Catastrophic #HackMD failure today :(

I use it when teaching most of my classes, they had some outage today, https://status.hackmd.io says they are back up but… all my notes are marked ā€œofflineā€ and I can’t edit them! I need them for my classes!
I usually edit them together with the participants during class, we all share code and image results.
(I’m happy to have backed up locally most of my notes, but still… I’m very upset as I have many ongoing classes)

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In-reply-to » (#qmi37rq) @lyse those are pretty cool! The one change I would recommend doing pronto is the colour of the hyperlinks. Ay, ay, ay, my retina! :-P

@quark@ferengi.one Ta. Hmm, what’s wrong with the blue text color? Is it too dark on the black background for you? :-?

Normal links are blue while images are teal. I thought I differentiate the two if I easily can. The underline of URLs comes from my terminal and is not tt’s fault.

Configuring colors is in the todo list. But of course, providing a sane default is definitely something I’d like to have.

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In-reply-to » I swear that I have muted all the cat's feeds already. Yet, a new(?) one popped up.

@prologic@twtxt.net will do. No worries, not a show stopper. I will suggest that the muted numbered list not be sorted, but latest muted first. That way we have a better idea. Maybe adding timestamps to those too? Just a thought.

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In-reply-to » I swear that I have muted all the cat's feeds already. Yet, a new(?) one popped up.

@bender@twtxt.net remind me to look into this a bit later because I’m starting to suspect there’s a weird behavior in the system 🧐

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Nothing makes you feel better than mowing a wet lawn, while rain falls, under 33°C temperature, with 80% humidity. I loved every step I took!

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Of Pointlessware and CEOs
Had a moment, to check up on some of the companies, I stopped following, get to The Browser Company and see their newest product - it’s just Chrome, with an AI chat window pop-up and that’s it. Something Canary Chrome, come with already.
I see Theo from T3.gg, making fun of it on YouTube and promoting ā€œhisā€ product - an AI chat app, where you can choose from multiple models, by all the popular AI companies. Something I already have a worse version of, at work and I don’t even use it.
There’s also an interview, about the future of virtual keyboards, surely this is at least actually a real thing and not more pointless horse shit. I check the website of the keyboard SDK, and it’s around 20 identical apps, that just copy the same keyboard SDK/api and slap chatgpt features on top - in the App Store, these are surrounded by chatgpt clones, that just feed the users prompts, into the real thing and put ads, next to the answers.

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In-reply-to » Once again, I went on a hike onto my backyard mountain after calling it quits very late. This time I brought my cam along. The view was extremely hazy, but the setting sunlight resulted in cool colors. The freshly cut grass smelled wonderful.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Looks pretty nice! Enjoy the mild temperatures while you can. šŸ˜…

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In-reply-to » (#yvoqgza) 2024 was okay for me, but 2025 is gonna be real shit. šŸ˜‚ So much annoying stuff coming up. Gotta enjoy the moment, who knows how long it will last. šŸ˜…

@bender@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Sorry this was my fault 🤦 For whatever reason my pod had never seen that particular Twt from @movq@www.uninformativ.de – And… There’s a bit of a ā€œbehavioralā€ problem with the Trusted Peers functionality that means operators have to periodically re-trust peers manually 😭 Need to rework this šŸ¤ž

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In-reply-to » been a while! i've been using my laptop more to kind of change my workflow, but without my browser bookmarks to remind me to check some sites, i've forgotten to check yarnverse! forgive me friends T_T

@bender@twtxt.net i’ve been trying to lock in!! it’s so hard but i really gotta relearn how to focus and just zero-in on what i need to do. ADHD kicking my ass but i’m fighting it!!

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Once again, I went on a hike onto my backyard mountain after calling it quits very late. This time I brought my cam along. The view was extremely hazy, but the setting sunlight resulted in cool colors. The freshly cut grass smelled wonderful.

I saw a flock of pidgeons circling around and some sort of rat or mouse quickly running over the road in front of me from one field into the next one with a giant nut in its mouth. Or so I at least believe, couldn’t really tell, it happened so fast.

