@xuu@txt.sour.is Duuuuude, you Have been missed!! Happy seeing you around after all this time. I hope life has been treating you well 🙏

Since honesty is kindness, Microsoft is by far the worst company I ever had the displeasure of trying to communicate with. Getting them to fix the most basic of bugs always took years. In some cases it’s been over two and a half decades and it’s still broken.

I never thought it was even possible to make an operating system so broken, I’d have to manually restart my background services and set “network interface metrics” by hand, in advanced TCP/IP settings, while using it.

There are buttons that don’t even do anything when clicked and ones I’ve never seen do anything other than throw an error message.

The AI they rent to pretend to be an AI company, was for years outputting paragraphs, describing the beautiful and artful checkerboard pattern in the background, whenever trying to analyze transparent images. Transparent profile pictures work only on GitHub, the one product where the implementation was done prior to Microsoft acquisition.

Many engineers in their own forums, still manage to make that very AI sound smart, in comparison.

The design is an absolute shitshow, where no two things look like they belong in the same system — the only thing almost consistent, is excessive padding and rounded corners, placed wherever they fit the least.

But hey, 5000 engineers were fired, that will surely improve things!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Good to know!

LOL:

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@arne@uplegger.eu Sauber! Sowas ist echt die Pest.

@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Hut ab! Die Schnur sieht fast aus wie ein Seil von der Dicke. Das muss ja eine mords Häkelnadel sein, die Du dazu nimmst. Wie lang hast Du dafür gebraucht? Müsste ja eine ganze Weile gedauert haben, wenn ich mich sehr wage an die Schulzeit zurückerinner, als ich das letzte Mal gehäkelt habe. Also nicht nur Luft-, sondern richtig mit Kettmaschen. Luftmaschen mach ich regelmäßig von Hand.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this diff… :-D

Heute war die Telekom-Drückerkolonne in der Straße unterwegs und wollte Internetanschlüsse verramschen. Schein-Argumente waren, dass eine geringe Verbindungsgeschwindigkeit ja oft reichen würde und wenn man mit ihnen jetzt keinen Vertrag abschließt, man am Ende ohne funktionierenden Anschluss sein (stark vereinfacht dargestellt).
Als ich entgegnete, dass hier mit der Angst der Leute gearbeitet werde (FOMO) und Haustürverträge in der Regel keinen guten Ruf hätten, kippte die Stimmung.
Wenigstens habe ich sie eine Zeit lang ab und aufhalten können …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Hahaha, I didn’t see the Zalgo either. My own rendering can’t keep up:

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But funnily enough, the raw view does it:

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s why it’s suddenly getting really cold over here!1 I hope that your workmate keeps it up.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz That sounds absolutely lovely to me. Enjoy while it lasts.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

@arne@uplegger.eu Hut! Hut! Hut!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com No worries. I’m sure we’re all UTF-8-clean. 😏

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @prologic@twtxt.net Bwahaha. 🤣 (I didn’t see the zalgo effect in my terminal, until prologic posted the screenshot. 😅)

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be I’m certainly not $deity nor a huge expert on this, but what are you struggling with? 😅

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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Jupp, it’s been a special kind of day, yesterday.

wut da actual fuq?!

The Most Basic Pawn Endgame Is Harder Than You Think • szefru’s Blog • lichess.org
https://lichess.org/@/szefru/blog/the-most-basic-pawn-endgame-is-harder-than-you-think/rBneKjAV

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be It’s anecdotal, of course, but I remember HLWM being super popular – but that was, like, 10-15 years ago. 😅 (I even took some tiny bits of its ideas and put them in my own WM.)

This is the fix for the PHP vuln:

https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/31c0ea7d7ff1d1fccb6492e52dab544011628065#diff-1e0e6a2362d21e5db547d25a3d6116e522ee84604513d92f30f11507caa7fc8f

Look at … look … look how … JESUS CHRIST, this diff is huge. Holy shit.

