@prologic@twtxt.net Yep, that’s what I’m going for. 😃 I mean, I don’t want to make an exact clone, just catch some of the DOS vibe.
And editing bytes as a binary number: https://movq.de/v/4c3617bbd1/vid-1778939973.mp4
I don’t need this feature that often. Maybe it would be nice to have a live-preview of the new value in hex/dec. We’ll see.
This is probably a better demo: https://movq.de/v/71218c59b2/vid-1778924229.mp4
Progress: My hex editor how has undo and redo. https://movq.de/v/3af465b29a/vid-1778918267.mp4
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org LOL! That’s brilliant. (We’re going back to that. Some Amazon employees probably already are.)
So, it’s plenty good enough for them.
Yeah, but on the other hand, you can’t even log in normally to a Matrix/Element account. I mean using username + password. It’s not expected that you ever log out or lose your browser session. If you do, you must use a one-time backup code (that you must create and save beforehand) to log in again.
To be fair, I can’t say that I fully understand what Matrix is doing in the first place. The text that I quoted reads like they have your keys. But they also claim that they only store this stuff encryped: https://element.io/en/help#encryption5 So … encrypted with what? Only option here is my password, isn’t it? (But if my password was good enough to reclaim an account … why do all the other stuff …)
Matrix takes end-to-end encryption seriously. When I ran a Matrix server for the family, the family members would regularly lose their keys, because they didn’t pay attention to something. That’s on purpose! Or rather, that was on purpose. Maybe it’s different these days?
No clue.
Forgot the source: https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/116557975987213548
I’m not always on the same page as Rob Pike, but this hit close to home:
Although trained in physics, I worked in the computing industry with pride and purpose for over 40 years. And now I can do nothing but sit back and watch it destroy itself for no valid reason beyond hubris (if I’m being charitable).
Ineffable sadness watching something I once loved deliberately lose its soul.
I spent my time trying to make it better. Not just write code, but find better or at least different ways to do so. Simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible.
What’s happening today is a complete repudiation of everything I was trying to achieve.
“Simpler, cleaner, more general, more comprehensible”, that’s what I’ve been trying to establish in our teams as well. Obviously not to the same degree, but you get the idea.
And it all goes out the window now. We’re doing the complete opposite – and with full force.
In today’s episode of “everything goes to shit because we want it to”: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
The supply of deep technical problems is multiplying, and the engineers who can solve them will be among the scarcest and most valuable talent in the market.
And yet:
We’re reevaluating our operational footprint, and are planning to reduce the number of countries by up to 30% where we have small teams.
I’m still having some fundamental design issues with my TUI widget system, so I’m still not comfortable making this code public.
But after a day of work (and discussing AI ad nauseam at work), I just don’t have any energy left. 😑
@kiwu@twtxt.net Thanks!
@kiwu@twtxt.net Sick at home. 🤧
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Die Holgi-Sachen sind auch so das einzige, was ich noch mehr oder weniger regelmäßig höre (und mit Spenden versehe). Die langjährige Radio-Moderator-Erfahrung, die da drinsteckt, ist einfach Gold wert. ✨
So apparently this is the default when making a new Matrix account, which makes me wonder why we’re even doing this whole crypto dance in the first place … ?
how was everyone’s week?
Ganz schön viele Arschgesichter hier: https://uebermedien.de/116944/
@bender@twtxt.net I misread that sentence and thought that your first crush was called Gisela, and was like “wait, he’s not that old”.
Turns out, Gisela is a much younger name than I thought:
https://namecensus.com/first-names/gisela-meaning-and-history/
A peak in the late 1970is and late 1990ies? What?
But then it turned out that, in Germany, the popularity dropped rapidly in the late 1950ies, which actually matches my expectations:
https://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/5203-gisela.htm
In other words, some other countries picked up the name Gisela after it had already faded away in Germany.
What a fun rabbit hole. 😅
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org your wildlife photography is getting much better! Got to name them, what do you think? Too early? :-)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ouch. 🤔
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Isn’t that a cutie! 😍
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yep, this was a big oopsie at DENIC:
All sorts of .de domains don’t resolve right now. But not all, movq.de for example still works. All on our server and basically all major other sites are cactus. Maybe some DENIC problem? I’m too tired to investigate, but I’m looking forward to tomorrow to read some report on that. :-) Good night.
