🕞 Hi, the current time is about a half past three in the afternoon 🌅.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Suddenly makes David versus Goliath much more believable.

Just a very regular sunset, nothing special: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-22-abendhimmel/

@david@daiwei.me Hmmmm²

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It’s a sunn o)))-y day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKuJPsJuSHg&list=OLAK5uy_lwyneWbkUCZaVrHI4IDSaOhD3qSWrCxpw

#NowPlaying

That’s using twtxt.app.

So, this is happening:

And this:

e o último do Machinedrum hein, vou estar com isto em loop até novembro, beats do futuro

https://machinedrum.bandcamp.com/album/bl00ms

Dizer “humanos” em vez de “pessoas” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com He’s asleep by now 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org unfortunately, you’ve guessed right.

@david@daiwei.me Are you still getting the 403 thing?

Redes sociais controladas por fascistas dá nisso :(

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval

The shutters weren’t closed yet, so I noticed some nice color reflections outside. I checked the other cardinal direction and lo and behold: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-21-abendhimmel/ Just in time. Contrary to what I first thought, I hadn’t missed the best part yet. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is unexpected indeed. There was a slingshot involved in the last book I read and that sounded much less terrifying. 😅

@shinyoukai@twtxt.net Sounds promising. 🤔 I’ll check it out!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Let me guess, thirty parties and one worse than the other? All the best of luck to you!

Aha, @david@daiwei.me was revealed to be hammering against @aelaraji@aelaraji.com’s door! :-D

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Haha 🤣 I’ve found the only effective defense is to make the request(s) cost you nothing or very little. Trying to defeat all this en-mass scraping/crawling and defective bots is such a PITA 🤦‍♂️

~3 Days till elections… and the campaigns have been nothing but a Shi* Show.

P.S: We’ve got +30 Political Parties BTW.

@david@daiwei.me sorry you got caught in my 403 mess. My tiny tin box is being hammered at by some BS AI bot for a ~week now, so I might have gone a bit too defensive with my WAF & Co. 🤭 I’ll investigate in the morning.

Works here too

@david@daiwei.me @movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup, no issues. Only @bmallred@staystrong.run’s feed is broken for me for some time.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Heard them in a video. Here’s the last one: What did the duck detective say to his partner?

echo SSBob3BlIHdlIHF1YWNrIHRoaXMgY2FzZS4K | base64 -d

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah, I see. I should start working from my bed. ;-)

Never tried Gentoo. Maybe something to look into.

“How I animate #3Blue1Brown | A #Manim demo with Ben Sparks”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbu7Zu5X1zI

“motivated explanation”

#3Blue1Brown & #PolyaMath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbwv5wHQoj0

@david@daiwei.me Works for me. 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Bwahahaha, brilliant! :-D

Fuck me dead, I never expected a slingshot to be this powerful. :-O Absolutely cool. :-)

https://youtu.be/XTc8NxP7Yl0

(Wahahah, what an absurd conversation if you don’t know the context. 🤣)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hell no, I won’t feed you my hair!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, the partition stuff with disklabels is what I’m absolutely not used to. I need to invest more time learning this. Not just using it, but how and where is it represented on disk and all that.

I carry my notebook/netbook around a lot. 😅 Watching movies in bed, for example.

I think I’ll stick with NetBSD for a while. It works surprisingly well, it’s new stuff to explore, it’s fast, and then there’s this:

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900

Gentoo (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy) might be another idea, but I’m afraid that the little netbook might be too slow for that? Or are there binary packages? No idea, it’s been ages since I touched this distro.

(Regarding Linux in general … we all know what Linus said. I’m not sure where this project is heading.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Where do all these come from?! 😂

Oh, I’d love to build a shed with you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Cool shit! I also just read your report on installing NetBSD. What a journey. So, you still need to know what you’re doing. But if you make it foolproof, the world invents a new idiot. :-)

I also use an ethernet cable everywhere. It’s just what I’m used to for decades and I don’t carry around my laptop in the house anyway. It stays on the desk.

So, next up FreeBSD? ;-)

What’s a duck’s other favorite TV program?

echo dGhlIGZlYXRoZXIgZm9yZWNhc3QK | base64 -d

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Maybe, yeah. I will not try to find out. :-D

@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 🤗