š§ Hi, the current time is about a half past noon š.
Sometimes itās a small thing, itās a bit jarring when orgs that want to pose as international/global publish some copy/event based on US school terms/seasons. Thatās a reminder of how other people are at the periphery and will be probably ignored most of the time. Isnāt it obvious we have different school year arrangements & seasons around the world? I guess @melissawm@melissawm will share my sentiments about this.
I only learned about the .envelope
object/propriety in #shapely yesterday, before that I used .bounds
(a min/max of points tuple), but envelope is good to know because it provides an easy way of getting the centroid and the area of the bounding box, which can be very useful.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice picture, this hot air balloon has quite a large basket.
Yes, go for it! :-)
My grandpa went ballooning ages ago and liked it. The balloonist misjudged the height a bit and landed in an open-air pool. Well, not in the water, but on the sunbathing lawn just inside the fence. :-D After the ride, everybody was given a very long personal name that they had to memorize. Decades later, my grandpa still knew his assigned name.
The most important thing to know is that ā in German ā you donāt fly (fliegen) a ballon, but ride (fahren) it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballonfahren#Fahren_oder_fliegen Judging by the English wikipedia article, this is not an English thing, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_ballooning
Interactive demo of #shapelyās centroid for the triangle :)
import py5
from shapely import Polygon, Point
def setup():
py5.size(400, 400)
py5.stroke_join(py5.ROUND)
def draw():
py5.background(200)
pts = ((100, 100), (300, 100),
(py5.mouse_x, py5.mouse_y))
xs, ys = zip(*pts)
cx = sum(xs) / len(xs)
cy = sum(ys) / len(ys)
tri = Polygon(pts)
py5.no_fill()
py5.stroke_weight(1)
py5.stroke(0, 200, 0)
py5.shape(Point(cx, cy).buffer(5))
py5.stroke(0, 0, 200)
py5.shape(tri.envelope.buffer(2))
py5.shape(tri.envelope.centroid.buffer(5))
py5.stroke_weight(3)
py5.stroke(0)
py5.shape(tri)
py5.fill(0)
py5.shape(tri.centroid.buffer(2))
py5.run_sketch(block=False)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow, cool! :-)
James Gleick: āThe lie of AIā
https://around.com/the-lie-of-ai/
Long read, it starts with Claude Shannon and Markov chainsā¦
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah I just got a bit curious after watching your video and reading your OP š
@prologic@twtxt.net Anything above a couple hundred Euros. š The current Epson LX-350 appears to be not that pricey, though. š¤
I mean, what do you want to do with it? If you want to use this as an actual printer for daily use, Iād get a laser printer instead, because theyāre very reliable and the print quality is top notch.
I got my dot matrix printer mostly for experiments and nostalgia, so I wouldnāt want to pay something like 300-400⬠for it.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha yeah rightio, and yeah inches suck š¤£
@prologic@twtxt.net Itās quite similar to how escape sequences work in a terminal. ASCII text is printed as ASCII text and then an escape sequence can make it bold or underline and so on. Other escape sequences allow you to say āthe following $n
bytes are part of a bitmap imageā, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).
Itās just that the units are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. š
@movq@www.uninformativ.de What do you define as āexpensiveā? š¤ (Iāve always thought of modern-day painters as a āripā, and the ink my god š¤Æ)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Is there like a TL;DR of this standard? I canāt say I remember this tbh š¤
@prologic@twtxt.net Hereās one: https://github.com/vmykh/printer_labs/blob/master/escp2ref.pdf
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, those POS thingies are similar. Thereās āESC/POSā as a variant of āESC/Pā, if Iām not mistaken.
All I can say is, when I go to big stores like Amazon, then I have trouble finding ātraditionalā dot matrix printers for use at home. š Epson still sells them, but theyāre more expensive than my laser printer was. So yeah, they still exist, just expensive, by the looks of it.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Got a link to this
ESC/P standard.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Are you sure?
because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning new ones are very, very expensive.
