went out with my family today, brought my camcorder, resulted in a little vlog :) https://memoria.sayitditto.net/view?m=SjbDq15bL

@prologic@twtxt.net Looks like I’m hitting this now when reloading my subscriptions:

$ grep twtxt.net .config/twtxt/config | wc -l
26

… aaaaaaand I had the first bug in my toy OS that was caused by caching. 😂 Bloody caching. (It only triggered in error conditions, but still.)

@prologic@twtxt.net you are documenting everything, right? I am very interested in a HOWTO! ☺️

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Yeah, Java itself is somewhat “controversial”, I guess. 😅 But I’ve always found their documentation to be very pleasent to work with, at least that of the standard library.

Ontem pusemos a tocar uma música do Pavarotti, e agora a miúda (quase 2anos) anda a pedir a “canção do paparoti” e está a ser difícil lidar :i_cant:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de woah it’s like a cheatsheet with explanations! java is kind of arcane magic sorcery to me so i’m having trouble understanding it but i have that with most programming languages. this is like so much easier to actually look at and read instead of my eyes glazing over lol

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Sorry I missed your messages to #twtxt on IRC. There are people there, but it can take several hours to get a response. E.g. I check it every day or two. I recommend using an IRC bouncer. To answer your question about registries, I used a couple of registries when I first started out, to try to find feeds to follow, but haven’t since then. I don’t remember which ones, but they were easy to find with web searches.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Okay, horrible cookie popup aside, would you say this is easier to read? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/List.html#method.summary 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net YEAH it’s so cool!!! i was thinking about trying it as sorta practice for golang lol

the windows CSS frameworks are sooo epic like you mean i can click a win aero button in my browser?!?! WITCHCRAFT!

morning yarn friends i’ve been playing with astro the SSG and it’s a blast i see why my friends love it and rec it to everyone. i may think javascript was a mistake but this is super cool

@prologic@twtxt.net that’s iconic af though like i should do the same bc i hate cloudflare that much i just refuse to use them

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh nah it came out like that lol! i actually love how squished it looks it feels accurate lol

oh yeah i think i might have a tripod around but i do need a sandbag or something i could use as one. maybe yeah a giant bag of rice could work LOL. thanks for the tips!!! i took a video class last year in college and we worked with cameras and tripods with sandbags so it was on my mind

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org yeah! as long as it’s fun :D experimenting with it like picking up the camera every once in a while to point somewhere else, or in editing inserting more video in between the static angles, that could be fun!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de this is why people like me can’t code this is boring eyes glazing over kinda stuff lol

C’est drôle comme j’ai plein de choses d’un seul coup hyper intéressantes à faire, comme changer le thème du curseur de ma souris ou tester un nouveau thème GTK. Pile quand j’ai des tas de bulletins semestriels à compléter. Bizarre 👼

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, robots.txt or ai.txt are not worth the effort. I have them, but they get ignored. Just now, I saw a stupid AI bot hitting one of my blog posts like crazy. Not just once, but hundreds of times, over and over. 🤦🙄

For some reason, I was using calc all this time. I mean, it’s good, but I need to do base conversions (dec, hex, bin) very often and you have to type base(2) or base(16) in calc to do that. That’s exhausting after a while.

So I now replaced calc with a little Python script which always prints the results in dec/hex/bin, grouped in bytes (if the result is an integer). That’s what I need. It’s basically just a loop around Python’s exec().

$ mcalc 
> 123
         123        0x[7b]    0b[01111011]

> 1234
        1234        0x[04 d2]    0b[00000100 11010010]

> 0x7C00 + 0x3F + 512
       32319        0x[7e 3f]    0b[01111110 00111111]

> a = 10; b = 0x2b; c = 0b1100101
          10        0x[0a]    0b[00001010]

> a + b + 3 * c
         356        0x[01 64]    0b[00000001 01100100]

> 2**32 - 1
  4294967295        0x[ff ff ff ff]    0b[11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111]

> 4 * atan(1)
3.141592653589793

> cos(pi)
-1.0

Did you have disallow rule in robots.txt? (I think not because can google several twtxt.net posts)

@prologic@twtxt.net You might (not) enjoy this blog post: https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

The fact that the official Python docs don’t clearly state what a function returns, grinds my gears. This has cost me so much time over the years. You always have to read through a huge block of text.

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You could at least put a list of possible return values in there (always at the same location, please!), here’s a mockup:

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@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, that’s not a photo, it’s a screenshot of Stellarium. I never managed to take actual photos of the sun in those two positions, I keep forgetting about it. 🥴

Moon and Venus were pretty close yesterday, but the photos didn’t turn out to be very good:

https://movq.de/v/b499494456/

(And Saturn was still faaaaar away.)