A couple enjoyed the setting sun on a bench and stripped their shoes on this warm evening. Somebody forget their bottle of water on the summit, but it looked rather cool in the evening light:

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Not sure what they’re doing, but they now set up scaffolding at the ruin. I heavily doubt it, but it would be cool if they rebuilt the castle. :-)

On the way back I met up with a mate who couldn’t come along right from the beginning. We saw two deer on the meadow, but it was already too dark for my camera, the photos were totally rubbish. The sunset turned really pretty and colorful just in time when I reached home. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-06-10/

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In-reply-to » (#yvoqgza) 2024 was okay for me, but 2025 is gonna be real shit. šŸ˜‚ So much annoying stuff coming up. Gotta enjoy the moment, who knows how long it will last. šŸ˜…

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I saw the original fine, but your reply (and mine!) show disconnected here. Hmm, ā€œthe plot thickens!ā€ :-D Thanks!

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In-reply-to » been a while! i've been using my laptop more to kind of change my workflow, but without my browser bookmarks to remind me to check some sites, i've forgotten to check yarnverse! forgive me friends T_T

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz toally forgiven, and welcome back! :-) What’s new? Tell us all about it!

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In-reply-to » (#yvoqgza) 2024 was okay for me, but 2025 is gonna be real shit. šŸ˜‚ So much annoying stuff coming up. Gotta enjoy the moment, who knows how long it will last. šŸ˜…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de you have no idea what a soul sucking, heartbreaking SOB 2025 turned out to be. I wish you the best of luck with whatever annoyances life might have thrown your way. Power to you, my friend.

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been a while! i’ve been using my laptop more to kind of change my workflow, but without my browser bookmarks to remind me to check some sites, i’ve forgotten to check yarnverse! forgive me friends T_T

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Hi, dear people on #WIndows, can you check form me if on #ThonnyIDE you can do !jupyter lab on the interactive console down on Thonny’s window? It works on Linux! (you have to have #JupyterLab installed)

I can check this tomorrow but I was surprised… (I was trying %run a few months ago and it didn’t work) now I hope I can try #py5’s live coding feature launching it from Thonny like this also…

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I’m too lazy to check this myself this Sunday, so I’ll just ask…

how much of a performance penalty is paid if someone adds #Python imports statements inside a helper function body so it can be just copied and pasted around?

I guess the optimal thing would be to add the imports at the top of a module with the helpers so they occur only once when one imports the function, instead of being evaluated each time the function is called, but, in the context of didactic examples it is handy for the learner to have the helper function together with the example… but then I could move the imports to the top… but then I’m lazy, and… so many decisions…

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In-reply-to » Speaking of fantastic and inspiring things, Epic Upcycling makes a wonderful desk from pallet wood and scrap metal: https://youtu.be/hY1-5PtJPo8 So relaxing to watch. I wanna make one so bad, too. I guess I start with the plane rack, though.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice! The final desk looks like it’s right out of Skyrim. 😃

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In-reply-to » (#ehxka6q) @lyse Oooooh, never seen that before. 😲 Either white-balance doing funny stuff or unusual ā€œfilteringā€ through those clouds. šŸ¤”

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Very rarely does it happen. Yup, the clouds are to praise for today’s spectacle. Surpringly, the pink is fairly close to how it actually looked in person. I was pleased to see that. The neon orange in front of the grayish sky was way cooler, though. I wish I could close the aperture on my camera in the hope of capturing the insane color. Oh well.

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In-reply-to » Woooaaah, the sun just was a crazy orange disk in the sky. Looked super amazing. Unfortunately, on the photo it was just white. But then it turned pink when it reappeared below the clouds: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-06-07/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oooooh, never seen that before. 😲 Either white-balance doing funny stuff or unusual ā€œfilteringā€ through those clouds. šŸ¤”

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In-reply-to » Ha, I just learned that deleting text in my zsh with Ctrl+U to the front or Ctrl+K to the end puts it in a buffer that can be pasted by pressing Ctrl+Y! That's neat. Even removing the last word with Ctrl+W moves it into this paste buffer.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ctrl-U in Vim does something similar (ā€œDelete all entered characters before the cursor in the current lineā€), but it does not put them into the ā€œclipboardā€. I sometimes hit Ctrl-U by accident and then my text is gone. šŸ˜”šŸ˜‚

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A bill from our ISP in 1998.