Obviously, no human could have written this, let alone understand it. We’re fucked.

Exactly! 😂

You know what I run on my servers? Not PHP.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s true. You learn the most about something when you’re constantly exposed to it.

I can’t bring myself to fully switch to NetBSD or OpenBSD, either. 😅 Not yet. This takes time.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I did/still willing to try it on desktop. I feel like I’d be more involved in learning more about it’s ins and outs that way.

You know that “badger, badger, badger” video, right? From like 84 years ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI

The guy who made that is still alive and kicking. He has a music project called “Savlonic”: It’s him, his wife, and Katt Wade, probably a friend, dunno. And they’re amazing (look at their horse!).

https://weebl.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Are/were you trying to run it on your desktop system? Or on a server?

I’m not aware that OpenBSD has an explicit “no AI” policy like NetBSD, but, uhm, the song for the 8.0 release makes it pretty clear. 😅

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First this:

I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base

And now a coworker actually reviewed an AI PR today. With criticism!

Hell is freezing over!

Naaah, forget it… I just had a couple of flashbacks.

Ich weiß, es ist alles nicht zum Lachen und im zweiten Link gibt es auch Aufklärung, aber ich möchte an dieser Stelle trotzdem lieber weder Journalist noch Diplomat sein.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/israel-wahlkampf-eisenkot-100.html

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadi_Eizenkot#Herkunft

Maybe it’s a sign 😏 I’m just too lazy to backup my Home dir …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nope, someone at YouTube doing ASCII-rendering with JS and HTML (https://www.youtube.com/@GrowNowGames) and building a whole city … crazy shice.

Oh, OpenBSD 8.0 has been released today? Has it been 6 months already? Man, time flies this year. 😲

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Good context and info thank you 🙏 Obviously I’m into self hosting too, d’uh, but it’s just an interesting experiment and price point. It isn’t about whether you can get xyz VM/VPS for $abc but more about all the times you don’t have to maintain or build yourself.

@david@daiwei.me Yes, you can. THat’s true, sometimes. Not always, though, promotional pricing etc. The differentiator is the extra bits you don’t have to maintain/manage.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Good to know 👌 Thank you! 🙏

@arne@uplegger.eu Oh, that’s cute. libcaca, eh? 😃

código assim dá-me um quentinho na alma:

https://lulygenerator.love/gerador.js

Este gerador de cartazes do Lula é qualquer coisa de especial. Designs no ponto, humor bem aplicado e interface eficaz. Mas o mais impressionante é o código – todos os gráficos são gerados com JavaScript simples!

https://lulygenerator.love

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@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be herbstluftwm! I haven’t had much luck with netbsd (skill issues). I had given it a try in a VM, ~4 years ago, and managed to brick it in less than a week xD The sad thing though, was deleting the VM. missing out on an opportunity to boot in single user mode and try fixing my mess.

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“Arte com matrizes: NumPy na programação criativa”

@hx2A@hx2A e eu apresentando #numpy + #py5 @ #PythonBrasil2026

https://www.youtube.com/live/Huk_P03JTqA?si=xQAD-d2q7iLGQPOQ&t=18492

repo: https://github.com/py5coding/python-brasil-2026

#puzzle #chess #lichess
https://lichess.org/training/85dvN

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Fair, but not what I was trying to ask 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Nothing compares to the server my mates and I share. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The vast majority, yes. However, I know it’s hard to believe, I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base. Sometimes. Much more often, it’s not the case and I’m far from really understanding the merge request that I’m supposed to review.

One really looses the feeling for the software quickly. Those who think this is a bad thing are in the minority, unsurprisingly.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz But look at all the free available space now!

Q: Would you pay $2 AUD / $1.40 USD per month for a micro container service that let you run up to 3 containers with up to 64MB of memory per container, shared CPU and nVME backed Disk? 🤔 Then $1 SUD $0.70 USD / month per additional 64MB slot/slice? 🤔 – Assuming you can also run smaller containers where cost per container linearly scales, so $0.50 / $0.35 for 32MB containers.

