@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yeah, this is sad news. 😢

One of my favorite TNG scenes:

https://movq.de/v/06620d2bfa/tng.mkv.mp4

@maurice-renck.de@maurice-renck.de I hadn’t heard of that yet, very cool to see something like that formalized in an RFC.

I am for nearly anything that takes social media out of the hands of the corporate silos and returns it to the actual participants, doubly-so if it doesn’t swap the silo for something crypto-based, And the simpler the implementation is, the more likely that people will actually implement all of it (/me glances sideways towards ActivityPub).

Thanks for the rare bit of good news!

@dreembm@twtxt.net Hey 👋 Welcomet!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Awesome, maybe I can actually finish it this year. 😃

@prologic@twtxt.net Pretty graph! 🤩

Very cool.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Yeah, that was an additional bonus. But I still think that I added more than I lost in total. Better than nothing for sure.

I’ve been on that tour on foot three times before. But it’s really not something to recommend. If I run into the same situation again, I’ll take the forest detour. It is actually pretty towards the end.

@arne@uplegger.eu Backpapier klingt ja mal spontan auch richtig gut! Ich finde es ja immer sehr befriedigend, wenn man Dinge einfach sinnvoll zweckentfremded. :-) Schön zu hören, dass der heimische Gemüseanbau von Erfolg gekrönt war.

@shinyoukai@twtxt.net Yeah, I think you can get pretty far with a few careful lines of config. But what I have here is a bit more sophisticated. Picket fingerprints connecting clients and is table to work out for example what software and stack your client is, if it really is Chrome or you’re pretneding to be Chrome.

Here’s a pretty graph 📈

@arne@uplegger.eu Der Fachmann erkennt sofort die guten Raketenstecken! :-) Hast Du das Zeitungspapier irgendwie verstärkt? Je nach Qualität dieses Druckerzeugnisses könnte ich mir durchaus vorstellen, dass das recht bald einreißt. Ich wünsche allezeit gutes Steigen und bin schon auf Deine Berichte dazu sehr gespannt.

@maurice-renck.de@maurice-renck.de Oh, snap! You just described most of the websites I’ve ever built (except I prefer terminal green over orange/yellow 😁).

Of course, I’ll be the first to admit that I have precisely zero design skills, I just like writing HTML.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! Well, I’m glad it was detected and put out quickly.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There was an actual fire: The building was evacuated and I saw a burnt-down trash container. Sounds harmless, but these containers are inside of our building. (Because …) So this was an actual, real danger. Not as bad as some appartment being on fire, of course, but still. When I left my appartment, I could smell it and I just thought: “Yep. This is it.” 😐

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! A false alarm or was something actually on fire?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL! :‘-D This is great!

@david@daiwei.me :‘-D Brilliant!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Honestly restic + Object Storage with whoever you like is “good enough”™. Backblaze B2’s Object Storage is still the most cost effective and competitive in the market.

@shinyoukai@twtxt.net To my surprise:

https://www.worldmeteo.info/en/europe/norway/hell/weather-194988/

11 °C? At this time of year? wtf

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I need to switch to something like restic or borg. And probably a big storage server at a hoster like Hetzner. 🤔

I do have several layers of backups already, even offsite ones, but it requires me carrying external HDDs around. That used to be acceptable for me (or maybe I was just being naive). But now I’m living in a 20-story building and there are SO MANY IDIOTS in close proximity who might fuck shit up … Fire is a real threat.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I cannot recommend restic enough and a good TB or 2 External USB Disk 😅

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Coo! 👌 @david@daiwei.me also signed up tonight too, even paid for an extra unit 🤣 I’m very keen to see how this goes honestly, before scaling up the service 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net

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I’m tied up for most of the day today, but I’ll see what I can get running here later tonight. Very cool! 🤩🤘

@david@daiwei.me Which are those shows, if you don’t mind telling? 😅 Lol, the price. I said the same thing: “When it reaches 15€, I’ll cancel.” It’s over 15€ now. 🤦‍♀️

@david@daiwei.me Oooh Nice 👍

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be Ah. Oh. Yeah. That sounds annoying.

pkgsrc is still on my todo list, only used pkin so far. When I’m being honest, though, I don’t really want to compile from source anyway. I like binary packages. 😅

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com So I can think of a number of services that can run in this memory “pool”. It’s not a limit, just a default “unit size”. yarnd, saltyd, any static web hosting, etc. There’a a non-zero no. of things that will consume very little memory.

@xuu@txt.sour.is OH my god! 😱 You’re alive!!!!

@arne@uplegger.eu Ganze acht Millimeter, irre?! Zwei Stunden klingen für mich recht flott, sehr schön. Ich bin schon gespannt, was Du uns als nächstes zauber^Whäkelst. :-)

Hahaha, beim Lesen des Filmrequisitenkommentars musste ich lauthals loslachen. :‘-D

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz There are many different reasons. For me it’s usually that perhaps somebody like-minded finds something also interesting, funny, whatever. Maybe not.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Great to see you resurrected, mate! <3

@thecanine@twtxt.net I fell you 100%.

My son asked me to fix his Win11 laptop: When he logs in, he gets a GSoD (gray screen of death). So, I fiddle with it for a few minutes, and I get it to login, but now the start menu button doesn’t work. So, I fiddle with it for another hour, and I get the start menu working, but he only has 2 GB free on his primary drive, and that’s not enough for all of the “critical” Windows updates it needs, so now I’m moving files around…

I know everyone says how “user friendly” Windows is, but I call BS on that - my Manjaro install may not always work perfectly, but at least my Start menu button does…

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Spam is as spam does (or maybe it’s “slop is as slop does”).

