for text with various encodings to my hex editor. All neatly organized in the menu and with accelerators.

Just saw it happen on Mastodon, so I think that scrolling is simply broken in Firefox. ☠️

FTR, also happens with Openbox on X11 and with labwc on Wayland, so this isn’t related to my custom X11 window manager.

Oh god … this appears to be related to the input device? Using the scrollbar is fine but using the mouse wheel is not? https://movq.de/v/66db24e1ee/vid-1787378419.mp4

Emptied the CSS, removed the <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">, now it’s just plain HTML and it still happens.

There is this extremely annoying issue with my website:

https://movq.de/v/4acced3c8e/scroll.mp4

Notice how I’m scrolling, then switching to another tab, switching back, and then the scrolling position is different?

What the hell could cause this? It’s not always like this and I have only seen it in Firefox so far (but I very rarely use Chromium anyway), and this really happens a lot on my site but not on others.

Any ideas? Did I screw up the CSS somehow? 🤔

@arne@uplegger.eu They’re everywhere, send help

@arne@uplegger.eu Einfach so als Wahlergebnis verkünden. Dann denken die alle: „Ach, Mist, wie blöd, schon zu spät, na dann muss ich ja nicht mehr hin.“ Fertig. ✅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh yeah, going full Prinzessin Müllabfuhr! 🥳 👸

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I don’t do it that often, either. But when I do, I always wanted to have such a tool. :-) And since it turned out super easy to “implement” … Why not.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org These look extra great with redshift enabled. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Not that often – except for the last few months. 😅 I was reorganizing lots of repos, merging them, splitting them, changing author names, whatever. Having an empty root commit was super handy (if there was one).

@thecanine@twtxt.net haha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

Website might come back soon, although probably mostly unchanged. I have no idea how to stop the bots. 🤷‍♀️ So I’ll just gonna live with it? Is that the key to happiness™? 🤷‍♀️

@arg@twtpub.com ohai

@david@daiwei.me Next year, apparently, but less spectacular. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice! Oh yes, observing the sun is exhausting, it’s always so hot. And for not using a tripod, these shots are pretty good!

During sunset:

Solar eclipse: https://movq.de/v/25e6071e0c/

The author of the Xfce Wayland compositor on LLMs:

https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4

He openly admits that he’s totally aware of the issues. But he simply doesn’t give a fuck.

This is (part of) why this whole AI/LLM topic makes me so sad and angry: Many people in tech are such a disappointment. You’re smart and intelligent, but you don’t give a fuck about anything. “It’s just a tool.”

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com It only did that after I asked it what’s going on. Before that, it treated all my attempts as regular trustworthy (but silently “corrected”) sources. Only a completely garbled up page (all words put into random order) was recognized as garbage. Everything else was: “Hey, that’s a good source! Here’s a summary: $correct_summary_with_original_meaning_even_though_the_actual_page_said_otherwise”

I hate having my website offline, so I tried to bring it back in a honey-potted version: “AI” agents get served article versions with inverted meaning, like “do” replaced with “don’t” and so on.

It didn’t work. Claude noticed it and “fixed” it back to the original version. When I asked it, “wait, nowhere on the page does it say $string, check again”, it said:

This is the creepiest shit ever. Silently “fixing” stuff behind my back is the epitome of untrustworthiness.

Open the bay doors, HAL.

@david@daiwei.me Sorry, I can’t do this anymore. A large part of my work (text, code, thoughts, …) of the last 20-25 years has been stolen and is now being sold at rampant prices to idiots who then complain about me being a backwards bitch (I get to hear this every single day). Everything I say and do in public is being abused.

Fuck that, I’m out.

I give up.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That sounds pretty elaborate. We did something similar last year (when this stuff still mattered, lol), but it was super easy to spot.

And then there was this, of course: 🤣

@thecanine@twtxt.net This is brilliant, I love it. 😃

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hmm! I expected worse. 😅 (Never heard Czech in person.)

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=cs&text=good%20morning%2C%20how%20are%20you%20today%3F%20my%20name%20is%20katharina%20and%20I%20am%20eating%20a%20banana%20and%20hopefully%20also%20an%20apple.%20everything%20I%20say%20is%20a%20consonant.%20Or%20maybe%20not!&op=translate

@prologic@twtxt.net I only have one potential machine for this: My old netbook. I don’t want to accidentally brick it, though … 😅 It was scary enough to run my own OS on this.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Aber Auslöffeln werden es trotzdem wieder ganze andere Leute müssen. Wie immer. Das ist das bittere an der Sache. Trifft immer die Falschen.

Prinzessin Müllabfuhr. Den Namen mache ich mir jetzt zueigen. Mich dagegen wehren kann ich eh nicht. 😐

Kollege meinte mal halb sarkastisch, irgendwann werden Firmen dann wieder Menschen einstellen, weil die billiger sind.

Wir gehen teilweise von Cloud-IaaS-Hostern wieder zurück zu Hardware, weil das billiger, flexibler, schneller ist … Derzeit zumindest. Die Cloud-Hostern kommen mit dem Nachkaufen von RAM nicht hinterher, sodass ständig „die Cloud voll“ ist. (Und, ja, natürlich wird sich darüber heftigst aufgeregt, aber dass das genau am eigenen Verhalten, nämlich der religiösen Liebe zur AI, liegt, merken sie nicht.)