Noon in summer:

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And noon in winter:

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The difference never fails to make me go “whoa”. 😅

This evening, Saturn will show up right next to a crescent moon:

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Let’s see if I can catch that in a photo.

@eapl.me@eapl.me That’s a nice quote. I like it.

@prologic@twtxt.net Nah, it’s really not necessary from my point of view. There’s not enough math here that would justify it. In the spirit of simplicity, I’d leave it off. O:-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The rabbit hole deepens. :-D

@eapl.me@eapl.me

Let’s work towards the future we want, not against the future we don’t want.

That would be nice.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Static angles for too long get indeed a bit boring to watch in my opinion, but just experiment with it. What’s the worst that could happen? Wasted disk space or people increase playback speed to time lapse or fast-forward. Hence, not a huge issue. Even if only you had fun recording it and learned something along the way, it’s already a win. Everything else is a bonus on top.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks. 😅

The good thing is, I wouldn’t have to write an Ethernet driver, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Line_Internet_Protocol is a thing, but TCP/IP? Not sure if I want to do that. 😂 I could, of course, come up with my own thing …

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Yiha! I reckon the video is a bit squished together on the horizontal axis. Maybe your video site messed something up in postprocessing? No idea. Anyway, you’re already better at guitar than I ever was.

If you don’t wanna buy a tripod, you could make yourself a makeshift one with some sort of a sandbag, cherry pit pillow or an old, cut off and sewn shut trouser leg section filled with rice, lentils, etc. This gives you a shapeable surface where you can simply rest the camcorder on. It allows for some limited vertical up and down pitch. Obviously, that won’t work for extreme angles, but might be just enough for your application of recording at your desk. You just have to watch out for the side to side roll, this could otherwise lead to a slanted sailboat video. ;-)

Yes, ik. But i can’t use this api without yarn.social (feed is just file)

Want this API for Goryon or just Goryon with support to just twtxt.txt. I can’t read timeline without visible replies and missing twts

dagum those are huge images.

@prologic@twtxt.net currently playing with:

NAME                 ID              SIZE      MODIFIED           
qwen2.5-coder:32b    4bd6cbf2d094    19 GB     About a minute ago 
qwq:latest           46407beda5c0    19 GB     10 minutes ago     
codestral:latest     0898a8b286d5    12 GB     14 minutes ago     
codellama:34b        685be00e1532    19 GB     17 minutes ago     
gemma2:27b           53261bc9c192    15 GB     29 minutes ago     
phi3:14b             cf611a26b048    7.9 GB    23 hours ago       

Which run really well on a regular (non-pro) M4.

@prologic@twtxt.net oooh gonna have to look into this, doubt most of my sites need it but i’m thinking one or two could use it

@prologic@twtxt.net good evening, future man! 😂😂😂

If you want a problem solved, you give it to someone as a project. If you don’t want a problem to be solved, you give it to someone as a job

Why you shouldn’t build your career around existential risk
https://guzey.com/existential-risk/

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz here it is :) https://memoria.sayitditto.net/view?m=UyMOOoiOy

i recorded my first camcorder video!!!! it’s just me practicing guitar after sooo long of not playing it. my acoustic, to be specific (well, it’s an electric acoustic thing but i can play it without plugging it in lol, i do have a stratocaster though). it’s capped at ~30 minutes because i used one mini DVD for it and decided i wasn’t gonna use another one to extend the run time. so yeah. it was super fun! i hope i can share it soon, i’m ripping the disc with make MKV right now, then i’ll re-encode to a web friendly format, and upload to my site and hope that works well

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it’d be a blast to record too with my camcorder! i’d have to figure out positioning and stuff like you said but i could probably figure something out with a bit of testing :P yeah it probably does make the project itself longer than it should be but i feel like if you make it a cozy kinda “sew with me” video where people watch you sew and film it with a static angle instead of like, showing every step? i think that’d be nice even if a bit boring. so i could absolutely try that.

magnetic tape camcorders omg!!! mine is digital but i’d LOVE to get a tape camcorder

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I’m an absolute sucker for all sorts of crafts videos, mostly wood and metal working, but also leather and construction. So obviously, your Tux sewing project would make a good video in my opinion. :-D (But I fear it would require way more work than just talking into the camera. Think of camera setup time with framing and focusing, repositioning a couple of times, editing, yada, yada, yada. I documented wood working build processes in my shop in the past and it made the projects take easily ten times as long, if not more. So, I stopped doing that.)

