@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see. Never watched that show.
@prologic@twtxt.net (I still don’t know how you can muster up so much motivation and energy (especially when you have a family). Are we the same species?! 😅)
@bender@twtxt.net Ta! :-)
I’ve got sore muscles. The sticky snow couldn’t be pushed, it had to be laborously cleared shovel by shovel. :-D
In my lunch break, I went on a short stroll. Oh boy, walking through deep damp snow is exhausting! There were sections with easily 30 centimeters and more. Some big wind drifts had piled up. Despite melting off quickly in the 4°C, especially turning the trees brown again, the white landscape still looks so nice. I’m glad these road marking sticks finally came in handy for the snow plow guys. :-) The black and orange stripes are 30 cm high.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-01-26/
That’s probably it. There’s no significant snowfall announced for the rest of the week and temperatures are supposed to stay in the 2-4°C range by day.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Abed is a character from Community and “cool cool cool” was one of his “things”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXYjejIup4
Just showelled 20cm of snow for half an hour, fuck me! I’m totally shattered. But it’s worth it. Looks so beautiful. And all the disbelief and terror in the eyes of the people. Well, that’s what our winters were like three decades ago. I’m just glad that I can work from home.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org totally adore the eerie look of some of them. Very well done!
@movq@www.uninformativ.de No, I don’t know what that is. :-?
argparse takes 50 ms on my NUC, because this pulls in all kinds of fancy stuff behind the scenes, colorization and what not. 😮💨
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Feature creep is killing it. :-(
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I was also extremely surprised and couldn’t believe it myself. But around the hair were definitely two, three millimeters of ice with a bunch of snow on top. I couldn’t simply brush it off, the hair were all frozen together. Back in the house, it took maybe three minutes to melt the solidified white stuff and free up and disconnect the individual hair. Crazy.
Yeah, 0°C in town, maybe -2°C on the summit. It definitely didn’t feel all the cold, but I came prepared with a few layers of cloth.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ohh, Winter Wonderland. Lovely!
Never had frozen hair. 😳 With just around 0°C? 🤔
What a beautiful, beautiful 0°C Sunday arvo and evening! The weather forecast delayed the snow by the minute. An hour or so after it finally started very, very lightly, I headed off for the woods to check out the lake again. Unfortunately, with the fresh snow layer, the crazy wild surface texture of the ice sheet wasn’t visible anymore. But it brought some other nice views and photo opportunities.
I initially thought that I just go for a quick turn. However, with the snowfall a wee bit increasing I was hooked and kept going. Visibility was poor, but the snow blankets just looked too stunning. The road surfaces were quite slippery, so I often just walked alongside the pathways. On downhill slopes I had some good fun sliding down the road on my feet. With varying success. Luckily, I managed not to fall.
On the summit of the mountain the twigs had those absolutely magnificently looking windblown crystal coverings. Awwwwwww! They never get old. It was already getting dark, so the camera was tired and wanted to sleep. The snow program then made use of the flash and I’m quite pleased with how these shots turned out.
Two deer crossed the road in front of me and ran into the woods, that was sight for sore eyes. Although I felt bad that they had to flee from me in this white terrain. By the time I got home, the snow had accumulated around eight centimeters in height, even in town down in the valley. Walking on this fresh snow is just amazing. And I love the sound it makes. Today, the snow consistency must have been just right, because the crushing sound was really loud.
I cannot recall that I had frozen hair and beard before, but today, there was a thick ice buildup. In case I had, it was definitely never this much. Felt really cool.
Enough of this preliminary skirmishing, there ya go: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-01-25/
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (Was that a reference to Abed? 😅)
argparse takes 50 ms on my NUC, because this pulls in all kinds of fancy stuff behind the scenes, colorization and what not. 😮💨
Just importing data classes takes another 60 ms … This fancy new stuff is really costly.
Omg, Python. Parsing arguments with argparse takes 50 ms on my NUC, because this pulls in all kinds of fancy stuff behind the scenes, colorization and what not. 😮💨
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Cool, cool, cool! Happy hacking. :-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Probably already dry by the time you get there. ;-)
Has a bit of a long history story behind this, where last year at work we were reading this book called Engineering a Safer World and initially came across a service called Speech Reply that allowed me to upload a PDF copy of the book and start to read it, but unfortunately, the free trial right now before I can finish reading it turns out that Speech Reply service cost a whopping US$30 a month and expected me to pay a full year upfront, which was well over US$300 just for one fucking book! So I sent their sales and support staff a message kindly asking if it were possible to just pay for the audio transcription of just a single book or to change to a monthly subscription fee, to which they refused, so basically in the end I got very angry and told them to go fuck themselves and built my own service. A year later here we are :-)
@bender@twtxt.net discounts for friends/family apply 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net sounds like an excellent project! Looking forward to it.
