@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 22 thru 25 are wallpaper-worthy. 👌👍

@prologic@twtxt.net Nice. 😊 That’s the beauty of a small instrument like that: You can just pick it up, play a little bit, put it back. 👌 (Can’t do that with my stuff. 🤣)

There you go, user-defined color schemes:

@iolfree@tilde.club Will do. 🫡

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org A-ha! That means you haven’t spent enough time with these tools! Go on, try it! (If you don’t, we’ll fire you.) I’m sure you’ll like it!

Oh. Feed rotated. hfgl 🙃

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I bet that their AI agent handles that as well, so … 🤷‍♀️

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net They won’t.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That would have been the noble thing to do. It’s more work for me, though. I blocked that idiot and moved on with my life. 🫤

Another vibe coded bot, I guess. 🤦‍♀️

@quark@ferengi.one Ignored. ✅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, I’m not sure I would want to do that:

ForwardAgent
    ...

    Agent forwarding should be enabled  with  caution.   Users
    with  the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote
    host (for the agent's Unix-domain socket) can  access  the
    local agent through the forwarded connection.  An attacker
    cannot  obtain  key  material from the agent, however they
    can perform operations on the keys that enable them to au‐
    thenticate using the identities loaded into the agent.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Changing the user name helped, it now says Authenticated to git.mills.io ([199.247.16.95]:2222) using "publickey". ssh-add ... had no effect (even after ssh-add -D).

Here’s a debug log, @prologic@twtxt.net, perhaps you could take a look at this 🙏: https://movq.de/v/116c5f514b/clone2.txt

(Might be a silly mistake on my part. Wrong remote path or something?)

Anyone else having trouble pulling from git.mills.io? 🤔

$ g clone ssh://git@git.mills.io:2222/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev.git
Cloning into 'twtxt.dev'...
git@git.mills.io: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

The key verification function on https://git.mills.io/user/settings/keys says I’m using the correct key.

This also looks good:

$ GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -v" g clone ssh://git@git.mills.io:2222/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev.git
...
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /home/user/.ssh/keys/key-millsio ED25519 SHA256:nVNT... explicit
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
git@git.mills.io: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Does it work for you, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net?

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org My condolences. I mean, errr, congratulations! 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org We’ll see. Hasn’t really happened in the past. 🤔

@arne@uplegger.eu (Arrrrrgh, bitte lass’ mich nicht noch ein Spielzeug kaufen … 😂)

Now that Winter has come to an end, I’m realizing that the default amber color scheme of my widget toolkit might be problemaic.

Readability isn’t great when the sun is blasting through the windows. 🥴

I should probably make this full themeable by the user …

(Haven’t worked on this code in a month, sadly.)

@thecanine@twtxt.net

as things are now in fact even worse

You mean this, right?

Contrary to a vague mention of a possible “advanced flow” that may eventually allow “experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified”, Google’s description of the program continues to state plainly that:

Starting in September 2026, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed on certified Android devices

Until such time that they have shown evidence that it will be possible to bypass the verification process without undue friction, we must believe what is stated on their official page: that all apps from non-registered developers will be blocked once their lock-down goes into effect.

Putting obstacles in their way: To make scraping my code slightly less trivial, the repos on my website now only show the newest 15 commits, e.g.: https://movq.de/git/katriawm/log.html

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me Well, I’m reading. 😅 twtxt/Yarn is rather slow and low-traffic, though. And let’s be honest, there aren’t that many people around.

Well, someone just did this:

https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi

We’ll see how long it’ll last …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yah, I don’t really know what to do about it. I’ll probably keep using Vim as it is – until there are bugs. And then we’ll see. Build an older version from source maybe?

I’ve been using Vim for such a long time now, I have very little motivation to switch. 🫤

Ah, found it: Lauren Hart did a laryngoscopy a while ago:

https://youtu.be/zy1El8U2kaA?t=175

Here around the 3:00 minute mark, the doctor explains what’s going on and you can (kind of) see which tissue is vibrating. Pretty interesting.

@prologic@twtxt.net So many people calling this thing “he” and saying things like “I had a discussion with him” or “he explained his reasoning”, it’s mind boggling. Nobody even questions it anymore.

@bender@twtxt.net (The original author calling it out would be this link: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327)

@kiwu@twtxt.net A backwards MP3? 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Must be crazy living this close to the rockets. 🤯 Have you ever heard anything (not just this one)? 🤔

RIP Vim 😢 https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116175986749599825 https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/19413#issuecomment-4000394026

Since nobody asked for it, more Courtney. 🫠🫠🫠

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMnfkW9UZc4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcfTAPeCakQ&t=365s

Yay, groff 1.24.0 is out and this is fixed now (on the left):

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Today is full moon, did you catch it? 😃

Since I’ve been recently appointed “the bringer of music” … 🤪

Lauren Hart has joined Arch Enemy 😍 Arch Enemy – To The Last Breath

Kayla Dixon replaced Avienne Low in Vintersea a while ago and she’s doing a phenomenal job 🤯 (Avienne was already great) Vintersea – Become The Wave