I think dot matrix printers are still pretty common in many Point of Sales (POS) registers right? At least here in AU theyāre very common. I had a quick look myself today, there seems to be quite a solid market for these types of printers. In fact even EPSON still sell Dot Matrix printers themselves š¤£
@thecanine@twtxt.net Thatās cute. š (Why Clippy, though? š )
@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, good question. I havenāt checked the market, I got mine from someone I know. But to be honest, Iād suspect that buying a used one is actually your best shot, because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning new ones are very, very expensive. š«¤
FWIW, I have an OKI Microline 3390eco. Good thing is, you can still buy new cartridges for it.
If you want to buy a new device, check if it supports the āESC/Pā standard. Thatās very widely supported.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Kind of curious now⦠Is there a (to buy new) dot matrix printer youād recommend if someone wanted to get into this sort of thing (sending plain āol bytes to a printer port)? š¤ (I remember this back in the ye āold days!)
#Python is for artists too @ #SescAvPaulista
(Oficina do Clubinho GrƔfico aos domingos)
Should I go on a tour with these hot air balloons some day? Not sure if itās scary as hell. š
#DiƔtaxis and #Python #documentation
https://discuss.python.org/t/diataxis-and-python-documentation/41836
This is why I love tech from that era.
Write bytes to a parallel port and stuff happens. If itās just ASCII bytes, then it will print ASCII text. Even the simplest programs can use a printer this way.
With a little bit of ESC/P, you can print images and other fancy stuff. Thatās what I did this morning ā never worked with ESC/P before, now I can print images. Itās not that hard.
Hayes-compatible modems are similar: Write some AT commands to the serial port and the modem does things. This isnāt even arcane knowledge, itās explained in the printed manual.
Maybe Iām wearing rose-tinted glasses here, but I think with all this old stuff, you get useful results very quickly and the manuals are usually actually helpful. Itās so much easier to get started and to use this hardware to the full extent. Much less complexity than what we have today, not a ton of libraries and dependencies and SDKs and cloud services and what not.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Iām in Standard Camp. ;-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de There havenāt been decent ones for a while.
Joining the Clippy profile picture club, now that I finally finished my custom one.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Aww, yeah. š (Reminds me, I havenāt paid attention to the sunset in quite a while ā¦)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org When/if I can pull it off, there will be videos! š
I never used hardcopy terminals, either. We did have a dotmatrix printer, but that was just used as a regular printer.
Inkjets, I donāt know. They were pretty fascinating and cool when they came out. A lot faster than dotmatrix and obviously quiter. They never gave me much trouble, actually. But I switched to a laser printer long before crap like DRMāed ink cartridges became a thing.
Hereās an interesting thought/angle on this topic:
gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/21.1
A further check showed that all the network blocks are owned by one organizationāTencent [4]. Iām seriously thinking that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) encourage this with maybe the hope of externalizing the cost of the Great Firewall [5] to the rest of the world.
@twtxtory@twtxtory.adn.org.es it is designed that way on purpose š¤£
Surprisingly, the sky got quite some lovely colors this evening. I approve! https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-08-21/
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Heck yeah, have fun! :-) We never had a matrix printer, started off with a cathode ray tube and an inkjet pisser.
Iām happy to see you compose your first twtxt message using ed on your new output device. We definitely need video proof of that! ;-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha, yeah. I never bothered with them.
We went out an hour earlier to escape the rain. But we got drizzled on, nevertheless. As expected, the rain jacket was finally wet on both the out- and inside. Sweating under that plasic layer is unavoidable with these temperatures. It was still a very nice walk and great vibe with the gray soup. Just right. :-)
Didnāt bring my camera, I guarantee that it would have gotten soaking wet.
Sooooooooo, things happened, and I now have a dot matrix printer again. šš
(One of the end goals is to simulate a hardcopy terminal on my old box. Iām waiting for another cable to arrive, I donāt have USB there. And then use ed(1)
like it was meant to be used! š
)
@clima@clima SĆ£o Paulo
āCave of the Handsā
A very good one:
āWhatever AI Looks Like, Itās Notā
(notice the photo by Thomas Schmitt that illustrates the article)
Uma irritação cada vez mais frequente:
Gente fumando no ponto de Ɠnibus!
Poxa, vÔ fumar no seu canto e não incomode que precisa esperar o Ónibus.
Uma irritação cada vez mais frequente:
Gente fumando no ponto de Ɠnibus!
