🕝 Hi, the current time is about a half past two in the small hours 😴.

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Pretty good thanks! 😊 Went out last night to celebrate my birthday with my wife and my best mate and her wife. It was a lovely day/night out 👌 – How about you so far?

This was supposed to be a reply to @david@daiwei.me . It has been too long I forgot how to things properly 😅

HellOo Ol’friend, happy seeing you again! I hope life has been kind to you all this time 👋

Just some light Sunday afternoon entertainment: Printing from NetBSD on the dotmatrix printer by dumping data to /dev/ulpt0. The netbook doesn’t have a parallel port, so this must be done over USB. NetBSD.escp was created by a little custom ESC/P converter written in C. 🥳

https://movq.de/v/14b09c47a5/print-small.mp4

Video description:

Video begins with a view of the netbook’s screen: 3 windows are open, one of them showing the typical NetBSD logo to print, the other one shows the commands I ran in preparation:

magick /usr/X11R7/include/X11/pixmaps/NetBSD.xpm -depth 8 -alpha set /tmp/NetBSD.pam
./pam2escp /tmp/NetBSD.pam /tmp/NetBSD.escp

The other terminal shows a root shell with this command:

cat /tmp/NetBSD.escp >/dev/ulpt0

I hit Enter, the printer starts printing.

Camera pans to show the printer, an Oki ML 3390. Continuous paper. Once finished, I manually feed the paper a little bit to better show the result.

(If you turn up the volume enough, you can hear “Leaving” by “Chill Carrier” from 2008.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Rest assured, they will do it that way. It’s a stupid world. 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Jesus. 😂😂😂

Hahaha! https://werkzeugstore24.de/nitras-12-paar-handschuhe-driver-grau

„You will receive this item via freight delivery directly from the manufacturer.“

I imagine a forklift unloading a Euro pallet with 24 gloves tied down to.

Hoje a agenda está boa para a miudagem: primeiro Maker Faire Porto e depois arraial na Arca d’Água!

What do you call a duck that steals?

echo YSByb2JiZXIgZHVja3kK | base64 -d

@athanasia@twtxt.net The main problem is that I don’t front mbox.blue with my Edge infra that I front the rest of my infra with. So mbox.blue is kind of independent if that makes sense. It has nothing in front of it to protect anything. So I would just put a simple Caddy PoW at it’s reverse proxy and call it a day if that works for you? – I think I’ll make this per-box/per-user configurable too?

Also apologies. If you want to chat to me in more ~realtime, I’m more active on something we’re calling Parley – A truly decentralised federated IRC chat system. You have to spin up your own instance (ideally) or join someone else’s, but otherwise you use a normal IRCv3 capable client, but the entire “network” (so to speak) automatically forms a decentralized mesh.

Done

@athanasia@twtxt.net I actally have my own PoW that I can put in front of mbox.blue if you like. It works very similarly to Anubis. I do have to warn you however, I don’t really think these PoW techniques are very effective IMO. Also re Guestbook message, sure, one sec…

I’m trying to help a friend using #GoogleDocs and it looks like the enshitification mill destroyed the end-notes feature?

My friend’s document would benefit from the automatically numbered superscript links for Vancouver style references…

@prologic@twtxt.net @david@daiwei.me Maybe in a month or so when I have free mental capacity again, I might take a look. Happy IRCing!

Righto, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! What do you get if you put a duck in a cement mixer?

echo cXVhY2tzIGluIHRoZSBwYXZlbWVudAo= | base64 -d

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sehr hübsch! Ich habs nun auch geschafft, uff!

Alguém aqui anda entretido com #Godot?

O meu miúdo (8 anos) anda com vontade de fazer jogos e eu quero poder dar-lhe orientação para não ficar rapidamente frustrado. Mas não percebo muito da coisa e por isso preciso de aprender rápido.

Vídeos de YouTube não ajudaram grande coisa, ando à procura de:

• templates de jogos modificáveis
  
• documentação prática, idealmente em texto (estou cansado de vídeos)
  
• conselhos de quem já percorreu este caminho
  

Help!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Keep ’em coming! 🤣

Mit diesem Zauberspruch von https://mastodon.social/@islieb werde ich nun ins Wochenende zusammenbrechen. 🥳💀🫩 #FrakturFreitag

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@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Thanks, I told it my Factorio nerd mate. Some years ago, I also played it every now and then, but optimizing the last bits out of everything was never my cup of tea. Didn’t find it enjoyable. Happy building!

