Righto, breathed new life into some scraps of cardboard: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/hakenwerkzeugschachtel/

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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Wow, you’re quite active!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz @klaxzy@klaxzy.net Nice writeup, indeed.

@arne@uplegger.eu Achso, stimmt! Ich vergaß, mein Fehler. Dass der Lyse auch immer solche unrealistischen Ansprüche erhebt. ;-)

@arne@uplegger.eu Brilliant, I love it! :-D

Thank you for sending plain text e-mails, but why don’t you include a Date header, passport office?! Of course: Message-ID: <1663431506….JavaMail.weblogic@k1rrzv1637.komm-one.net> Komm on!

Also, I find it interesting that my e-mail client just invents the Epoch in the overview, but the details then correctly say that the send timestamp is unknown. A fallback to one of the Received lines would have also been nice.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’ll come back to that, once I looked into troff. :-)

I just watched Linotype – The Film: In Search of the Eighth Wonder of the World (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDM-EbDCiQg What a treat!

Just rewatched the video recording. It’s a really great talk.

Regarding https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq@www.uninformativ.de: Despite having watched meillo’s talk on troff and friends¹ over one and a half decades ago (and thus forgotten everything), it feels soooo alien, I’m surprised. I should really look into this myself. I frequently use gq} and gqG. They’re real lifesavers.

¹: https://www.ulm.ccc.de/ccc/chaosseminar/2009_11_troff-and-friends/

The specialists were at work here once again.

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Three and a quarter hours commute today. What a giant waste of time. I’m so glad that I don’t have to do this so often.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Heck yeah, that looks really nice, mate! My last shot at them was way back in school. But it never really worked out even remotely like I imagined in my head. My colors always mixed, it was impossible to keep them separated. Maybe too much water and the wrong paper. I should give it a go again, too.

We went on a hike in super beautiful autumn sun. We had a northeastern wind blowing strong, so the 10°C felt a hell lot colder. My fingers were frozen and I had to stop taking photos every now and then to let them warm up in my jacket pockets again. My mate was smarter and wore a beanie and gloves.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-11-01-waldspaziergang/

@arne@uplegger.eu Geile Idee, der sieht echt klasse aus. :-) Mir gefällt auch besonders gut, dass Du den Gelben-Sack-Schriftzug schön mittig oben platziert hast. Macht richtig was her. <3

Wir haben heute auf unserer kleinen Wanderung auch einige Leute ihre Drachen steigen lassen sehen und da musste ich sofort an Dich denken. Freut mich riesig, dass das bei Dir trotz Windmangel ein geglücktes Unterfangen war. :-) Leider hatten wir dafür sehr kräftigen, bitterkalten Nordostwind und mussten dann weiter, es war einfach zu eisig im Schatten. Ich hätte gern noch weiter zugeschaut.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s amazing! :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net The second method is the only one I remember, because that’s the one I’m used to. :-D No matter how you tie it, the result is always the same. So, I agree, both are equally effective in my opinion.

@prologic@twtxt.net I also use the conventional “the snake jumps out the hole, around the tree and back into the hole again” method.

@dreembm@twtxt.net Oh yeah, that looks great!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Very beautiful! I’ve also been to the Blue Moutains 12 years ago and it was stunning.

Should have called it quits earlier to enjoy more of the last sunrays of the day. https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-29-waldspaziergang/

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Yeah, that was an additional bonus. But I still think that I added more than I lost in total. Better than nothing for sure.

I’ve been on that tour on foot three times before. But it’s really not something to recommend. If I run into the same situation again, I’ll take the forest detour. It is actually pretty towards the end.

@arne@uplegger.eu Backpapier klingt ja mal spontan auch richtig gut! Ich finde es ja immer sehr befriedigend, wenn man Dinge einfach sinnvoll zweckentfremded. :-) Schön zu hören, dass der heimische Gemüseanbau von Erfolg gekrönt war.