Rikke List with Konvent makes for funny stories in YouTube comments (little boy wonders “women can do that?!”), and those are just killer riffs by Sara Nørregaard 🤘 Konvent – Puritan Masochism

I miss the days when Mina Špiler was with Laibach, she was perfect for this group 😢 Laibach – Bossanova

Courtney LaPlante is from another world entirely 😍🫠 (be sure to watch this to the very end 😅) Spiritbox – Rule Of Nines (one take)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nope, sorry. 😞

@bender@twtxt.net Don’t worry, I also stole it (from a coworker). 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net I think I haven’t written a single line of code outside of work in the last ~3 weeks, because I was so distracted by (gestures broadly) everything.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, oh, this page has historical data:

https://kachelmannwetter.com/de/messwerte/baden-wuerttemberg/temperatur/20260217-1400z.html

I would have been too lazy to take photos when my fingers were freezing off. 😅

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci coined the term “failscene”:

https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1771250567.039684

I wonder about using “failscene” to describe the current slate of AI tools and demos. In contrast with the demoscene, which is about getting very low powered computers to do cool things you wouldn’t expect them to be able to do, the failscene is about getting very high powered computers to fail at doing boring things we already know how to do without them. Plus you can stylize it fAIlscene if you’re inclined to.

I love it.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The sun makes it look nice and cosy and warm, but it wasn’t, right? 😅

@kiwu@twtxt.net Since I’m not living in the US, I haven’t seen it. I’ve only witnessed all the “outrage” about it through shows like Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice talk indeed.

Interesting to see that his ideal job ad talks more about the company than the required qualifications of the candidates. That alone is what 99% of companies get wrong. They just have a long list of “you must know these 500 things”, yeah, great, goodbye then. 🤷‍♀️

Just checked our job ads, some of them actually do list the salary. I’m surprised. 🤔

TIL: If you’re trans in Germany and you want to start hormone therapy, you still need to be officially declared “trans” first (Indikationsschreiben, page 18: https://www.transinterqueer.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Hormontherapie_DE_barrierearm.pdf) and then you can try to find an actual doctor to get the meds. All with super long waiting lists. This takes forever. 😩

Changing your legal name is surprisingly easy in comparison, at least since 2024: https://www.bmbfsfj.bund.de/bmbfsfj/aktuelles/alle-meldungen/anmeldung-zur-aenderung-des-geschlechtseintrages-jetzt-moeglich-243056 (From my perspective, that’s the less relevant part, though, because there’s a good chunk of people that you can just ask to call you differently (friends, cowokers, …) and then do that legal stuff later. But you want your body to change, like, now.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They certainly don’t. 🫤

Had an idea earlier: How about going all in on sustainability and saving money/energy, so how about telling your customers “AI is a bad idea $because_long_list_of_reasons, here are our alternatives, you’ll thank us in 5 years”? (I bet the customers wouldn’t listen either … 🙄)

Okay, so the funniest thing that has happened at work in the realm of AI so far is this:

So this guy (that holds a certain position of power) wants people to use more AI, meaning people are expected to install a set of AI tools on their laptops. But, of course, he doesn’t want to write proper documentation for this, because that would be silly monkey work, right? So he conjures up some AI prompts that are intended to make the AI agent install all this stuff by itself.

Do you see where this is going? Can you see the punchline?

That’s right! Since none of this AI stuff is deterministic, every setup is different. 🤦‍♀️ Like, 10, 20 systems, all set up a little different and people wonder why this or that doesn’t work as expected.

Okay, it’s not funny.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … at least this story was entertaining to read. 😅 If only Firefox’s storage format wasn’t so convoluted, you could have just shut it down and removed all the unwanted tabs. 🫤

In case you’re bored and need a laugh: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP5z5Xlj-uEVYDMR9DVI1tK7ICdM7LeWq

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

I can’t remember if the hex viewer back then had these options. Don’t even recall what software that was. :-)

The one that I used during my Windows 95 days was “Hex Workshop”. It had similar features, just not as promimently displayed. It shows them down there in the statusline as “Value”:

Newer versions can probably do more, haven’t checked. 😅 (Assuming this program still exists.)

Apart from selecting text to copy into the clipboard. But that probably has the potential for trouble and interference with button clicks, etc.

Yeah, that’s a big problem: Once you activate mouse mode in the terminal, the terminal loses the ability to select text. 😞 You’d either have to emulate that in the program itself (like Vim does) or give the user an easy way to turn mouse support on/off during runtime.

How did the startup times develop?

They’re pretty stable at around 230 ms on my old NUC. It’s just fast enough so that it doesn’t annoy me.

I’m inclined to remove all mouse support, except for moving windows. 🤔 I originally wanted this to emulate the behavior of DOS programs, but a) mouse support is a lot of code, b) using the mouse is cumbersome anyway and I would rarely do it.

Slow progress: My hex editor now has an info panel that shows what’s under the cursor.