Trump suggests EU allowing Canada as associate member could be a ‘hostile act’ | Hacker News👈 Trump is a fucking idiot! 🤯 My god! 🤦‍♂️

👋 Calling all decentralised enthusiasts that still remembers and use IRC 😎

Please come join us in a new, truely, decentralised IRC-based chat experience by standing up your own Parley instance on your own domain (bring your own OIDC auth or use the built-in).

Pick your favourite IRCv3-compatible client (there’s heaps out there!).

And peer with either me james@mills.io or Admin -> Peers -> Add mills.io or @david@daiwei.me via david@ratha.us or simply ratha.us (in Admin -> Peers -> Add).

See you online! 🤞 #decentralised #irc #chat

que massa isso hein @melissawm@melissawm !!!

“The last mile of a long road: faster #NumPy in the browser”

https://notebook.link/blog/the-last-mile-faster-numpy/

#OpenBLASS #WASM #WebAssembly #Pyodide #Fortran #SciPy

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Then let’s continue. Who has webbed feet and fangs?

echo Q291bnQgRHVja3VsYQo= | base64 -d

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yes! That’s the good stuff. That’s why I’m here. Mmmmmhhhhhhhhh! 😃

Took advantage of the warm^Whot day yesterday. Should have worn shorts, though. The long trousers were very uncomfortable in this awfully humid heat. But the sunset was very nice.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-15-waldspaziergang/

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Wow, this is the very first time I ever come across YouTube Music. :-O

sobre esta história da IA demasiado perigosa etc e tal, importa recordar que é o guião de há anos

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction

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@thecanine@twtxt.net Haha, my brain first tricked me into thinking this dog is scratching behind its ear with its paw.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Since you liked this silly joke, what’s a duck’s favorite TV program to watch?

echo YSBkdWNrdW1lbnRhcnkK | base64 -d

Simplified logo doggo

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org lol!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de We just need to set up a very good telescope some roughly 50 million light years away from earth. %-S

Which side of a duck has the most feathers?

echo dGhlIG91dHNpZGUK | base64 -d

What a fucking shit show of a year. Jesus Fucking Christ. Gimme a break.

tenho ideia que foi algo que mudou desde que o rato deixou de ser a forma privilegiada de interagir com ecrãs, e dedos gordos exigem mais espaço

(também detesto)

@david@daiwei.me I just wanted some cheap USB disks to test with, nothing fancy LOL, serves me right 😂

And by design 😅

#chess #puzzle #lichess
https://lichess.org/training/gbnBa

I never thought I’d ever get scammed by an Amazon counterfeit product in my life 🤦‍♂️ I suppose with all the many 10’s of thousands of items sold there every day (and all the junk) I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later. I just tested a couple of USB Flash drives that were being sold as 512G, but were in fact only internally 8G, you write past the 8G and try to read those bytes back and you get a whole pile of zero’s back 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ahh, ohh! Thanks! :D

Both of these scenarios is mindboggling – imagine such a world:

Gastornis species were very large birds that were traditionally thought to have been predators of various smaller mammals, such as ancient, diminutive equids. However, several lines of evidence, including the lack of hooked claws (in known Gastornis footprints), studies of their beak structure and isotopic signatures of their bones, have caused scientists to now consider that these birds were probably herbivorous, feeding on tough plant material and seeds.

If they ever invent a time machine, I wanna go back to the Dinos. 🦕

a escrever sobre adblocking e DNS para a próxima edição da #garfada, esta vai valer a pena!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I had really hoped nobody asked this question since I forgot to take a photo of the plaque. In fact, I didn’t even look at it when I was in the museum! The ratite itself was just too fascinating. Fortunately, I was able to dig it up. It’s a Gastornis giganteus:

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 🥲

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What is that crazy large Dino Chicken in 23.jpg? :D

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m planning to have a look. Soon. I hope.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! Easy to read? Damn, I need to try harder. 🤪

Não tenho a manha/grana/energia pra fazer um PiHole e me pergunto se rolaria configurar #DNSoverHTTPS nos navegadores dos familiares pra bloquear anúncios… funciona isso?

Alguém tem indicação de um serviço grátis de boa que bloqueia anúncios? Tipo como escolher algo dessa lista aqui?

https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-available-servers

#fediajuda

The Veritassium guy is one more example that we can be smart in some things and stupid in others.