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be It’s my favorite! It just feels like home 👍

In the age of AI, PR reviews at work only serve these purposes:

• A PR makes me vaguely aware that something exists. Like, I now know that there’s a component over here that probably does something with this other component over there. Maybe.
  
• I can “gauge the risk”: Is this something that I can simply throw away once it breaks? If not, I’ll have to bite the bullet and start a more detailed discussion about what the flying fuck your 8000 new lines of code actually do. And then you’ll pull the “but I don’t have time for this discussion”-card and we merge anyway.
  
• Shift the blame from author to reviewer: “It passed review! The builds were green!”
  
• I don’t need pills anymore to raise my low blood pressure.
  

It’s so disheartening to see everyone vomit out bullshit. “You can use AI responsibly and actually make the code better”, my ass. Nobody does that. Not a single soul. No human. Ever. None. Nobody.

a agradecer profusamente ao meu eu passado que decidiu congelar o caldo de cozedura dos grelos. Faz qualquer sopa subir pelo menos dois níveis, e até a criançada reconhece que tem algo de especial

a direita deve estar maravilhada com o empenho de uma esquerda clicktivista em debitar comentários cínicos e críticas superficiais sobre o movimento pela habitação, como se desse pontos na caderneta

como se esta disputa social não fosse já assimétrica o suficiente

mais uma vez, the left falls in love, the right falls in line

Fast per Zufall war ich am Wochenende auf dem Landespopfestival 2026 und hatte richtig Spaß!
Als Ohrwurm ist mir die Kapelle “süßwasser” mit “SLEEP YOU LITTLE CHILD” hängen geblieben: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od48MZUiIwM

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Pics or it didn’t happen!!

I thought modifying the Caps key was cool. Now I discovered Home Row mods and gave em’ a try … Dear goodness! There’s no going back from this xD

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Awwwww! A beardie! 😃

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Nice video effect work indeed! Such a welcome change to all the overproduced music videos. I didn’t come across Castle Rat before. The Rat Queen has a great voice. If there only was less doom/stoner metal influence in their heavy metal. ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Thank you! Yeah, riding a balloon into the sunset must be nice. Although, probably also really cold this time of year. On second thought, you got heating up top, so might not be too bad. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see. Soft start and soft stop are great features. Probably also helped longevity of the desk itself. Not sure if something could be rigged up with a resistor here to dampen it a bit. Electronics are really not my cup of tea.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m probably also not good enough. I just thought that it might be kinda alright, there’s no shortage of work, one’s hopefully not replaced soon by automation and so on. Not sure.

And yes, there are a myriad of jobs that are extremely underpaid, have awful working hours, ruining your health and where you get treated like shit.

The outlook is poor.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That’s so much more handy. :-)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Hahaha, no worries! :-D

All I use Insert for is Shift+Insert to paste sometimes. Other than that, it’s always annoying to switch to replacement mode when I accidentally hit the Insert key it instead of Home or End, depending on the keyboard.

There appears to be a rush a disgruntled Linux users switching to NetBSD:

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117451701775023949

They even got a ton of new donations (which, funnily, broke their little progress bar):

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https://cannot.understand.computer/kunev/p/1791449917.947134

So… donations for @netbsd@netbsd over the last few years look like this:

2020 - $46k
2021 - $52k
2022 - $44k
2023 - $60k
2024 - $40k
2025 - $79k

And in 2026 $120k so far!

And why is all that? Because of this:

Do not commit tainted code to the repository.

If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into the NetBSD source repository, and permits free distribution. Check with the author(s) of the code, make sure that they were the sole author of the code and verify with them that they did not copy any other code.

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

This official guideline is much more “tame” and “diplomatic” than the overall “vibe” (sic) on the Fediverse: NetBSD basically says no to AI as much as possible.

