Oh wow that’s a lot of UPS(es) 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it seems you don’t have a decent UPS with surge protection. Invest in one! We have one everywhere there is a constantly-used valuable appliance in the house, including refrigerator.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. It’s really dangerous for one’s mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.

No, it’s not IBM. 😅 I won’t say what it is. 🥴 I don’t think I had contact with any (contemporary) IBM software since around 2010. I love toying around with retro IBM stuff (cause that’s what I grew up with), but really no idea what they’re up to these days. Even the IBM building in our city is long gone.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops. That’s a bit scary.

Hmm, how many hardware devices have you lost due to lightning over the years? 🤔 We lost a modem once, but that was it.

Speedy recovery, @bender@twtxt.net! Ouch, @movq@www.uninformativ.de!

One of the Xfce devs tries to estimate how many people use his software and is a bit surprised:

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_9.html

😅

After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Such piece of shit software makes me want to quit. Esp. if it is just for useless compliance garbage that never helped anybody accomplishing any real improvement. Is it from IBM? We once had to build a threat model with some terrible generator and my goodness, you can’t believe what a myriad of hopelessly useless, wrong entries it produced. Thousands of thousands of lines. At least it was markdown. We basically removed like 99% of its output after reading through every single item. Did this once and refused to touch it ever since. All hand-written now and actually helpful.

Thank you very much, everyone!

@bender@twtxt.net It is very proprietary, yes. 😂😭

@movq@www.uninformativ.de ay ay ay ay ay! Don’t envy a bit on that one. I assume the software you are forced to use is proprietary, and very specific?

@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon!

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(And thanks for not being one of those “it’s just a cold” guys.)

One of the super frustrating things about this: I have to write lots of documents, but I am required to use horrendous software to do that. It cannot even number sections automatically, nor can you insert cross-references to other sections. Simple stuff like that. It all has to be done manually.

Even Word 97 could do shit like that …

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@bender@twtxt.net good idea 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net thanks mate! I am trying to isolate, wearing masks at home, and washing hands constantly, to see if kid can be spared.

@bender@twtxt.net Get well soon! 🤞

@bender@twtxt.net Oh dear. 😭

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I am supposed to come to office today, but I have caught the same cold bug wife has had for the last three days, so I am staying remote to spare cube-mates. Nose stuck, dripping, and a general slight sense of malaise is what I am feeling right now.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de we had one of those at the beginning of the pandemic, when everyone was sent home. It truly was painful. Now we are having another university to evaluate our processes, and procedures; not much security based, but still a pain.

@prologic@twtxt.net that would only be logical! :-)

I have months of intense security compliance theater ahead of me and wish for a quick and painless death.

@bender@twtxt.net A: Yes

@bender@twtxt.net Yup! It maybe should try to detect a pipe maybe too?

And yes @bender@twtxt.net pods will reintroduce old root Twts like this back into active caches 🤣 Just not the ones in/between (old replies)

Funny how well shit works that we’ve collectively built 🤣

@jdtron@tilde.team As did I 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com two years after! LOL. Also, I put down $50 (USD) that OP will never see these replies. The one you replied to used the gemini protocol, and I don’t think it is up on its end. OP last twtxt was 2023-01-04T10:40:10+01:00: https://jdtron.tilde.team/twtxt.txt

Never mind, figured out that yarnc post - is the way to do it. Thanks code!

Can I use yarnc to post directly to twtxt.net from the terminal? Let’s see. Aha! I can. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net, how do I post from the terminal, using yarnc non-interactively? Tried something like:

echo "This is a test." | yarnc post

And it didn’t work—it seems it wants to open an editor.

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 😝

@prologic@twtxt.net and I believe he is an “Open Web Lead” at Automatic, and working on the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress. The theme he uses is his own. Anyway, moving on…

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂 I tried to even read the blog post, but I couldn’t. In all bluntness and honestly the layout and style of the website is total garbage, not to mention it’s written in a language I cannot read, but because it’s just so poorly written the translation service can’t translate it properly 🤦‍♂️ So point across FAIL

Just found a pleasant way to wade through meetings: listening to Puccini’s “La Bohème”. Glorious!

@prologic@twtxt.net a thing, a thing! I mean, the amount of information the OP brought speaks for itself, right, right? 🫢😅

@bender@twtxt.net What is?! 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net “it’s a thing!” 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ahh yea! I’ll setup some CD for it this weekend 👌

@bender@twtxt.net Hmmm? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de it is all in the context. When referring to computers, if the person uses Microsoft Windows, then colloquially the user “is on Windows”, for example.

For PowerPoint is simpler, as nothing else is called that way, nor have the same spelling. But yeah, similar to “gonna grab a Coke”. It is intrinsically embedded in the language.

@bender@twtxt.net lol 😂

So you don’t feel a bit weird when you say “Windows” or “PowerPoint”? It’s just a brand, nothing special?

@prologic@twtxt.net Speaking of broken mentions, do you want to install a more recent yarns version so that my error log is not spammed anymore with 404s? 8-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Zero progress on mine. :-( I still rely on the official twtxt client to download the (main) feed.

Thanks, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Hahaha, didn’t think of that. :-D Nah, this guy is not creepy, he’s just a melting flower snowman. ;-) Rest assured, he was unharmed on the table, you can see him here: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-21/23.JPG

Google:

I often wonder what it must be like for native English speakers to use all these so-called brand names. “I use window 11! This is a KraftPoint presentation. I got the code for this script from the idiot turnstile.” All that sort of thing.

🤣🤣🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I figure the same as for non-native. LOL. All translation services are doing a poor job at translating your twtxt. 😭

Jaja, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, immer schön aufmerksam der guten Steckdosenpräsi folgen und im Anschluss in der Exzellenztabelle was eintragen und ausrechnen lassen! :-D Klingt alles recht albern. Ich schätz aber mal, dass einem das gar nicht mehr auffällt.

@bender@twtxt.net Fenster 11 → Windows 11; KraftPunkt (or Steckdose) → PowerPoint; Deppendrehkreuz (awesome translation btw, I had to laugh hard!) → GitHub.

Absolutely lovely. 🫢

Ich frag’ mich schon oft, wie das für die englischen Muttersprachler sein muss, all diese sogenannten Markennamen zu benutzen. „Ich benutze Fenster 11! Das hier ist eine KraftPunkt-Präsentation. Den Kode für dieses Skript habe ich vom Deppendrehkreuz.“ All sowas. 🤔