He can’t get himself to understand that self-driving cars are (IMHO?) a stupid car-centric idea wrong in so many levels, like the narrative that it can be better/safer than human drivers is bogus, and most importantly, we should be investing in improving public transit and making walkable/cyclable cities…

Now, the main point of this all is, it always makes me think, I’m stupid in so many dimensions I don’t even know! Why should I ever open my mouth?

Happy Programmer’s Day! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day

Ta, @david@daiwei.me! Most of them are just cider apples, too sour to eat. But they sure look tasty. :-)

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Oh, another classic! :-)

We are the woooorld
We are the childreeeen
We are the ones, who make a briiiiighter daaaay…

La, Laaa lalaaaa;
La, Laaa lalaaaa…

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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com you do not have to use Docker btw 🤗

Today’s short stroll into nature: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-12-waldspaziergang/ And we got a crazy sick sunset. Absolutely insane colors.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Thanks, mate! I’m glad you like them. Yeah, if we had more time to spare, I would have definitely gone back to the deep well to throw down a few coins or rocks. :-)

What was also extremely surprising to me: I’m heavily afraid of heights, but looking down this giant hole wasn’t a problem at all. Not a single bit. Neither with the light turned off nor on. I really don’t understand it. I should have absolutely shitted my pants. The only thing was that I was really, really holding onto my camera because I was afraid that I accidentally drop it into the well. But other than that, absolutely nothing. Very weird. But I take it.

When we arrived for the setup, the Düsseldorf youth group was dismantling their camp on the same spot that we had originally booked. But the camp site manager told us that we were the only group on the entire camp site, so we could select any spot, whatever we liked. That was really great, because originally we would have needed to transport all food 150-200 meters from the kitchen to our site. Hence, we just decided to set up in front of the kitchen. We still could just use the entire camp site for games, separate the heavy snorers from the rest, etc.

The only downside was that the sanitary facility was on the other end of the camp site. So, when taking a shower, going to the loo, washing the dishes, we had to always hike over the entire camp site. The kids and their leaders had to do their dishes themselves, this was a tent camp, not a hotel visit after all. Being a member of the kitchen team, we of course took advantage of the dishwashing machines, though. :-) In a traditional tent camp, the kitchen’s dishes are washed by the rotating dish/kitchen service. All children have to participate in that a few times.

On the second to last full day, some camp constructions were built. That spot was another ten minutes hike into the woods. Not sure why the that program wasn’t done right at the beginning but towards the end. That would have been a great playground throughout the camp.

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And here some photos of the crazy kitchen we had at our glamping trip. Of course, it was waaaaaaaaaaaaay oversize. It’s typically used to feed several hundred people, not just only 70ish. Although it was really fun to work in, cleaning the whole thing took an entire day. We completely underestimated this.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-07-willy-brandt-zeltlagerplatz-kueche1/

Something felt definitely wrong, I got up much earlier during the camp than when I have to work. Typically, I woke up beween 6 and 7 because I really had to go to the loo. There was almost always somebody already awake from the kitchen teammates or leaders. So, I always decided to not return to bed. When I was the very first one, I turned on the coffee machine and water kettle to the delight of the others and five minutes later, another person arrived at the kitchen. As a bonus, we sometimes got to enjoy the sunrises, like this one: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-07-morgensonne/

We visited the Jurassic Museum at the Willibalds Castle in Eichstätt. As always, taking photos indoors is almost impossible with the low lighting and reflexions everywhere. We had a great and entertaining tour guide walk us through for an hour. Afterwards, we explored two, three hours on our own.

One of my most favorite things was to pour water down the 80 meters deep well. It took something like 10-12 seconds before we heard the splash. But before that, we weren’t able to see the falling drops anymore. Crazy cool. :-)

The wind was blowing strong on the big tower. Hair were flowing horizontal. The museum had also small sections for the stone age, Romans & Celts as well as sea monkeys.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-05-juramuseum-auf-der-willibaldsburg-eichstaett/

Another great sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-02-abendhimmel/

Sunset on the first day the kids joined: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-08-31-abendhimmel/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Fuck yeah, that’s fucking cool!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This looks so beautiful and is easy to read (I often find it hard to decipher).