Es ist auch jedes Augenmaß weg. Die „fette“ Kiste mit 64 CPUs, 256 GB RAM und 2 TB Platte wird nach allen Regeln der Kunst vollgekleistert. Irgendein Furz-Workload braucht 24 GB RAM, aber das ist jetzt normal und wird akzeptiert. So ist das jetzt halt.

@prologic@twtxt.net Just out of curiosity, have you ever ran this on real hardware? 😃

Hm, interesting: https://git.mills.io/prologic/muos/src/branch/main/nucleus/nucleus.asm You’re clearing the VGA buffer in each mode (real mode, protected mode, long mode). Why’s that? Wouldn’t it be good enough to only do that after you’ve reached long mode? 🤔

Germans love consonants – and it’s the opposite with Scandinavian languages, isn’t it? 😅 This is so crazy for me to listen to:

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=no&text=good%20morning%2C%20how%20are%20you%20today%3F%20my%20name%20is%20katharina%20and%20I%20am%20eating%20a%20banana%20and%20hopefully%20also%20an%20apple.%20everything%20I%20say%20is%20a%20blur.&op=translate

Love me some Finnish:

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=fi&text=good%20morning%2C%20how%20are%20you%20today%3F%20my%20name%20is%20katharina%20and%20I%20am%20eating%20a%20banana%20and%20hopefully%20also%20an%20apple.%20everything%20I%20say%20is%20crystal%20clear.&op=translate

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ja und auch so: „Raus mit den Entwickler:innen! Das Marketing macht seine Software jetzt mit KI selber!!1!“ Kannste dir alles nich ausdenken. (Jaja, ist natürlich im Moment billiger. Aber diese Kurzsichtigkeit …)

Ich könnt’ so platzen ob des ganzen Vibecoding-Schrotts, der dann jetzt doch wieder vor meinen Füßen landet …

Alles so vorhersehbar. Mann, ey.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com lol! “Yeah, it was me. What you gonna do about it? Hm? Hm?” Cats. Typical arrogant cats. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Pretty good! Had an apple, too. 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ha! 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I also got up at 5 (I always do 😅) and went on a quick stroll around 6:30, but boy, that was chilly. So I said to myself: Screw that, I’ll try again later.

And now we’re at 32 °C. 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, sound impressive, I gotta try this. 👌

Next heat wave coming up?

Still a few days to go, luckily, and these models aren’t super accurate … we’ll see …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ruff, the formatter/linter, yeah.

Lol, never heard of that banana moment before, but it sounds very fitting. :-D

No wonder. I just made that up. 🤣

Why.

Python’s numeric types complex, float and int are not subtypes of each other, but to support common use cases, the type system contains a straightforward shortcut: when an argument is annotated as having type float, an argument of type int is acceptable; similar, for an argument annotated as having type complex, arguments of type float or int are acceptable.

https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/special-types.html#special-cases-for-float-and-complex

(Wieder so ’n „soll ich’s einfach lassen und lieber ’ne Banane essen“-Moment.)

Bonus points for this:

$ man ruff
No manual entry for ruff

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo tired of “fast-moving” software. ruff changed a ton of stuff and now all my code bases “need fixing”. Blah.

And SemVer is worth nothing if your 4 year old program with over 16’000 commits is still at “version 0.x”. Blah!

Everything is horrible.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

For the tags feed it would be cool to include the actual changelog entries

Did that now:

🥳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Bingo!

Oh, yeah, newsboat is good. For this particular use case, I explicitly needed a graphical feed reader, though. 😅 I ended up using Thunderbird, which has its own interesting way of configuring/adding feeds:

https://movq.de/v/a3557e3dc9/vid-1784952576.mp4

Why are feeds categorized as “Mail”? What’s going on with that “Add” button on the left of the dialog? Why does the dialog indicate that there’s a folder called “list-files Recent Commits” which doesn’t really exist in the end? (Why does it take about 1-2 seconds to load 25 feed items?) And so on.

Tell me which one of those “plus” icons on this screenshot you can click and which one is just decoration.

FFS.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hats are back, aren’t they? Lots of people wearing hats these days, like, the big ones. 🤔

06.jpg looks like it’s from another planet. 😅

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Hey, sounds exactly like the company I work(ed) for.

@prologic@twtxt.net Our company is paying a shitload of money for all these (different) AI tools … I’m probably not allowed to tell you the exact number, but it is a lot. The only other way would be to lay off employees, so we can pay even more for AI. (Needless to say, that would be the worst possible move.)

For a private person, $20 a month is also pretty expensive, isn’t it? And then assume that you maybe need more than one AI tool. You’re quickly up to $50 a month or much more. This isn’t something that I, as a private person, will ever be willing to spend for this kind of stuff.

“AI” is just expensive as fuck. On every level. They will have to (ab)use every possible way to squeeze more money out of it, and that includes ads and what not.

@prologic@twtxt.net This was to be expected and I’m glad that it’s finally happening. I seriously hope that AI/LLM output gets swamped with advertisements or unwanted code, so people see what they have gotten themselves into, especially the “vibe coders”.