This greenfinch isn’t all that green: https://lyse.isobeef.org/gruenfink-2026-05-02/01.jpg
cp -a, install a bootloader, adjust some minor things /etc/fstab, done. Well, maybe not “done”, but it’s easy to sort out the remaining stuff afterwards.
@bender@twtxt.net It’s been a while (6.5 years) since I’ve done this. I’d do it like this:
arch-chroot tool for that which is used during normal installation, if I’m not mistaken). Inside the chroot, install the bootloader./etc/fstab or /etc/crypttab.And I think that should be it. 🤔
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org These days (and it’s been like that for a while), almost everything is loaded on-demand depending on which hardware the OS finds, so you can simply copy all your files with cp -a, install a bootloader, adjust some minor things /etc/fstab, done. Well, maybe not “done”, but it’s easy to sort out the remaining stuff afterwards.
I’ve moved the Arch installation at work from a stationary Dell workstation to an Acer laptop to a Lenovo Carbon laptop to a Tuxedo laptop to a Lenovo Thinkpad. 😅
Yeah, the keyboard of the netbook isn’t all that great, but I have to say that I absolutely love netbooks. And I hate that they got replaced by tablets and smartphones. A netbook is a normal PC, just very small and super easy to carry around – that’s brilliant!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Turns out, this actually was a little machine once (small netbook): https://movq.de/blog/postings/2011-04-28/0/POSTING-de.html And then I moved the whole installation to a different laptop later. I love that you can easily do that on Linux.
I like the new GitHub:
@prologic@twtxt.net Oh, lol, it’s literally called that: https://www.queensland.com/au/en/places-to-see/experiences/nature-and-wildlife/everything-to-know-about-natural-bridge 😂
Just missed the 15th anniversary of the Linux installation on my laptop:
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-04-27 11:38] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
With all these new ways of digital publishing, I’m wondering for years why music artists still release entire albums. I would have imagined that most bands simply publish a new song whenever it’s good to go. But no, at least in my bubble, everybody still collects a bunch of new songs before throwing them as a collection into the crowd. I never used any of these streaming services, though, so maybe I’m just completely uninformed.
The weathermen just cannot be right with their 20°C today, it must have been more. It was awfully hot, the light breeze was not enough and even absent most of the time. In the shade, it was alright. Other than that, the walk to the dairy farm and back was really beautiful. Very lovely scenery.
Somebody spilled their paintbox at sunset. Unfortunately, I missed to reinsert the SD card into my camera, so I could not take more photos of Azabache and his new mate. They quickly disappeared. He even landed right next to my window, so that would have been a killer shot.
It’s been so long since I last posted here
i closed spotify and netflix accounts some months ago, now netflix send emails every day asking me to return for .99 and recommending me shows that i’ve never been interested in, 11 email so far, are they are so desperate! spotify is silent for now:)
Where in the world is Jamesldo?
That’s a very interesting thought and I agree: https://benhoyt.com/writings/dependencies/
First twtxt after upgrading (as I don’t want a reply to count as one).
Hey all my dear twtxters! Again, please have a look at https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/pulls/28 so that we can button the Twt Hash v2 Extension up soon. Love to get some feedback, comments, questions, doubts, critiques, improvements, etc.
When are the RAM/SSD prices going down?
@kiwu@twtxt.net after you upload, make sure the audio file looks like this:
And it will work.
And here we go! Yup, hash has seven.
Testing jenny. You should probably ignore this, and the next twtxt.
@rdlmda@rdlmda.me that’s odd. In here is similar, but not random. All it takes is some rain, and then flip a coin: we may, or may not lose power.
Third power failure in two weeks. Every time a different apartment loses power at the same time as mine. I hope the power company is able to find the cause.
@prologic@twtxt.net it does! it wont let me do it like that tho
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org no dice. Same.
Authenticated to git.mills.io ([199.247.16.95]:2222) using "publickey". ssh-add ... had no effect (even after ssh-add -D).
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t think it is anything you are doing wrong. I think it is on @prologic@twtxt.net side. I am getting the exact same result, but I never cloned that repository. Maybe it worked fine at certain point, when @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org cloned it, but I doubt brand new users can get through.