We’re talking about a month here, 1998-07-27 to 1998-08-26.

Basic fee: 7.50 DM (about 6€ today).

Online time: 516 minutes, 23.53 DM (about 20€ today).

That’s just the ISP costs, if I’m not mistaken. The underlying phone calls were pretty pricey as well.

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In-reply-to » (#yvoqgza) 2024 was okay for me, but 2025 is gonna be real shit. šŸ˜‚ So much annoying stuff coming up. Gotta enjoy the moment, who knows how long it will last. šŸ˜…

Just as a little courtesy call (is that the right term?): 2025 continues to be annoying and exhausting, and I won’t really have the energy to work on twtxt/Yarn or texudus. Other than the occasional retrocomputing thingy (which gives a nice boost of nostalgia), I’m not doing much of anything lately.

cc @prologic@twtxt.net @andros@twtxt.andros.dev

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Would you like to get started learning #Python? Or maybe you already know how to code but would like to see something completely different from your current work?

Would it appeal to you to start #drawing stuff, maybe colourful moving, interactive stuff? There is this thing called #CreativeCoding, and you can use a library called #py5

I’ve written some step-by-step instructions so you can install everything you need, Python, a code editor and py5. Check it out at https://abav.lugaralgum.com/como-instalar-py5/index-EN.html

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We went up our local backyard mountain and boy is it humid. The view after the rain is fairly good, but I’m totally soaked. No photos, I’m too exhausted for that.

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Continuo fazendo material didƔtico aberto sobre #Python e desenho (com #py5):

https://abav.lugaralgum.com/material-aulas/

E esta ferramenta de quebra-cabeƧas didƔticos tambƩm:
https://abav.lugaralgum.com/faded-parsons-visual/

Mas as coisas estão realmente apertadas, se alguém quiser umas aulas particulares de programação criativa, me escrevam, ou, se puderem, façam pequenas doações (tem informações sobre como colaborar em https://abav.lugaralgum.com/material-aulas/#como-colaborar-e-contribuir e nas minhas postagens do aketch-a-day)

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In-reply-to » Sooo many new spam feeds to mute in the twtxt.net discovery view. :-( The RSS/Atom to Twtxt feed bridge was a mistake, I believe. I guess I just have to abandon that altogether and rely on my subscriptions to interact with new feeds in order to discover legitimate new ones. Not sure if that works, sounds like a chicken-'n'-egg problem.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Where do they come from, anyway? Are they somehow auto-discovered or is this a curated list?

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In-reply-to » hacking jetbrains mono to include CJK characters from a noto font for stupid purposes (i listen to asian music and my conky sidebar has a lastfm widget so sometimes it shows asian text and jetbrains doesn't render those. so i am frankensteining my way into making it do that)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh it wouldn’t be very long, maybe that’d make for a fun blog post! i just used the same tool that the nerd font people use to add glyphs, but for a ā€œcustom glyph setā€ i just added. the whole noto font LMAO

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In-reply-to » hacking jetbrains mono to include CJK characters from a noto font for stupid purposes (i listen to asian music and my conky sidebar has a lastfm widget so sometimes it shows asian text and jetbrains doesn't render those. so i am frankensteining my way into making it do that)

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz That sounds fun! I’m happy to read an article on how you did that. :-)

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In-reply-to » Sooo many new spam feeds to mute in the twtxt.net discovery view. :-( The RSS/Atom to Twtxt feed bridge was a mistake, I believe. I guess I just have to abandon that altogether and rely on my subscriptions to interact with new feeds in order to discover legitimate new ones. Not sure if that works, sounds like a chicken-'n'-egg problem.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I am so tempted to agree with you on this one. There has to be a way to manage that without having to mute the bejesus out of them.

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hacking jetbrains mono to include CJK characters from a noto font for stupid purposes (i listen to asian music and my conky sidebar has a lastfm widget so sometimes it shows asian text and jetbrains doesn’t render those. so i am frankensteining my way into making it do that)

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