In the stormy Swabian Alps the other day: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-24-berneck/

@arne@uplegger.eu Der Fachmann erkennt sofort die guten Raketenstecken! :-) Hast Du das Zeitungspapier irgendwie verstärkt? Je nach Qualität dieses Druckerzeugnisses könnte ich mir durchaus vorstellen, dass das recht bald einreißt. Ich wünsche allezeit gutes Steigen und bin schon auf Deine Berichte dazu sehr gespannt.

I had dinner with some mates in the city. After 20 o’clock there are basically no trains running anymore due to construction work today and tomorrow. You can take the rail replacement service, but that more than doubles the travel time (over two hours instead of three quarters). Also, replacement buses always call for trouble. You just wanna avoid it at all costs.

I was kinda lucky and took a still running (probably last one) medium-distance train. But I had to exit one station early because it didn’t stop at my destination. Instead of waiting three quarters of an hour in 6°C for a quarter hour bus ride, I decided to just quickly walk the 5 kilometers at a smart pace. It took me 50 minutes. I opted for the direct and way uglier route, the nicer one through the forest would have added another 20 minutes to half an hour. Also, I didn’t wear my hiking boots.

Despite the horrible smell of the gelatine factory and walking right next to a four-lane road, it could have been worse. I saw an oversize load (a new rock crusher was sent from the factory to its new home), that was quite cool. It was also surprising how many cars had a broken tail light or illegally overtook on the right. Crazy! Luckily, there wasn’t a whole lot of traffic anymore.

The moon and the clouds looked really nice. Same with the foggy patches here and there. I got some much-needed exercise. The cold air felt good. I call that a success.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! Well, I’m glad it was detected and put out quickly.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! A false alarm or was something actually on fire?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL! :‘-D This is great!

@david@daiwei.me :‘-D Brilliant!

@arne@uplegger.eu Ganze acht Millimeter, irre?! Zwei Stunden klingen für mich recht flott, sehr schön. Ich bin schon gespannt, was Du uns als nächstes zauber^Whäkelst. :-)

Hahaha, beim Lesen des Filmrequisitenkommentars musste ich lauthals loslachen. :‘-D

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz There are many different reasons. For me it’s usually that perhaps somebody like-minded finds something also interesting, funny, whatever. Maybe not.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Great to see you resurrected, mate! <3

@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

@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.

@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!

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

@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.

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 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. :-?

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

@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/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de People have not been fired over here. But I fully expect this to happen, too. Non-techies soldering together their own production shit is only consequent. I was actually wondering when this will happen. Product owners don’t need anyone else anymore, they can just be one-man shows. That’s what the AI bros jerk off to.

If certification won’t help us (heavily crumbling already from what I observe), it will go away completely and will be replaced with the Wild West. That’s my guess.

In case my employer makes it until then, I will have been gone in five years. At most. I should start looking for complete alternatives. The IT industry is absolutely poisoned and destroyed. I have no hopes left. We’re all fucked on so many levels.

@david@daiwei.me There ya go! :-)

Color in the sky: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-14-abendhimmel/

@david@daiwei.me Same here, all dead.

@david@daiwei.me Woooaaahhh, this looks really sick! :-O

@david@daiwei.me Yes, it’s been a hot minute. One of his last messages (that I remember) were some holiday photos with hotel highrises and palm trees at the beach. Let’s hope Phil just went offline. :-/ But I fear you could be right about him.

Speaking of obsolence, Night Mail from 1936 is a nice film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEZ25sQGmc

@movq@www.uninformativ.de There are some other interesting facts about this funnel shaped tower. Now that this message is long enough that jenny has cut off the first few words for the subject, I can be sure that it’s not spoiled right away. This wall of text for the introduction also helps with any other clients.

Please excuse me, I hope you had some fun reading my fictional explanation. It’s just a water tower: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserturm_Eichert

Interesting, I didn’t know that water towers are basically obsolete these days.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, mate!