I’ve been away with the scouts in our district summer camp. The nearly two weeks were absolutely amazing, mentally a great vacation. On the other hand, physically not so much. But I’ve still got Monday to recover from my holiday. :-)

Here’s a sunset from the setup before the kids arrived the next day: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-08-30-abendhimmel/

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Then by all means, follow the instructions at https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley and setup your own instance on your own domain. It’s partly inspired by Twtxt/Yarn.social and Salty.im – in at least the way teh DNS discovery and WKID works. Once your instance is up and running and you’ve gone through the /setup and created yourself an account (or seti it up with an appropraite ODIC IDP) try something like /msg james@mills.io Hey! at which point you should automatically start peering with my instance. You should then be able to /join #lobby1 (a globally federated channel already across 2 instances so far). 🤞

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Not really no 🤣 Did you want to join us and setup your own instance and join the growing aprty? It’s turning out to be quie neat actually 😅

# Guto Lacaz e Flavio Motta - Carimbos

Curadoria de Gloria Motta e
Paula Motta, texto crítico de Nina Lacaz

De 12/09/26 até 15/10/26
Abertura dia 12/09, Sábado, das 11h às 17h

Local: Galeria MaPa - Rua Costa, 31 - São Paulo
(travessa da rua Bela Cintra, sentido Higienópolis)

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# Guto Lacaz e Flavio Motta - Carimbos

Curadoria de Gloria Motta e
Paula Motta
texto crítico de Nina Lacaz
Local: Galeria MaPa
Rua Costa, 31 - galeria
(travessa da rua Bela Cintra,
sentido Higienópolis)
estacionamento na rua Bela Cintra, 341
Abertura dia 12/09, Sábado, das 11h às 17h
de 12/09/26 até 15/10/26

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#manjaro pamac or pacman?

(only wrong answers please 🤡 )

I have (finally) built a fully e2e working purely decentralised and federated IRC-compatible chat server. It is currently a PoC, but it’s already working quite well. It’s inspired partly by the work we did with Salty Chat in terms of Discovery and Federation. Some screenshots of a normal IRC client irssi showing off how it works in a local e2e setup:

For the curious, this is fully documented with roleplay Alice/Bob. I was going to test this with @david@daiwei.me but we both got busy, but now I’m on holidays from work for a month so 🤷‍♂️ 🤣

Does anyone have time this weekend to manually test and validate and prove out this spec I’m calling Gitxt? A Twtxt-inspired purely decentralised Git federation/forge? 🤔 Hit me up! You need only git, curl and a web server of some kind.

@david@daiwei.me Oh I did 😅

“If you only pay attention to how things work, you’ll be screwed when they fail” – Cory Doctorow

Um relato dos meus sentimentos misturados a respeito do #Manjaro e minha simultânea incompetência e competência:

Nas últimas semanas andei “bootando de um snapshot” no meu micro do dia a dia, e hoje finalmente quebrou tudo e não bootava mais. Aí, tome de bootar de um pendrive, e acessar anotações que eu tenho pra fazer o chroot… acho tudo muito difícil pq tenho que decriptar o hd, e montar partições diversas, não manjo exatamente o que estou fazendo, sigo a receita anotada, muitos passos.
Em seguida, reinstalei kernels com pamac -S linuxXX e mhwd-kernel, reinstalar o grub, e usei o mkinitcpio -P pra recriar as “imagens” dos kernels pro boot. Não sei o que resolveu exatamente o problema (tinha tentado esse mkinitcpio -P faz algumas semanas, sem ser bootando do pendrive, e não tinha funcionado)
De um lado sou grato por ter conseguido fazer as coisas funcionarem, grato pelo esforço de muitas pessoas voluntárias fazendo o Manjaro ser teoricamente “mais fácil” pra algumas pessoas, por outro lado acho tudo muito difícil e não consigo imaginar outras pessoas do meu convívio fazendo essas coisas, nem eu consigo entender o que estou fazendo!
Será que não teria como ser mais fácil? Será que um dia vou achar fácil?