Poxa, vÔ fumar no seu canto e não incomode quem precisa esperar o Ónibus.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net Itās too real, isnāt it? š¤£
The GPG signatures of my software tarballs have been wrong for years (because Iāve been using rsync wrong, funny enough, it wasnāt a GPG issue) and nobody ever noticed. (They still are wrong at the moment, because I havenāt pushed the fix, yet.)
This confirms that this is just a total waste of time. Nobody ever checks this. Maybe this matters if youāre a distro, but why even bother as a single person ā¦
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, glad you like it, but sadly Iām not sure, if thereās still a way, for this particular project, to continue.
Reducing 38 pixels (previous smallest) to 27, inside of a 7x7 square canvas, is a result Iām really happy with. Now it seems I can only shave off single pixels and get a lot worse looking results - to the point it doesnāt even look like my mascot, to me.
There doesnāt seem to be a hard cap for drawing tiny dogs. Itās possible to arrange 5 pixels, in a way someone recognizes them, as some kind of a dog. The record for cats, is currently a single orange pixel: https://youtu.be/gzeK8NKuzmg
The only way to beat that, is either a monitor, with just a single red diode lit, inside one of its pixels, or an image file thatās broken and empty, on purpose.
Geil, Staffel 10 von Feuer & Flamme ist da! https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/feuer-und-flamme/staffel-10/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9mZXVlcnVuZGZsYW1tZQ/10
Oi @claromes@claromes, acredito que vocĆŖ manja desses paranauĆŖs, dei umas buscas e nĆ£o encontreiā¦
Queria saber se as fotos que as pessoas mandam pro Instagram mantém os metadados, se podem conter localização e tal⦠(desconfio que a Meta guarda a sua localização no momento da postagem e os metadados das fotos para os fins nefastos deles mas publicam uma foto com os metadados removidos, mas não consegui confirmar essa informação)
Se tivesse uma tabela pra eu mostrar pros meus alunos sobre quais serviƧos fazem o quĆŖ com os metadados das fotos ia ser lindoā¦
@thecanine@twtxt.net Wow. Iām not an artist in any way, but I have tried to make icons for programs or fonts every now and then. Making something that is still recognizable at so few pixels is hard. Hats off!
@movq@www.uninformativ.de wut da fuq?! š¤Æ
@thecanine@twtxt.net Haha I thought myself there might ahve been too many pixels on the tail, but Iām no expert in this field 𤣠Itās still a nice canine though! š
@prologic@twtxt.net Thatās fair, this version really is a stretch. Similar to old Atari game spirites, a lot is left to interpretation,especially by those who have not seen any of the more detailed ones, before.
On the other hand, some suggested Iām still wasting too many pixels on the tail, but removing those, makes it just a generic dog (at best), even to me.
@clima@clima SĆ£o Paulo
@thecanine@twtxt.net My daughter (who is pretty good already at art and only 10 :D) says this looks like a āblobā š¤£ I tried to explain to her that this is pixel art, but Iām not quite sure she has the same appreciation (yet) š
After around 3 years, I managed to make my āsmallest recognizable canineā, even smaller. So hereās the all new, smallest recognizable canine 2.0:
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Fucking hell!
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ucycling just rocks to hard!
@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha, I bet you could use it for a myriad of things! :-D
Please enjoy this horrible madness: https://userinyerface.com/game.html
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org ooooh! I wish I had that mallet here at work today. So many uses come to mind! š
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Very nice! I fully agree, I really like listening to him, too.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Well, now that is pretty impressive. Upcycling ftw.
@bender@twtxt.net There are all sorts of pallets. I made my wooden mallet from a heavy duty beech pallet a few years ago:
Oh yes, this guy is so cool. I think the next machines I need are a thickness planer and a big dust collector with at least hose 100mm diameter! :-)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org you have sent me down the rabbit hole now. That guy is a true wizard!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org thatās so cool! I had to do some research, as I thought all pallets were made using cheap pine wood (which is quite soft), but, boy, as I erring big time! Oak it is also used, which is hardwood, and quite durable.
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_YL1K1Qg
I could listen to him all day.
Thatās soooo amazing! A Pirate Treasure Chest Made Out Of A Pallet by Epic Upcycling: https://youtu.be/euqru1gVJoQ