This funnel is a famous landmark originally built in the 40ies or 50ies on top of a hill range by a local coffee roaster modeled after their logo for advertising purposes. They were called “Schwäbische Kaffeewerke” or something like that. As a coffee guy, you might have heard of them. :-)

When this company went bankrupt several decades later, a chemistry plant nearby expanded to that site and flattened most of the infrastructure, but took over the funnel. They maintain it now. You can see some of their larger office highrises on the right. Luckily, most of their buildings, tanks, chimneys, etc. are on the opposite hill side and in the valley, so they’re out sight from this point of view and don’t further ruin the shot.

A few years ago, they underwent a rebranding and – at least surprisingly to me – changed their logo to also incorporate said funnel now. Giant ads lives forever, I reckon.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me @jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yes, it’s sad. But I don’t think they died. If they did, I expected the feeds to be completely gone, with the hoster shutting their accounts down when no more payments were received anymore. Well, at least for those with own domains or not on shared systems. We can only hope.

Chilly 15°C in the shade with a slight breeze, but it was very nice in direct sun. I jumped outside after calling it quits. There were five herons on that meadow, super sweet. One even caught something fairly large when I returned, but it was already too dark, so my camera just cooked up a blurry pixel soup.

The country road is closed for construction. There’s now a one-way detour on the field road. For the opposite direction, you need to take a giant detour. It looks like they installed a temporary traffic light just for that one dairy farm, so that the farmer can also go in the opposite direction, just like before. Surprisingly to me, the traffic wasn’t too heavy on that field road. Of course, I really don’t wanna walk there anymore for the time being, but I expected a hell lot more.

As always, the sunset looked much cooler in person.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-12-waldspaziergang/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ta! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Stellt fick raus. Hihihi. Gab es wenigstens einen schönen Unfall beim Rennen?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Working fine for me, I believe.

On the way back I exited the car early to quickly walk up my backyard mountain and enjoy the sunset. I hoped for more, but it could have been much worse. It was a nice evening stroll, that’s for sure: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-11-abendhimmel/

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz I hear you. Some folks just don’t give a shit. Consideration is foreign. :-(

@prologic@twtxt.net I notice that many people switch away from it, unfortunately. Even lots of friends already have a long time ago. Some just love to be traced these days.

Ta, @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com, didn’t last long, though.

Thanks, @david@daiwei.me! I’m glad I kept it so you can enjoy it. I almost deleted it.

Not too terrible: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-10-abendhimmel/

I should have taken a photo. We had thick fog this morning, visibility around 50 meters. This looked really nice. It started in the evening when I was taking advantage of the break in rain and headed out. There were very low hanging clouds everywhere. The rain eventually got me again, but it wasn’t bad at all. Similar today, my mate and I had a nice stroll in light drizzle. Almost not enough for an umbrella. I just love when there’s noone else around.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Muhahaahaahaaahaaaahaaaaa! My last thunderstorm was during summer camp setup in the night. We decided to evacuate the tents into the kitchen building. The closest hit was about a kilometer away. So, completely boring compared to your sight.

@david@daiwei.me I have never heard of JMAP before. Interesting.

We use Mailcow which is probably really overkill.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz I imagine this:

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Yet another crazy weapon to cause beautiful mayhem: https://youtu.be/Xfx1FWbbg-Y

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :‘-D

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-08/0/POSTING-en.html @movq@www.uninformativ.de Fuck me dead and bury me pregnant!

@arne@uplegger.eu @david@daiwei.me I second that. Looks great!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz @david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Very beautiful! I wouldn’t necessarily want to walk through the puddle in 2, but I do love the colors here a ton. 1 looks quaint as heck.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me It’s raining all day long here, too. It’s supposed to stop later for the night and continue tomorrow. No thunderstorm or hurricane, though. Enjoy!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Oh dear, I see. :-(

I’m not conviced about the Swatch Internet Time.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Always using UTC in logs helps a ton.

The worst are logs were timestamps miss any timezone information at all. Makes me furious.

Dealing with time is always great fun…

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Haha, we had the same joke. :-D Took them also many attempts to include a timestamp datatype in the standard library that is halfway usable.

When I left the house, the cloud matched my speed exactly, so I was always in its shade. But then I slowed down to take photos and eventually the sun came out. There was a super beautiful light this evening. Absolutely stunning. Just like in a picture book.