As kids we recorded some action films on magnetic tape camcorders. That was also great fun.

Couldn’t find anybody to join me this arvo, so I went alone. Only in the forest I began to see real snow. And then of course with each meter of elevation gain. I reckon there were 5-6 cm at the summit, so there is still room for improvement. The weather was absolutely stunning, a sunny blue sky alternating with clouds, most of my hike hardly any wind and 1°C. Climbing the mountain was a different story, the wind hit me hard.

I just love the wind-brushed formations of ice on the twigs and branches. They look soooo incredibly cool. It was kinda hard to capture them on film with the wind pushing everything around.

On the way down I took the narrow and currently fairly slippery path that was closed for some weeks due to felling activity. It looks so different with heaps of trees on the ground now. They’ve also sawn down the tree with the small hole near the ground (which I think I’ve shown a few times in the past). The beech in 52 to 54 was probably hit by lightning a few months ago. At least it’s completely charred.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-01-03/

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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @movq@www.uninformativ.de Right!? :-) (In retrospect, must be later than elementary school, but still at least a decade old.)

Haaa! It was only now that I realized that gentoo is indeed a penguin species, I never knew that. Nice! I was always under the impression that the Gentoo distribution was simply named after an invented word. Well, I was so wrong. Thanks for teaching me. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I never used DOS or OS/2, but I fully agree with you. A Unix shell with its tool landscape is hard to beat (photo/video viewing/editing aside).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s so damn cool mate! I went through the code, but this lowlevel stuff is really not my favorite cup of tea. Having said that, it was actually really nice to see the abstractions and APIs work together and how things are getting indeed very readable in the userland programs. That’s easy to track in this extremely tiny OS implementation. Excellent work, keep on hacking!

Now, you just have to quickly add a network stack and then can write a twtxt client for it! ]:->

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s neat, good old $\sum_{i=1}^{9} i^3$ (let’s see if yarnd’s markdown parser has LaTeX support or not ;-)).

@bender@twtxt.net aw thank you so much!!! rambling is the best… just gotta keep on going about what we love and somehow people like it lol!

@bender@twtxt.net wow almost 6am damn!!! yeah i’m EST too :)

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz hey, hey! Looks like we are on the same time zone (EST). I have been awake since 05:50ish.

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I saw some of your videos, and I can say you do do well at keeping the flow. Rambling is what most of podcasters do. Heck, even professional news casters! That’s to say, we are all used, and kind of expect it. ☺️

need to come up with ideas for camcorder videos… i have one but it’s just ‘talk in front of camera about fave songs i listened to in 2024’ and i wanna do more fun things even though rambling in front of cam is already fun af

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Awww. 😍 Reminds me a bit of a gentoo penguin. 😅

i want to make camcorder videos with this girl’s vibe she is insane https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg9isnie-qBpPIWx4ZQOnJw

good morning yarn friends! it’s noon here but i woke up an hour ago. much better compared to waking up at 4pm yesterday

@prologic@twtxt.net oh it’s ok! thank you for the explanation! i think for me when it comes to programming i learn best by doing, so like written examples or talking about it helps less, BUT baseline explanations like what a pointer is does help! i was so confused and i still need to fix the error i’m having but i will figure it out!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org AWWWW OMG THAT’S SO CUTE

@movq@www.uninformativ.de REALLLL

Going to drop another bombshell: I don’t watch YouTube videos, but least those with sensationalist, click bait, titles. 😂

It needs to be said: Retrocomputing and old systems like DOS or OS/2 are fun and all, but a UNIX shell and its userland tools are the most powerful things I’ve ever seen. You can pry that from my cold dead hands. 😅

There’s also this:

; 1**3 + 2**3 + 3**3 + 4**3 + 5**3 + 6**3 + 7**3 + 8**3 + 9**3
        2025

😅

Rode my bicycle into town. What the hell is wrong with some of these motorists!? Here in right lane traffic land, a car reversed out of the driveway on the left into the road and nearly hit me. And this happened twice! If you don’t fucking see, how about you go slowly and not just hope that nobody is coming!? The first one even decided to honk at me. SUV drivers confirming prejudice…

Well, at least I could help a lady with transfering her child in a pram.

Well, there you go, didn’t take long, a Git repo:

• https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-01-03/1/POSTING-en.html
  
• https://uninformativ.de/git/los86

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Only the schedule syntax. :-D

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci @bender@twtxt.net Sweet, I wasn’t aware of that either.