@prologic@twtxt.net Understood, and I apologize if it sounded like I was trying to do a price comparison (I really wasn’t). Instead, let me ask this way: as I am still unlearned in the art of small VMs, what does one do with a 64MB container? I’m old enough to remember when apps were really small, but even most “simple” apps are too big for a 64MB machine, right? Or am I missing something?

I guess that’s why I made the comparison with the 512MB droplet at DO - that’s the smallest machine I’ve run in a VPS so far (and even my home servers have 8-32 GB of RAM).

Maybe a better question is: What would you run on a service like what you’re talking about? Or what do you envision people using it for?

@xuu@txt.sour.is Duuuuude, you Have been missed!! Happy seeing you around after all this time. I hope life has been treating you well 🙏

Since honesty is kindness, Microsoft is by far the worst company I ever had the displeasure of trying to communicate with. Getting them to fix the most basic of bugs always took years. In some cases it’s been over two and a half decades and it’s still broken.

I never thought it was even possible to make an operating system so broken, I’d have to manually restart my background services and set “network interface metrics” by hand, in advanced TCP/IP settings, while using it.

There are buttons that don’t even do anything when clicked and ones I’ve never seen do anything other than throw an error message.

The AI they rent to pretend to be an AI company, was for years outputting paragraphs, describing the beautiful and artful checkerboard pattern in the background, whenever trying to analyze transparent images. Transparent profile pictures work only on GitHub, the one product where the implementation was done prior to Microsoft acquisition.

Many engineers in their own forums, still manage to make that very AI sound smart, in comparison.

The design is an absolute shitshow, where no two things look like they belong in the same system — the only thing almost consistent, is excessive padding and rounded corners, placed wherever they fit the least.

But hey, 5000 engineers were fired, that will surely improve things!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Good to know!

@arne@uplegger.eu Sauber! Sowas ist echt die Pest.

@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Hut ab! Die Schnur sieht fast aus wie ein Seil von der Dicke. Das muss ja eine mords Häkelnadel sein, die Du dazu nimmst. Wie lang hast Du dafür gebraucht? Müsste ja eine ganze Weile gedauert haben, wenn ich mich sehr wage an die Schulzeit zurückerinner, als ich das letzte Mal gehäkelt habe. Also nicht nur Luft-, sondern richtig mit Kettmaschen. Luftmaschen mach ich regelmäßig von Hand.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this diff… :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, I didn’t see the Zalgo either. My own rendering can’t keep up:

But funnily enough, the raw view does it:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s why it’s suddenly getting really cold over here!1 I hope that your workmate keeps it up.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz That sounds absolutely lovely to me. Enjoy while it lasts.

@arne@uplegger.eu Hut! Hut! Hut!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com No worries. I’m sure we’re all UTF-8-clean. 😏

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Bwahaha. 🤣 (I didn’t see the zalgo effect in my terminal, until prologic posted the screenshot. 😅)

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be I’m certainly not $deity nor a huge expert on this, but what are you struggling with? 😅

wut da actual fuq?!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de C’mon, it can’t be that bad OH MY GOD IT’S 11000 LȈ̷̢̠̟́NĔ̴͎̺͆̍̈Ş̴̛̉͒͑̚ ̴̙́̀͆̑Ó̴̧̝̝̌Ḟ̵̽̌̒ ̷̡̻̖͛͆͛̎̋C̸̊̒́͒ ̵͈̩̈́͑̕A̴͙͌̎̀́̕Ņ̴͐̓́̆Ḋ̴͇̕̚͘͝ ̵̡͓́T̵̹̘̼͐͑̈E̴̹͊̊S̷̫̔͑̂̊͘T̵̟̂̾Ş̵̼̘̠͛̆̉̐̄ Z̷̘̠̹̪̳̝̥̗͐̑̍̅̃͋̿̕A̴̜̦̖̟͍̒́L̴̢̧̥̤̖̼̯̝̭̠͒̈́͆́̇̔̾Ģ̸̰̯͇͔̦͎̱̳̖̠̽Ỏ̶̠͗̏̑͂͐͗̕͝͠ ̴̜̦͎̟̬̮͕̙̠͙̬̅́̔H̶̖̬͙̱̺͍̣͆͌͊͗̈́͛͑͒̿̃͘ͅÊ̶̮̝͇̲̺̈́̔̐͂͒̈́̽͗̿̄̚͝ ̸̜͍̩͉̭͎̤̼̊̃͛͊͌̏͝C̵͔͎̟̝͖̃͋̓̍͠͠O̸̡̯̰̜͖͉͊̃̄̕̕̚Ṁ̷̡̨̺̹͕̳̼͇̼͚͔͌̌̌̈́͆͗̉̇̌̎̕̚͘̚Ȩ̵̞̫̤͓̹̫̬̲͔͓̘͔̣̖̅́͋̈́́̌̃̀̀̇̐̌̓S̸̢̮̰͙̳̲̺̫͖̯̻̣̳̎̇̄͌͗̔̅̊͊̈̋͌̋͆͠ͅ!̴̡̨̳̗͉̭̙̦͓͆̇͒̎͆̓̒̓̑͑̌͘̕͝!̸͎̻͚̩̜͇͐͋̄̐͜͝!̷͙͚̱̤͔͓͂̐̑̀͆̃͜

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be It’s anecdotal, of course, but I remember HLWM being super popular – but that was, like, 10-15 years ago. 😅 (I even took some tiny bits of its ideas and put them in my own WM.)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s true. You learn the most about something when you’re constantly exposed to it.

I can’t bring myself to fully switch to NetBSD or OpenBSD, either. 😅 Not yet. This takes time.