This weekend, I’m building a service that turns PDFs into chaptered, audiobook‑quality narration in minutes—upload, listen in a built‑in player, and download MP3/M4B files with clean metadata.
Another project where I’m going to use my terminal widget toolkit is a hex editor. This is still very young, obviously, and there’s a lot of work to do (both in the toolkit and this particular application), but I’m making some progress:
https://movq.de/v/2bae14ed16/vid-1769283187.mp4
Since this program is UTF-8 clean (I hope), you can do things like enter multi-byte UTF-8 sequences or paste them from the system clipboard (another hex editor I just tried failed to do this correctly):
https://movq.de/v/e9241034c1/vid-1769283755.mp4
Under the hood, I’m using mmap() with MAP_PRIVATE, which is really cool: I get the entire file as a byte array, no matter how large it is, no need to actually read it upfront; and MAP_PRIVATE means that I can write to this area however I like without changing the underlying file. The kernel does copy-on-write for me. Only when you hit Save, it will write to the filesystem. And it’s just a couple lines of code. The kernel does all the magic. 🥳
(Thank goodness, they turned it off for the weekend! So it’s only 24/5! Whoop, whoop.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That’s a long way to walk! 🤯
@bender@twtxt.net Naaah, I don’t have a dish washer either, it’ll be fine. 🤣 (No it won’t.)
@bender@twtxt.net I love that you set your alarm. :-D Lucky for my new teammates (or maybe not) I’m not gonna leave them. No week has passed where my old mates didn’t consult me, so I reckon I’m still a secret service agent in the old team. :-P
@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha! It was already too dark for this poor camera. Yes, this pond was frozen solid. I will check it out tomorrow during daylight and have another attempt.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org so, returning, or… :-P
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org only four squalid clicks, oh my 😅! Is #02 frozen water? Can’t tell well, but looks like.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de my mum, who hand washed clothes for many, many years, would stare at you, incredulously, and tell you, “have fun with that!”. Hand washing a ton of clothes, including sheets, etc., is a royal, glorious, pain! Now drying it, when you live on the land of eternal sunshine, is a different matter.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Maybe ask the guys at CERN whether you can quickly put your soaking wet stuff in their Laundry deHumidifying Centrifuge every so often.
It’s been slightly ice cold: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-01-23/
My washing machine is making funny noises and I’m this 🤏 close to just throwing it out and washing everything by hand, instead of buying another expensive enshittified product that’s designed to break down in a couple of years.
Washing is easy anyway, the spin cycle to dry that stuff is the important part …
@shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de /me raises his hand, too.
ChatGPT https://brynet.ca/chatgpt/
@shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe 🙋 with extra 24/7 noise from the construction site outside (construction guys live in a little “container” and they need power, so they have a diesel generator running 24/7)
@shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe 🙋 sometimes 🤣
Raise your hand if you have extremely noisy and annoying neighbors.
I’ll raise both my hands because they’re my relatives, and they’re BLASTING THROUGH MY WALLS RIGHT NOW
Oh wow, the boxes are ticked now! When I first checked, they were still showing like the screenshot. Well done! 🥳
@shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe I have long forgotten. Thank you for illustrating it perfectly! 😅
@bender@twtxt.net Bahahaha sorry 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net the power of a comma decides the outcome. 😅🤭
@kiwu@twtxt.net No embedding works! I’ll have a look at what you did here 👌
in a camp mood battitude
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Very interesting!
yarnd had no reason to "pull" it in.
@bender@twtxt.net Only missing roots would trigger that kind of sync IIRC. And that only works if another peering pod has the root twt. What you’re remembering, possibly, is an attempt to do what you were thinking of… But I tried it, turned out to be too expensive of an operation to do auotmatically.
yarnd had no reason to "pull" it in.
@prologic@twtxt.net what has changed? Before anyone replying to a feed would pull it in, no? Am I remembering incorrectly?
Great article by Ploum about chatbots/AI and education: https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html