And, apparently, this attracts lots of users and donors. Maybe there’s still some hope after all?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m way too clumsy to do actual craftsmanship. 😖 I had this janitor / delivery driver job once, that was great, and I’d love to do that again. Doesn’t exist anymore, though, and paid like shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7lEm-sq64Q

#MeredithWhittaker

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m 5m in, and I’m already fucking pissed off. If I ever find such a male asshole, I will quite literally punch them in them in the face. The sad thing about this is that is happens at all. Fuck! 🤬

FWIW https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/240-men-in-tech-yesallmen

“It looks like I wanted to ask about something… I can’t remember what it was” xD

Pretty sure it’ll be one of those things I’ll suddenly remember during a shower, only to forget about, again, as soon as I want to ask about it.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That sounds clean! do you I’m still experimenting with Key Remapping, and have mine mapped to insert since I never use that one, while Caps got sacrificed for Ctrl.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh wow, molten sky. 😃

Ballonfahrt in den Sonnenuntergang muss auch hübsch sein!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Had a 3D printer for a couple of years now. 😅 I got a used one in 2019. I don’t print that much, mostly just little stuff like this.

The vibration from the desk is so intense because it simply abruptly halts. It doesn’t slow down first – it just stops, NOW. 🤦‍♀️ It’s pretty stupid, but there’s nothing I can do, other than buy a new desk. 🫤

My mate and I were fortunate enough to witness one of the very best, top-quality sunsets of the year on our evening hike. Very hard to get any better than this. The really good stuff easily lasted for 20 minutes, even one hour after the sun disappeared behind the horizon, there were red clouds slightly glowing in the dark. Absolutely insane. Enjoy!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-16-waldspaziergang/

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @movq@www.uninformativ.de I have mapped Caps Lock to be my Compose Key. :-)

cat ~/.Xmodmap
! Convert the otherwise useless Caps Lock key to a compose key, so e. g.
! non-breaking spaces can be inserted with Caps+Space+Space.
! https://adamsimpson.net/writing/compose-key-and-i3
keycode 66 = Multi_key
clear Lock

It’s really great! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, do you now own a 3D printer? The vibration is crazy, didn’t expect that. Let’s toast to a long life!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com It does because normally pinhole cameras you need to use chemicals but with solargraphy you don’t need to. The only issue is the paper cost. While with solargraphy you don’t need the 25 pages the paper sold online has. Anyway its really fun because no need for chemicals or a dark room.

Made some “brackets” that I can use to mount some small speakers on the top of my monitor. That way, they don’t take up any space on the desk.

It’s not perfect and the curvature at the back of the monitor is annoying. But it works.

There’s a fair bit of vibration when I lower/raise the desk (hard to capture on video), and it survives that. 🥳

The speakers are trash, of course. Doesn’t matter. They’re good enough for some light background music. Like an old FM radio. 😅

Let’s see how long it takes until they fall down and break. 🍿

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https://movq.de/v/fa5dd44cab/mount%2Dnosound.mkv.mp4

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah I remember when I effed up that twt and complained like an idiot when it got stuck at the top of my timeline x’)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It is such a relief !! I can finally type my Ç, œ, à, ê, é …etc without breaking a sweat. xD

https://www.youtube.com/live/dMFdcvwpnTU?is=Yh-8wYEBwvEMGVNZ #PythonBrasil2026

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I love the Compose Key. 😃 Want that “o” with the slash in it? Type Compose + o + / and there you go: ø. I use it all the time. Also for stuff like → arrows or ™.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahhhh, some twt from the future must have snuck in? In my database, “latest twt in feed” had a timestamp of 1814983537 (that’s in July 2027), which made my client ignore any twts older than that. I deleted that from my DB and now it’s working again. 🥳

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Kat’s instance was last seen on 4th October in my logs. Xuu is still actively fetching. Or somebody pretending to be them. ;-) Maybe some web server routing or firewall clearance issue. :-?