“If you only pay attention to how things work, you’ll be screwed when they fail” – Cory Doctorow

Um relato dos meus sentimentos misturados a respeito do #Manjaro e minha simultânea incompetência e competência:

Nas últimas semanas andei “bootando de um snapshot” no meu micro do dia a dia, e hoje finalmente quebrou tudo e bootava mais. Aí, tome de bootar de um pendrive, e acessar anotações que eu tenho pra fazer o chroot… acho tudo muito difícil pq tenho que decriptar o hd, e montar partições diversas, não manjo exatamente o que estou fazendo, sigo a receita anotada, muitos passos.
Em seguida, reinstalei kernels com pamac -S linuxXX e mhwd-kernel, reinstalar o grub, e usei o mkinitcpio -P pra recriar as “imagens” dos kernels pro boot. Não sei o que resolveu exatamente o problema (tinha tentado esse mkinitcpio -P faz algumas semanas, sem ser bootando do pendrive, e não tinha funcionado)
De um lado sou grato por ter conseguido fazer as coisas funcionarem, grato pelo esforço de muitas pessoas voluntárias fazendo o Manjaro ser teoricamente “mais fácil” pra algumas pessoas, por outro lado acho tudo muito difícil e não consigo imaginar outras pessoas do meu convívio fazendo essas coisas, nem eu consigo entender o que estou fazendo!
Será que não teria como ser mais fácil? Será que um dia vou achar fácil?

“If you only pay attention to how things work, you’ll be screwed when they fail” – Cory Doctorow

Um relato dos meus sentimentos muito misturados a respeito do #Manjaro e minha simultânea incompetência e competência:

Nas últimas semanas tava tendo que “bootar de um snapshot” no meu micro do dia a dia, hoje finalmente quebrou tudo e não conseguia mais bootar. Aí, tome de bootar de um pendrive, e acessar umas anotações que eu tenho pra fazer o chroot… acho tudo muito difícil pq tenho que decriptar o hd, e montar partições diversas, não manjo exatamente o que estou fazendo, sigo a receita anotada, muitos passos.
Em seguida, reinstalar kernels com pamac -S linuxXX e mhwd-kernel, reinstalar o grub, e usar o mkinitcpio -P pra recriar as “imagens” dos kernels usadas no boot. Não sei o que resolveu exatamente o problema (tinha tentado esse mkinitcpio -P faz algumas semanas, sem ser bootando do pendrive, e não tinha funcionado)
De um lado sou grato por ter conseguido fazer as coisas funcionarem, grato pelo esforço de muitas pessoas voluntárias fazendo o Manjaro ser teoricamente “mais fácil” pra algumas pessoas, por outro lado acho tudo muito difícil e não consigo imaginar outras pessoas do meu convívio fazendo essas coisas, nem eu consigo entender o que estou fazendo!
Será que não teria como ser mais fácil?

@prologic@twtxt.net Must say I do kinda like the rounded design, passport screen ratio, the inner screen textured finish and the promised pencil support, making this a pocketable drawing tablet.

Obviously wouldn’t buy it, or any other foldable device, with these fragile plastic displays, lack of a headphone jack and thanks to iOS also too many software compromises.

Since earlier this year, I main a TCL phone, I got during a sale event, for under $150 and it really has pretty alright specs: 8GB RAM, recently updated to Android 16, 90Hz refresh rate, even the headphone jack, …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s becoming a bit ludicrous to be frankly honest. I’m not sure I can continue to justify these kinds of prices. But at the same time, I’ll probably stick with Apple regardless, even if I hate their exorbitant prices, and just buy their low-end stuff 🤦‍♂️ It is fucking crazy when you consider what these things are actually made for over in China or wherever they’re manufactured.

@prologic@twtxt.net Is simply not buying it an option? Or is there too much social pressure?

I am not fucking paying ~3.5 grand for a fucking phone, geez christ, kill me now 🤦‍♂️

Oh no, sorry I was wrong! That was the fucking US price 🤣

This is the Australian (AUD) price:

From A$3,499.00 or A$145.79/mo.

Fuck me dead 😵

iPhone Duo - Apple Sorry Apple™, I’m really finding it quite hard to justify spending thousands of dollar on your products!

From $1999 or $83.29/mo. for 24 mo.*

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ When it was just me and my wife, maybe, fine, okay. But now I have two young children that also want the same shit™ as we do. This starts becoming a nearly ~$8k expensve just for some fucking whoop-ti-do-da foldable iPhone with a bigger screen.

Who cares? 🤔 I want my ~A$800 iPhone back that fits in my hand. #Apple #Rants #Expensive #Crap

Premature #FrakturFreitag. Had to practice the letter “F” and try a few variations.

😐

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