Excellent, thank you very much @aelaraji@aelaraji.com! :-) It doesn’t set a custom User-Agent header, though.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Please do! :-) My brother made my penguin a Tux scarf one or the other decade ago when he was in probably elementary school: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/tux-scarf.jpg

@bender@twtxt.net :-D Unfortunately, there is not much white fluffy stuff on the ground at all: https://lyse.isobeef.org/morgensonne-2025-01-03/01.jpg (And my brain is broken, I’d like to change it. I first called the directory “2024-05-03”. O_o)

@prologic@twtxt.net Are those just access logs? 😅

fighting for my life trying to learn golang WHAT THE FUCK IS A POINTER (rhetorical)

@twtxt.net@twtxt.net probably lol!

@prologic@twtxt.net nooo post away!!!

@prologic@twtxt.net fuck yeah!!!

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz hehehe, I would say you are hooked! 😋

help i’ve had this account for barely 2 days and i’m nearly at 100 posts

i am not a #gamer at all but i wanna play this it looks sooo cute https://studiopixel.sakura.ne.jp/keroblaster/index.html

my friend is getting into snh48 and its sister groups and it makes me miss being a fan but my oshi (shen mengyao) graduated so i don’t have any reason to follow them. but the thing about snh48 is that it’s a group full of messy toxic lesbians with mental problems so there is always some wild ass drama going on. you can never leave snh48 standom

i fucking love tux paint it’s so cute i wish i could draw

ladyflash by the go team is sooo good my friend just shared it and i’m obsessed already

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz https://memoria.sayitditto.net/user/andjuly/

my camcorder videos are gonna go so hard yall like i can post them exclusively to my own youtube site and just do whatever tf i want with it. i should make more vlogs

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz anyway when i get the memory stick i will record something silly and exclusive for yarn friends i can’t wait <3

@prologic@twtxt.net EVEN COOLER

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i also like the separation inherent with using dedicated devices. like i have a DAP, a fiio X1 ii from 2019, and it’s still going strong. it’s perfect for on the go music listening and i never have to worry about like going somewhere with no reception and the music drops out. it’s all local AND the battery lasts longer because i’m not using wi-fi or bluetooth or data. also i can directly access the file system and just add files anytime. this goes for my point & shoot and other devices too. i love this shit i’m such a nerd

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i think what i love about “retro” (relative to me because i was born 2004) is that it has friction but in a different way than modern tech does. sure there’s friction with getting a video from your phone to a computer unless you’re a nerd like me with android and syncthing. but not only is that something that could be but isn’t easier, it’s just… it makes sense for a camcorder from ~2009 to have the kind of friction it does

my camcorder battery & mini dvds came in the mail so i did a test recording! it’s so cool i love the crap quality. i do hope the memory stick arrives soon though because for the discs i can’t get them on my computer (not even a rom drive filesystem mount) without “finalizing” the disc which is like an old camcorder thing. i still think i’ll prefer disc recording though even if a limit of 30 minutes (or longer for lower quality) is strict. i like limitations like that

@prologic@twtxt.net this is epic… you’ve made a great platform!!! screw big tech we got literal threads here. X, The Everything App, wishes it had literal yarn threads smh my head. also twtxt is so cool like i love that yarn is a frontend for it but also its own thing. all plaintext… coolest shit ever

@prologic@twtxt.net oooh i should’ve figured yeah!!! epic…

@prologic@twtxt.net 9am wow!!! 6pm here now :P

@prologic@twtxt.net oh yeah i had to do a custom caddy build for that once but then i reverted because i didn’t need it anymore (well i kinda do but for now i’m just manually doing it instead of wildcard certs/TLS on demand i’m lazy af). otherwise i love caddy

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net twtxt-el ?

it’s epic that twtxt slash yarn doesn’t have reposts or likes. it’s just chill. replies and posting is all a site needs

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org if i ever get to it i will absolutely post tux-in-progress pics!!! just a creature….

cron jobs are witchcraft and sorcery

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i’ve really wanted to make one of those sites you can curl that’s terminal friendly but looks different on the browser like how does wttr.in do it… magic

i like this little ideas utility i’ve been using like i keep pulling up the idea table to see what i’ve added and it makes me wanna start one of them like the CLI app i wanna write in golang with charmbracelet’s bubbletea even though i only have a vague idea of what i want in a CLI app

good morning new yarn social/twtxt friends (it is literally 5:30pm where i am i woke up at 3pm and i am still drinking coffee)

@prologic@twtxt.net YAYYY fuck cloudflare!!! caddy+wireguard amazing combo