I love those!! and have been thinking about giving it a try too but never got to. I’ve seen people making pin-hole cameras out of soda cans and match boxes then setting them in random/remote areas for a couple of days… the whole process makes it really fun.

@david@daiwei.me @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org both instances appear to be down yet still pulling my feed. Maybe an auto-upgrade gone wrong?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s weird… I’d dropped off Clownflare’s proxy ever since it started blocking @david@daiwei.me’s requests. That should’ve fixed any problems of that kind (unless traffic is coming from GCloud or Microslop servers, then sorry, not sorry) 😄 … my WAF (Crowdsec) isn’t blocking you either.

I’ve checked my logs, and can see your requests being handled successfully, although, the last one so far dates from 2026-10-15T18:47:32 is that normal? are you getting any error messages?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I guess there is not really a point I was just talking about how I ai coded a twtxt client. Though I am able to get away with it working well because twtxt is simple and this software is simple.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Enjoy! :-) In case you wanna upgrade, I uploaded both originals with the file extensions in all caps.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Wow. Straight to the wallpaper collection, these go. 😃

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Unfortunately. Maybe become some sort of craftsman dealing with physical objects in the real world. :-?

When I was cycling home: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-15-abendhimmel/

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz What’s your point?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Right now I am using my ai coded twtxt api to edit the twtxt.txt file directly with the api. As well as my ai coded twtxt desktop and mobile clients to go with it. Though the code at least for the desktop client is just a single python file. Plus I do know in the future it might be unmaintable.
I am not the type of person to be like “wow do everything in ai this is so great”
The entire reason I tried ai coding a twtxt client was because in an irc channel someone was like “twtxt is so simple even ai can do it” and then I get a five year old (the ai) to do it and because its simple its actually done. I don’t excpect it to be the best ever compared to the human coded twtxt stuff but at least it gets me back on twtxt. I don’t like every other twtxt client that much.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com

and/or the people in charge realize that “enterprise-class” and “vibe-coded” are mutually exclusive software concepts

I’m really uncertain about this, to be honest. Short-term, you can vibe-code a ton of stuff and get away with it. I think that quality/correctness only matters for a small fraction of software out there. But long-term? I guess that then depends on whether you’re able to still pay the AI bills. Maintenance/refactoring is going to be veeeeeeeeeeery expensive, and virtually no human will be able to do those tasks. Or, you know, just rip off your customers and don’t sell any long-lasting support contracts in the first place.

I dunno. 🤷‍♀️

I hope things get better for you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de (and for anyone else dealing with the same issues).

Thanks! 🙏

@thecanine@twtxt.net I’m so glad that the Microsoft world is the one thing that I’m able to avoid. I didn’t have to touch a Windows server in over a decade.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @david@daiwei.me I suppose the only sane thing you can do is what Lyse said:

I will have been gone in five years. At most. I should start looking for complete alternatives.

I’m looking for alternatives as well, but … what would that be? Not a clue. Actually, no, I have a lot of ideas – there are so many useful things that I would be able and willing to do. Only problem is, those jobs don’t pay the bills. Haha.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

The IT industry is absolutely poisoned and destroyed.

Yes, and here’s an example:

• https://hachyderm.io/@thomaswilburn/117439476156199985
  
• https://chitter.xyz/@gabu/117441628277548428
  

I’m seeing exactly this effect in our stuff at work.

And human PR reviewers (in our company) are already completely burned out, because the AI dudes just dump all their shit on us. AI is an amplifier: If you already didn’t care about good code before AI, then you most certainly won’t start caring with AI, so the result is just a massive dumpster fire.

I suppose you can use AI to produce good code, but this takes so much time, effort, and money, you might as well code it yourself.

Que boa surpresa na inbox – uma recordação da campanha Email Self-Defense em que na #ManufacturaIndependente tratámos do design, incluindo este robô que agora voltou para a EncryptFest da @fsf@fsf

https://www.fsf.org/events/2026-10-25-encryptfest

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