The plane picture is kinda fake as I mounted all three shots into one photo just to save some precious space. The plane circled around a few times.

Finally, the city blocked off a large portion of the rock due to the imminent danger of rockslide. I was actually waiting for that to happen for quite some time now. A huge crack had formed in one of the climbing rocks well over a year ago and it didn’t look safe at all. Let’s see when the wall actually collapses.

Unfortunately, my battery died and I didn’t bring my spare. Thus, I couldn’t capture the very best sunset sky part. I tried several times to turn the cam back on for yet another last photo, because sometimes the battery provides just enough juice after waiting some minutes. No luck. Only when it was virtually over, one last shot had been granted. Oh well.

What a nice trip. Almost all people I met were also very happy and friendly to watch the sunset enfold. Nature bound together many strangers. Doesn’t happen often.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-06-waldspaziergang/

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Yeah, timber framing is soooo cool. I love it, too.

My mate and I went on a hike on Saturday to Germany’s probably most famous tiniest hamlet. Well, not even hamlet, much smaller. It’s a farm (087) and a closed train station (088, 096-102). Okay, and four other houses. But that’s it. Durlesbach is known from the old folk song „Auf de schwäbsche Eisebahne“, literally “On the Swabian Railway”. According to the German Wikipedia article the German Folk Song Archive counts about 100 variants on the lyrics with up to 27 verses. The song enumerates a few stations and the most common version is about a farmer who ties his goat to the back of a train in order to save the freight costs. Alternatively, he’s used to that from previous ox cart trips where the goat just follows along. Of course, the goat doesn’t make it and the angry farmer throws the disembodied goat head at the conductor.

The weather was perfect. Sunny and clouds alternating, lower twenty-something degrees Celcius. Very beautiful. We took the train to Aulendorf and started our hike.

The level railway crossing in 051-054 is always closed and only opened on demand. I didn’t even know that this kind existed. But it’s really quiet there. We pressed the lever to call the train dispatcher who then opened the barriers for us. A few seconds later we told him that we successfully reached the other side and he closed them again. We were confused at first because the sign said only for authorized personnel and we were just two random hikers. But we gave it a shot and the dispatcher was super nice, no worries at all.

The river is always the Schussen. 092-094 is the creek Durlesbach, entering the Schussen, though. The Durlesbach station is now privately owned, unfortunately. However, it’s nicely kept in shape and there’s a cool monument with a historic steam engine, two wagons and four bronze figures reenacting the scene where the farmer is about to tie his goat, being observed by his wife and the conductor.

You can get all sorts of drinks in exchange for a donation at the display. These proceeds are used for the upkeep. I had an ACE juice which was absolutely delicious. A few hundred meters after we continued, I thought that I really should have bought a second one. It was just too good.

In Mochenwagen, we took the train back to Aulendorf. The Mochenwangen replacement service (we luckily didn’t have to take it, in fact, no idea when it is really in place) is 800 meters away from the train station. That fucking nuts.

We then changed trains to Ulm, just because that one arrived two minutes after we reached Aulendorf. But we spontaneously exited early in Biberach because we had some time to kill for the actual train to Stuttgart. The train station underpass there has some really beautiful graffiti. Shortly after, my second camera battery was flattened, too.

Going home worked out amazingly. When I switched again in Geislingen, my connecting train was already waiting on the other platform. 15 seconds before scheduled departure, the doors closed. One second to departure, we took off. That’s very rare nowadays and it was kind of magical to witness this first hand looking at the station clock.

Sorry for the many photos. I was busy sifting through them and only kept about 20%. Still too many, I know. Enjoy, nevertheless: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-03-wanderung-von-aulendorf-ueber-durlesbach-nach-mochenwangen/

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Bwahahaahaaahaaaa, I didn’t see that one coming! :‘-D

We switch back to normal time on the last Sunday in October. Fuck daylight saving time!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Time to get some pigs, they love to be acorn-fattened!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Bon appetit!

@iolfree@tilde.club True!

@thecanine@twtxt.net Sweet!